The place I'd be planting is in the woods. My questions are: When the plants are flowering, they're supposed to have 12/12 hours of day/night but if they're outside it'll be more like 15 hours of daylight. Will that have heavy negative effects? Is it alright if I grow the plants all the way up to the flowering stage indoors and then move them outside for flowering?
12/12 is for indoor grow ops. Outdoors plants will flower naturally when they are ready. Before planting outdoors try to mirror the natural light cycle outside then take them out periodically for about a week to harden them off then plant. If u just stick them outside sometimes they will flower prematurely. U want them to veg into big plants first.And yes u can veg them indoors then transplant but who wants to try to stealthly transplant 4-6ft plants?
High Toosick Cannabis that contains indica grown outdoors will trigger into flower between 14.25 and 14.oo hrs of daylength. You can check your almanac to see when those daylengths occur in your area. Here where i live, thats late july to early august. If an 8 week, 60 day flowerer starts to flower on Aug 1, I will harvest around Oct 1. See? Question 2: "all the way up to flowering stage". Flowering is triggered by daylength reduction, so if you grow the plants indoors and then cut the lights back to 14hrs or less then they will begin to flower. If you set the plants outdoors once they have began to flower, the daylenth that you had indoors that triggered the flowering must be maintained or the plants will revert to a vegatative state. In other words, they will only continue to flower if you set them inside and out at the prescribed daylength. There is one caveat to that principle however. The caveat is June 21, the longest day of the year. Until that day, daylength increases and as long as that is occuring, flowering plants placed outdoors under natural lighting would try and revert to a veg state. . After that date, daylength begins to decrease and plants begin to move into the flowering stage. If you wait until the daylength has diminished beyond the trigger daylength(mid july or so) to set your flowering plants out, they wont revert because they sense that the days are getting shorter and they need to flower. I have a friend that starts 20 plants indoors on June1 and grows them for 45 days. He kicks them into flower by turning down the lights to 14hrs until they trigger, and then sets them outdoors July 15 to finish up theyre flowering. They dont try to reveg because the daylenth at that date has diminished and the color of the sunlight is turning more toward the red spectrum which serves to tell the plant to flower,not veg. He gets about 2.5 ozs per plant, just over 3lbs, when the plants are finished mid sept. Good luck
clodhopper, i plan on growing a few indicas this summer in south florida, down here the longest day of the year is just under 14 hours. if i planted in say late april (4/20 to be exact), would the plants still re veg until jun 21st or will they keep flowering and harvest like in the middle of summer. Also when would sativas naturally trigger flowering? i plan on growing a few sativas too