I'm shooting for the first of June next year as well. I just thought I could get a little head start this year like I did last year. I guess it just backfired a little bit with the UV plants. Like you I also started to make my clones back in February this year. It really does help to get them a little more mature before you get them outdoors. I just messed up a little bit with the timing.
I think I'm also going to put mine up on the roof next year. On the first set of pics I posted, you can see that back door that leads into my dining room/Grow room. It's a big 20x15 room and it has a flat top roof. Up there it gets a good 4 hrs more direct sunlight than what I get on the deck. The house next door blocks the first couple of morning light. And of course on the longest days of the year, the sun comes up directly behind their chimney. Then in the afternoon, the roof and the side of the house block the sunlight from the plants you can see in front. So maybe with an additional four hours of sunlight, they will do better. I was going to put them on the roof this year. But after the deadly heat last year, I chickened out and didn't do it. The heat really destroyed a lot of good bud last year and I figured it would really hurt the plants. I thought about putting them up there in June, but those 50 gallon bags are really heavy with the soil in them. To have them on the roof, I'll have to take the empty pots and bags of soil up there and then fill the pots and plant the plants. But I think in the long run it will be better.
I also thought about putting them out on the hillside, but that would be a big hassle, especially with all the deer and other critters running around out there. The only way I could do it is to build a small greenhouse. But that's a whole lot of work. And I'll have to get permits and everything to build it. My neighborhood is full of Permit Patty's and BBQ Becky's around here, so it would be a for sure bust. My neighbors will see the greenhouse and the plants, and probably call the city to make sure it's been fully permitted. They really don't care for us much anyway and they are kind of used to my brother in law telling them to fuck off anyway (literally). A couple years ago, I had choppers flying and hovering over my house on a few occasions looking at my grow. I'm pretty sure it was one of the neighbors that complained. That was before it was totally legal for anyone to grow. But a couple of the guys here had doctors prescriptions to grow. So I'm sure there must be some way for the cops to know we were legal to grow because they never came to my door or raided my house. So next year, up on the roof they'll go.
