Best way to toughen or harden-off plants

Irie Hawaii

Irie Hawaii

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My mother plant is indoors and I just got like 5 clones, their just starting to root. I want to put those clones outdoors. I was thinking about giving the clones no veg time under a light indoors, as soon as it it roots transplant them in a 5 gal in the mountains. Put them under a tree or find a shady spot then gradually move them in to a sunnier location. Would that work?
 
grassified

grassified

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yo irie how many hours of daylight veg time do u give your plants indoors?

Reason being becuase we are only getting about 11:50 minutes of daylight right now right? So if you vegged them for anything more than about 12/12, they would start to flower when you put em out.

How do you do this? I have some seeds im about to plant, wondering if I should start them indoors first then put em out.

Or just start em outdoors the whole way through.
 
wb456

wb456

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Irie Hawaii said:
My mother plant is indoors and I just got like 5 clones, their just starting to root. I want to put those clones outdoors. I was thinking about giving the clones no veg time under a light indoors, as soon as it it roots transplant them in a 5 gal in the mountains. Put them under a tree or find a shady spot then gradually move them in to a sunnier location. Would that work?
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It would work IMO. You need to begin out of direct sunlight for a week or two then in the sun they go. Or, put them where they are going to go and shade them.
wb
 
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s.c.mtn.hillbilly

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KushKing949 said:
stick em in the sun right away
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that can be disastrous advice...if you have tender indoor leaves, they DO need time in the shade outside,not too cold not too windy...the cells of the leaves need abut 2 wks. to thicken enough to handle the full blast of sunlight. I'm doing that right now.
 
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s.c.mtn.hillbilly

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grassified said:
yo irie how many hours of daylight veg time do u give your plants indoors?

Reason being becuase we are only getting about 11:50 minutes of daylight right now right? So if you vegged them for anything more than about 12/12, they would start to flower when you put em out.

How do you do this? I have some seeds im about to plant, wondering if I should start them indoors first then put em out.

Or just start em outdoors the whole way through.
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you physically schlep the buckets between light and darkness (major p.i.a.), until late april...here in cali, the majic photo # is 13 hrs. of light-less,and they flower;more and they veg',which on the calendar looks like mid to late april 'til the last week of july(at least for me).
 
Irie Hawaii

Irie Hawaii

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grassified said:
yo irie how many hours of daylight veg time do u give your plants indoors?

Reason being becuase we are only getting about 11:50 minutes of daylight right now right? So if you vegged them for anything more than about 12/12, they would start to flower when you put em out.

How do you do this? I have some seeds im about to plant, wondering if I should start them indoors first then put em out.

Or just start em outdoors the whole way through.
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For me, my strain is supposed to get very big fast. I seen on youtube they took a clone of my strain vegged it for 2 weeks then 12/12 and it grew 8ft tall during flowering! So I'm not sure I need to Veg the clones, just put them in the sun as soon as they root, and they will get pretty big even 11:50 of light... Well at least I hope so! The reason I don't want to Veg the clones is because I will have to make multiple trips if my clones are big, but if there small you can take all of them at one time. Basically this is an experiment. If my plants get tall and yield a decent amount It will be a successful experiment.

For you, it Kinda depends on your strain and what you want. If I was starting seeds and didn't have a bunch of clones to experiment with, I would veg the seeds until long season. Then you can get a big yield. But I will defiantly make a grow journal about this experimental outdoor grow.
 
Irie Hawaii

Irie Hawaii

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GrowTech said:
do you live on mercury or venus by chance?
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You never heard of toughing, or hardening-off your plant? buddy you can't take an indoor plant and put it straight outdoors under the hot powerful sun they will die or if they survive they will most likely turn hermaphrodite. I have 1st hand experience with that.

Ignorant douche bag. LOL.
 
Irie Hawaii

Irie Hawaii

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KushKing949 said:
are u serious????? no the sun wont kill em the sun is a plants best friend i mean obviously if it starts getting really hot like above 100 u might have some problems
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You never heard of toughing, or hardening-off your plant? buddy you can't take an indoor plant and put it straight outdoors under the hot powerful sun they will die or if they survive they will most likely turn hermaphrodite. I have 1st hand experience with that
 
Irie Hawaii

Irie Hawaii

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s.c.mtn.hillbilly said:
that can be disastrous advice...if you have tender indoor leaves, they DO need time in the shade outside,not too cold not too windy...the cells of the leaves need abut 2 wks. to thicken enough to handle the full blast of sunlight. I'm doing that right now.
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Thanks for the advice. I'll do that.
 
Irie Hawaii

Irie Hawaii

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If you don't know what Harding-off or toughing a plant means, read the definition then comment. I don't want to hear your sassy replies that make you look ignorant.
:cuss:
 
Willie North

Willie North

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put them outside for a few hours a day
so like for the first day there outside only keep em outside for an hour
then the next day 2 hours and so on
 
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s.c.mtn.hillbilly

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Irie Hawaii said:
My mother plant is indoors and I just got like 5 clones, their just starting to root. I want to put those clones outdoors. I was thinking about giving the clones no veg time under a light indoors, as soon as it it roots transplant them in a 5 gal in the mountains. Put them under a tree or find a shady spot then gradually move them in to a sunnier location. Would that work?
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yes, just be sure to cage the buckets with 1"chicken wire.
 
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