Outdoors in Manitoba schedule

[michaelpeg]

I live in Manitoba canada and i plan on growing some plants indoors until summer. The thing is i dont think the longest daylight time in manitoba even reaches 18 hours (i could be wrong) but anyways would the clones immediately start flowering if i put them outside in early summer and then try to reveg causing a big waste of time?

michaelpeg Reviewed by michaelpeg on 02-16-2008. Outdoors in Manitoba schedule I live in Manitoba canada and i plan on growing some plants indoors until summer. The thing is i dont think the longest daylight time in manitoba even reaches 18 hours (i could be wrong) but anyways would the clones immediately start flowering if i put them outside in early summer and then try to reveg causing a big waste of time? Rating: 5

[iarbaman]

So, if anyone has some experience doing these, please help us out!!!
Thanks!!!

[keeko]

hey michaelpeg, just to let you know i am no where around your area so i could be totally wrong. I think if you were to veg your plants on 24/7 indoors then stuck them outside they would probably start to flower........depending on your strain and how long it flowers for it could either finish flowering or start revegging.........

i have had experience putting it out and it finished flowering but im here in Texas where we get more sun hours. good luck

[michaelpeg]

thank you very much sir i have been waiting and waiting for a reply, it doesnt matter to me if you are not 100% i just like to see what the majority of people think

[keeko]

if you have a nice oudoors spot you should try a couple if your not sure.....as an experiement. keep us updated on what happens :thumbsup:

[rhizome]

Dude- calm down... No need to yell.

I live in Manitoba canada and i plan on growing some plants indoors until summer. The thing is i dont think the longest daylight time in manitoba even reaches 18 hours (i could be wrong) but anyways would the clones immediately start flowering if i put them outside in early summer and then try to reveg causing a big waste of time?

Ya got a couple things going on here-

First, the whole 18-6 thing is strictly for human convenience.

We're gonna define a variable " F" which will represent the point at which florigen metabolites trigger primary sexual expression.

Plants only care if photoperiod is >F or <F.
( With the caveat that longer photoperiod allows plant to absorb more energy, and therefore store/utilize more carbohydrates. But that's a whole differant process)

Most plants will show an F value right around 14-15 hours. In other words, for most plants, a 16 hour photoperiod will keep them in veg, if there are no other factors hastening sexual expression ( ie environmental stress, autoflowering or early flowering genetics, prior sexual expression or existant reproductive structures).

Are your genetics typical? I have no idea.

Some early varieties will respond to an abrupt shortening of photoperiod by flowering- usually see this when stuff goes from 24/0 veg rooms outside in the early spring- the shorter photoperiod will trip them. You can take advantage of this to pull an early spring crop at the right latitude with the right cultivar. It's also possible to trigger a plant in a 12/12 indoor environment and then finish the flower outside, though this is really only pracical in temperate if moist climates ( yer putting them out right at the end of rainy season.)

So the answer to your question- most likely not. YMMV

Ya might want to look up your day length say March 1st, June1st, Aug 1st, Oct1st... this is info yer really gonna want to have.

[stinkyattic]

Sheesh it's not like this is an emergency; it's only February, you need to look up your longest day length, you need to get data on how many weeks it takes for your strain to finish, otherwise no one is going to be able to give you a useful answer. Posting threads in other forums to get attention is poor form. I was away all weekend, anyway. I'm merging these.

[michaelpeg]

that confused the shit out of me but i think what you are saying is that it wont start flowering? or maybe i should only start them at lets say 14/10 because i think where i live the max amount of daylight is 16 hours on the longest day so i dont know. maybe i will just grow them inside until the longest day and let em immediately flower outside

[stinkyattic]

No, re-read my post. I never said that.
Both Rhizome and I have told you that you need to look up your day length and your strain flowering time.
Until you do that, any info that anyone gives you for dates, unless THEY decide to look up the Manitoba day length, is not useful.

[michaelpeg]

ok well it seems like the internet doesnt have an answer for the longest day in manitoba some say 17 others say 15 so i dont know and the plants are caramelicious from amsterdammarijuanaseeds.com i know they are an indoor strain but i think they can grow outside