Week 3 weather shift

At last the weather has changed from cold/wet to unusually hot/sunny/dry. That's how the cool spring weather usually breaks. It has spurred some growth.
I've been worried she wasn't growing but I think I'm just being impatient. It doesn't help that I go out 10 times a day and stare at her wondering why she hasn't grown in the last hour. I can see now she's developing a solid framework.


The upcoming weather is however going back to a cool and cloudy pattern. It makes me wonder when I should start my autos outdoors, or if autos outdoors are a good idea at all. A few weeks of ugly weather can set back an auto's progress whereas a photo plant can just keep on trucking. I grew a photo 'Afghani' last hear in this same spot pictured and it produced an enormous crop. But I did have to light exclude it by early July. I tried a 'White Widow' photo last year too without light exclusion and it began blooming around August 21st which is too late to ripen a crop properly.
I think going forward mid June is the best time to start autos outdoors in this climate. Any way you cut it it's a risk if mother nature doesn't cooperate.
But so far... so good... I guess.