how early to start outdoor grow?

Here in west central Florida, I started my seeds in early March, and I keep them on my pool deck. Soon the temps will be very high and humidity to go with it, so I just grow a couple of autos. Last year, I started on New Years Day, girls were ready by Memorial Day. Was late in getting my seeds this year. Hope they they survive the heat, thinking harvesting around July 4!

Mr. Bakerton said:

I wouldn't repot them once they start to flower. Even if you were to have a successful move without disturbing the roots, the growing environment, water needs would all change and I think that could be detrimental to your hard work. As a first time grower, congratulate yourself for getting this far, keep at it and take notes for changes next go around.

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Thank You this is very helpful indeed.

doublejj said:

she's a beauty. You may have to use supplemental lighting until May to insure she won't go into flower as soon as you put her out. Best of luck

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Rsbigdaddy21 said:

Lost my phone can not reset my password for this rsbigdaddy was wondering how clones are doing

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Clones will be ready in a couple days....

petert said:

I’m in Oregon. Will pop seeds next weekend indoors and keep under 18 hours of light through March, then move to my greenhouse in April and keep supplementing light but slowly dial it back to 16 hours of natural and supimental light until I plant outside in its permanent spot after May 15th.

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This is the way for PNW like Petert said, after may 15th is the way to go, safe from the frost and mid 40's at night. dialing supplemental light back slowly to 16hrs is the best gradual way! well said petert

paintnick said:

This is the way for PNW like Petert said, after may 15th is the way to go, safe from the frost and mid 40's at night. dialing supplemental light back slowly to 16hrs is the best gradual way! well said petert

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Hopefully our weather turns a little warmer by the 15th. Been a crazy cold and wet April and May isn’t starting out much better. I’m 60 miles east of Portland so we’re drier and warmer in the spring and summer.

It's nice living in Oklahoma. My put'm-out-time is the 1st of may. We have lived here since 1977 and the latest frost we have had here was May 9. This year we could have had them out in the midle of April.

Indicas are about 6 inches, sativas 8 to 10. We were all ready to go this year. I think that means the world is coming to an end. I'm 82 and that's never happend before.

DancesWithWeeds

DancesWithWeeds said:

It's nice living in Oklahoma. My put'm-out-time is the 1st of may. We have lived here since 1977 and the latest frost we have had here was May 9. This year we could have had them out in the midle of April.

Indicas are about 6 inches, sativas 8 to 10. We were all ready to go this year. I think that means the world is coming to an end. I'm 82 and that's never happend before.

DancesWithWeeds

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You're the first person I ever met that said they liked the weather in Oklahoma. When I was stationed in TX at Ft Hood, which is pretty damn close to y'all, the weather was miserable. The storms in the summer were crazy, I'd never seen lightning like that in 28 years on the planet. My wife, who's from that area, told me to write our name and phone number on the trash cans so when the tornado blew them away we had a chance of somebody returning them and sure enough with a year we got hit with one and mine were like 8 blocks from our house. I don't see how you guys do it out West. The year before 9/11 happened we had 120 days straight with over 100 degree temps and no rain. I lived on base and my yard looked like a Martian landscape painting with the damn ground split open from the heat. I'll leave that to you guys. I loved TX and AZ and had a great time at a motorcycle rally in Oklahoma but y'all can have that damn weather

FirstCavApache64 said:

You're the first person I ever met that said they liked the weather in Oklahoma.

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I really don't think I said anything about "liking the weather" here. In Oklahoma it's just too (put in whatever you want). The weather sucks big time. It is excelent weather for growing, tho, with the right strains.

We left So Calif right after the second fony gas shortage and never looked back.

DWW

I've only visited Death Valley in the Mojave desert in CA and every time was in service and I didn't get to enjoy it. Some of the scenery was beautiful flying out when we went out in Blackhawks one time but once you're at Ft. Irwin it's a sandbox . It would have been nice to see more of that area of the country before we moved back East. My nephew's at school in San Diego and he's in culture shock coming from DC. He loves it but it's a lot different from where he grew up. I remember the lines from the gas shortage during Carter's presidency where you'd wait for hours and then they'd run out of gas. Good ol' seventies.

