Vegging Outdoors & Flowering Indoors

[Cannabis Motiva]

Does anyone have experience with this as a set routine?

For example, growing outdoors in pots to reduce energy usage and then bringing everything indoors for 8 weeks or so of flowering in controlled conditions?

 

[Cannabis Motiva]

I should mention that reducing energy usage isn't the main factor, but more of a benefit.

Reasons for flowering indoors are to reduce the chances of smell in a suburban area, avoiding a rainy harvest season, avoiding the prime month(s) when authorities might be on the lookout for weed, and the main reason, to ensuring a solid & timely harvest during unpredictable temperatures, especially on longer flowering sativa strains.

I'm just curious if anyone's done this and has any pros/cons to share.

 

[moses wellfleet]

I doubt there are many doing this, you take plants indoors from outside and all the pests come with them, when exposed to the optimum indoor environment they will multiply like crazy.

I suggest you try this on a small scale and you will see.

 

[Imsostonedagain]

I doubt there are many doing this, you take plants indoors from outside and all the pests come with them, when exposed to the optimum indoor environment they will multiply like crazy.

I suggest you try this on a small scale and you will see.

I agree 100%, you are just asking for bug problems.

 

[DoubleTripleOG]

I did this with a buddy's plant. Rippers were out thick, and we got word somebody was casing his back yard. So we took a plant in one of those 20 gallon circular plastic tubs with rope handles inside. She was a big bitch. Prolly 5' in diameter and 3' tall( I lst'd the plant for him while she was vegging outside).

The plant was only a couple weeks into flower outside, when we brought her in. Surrounded her with 2, 600 HPS's, and 1 400 MH. Pretty sure he got just over a pound off it.

 

[MicroRoy]

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I'm just curious if anyone's done this and has any pros/cons to share.

Great question.

 

[Cannabis Motiva]

I doubt there are many doing this, you take plants indoors from outside and all the pests come with them, when exposed to the optimum indoor environment they will multiply like crazy.

I suggest you try this on a small scale and you will see.

Yeah that's definitely a very valid concern and one of the bigger issues I see with this.

I'm trying to imagine nature doing it's work for 2 or 3 months and then reaping the benfits with 8 or 9 weeks inside and a few hundred bucks worth of electricity. That's a lot of free veg time with very little upkeep/cost required.

Here it's cold outdoors by mid-flower and the sun isn't inense at all. Getting some nice, bushy & short plants indoors for a nice warm flowering could mean 3 to 4 times heavier yield.

 

[Cannabis Motiva]

I agree 100%, you are just asking for bug problems.

Yeah it might not even be worth it due to bugs alone. There are some great options to minimize that issue, but it still opens up a whole new pain in the ass to deal with.

 

[moses wellfleet]

If your circumstances dictate it, because there is no other way to get a crop then all or nothing I guess.

Double triple OGs friend got it right, but then again he had input from a highly experienced grower'

But all I am saying is don't be under any illusions that it won't come with its own problems.

Good luck

 

[DoubleTripleOG]

If your circumstances dictate it, because there is no other way to get a crop then all or nothing I guess.

Double triple OGs friend got it right, but then again he had input from a highly experienced grower'

But all I am saying is don't be under any illusions that it won't come with its own problems.

Good luck

Thanks man. Going on what others have said about pests. If you live where fungus gnats/aphids/whiteflies are out in nature in force. That's where mega problems can come into play. The whiteflies and fungus gnats are easy to get rid of. But you get aphids, and then bring them indoors, prepare for the fight of your life. In no time they will infest an entire indoor grow. Then if you don't do things the right way to get rid of them, your fucked. LOL!


Example: The first time I got aphids I thought it was just fungus gnats, so I treated accordingly. Well that didn't do shit to them. So their population continued to grow. I was losing major weight at harvests while fighting them. I was running perpetual so I couldn't just stop flowering and kill off my mothers thru cloning, clean and start over.


I ended up using IMID on my mothers(they never got flowered, only cloned, and when they were spent, replaced and killed) . Well I wasn't using it right, and it showed. I made a solution 2x as strong as the package recommends. Put a mother in a gallon container into a pail and totally submerged the entire root system. So I didn't let it sit long enough, and when I pulled it out, the aphids were crawling out of the dirt thru lakes of imid water, like it was no big deal. Just a little example of how hardcore those little bastards are. I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy.

 

[shrugthisatlas]

Hi Guys,

I planted 4no Heavyweight 2vast 2fast and 4n0 Cash Crop in late March. A few weeks under a T5 and then I put them out.
Were in NE Scotland and the weather was poor through April. Little sun and minus temps.

The plants did well though, and despite their slow start got to about 1.2m by June.
Then the mould appeared. I had lost my entire crop the year before to the mould. There had been a freak flood and on top of that my wife kept hosing her tomatoes down in the evening! The plants ended up covered in mould and were binned.

I was keen not to repeat this so on the first sign of the mould I took four into a 1.2 x 1.2 x 2.4m cabinet with a 600w hps.

They were well into flowering and did well under the lights. The mould was persistent and I kept a close eye, cutting off at the first sign.

I ended up with 7.5 oz dried from those four. There would have been more for the mould, but such is life.

There were no problems with bugs or insects though, just bloody mould!

This year I'm growing 3 auto fruit punch outdoors and will try leaving them in my new and improved leanto polytunnel. It has much better ventilation and the wifes not allowed near it with her hose!

Sorry cant seem to drag photos over..

 

[corky1968]

I have thought of this as well.

Like some people have mentioned bugs. I would spray the plants with neem oil or some other strong
pesticide a few days beforehand. To try as best to kill any bugs outside before bringing the plants
inside. Even inside I repeat this spraying at least once just to make sure I got them all.

The way I was going to do it is to put a mother plant outside and take clones off of her to flower indoors.

 

[shrugthisatlas]

That's my plan for this year- big mother outside. Clone her, veg them good, then in for the flower.

We seem to be relatively pest free so far outside, so we will just have to give it a go.

 

[Cannabis Motiva]

That's my plan for this year- big mother outside. Clone her, veg them good, then in for the flower.

We seem to be relatively pest free so far outside, so we will just have to give it a go.

Like others said, pests can be a problem. But, that depends on your locale. Also, it depends what else - if anything - you have going on inside. You don't want to contaminate your indoor plants.

I'm going to try the same as you, I believe. Small, topped, well-vegged clones and bring 'em in for 8 - 10 weeks.