Transferring clones from indoor to out...

[sirharrynuggz]

Without flowering. How do I do this? Last year I put a few clones out, and within a few days they were flowering. It was too early in the grow season for this, and I would like to avoid it this year. I am primarily an indoor grower, and ran into more than a couple problems with outdoor last year.

 

[slowster5507]

you answered your own question it was to early to put out if it did not flower to long it would have reverted back to veg what strain/s are you working with.

 

[Guest]

Without flowering. How do I do this? Last year I put a few clones out, and within a few days they were flowering. It was too early in the grow season for this, and I would like to avoid it this year. I am primarily an indoor grower, and ran into more than a couple problems with outdoor last year.

you need to veg for less hours i.e. 14/10 instead of 18/6 or 24/0. Basically, you want to reduce the drastic photoperiod change that shocks them into flower. If you're vegging them indoors for a while you can always start at 18/6 or 16/8 and gradually shift to 14/10.

Basically, the key is matching your indoor photoperiod with the photoperiod when you will be putting them out. You can check charts to see the approximate hours of daylight at your latitude at whatever time of year you want to put them out.

This is strain dependent as well. Many early strains will flower with less than 12 hours of darkness when grown outdoors. For example, up here in the northeast, the strains i use must be able to flower once there are days with ~13 hours of light. SOme strains are more prone to photoperiod shock as well. Maroc and Nigerian Nightmare come to mind.

Wishin you success this season!

 

[sirharrynuggz]

slowster, it wasn't too early in the season to put them out, just too early for them to start flowering. I should have made that more clear. Also, the plants did revert back to veg, but they were very stunted and never reached their potential. Thanks for your response though.

irishSoCo, that's what I was thinking. I just wanted to make sure. They were on 18/6 inside, and were put outside in May. I thought that would be enough, but I was wrong. I will try more dark hours this time, but am concerned about my other plants (the ones that aren't going outside) starting to flower indoors if I give them less than 18 light hours per day. I guess it's trial and error time. Thanks for the help.

 

[slowster5507]

sorry if i sounded kinda rude. now i get where your comin from. good luck buddy.

 

[fisher15]

Well as Irish is saying, most of the early flowering strains will begin to switch to flower when there is about 13 hours of light (13/11). Most plants should continue to veg under a 14/10 light cycle, but aren't quite as vigorous as under more hrs of light.