Dawn....I hear you. The indicas have a place in the garden....I'm sure gonna keep what I found or others gifted me. The market will be there for those. My sativas, I am told do nothing for pain. So I should be growing both.
I know nothing about FL's growing season. The one thing I can say is the Sats take a bit longer than advertised sometimes. Mine have been going for two weeks and will be ready mid October. Indicas need to be harvested at day x, but Sats can always go another week. Your photoperiod is different...so I may be wrong.
I'll find out in the fall - there is a definite difference in most of my strains between the ones flowered in fall/winter when the daylight is diminishing/short and in the spring when it is increasing. They still flower in spring, but bud structure tends to be lighter and fluffier when flowering in March/April/May. Too far into May and they start to reveg.
Upsizing with Sats can be a two edged sword. Smaller pots go off faster...bigger pots take longer and yield more. The branches love to break when they are packing it on and you gotta move them fast. They are easy to fix though. Better have some big cages
That's why I won't even pop seeds until May. 30 days or so until they germ and are of any reasonable size, solstice is the 21st of June - the question is how long it takes after that for them to begin flowering. I have short cages (48") for most plants and some tall ones for the sativas. One of my Trainwreck girls reached almost 6' (from the bottom of the pot) this year - I don't need/want anything taller than that, but we'll see what happens.
I have baisicly the same problems with humidity as you. There are some strains that I just laugh at when they show me the finished product....like I can grow that here? Sure....not. Hopefully the weather gods smile on you....but don't bet on it.
And for the record you can not grow a tall indica here. I have yet to see an indica that won't bud as soon as it is outside. Photoperiod never gets long enough for veg.
That's where my supplemental lighting and mobility helps so much - I'm still trying to find the upper limits of height for my indicas. Biggest one so far was an indica dominant hybrid I'll chop in about three weeks. Approaching 4' (from the bottom of the pot) and I'm hoping for 4 oz. but we'll see.
Looks like decent weather ahead...so I have no reason to yell at wifey....who the hell am i bullshitting?
Yeah I hear ya, I don't have dogs but if I did I think I'd still yell at the wife more. You'd think after all this time she'd be trained better, but that's the difference between bitches with thumbs that can feed themselves and those that can't - motivation.