Flowering (late) in fall outdoors in a hot climate, vs. indoors w/ LED

[flexy123]

I am in SE Spain, which has a hot/dry climate without frost. I have in the past already grown outdoors (on my roof).

The timing for my current grow is off. It's a Sativa (Amnesia) which I currently have in my Greenhouse on the balcony, under LEDs (6x CREE CXB3590).

I am currently debating what would be better for flowering. Flowering would take 65-70 days.

a) Putting the plant next week (Sept 7), upstairs on the roof in the sun as I initially planned, and then let it flower all throughout September and October, with an expected harvest I guess around Nov. 10th. There doubtless IS sun, always, but my concern is the shorter daylight hours late in fall. ("Next week" since I just repotted into a bigger pot and I want to wait a week)

b) Flowering in the greenhouse, using 12/12

In other words, asking whether flowering outdoors, even "late" in fall would always be better than indoors under a grow light?

 

[jdog127]

I am in SE Spain, which has a hot/dry climate without frost. I have in the past already grown outdoors (on my roof).

The timing for my current grow is off. It's a Sativa (Amnesia) which I currently have in my Greenhouse on the balcony, under LEDs (6x CREE CXB3590).

I am currently debating what would be better for flowering. Flowering would take 65-70 days.

a) Putting the plant next week (Sept 7), upstairs on the roof in the sun as I initially planned, and then let it flower all throughout September and October, with an expected harvest I guess around Nov. 10th. There doubtless IS sun, always, but my concern is the shorter daylight hours late in fall. ("Next week" since I just repotted into a bigger pot and I want to wait a week)

b) Flowering in the greenhouse, using 12/12

In other words, asking whether flowering outdoors, even "late" in fall would always be better than indoors under a grow light?

Nothing beats the power of the sun. NOTHING.

 

[ganga gurl420]

Agreed..
Nothing will beat outdoor sun. Plus you can get some monster yields

 

[FresnoFarmer]

Ive done it with good results. Doing it again this year.

 

[BrewersToker]

Sun trumps everything!

 

[Hempire828]

I’m almost entering my 3rd week of flowering and want to place them outside.. but right now it’s warmer than usual...around 90-95 degrees!!
Night time temps range from 69-75 degrees.. I stay around 77-80 degrees inside... though soon I look for the weather to break.. is it a bad idea to put them in this heat during early flowering?

 

[flexy123]

Wow..almost forgot about this thread!

Yes I put it outside now and it's already stretching like mad. Should start to flower shortly. And would you believe it, *of course* only a few days after I put it out we got the absolutely worst storm with the biggest rainfall on record (!), including hail even. The plant however survived since I have it under a shade thing. (Which I placed in a way so it gives only shade around noon for 1-2 hours, when the sun burns down hardest). As it came down with torrential rains like you wouldn't believe for two days, today I watered/fed it again as I figured that the rain may possibly have washed out the nutes from the pot.