Moving from indoor to outdoor without triggering flower?

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Sam1510

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So where I live at the sun rises at 6:30am and sets at 7:50pm about 13.5 hours of sunlight a day. Right now I'm vegging indoors under 24/0 light schedule(Cant change it due to clones rooting in the same room.) My plan is the move outdoors and use one of those solar lights that people usually put around there yard to hit the plant when it gets dark and keep it awake. I was planning on turning off the solar light at around 12:30am every night so the plant gets 6 hours of darkness and continue to do that and drop it by 30 mins a week until I get it in sync with the current outdoor schedule. Do you guys think that would work without triggering flower/stressing the plant too much? Another thing I was thinking was to keep the solar lights on the plants the whole time so theres no darkness then take them off in august when the outdoor light schedule usually triggers flower? What would be my best bet?
 
backtracker

backtracker

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plants need a dark period leaving the lights on for 24hrs is a waste of money. going from 24hrs to 13 is going to shock them. you could sync the times gradually over a couple of weeks.
 
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KryptoBud

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Leave them indoors, a few more weeks you won't have to worry about it. The night time temp could still be cold depending where you live. Having lights on them is going to attract attention and that's never good. Legal or not there are plenty of assholes who don't have problems stealing shit from others.
 
Bugeye

Bugeye

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I start indoors and move outdoors. I use a 60w light bulb set to come on for 1 hour during middle of the night until 3rd week of July. No early flowering since I started doing this. No need to taper.
 
Budley Doright

Budley Doright

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Sam1510 said:
So where I live at the sun rises at 6:30am and sets at 7:50pm about 13.5 hours of sunlight a day. Right now I'm vegging indoors under 24/0 light schedule(Cant change it due to clones rooting in the same room.) My plan is the move outdoors and use one of those solar lights that people usually put around there yard to hit the plant when it gets dark and keep it awake. I was planning on turning off the solar light at around 12:30am every night so the plant gets 6 hours of darkness and continue to do that and drop it by 30 mins a week until I get it in sync with the current outdoor schedule. Do you guys think that would work without triggering flower/stressing the plant too much? Another thing I was thinking was to keep the solar lights on the plants the whole time so theres no darkness then take them off in august when the outdoor light schedule usually triggers flower? What would be my best bet?
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So you should be ok to just move them if I'm getting this right. You have 13.5 hours of sun light but there is still an hour of light beyond that correct? Yes you could supplement but not sure you have to. As for the plant needing dark, not sure if that's true. Is it a waste? Probably, but I have vegged under 24 with no ill effects but typically I use 18-20 on and slowly turn it down.
 
Bugeye

Bugeye

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Budley Doright said:
So you should be ok to just move them if I'm getting this right. You have 13.5 hours of sun light but there is still an hour of light beyond that correct? Yes you could supplement but not sure you have to. As for the plant needing dark, not sure if that's true. Is it a waste? Probably, but I have vegged under 24 with no ill effects but typically I use 18-20 on and slowly turn it down.
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Some strains will definitely flower early when moved from 18-24 light to outdoor cycle if you don't interrupt their night cycle.
 
Budley Doright

Budley Doright

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Bugeye said:
Some strains will definitely flower early when moved from 18-24 light to outdoor cycle if you don't interrupt their night cycle.
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I'm sure there are, I haven't had a problem ever moving clones out doors into 14-15hrs of light but yup I'm sure it's possible.
 
Crash_420

Crash_420

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Put that extra light to come on an hr each night for a week or two around 12 or 1am, itll stop the dark period required for flowering, ive been doing it and have had no ill effects
 
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