Outdoor grows mass

CCGNZ

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Pop your seeds in early April use a tupperware cont (clear or white) when they pop put in rooter cubes (just below surf w/taproot facing down) and place in a small dixie cup w/strain labeled put in tup cont.w/heat mat on bott leave lid cracked for fresh air top WT5 grow lights or led shoplight as they get a little larger put in styro cup w/pot. soil reg.notw/ferts.Transplant when weather breaks last wk april 1st wk may PS you can leave lights on 24/7
 

Hipster2U

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Yeah, early to mid-April. Plant out late May - early June when overnight lows are consistently above 50 degrees Fahrenheit. I start in six packs under lights, then pot up to quarts and take them out on warm days. Most seeds pop in 5 days using Fox Farms Light Warrior. I don't find any advantage from starting too early or planting out on the frost free date. At the end of the season, the plants are all the same.
 

CCGNZ

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Pretty much so, the most critical periods are the cloning phase usually late june to mid july window (picked up some Hormex rooting powder W/like 10 times the amt. of butrycic acid to experiment towards the end when they get woody) but most imp. time in my op. is mid sept to 2nd week of oct. this is where the rubber meets the road. Give me all sun, 75 degrees, and low humidity.IF you can get 10 decent days in oct. you're golden. Having to babysit plants for botrytis in the rain and keeping plants dry is a bitch, almost always happens though, part of the game. I'm not interested in any strain that can't finish by oct7 actually, you're asking for too much if strains need to go deep into Oct. in the northeast. ccguns
 

p59teitel

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Last year I popped on St. Patrick’s Day and don’t think there was any benefit to starting that early, so this year it’ll be early April. Put them in the ground in mid-May but yanked them back out as they weren’t happy with nighttime temps at or below 40, and put them back outside June 3. Mine all showed pre-flowering before the end of July and the last of the males was yanked by August 5. Had one plant in particular that was very mold resistant so kept her going until Oct. 29th, but once the rainy and foggy season that used to known as “fall” starts after Labor Day it becomes a challenge to get them to the finish line.
 

CCGNZ

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Always tempted to get things rolling after a long winter but never shot my load in march LOL. I've already stated that if it stays dry and sunny in 70s from mid sept to 1st wk oct I'm golden. I never expect decent grow conditions past oct10. You can get nice weather up till Halloween but by then you know you've had some cold , rainy, and windy plant destroying weather in between. Thats why I grow strins that are done by oct10 at the latest. Because once they exp. some shitty weather they won't perform well even if it gets nice later.ccguns
 

rockethoe

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I always start in march. Usually17th would be the earliest, but this year I started on the 2nd.
 

timcervantes57

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If you don't have Auto flower you can start whenever you want as long as the get some kind of light they'll stay in veg .
 

YardG

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I don't have a heated space to veg in this year, so gonna have to wait until nights get mild. Hoping it warms up early like last year, mid April seems like a decent time for early starts to me.
 

CCGNZ

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Man I had to protect my plants(seedlings)from a frost 1st week of May last year,sure hope no repeat performance of that bs this year.ccguns
 
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