I had awful problems with wet weather last fall. I lost a lot of my outdoor crop to rot, so this year I have an indoor room setup on standby for the moment it starts to look like rain. I’d prefer to just shelter them but I don’t have the resources and I do have an indoor grow room. They’re potted and movable, and the room is ready. I’m hoping that it will just have to be for the last 2-3 weeks of flower. I know I’ll have to try to eliminate as many of the potential pests as possible beforehand, and try not to make the conditions too different to minimize the shock. I’d appreciate any specific suggestions about how to make this work, like adapting light cycle, controlling the pests, minimizing shock, etc...
Finishing outdoor plants indoor
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Galvatron1
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Do the same for indoor in flower. Just know that you will most likely bring in bugs. If there are no other existing plants clean and sterilize the room thoroughly when she's finished.
canadiantoker420
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My 30gal tote bag seed of “snickerdoodle” (cookies n cream x granddaddy purple) , thinking ahead for a few strains this year, gotta build a lil hoop house for this “in cage beast” c99 x blueberry fast version i sprouted April 12th... don’t wanna lose a 1.5-2 pound plant... got a 12x10x7ft greenhouse for that tote an my other pots, the tote is like 6’4ft rite now it won’t stop stretching since the beginning of August it like doubled maybe tripled in size! When I thought it was jus gonna transition into flower and stretch like 1/3-1/2 of what it was it decided to triple since aug.1 N only has tiny lil buds starting on it rn
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Pure Michigan
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Thanks for bringing this up. I always run indoors but my basement flooded with historic rain and I am still remodeling. I hope to be done in a few weeks. That being said I went outdoors with what I had going inside. I did 2 things and rushed, I dug some holes and threw them in and I also repotted the rest in large pots and threw those on the deck. It was either that or just throw them out and restart all over.
Well the ones in dirt are killing it! Im blown away actually how easy its been. The ones in pots (same strains) require much more food and are waaaaaaay bigger than anything I have ever grown. This spring I finally was able to do a test (before flood). I ran 3 tents since my business was forced to close and I had nothing but time and I was only responsible to teach the 7 year old and my wife handled the rest lol. So in this time in the 3 tents i tests HPS in one, T5, in the other, and finally got 2 600 led equivs in the 3rd tent. All i can say is mother nature blows everything away and I am so excited to see I can run outdoors in my legal state. The plants i have in dirt are massive. Waaaay bigger than I ever thought was possible.
So I am in the same boat with the threat of mold, bugs, or whatever I dont know. I have a solid system for indoors but outdoors I am nervous. I could also bring in the potted plants, but the dirt plants are stuck.
What am I looking for to see if my plants get a fungi or this rot i keep hearing about?
Can I prevent this?
I have no problem buying what I need to assure my wife and I have what we need till next summer. Should I greenhouse these guys to prevent rain from actually hitting them? Is that the cause of rot and mold? I never put water on my indoor plants. Then I think about all the guys I have seen in cali and other places that just run them outside no cover. They are plants right? Do i need to put a fan or some shit out there to get ahead of this?
Thank you.
Well the ones in dirt are killing it! Im blown away actually how easy its been. The ones in pots (same strains) require much more food and are waaaaaaay bigger than anything I have ever grown. This spring I finally was able to do a test (before flood). I ran 3 tents since my business was forced to close and I had nothing but time and I was only responsible to teach the 7 year old and my wife handled the rest lol. So in this time in the 3 tents i tests HPS in one, T5, in the other, and finally got 2 600 led equivs in the 3rd tent. All i can say is mother nature blows everything away and I am so excited to see I can run outdoors in my legal state. The plants i have in dirt are massive. Waaaay bigger than I ever thought was possible.
So I am in the same boat with the threat of mold, bugs, or whatever I dont know. I have a solid system for indoors but outdoors I am nervous. I could also bring in the potted plants, but the dirt plants are stuck.
What am I looking for to see if my plants get a fungi or this rot i keep hearing about?
Can I prevent this?
