Indoor to outdoor.

Hey,

Just after some advice- any opinions would be very much appreciated!!

So I live on the East coast of Australia and have been growing indoors all winter. I's now spring- summer starts Dec 1st and from all the forcasts it's going to be another long hot summer here in Oz and I was keen to capitalise on the perfect growing conditions by moving some of the girls that have been in veg all winter and are ready to flower to an outdoor location.

What I was unsure about is how exact the 12/12 cycle needs to be.....?

Currently, daylight hours here have just exceeded 12hrs per day and will continue to get longer until they max out at around 14hrs per day towards the end of December.

If the plants have been on a light cycle of 18hrs per day, will they begin to flower if I put them outside now or soon- or will they pick up that the days are still getting longer and remain in a veg state until daylight gets closer to 12/12?

I just heard somewhere that if they've been on a veg light cycle, a reduction to something "close" to 12/12 is enough to start flowering- any advice?

Cheers!

lol if you put em out they will not start flowering until right around 12/12 exactly...for a week or two before they will start putting on a few pistils but they wont really take off until it hits 12/12....your best bet if you have not planned for trees growing all the way through to fall is to just flower them inside and take a couple clones first for outside if you want

Grrrrr, yeah I kinda figured that would probably be the case, but I'm glad I got a second opinion anyways- appreciate the swift response Kermit!

And yeah I could easily get away with one monster plant stashed outdoors over the summer seeing as it's a private garden well camouflaged with bamboo.... haha now I'm actually pretty curious to to see how she'll respond to another 2months vegging esp if it's in an outdoor location!

Thanks again bro!

Where I grow I have to use supplemental lighting to prevent my plants from flowering as soon as I put them outside. No matter what time of year I move them from 18/6 indoors to outdoors.. I stick them outside when they are about 2 feet tall.. Good luck to you !!

SoCal88 said:

Where I grow I have to use supplemental lighting to prevent my plants from flowering as soon as I put them outside. No matter what time of year I move them from 18/6 indoors to outdoors.. I stick them outside when they are about 2 feet tall.. Good luck to you !!

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Appreciate your input mate- that's interesting and definitely supports what I had previously heard.

So you've had plants begin to flower because of a reduction of daylight hours, even though it doesn't quite get to 12/12 huh....

I figured it wouldn't need to be as exact as 12/12 and there would be a bit of give or take either way.

I guess I can now reconsider my original plan and look to start flowering some of these girls a little earlier..... Ummmm, do you think there's any chance of them slipping back into veg (or turning hermie) even with 14hrs light per day?

Cheers Socal, thanks for the info.

Best time for you to plant outside would be around the end of Oct/middle of Nov/when the daylight hours are 13-14 hours and climbing. You should have no problems with their transition. Also remember to slowly harden them off to the intense sunlight for a few days to a week, (put in a semi shaded area first). Once they get used to the change in light intensity they will take off. Peace!!

Shaggn said:

Best time for you to plant outside would be around the end of Oct/middle of Nov/when the daylight hours are 13-14 hours and climbing. You should have no problems with their transition. Also remember to slowly harden them off to the intense sunlight for a few days to a week, (put in a semi shaded area first). Once they get used to the change in light intensity they will take off. Peace!!

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Ay Shaggn, thanks for the input bro - t's good to get additional confirmation on this so I appreciate the comment So do you live in Aust. as well or did you just use the seasonal info from my first post?


But yeah, I reckon the time you mentioned would probably have been perfect- however my situation is'nt exactly ideal..... I've got a bit of a backlog here and I'm sitting on a bunch of girls that have already been in veg for to long and I'm keen to start some of them flowering ASAP- so now I'm thinking I'll start one this week, then maybe a month from now do another one, and then once the first one is all finished I can start the last one


Yeah, I've been giving them exposure to sunlight for awhile now and they absolutely love it- although they require HEAPS more water when they're outside (no surprise!) compared to indoors so daily watering is probably my biggest concern.


Thanks again mate,


Savage.

kermit2692 said:

lol if you put em out they will not start flowering until right around 12/12 exactly...for a week or two before they will start putting on a few pistils but they wont really take off until it hits 12/12....

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Huh? What?

This is horribly inaccurate. Bad information. I mean, terrible, awful bad information.

Firstly, different strains can/will flower at different light exposure levels. Secondly, most of my outdoor plants typically go into flower midish/late August (Northern US) when daylight hours start to fall below 14 hours. Thirdly, my daylight hours just dropped to exactly 12 hours just four days ago and yet most of my girls have been in flower for the last 5-6 weeks!