Wow thanks guys!

Dylan, when you go out one year to kill males on your seed patch, and discover that suddenly ALL your plants are identical with no phenotypic variation, you may pat yourselves on the back for stabilizing your line. And that's a very cool accomplishment.

PGW, it's real nice to see you again. I hear you've been in touch with a dear friend of mine lately, very cool cat with some real nice genetics.

JerryG, I keep all my veggin plants under 24h of light- EVERYTHING! Moms, clones, rooted cuttings, seedlings, the whole fam damily. There are 3 primary reasons for this:
-I don't have to worry about interrupting their 'sleep' if I want to work in the garden at 4am (don't laugh, it happens).
-It's easy to set the temperature with no timers or heaters or whatever; I just have everything constant and fiddle with it until it is good temps, then walk away!
-The plants have no doubt when it is flower time. Which brings me to your other question...

I'm planning to put everything outside August 1st after a solid 4 days of darkness, the first time in the plants' lives they have EVER seen the dark. This will jump-start their flower cycle and guarantee that they finish by first frost. Also, it minimizes the amount of time they are sitting outdoors vulnerable to deer and scoundrels. We seem to have a nice crop of weed prospectors these days; punk ass motherfuckers whose momma didn't teach them that if you want something, you need to EARN it... they spend the summer scouring the woods for ganja patches and come back just in time to rip them off- usually a week or 2 before the grower would harvest- so the quality is lower but hey, they didn't have to haul water or guano, now, did they? I generally distrust the source of any unripe outdoor I see coming through as product. Chances are, it was stolen. Grrr. Anyway the plants will stay small enough to hide, and by that time of the summer, ripping out noxious weeds is nearly permanent- they are all in flowering mode themselves by then, and don't really grow back that late in the year to choke out your little clones.