Need Help! Putting Some Plants Outside Question

I have 3 plants I want to put outside, there in soil and 2.5 weeks in flower.
I had to put my hydros in flower awhile back and wasnt ready to move these outside.
I have them with my 12 hydroponic plants and need the room so i need to move them.
I have a lucas super soil mix that they will go on top of.
Is there anything special I need to do for the reveg. or just plant them.
I'm outgrowing my lighting foot print with these three plants in the house.

hey man, its been a while since ive posted but since im doing the same w one of my best clones in a 12 gal, this is my first inside outside transplant but i read about this a while back. first off from going from inside to outside there are going to most likely be some drastic changes to the pants environment. just sticking them outside and expecting them to do well is erroneous what ive read and what im doing requires a little time but will be worth it.
first id find a place to put your plants while they sleep the first week or so because you dont want to mix them once theve been outside your asking for trouble doing that. that being said its fairly simple start small and work up. start by taking the girls outside for a few min either early day or later in the eve when the sun isnt at full strength. they will almost assuredly start wilting and acting like they need to be watered( avoid misting too much if the sun is intense or you could bake your leaves.
once they have been out for 15-30 min the first day move them back inside and under a temp light for the girls and monitor them to make sure they recover, misting when they come in is a decent idea depending on the state of the girls. the next day stretch the time outside out to 1 hr or a little longer and so on, a week of this should get you to a state where your girls will survive on their own and not get overly stressed along the way. say 30 min then 1 hr then 2 then 4 then 6 and so on provided they seem good with the previous days outside time.

that being said you will still need to watch for pests, wind, rain, and animals, not to mention humans and outside girls are going to need big containers to get full effect and will most likely use more water.
cheers

hey thanks maintman, other question is since it is reveg i will be keeping them in the laundry room right off the back porch. "they wont go near my hydro once outside" so as far as lighting should I keep it on 24 hours since were going back to reveg. also somewhere i read to trim all the buds off, is that necessary or a common practice.

I put them in flower may 12th since there sitting on the edge of the light foot print there getting stretchy now and I cant get another light in there



My other option is to just let them go and deal with it.

anybody want to way in

couple things, no 24hrs light is not necessary and since its still kinda early in the year i would say trimming the bud sites off would only slow the growth but it will make the girls bush out very nice and may help the rest of the plant to catch up, so its u to you. ( if you had brought these al the way to harvest and were reveging you would trim off all the good buds and leave the small un finished buds from the inner and lower portion of the plant, after being in 18-6 for a couple weeks they will start to show new growth usually strange curled and roundish leaves and soon after the 3 5 7 9 sets of leaves will show up. at this time ny large dry bud material can be removed just ont damage the new growth.

im guessing that the three in the pics are the girls in question. id say tying them down would be a good start and in order to induce the state of veg in the girls all you have to really do is turn a light on for 5-10 min every couple hours to keep the girl from going to sleep so aside from the time they spend outside which should be am and pm hrs to start you just need to trick the girls into thinking the light is on for at least 18 hrs...are you just going to use whatever light is in the laundry room or are you going to use a tem setup to suffice til the go full outside. the household light will kee her in daylight mode but will cause a fair bit of stretching and some stress.

i have 4 dual lamp 4 ft t-8's with 6500k lights that i use to veg so i would prolly use those when i bring them in. yes those are the 3. their sportin small buds at this point. i can run the lights full time it wont bother us.

your gonna have better luck getting them to revert faster by giving them at least 4 hrs dark time, in my experience trying to reveg budded girls they revert around 5-7 days faster when given night time hours

hey no problem i get the idea, they dont need a full blown schedule. there gonna be on outdoor light soon anyways

yes and sthe sooner you get them thinking that the better they will do, o yea if you know the temperature outside is going to be 90 95+ you will want to shade them a little, that intense heat and light even w strong girls will cause stress, a screen will break u the light and provide a shaded area of sorts

Hey thanks man, temps here have been pretty good but I will make sure the plants are protected. so far we have been 70 and 80's

good deal. so how they looking, would u put a side by side shot of them now and them in the other shot so we can see the result

everything sounds good so far, Maintman has you pointed int eh right direction

you said you going to PLANT them?, as in take them out of the buckets and put them directly into the soil?(there in hydroton, so this confuses me..) i would suggest planting the entire bucket into the soil instead. if you want you can cut holes in the bucket, unless the holes are allready fairly large i would actually suggest it. it will allow the roots to fill the bucket then keep expanding past the bucket into teh surrounding soil without shocking the roots when the hydroton breaks apart....

The 3 going outside are in dirt, the other 12 are hydroton and their staying inside. I should put them out lol, their over 6ft tall in the room now and in flower. I guess they love my flora nova food. Those look really nice. I wonder how much the mycorrhizae is helping. I'm kinda impressed actually for a first grow.. I am a little way layed on the project since im prepping a field to grow some hay, damn locking pin sheared on the wheel on the tractor so always something to fix.. To bad I couldnt grow all those acres with smoke. I had a soil test done and the ground looks like it needs a lot of nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur and boron so it gives me an idea what the grow site needs. Plus this sandy soil leeches the hell out of nutes when watered. Well this is my first outdoor so I'm sure the questions will fly when I plant. I want to find one of those tea recipes and get some going in my 55 gal drums I have laying around.


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