I have no problem buying what I need to assure my wife and I have what we need till next summer. Should I greenhouse these guys to prevent rain from actually hitting them? Is that the cause of rot and mold? I never put water on my indoor plants. Then I think about all the guys I have seen in cali and other places that just run them outside no cover. They are plants right? Do i need to put a fan or some shit out there to get ahead of this?
Thank you.
Pure Michigan, California has extraordinarily dry summers. If the Colorado river weren’t drained dry there’d be little agriculture there, and the rest would be devoured by phylloxera. Here in OR, it’s also quite dry, but at the end of September, it flips from sun season to rain season and some strains handle it better than others. The outdoor growers I’ve known all have hybrids they love for moisture resistance. I built a plexiglass awning last year but enough mist and droplets got in that the strains with denser buds got moisture damage pretty badly even with several fans drying them. The fuzzier sativa hybrids did better, surviving the wet even without fans.
JoeBlow5823
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Ive seen people start covering their plants 12 hours a day in early to mid july so they are done end of september. Lot of work to do that though. Very few places have weather ideal for outdoor grows- they just take to long to finish. Frost/snow can happen as early as end of september where im at. Usually takes until october but we have a very cloudy wet fall typically.
Last year I brought my plants in and had a bad case of spider mites. A few weeks ago I brought my plants in to flower but I washed them down with the garden hose first and then sprayed them indoors with safers end all (with lights off). No bugs yet. I spray every 4 to 5 days and once i see buds forming i will back off. I think my plants needed a week to adjust to the leds but they are doing fine now.
Pure Michigan
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How can I determine if the strains I have going fall into that category? I currently have 3 strains going. Apollo 13, killer queen, and 2 rosetta stones. I have been to websites that sell these seeds but it didnt list anything about moisture. Can you help me with finding info on this and future strains for outdoors? Can you recommend any? And of course the big one...A place to get seeds that doesnt require me to send cash! I am so sick of getting to my cart at seed places and then I cant just click click and order. The guy that taught me everything I knew died this year. He used to send me seeds in the mail. I was spoiled for so many years. I tried random seeds a few times and I got those yellow bannanas that spread pollen. I never ever ever want to deal with that again. ANd if what i read here is correct I had bad genetics. Thats why I bought the seeds I am running now but i had to get them from another country and that sucked too.
canadiantoker420
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The ones I’m doing man, lemonade OG x freezeland (lemon OG kush x gorilla haze x freezeland) highly potent 15+% thc for outdoor, and super chunky buds .. I had a wee bit of botrytis but only becuz colas are literally 12 inches or more around lol on the DFG’s .. only half the pheno’s have buds big enuff to mold , it’s a highly mold resistant strain added it has freezeland along with the lemon skunk og#18 mix, haze... got a few 8footers u c the buds flopping over there all half oz + dry colas ... deffinitly going with a few packs of em again next year!
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jenniferSolution
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You can definitely pull this out. I don't think there would be much shock overall. Try to get them used to the light little by little before going full indoor
Pure Michigan
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Thanks brother. I wrote that down. Do you have a thread going or anything so I can watch your progress and learn?
Pure Michigan
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You guys got me thinking maybe its best I put my plants on my deck in my tents downstairs even if i am still remodeling down there. Any experience with shock from switching from sun to HPS and LED?
Caliverner
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Yah I was bringing plants in and out so they flip they just finished couple weeks ago
Caliverner
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It was a lot of work carrying them back and forth and they look like hell from moving around so much and not stable
Pure Michigan
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Here are my potted plants. They are on the deck cept for this one I had to take out of the 40mph wind...she's hurt. I just put my German Shepherd down. He was just 4 so I'm not motivated cept to sit inside and learn. Amway this is what I'm working with.
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Caliverner
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That's how all mine looked it was crazy I mine were in 15 gallon pots
Pure Michigan
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I just figured out how to most multi pics....
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Pure Michigan
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Got these in dirt. First timer outside and I have been lucky.
