Clone guide · 2026-07-30
A clone arrives as an indoor creature. The week you spend acclimating it to real sun and real nights decides your whole outdoor season.
After your last frost date, full stop, and the real dates vary more than growers expect: mid-April in Virginia, late May in Michigan, and Minnesota's window barely opens before mid-May. Our state pages list the practical window for every state we cover. Frost kills clones outright, and a cold snap short of frost can stall one for two weeks, which is worse than waiting.
Same as any greenhouse plant. Days one and two: a few hours of morning sun or bright shade, indoors at night. Days three to five: half days outside, sheltered from wind. Days six and seven: full days, and nights outside if lows hold above the mid-40s. A week feels slow and saves a month; unhardened clones sunburn white within hours in direct summer sun, because indoor light never taught their leaves to cope.
After. Let the plant handle one stress at a time: acclimate it in its shipping container or a small pot, then move it to its final home once it is taking full sun without complaint. Water it in well, shade it for a day if the weather is fierce, and it will resume growing almost immediately.
Weather tolerance is genetic. The outdoor page of the cannabis clones for sale board filters to cuts the nursery rates for outside runs, and the landrace-descended listings, the Durbans and island sativas, carry field toughness that no tent strain matches. Match the finishing window to your first-frost date and the rest is watering.
Written by Mike Hawley for the Cannabis Clones For Sale reference desk.
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