They grow fast after the first coupla weeks, be ready.
The Great Outdoor Group Grow: Beastly Buds To Honor Bonsai
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The Bard
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My girls hardening off outdoors starting on Tuesday, finally. Risk of frost has passed in the last couple of days, so four of these will be going into the ground today or tomorrow. Nights are now consistently in the 50s. 2x Cinderella 99, and 2x Critical Mass. Both types are fast genetics. I gave away Plant #5 to a friend of Mrs. Bard - she kept killing her own seedlings, so thought she could use a helping hand!
My 2 outdoor girls had their different struggles early on. One being ripped and picked the other hit flower and is now reveg. Leaves are all whacky.
Then theres this BeBo clone, shoulda done this straight away. She looked a lot better two days ago.
Then theres this BeBo clone, shoulda done this straight away. She looked a lot better two days ago.
They'll get straightened out in time.
Everybody talkin bout a june 22nd all natural flip day got me thinkin these plants arent gonna be much. Finally gotta reveg under my belt tho, so theres that!
I'm guessing it will be July or even August before you see flowers.
The Bard
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Hi there! I am no expert on this, but thought I would share what I understand to be the case with outdoor grows. At least, this is my situation in southern Ontario, Canada. As of today, I will get 15 hours and 17 minutes of daylight. That increases by a few minutes each day, and will continue to do so until June 21, which is the longest day of the year, which will be 15 hours and 24 minutes long. After that, days will start getting shorter again, by a few minutes per day.
But my understanding is that the shortening days won't trigger flowering, but rather the number of hours of uninterrupted darkness. Around August 15 (where I live), darkness will hit 10 hours and increase (daylight of 14 hours and decreasing). Apparently that will trigger flowering. I will have about 8-10 weeks before first frost, from mid-August to mid/late October.
Not sure exactly where you are located, but imagine that you could find the corresponding daylength, darkness etc. data for your area. I do believe that June 21 will be the longest day of the year for you, as long as you are in the northern hemisphere.
Hope this helps a bit!
My outside plants show pistils around mid-July, down in Los Angeles.
Early/Mid July for me also -- approx 325 miles north of Shed.
I think my ladies show pistils around mid August. I usually say flowering starts around August 1st, or there abouts. I'm up around the 44th parallel. Cheers
How late can you let them run outside? I would think you'd need a short flowering strain up there.
EhCndGrower
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I’m on Day 32 of my outdoor attempt. I still might add 2 more to my grow as 3 are looking promising and 4 are do ok. Right now my Fruity Pebbles clone is just loving the outdoors and has grown probably 5-6 inches this week, or more. My one Black Sugar clone had some good root structure and is now starting to show a little bushy bit of growth, which will hopefully branch out like my FP plant did. My Gorilla Zkittlez clone ain’t looking great and took a new clipping from my tent grow that wasn’t getting the light penetration help. So they are side by side right now but will change up if one takes off before the other. My C99 look weak but are standing straight with glimpses of new growth starting. Want to hopefully add 2 more clones of Cindy in the coming weeks. So my pics as of today
FRUITY PEBBLES
BLACK SUGAR CLONES
CINDERELLA 99 CLONES
GORILLA ZKITTLEZ
FRUITY PEBBLES
BLACK SUGAR CLONES
CINDERELLA 99 CLONES
GORILLA ZKITTLEZ
jetsgrower
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nice im in for the long haulI’m on Day 32 of my outdoor attempt. I still might add 2 more to my grow as 3 are looking promising and 4 are do ok. Right now my Fruity Pebbles clone is just loving the outdoors and has grown probably 5-6 inches this week, or more. My one Black Sugar clone had some good root structure and is now starting to show a little bushy bit of growth, which will hopefully branch out like my FP plant did. My Gorilla Zkittlez clone ain’t looking great and took a new clipping from my tent grow that wasn’t getting the light penetration help. So they are side by side right now but will change up if one takes off before the other. My C99 look weak but are standing straight with glimpses of new growth starting. Want to hopefully add 2 more clones of Cindy in the coming weeks. So my pics as of today
FRUITY PEBBLES
BLACK SUGAR CLONES
CINDERELLA 99 CLONES
GORILLA ZKITTLEZ
In the process of making soil myself with VC...I added some (free!) granite dust, greensand, clam shell powder, mycorrizhae, coir, perlite, and elf magic. I am lucky enough to have a cement mixer since I need to mix approximately 350 gallons (using approx 15x 13-gallon containers of VC)
Almost all of those look like they're doing really well! I do think you should take any of the lower leaves on the clones that are close to the soil though.
That's a project! Looks like a fun afternoon
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Your outdoor is looking proper so far!
The Bard
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This is interesting!
I did a quick Google search for sunrise/sunset time in the LA area. I will post a link below, and see if it will work here. Anyhow, what I noticed is that daylength in LA is of course much shorter (in the summer) than it is for us up here in the Great White North. For today, as an example, it is showing a daylength of 14 hours and 20 minutes for LA. For me here in southern Ontario, today is 15 hours and 17 minutes, so almost exactly an hour longer.
All of us in the northern hemisphere will have our longest day of the year on June 21. For me, it will be 15 hours and 24 minutes. In LA on June 21, the day will be 14 hours and 21 minutes. All of us will see shorter days thereafter (through December 21).
But what is more interesting (to me, anyhow!) is that LA crosses into 10+ hours of darkness much earlier than me. The daylength dips below 14 hours (meaning 10+ hours of dark) around July 25th. I don't get 10 hours of darkness until August 15th.
This seems to sync up with @InTheShed's comment that he starts to see pistils around mid July, just as darkness approaches/passes 10 hours per night.
Here's the link for where I got the data...
Sunrise and sunset times in Los Angeles, July 2019
Calculations of sunrise and sunset in Los Angeles – California – USA for July 2019. Generic astronomy calculator to calculate times for sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset for many cities, with daylight saving time and time zones taken in account.
www.timeanddate.com
You get longer days and we get a longer growing season .
But when I use that website I show LA getting 10 hours of night on October 19th. Am I doing it wrong?
. But when I use that website I show LA getting 10 hours of night on October 19th. Am I doing it wrong?
The Bard
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You get longer days and we get a longer growing season
But when I use that website I show LA getting 10 hours of dark on October 19th. Am I doing it wrong?
If I put in the month of October for LA, for October 19th I see:
Sunrise: 7:01am
Sunset: 6:14pm
Daylight Hours: 11 hours and 12 minutes
24 hours minus 11 hours = 13 hours of darkness (a little less, because of the 12 minutes).
Where did you get the 10 hour number from?
Our growing season here last about 15 minutes.
