Ok, so I have about twenty clones taken from an ACE Seeds pure Sativa Zamaldelica mother, and they are all currently under 24 hour light, with no darkness hours at all.
My lighting is provided by a pair of cheap Chinese LED lights that run in relays around the clock, whereby one light is off, while the other is on, under the control of two independent timers. I also have a fan connected to one of the timers, so that every hour, the fan kicks in and runs for one hour, before timing out for an hour, around the clock, to ensure good air circulation.
I have read in this and other forums, that indoor illuminated clones must be pre-conditioned for transplant outdoors, by gradually phasing in some hours of darkness, until the light schedule is close to the natural outdoor daylight duration.
Now, since these plants are from a pure Sativa strain that takes a good few months to flower under natural sunlight outdoors, and since the timers require quite a lot of fiddly programming to change their on-off settings, I got to wondering whether I can simply leave the clones under their current 24-hour lights-on schedule, and place them outside, where the daylight and darkness hours are 12-12 year round, here at the Equator in the tropics.
In other words, is it likely that the pure sativa strains I have going indoors under 24 hours of light, will prematurely flower when transplanted outdoors into a natural 12-12 daylight cycle, or is it possible that the pure sativa genetics will prevent premature flowering, whereby the clones will continue to veg for a few more months, before going to flower when they have attained a good size ? Any advice from the pros here, would be much appreciated.
My lighting is provided by a pair of cheap Chinese LED lights that run in relays around the clock, whereby one light is off, while the other is on, under the control of two independent timers. I also have a fan connected to one of the timers, so that every hour, the fan kicks in and runs for one hour, before timing out for an hour, around the clock, to ensure good air circulation.
I have read in this and other forums, that indoor illuminated clones must be pre-conditioned for transplant outdoors, by gradually phasing in some hours of darkness, until the light schedule is close to the natural outdoor daylight duration.
Now, since these plants are from a pure Sativa strain that takes a good few months to flower under natural sunlight outdoors, and since the timers require quite a lot of fiddly programming to change their on-off settings, I got to wondering whether I can simply leave the clones under their current 24-hour lights-on schedule, and place them outside, where the daylight and darkness hours are 12-12 year round, here at the Equator in the tropics.
In other words, is it likely that the pure sativa strains I have going indoors under 24 hours of light, will prematurely flower when transplanted outdoors into a natural 12-12 daylight cycle, or is it possible that the pure sativa genetics will prevent premature flowering, whereby the clones will continue to veg for a few more months, before going to flower when they have attained a good size ? Any advice from the pros here, would be much appreciated.
