I need advice !! Please

They look like they're stretching for the light a bit more than I'd want mine to so if you're going to keep them indoors you may want to lower the light.


Your survey question suggests that they're autoflowers. Are they? If so, do whatever you feel like with the lighting, but don't change it all the time -pick one light schedule and stick to it. Autoflowers can go hermaphroditic pretty easily, and all plants can go hermaphroditic if you stress them out too much -by changing the light schedule multiple times, for example.

I've grown three autos indoors, and they received the same lighting that my photoperiod plants did, even though they started flowering during 18/6 lighting. Anecdotally, I've heard that autos produce the most weight when a conventional lighting schedule is used -18/6 for veg and around the third or fourth week, the grower started noticing some stretching so he changed to 12/12.

 

Autos do better under longer hours of light, the longer the better i have heard.

Only flowered one myself and i did it under 20 hours of light a day until harvest

 

Autoflowers have a predetermined life span -they only live a certain number of days so you can't 'extend' their life by 'vegging' for longer. This means that 12/12 won't cause them to flower -they'll begin to flower automatically, regardless of how many hours of light they receive, after about 3-4 weeks from the seed popping.

Their predetermined lifespan is significant for a second reason. Every time they are stressed out, they spend energy trying to recovery from that stress. Since they only live a predetermined number of days, they essentially have a set amount of energy. They could spend that energy getting big or building big colas, or they could spend that energy recovering from stress. Transplanting causes stress. It's best to start autoflowers in their final pot/in the ground if want to grow them in the ground.

If you want my opinion, move them outside whenever you feel like it, but do not transplant them into the ground. Continue growing them in their current pots.

And yes, I do have some experience growing autos outdoors -I'm growing one in a three gallon pot on my balcony right now.

 

Your yield obviously won't be as much as if they had been planted straight in the ground from seed, but two gallon pots are fine.

Who knows? If you end up transplanting them into the ground, post back at harvest, and let us know how it worked out.