Moving indoor plant outdoors?

[UrbanHillbilly]

So...I'm an indoor grower but I really don't have much tent space. That has me thinking, is there any problem with moving a plant started indoors out to a hoop house? In flower? What should I expect if I do that? Would it reveg and finish in the fall, or what?

 

[DemonTrich]

None at all. I just moved about 150 plants outdoors (all client orders for michigan outdoor grows). I usually toss one or two of my old moms I swap out for an od run. I did mac stomper and permanent marker last yr. It will only reveg after fall, or when light schedules change from 12/12 to longer daylight hours.

 

[UrbanHillbilly]

None at all. I just moved about 150 plants outdoors (all client orders for michigan outdoor grows). I usually toss one or two of my old moms I swap out for an od run. I did mac stomper and permanent marker last yr. It will only reveg after fall, or when light schedules change from 12/12 to longer daylight hours.

So should I expect the plants to continue on their flower cycle as if they were indoors, or will they behave as outdoor plants and finish this fall? The plants I'm thinking of are a couple of clones that weren't doing great, so I was about to just cull them but got a wild hair to put them in my flower tent and see how they turned out.

The reason I would have to move them is, that flower tent is only 3x3 and I have three photo plants in there, but in the coming days I'll chop them and move four plants, already in flower now for a couple weeks, into that tent and there won't be room for the little girls. They're only in 1 gallon pots for now, so I'd probably have to come up with something a little bigger for them.

 

[BH]

@DemonTrich is right and By now it’s all good prolly but some pheno’s def can be triggered and go under rev-veg if ur not above 14hrs. if it was me I would place plants under low ppfd area aka shaded and Use a outdoor rated led , timer and run it at end of day and make ur enviroment above 14hr’s.

Example and I got these Super cheap , prolly only need one

https://a.co/d/iHlQeVo

 

[UrbanHillbilly]

@DemonTrich is right and By now it’s all good prolly but some pheno’s def can be triggered and go under rev-veg if ur not above 14hrs. if it was me I would place plants under low ppfd area aka shaded and Use a outdoor rated led , timer and run it at end of day and make ur enviroment above 14hr’s.

Example and I got these Super cheap , prolly only need one

https://a.co/d/iHlQeVo

Whether they decide to reveg or not isn''t a concern for me, these plants are just "bonus" girls in my garden. I put these things in flower when they probably weren't much over 6" tall, they were just rooted clones from my aero cloner.

Unfortunately, there is no electricity at the hoop house. The best I might be able to do is put a yard light on the back of the house, about 25' away. I could time it with programmed smart bulbs.

 

[BH]

Whether they decide to reveg or not isn''t a concern for me, these plants are just "bonus" girls in my garden. I put these things in flower when they probably weren't much over 6" tall, they were just rooted clones from my aero cloner.

Unfortunately, there is no electricity at the hoop house. The best I might be able to do is put a yard light on the back of the house, about 25' away. I could time it with programmed smart bulbs.

than don’t worry about that and don’t even have a light ( look at ur sunset/sun rise timing ) . Key is not putting indoor plants when frost is an issue or if u see in weather for 7-14 day up Comming days if bad weather .i put mine out on day 05/12th and I put my plants under 40% shaded and on 05/18th I put in direct light . Worked great last year

 

[DemonTrich]

You'll have "veg" light timing now until August sometime, then it will switch to flower mode.

 

[Chunky Stool]

I have found that the time it takes for a plant to reveg is about the same amount of time it has been in flower.
Also keep in mind that a reveg plant will have a bushier structure than before, which makes it even more important to keep the center open for airflow.

 

[Grayeyes]

To answer the OP's question, it depends, lol. (pun intended) I have had plants started inside and flowering be put outside and continue to flower. I have had others of the same strain and generation, stop flowering and return to grow mode. ( I had to bring those in at night to convince them to bloom again) I frequently have to put plants outside as I don't want a plant more than 3 feet tall inside. You kinda pay your money and take your chances.

 

[UrbanHillbilly]

Well...I changed course and decided to squeeze the two little plants into the regular indoor tent, a 3x3 that already has 4 plants in flower. These two little girls were spare clones. I put the rest in their final pots, then on a whim I tossed these two baby clones into 1 gallon pots and straight into flower. It was just for fun, and of course they're midgets, but I'm happy enough with the outcome. One of the plants split into two stalks right above the soil so it got a little more bud weight. I forgot to take a pic before I cut one side of that plant, so I'm holding the stalk beside it. The top pic I'm holding the plant up because it was trying to lay down from the bud weight.



This was all just an exercise in silliness that should yield me a few bonus grams.