Indoor vs Outdoors

[Aaront596]

Hey guys I have a question that's stumping me. I've got NL2 growing outdoors, and NL2 growing indoors.
Both went to flower around the same time.

Indoors is very frosty with almost zero amber trichomes. Like 2-5%

Outdoors it's September 15th and it's not even close to as frosty as the indoor, but it has lots of amber trichomes like 20-30%. I didn't think it was all that close to being done, untill I looked up close at it with 60x magnification.

Judging from the trichomes outdoors seems to be ready to harvest, but comparing it to my indoors it doesn't even look close to having reached its full potential.

My question is: Is that just the difference between indoor and outdoor? Does 20 to 30% amber trichomes mean it's time to harvest no matter what? Or should I let it keep going? I honestly have no idea what I'm doing any help is appreciated.

Thanks!
Aaron

 

[MROrganicGreenz]

Heya, there is a huge difference in growing indoors and outdoors. First of all indoor has a waaaaay higher light input than outdoors, since there is clouds and not all days the same amount of light and the angle from the sun differs over the day. When indoors its light for 12 straight hours from atop at a very efficient rate. Secondly the sun has a pretty specific light spectrum (more red) in comparison to your grow lamp. The plant "knows" that the year is ending and it has to finish up its life cycle. There are also some other factors like light-time that changes (every day the night time expands instead of 12 hours straight), day-night-temperature switches and some other things. All in all there are many factors that influence the ripening process of your plant. Those influences are way higher outdoors, when you life in a temperate region.

I wouldn't say the plant isn't living up to its potential. It looks natural and has some other positive aspects, like better terpen profile and more secondary metabolites, since UV does influence some main factors.

Harvest it soon, except you want heavy couch lock.

If you got any question, ask

 

[MROrganicGreenz]

Addendum to "real potential". The Outdoor Plant shows you the realistic Potential of the Plant and it's genetics. What you got indoors is an optimum. You could compare it to a body builder. Always optimal protein intake, efficient training, everything optimal. The outdoor plant is more like a construction worker. Wiry, strong but not optimal parameters, so they don't look as perfect as the bodybuilders ;D

 

[MROrganicGreenz]

Ah and frostiness: Outdoor plants are most of the time not soooo frosty compared to indoors. I don't have the perfect answer but there are some ideas:
- Less assimilates in outdoor, so factor missing.
- Less sunshine / light. (There is a theory, that the Trichomes are also there for refracting light. Since the amount of light indoors is higher, there isn't so much need for it outdoors)

I will add some more when I made up my mind about it

 

[Aaront596]

Ah and frostiness: Outdoor plants are most of the time not soooo frosty compared to indoors. I don't have the perfect answer but there are some ideas:
- Less assimilates in outdoor, so factor missing.
- Less sunshine / light. (There is a theory, that the Trichomes are also there for refracting light. Since the amount of light indoors is higher, there isn't so much need for it outdoors)

I will add some more when I made up my mind about it

Thank you

 

[Aaront596]

Ah and frostiness: Outdoor plants are most of the time not soooo frosty compared to indoors. I don't have the perfect answer but there are some ideas:
- Less assimilates in outdoor, so factor missing.
- Less sunshine / light. (There is a theory, that the Trichomes are also there for refracting light. Since the amount of light indoors is higher, there isn't so much need for it outdoors)

I will add some more when I made up my mind about it

Heya, there is a huge difference in growing indoors and outdoors. First of all indoor has a waaaaay higher light input than outdoors, since there is clouds and not all days the same amount of light and the angle from the sun differs over the day. When indoors its light for 12 straight hours from atop at a very efficient rate. Secondly the sun has a pretty specific light spectrum (more red) in comparison to your grow lamp. The plant "knows" that the year is ending and it has to finish up its life cycle. There are also some other factors like light-time that changes (every day the night time expands instead of 12 hours straight), day-night-temperature switches and some other things. All in all there are many factors that influence the ripening process of your plant. Those influences are way higher outdoors, when you life in a temperate region.

I wouldn't say the plant isn't living up to its potential. It looks natural and has some other positive aspects, like better terpen profile and more secondary metabolites, since UV does influence some main factors.

Harvest it soon, except you want heavy couch lock.

If you got any question, ask

Thanks!

 

[Aaront596]

Addendum to "real potential". The Outdoor Plant shows you the realistic Potential of the Plant and it's genetics. What you got indoors is an optimum. You could compare it to a body builder. Always optimal protein intake, efficient training, everything optimal. The outdoor plant is more like a construction worker. Wiry, strong but not optimal parameters, so they don't look as perfect as the bodybuilders ;D

Thanks!