Recommendation on process to transition plants from outside to inside tent

[SeasonsLater]

Going to be selecting a 3 to 4 plants to finish flowering in my tent setup.  Should I leave them in the dark with air circulation for a day if I want to change their grow cycles?  I am on the NE and temps in my grow room can be excessive(I draw air from outside but no AC option) and there are still some hot days ahead as we reach October.  Scent is a concern so I will need to run the tent fully closed unless I am working on them.  I will be doing this either tomorrow or Friday.

 

[CamZ]

Just be careful about bringing bugs inside. Bugs thrive in tents without natural predators.

As far as the dark thing, cannabis builds a hormone called floragen(idk if I spelled it right) when it is in darkness. That hormone builds up based on number of hours without light. Once you reach the threshold for that particular genetic, it starts flowering.

Since you are coming in from outside in NE, I’m guessing the plants are already in flower, so I wouldn’t give them extra darkness. The only thing you need to watch out for is making sure they get a solid 12 hours of darkness. The extra darkness won’t really do anything but prevent the growth that would have happened that day.

Long winded way to say no, but I like for people to know why instead of just saying no.

[mrgrowit]

I’m not sure if I’m fully understanding why you are trying to change the light cycle but I assume they have been flowering for awhile now and when you bring them inside you want to run your lights at night instead of during the day. Is that correct? If so, leaving the lights off for and extra 12 hours will be fine. For example, you bring them inside at 6pm. They go through their normal dark period from 6pm-6am. You then keep them in the dark from 6am-6pm and then the lights come on starting their new 12-hour light cycle. Yes you may loose a little growth but imo it’s not much to worry about. I sometimes switch from lights on during the day to lights on at night and do the extended dark period just like that to make the transition.

If I misunderstood, please clarify what light cycle you are trying to change to.

[SeasonsLater]

That is exactly what I am referring too as to what you have described.  It is getting down to the mid to low 50s and temp flux/VPD is on the extreme end.  I will leave some of the plants outside as I can only fit so many into a 4×4.  I will post a pic throughout the process.  I am going to wipe down the containers and probably spray them with some sort of IPM control.  I have purchased a few blocks(and sprayed them too) to try and even the canopy since I used variations in containers.  Super excited to try out indoor equipment and get through the flower phase!

[SeasonsLater]

Cleaned up all the containers and gave them a spray before bringing them inside for the rest of their duration.  I have to get the cargo net trellis net setup tomorrow and work on leveling the canopy.  I keep telling myself its actually not a bad thing the amount of time it will take to stake up the flowers because I will be able to look over each and every flower as I position it within the trellis right lol? Front two plants are SuperSkunk Photo, and rear plants are GorillaGlue #4 Photo .  I may pull a plant if it is too crowded tomorrow.  The front left one I did not do any LST and only fimmed(my experiment) but it doing really well so I 

[SeasonsLater]

The first time under the lights with plants.  This should be an interesting evening playing with humidity ratios, heat, vpd, airflow etc…

[CamZ]

Ahh, I misunderstood the question. MrGrowIt got you sorted though. Hope the rest of your run goes smooth. Moving plants can be a hassle.

[SeasonsLater]

@Camz here is a before and after of getting the plants in and adjusting heights(I used 2 inch thick 12inch X 12inch pavers) I felt like an Egyptian building a pyramid lmao…  Then gently lowering the cargo net and moving buds and adjusting a summers worth of LST to work them into the squares of the netting.  During the process I had a small stick with painters tape on the end and I think I hunted down in 3 hours about 11+ caterpillars, 2 moths, 5+ leaf hoppers and a few other WTF bugs.  I was just praying there was not an ant colony living in the soil or anything…  The fruitflybarpro is coming today hopefully so I will stick that in the tent for a day and let all the insects know what’s up…

 

So I know these flowers are going to stretch a bit more, what would you recommend to trellis those random bud shooters that just got away?  I have a ton of various tom and pepper stakes.  I was just thinking to address each one and drive the stake into the pot.  This would obvious go through some roots, can they take a small jab or should I just get another cargo net and catch the shooters?  Here is a before and after where you can see some buds reaching for the universe! 

[CamZ]

That’s hard-core IPM lol. Nice work. I think you should just be able to take some string and tie the branches down to the trellis. If that doesn’t work then minor root disturbance shouldn’t cause a huge issue. When you break a root it creates new offshoots so you should be fine with the stakes.

[SeasonsLater]

I have been diligently looking over the buds and been gathering more pillars.  I guess this is just par for the course going from outside to inside.  I checked on my last two plants outside and saw a gardeners best friend doing what he can to protect my crop…  I named her Mrs Budsworth =)

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