Switching plants from 24/0 to 18/6 to being outside in early May questions.

So I started my 15 plants in so cal from seed at 24/0 light and they are at 5 weeks to current date. My question is should I slowly train them one hour a day of darkness to 18/6 light or just switch to 18/6 light? Will it induce flowering to reduce the light time being in 24/0 light for the first 5 weeks??? I plan to put them outside in about 3 weeks and I don’t want them to flower. Any advice on the approach to switching my plants from 24/0 to being outside without flowering would be great. Thanks all.

Going from 24hrs to 18hrs shouldnt trigger plants to flower ,you'll be fine.
I do it all the time, i've only had some strains start to flower at 16 hrs.

Not the biggest expert here at all, but a few basic things from experience and/or reading some: don’t put them outside until there is more sunlight than darkness. Looks like you’re probably ok in SoCal (13.5 hours of sunlight based on a quick google search; would be too early where I live for both sunlight and temp concerns), but it’s 12/12 hours that will trigger flowering, and that can happen if you put them out too early. Also, plants need to adapt to natural light. Ease them into it with a couple hours a day to begin. I’ve fried plants moving them from led to sunlight too quickly. Good luck. SoCal light is pretty intense, as I recently experienced myself. Was there in April. Good luck.

What about a plant that is revegged? I have a couple of clones I made from a plant that was in full flower, ready for harvest. I got a bud to root and reveg. I have it on 24 hrs of light. I was worried it might revert to flower if I put it on 18/6.

laddyd said:

What about a plant that is revegged? I have a couple of clones I made from a plant that was in full flower, ready for harvest. I got a bud to root and reveg. I have it on 24 hrs of light. I was worried it might revert to flower if I put it on 18/6.

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18/6 should definitely not trigger flower.