Inside To Outside

[strawboss1]

Im 4 weeks into flowering and now were im at i have like 13 to 14 hrs. of daylight would like to would it hurt if i moved the plant outside at this stage of flowering

 

[poplars]

depends on the lights you had it under... if you have it under high powered 400+ wattage lights, then yeah you can. if you're flowering under CFLs, I wouldn't recommend it unless you either put it under a tree, or put it out when there's a good week of cloudy weather.

 

[strawboss1]

im 4 weeks into flowering my one plant on a 12/12 sesion. were i live i have like 13 to 14 hrs of daylight left would like to know is it a good idea to put it outside now or would it hurt the plant

 

[strawboss1]

hey poplars after a good week of cloudy weather can i keep it outside for the rest of the flowering process

 

[strawboss1]

i had it under 300 watts of cfls

 

[poplars]

hey poplars after a good week of cloudy weather can i keep it outside for the rest of the flowering process

yep after a good week of clouds for sure... definitely make sure where-ever you put it the pot is well covered and insulated from temperature fluctuations.. I would even recomend burrying most of the pot in the dirt to keep the roots happy.

if you don't have clouds just find a very shady tree.

 

[stumps]

light has little to do with it. It's all temps. I do it a little different I put plants out a few hours a day then add a hour or so each day. takes about a week less if temps are close to the same. I had a friend that wanted to help his wife out with her house plant. He took them all out side hung them up and what not watered them and went to work. He got home that night to find every plant burnt to a crisp. poplars is right on you have to harden off the plant to leave outside.

 

[strawboss1]

i have my plant under 300 watt cfls inside, its in its 4 th week of flowering , i wanna know if it would hurt the plant if i put it outside for the rest of the flowering process were i live we have about 13 to 14 hrs of daylight left

 

[poplars]

light has little to do with it. It's all temps. I do it a little different I put plants out a few hours a day then add a hour or so each day. takes about a week less if temps are close to the same. I had a friend that wanted to help his wife out with her house plant. He took them all out side hung them up and what not watered them and went to work. He got home that night to find every plant burnt to a crisp. poplars is right on you have to harden off the plant to leave outside.

its not all temps though I do agree with you that temps matter.

sunlight can be many many more times intense than indoor light, so if you put a budding plant that's been indoors under cfls into direct sunlight, even if the temps agree with you , the sunlight wont, and you will have white blotches and burn spots all over your plant, potentially killing it.

just sayin man I have a lot of outdoor growing experience and I've seen sunlight alone fuck up plants to near death.

 

[strawboss1]

thanks folks for all the help

 

[stumps]

I'm smiling, we are saying the same thing but going at it a little different. that's why I start a few hours at a time and build up. "I" say heat you say light. works out to be the same thing I think.

 

[poplars]

I'm smiling, we are saying the same thing but going at it a little different. that's why I start a few hours at a time and build up. "I" say heat you say light. works out to be the same thing I think.

I don't think it does... I think there's a significant difference between temperature and intensity of the light... I mean the plants completely change color to adapt to this light, so how could it just be a temperature thing?

I guess this is pointless.. either way we both end up telling the dude to harden off... I just stick to my point the sunlight is intense and it's not just because of the temperature it emits, its because of the UV rays and others...