FROST: general rules from experience....

I live in the great white north and we get frost early every year. I've seen some strains handle it as low as 23 F while others will freeze at 27 F.

I ve been growing indica strains all round year from last year....those plants been in 60's in the day, i ve always move em in the house every night to prevent frost...they were perfect fine with beautiful purple pistills

I have two clones that been flowering about halfway to five weeks now...4 or 5 weeks more to go...average in my area is 50's in the night time and 70's during day....the pistills are still white, no color or purple anything like that yet...this time I will leave em outside at night time to see the end result. I should expect the frost by end of this month...it will be 27temp in the night time....Ill let ya know how those clones fare , next month !

keep share the exprience, growers

Izoc666 said:

I ve been growing indica strains all round year from last year....those plants been in 60's in the day, i ve always move em in the house every night to prevent frost...they were perfect fine with beautiful purple pistills

I have two clones that been flowering about halfway to five weeks now...4 or 5 weeks more to go...average in my area is 50's in the night time and 70's during day....the pistills are still white, no color or purple anything like that yet...this time I will leave em outside at night time to see the end result. I should expect the frost by end of this month...it will be 27temp in the night time....Ill let ya know how those clones fare , next month !

keep share the exprience, growers

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if those plants have never seen 30 degree nights, don't put them out in a 27..... this is usually a gradual thing outdoors.

AND... if you do put them outside in that, make sure the pot is THOROUGHLY insulated.

We have been gettin colder here in Socal. We havnt a frost here in the desert yet, but She should do just fine! Thanks errOne by the way for this post will help guide me thru the Winter! Happy Harvest!

poplars said:

if those plants have never seen 30 degree nights, don't put them out in a 27..... this is usually a gradual thing outdoors.

AND... if you do put them outside in that, make sure the pot is THOROUGHLY insulated.

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Amen to that! If they are in pots, s/he should just take them in if at all possible. Why put them through that? If they haven't fattened, they will get the signal to stop growing and start ripening.

I have a few plants that really needed to fatten up. I don't think they will now. After the two frosts they endured, they will likely finish as airy, smaller-budded hash and extract plants. Thankfully, I had several others that were nearly done before the frost hit and they are finishing nicely.

poplars said:

if those plants have never seen 30 degree nights, don't put them out in a 27..... this is usually a gradual thing outdoors.

AND... if you do put them outside in that, make sure the pot is THOROUGHLY insulated.

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Yes those clones are in the pots...also i put the pot in the other thicker bucket for drain water purpose, I dont want the water spill on my deck

I already harvested other plants for smoke etc. Those clones are for hash only..thats why i dont mind to see what frost will do to the clones.

happy growing.

It's going to frost tonight where I'm at my plants been outside every day and night since June and its supposed to be 54 and sunny tommarow so I will let u know how she does

@patsbrady - how low are they saying it will go? I find my plants generally do well down to 29 or even 28. Below that, there can be a lot of leaf damage, depending on the strain. The buds can tolerate much more, however, so if they are not ready, just cut off any affected leaves and let them finish.

I'm in Michigan & have already had 2 frost warnings & my ladies are doin just fine. One turning a little purple but that kinda good. No signs of death at all....

It said as low as 27 and widespread frost then sunny saturday

protect them if you can, if you can't don't worry about it.

I live in Phoenix and my sativa is looking great! She was enduring some 100+ days under a screen but now its beginning to come into season for us. I'm about 4 weeks into flower, but she is super slow and super potent. I'm excited to see what she'll finish like. I'll put some pix up. We should see at least one or two freezes this winter.

*frost update

went to see my cabbage patch kids on saturday morning. there had been frost on wednesday (-1*C/ 30*F), thursday (-2*C/ 28*F) and friday evening ( a more severe frost of -5*C / 23*F) and it was only 4*C /39*F on saturday morning.
here are some pictures of the 'damage'...

overall, the leaves were wilted, some bud rot had set in and the stems were very brittle with the thin membrane pealing off...
had to cut some down as they weren't looking too good...

OK, so i am a somewhat good grower (good dank) and live in central california. However, i never tried a test run to see if a plant could survive outside throughout winter. Our temperature never gets below 40 throughout all winter. I am aware that my plants would probably flower very early and i dont think this would be a problem because i will be cloning and constantly changing mother and clone plants. Do you guys think that i could grow in Dixie Cups, to 3 gals. to 5 Gals containers in the winter here?? thanks

My little plant survived a 24 degree frost the other night no wilting or anything

Lookwhatimblazn said:

My little plant survived a 24 degree frost the other night no wilting or anything

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nice wow must be very indica or afghani strain huh? thanks for posting.

Not 100% Shure on the strain but I got the seed out of a o of master Kush and it's deffently a hybrid indica Dom but it was attacked by a gofer before flowering and now looks more sativa .... The leaves are longer and thiner than they were before the attack lol and it smells just like the stuff I got the seed from lol and it was said the weed came from a despensory in colorodo but idn About that lol I'm on the east coast in a hick town lol

right on man. master kush has a lot. of indica in it good stuff

average temps in the 50s-60 in the day and average 30s-40s at night occasionaly there will be a frost a few wont matter and in the end it will give you color. If there is a frost/freeze warning just make sure there is not precipitation. The dry cold can be dealt with.to a point.Freezing rain and sleet are killers and are what you really need to consider. The normal first few frosts are usualy nothing to stress over unless there is precip or the temps are below 26 for a sustained period of time and wont recover much in the day to the next night. The first frosts are usualy a good sign to prepare to harvest in some states.
The october nights can get bad though so think ahead and always check the weather. I find www.weather.gov to be the most accurate and most informing. When there is a frost expected . Dont go rippin plants up cause you think its all over just throw some layers of mulch around the base try and make a cover with clear plastic to act like a green house.
The roots are most important to keep warm. So when soil temps hover around low 40s in the day you should consider wrapping the containers with clothe or plastic to keep in warmth.
Thats just my two cents on frost and late season preparedness. Hope you all had a great year.

Here`s what my babies looked like 4 days after they suffered from 2 nights of 30f in a row mixed with rain...



... sometimes, mother nature trows a curve ball... expect it.