Moved flowering auto outdoors in Ohio

This may serve as a kind of experiment so I'm posting it here. I have a kind of dinky berry ryder that I grew mostly indoors with trips outside on nice days up through a couple weeks of flowering. But my indoor space is inaccessible now and I've just moved it permanently to a spot out in some thin unbudded woods. I can run out and cover it if weather really dictates.

Temps are basically 45-65 right now though we had a 38 last night. Just wanted to get feedback on what folks think I should expect and I'll update with pictures and progress as we go along. I kind of want to see if this is any kind of viable, like if it might be possible to start a dozen plants in March and let them flower out in the limitless open woods we have here before things are budded out mid May. So we'll see what we see.

Here's how she looks this morning, along with a pic of her setting
Don't try to play where's waldo here, she's up closer to that ridge you can't see it in this photo it's just for setting.



Here she is.
As you can see the blue/purple hasn't showed up despite the cold nights. Was kind of hoping for that. That's a 2.5 gallon pot sitting down in a hole. She's not as stealth as she used to be as that main cola is sticking right up about 10" above the surrounding veg. But I really don't think anyone but deer are ever out here.

We'll see how it comes out probably next week, but I'm thinking it's viable and next year maybe I'll do a group of these this way. I'd time things just a little later and maybe make a little cellophane greenhouse dome with thorny canes.There's a fair amount of random plastic junk that blows off the farm on the ridge so I think that could go unnoticed too even if someone walked up here.

Looks great so far, hopefully the cold breaks here pretty soon. I was about to recommend the greenhouse plastic bag thing, but youre already on top of it. Let us know how the rest of the grow goes.

Yeah it's nice and toasty now, so I for all the cold weather this plant saw, I don't think purple is in the cards. mid 80's today and through the weekend and I think she should be done mid next week.

BTW I really am a total newbie. Should I be removing sun leaves or other leaves on this plant at this point?

danger monkey said:

BTW I really am a total newbie. Should I be removing sun leaves or other leaves on this plant at this point?View attachment 3414112

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please don't cut any of those healthy leaves, as your plant is in great shape, no need to finger poke it

ISK said:

please don't cut any of those healthy leaves, as your plant is in great shape, no need to finger poke it

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Good that goes along with my general inclination. I just see folks trimming things up for light penetration and wonder if I should, but it seems to me energy to the plant is energy to the plant.

danger monkey said:

Good that goes along with my general inclination. I just see folks trimming things up for light penetration and wonder if I should, but it seems to me energy to the plant is energy to the plant.

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not required in your case, as the sun gives you all the penetration you need.

you could remove the dead yellow/brown leaves on the very bottom of your plant...the rest look great

you might want to thin out some of the weeds surrounding your plant if they are encroaching its space

ISK said:

not required in your case, as the sun gives you all the penetration you need.

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The sun is awesome. This thing was really a kind of piddly sad sack until it got some good sun soaks.The constant breeze up on that ridge seemed to do great things too. It's really tempting to try and do this spring flowering again a little more deliberately next year. It's 80 degrees and sunny again today and the floor of the woods up there is still fully bathed in sunlight here on May 9th.

Well here she is just before final chop. The canopy stayed open until May 16 and honestly she could have sat out there longer (and it seems she was still growing bud) but there was some significant amber showering up and I pulled the plug. I let her sit in a dark shed for days and that definitely does....something. If you look on the lower buds, they developed basically white centers radiating out to the "sugar" leaves. That pattern was absolutely not there before I put her in the dark. I don't know if it's THC, but like I said, it did something.

I have 2 final reactions, 1st that the sun really turned what was a lame little nothing plant into something. The difference between this thing languishing under a 180 watts of cfl and getting out in the sun, even in mostly 55-65 degree days, was very significant. It juiced her up and when she got a little run of 70-80 degree days she really filled out. I'll probably use this spring flowering strategy again, it works, even if maybe this was an extra lucky (warm, sunny) year.

Second, holy cow, what have you crazy weed people done with genetics in the last 20 years? I grew a couple plants in my college years outdoors, and while i didn't have the faintest idea what i was doing, probably cut the flowering short by a few weeks, and was using random bagweed, this little auto flowering thing kicks it's butt up and down the street as far as aroma (fantastic blueberry freshness) and how sticky it is. And the whole center stem for the top 14" is basically one big run of flower. I think there's more 'juice' in this little 28" plant than there was in the 6 foot thing I grew back then. Even though I doubt this is much more than an oz, even though from the talk people think ryder stuff is weaker, this seems outstanding to me.

Good work people!

danger monkey said:

Second, holy cow, what have you crazy weed people done with genetics in the last 20 years?

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Amazing isn't it ?
The quality of todays genetics in general still never ceases to amaze. I was a smoker since back in the late 70's and this....this is a whole different ballgame.

Shame you to chop, that had another few weeks to run.