Indoor Veg, Outdoor Flowering

I have been growing plants in my greenhouse under lights and am ready to force flowering. I was wondering if I could flower them outdoors this time of year. They have been growing with 24 hours of light. I live in Southern California and the outdoor light over the next few months will be more than 12 hours (probably between 12 and 13), but the days will be getting longer. Is this OK for flowering? Will it confuse the plants?

Hi Slin,

Great question..
Seeing that you are in So Cal you will probably not get all the way THROUGH flowering and then your plants will start to VEG again.. It is VITAL that they recieve 12 hours of uninterrupted darkness for 12 hours for 49-65days (for most strains to reach maturation)

How did you plants DO in the green house? You used both wiinter sun and supplemental lighting? What kind of lighting did you use? How did you keep it low profile during the night (with igt coming from your green house)?

cheers

I haven't flowered this time of year in the greenhouse, so I'll see how it goes. The greenhouse is in my backyard and in a very remote section of the yard. The lights cannot be seen anywhere except my yard and behind the yard (which is a wild area that nobody would ever walk by at night). I have wood panels on the one side of the greenhouse walls to keep the light in.

I'm using just plain flourescent lights. I posted a thread and got some feedback that my plants were stretching a bit. But I moved the lights really close to the plants (1/4 of inch away) and they seem to be doing better. I'm not real concerned with huge output, so if my plants don't produce as much bud as they could, that's OK with me (I'm just growing for me).

I'm going to force flowering sometime later this month. I think I'll just keep them in the greenhouse. Hopefully, they will complete flowering without going back into veg state. They should because the greenhouse only gets partial sun (in the middle of the day). I know they need total darkness for 12 hours, but they'll at least get 11+ hours of total darkness. We'll see how it goes.

Hi SII

sweet.. thanks for all the details..
keep us posted.. I hope it works OUT!

One last question - do you think it would be possible/wise to move my plants outdoors to start flowering, then move them back into the greenhouse as the days start to get longer? Maybe keep them outdoors for the first 4 or 5 weeks of flowering to get them going, then move them back in the controlled environment of the greenhouse for the final 4 or 5 weeks.

siin82 said:

I have been growing plants in my greenhouse under lights and am ready to force flowering. I was wondering if I could flower them outdoors this time of year. They have been growing with 24 hours of light. I live in Southern California and the outdoor light over the next few months will be more than 12 hours (probably between 12 and 13), but the days will be getting longer. Is this OK for flowering? Will it confuse the plants?

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Hey man i live in socal to, and i vegged one plant inside and placed it outside like two weeks ago and it show's preflowers right now so i think now is the time to do it.

if it flowers long enough the light cycle shouldnt matter and it should flower anyways

Hey siin, just have a timer to remind you to go outside and cover your plants at the 12 hour point, then remove it in the morning, put it back on at the 12 hour point etc.. that will work and induce flowering better then 13+ hours of light.. try it out goodluck and keep us posted.

Yeah, I just put a couple of plants out last week. They will finish up in May.

Plants put out next month will not be induced, and will grow thru summer.

Of course, during the winter I have to veg them indoors before putting them outside.

HTH

We are new to growing. We got a Kush clone in late March. It flowered and finshed ( and we smolked it!) but then we got the bug. We killed a few in June. But then we sort of got it! We purchased a bunch of seeds form Amsterdam.

Well they are doing great. but they are small. about 1 foot.

We built a nice shed for vegging, complete with Mylar, Fans, Nutes scheduled. Looking Good..

We are in Socal Socal Socal

So it si now Mid August and we have some potentially great plants but they have vegged for 4 to 6ix weeks. I dont want to veg them winter so what to do?????

I decided to put them outside in the garden and chage over to flowering nutes.

What shoud I expect? Is this the right thing to do?

Thats some sad shit man! those plants look over watered and nute burned. pots are too small and wow do you really think those will produce? Sorry not trying to be mean, but my first grow wasn't close to that bad. try to let them grow to a foot tall then flower. Switch from those cheesy ass pots to a 3 to 5 gal pots, remember the bigger the root the bigger the fruit! screw all those fancy nutes and get some african violet dry plant food for $4.95 at safeway and get some black strap mollasis and hydrogen peroxide. mix all in a gallon jug minutes before use. mix should be: african violet dry plant food per directions on container. black strap mollasis 1\2 teaspoon per gal.
hydrogen peroxide 1/2 cap per gal.(use hydrogen peroxide only every other watering. Don't over do it, less is more in the end.
If you really want great results use auto root pruning lined buckets. they sell the liners for 28.00 for 24 and you can reuse them.
Lets work togeather like we should and blow the roof off this biotch! You will look back and laugh at this shit someday!
as well you might research L.S.T. low stress training. this is a bomb way to get those budding branches to the tops of the plant and produce double the fruit! we are here to help if you wanna! The first few pics was my sorry ass first grow!lol
and the last is a baby plant starting L.S.T. bootcamp.lol