Can I bring potted plants indoors?

[dgauci]

Hi all,

I'm a newbie at this so please bear with me.

This past spring, I found 11 seeds in the bottom of a change jar and thought, "What the hell". So on a total flyer, I germinate them and pot them before moving them out to our rural property so they could run free. I spread em out and planted them only to come back the following week to find the deer had a feast on them.

So I bring em home, and nurse them back to health before taking them back out to the country but this time, I place them into fenced pens with chicken wire. Being the resilient little plants that they are, they heal up and continue to grow like...well....weeds. I kept them in big pots so they could be portable should they require any first aid.

Now we come to mid-October and I still have 8 of them going. I had 3 males and they have since gone to a better place. They are all anywhere from 5 - 9 ft tall with tons of buds trying to grow but I suspect that the colder weather here in the Pacific Nortwest has begun to slow them down. The majority of buds are about an inch long and are slowly beginning to merge with the neighbouring buds to look like huge buds. Night time temps are about 48 - 50 degrees but I feel my time is running out before the cold weather really sets in. I'm feeling like this was a science experiment gone horribly wrong. I certainly didn't expect them to get quite so large!!

My questions:
Can I take these potted plants and move them inside under a 120W UFO LED with a few CFL's as side fill? I have a spare insulated storage cabin that can fit 3 of them so I figure I can finish them off inside.

Is there anything that I should be doing to prepre them so they're not shocked? I was thinking of putting them on an 11 hour on cycle which is pretty close to what we have up here now.

I'd appreciate some help on this one. I never realized that growing this stuff was so labour intensive. I can't complain cause I'll admit, I've become qute attached to them.

Thanks in advance!

[Joe Luxon]

I'd go for a 600 watt HPS to finish off those 3 plants Indoors.

I don't think your LED and CFL option is anywhere enough to finish off 3 fully grow outdoor plants.

[Cnote]

I faced a similar situation.

I am finishing indoors with 9 x 43w CFL bulbs, 2700K color.

My results are hard to understand.

The plants are thriving but continue to grow new leaf structures and don't seem to be "finishing". Which is driving me nuts.

[Nuckenfuts]

Leave them out until a serious frost threat comes up. Move them into the garage overnight and puit them back out the next morning until it is too high of a frost threat and it finally gets too cold. They should be done by then. It was 30 degrees here the other night and they are still cookin along until the big frost comes.