Outdoor grow and shitty weather, leave them outdoors or not

Hello there, I'm new here as you can tell.

I have been growing indoors for a couple of years now, and this year is the first time I'm growing outdoors, and the first time I'm growing autoflowers too.
I'm growing a Royal Dwarf, which seems to do ok so far, but the last couple of weeks the weather was pretty shitty and it will stay shitty for at least a week more, and it wouldn't surprise me if it keeps on being shitty for weeks to come.
Now I'm wondering if I might be better off putting it indoors in my grow closet (400w HPS) to avoid budrot and whatnot from the rain and to make sure it gets plenty of light as it's quite cloudy at times lately.
I mainly wonder if it's going to stress the plant a lot if the light regime changes, as I run my lights at night to avoid heat, and probably give them some more hours of light a day than they would be getting outside.
Also I wonder if the light I have is going to give better results than the sun will, but I guess that's hard to tell without knowing exactly how much direct sunlight the plant's getting. I assume diffuse sunlight isn't going to cut it.
Oh it has been growing for about 9 weeks now, and my guess would be they're going to be ready for harvest in 2 to 4 weeks.

I think the plant will go into shock and will not have time to recover, my opinion would be to leave it where it is, but I am sure other members can share there own opinion.

why move it inside. you knew it was going to be lower quality of bud. if you were able to grow indoors why would you not just do the whole thing indoors.

the plant wont care, you can move in and out all you want. you could even make night the day time if you want. plant dont give a shit

as to wether that small of a light will satisfy, depends how many and how big the plants are. 4's dont penetrate for shit, i slowly worked up to only flowering with 1ks. so much less larf-hash..harder to sell..
your light will throw more lumens than the sun depending height. so yes odds are you will get much better results indoors

tazz&indy said:

I think the plant will go into shock and will not have time to recover, my opinion would be to leave it where it is, but I am sure other members can share there own opinion.

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Shock from what?

qwizoking said:

why move it inside. you knew it was going to be lower quality of bud. if you were able to grow indoors why would you not just do the whole thing indoors.

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Move it inside to not let it sit in the rain all day, and to make sure it gets as much light as possible as it's very cloudy lately. Also the other auto I'm growing outside might be a hermie and it wouldn't hurt to separate them to make sure the one that seems to do well isn't getting pollinated.
Why would I know it was going to be lower quality? That's not necessarily the case when growing outdoors is it? Of course I could have predicted that in my country (the Netherlands) chances are that even though it's summer the weather is still kinda shitty but that's not always the case, and it had a great start as the weather was pretty nice until a couple of weeks ago.
I didn't do it indoors because I started growing these when I still had some plants in my grow closet that were not ready, I wanted to try out growing outdoors anyway, and it saves me money, and it was very hot at that point anyway so I would have risked heat stress when putting them in my closet as has happened with one of the plants that was in there when I started growing these autos outdoors. Now the closet is empty though and it's shitty weather so I'm wondering what would be best for the plants to do.
I just want to get the most out of the plant as possible within my means, and as the buds still don't seem to be that dense/big as I'm used to when growing in my closet I wonder if it's better to put them in there. Could also just be the strain though, never grew this one before, so I dunno.

qwizoking said:

the plant wont care, you can move in and out all you want. you could even make night the day time if you want. plant dont give a shit

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You sure about this, because even though it's an auto so light doesn't influence flowering I've read plenty of people claiming it can still cause stress (even the dude above your post), and I wouldn't want it to turn hermie or whatever.

qwizoking said:

as to wether that small of a light will satisfy, depends how many and how big the plants are. 4's dont penetrate for shit, i slowly worked up to only flowering with 1ks. so much less larf-hash..harder to sell..
your light will throw more lumens than the sun depending height. so yes odds are you will get much better results indoors

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Only 1 plant, should be covering the space I have in my closet pretty good, and there are some buds hidden under leaves etc that aren't going to get optimal light I'm sure but most seem to be situated in spots where the light should be directly shining on it, and the buds that are 'hidden' seem small as fuck now already anyway, so I don't expect much of them either way.


Btw in case anyone didn't get this I have them growing in pots, so I wouldn't have to dig it out and risk damaging the roots and whatnot.

Judging from the forecasts I checked today it's probably not going to be great weather for the next two weeks and I have no clue how it's going to be after that, so from that perspective my guess would be it's probably better to put it indoors, all I'm wondering now is if it really isn't going to stress her out too much.

Thanks for the help guys.

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Weedmonkey said:

Hello there, I'm new here as you can tell.

I have been growing indoors for a couple of years now, and this year is the first time I'm growing outdoors, and the first time I'm growing autoflowers too.
I'm growing a Royal Dwarf, which seems to do ok so far, but the last couple of weeks the weather was pretty shitty and it will stay shitty for at least a week more, and it wouldn't surprise me if it keeps on being shitty for weeks to come.
Now I'm wondering if I might be better off putting it indoors in my grow closet (400w HPS) to avoid budrot and whatnot from the rain and to make sure it gets plenty of light as it's quite cloudy at times lately.
I mainly wonder if it's going to stress the plant a lot if the light regime changes, as I run my lights at night to avoid heat, and probably give them some more hours of light a day than they would be getting outside.
Also I wonder if the light I have is going to give better results than the sun will, but I guess that's hard to tell without knowing exactly how much direct sunlight the plant's getting. I assume diffuse sunlight isn't going to cut it.
Oh it has been growing for about 9 weeks now, and my guess would be they're going to be ready for harvest in 2 to 4 weeks.

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how old are they?

Autopower said:

how old are they?

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9 weeks and 1 day is the one I might put indoors.

I decided to put it indoors today, maybe I shouldn't have done that lol, I snapped the stem a bit by trying to bend the main stem to make sure it wasn't too close to the light.
Hope it isn't going to cause any trouble.
I took some pics today, I only have a shitty webcam though so they're pretty shitty pics but better than nothing I guess.

Where I live the humidity and rain is a constant concern, so bud rot is not an "if" but a "when". When I see a plant is at risk for it, (buds are semi formed with tons of white hairs to fully formed) I try to keep them dry. Sometimes I provide a tarp cover to prevent rain hitting them directly, or move them indoors and out of a rain storm. You wont shock the plant much, provided you don't keep it indoors too long. Ive had some of my plants sitting in a dry well lit area of my shed for a day or two to prevent mold and had no problems from it. I have also tried just shaking the buds after a rain storm and leaving them outside the whole time, and ended up losing a fair amount due to rot. This is why I grow in pots, makes them much more mobile.