I know this is probably a noobie question, but i am a noob. I have about 5 seedlings growing right now and im adding 10(5x cookies & 5x berry white) clones to my collection in a few days. Im growing at a family members spot and we have enough room to grow 3 plants in the ground and the rest we're using pots. Now im wondering for the ones i wanna put in the ground could i just dig a hole and pour fox farms with perlite in it? And when would i transplant to the dirt? For the pots im more worried about size. Im assuming id transplant like 1,3,5 gallons and so on. But what size would be ideal to finish in? Please feel free to give any advice!
5 gallon buckets work just great for something like that. If it were me, I wouldn't put any in the ground and just do them all in 5 gallon buckets. They're portable and much easier to manage that way. But yes, if you plant in the actual ground, just dig a very large hole...we would usually dig ours about 3 feet deep and about 3 feet in circumference and then filled with outdoor grow soil. However, if the place you're planning on planting has good rich dirt that works well for growing other things, don't waste your money on filling the hole with bought soil. It's much easier to grow these plants outside in nature than it is to do it indoors because that's their natural environment. If you have generally good growing conditions as far as location and soil, the plant will grow just fine. Just make sure it's somewhere that you have good drainage since these things don't like for their roots to sit in moist conditions all the time. If you really want to make them grow big and do well, adjust the pH of the water/feeds you give to a range of 6.3 to 6.7. It's trouble to have to do it and carry water to the plants, but it does make a difference. We grew 4 plants outside last year in 5 gallon buckets that were just 4 extra clones I had from our grow room. They each ended up being well over 6 ft. tall and we didn't put them outside until the end of June. We harvested in early October and averaged around 3 to 4 pounds a plant. Keep a close eye out for pests when growing outside and really watch out for bud worms or what we know around here as tomato worms. They'll ruin your plants in a hurry if you don't catch them and they really love to get on them about the last few weeks of the season. Good luck!! Hope all goes well. TWW
BT-k is the product most of us outside growers use to control the caterpillars.. AKA budworms.. Sold under a dozen names it'll say BT on it someplace and have caterpillars on the label.. Liquid Dipel was the trade name if I remember.. BNW
I have to agree with TWW. Even outdoors I leave em in 5-7 gal fabric pots. That way I maintain control of nutes, pests, can move them if need be, etc... Be kind. Perfect your craft. Give more than you take. We are family.
See ive always had issues getting a straight answer about whether FF needs extra nutes or supplements. My next pay check im heading down to the hydro store. I was planning on buying some grow Big from fox farms Anyways I have perlite and went about 20%. So about what % would i mix with EWC, kelp meal, and everything else you recommended.
As a side note... BT, bacillus thuringiensis is only effective if a caterpillar eats it and many caterpillars won't every eat surface material, they actual drill into a cannabis bud and will only eat the inside of the bud. So always use the spray on formula to get better coverage as opposed to using the powder or what is better known as the dusting formula. Also a better alternative is something like Green Step II, as it is safe for birds, earthworms, lady bugs, and honey bees and it won't kill other butterflies or other insects that cause no harm to your plants .
I have 2 100 gal smart pots that I will be using this year. Putting multiply plants into one container may sound like blasphemy but I don't see any issues with it. Even if I put 10 plants in there they each have 10 gals of soil to themselves.
Hell NO, ain't nothing wrong with doing that. One of my cuz, just does the jack and the beanstalk thingie, seriously he just makes up a nice fertilized 20 x 20 area, and then grabs a few handfuls of different seeds and slings them over the area, and in a month or two it turns into a wonderful garden with so many different strains growing in total disarray!
