By Mid-April I will have to move about 10 mother plants somewhere...I do not want to flower them because they will be only 10 weeks old and I would like to continue taking clones throughout the spring and summer...My question is, if I have been vegging them for 24 hrs a day and I take them outside in mid April will they just flip to flowering because of the difference in light schedule? I have had this to happen on one plant before. Is there anyway I can stop this from happening? Thanks for any suggestions and insight...
Mother Plants Moved Outside in Mid April?
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wanabe
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robby963
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use this think, it may be of some use when working out when to put outside and harvest
http://www.roosterbooster.co.uk/uk_daylight_hours_chart.html
http://www.roosterbooster.co.uk/uk_daylight_hours_chart.html
toquer
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i went out last year on the 21st of March with clones that had been vegged under 16 hours. The plant didn't flower until the end of july. It was an indica dominant strain. I put a bubba kush out at the same time, it flowered immediately and then entered reveg and then flowered again and never finished. It was on the north wall and received light from sunrise to sunset. my other plants grew on the west wall and received light from sunrise until 3pm as the wall shaded them. They were under ambient light from dusk until dawn. my west wall is great for summer even though it never gets more than 9 hours of direct sunlight. Any plant i put on the east wall flowers immediately and finishes there as well. It doesn't begin to get light until the afternoon any time of the year and has ambient light from sunrise to sunset. im in southern california by the beaches. what i think determines it is the changing of sunrise and sunset on a daily basis. i chart this and only go outside once i know that the days are getting longer. if you look up sunrise and sunset for your location you'll see that for a period of time the sunsets later each day but the sunrise doesn't move. the days may be getting longer but not by enough time i think. once the sunrise starts getting earlier and the sunsets are getting later the amount of daylight increases by a more drastic amount keeping the plant in veg. in the late summer the sunset begins to occur sooner each day and by the fall, the sunrise is occring later as well.
hope i wasn't rambling too much...
hope i wasn't rambling too much...
Thanks robbie and toquer for the advice...I am still trying to figure out what i will do...I may just have to flower them with the cuttings and start all over with the next cycle...I just really wanted to keep those mothers...I have Vanilla Kush and Pineapple Chunk coming...DoubleJJ, I wish my neighbors weren't so nosy...Do not have a fenced in yard YET!!! Thanks for the reply...
http://astro.unl.edu/classaction/animations/coordsmotion/daylighthoursexplorer.html
for all those interested there is a link for daylight calculator based on your latititude.
Happy growing
for all those interested there is a link for daylight calculator based on your latititude.
Happy growing