Starting plants indoor help please

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Surfingbird831

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Hello yall I've got another question I'd love some feedback on. So I'm planning a big outdoor grow and I have had my clones vegging already for about two weeks. Since there is not enough daylight I have been putting a light above them when the sun goes down to add a few more hours and keep them vegging. My question is, how many more hours should I be adding after the sun goes down? I plan on cutting out the light when the grow season starts in May so should I just add 3 or 4 more hours so it's not too dramatic of a drop when I take the lights out? Thanks much for any input
 
run them 16/8 and [I don't know what your weather is like] set the out after the equinox....They may sputter some pre-flowers, but I can't see them going into "hard" flowering until July/Aug
 
I like to keep plants on 18/6 until the summer solstice in June (longest day of the year), then turn off the lights & let nature take it's course...good luck
 
Go 18 hours from sunrise to get your time frame. Step it back slowly to match the time when you want to put them out, takes me about a week. So right now it would be lights on at 5 until 10 maybe. I shoot for going outside in the first week of june, but have had success with the third week of may, I'm sure different strains are more sensitive.
 
Thank you guys for all the great info. So it sounds like you all are recommending that I keep veg a little longer than I planned . I'm in northern cal , weather is good , I usually plant outdoors around 4/20 so I think that in April the hours is only supposed to be around 13.5 hours a day according to sunrise.com . Do you guys think if I veg at 16/8 right now till April and then switch to 13.5 I will stay in veg? Thanks guys
 
Surfingbird831 said:
Thank you guys for all the great info. So it sounds like you all are recommending that I keep veg a little longer than I planned . I'm in northern cal , weather is good , I usually plant outdoors around 4/20 so I think that in April the hours is only supposed to be around 13.5 hours a day according to sunrise.com . Do you guys think if I veg at 16/8 right now till April and then switch to 13.5 I will stay in veg? Thanks guys
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not likely, most strains will flower...
 
Surfingbird831 said:
Thank you guys for all the great info. So it sounds like you all are recommending that I keep veg a little longer than I planned . I'm in northern cal , weather is good , I usually plant outdoors around 4/20 so I think that in April the hours is only supposed to be around 13.5 hours a day according to sunrise.com . Do you guys think if I veg at 16/8 right now till April and then switch to 13.5 I will stay in veg? Thanks guys
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Nor Cal; 18/6 lighting and plant middle of May.
 
I think in May the daylight will be about 14.5 hours, do you guys think that if I switch from 18/6 to 14.5 will they keep veg?
 
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