The table below is a rough guide to daylight hours per month in the UK.
Sep 1st to 13th approx 14 Hours daylight per day.
Oct 1st to 11th approx 11 Hours
Nov 1st to 10th approx 10 Hours
Dec 1st to 8th approx 8 Hours
This is why most strains start to flower in the UK around mid to late Sept, because our daylight hours have just dipped below 14 hours.
This table shows daylight hours in the new year.
Jan 1st to 8th approx 8 Hours daylight per day.
Feb 1st to 9th approx 9 Hours
Mar 1st to 12th approx 11Hours
Apr 1st to 13th approx 13 Hours
This is why it's pretty much pointless planting out most strains until late April, after we start to enjoy over 14 hours of light per day.
I sure you can all see the similarities in the two tables.
Next week I will be taking 4 cuttings, 2 off my Blue Cheese and 2 off my Lemon Stinkies. I will mist the cuts with water and then place them in the fridge until mid Dec. I have refridgerated cuttings before and successfully rooted them two weeks later. This time round they will in refridgerated "stasis" for about 9 weeks, but I am confident I will get them to root.
I intend to root them in a prop under a 125w blue enviro on a 20/4 light schedule. Once they have rooted they will remain vegging under the enviro until mid Jan.
At that time they will go under the enviro during the night and then be placed outside in an unheated greenhouse tent during the day. This will start hardening them off and they will still receive sufficient light to continue them vegging.
In February once they have sufficiently hardened off and become accustomed to the low temperature they will be left outdoors in the tent 24/7 to flower, this will give my plants 8 to 10 weeks flowering time before we reach late April when daylight hours go above 14 hours per day and vegative growth starts. I will be wrapping the pots and lower stems in cloth to avoid hard frosts.
I'm not expecting huge yields because the plants growth rate will be slower due to the lower temps we have in Feb and March than what we have in Oct and Nov, but I am expecting a worthwhile yield.
I will update this thread as I go.
In the meantime I'm open to comments, suggestions and discussion.
Thanks for listening
MB
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