Photoperiod plants outdoor in winter ?

Oogsi

Oogsi

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Stupid question but can photoperiod plants be grown in winter outside ? I know there’s only around 12 hours of light at best where I want to grow but I only want a oz or two from the plant , I have tried before and the plants where ok size but they Hermied which I put down to my own fuck ups with not fertilising at all there whole life cycle (I knew nothing when I started my first grow)
 
Oogsi

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ganga gurl420 said:
Well technically if it's not freezing temps...yes it could be done. Especially if you are only looking for an ounce or two. Watch for rain and moister though. Might end up with rot.
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Thanks for the quick reply! It barely rains where I live even in winter , no chance of frost (aus) any tips ? I’ve never successfully grown a crop , sad I know but someone chopped my last plants way before they where even close :(
 
ganga gurl420

ganga gurl420

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Oogsi said:
Thanks for the quick reply! It barely rains where I live even in winter , no chance of frost (aus) any tips ? I’ve never successfully grown a crop , sad I know but someone chopped my last plants way before they where even close :(
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I would look up the Web site growweedeasy.com they break down everything in there. :) good luck
 
socaljoe

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I tried two approaches recently. One was a seed planted sometime in August, I think, that was harvested in late November/early December.

The other approach was timed incorrectly. I planted seeds outdoors on Jan 1st. and grew them outside, covering and adding a heat lamp at night when the temps dropped too low. I'm currently doing a ghetto light dep to finish the only girl that I kept.


Where I'm at, we get a super mild fall and winter, you can't even really call it winter outside of a couple weeks in January. Anyway, I found the fall/early winter worked really well. I'd definitely do that again, but with more than 1 plant. I probably wouldn't try starting in winter growing into spring, the increasing daylight hours make the timing matter more.
 
too larry

too larry

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Oogsi said:
Stupid question but can photoperiod plants be grown in winter outside ? I know there’s only around 12 hours of light at best where I want to grow but I only want a oz or two from the plant , I have tried before and the plants where ok size but they Hermied which I put down to my own fuck ups with not fertilising at all there whole life cycle (I knew nothing when I started my first grow)
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Not a stupid question. And yes it can be done. I had fall/winter seed testers that I ran into winter with no added light. This was really just a seed test of the seeds I had made in my full season crop, and I had killed a bunch of them before I thought to let them go. I averaged about an ounce a plant off them.

Then I did a true Spring crop. I planted December 1st, and vegged under lights until January 19th. They did real good, but I did run into re-veg issues before they finished. Again I made about an ounce per plant. Last year I started earlier, but the weather here {NW Florida} proved to be too cold for them. Everything I had out died.

The main thing with growing in winter is to stay on top of your light hours. If you want to get some size before they start to flower, start them in early fall. Or veg them under lights until you are ready for them to go outside. If you know when your strains flower in the fall, you can figure out when they will re-veg in the spring. You want them to be finished by that time.

Here is a tool I use for length of day calculations. Just input a town near you.

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/australia/sydney

Good luck and welcome to RIU.
 
Oogsi

Oogsi

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too larry said:
Not a stupid question. And yes it can be done. I had fall/winter seed testers that I ran into winter with no added light. This was really just a seed test of the seeds I had made in my full season crop, and I had killed a bunch of them before I thought to let them go. I averaged about an ounce a plant off them.

Then I did a true Spring crop. I planted December 1st, and vegged under lights until January 19th. They did real good, but I did run into re-veg issues before they finished. Again I made about an ounce per plant. Last year I started earlier, but the weather here {NW Florida} proved to be too cold for them. Everything I had out died.

The main thing with growing in winter is to stay on top of your light hours. If you want to get some size before they start to flower, start them in early fall. Or veg them under lights until you are ready for them to go outside. If you know when your strains flower in the fall, you can figure out when they will re-veg in the spring. You want them to be finished by that time.

Here is a tool I use for length of day calculations. Just input a town near you.

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/australia/sydney

Good luck and welcome to RIU.
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Thanks champ!
 
Humanrob

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I've done this twice, both times randomly. The first time I had one too many for the tent and we were having a mild winter so I put my least favorite outside in February. It barely grew, vaguely started to flower, and managed to stay alive until the days got longer at which time it went back into veg in a truly ugly way. Later in the summer it got hit by a sprinkler and the deformed strange buds molded over.

This last winter I popped a bunch of seeds and after 6 weeks I flipped them to 12/12 around Feb. 15th. Within 10 days two had shown sex as hermies, one was a boy, so those got thrown out into a compost pile. One hermie landed upright... so I left it there. It was never exposed to sub-freezing weather, and I'm in NW Oregon as a reference.

Around the end of the first week in April, this is what the indoor one looked like compared to the outdoor one, obviously more light and warmer temps made a difference:

04.07.18outdoor-bud.jpg 04.08.18_2x4dd-bic.jpg

And this is what the outdoor looks like today:

05.04.18_outdoor_hermie.jpg 05.04.18_outdoor-hermie-bud.jpg

No doubt it's starting to go into veg again, but I'll need to take this one down in a month because it keeps making boy parts and I'll be putting in my regular outdoor at that point. Not sure if that gives you any useful info... I'd say you'll need to cover them in light dep way if you don't want them to go back into veg.
 
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Oogsi

Oogsi

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Humanrob said:
I've done this twice, both times randomly. The first time I had one too many for the tent and we were having a mild winter so I put my least favorite outside in February. It barely grew, vaguely started to flower, and managed to stay alive until the days got longer at which time it went back into veg in a truly ugly way. Later in the summer it got hit by a sprinkler and the deformed strange buds molded over.

This last winter I popped a bunch of seeds and after 6 weeks I flipped them to 12/12 around Feb. 15th. Within 10 days two had shown sex as hermies, one was a boy, so those got thrown out into a compost pile. One hermie landed upright... so I left it there. It was never exposed to sub-freezing weather, and I'm in NW Oregon as a reference.

Around the end of the first week in April, this is what the indoor one looked like compared to the outdoor one, obviously more light and warmer temps made a difference:

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And this is what the outdoor looks like today:

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No doubt it's starting to go into veg again, but I'll need to take this one down in a month because it keeps making boy parts and I'll be putting in my regular outdoor at that point. Not sure if that gives you any useful info... I'd say you'll need to cover them in light dep way if you don't want them to go back into veg.
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Thanks man! I think I might just stick with my indoor plant until the summer comes along , doesn’t seem worth all the extra hassle
 
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