MOVING INDOORS TO FORCE FLOWERING

[Moonwalk]

I have anotther question. (Sorry it's my first grow). Since my plants won't flower till August probably, and be ready to harvest till nearly fall, I want to force some into budding sooner. (I have over 30 plants) I have six huge plants in the garden and like 28 more in a separate garden plot, that has apparently poor soil. I am going to move some to the good garden, and pot some to put on 12/12.

Is there anything I should know? All the plants were started at the same time, but the poor soil ones are barely knee high, the good soil ones are waist high. So I'm going to take several of the plants from the poor soil, pot them with rich soil, and put on 12/12 in a space in the garage. I'm trying to, of course, get maximum yield, but with this many plants I can experiment.

I figure I'll find males on the 12/12 lighting, pull them and just throw another plant in till I have all confirmed females.

Once they are on the 12/12 lighting and good nutes, how long should I expect to wait till they flower, and how long till they can be harvested? These were germinated in early April and transplanted outside several weeks later. Out of the handful of seeds, I only lost a couple, and they haven't shown sex yet, so I expect to cull half. I want to see that I do this right, to not lose any, and to harvest them early. The rest are going on nature's lighting.

Thanks in advance for your experienced knowledge.

 

[nuggs]

can't advise you as to a time frame. keep doing as you are , you are on the right track good luck

 

[vostok]

first grow and 30 plants ...dude is way too hot, I can smell them robbers waiting for you,

this will work moving plants from shit soil to hot soil, but is no nooby position for you to be in,
you are far better to select the best 5 and start from that,
many will die from your ignorance and inexperience be ready to accept that,
next grow, just grow 3-5 good plants ...see it as your learning time

ps. moving any plant, or any plant with any issue, what so ever, delays harvest date and seriously reduces yield

 

[nuggs]

oh shit vostok ! lol he'll learn !

 

[Moonwalk]

She. I'm female.
I'm in a fairly remote place, and moving the more visible ones to a more hidden location. I'm not worried about having them stolen. I know I'm growing a lot, I didn't expect them to grow (never had luck before!) and I don't like doing this as it's illegal. I had a lot of seeds from someone else's grow, they didn't spot the male. Just one summer with a lot of plants will provide me with weed (aka pain meds) for a long time. I'm in rural Wyoming, the least populated state.

But none of that was advice on moving them to bloom faster.

 

[redeyedfrog]

You can but what kinda light you using?
You can pull them out in the morning and put them in a shed at night but you jave to be religious about it. But id just do a few.
Once you see pre flower itll be 10-14 weeks after that.

 

[freemandrake]

You can but what kinda light you using?
You can pull them out in the morning and put them in a shed at night but you jave to be religious about it. But id just do a few.
Once you see pre flower itll be 10-14 weeks after that.

Hey red how was your trip bro, smoke some cali dank or what?

 

[Lo Budget]

You can but what kinda light you using?
You can pull them out in the morning and put them in a shed at night but you jave to be religious about it. But id just do a few.
Once you see pre flower itll be 10-14 weeks after that.

^^^ +
Add a couple of weeks of 12/12 before they show. They're old enough to show quickly if you started them in April. If I were doing your grow (and I wish I was), I would move your indoor candidates indoors for good if you can. Moving them twice a day is going to be a pita and do have to be religious about it. Additionally, you'll be better able to control the day/night cycle if you use a timer indoors. Lots of reasons why, imo.
If you have to move them in/out, so be it. When's your growing season end up there, about mid-July? j/k
Oh, and welcome to RIU!

 

[Moonwalk]

I have a place in the garage that I can make light free, and I'm assuming a CFL on a 12/12 timer would work. I'd move as many inside as practical, and put my best ones in the good soil outside.

Our growing season is fairly short, this is northern Wyoming, like 15 miles from the Montana border. I want to harvest asap from a few, and let the outside ones go longer. Of course if a frost or early snow is predicted, ill have to figure something out. I think I'm going to put up a greenhouse next spring.

 

[jamesthefarmer]

well you may want to put more care into soil, when you say rich soil just make sure that it is going to help your plant get into flowering as fast a possible(to my experience that would be lower on the nitrogen higher on the pk having good soil life secondary nurients, i highly reomend kelp and rock dust ), be as atunned to pest problems as you can be that would be the biggest danger(preventative meassures are always best), but i would recomend getting a nice line of nutrients to start with, in the area you put them try to make sure you have access to air and perfered clean air or look to putting co2 in (mushrooms bags not to bad, or just look up what mushrooms *careful with humidity indoors) really just trying to get the plants as stress free as you can will be the best, light strong as you can tends to be best but that will mainly just help with yeild, blue lights are better for stem and leaf and red lights are better for flower devlopement , but 12/12 and they will do what they can, try to take cuts of some of them to cull out the differnt phenotypes and then you could grow the same genetic more confined and in controll keeping up on meds and your favorite plants from your options hope that helped, ( also side note would be a pain in the ass but if you take a cut of each one you can flower the cut after it roots to check the sex that way you can cut down any males way before-hand) best of luck pics would be cool

 

[ruby fruit]

Light dep ?