Flower about a month under lights, then move outdoors?

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Tijeanster

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I have trouble getting photos to finish with my local fall weather. Thinking next summer to have a couple of plants flipped and enough flowering time under lights then move outside sometime past mid July. I am about 47 deg. N . Dont know how close I would have to snch. the daylight hours so they dont revert to veg.

Is it a crazy idea or is it something that is done.
 
Tijeanster said:
I have trouble getting photos to finish with my local fall weather. Thinking next summer to have a couple of plants flipped and enough flowering time under lights then move outside sometime past mid July. I am about 47 deg. N . Dont know how close I would have to snch. the daylight hours so they dont revert to veg.

Is it a crazy idea or is it something that is done.
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Auto flower strains for outdoor.
 
Light deprivation is probably your best bet for photos Could start pulling a tarp (or setup an automated retractable covering) in July, every day for a month or so, until mid August. By then the hours will match the same deprivation schedule, so you can quit tarping them off the rest of flower. They'll be halfway done already, and starting to stack before they would naturally start flowering without light depping. Finish a month early, when the sun is still high ;)
 
If I already had them flowering for a month inside, it would be a matter of preventing them re- vegging. Would they need the same degree of light deprivation to hold them? I expect that different cultivars may have different precise day length figures to trigger them. Tales of "light poisoning" spooked me
 
I veg under lights; then move outside to flower. (I use the gas lantern technique to veg them for a few weeks longer once moved outside.) But you're already flowering under lights? I guess, I don't understand why you would want to move them out now?
 
I think the trouble is the strain not finishing fast enough. I think your idea would work though. But you could run into reveg problems and you also lose the whole start of the summer when those plants really dig those roots down deep. That really pays off later in the season. I have done some selections where I pull every thing that hasn't started flowering by the mid to end of July, because they will never be able to finish anyways. So I think what you are thinking will work, but it would be best to get some genetics that will start flowering early enough so they can finish early enough.
 
Yes, suitable weather to get them to finish is an issue here. Mold! I will get them up to about 4 pairs of leaves under lights by about the time of our last frost then put them in the ground. Have been doin OK with autos but not overly happy with yield.

Thanks,
 
Tijeanster said:
Yes, suitable weather to get them to finish is an issue here. Mold! I will get them up to about 4 pairs of leaves under lights by about the time of our last frost then put them in the ground. Have been doin OK with autos but not overly happy with yield.

Thanks,
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I am in Minnesota, so I have it quite a bit easier. I have had good luck with a NL5 from Todd McCormick. At 45 days it is ready to pick, bit if given the chance it can go longer without getting all overripe looking and brown.

I'm sure you already thought of or tried, starting them off in something like a 5 gallon pale and putting them outside for the summer and then bring move them in/out as needed for the last week or two. I have had plants finish good as long as they didn't all of a sudden start getting more light. Maybe that might help with the mold too. It would be a ton of work.
 
Tijeanster said:
I have trouble getting photos to finish with my local fall weather. Thinking next summer to have a couple of plants flipped and enough flowering time under lights then move outside sometime past mid July. I am about 47 deg. N . Dont know how close I would have to snch. the daylight hours so they dont revert to veg.

Is it a crazy idea or is it something that is done.
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I'm trying to address the same problem. Last July around the 4th I put two plants in my shed for 24 hours of complete darkness. 3 days later I did that again. Of course this is tedious so I left them outside for the rest of the summer they did start to flower by the end of July instead of my usual second week of August. So that is showing some promise but they didn't finish any faster than Halloween. I will try it again this summer.
 
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