Bringing flowering plants inside

[pondochris]

Hey folks ive got 2 plants (NL auto from growers choice)that have been outside most of their lives in the backyard garden. They're only getting about 3 hrs of direct sunlight a day and they just started flowering almost a week ago.

I just got a 4x2 tent setup with 1000w iplantop light rig.

Besides pests what other things should I be on the lookout for when I move them inside?

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[Wdoug58]

One of my tents is the same size as yours and I have the same light. It works alright for seedlings and small autoflowering plants but that tent I have is only 5 feet tall. When I have plants that grow taller I couldn't raise the light high enough and some of my plants grew 4 to 5 inches in a day. Currently have autoflower plants that are more than 40 inches over the height of the pot they are in.

I had to get a 4 foot by 4 foot tent that is over 80 inches tall to keep some plants far enough away from the LED lights as the top cola's were getting light burn.

I grow outside also and often bring smaller plants in at night or plants that are in the last month before harvest if there are going to be hard rains. I also live on an island and at night my humidity often reaches 98% so I bring plant in full flower in at night as my tent's humidity is lower. I also get nights when the temperatures drop to 50 degrees or lower but it doesn't seem to bother a photoperiod plant that is planted in my sandy soil.

I've had to pull earwigs off my plants, they feed at night and will eat holes in the leaves. Had some nasty caterpillar looking thing in one of my buds on one plant. Pulled it out and cleaned the plant off but that was around 60 days into the grow and that plant is around 90 days right now.

I have two of those Iplantop lights in my bigger tent. Not using the smaller tent currently but I have a smaller "600 watt" equivalent LED light for that one now for seedling use.

My outdoor growing area I set up to get direct sunlight from 9:00am to about 6:00pm currently though I may need to move a few plants a few feet in the late afternoon. I water in the morning so most of the excess moisture is gone before I move plants into the tent at night to help keep humidity lower. I use a big oscillating fan inside the tent and run a 4 inch exhaust fan the entire time the lights are on. When I move plants outside I turn off all power to the tent so I save on electricity for about 9 hours every day instead of the 18-20 hours was running before it warmed up this Summer. I had temperatures around 32 degrees during June at night for the first few weeks. Those cold temperatures stunted some plants I didn't put inside even though I covered them at night.

 

[Rev. Green Genes]

what bugs you have is very dependent on where you live. But there's always something. some good preventative measures are covering the top of pot with sand to prevent emergence of gnats. You could also add predatory insects, or spray with a preventative oil or soap. Try yellow sticky traps in the tent to catch anything you bring inside so you can deal with them.

You also might want to limit the strength of that light for while as the plant adjusts to full power over a week or so. Just raise it plenty high or dim it if you can. Too much of an abrupt change in either duration or intensity of light can cause stress. Otherwise you just need to look after nutes and water. She will need fertilizer more frequently in a pot.

 

[sdrodbuster]

Those are some tall autos ,

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[Wdoug58]

Solar Wind Cola

Here are a couple of mine I have been growing outside. Afterthought Autos Solar Wind and a Fastbuds LSD-25 which I already cut down a week ago. Fastbuds Gorilla Glue in the back, now 44 inches tall.

The Gorilla Glue I planted the same day I planted some other strains and accidentally planted it in a 3 gallon container instead of the 10 gallon it should have gone in. It is already 4 inches above the advertised 40 inches as the maximum height if grown in a larger pot. These pictures were from a week or two ago.

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[Wdoug58]

Fastbuds LSD-25 Cola. I would put this plant outside in the morning and then put it into the tent at about 6:00pm when I would lose the sun behind trees. Never had any issues with bugs on this one. I did no training, topping or anything else. Just planted in cheap potting soil from a hardware and used Fox Farms trio and worm castings. Rarely buffered the water Ph until the last month. Never checked the water running out of the pot.

Fastbuds Rhino Ryder

This is a photoperiod planted in sandy soil, mixed in some worm castings I get from a nightcrawler bait service that sells 30 pound bags for $3.00 a bag, mixed in some composted cow manure and top dress with Canadian Goose droppings from a flock that won't stay out of my yard. I also mixed in a bag of Scotts topsoil with the sandy soil and poured another bag on top of the cow manure and goose droppings.

This is a Fastbuds Mexican Airlines sativa. Topped when a branch fell on it. Cut the remains off and it took off with four colas.

This is an Afterthought Autos Kilter. 3 plants in a 10 gallon felt pot. These were regular seeds. I expected to cull male plants, they all ended up female. Top the tallest which was late in showing sex. The other two just have a main cola budding up.

Fastbuds Gorilla Glue picture taken today. It is filling out and just started getting buds a few days ago. The picture above must have been a week ago. You can see how much more it has grown. It outgrew my 80 inch tall tent so it has been moved outside permanently. Camera battery died and I didn't realize the date is now wrong in the pictures so they now show the date in 2002. It was taken today.



Couple of Fastbuds Pineapple Express. Just starting to flower. One just planted and let grow, other I topped.


Another picture of my unknown photoperiod plant. This one taken today.


Two plants nearing harvest day so I keep them in a tent to control humidity as they finish. Two grow lights the same as yours. All my plants pictured were started inside. Half of them get moved in at night until this week. They are getting too big for the tent for the most part so I built a fenced in area to comply with state law.


I'm a first time grower. Most of my later plants are planted in Fox Farms Happy Frog and I use Fox Farms trio and a bottle of Calmag and just recently started using Ph down on my well water. But most of the tallest plants are planted in crap soil with added worm castings and I put perlite in with cheap potting soil and some coco coir. I've had a few plants just not thrive when planted in good soil or if I grabbed the wrong water bottle and accidentally gave smaller plants hot nutes. For the most part though I've had few issues. The two plants I've harvested, dried and cured ended up being some of the best smoke I've had, better than some Arizona medical marijuana strains someone gifted me.

 

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@Wdoug58 gadzooks man

 

[Wdoug58]

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[pondochris]

Tent setup came in so babies are indoors. Cross your fingers for no stress with the lighting change. I set the lights for 18/6 and about 24in above tops of plants but will be off for the hottest part of the day so idk we'll see what happens.

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