open a bed and breakfast,you lucky bugger
Haha, just to clarify, even though I can grow all year. I generally grow small-medium sized plants, and with potential losses to the environment (mold/worms), it's not all fun and games. I can barely produce enough medicine for myself to get from harvest to harvest. But I can say that I am very thankful for being able to grow during the winter, it gives me the necessary supplement required to get from year to year.
Relaxed Lester,
How many crops can "we" plant outdoors per year? I am in the Delta area. So 110' highs in summer, and a week of cold temps in Dec. I have a clear plastic dome top over my plants currently to protect them from night temps. By capturing the heat from the soil (raised garden bed) and the plants getting bushy, and a lack of night breezes the plants havent appeared too shocked.
They are about 6 weeks old in total, one clone, one seed, both grown indoors in a warm small veg space and then moved to 12/12 lighting for a week or two before going outdoors. so they have started 12/12 before the shock of 10H...
To be honest, the best way to figure out what works for you in your microclimate and latitude is to grow through trial and error. See what works and what doesn't work, you have to adapt to your bounds on when things start to flower, and when they start to vegetate.
I can offer some tips/advice. As long as it never actually goes down to freezing point, have hardy strains that can deal with cooler/cloudy conditions quite well, and have decent Sunlight and daytime temperatures, then you can usually produce some kind of usable medicine during the winter. So in essence, what I do is basically for each plant that you harvest, make sure you had a seedling to replace it so that the cycle stays perpetual (all thanks to the fact it does not freeze in our locations).
Also, yeah, you want to be working with sexually mature plants when you put them into flower (as you already know). But, I never see any kind of "light shock", it will probably only make them flower quicker with that much less light (which is what we want this time of year).
Be careful using plastic that does not have air penetration, if you have fully flowering dense buds in an environment like that, you are could promote fungus growth, but again, that is just one of those trial and error things that individuals must take on.
But to answer your question, in general; while I have my vegetating plants occupying the tent during the Spring, I am force flowering a crop so that I have June/July/August harvests lined up and the naturally flowering plants in the tent (fall) just flower on their own. Stuff that's left over from the force flowering routine (where they only get 7 hours of light), immediately starts revegetating when I put them outside in the fall (because there is that much more light) and those revegetated fall plants are what becomes the winter grow.
So ideally I have a 1) Spring harvest from late winter, 2) Summer Harvests, 3) Fall harvests, 4) Early winter harvests (reveggers).
Hope your day is going just like you want it too. Happy Days.
Sounds like you are in the the right place, my friend! 
thanks for sharing its always a nice stop in your journals! 
