If you decide to grow outdoors, be prepared for the agony of the many potentially destructive elements out there. However, you can also have the hope of an eventual harvest approximately 4X what you would get from indoor. Nothing beats the quadrillion watt bulb in the sky. Also be sure you harden your babies to the sun. The process is: start leaving them in the sun for about an hour the first day, and then double the exposure each day until they have spent a couple full days and nights outside. At that point they are ready to plant as long as nights are no colder than low 40s. One potential problem, I am personally facing, is that if you have started them with even as much as 12/12, they may interpret their new light cycle as meaning that it is fall. Mine are still babies and already budding because of this. I am told that as summer comes on more strong, they will most likely revert back to veg, and if not you can remove buds as they mature and as long as season remains nice plants will produce more buds. I am lucky enough to have huge yard with privacy fence and mean dogs, so I don't worry about local ( that and I'm certified medical grower here in Colorado so law not a worry ) threats to my crop. Keep your grow small, and well hidden, and good luck on your outdoor endeavor. Oh, and tell NO ONE, NO ONE,NO ONE
