Is 7 hours direct sunlight enough for a decent autoflower harvest?
Anyone?
No, you will want at least 12 hrs sunlight.
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Wow. I didn’t think 7 hours is a total waste of time. I find it hard to believe as 7 hours direct sunlight has to be better than x number of hours indoors anyway. Hopefully I’ll hear some other opinions. Thanks!
It would probably work ok tho 12 hrs would be better as mentioned. I assume the other daylight hours would be partly shaded. Or are you bringing them inside after 7 hrs.
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Yep. 7 hours direct intense Oklahoma sun…the rest shaded. I have 6 GG#4 autos going in 5 gallon fabric containers with Happy Frog on my balcony. All other organic root stimulator and 1/2 strength nutrients. 2 days old and looking amazing.
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Trust what you see. If shes not lanky or thin you are good.
In this heat 7 hrs is probably good. I can only take 30 minutes…Lol
Next door in Missouri
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Seems like things are going well to me. This was my only choice to grow outside this way or not at all, so something is better than nothing. I guess I’ll be the experiment for the rest of the group LOL
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I don’t think you’ll have issue with sunlight, but the heat ain’t no joke.
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7 hours is plenty, especially direct. The shaded part of the day still has solar corn units, just not as many. The sun has much greater penetration than indoor lighting fixtures. My concern would be that the sun does not follow the same path all season, and the highest need for sun is obviously during peak bud production. The sun you get now, may not be the sun you get in 2 months. The longer the sun exposure during flower, the better.
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All six of the little girls took 104° heat the other day at one day old like champs! They were born into the heat and Gorilla Glue is a good strain for it.
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Exactly my worries at this point! How much sun am I going to be getting the next 2 months…these will finish the middle of October. I’ll know for next year if nothing else. I’m currently setting up a small grow setup in my closet for over the winter time.
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I’ve done about 5 strains outside this summer. The one that took the heat best was white widow with some rock hard nugs. A couple have been pretty airy and one even went into straight foxtail lol. We’ve been having weeks of high 90’s with a few weeks of +100° here and there.
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Breeders better start working on some climate change strains unfortunately. 
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I did this auto on 5 hours direct sunlight on a deck. There is a sail above that only lets thru 10% of the light most of the day
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Great job! And thanks for the answer I was looking for!!!
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I’ll post my result pics in October!
Thanks everyone 