Outdoor location - enough light?

[iggy097]

Hey all - I am wanting to grow a plant in my backyard this summer but I don't know how the location and sun will affect it. The sun is predominantly on the side of my house during the day so I will have my vegetables on that side in grow bags - and during the late afternoon it moves behind the trees in my backyard.
I don't really want to grow where my veggies are as it is in visible location if you look over my privacy fence. Both neighbors are cool with the grow (they both partake) but I'm concerned with the random people maybe getting a glimpse.
Anyhow, I have two other locations I could grow, the best spot for privacy I've labeled "1" but it won't get a full days' worth of sun, maybe 4-5 hours direct and then the sun will be behind the trees. Location "2" would be in the woods - which would get sun maybe a bit more in the morning but again shade - in the afternoon.
Is it worth growing in this location? I don't care if it's not as big (I have indoors as well) - but I just want to make sure it will actually grow and not go right into flower or something.

 

[Kgrim]

I've got kind of the same situation that your in, I have to plant in boxes because my back yard is a swamp. I had one box that didn't get direct sunlight until around 1:00 in the afternoon, when the others got light from 9:00am on, and the shaded plant did just fine, at the end of the season, it wasn't much smaller than the others. Personally, I would plant in spot # 1.

 

[iggy097]

I've got kind of the same situation that your in, I have to plant in boxes because my back yard is a swamp. I had one box that didn't get direct sunlight until around 1:00 in the afternoon, when the others got light from 9:00am on, and the shaded plant did just fine, at the end of the season, it wasn't much smaller than the others. Personally, I would plant in spot # 1.

I have a motion light on the deck there - will it cause issues in Flower when I let the dogs out?

 

[Kgrim]

I have a motion light on the deck there - will it cause issues in Flower when I let the dogs out?

Yes it will, I would just shut the light off for the flowering stage.

 

[Herb & Suds]

Morning sun
It helps avoid bud rot

 

[iggy097]

I've got kind of the same situation that your in, I have to plant in boxes because my back yard is a swamp. I had one box that didn't get direct sunlight until around 1:00 in the afternoon, when the others got light from 9:00am on, and the shaded plant did just fine, at the end of the season, it wasn't much smaller than the others. Personally, I would plant in spot # 1.

Would you go in ground, or in a fabric pot?

 

[Kgrim]

Would you go in ground, or in a fabric pot?

That's all up to you. I would personally go in ground, unless you foresee having to move it.
Make a nice amended bed to throw it in and go.

 

[iggy097]

Morning sun
It helps avoid bud rot

No way to do morning sun unfortunately unless I place it in the woods there - the sun starts in the front of my house

 

[Herb & Suds]

No way to do morning sun unfortunately unless I place it in the woods there - the sun starts in the front of my house

Plenty of weed has been grown in the woods

 

[bam0813]

I have a motion light on the deck there - will it cause issues in Flower when I let the dogs out?

No

 

[mudballs]

Depends how long it stays on

 

[bam0813]

In the peak of summer my garden is lucky to get 5-6 hrs of full sun rest is partial. They’ll do fine

 

[bam0813]

Depends how long it stays on

True I suppose mine goes on an off multiple times a night, cars, critters etc but stays on for just a few mins, never had issue

 

[mudballs]

Yep...i just dont know what/where the threshold is...grrr.im moving in with you for a few weeks this autumn.

 

[mudballs]

Yes it will, I would just shut the light off for the flowering stage.

It can...we just dont know what is too much yet...sry bud...im ripped

 

[Kgrim]

It can...we just dont know what is too much yet...sry bud...im ripped

I prefer to err on the side of caution. If light during flower can be avoided outdoors, I do it.

 

[mudballs]

I prefer to err on the side of caution. If light during flower can be avoided outdoors, I do it.

I know they can can handle ...interruptions....but that's dangerous and definitely not something we should introduce as the norm....so no light is defo the satus quo that should be maintained, but experience and real world is giving us more to work with.

 

[iggy097]

I think I’m gonna plant it out in the woods behind my fence - and just see how it goes

 

[Humanrob]

I think I’m gonna plant it out in the woods behind my fence - and just see how it goes

Maybe plant one in each place, then you'll have more data for next year.