Starting indoors

If I start my plants indoors can I sex them (switch to 12/12) then switch it back to veg before taking outdoors? would it too much of a shock?

might be better off taking a clone of each plant and putting it directly in 12/12 to root. this will show you the sex of the parent plants. it won't stress them too much otherwise, but will slow them down.

that is good advice. exactly what i would do.

If you put them out early enough (may) and if they're decently into flowering, they'll continue to flower. I've been doing that, so I have 2 waves of crops. One early, mid summer harvest, and my second fall harvest. Plus as the light to darkness ratio increases, it makes the early flowering crop flower faster.

TheFinkler said:

If you put them out early enough (may) and if they're decently into flowering, they'll continue to flower. I've been doing that, so I have 2 waves of crops. One early, mid summer harvest, and my second fall harvest. Plus as the light to darkness ratio increases, it makes the early flowering crop flower faster.

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thanks for the good advice guys. finkler your saying that if my plants are budding when they go outside that they will continue to bud even though the light is completely different? It sounds too good to be true.

it is true. at what point im not 100%, but if your plant is far enough into flower it will continue to do so.

Yeah, it depends on how far into flowering it is though. I usually start some plants indoors close to the end of winter, and switch them to 12/12 light in May, I put them outside once I know their sex, and they continue to flower, because it's still a fair amount undisturbed darkness outside. As the light time increases, it just gets used to it, and allows it to grow bigger, and flower faster. I do 2 waves of crops, one that starts flowering outdoors immediately, and another wave that flowers early fall.