Outdoor deadline?

[child]

Today is July 1. Is it too late to plant outdoors in the Ohio Valley area?

[metal4mullets]

Unless you're growing some super-fast autoflowering strain you're probably out of luck. Something like Lowryder might make it.

[dogstar]

Planting in the UK, the latest date for getting a crop going is about now. If you plant an indica this late in the year, it simply flowers small, not having very long for vegetative growth - ending up about the same size as a lowrider.

For example, planting in the UK at the start of June will give a 2ft plant. Planting at the start of July will give a 1-2ft plant.

This is a rule of thumb of course. Some indica will start flowering at 15 hours of light, some will start at 13-14. If in doubt, get a late flowering variety.

[child]

In case I didn't make my question clear, I'm inquiring after latest date for planting in the midwestern United States. I'm assuming the flowering times are different than for northeastern Europe, no?

[Ingwey Gooblebogger]

1) Find out about the daylight hours in your part of the world. (Determine your latitude, and then look it up.)

Or go to a local garden shop and make general (i.e. non-cannabis specific inquiries. Other plants require cartain amounts of daylight.) THese shops may even have daylight hour brochures.

This will allow you to determine if you have much "non-flowering" growth time and if you can get them to maturity (i.e appropriate flowering time.)

Note: If your local flower time (when daylight hours are sufficiently short, below 12-14 hours (with 12 or below, ideal) occurs in late autumn then depending on your local Autumn weather and length, you might be SOL.

2) If you are not using an autoflowering strain, then give yourself about 8-10 weeks flowering period. Add to that about 1 month (or more for growth before flowering) to determine a general time frame. If you get a heavily sativa dominant strain, then you might have to add sevearl more weeks in the flowering time period. (Or use an autoflowering strain)

If your Autumns are very dry then and you have, at least 100 days until autum is over, then, potentially, you have enough time. On the other hand, if your Autumns are very rainy, then your plants might mature, but you could end up with severe bud rot.

Do yor homework to determine if it is do-able in your location.

[child]

Thanks for the info Ingwey! I'll keep you posted.