Grow seasons / Hours of light

[hazewarrior]

I have been growing indoor for years and don't have much experiance with outdoor growing. For the past year or two I decided to grow a couple plant outdoors but I have been running into the same problem. The plants would flower no matter what season it is.

Here's what I figured out. I have been taking cutting I start indoor and placing them outside once the roots are set. I clone them and start them on 24 hours of light. I checked the table of daylight for my area and the most light I get in a year is 14 hours. No wonder they would go staight into flowering. I don't seem to have this problem when growing from seeds.

My question: Do I need to use suplemental light or is there a way to make the plants adapt to the light cycle? These clones are the only source of my genetics.

 

[TheStickyIcky]

To keep them from flowering as soon as you put them outside you should start them inside on a 12/12 light schedule. When they are inside under 24/0 light and they go outside and start getting all that dark, they will sex and then flower.

 

[Kindbud]

yup yup sticky is right