Moving her from inside to outside

Yes you need ease her in to harden her off! Hardening Plants For Outdoor Cannabis Growing When discussing transitioning your cannabis plants outdoors, we must not ignore the important topic of hardening your indoor plants so that they’ll survive the move. Most indoor grow lights lack the intensity and spectrum of the sun, especially that of the spring and summer sun. I’ve had healthy seedlings happily growing indoors under 18 hours of HID or LED grow-light radiation that were severely damaged when I abruptly started putting them outdoors in full sun for even just a couple of hours a day. Their leaves turned downward, away from the sun. Some never recovered. They simply didn’t have the leaf surface or root mass to handle that much radiation. To avoid that shock and damage, I place my seedlings under shade that comes from trees or from a shade house, which is a miniature greenhouse enclosure with material that filters sunlight enough to protect young plants that aren’t yet accustomed to sunlight. After a few days spent outdoors in shade and after the plants have at least five or more sets of true leaves, I start moving them into full direct sun for short periods of time, but not during the peak sun intensity hours of 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Rather, I give them full sun during early morning or late afternoon, gradually getting them used to the strength of the powerful rays. Within one to four weeks using that strategy, and depending on the strain, the plants will be able to handle full and direct sunlight all day. Hardening also means getting plants that started indoors used to the heat and humidity of the outdoors. If you’re planting directly into the ground so that your plants’ root mass is covered by soil, this is the best way to protect your roots. Plants grown in pots aboveground experience an unnatural condition of having the sun hit the roots almost directly, save for the thin layer of material the pot is made of. Black pots sitting aboveground in full sun are deadly for roots. I prefer to grow in 100- to 400-gallon white cloth pots that sit aboveground, such as these white cloth pots from Radicle. Not only are they sturdy and reliable, they’re also reusable. Cloth pots give you the added benefit of automatic root pruning and oxygenating airflow that hard-shell pots can’t provide. outdoor cannabis growing