Outdoor seedlings
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chris42393
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Yeah april is a good time. Im not sure about your climate, because i dont know where you live, but in some places it might be a little bit later because of the cold temps.
Gbuddy
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@West086
As long as you safe your plants from getting chewed by Animals, its a good plan.
But if you have a veglight and some small space I would pre-veg them indoor. Germination + adequat rooting say two weeks and another 4 weeks pre-veg. That means you start six weeks before you want to plant them outdoors.
Now its not a tiny seedling its a lil plant with way better chances to fight everything along her way outdoor.
In cold nights its also a good idea to cover your babyplant with something.
My mate use to put a bucket upside down over his plants in cold spring nights. Works fine.
Hope it helps.
Peace
As long as you safe your plants from getting chewed by Animals, its a good plan.
But if you have a veglight and some small space I would pre-veg them indoor. Germination + adequat rooting say two weeks and another 4 weeks pre-veg. That means you start six weeks before you want to plant them outdoors.
Now its not a tiny seedling its a lil plant with way better chances to fight everything along her way outdoor.
In cold nights its also a good idea to cover your babyplant with something.
My mate use to put a bucket upside down over his plants in cold spring nights. Works fine.
Hope it helps.
Peace
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I live in UK mate
Cheers mate how about a small greenhouse till they get a bit established then put them in ground aint got any growlight so that' out the question how many hours of direct sunlight should the greenhouse have I remember last year I germinate in small pots in a greenhouse and they looked beautiful then I planted them in the ground say about may and it ended up being 5 feet tall lol
dtl420
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yea. just make sure you keep them pretty close to the plant, like about 6-7cm. and check on them often so they don't grow up into the light. Don't even need a timer, I'd just run it 24/7 till you transplant outside. Are you familiar with regular gardening techniques? Because when you go from under a light that small to outdoors you'll have to harden off the plants or the sun will fry them.
I have a 4ft t5 high output fluorescent fixture I'm vegging with right now with 6 bulbs. There are some people out there who swear by even flowering with fluorescents. Usually they use what I've got rather than the regular t8's though.
dtl420
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a green house would work as long as the temp doesn't drop too low. best bet I'd say would be to start indoors a few weeks before you anticipate transplanting, then start taking it out in the container to harden it off before you put it in the ground. Then I'd just leave the greenhouse on it till it outgrows it, as long as the temps don't start getting to high.
Be warned that by doing this you are going to have a HUGE pot plant in your garden, bigger than any other plant that you would have in your garden.
What' the best way to harden them off leaving them exposed
How about auto flowers Dutch passion auto duck they only grow a metre tall in the ground I grew one last year it was early skunk by sensi seeds it grew massive it was in a pvt back garden where no one cud notice it accept my next door naibour lol but they was sound il send u some pics of it it over grown the fence and cud smell it on a hot day around the side of the house lol
Gbuddy
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Cheers mate,
This kitchenlight is top!
Better than what I used sometimes.
One is maybe not enough if you ask me.
Here a example what I use since I have a House that is only powered by the Sun. Wintertime sucks since I am in that House haha should add a windpower device for winter hahaha.
I use to start my outdoorseeds pretty early because I try always to grow some big bushes outdoor.
I use small greenhouses to start.
But asap I will get rid of the lid so I can put the lights close.
Now thats funny...My Boy got a antfarm that he never cared for because he couldnt smoke the ants....He let the antz expire and I took the lighting
It was four 6W t4 flourotubes smaller than yours mate. But theyre cheap and they fit perfectly for the trays of the ~30x20cm mini greenhouses you get in local gardening stores.
It works fine for just a small preveg.
There are a few things you should think about..
This lights are not very powerful just a handfull of lumen output... run them 24/7 .... and if you want to get the most benefit from that lights you gonna be tricky.
Since I grow bushes I need a lot of sidebranching in veg. So if the light only hits the plants from over their heads they'll develop too lil of sidebranching for my taste.
Thats why I use a lil piece of wire to get the head of the Plant down as much as possible. The rim of the pot is the point where I want the tip to be.
That induces sidebranching.
When the Plant goes outdoor I just remove the verry tip of the Plant and end up with a bush. You can do even more pruning if you want or none.
The other guys who answered here give some great advice!
"Hardening out"
A great point!
I lost my first outdoor plants becouse of sunburn.hahaa
Since I remove the lid of the minigreenhouse asap only the Sun outdoors is a Problem.
I use to place the tray with the Plants on a chair or something under a tree to prevent direct sunlight for the first week thats enough.
Dunno but here its about may 15th when nightfrosts are over.
But believe it or not I had a swiss skunk outdoors as early as 30. March wothout any buckets over it at night and the Plant didnt show any signs of frostburn.
Sorry for the wallpaper of text^^
And the middleschool english
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