Time to plant outdoors?

[purplepride]

So if I have plants that have already started showing signs or flowering in my greenhouse and I move them outside Now. Will they revert back to vegetating for the summer and be ok for the fall. I mean if the days are getting longer are they going to be ok or are they going to continue to bud and mess up my harvest now. Mind you they are only like a foot tall at this point? Only serious responses please and the more details the better.... -Thanks

 

[Still Blazin87]

So if I have plants that have already started showing signs or flowering in my greenhouse and I move them outside Now. Will they revert back to vegetating for the summer and be ok for the fall. I mean if the days are getting longer are they going to be ok or are they going to continue to bud and mess up my harvest now. Mind you they are only like a foot tall at this point? Only serious responses please and the more details the better.... -Thanks

if they are flowering i believe they need more than 14 hours of light outside per day to revert back to the veg stage i could be wrong but i know 12-13 hours of light isnt enough light hours for sure to revert back to veg if they are "flowering"

 

[Still Blazin87]

here in collifornia the day is 13 H 45 MIN sunrise to sunset i wonder if thats long enough cause i dont know how many hours of light it needs but day after day the light period is growing longer

 

[obijohn]

You need about fourteen or more hours of daylight, so around the middle of May

 

[purplepride]

well finally got some good weather and planted my girls outside today. Got some Dinafem Blue Widow, Sensi Seeds Early Skunk and a freebie from Delicious Seeds called Cotton Candy. We will see if the ones that started budding to early revert back to veg or not. They should be good now with close to 15 hours of light a day. Any one grown these strains outdoors before? Just wondering what kind of harvest I can look forward to per plant in the fall.

 

[The3rdisight]

Hey retards all of you are wrong don't plant outside till you have more than 18 hrs of light in a day! It's different everywhere west coast has the most light in a day here in the states.

Wow. What a statement. Way to prove how dumb you are.

14 hours is good enough. Just watch out for frost. By 14.5 hours you should be in the clear. As long as you're approaching the solstice. But not sure of the climate of So Ill...

 

[DoctorSmoke]

In my area we never get over 15 hours and 5 minutes of daylight.. So whos the retard now?

the more north u go the longer the days get as summer get closer, if he lives in alaska then yea i can see him gettin 18 hours, some places on earth receive 24 hours light for their summer. the most light i get is 15h 46min. im canadian so i know the crazy weather we get.

 

[bendoverbilly]

Hey retards all of you are wrong don't plant outside till you have more than 18 hrs of light in a day! It's different everywhere west coast has the most light in a day here in the states.

Hey retard tell me where you get 18hrs. of light in a day? Most of us don't live on the left coast.

 

[Mr.Marijuana420]

Hey retard tell me where you get 18hrs. of light in a day? Most of us don't live on the left coast.

gotta love the ppl who come here, read a few posts and think they know the ups and downs of growing, but he knows more than everyone even tho hes probably never grown a plant in his life. thats the definition of ignorance rite there, oh well u know hes reading these post, biting his tounge and wishing he never said that, he wanted to appear as someone who knows there shit, but his own stupidity did him in. On his behalf tho i believe anartica or maybe northern alaska and canada, way up north or south might get 18 hrs at one point in the year, and we all know about growing outdoors in the tundras(as its impossible)

 

[maulcoy]

For S. Illinois the final frost is around May 20.I expect it to be a warm spring.I'm on the same Latitude 2 states over.Our weather is similar.I'd start them now inside and move them outside after 5/15 or so.The 1st day of June is a good target.Here's a handy tool to find your last and 1st frost dates of the year.

http://www.victoryseeds.com/frost/home.asp

 

[silvershell69]

I'm living in Southern California. I start indoors in early March and get them outside by April. Indoors my lights are 18/6 but outside daylight is only 13 hours. The plants do fine. They don't stress or start to flower just because there isn't enough day light hours. Each day the daylight gets a little longer and I believe the plants can detect this. Either way it's perfectly safe to plant them now. I've been doing it for years.

As for growing seasons for cannabis... there's one long veg season (spring through summer) and a short flower season (sept to november). The long veg season allows you to stagger your crop. For example, you can plant a few on April 1st, then a few more on April 15, then on May 1st, and again on May 15. You can actually keep putting them out all summer long, but it gets trickier. Young plants can't always take the high temperature of the summer heat. And of course the plants that are started really late don't yield as much, but hey, some is better then none right?

i know this is 3years old but thank you you you. this is the best answer.
im making my very first attempt at growing some rare stuff and this answer is great. alas i can finally start