veg all winter/ bring plants outside with supplemental lighting in spring (northern hemisphere)

I agree this

  • Works in theory

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  • Will not work the way predicted,(This is why)

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  • Is not worth it since cannabis grows so fast from seed in spring

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Knowurhyphae

Knowurhyphae

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Plants in 1 gallon pots held at the low end of the veg cycle, 16 hours of light started in November. Trim& train
Transplant into 7 gallon pots end of January.Trim& train
April transplant mature plants into the ground with supplemental lighting to achieve the same amount of light it was getting indoors. Acclimate with shade cloth for two weeks,Trim,train,Stake
Summer solstice remove supplemental lighting. last trim and add additional stakes.
Sit under tree and smoke pipe?
 
Hiphophippo

Hiphophippo

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I’ve done this a few times. It works with the right strains and can produce some serious monster plants. I’ve also seen it back fire and the plants not do so well. I will say if this is your plan add in some uv or you’ll stress the plants when you take them outside are you topping and training them .
 
Knowurhyphae

Knowurhyphae

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Yeah it will probably be a necessity to chop them hard just to keep them small enough. Gonna produce some short fat gnarly stems. Dont want plants much taller then 4-5' being transplanted.
 
NugHunter

NugHunter

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East Coast here...Ive done this before minus the supplimental lighting. Trick is to put plants outside when you have 14+ hours of daylight..month depends on where you live. Grew the biggest plant of my life like this...lots of training and topping.
 
Knowurhyphae

Knowurhyphae

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For sure it's not new its basically ta modified version of the tried and true "gas lantern" technique.
Mostly just looking for a conversation.Hoping that people that have done this will chime in and share some nuggs of knowledge.
 
Knowurhyphae

Knowurhyphae

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Yo, so i was thinking. What about scaffolding? Anyone use it? If im vegging for 8 months then planting out in april with supplemental lighting. I am going to have trees. It will sure be hard to see the tops of a 12 foot tree from the ground.
Should i buy enough scaffolding to make a walkaroud 12 feet or so around one of these.
 
Goodshit97

Goodshit97

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Knowurhyphae said:
Yo, so i was thinking. What about scaffolding? Anyone use it? If im vegging for 8 months then planting out in april with supplemental lighting. I am going to have trees. It will sure be hard to see the tops of a 12 foot tree from the ground.
Should i buy enough scaffolding to make a walkaroud 12 feet or so around one of these.
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Id just use an 8 foot ladder.
 
twentyeight.threefive

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Knowurhyphae said:
Yo, so i was thinking. What about scaffolding? Anyone use it? If im vegging for 8 months then planting out in april with supplemental lighting. I am going to have trees. It will sure be hard to see the tops of a 12 foot tree from the ground.
Should i buy enough scaffolding to make a walkaroud 12 feet or so around one of these.
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November to April is 6 months. What's the point of the extra veg time inside if you have to keep them small? Just start them later and then you'll have less work training and trimming.
 
LeastExpectedGrower

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Still doesn't help the fact that it's not the 'veg' phase that's the issue but the longer flowering stage and them not developing enough for most of us before it gets too cold/frosty. I don't think the problem with outdoors is that the plants aren't getting big enough.

For example, I just looked at my calendar and if I plant at 14h of daylight in the spring, that's April 29th. It doesn't drop below 14 hours again until August 14th. First frosts for us may happen by mid-october, though for many it may just be down below 60 which will be a net-negative too.
 
Goodshit97

Goodshit97

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LeastExpectedGrower said:
Still doesn't help the fact that it's not the 'veg' phase that's the issue but the longer flowering stage and them not developing enough for most of us before it gets too cold/frosty. I don't think the problem with outdoors is that the plants aren't getting big enough.

For example, I just looked at my calendar and if I plant at 14h of daylight in the spring, that's April 29th. It doesn't drop below 14 hours again until August 14th. First frosts for us may happen by mid-october, though for many it may just be down below 60 which will be a net-negative too.
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Due to shit weather this last year, i lost almost all of my outdoor to budrot.
2 blueberry grape hashplants and a blueberry.

Blueberry got cut early and sent to the kitchen for edibles, ended up with 3 ounces of smokeable bud. Im running autos outside this year.
 

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Goodshit97 said:
Due to shit weather this last year, i lost almost all of my outdoor to budrot.
2 blueberry grape hashplants and a blueberry.

Blueberry got cut early and sent to the kitchen for edibles, ended up with 3 ounces of smokeable bud. Im running autos outside this year.
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That seems to be the prevailing move these days. I have the space and possibly the privacy to try an outdoors grow but don't want to deal with the weather/pest/bio issues.
 
Knowurhyphae

Knowurhyphae

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I dunno what yall talkin about. Im not trying to "change" anything. Just talking about a way to walk around my giant trees that i'm choosing to grow for no* good reason.
 
Goodshit97

Goodshit97

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LeastExpectedGrower said:
That seems to be the prevailing move these days. I have the space and possibly the privacy to try an outdoors grow but don't want to deal with the weather/pest/bio issues.
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Thats the main reason i went to indoors. Ive grown like 15 plants outside and ive always lost bud because i just dont have the time to maintain bugs, mold and everything else. I have like 50 autoflowers so im gonna plant 8-12 outside this year.
 
cindysid

cindysid

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I do essentially what you're talking about except I'm taking clones from vegging plants so it keeps height under control. I'm lucky that I can probably make it to harvest in my area unless we get a real early hard frost. I use lst on mine to keep the height lower outdoors to lower visibility. This year I plan on doing giant scrogs in 100 gal sips!
 
Knowurhyphae

Knowurhyphae

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yall some boring mother fuckers
I'm talking about growing giant trees that you need scaffolding to walk around just for fun!
Just because I enjoy growing.
Because plants are cool guys not just weed. jeez, besides i ca give clones to everyone for free and graft a bunch of variates by summer on to the mothers.
I dont give a fuck about harvest. i just want some shade to read a book under. I already have cherries, pluots, peaches, beach plums and persimmons I planted from seed about 10 years ago. now im aloud to grow chronic.
 
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