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Vegetative in grow box and flowering outdoors? Tips and tricks is welcome!

Elpicor
Elpicorstarted grow question 2 years ago
The question is simply. The answer instead complex. Can I vegetate at 18 hours of light in a tent and then gradually go down to the hours of outdoor light to bring it to flowering without having to wait for September and October? Tips and tricks are welcome! Thanks in advance!
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m0use
m0useanswered grow question 2 years ago
You can do that and I'm sure other do it as well to some extent. The only problem is that outdoors needs to have a uninterrupted dark cycle to say in flower and keep it there. Does not matter if you initiated the flower cycle indoors, if the light outdoors is greater then 12-13 hrs it can go back into veg or it can get stressed out and hermi. Ideally 12hrs uninterrupted dark period but can happen on 10 or 11hrs with some plants. If the light outdoors is already in a 12/12 like cycle, I don't see you gaining anything from bringing an indoor plant outdoors other then some hydro costs, the exposure to pests is more problematic to me. Plus if your light source indoors is not that strong and there was no fan present your tent the pant can be hurt by winds "branch snapping" and sun "burning leaves from stronger light" as its not used to the elements. will have to harden it off. means to explore the plant or plants to small periods of time outdoors working your want up to fully outdoors. works best in morning till just before noon when the light is the strongest. This will all depend where you are in the world as well. closer to equator the light cycle does not change much and is pretty close to 12/12 all year round. the more you move from it the greater it varies. Eg. in my location days are aorund 17hrs light and 7hrs dark in the summer. Then in winter it's opposite 7hr light and 17hr dark. Given that I live in a city the light pollution also affects my grow if growing photoperiod plants. Autoflower less so with light pollution just pests like aphids and mites. Good Luck!
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Elpicor
Elpicoranswered grow question 2 years ago
ok I give up, I'll have to wait for September or October to harvest, it's not feasible as in a month and a half there will be 15 hours of light here, how about if I go down from 18 to 15 hours of light in the tent before putting them outside and then gradually acclimate them to sunlight?
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Sciolistic_Steve
Sciolistic_Steveanswered grow question 2 years ago
think i misread the first time.. so these will stay inside the entire time? yes, that's exactly what you are supposed to do. if you want to take an indoor plant after it enter bloom phase and stick it outside, this would probably by unwise. you'd have to be certain it's getting a long enough darkness period outside or it would re-vege. also, it would have to acclimate itself to the sun. this may take a cycle of exposure and removal from the sun as it is a whole different context than artificial lighitng and the plant won't be able to handle it well. it'll likely be droopy, wilting and maybe even some spots within 1-2 hours of direct, intense sunlight. it can probably harden off to it, but if this is mid flower, it's not wise to stress it like this while growing buds. so yeah, anytime you control length of darkness you can cause the bloom phase. don't inerrupt that dark period and it'll turn out fine. it doesn't have to be a gradual change. the plant simplay shifts gears when it has a long enough dark cycle. it is a hormonal response.
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massivetids
massivetidsanswered grow question 2 years ago
The answer is simple as well... No The dark hours during your entire flowering period need to be longer than at least 10 hours per day. Otherwise the plant will go back into the vegging stage, this called revegging. When you want plants to flower early and harvest 2 times per summer you need to use autoflowering seeds. They are not stuck to the dark period and flower even with 24 hours light per day. So use autoflowers, they are better for outside. You can also choose to just grow during the 3-4 hottest months of the year to get better quality and yield. Enjoy your grow!
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