Is May too late to plant Outdoors? 12/12

[THCLicious]

thinking about buying some outdoor seeds i live in the gold coast so its usaully warm, but wet at the moment

the plants would get direct sun from 8:30 till about 5 and non direct from 5:45am-5:45pm

temp would usually be about 13-25c

 

i understand the less hours of sun may make it flower earlier, how early is too early?

 

is it too late? should i just wait till the season starts or plant now anyway

 

 

 

appreciate your help

[brick]

well it is harvest month! so I would wait until September or October. but if your days are that long you may have a chance for a small return for your efforts.

[Rahrah1]

Temp would be a big problem. Its only going to colder.

[redripe]

Maybe worth while to make some hash?

[Brimstond]

If you have way of keeping the girls warm outdoors and dont get mould on your girls you should be able to pull a modest winter crop where you are .....I have done a winter crop in a cold climate which would have been way worse then the conditions that you have where you are ....

 

One good thing about doing a winter crop is the amount of watering it cutts down on and that the copper choppers dont go flying around that time of year

 

Imho I think if you can get a winter crop system worked out it would be way better then doing a normal season crop because of the less effort involved in the care and maintenance of the crop

 

I rekon if you get some clones and veg them indoor then harden them off for the cold then wack them outdoor this would give you a decent size of plant to start with which means more yeild ...plus it reduces the amount of time out looking after the plants which reduces the risk of getting caught

 

Ive had some crazy ideas about using industrial glad wrap to glad wrap a temp hothouse style thing in the bush for winter then storing water drums in there to collect the suns warmth and then the drums would radiate heat through out the night keeping the area warm ........just got to figure out something with the mould ....oh well

 

Cheers Brimstond

[Tonefish]

I've attempted the same thing at this time of year.

 

The plants hold there own, they just grow s l o w.

[zelli]

up around brissy you could probably get a decent winter crop. if you have a few $$$ spare for seed you really have little to lose by trying

[zeuss]

Hi Mate, I used to grow outdoors on the Sunny Coast and did 2 crops a year for years, Summer crop i used to put in around october ish and that would run through to early April, then i used to put the winter crop in as soon as the summer crop was done, i actually always grew from seed so used to put the seeds in around march ready to plant out in april, the winter crop used to always grow really well, i used to prefer the winter one for as mentioned above the coppers never seem to be looking for crops that time of year, was a lot less stressfull, they never grew as large as the summer ones but still well worth the trouble. So in answer to your question, YES go for it, it's still not too late, they will mature around October ish and you'll still get some good pot, in fact sometimes i just used to trim the winter crops buds off and let them kick on into the summer season, ended up with huge plants doing that..

Grow hard

Z

[tjiir]

I'm surprised winter crops don't just go to seed.

[zeuss]

I'm surprised winter crops don't just go to seed.

 

Yea mate it used to amaze me too, with the days getting shorter you'd think that they would just pop out of the ground and go straight to head but not at all, every time they would get to a metre or so and then start heading, really weird and i can't explain it but i have done it probably around 15 years with the same result..

Cheers

Z