Is It Too Early To Move These Outdoors? Zone 8 Calif

bigboerboel

bigboerboel

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I'm running out of vertical space in my germination cabinet. Do you think April 18th is too early to move these outdoors to their permanent home?

Sprouted March 20th from seed, under HLG 65 V2 LED. One is Tropicana Cookies, the other is Gorilla Glue #4. Both from ILGM. They've been on a 17/7 light cycle, but I've been moving them outside from 9am to 7:30 pm for the last week. They are hardened off. They do get the LED from 4am until I move them outside at 9am.

Thanks you for the advice.
 

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Krit

Krit

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bigboerboel said:
I'm running out of vertical space in my germination cabinet. Do you think April 18th is too early to move these outdoors to their permanent home?

Sprouted March 20th from seed, under HLG 65 V2 LED. One is Tropicana Cookies, the other is Gorilla Glue #4. Both from ILGM. They've been on a 17/7 light cycle, but I've been moving them outside from 9am to 7:30 pm for the last week. They are hardened off. They do get the LED from 4am until I move them outside at 9am.

Thanks you for the advice.
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I say go for it. They might stress out a little but they look healthy and I'm sure they'll recover.
 
FirstCavApache64

FirstCavApache64

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How many hours of daylight are you getting? You don't want them to start flowering and then have to reveg. If you want you can gas light them to keep them out of flower until there's enough daylight to prevent premature flowering. Just give them weak light for an hour during the middle of the night to keep them from flowering. For us in VA it's usually the middle of June before it's safe to put them out.
 
Krit

Krit

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I had a problem with last year's plants flowering early that I put out around this time. I'm up north and thought you may get a little more sun down there in SoCal that it wouldn't be much of a problem.
Like @FirstCavApache64 said, turn on a porch light or something for an hour or so near them. It stopped my plants. He may of been the one who told me what to do.
 
go go kid

go go kid

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BullPower said:
I use milk jugs with bottoms removed. Started mine around the first of April. TN. Do you take the covering off on nice days?
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yes allways, although as long as its not too hot, ill leave them on, but im lucky enough to be on hand to take the bottle off if it gets too hot, so they dont burn, easy to do some days.
great for overnight temp rising though. it keeps them just that extra bit protected
 
bigboerboel

bigboerboel

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FirstCavApache64 said:
How many hours of daylight are you getting? You don't want them to start flowering and then have to reveg. If you want you can gas light them to keep them out of flower until there's enough daylight to prevent premature flowering. Just give them weak light for an hour during the middle of the night to keep them from flowering. For us in VA it's usually the middle of June before it's safe to put them out.
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Thanks FirstCavApache64 and Krit. I was worried about the lack of light hours, not the temperature. Lows are staying in the 50s now. I have a small portable LED shop light. I guess I can put that on an extension cord and timer to turn on at 4:30am and off at 6:30 for a few more weeks. My neighbors might wonder what's up, but they smoke half my weed anyway.
 
TessaMaria

TessaMaria

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I like your plan of giving a few hours of extra light until you have enough real daylight, I always have problems when I put my plants outdoors too early, they have started to flower then reverted back to veg then completed the process with much less harvest, another year they grew bananas and ended up with seeds. I am on the Central California Coast. Now I wait until atleast June1. (: :peace: :weed:
 
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