My girls are 4 and 5 weeks old. Inside under grow light and sunshine.
The temps outside are around 70 during the day and can drop to 48 at night.
What temp is safe to plant outside?
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I would wait till night temps dont go below 60 and turkey season is over and your plants have shown their sex first as it will help deter animals from eating them
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Thank you - not sure if I can contain them for much longer. That tall Double Chocolate is about touching my light.
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Are you feeding your plants? Suggest a micronutrient (copper, boron, iron,…) product. You have a touch of an iron deficiency.
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No problem its that time of year everything is taking off and growing like weeds
I’m in MD and have put some out already and they seem to be handling the low night temps so far. I’d be wary of frost forecasts.
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I move mine outside the middle of May
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I’m from South Carolina and My plant’s are Healthy but Growing Slow, we will have a few day’s in the 80s and a cold front will push temperatures in the 40s at night, but as long as it doesn’t Frost they should be okay to move outside, They just Grow at a Snail’s Pace 
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Its not the outside temperature that matters its the amount of daylight hours. Its too early to put mature plants outside. I wait until the 1st week of June. If it was just starting from seed outside right now you’d be fine. A mature plant/ old enough to show sex put outside too early will start flowering then transition bact to veg in June and then transition back to flowering in July/August. The transition back and forth affects yeild.
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I came to say the same thing, temps obviously do matter but even if temps are OK it’s the daylight hours that will come back to haunt you for photoperiod grows that are old enough to sense the light hours… I’m not a highly experienced grower, but after doing more reading than I care to admit, if you don’t know the specific flip point for your specific photoperiod plants you could get burnt and cause it to flip to flower for a while… To flip indoor plants you go to a 12/12 light period because that will flip 99% of all plants, but some plants will flip as soon as the light is less than 13, some when it is less than 14 and some even when it’s less than 14.5 hours… From what I have read you are essentially 99% safe from a premature flip at the 15 hour mark… So if you want to be 99% safe best to keep them indoors until the sunrise-sunset time in your specific area is about 15 hours, dusk and dawn can add an hour plus, but gambling on dusk/dawn light hours is a gamble sometimes…
That all said I use this site as it has a nice daylight column
Right now for me, I still face a slight frost risk (we had frost last week) plus I’m also at around 14 hours of daylight… My girls will stay in the house until about the fourth week of May, when I will be seeing 15 hours of light and temps will be much better as well…
Obviously, if you know your plants and know they won’t flip at say 14 hours of light, then you can use that as your daylight number to put outside if the temps are good, but everything I have read says 15 is the safest, and bulletproof bet…
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Start some low stress training to keep it away from the light…
They are growing inside a sun room and follow a natural light cycle with added LED grow lights during the day. I open the doors during the day so they get used to the weather.
Id give them a couple of hours of light after sun down to keep them in Veg mode and so they dont start flowering too early.