Transferring Seedlings Outdoors

This season is going to be my first grow and I was planning to keep my seedlings indoors under fluorescent light for the first 2 weeks (maybe 3 depending on how fast they grow) then transferring them outdoors after this period. However, I've read that I should put 18-24 hours of light on my plants indoors, but at the time I wish to transfer the seedlings the sun is only shining 15 1/2ish hours per day according to the sunrise/sunset calendar for my latitude. Will this change of a few hours cause any problems such as initiating the flowering process early? Should I modify the indoor lighting schedule to something a bit closer to the outdoor light or will this small of a change be negligible? Any advice or help is mucho appreciated!

happiness,
RF

Anyone have any advice on this? I'm a few days away from germinating and still not sure if it is safe to have them under 18 hours of light if they are eventually going to be moved outdoors. Please Help!

Rabbit Fighter said:

Anyone have any advice on this? I'm a few days away from germinating and still not sure if it is safe to have them under 18 hours of light if they are eventually going to be moved outdoors. Please Help!

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Keep them as close to the sun rise and set outdoors. Keeping them 18/6 till putting them outside sometimes causes the to flower early then stop the flower again. or just flower too early.