Will indoor to outdoor work?

Hello everybody I'm brand new the forum and growing in general very excited to start and glad I found a helpful place like this. I just ordered some seeds
Auto Purple Cheese- Auto seeds
Auto Devil Cream- Sweet Seeds
I would like to start a jorunal on these when I get going but for now just a couple of newbie questions
Now I am just starting with one of each so 2 plants total, I am.going to be starting these indoors and then in about 3-4 weeks move them outside is this OK? Will the lighting times stress the plant to much? I have to do this because roomates are sketched about it and we agreed I'd start them inside and finish them off outside.

The soil- I have at home miracle grow organics potting soil and organic compost wondering if a nice mix of the 2 in a 3gal pot would work?
Water- to start just use bottled water until time to.feed
Lights- to start off 2 CFL 6400k 1700 lumens lights one for each plant

I am.wondering about nutrients and when and how much to give also if outside pest prevention and what not

I am.asking this before I germinate so I don't fail in your guys opinions for two plants am I prepared equipment wise? What would you do different I'll take all the help I can get thanks everyone!

Hi Hans I would mix about 30% perlite with the mix to air it up a bit .As with putting them outside how much daylight do you have ? being autos it wont bother them as they are not effected by light hours ,once they pop the countdown starts 8-10 wks generally . Under about 12 hrs of daylight will limit your crop When you start give them as many hours of lighy as possible 24/7 wont hurt them hope this helps

If you want to put them outside, you should do what's called "hardening off" which is placing the plants outside in a semi shaded area for a few hours a day atleast a week before you want them to permanently be outside. I'm currently doing that with my vegetable sprouts and the males I found this run. I made the mistake of placing them in direct sunlight when I first started and they got fried. They bounced back but it took awhile. Starting them in a semi shaded area and gradually working them into the full sun worked better for me.

Also, if the miracle grow soil has time released nutrients, be careful when you decide to start feeding. I personally don't use miracle grow products at all but it can work. Someone had a journal on here growing in mg soil.

That helps a ton thank you! Where I live its just starting to warm up so by the time they get outside they should get about 12-14 hours sunlight. And im sketched about mg too it was just there and says completey organic but still will probably get some fox farms.
I will defintley try The hardening off idea would it fry my plants if I didn't do that? And any nutrient's you guys recommend there are so many out there!!

Giving them some SNS 209 wouldn't hurt.

Will be buying that for sure thank you chunky

Here is the potting mix it does say on it to add nutrients after about a month so I'm guessing there is no time release nutrients

Just did this myself with Red Dwarf autos. Two weeks inside, several days of hardening, then full sun. I'd suggest getting them out as soon as possible because 1700 lumens is not a lot. The sun will really get them going. As long as your nights are not too cold, you should be good.

Don't mix in a lot of the compost. Just a couple of good handfuls, and perlite as already suggested.

For best organics from MG, use their Nature's Care line, but the bone and blood meal might draw predatory pests.

When I've put plants that sprouted inside directly into the sun with no hardening off it did fry a significant amount of leaves which is why it took them so long to acclimate to the outdoors. That's why I put them in the shade with crevices of sun and ease them closer to full sun as the week progresses so that when I do leave them out in the sun, they'll really appreciate it.

Yea I agree 1700 is low but there is a window I can put them on from the start where they can receive about 5 hours sun light then move em back under CFLs for the remaining 13 any risk in doing this? Would it help with hardening?

HansBud said:

Yea I agree 1700 is low but there is a window I can put them on from the start where they can receive about 5 hours sun light then move em back under CFLs for the remaining 13 any risk in doing this? Would it help with hardening?

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Probably alright. The light will be provided by the sun. I dunno if a window would muffle or amplify light, though. I started my seedlings on a window sill, then switched to CFL, then LED.

I guess if it's warm enough I could open the screen for full sun, I'll experiment I'll try one in a window sill for a couple hours everyday then under CFL, the other one straight CFL until hardening time

So the 1700 lumens was bothering me so I thought I'd try and upgrade. I received a 200/watt CFL full spectrum and the mogul socket for it. I also got a hood/base for the light which all came out to like $30. Now my problem is securing the light and socket with the base would anybody have any ideas?