Hiya, starting to think about the great season outdoors. Only a few months and we'll be planting out.
I've a healthy grapefruit vegging here and just done 24 clones in hope that I can plant outside come April.

Any of you guerilla growers done Grapefruit outdoors in the UK northern climate?

Cheers!

what seedbank? female seeds grapefruit says end of october. so its pushing it. if they're late flowering they won't finish in my opinion. greenhouse crops may manage to finish but i'd be dubious about outdoor. just my opinion mind but anythings worth a try. when i first went guerilla i had indoor strains growing outdoor till end october with no frost damage or bud rot but it had been pretty mild weathered. they could have done with another 1-2 wks but i didn't want to chance the weather anymore so i hacked em down. the buds were very open structured but the thc content was massive. it was better indoors by far. got about 12 oz of 2 normal plants and a scrag end of a plant. i've got some blueberry and some haze which finish late oct supposedly. so i'll be chancing the weather to get them home but hell it has to be done. its nice to get some out which i know will finish in plenty of time to avoid the frosts and mould etc and then a few later finishers for the better variety

No seedbank, just a clone that someone gave me entitled "grapefruit". He's has a bumper crop indoors from it and I thought I'd give it a go outside since I had a nice plant vegging.

I don't want to be busting a gut, cultivating grow areas if it's not gonna finish, maybe I'll put a few out in the garden and if it's looking drastic come end oct I'll finish them off indoors.

Appreciate your comments iamafunkimunki and they've been taken onboard.
Let's see if anyone else has anything to say about it.

no probs. only thing wi cuttings is that its difficult to be 100 percent certain they are what there supposed to be. and also strains vary thro the seed breeders and with different phenos for each strain as well its hard to get accurate info on how they'll perform based just on a name. but anyways you'll get plenty help on ere

Yeah...would be hell of a lot of trouble if I dont really know what I've got exactly.

Perhaps a visit to the UK420 seedshop for some Hollands Hope or Early girl would be a better investment.

Ta!

just a thought but hollands hope gets poor reviews on here. i'm actually trying it myself this year but i'm not holding my breath for a good end product

early girl isnt the best choice ime either.

we grew out early pearl,early skunk and early girl...the first two i can recommend,the girls were a waste of time.

my experience growing out indoor hybrids o/doors is the same as munkis...for all the digging n stuff its definitely worth starting with good genes

Yer probably right there mate. Does the seed shop here still accept NOCHEX?

We grew 8 Grapefruit last year in the open on a south facing slope in the south west 5oz/plant.Grew from mother seeds Female fromad removed we are growing again this year cant wait harvested in Sept.Good luck.

This is an uneducated guess, so don't take it too seriously:-

I put a 4" Apollo clone (no veg) out in September, ffs, as a test, and still harvested a teeny amount in late November.
It saw off two frosts and only buckled on the third, severe one!

As a result I would speculate that anything from the Cinderella family (C99, Apollo, Grapefruit), with its airy, mold-resistant buds would be OK, even if it finishes a bit later. beagle's report doesn't surprise me.

So it depends what you want to risk, IMO. Gotta be a better smoke than most Holland's Hope, etc.

guys you can harvest grapfruit at seven weeks 49 days and it still packs a punch! im definatly popping the rest of mine for outdoors this year and they took some terrible abuse from me growing them and low temps