no offense meant in my post. I understand where you coming from. I have been there and believe it or not I suck at growing too. I just happened to know what your issues were since I live in a hot climate too.

For the record, most of the posters on these forums do not live in a country where growing is legal. Not a single American is allowed to grow or smoke and not be breaking at least one law whether it's state or federal. With that in mind, none of us are all that interested in getting caught. However, I think what you will find here is a group of people who are tired of hiding in the shadows or running from the authorities. In fact, just yesterday I watched a residential raid right across the street. Talk about pissing your pants, not knowing if they are coming for me or somebody else. I'm not sure what gave you the idea we are carefree law breakers here because I can assure you most of us wanting nothing to do with the police.

My advice still holds true. Bring them back inside, put them into better soil with a water holding substance mixed in (vermiculite/perlite), and give them less light until they get bigger. Once they are bigger they will be most capable of tolerating the heat in your area. Also, my advice about how to put them into the ground still holds true. Since you will have large amounts of sun and heat plus your concerned about the policia, try finding a location where they will be covered by other trees for part of the day. Your plants wont need direct sunlight all day long. Think about a way that ensures your plants gets partial light at different points on the plant at different times of the day. As the sun moves around, watch the shadows on your property and see if there are area that aren't totally covered but yet will shade your plant at different times throughout the day.