Well, it is getting close to time when I can put my plants back out for the summer here in Central Ohio. I have had them under 600 Watt HPS in my grow room. I am having trouble though on how to re-introduce them to actual Sunlight. I took my smallest Dwarf Cavendish outdoors as we have had a good week of temperatures (70-80 highs, 50-55 lows). I do not have any trees in my yard, so most of my yard/patio is in sun for part of the day.
I put my Cavendish in a section of the patio that gets direct sun for 2-4 hours a day, and 100% shade the rest. However, it seems that the leaves are burning. The pic belows shows the plant after 1 week of these conditions, after being completely green otherwise.
My question is, when you re-introduce after artificial lighting, how do you go about doing so without losing most of the leaves? Also, when 50% sun/50% shade is said, does this mean half the day full sun, half the day full shade, or is there supposed to be something blocking out part of the sun for the whole day? How long do you do this? Hopefully this helps out myself, and others before we trek out our plants possibly lose all of our winter growing progress!
