I am getting ready to start plants from seed and I'm going to be growing outdoors as well as indoors as soon as some space opens up in the tent. Anyway I can start plants and then move them to both locations? If I start them under lights and they are getting lots of light and move them outside they might start flowering. Unless I set my timer to turn on at sunrise and off at sunset? But once I decide which will go where can I put the plants under long hours of light (18+ hr) or will the increase in hours be too stressful? If I were to start the plants under sunlight, there would be the same increase. Or should I just pick which is going to go where and start them there? Or am I over thinking this? I also have wondered if a flowering auto can go from 12 hours to 18+ hours and keep flowering or if there is enough photoperiod in them to cause them to reveg? Anyone ever try? Or might be plant dependent? If I have plants in flower I've thought about starting an auto to fill an empty spot. Once the rest are harvested and I start new plants and increase to long hours, I was curious if the autos could go along for the ride? Hopefully I will get my second veg tent soon enough and this won't be an issue. Also, once I use up all my auto seeds I probably won't get more as so far the ones I have just don't do as well as standard photoperiod plants. Just getting ready for this outdoor season and wondering what I can get away with. I guess this also brings up the question of clones started under lights being moved outdoors without them going into flower. I thought many clones were put under near constant light which would cause them to flower when moved outside. I guess you just use less hours if they might go outside? Again, if they go inside under long hours will it cause too much stress? If anyone follows my line of thinking or does this I would love to know what you have found. Thanks!
It's not that complicated. They can live both places and not go into flower until their light cycle gets down to 12 hours or daylight/12 hours of darkness. Don't plant any outside this year until the hours of light get to well over 12....to prevent them from thinking they've undergone the light change for the flip. Once you've got well over 12 hours of daylight each day, you can put them out without worries of them going into flower. Typically, around here it's the late summer before they go into flower and then we have a couple more months to flower them off before harvest. But as long as your hours of light are more than 12, they'll stay in veg no matter whether they're growing inside or out. TWW
