Too late to start an outdoor grow?

[playallnite]

I live in South Central Pa., no frost til early Oct. , is it to late to start an out door grow? TIA

 

[JoeBlow5823]

Get started right away. And do a strain that finishes early, most strains these days like to go to mid/late october.

 

[GlassJoe]

Going off a random city in central PA (harrisburg) https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/harrisburg

It looks like you'll get below 14 hrs of daylight around August 9/10 and below 12 hrs by September 25. Your plants will start flowering some time between those dates. You have 11 days of June + 31 days of July, which is 6 weeks of veg + whatever you get out of August, which should be at least another week or two. That's enough time to veg.

The tricky thing is the flowering time like JoeBlow5823 has mentioned. If you absolutely have to get the plants out of there by early October to avoid frost do not plant strains that take 60+ days of flowering time; you have all of September and part of August to finish up your plants after they veg, but even if they start flowering as soon as the daylight falls below 14 hrs & is dropping on 8/10/20, that leaves you with 51 days to the end of September.

 

[JoeBlow5823]

Going off a random city in central PA (harrisburg) https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/harrisburg

It looks like you'll get below 14 hrs of daylight around August 9/10 and below 12 hrs by September 25. Your plants will start flowering some time between those dates. You have 11 days of June + 31 days of July, which is 6 weeks of veg + whatever you get out of August, which should be at least another week or two. That's enough time to veg.

The tricky thing is the flowering time like JoeBlow5823 has mentioned. If you absolutely have to get the plants out of there by early October to avoid frost do not plant strains that take 60+ days of flowering time; you have all of September and part of August to finish up your plants after they veg, but even if they start flowering as soon as the daylight falls below 14 hrs & is dropping on 8/10/20, that leaves you with 51 days to the end of September.

This is the one situation where autoflowers make sense.... You could plant them today and most strains harvest in ~90 days so you would be looking at mid september.

 

[thumper60]

I live in South Central Pa., no frost til early Oct. , is it to late to start an out door grow? TIA

Not to late will flower normal just wont get that big.

 

[CNDgrower77]

Ya man get them brewing now. Obviously it won't get as big but you may be surprised with some strains. You can go get some auto-flowers.

 

[shuu80]

Is it easier to grow outdoors, do you just tarp the roof?

 

[playallnite]

Here is a previous grow, outside facing due south, no roof juyst a little overhang
Is it easier to grow outdoors, do you just tarp the roof?

 

[Sir Napsalot]

I live in South Central Pa., no frost til early Oct. , is it to late to start an out door grow? TIA

Here in OR I can buy clone "teens" that are already 2-3 feet tall- they aren't cheap though, about a hundred bucks

 

[Ganjihad]

I just popped a couple of seeds yesterday due to having an extreme high ratio of male plants. You will be surprised at how well your plants will grow. Plus the sun is free, so outside of seeds, and maybe soil, you really arent out much.

 

[dsmer]

Your definitely not too late. I planted 6” clones outdoors last year July 6 (in Massachusetts) and they got over 6’ tall.

 

[D'sNuts]

As long as they're knee high by the 4th of July!