Humanrob
Well-Known Member
I'd love to hear from other outdoor auto growers, to share what worked and what hasn't in your grows. Feel free to post pictures of your grows in progress, it's all good.
I switched from photos to autos for my outdoor in stages, and then went full auto 2018. It was driven by our shorter grow season that is consistently ended by rain and cold, and therefore mold and PM. If I can time when I start my autos well, I'll finish in August while it's still warm, dry, and the sun is relatively high and the days are longer.
Autos can be tricky. If I start too soon, the cooler spring will stunt the plants and my overall harvest will be smaller. If I start too late, the plants finish in the early fall when the first rains come and I lose a percentage to mold. I think the optimal set up would be to start them indoors mid-May and keep them there until the first or second week in June (depending on the weather that year), and then put them out. I start them mid-May, but each of the last few years we've had some very hot weather in late May that has forced me to put them out, since my garage builds up too much heat. Once they are out and hardened, so far I've left them there, even if cooler weather came back and may have somewhat stunted them.
It all works out each year, I'll keep looking for the sweet spot but in the end the weather will determine what happens.
Here are my 2021 kids, getting ready for their second day of hardening in the tall tunnel. Four of these are for a friend, the rest I'll have to decide what to do with.
I switched from photos to autos for my outdoor in stages, and then went full auto 2018. It was driven by our shorter grow season that is consistently ended by rain and cold, and therefore mold and PM. If I can time when I start my autos well, I'll finish in August while it's still warm, dry, and the sun is relatively high and the days are longer.
Autos can be tricky. If I start too soon, the cooler spring will stunt the plants and my overall harvest will be smaller. If I start too late, the plants finish in the early fall when the first rains come and I lose a percentage to mold. I think the optimal set up would be to start them indoors mid-May and keep them there until the first or second week in June (depending on the weather that year), and then put them out. I start them mid-May, but each of the last few years we've had some very hot weather in late May that has forced me to put them out, since my garage builds up too much heat. Once they are out and hardened, so far I've left them there, even if cooler weather came back and may have somewhat stunted them.
It all works out each year, I'll keep looking for the sweet spot but in the end the weather will determine what happens.
Here are my 2021 kids, getting ready for their second day of hardening in the tall tunnel. Four of these are for a friend, the rest I'll have to decide what to do with.
