Flowering (late) in fall outdoors in a hot climate, vs. indoors w/ LED

flexy123

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I am in SE Spain, which has a hot/dry climate without frost. I have in the past already grown outdoors (on my roof).

The timing for my current grow is off. It's a Sativa (Amnesia) which I currently have in my Greenhouse on the balcony, under LEDs (6x CREE CXB3590).

I am currently debating what would be better for flowering. Flowering would take 65-70 days.

a) Putting the plant next week (Sept 7), upstairs on the roof in the sun as I initially planned, and then let it flower all throughout September and October, with an expected harvest I guess around Nov. 10th. There doubtless IS sun, always, but my concern is the shorter daylight hours late in fall. ("Next week" since I just repotted into a bigger pot and I want to wait a week)

b) Flowering in the greenhouse, using 12/12

In other words, asking whether flowering outdoors, even "late" in fall would always be better than indoors under a grow light?
 
I am in SE Spain, which has a hot/dry climate without frost. I have in the past already grown outdoors (on my roof).

The timing for my current grow is off. It's a Sativa (Amnesia) which I currently have in my Greenhouse on the balcony, under LEDs (6x CREE CXB3590).

I am currently debating what would be better for flowering. Flowering would take 65-70 days.

a) Putting the plant next week (Sept 7), upstairs on the roof in the sun as I initially planned, and then let it flower all throughout September and October, with an expected harvest I guess around Nov. 10th. There doubtless IS sun, always, but my concern is the shorter daylight hours late in fall. ("Next week" since I just repotted into a bigger pot and I want to wait a week)

b) Flowering in the greenhouse, using 12/12

In other words, asking whether flowering outdoors, even "late" in fall would always be better than indoors under a grow light?

Nothing beats the power of the sun. NOTHING.
 
I’m almost entering my 3rd week of flowering and want to place them outside.. but right now it’s warmer than usual...around 90-95 degrees!!
Night time temps range from 69-75 degrees.. I stay around 77-80 degrees inside... though soon I look for the weather to break.. is it a bad idea to put them in this heat during early flowering?
 
Wow..almost forgot about this thread!

Yes I put it outside now and it's already stretching like mad. Should start to flower shortly. And would you believe it, *of course* only a few days after I put it out we got the absolutely worst storm with the biggest rainfall on record (!), including hail even. The plant however survived since I have it under a shade thing. (Which I placed in a way so it gives only shade around noon for 1-2 hours, when the sun burns down hardest). As it came down with torrential rains like you wouldn't believe for two days, today I watered/fed it again as I figured that the rain may possibly have washed out the nutes from the pot.
 
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