FirstCavApache64 said:

I've only visited Death Valley in the Mojave desert in CA and every time was in service and I didn't get to enjoy it. Some of the scenery was beautiful flying out when we went out in Blackhawks one time but once you're at Ft. Irwin it's a sandbox .

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I was at Irwin so long ago that it was Camp Irwin, 1958. We used to train the Guard there on M48 Tanks.

DWW

We used to hunt M1 Abrams, I was air cav. We were an Apache Longbow squadron.

I have never seen or heard so many coyotes in my life. They know where there's soldiers, there's food. The little bastards came up in our tents at night. I came back to the tent one night from being on guard duty and one was licking this guy's hand like a puppy. I yelled at it and it ran out but the guy barely rolled over and didn't believe me the next morning. Only thing worse was all the tear gas they liked to use after 9/11 happened to prep for chemical weapons.

DancesWithWeeds said:

I was at Irwin so long ago that it was Camp Irwin, 1958. We used to train the Guard there on M48 Tanks.

DWW

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Thats about when my Dad got out. He was in the 7th Infantry at Pork Chop and got out a couple years after the war ended.

My cousin flew medical in VN.

I was in the Guard and never went. We were supported to but they kept putting us off. Come to find out they never had any intention of sending us. It was all done on paper. That's the government.

At any rate, (of course I wouldn't do this because it's aginist the law), but if it wasn't I would spend my time making RSO and edibles for children with cancer and vets with PTSD. Both are in our family.

DWW

Tell your cousin thanks for his service and thank you for yours. Medivac over there was one of the craziest things I've ever heard chopper pilots talk about and they can get pretty hairy. I was a crew chief/mechanic for Apaches and was accepted into flight school before I got hurt. Our whole family is military including a couple of Vietnam Vets, one of whom is a West Pointer. We've been doing it since we came over from Ireland and went straight into the Civil War. We're just wired different. We're allowed to donate up to an ounce to a person in VA and I always grow more than what my wife and I need so that's what I do too. I hunt with Wounded Warriors and hook those guys up that are out of service and can partake, a lot of them are single or double amputees and have pain issues and PTSD. It's been a life changer for me medically so if I can help out someone else that can't grow yet I'm happy to do it.

I'll thank you for my cousin, but I don't desirve it. I didn't go. He was, in terms of flight hours, the number two Medivac pilot. He got a DFC for going in under heavy fire.

My people came from Ireland by way of Scotland. They were accepted into a clan as the police and military arm. They didn't always wear the "Loud McCloud" (gold and brown) but when they did everyone esle walked on the other side of the street. Anyhow that's the way I got the story.

Our family was all military except for my dad. He had a "some kind of job" at Douglas Aircraft. No one ever knew what it was.

I always felt a little bad that that they left me here and ALL my friends were in VN. We had all planed to go together. Didn't happen.

DWW

FirstCavApache64 said:

chief/mechanic for Apaches

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Thank you. What else can I say?

DWW

DancesWithWeeds said:

I'll thank you for my cousin, but I don't desirve it. I didn't go. He was, in terms of flight hours, the number two Medivac pilot. He got a DFC for going in under heavy fire.

My people came from Ireland by way of Scotland. They were accepted into a clan as the police and military arm. They didn't always wear the "Loud McCloud" (gold and brown) but when they did everyone esle walked on the other side of the street. Anyhow that's the way I got the story.

Our family was all military except for my dad. He had a "some kind of job" at Douglas Aircraft. No one ever knew what it was.

I always felt a little bad that that they left me here and ALL my friends were in VN. We had all planed to go together. Didn't happen.

DWW

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DancesWithWeeds said:

I'll thank you for my cousin, but I don't desirve it. I didn't go. He was, in terms of flight hours, the number two Medivac pilot. He got a DFC for going in under heavy fire.

My people came from Ireland by way of Scotland. They were accepted into a clan as the police and military arm. They didn't always wear the "Loud McCloud" (gold and brown) but when they did everyone esle walked on the other side of the street. Anyhow that's the way I got the story.

Our family was all military except for my dad. He had a "some kind of job" at Douglas Aircraft. No one ever knew what it was.

I always felt a little bad that that they left me here and ALL my friends were in VN. We had all planed to go together. Didn't happen.

DWW

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Never regret something like that. You had your mission here and based on my cousins stories and friends stories from back then you were way better off. I'm sure if they had a say in it they'd have wanted you to be home too.