_mahavishnu
Well-Known Member
Hi newbs/pros, I’m growing just one plant from bag seed, with no disposable income (at least none from germ thru this weekend), outdoors in a container. Mostly using the grow to accumulate the supplies and experience for a proper grow, starting this fall if this plant is fem and goes to harvest, or sooner if it balls out and goes in the compost pile.
The full details are in my grow journal here, but the short of it is: used whatever small pot I had on hand, filled it with mostly the best dirt I found in my yard and a little bit of organic soil from the hardware store, germed 4 seeds in paper towel but only one popped, planted it May 30. Heat wave stunted it very early on so I foil wrapped the pot to keep the roots cool. The soil I used has packed down a ton and doesn’t dry out very quickly. There are roots in the drainage holes.
By this weekend I will have a 20gal smart pot (too big I know, but prepping for future trees), 1.5cf of generic organic soil and 1.5cf of FFOF, alfalfa meal, kelp meal, aloe plants available for harvest, one bottle of Big Bloom I bought on impulse. I intend to transplant as soon as I have everything together as I’m afraid the packed soil (unknown PH) and small container are seriously holding the little plant back. It’s certainly nowhere near the size of most month-old plants, though it could also just be a poor quality seed. The only thing that gives me hope for its genes is that it popped a long taproot very quickly during germ.
I’ve already done a ton of reading on this forum over the past weeks before I decided to start participating, but I just wanna throw this out there and encourage any and everyone to share whatever thoughts they have. I’ll probably be posing open questions in each journal entry as I encounter new decisions to make and, I’d appreciate any help to maximize what I can do with the resources available to me. Feel free to mob this thread or the grow journal, yell at me if I’m being stupid, and we can all see together what comes of it. Thanks in advance!
The full details are in my grow journal here, but the short of it is: used whatever small pot I had on hand, filled it with mostly the best dirt I found in my yard and a little bit of organic soil from the hardware store, germed 4 seeds in paper towel but only one popped, planted it May 30. Heat wave stunted it very early on so I foil wrapped the pot to keep the roots cool. The soil I used has packed down a ton and doesn’t dry out very quickly. There are roots in the drainage holes.
By this weekend I will have a 20gal smart pot (too big I know, but prepping for future trees), 1.5cf of generic organic soil and 1.5cf of FFOF, alfalfa meal, kelp meal, aloe plants available for harvest, one bottle of Big Bloom I bought on impulse. I intend to transplant as soon as I have everything together as I’m afraid the packed soil (unknown PH) and small container are seriously holding the little plant back. It’s certainly nowhere near the size of most month-old plants, though it could also just be a poor quality seed. The only thing that gives me hope for its genes is that it popped a long taproot very quickly during germ.
I’ve already done a ton of reading on this forum over the past weeks before I decided to start participating, but I just wanna throw this out there and encourage any and everyone to share whatever thoughts they have. I’ll probably be posing open questions in each journal entry as I encounter new decisions to make and, I’d appreciate any help to maximize what I can do with the resources available to me. Feel free to mob this thread or the grow journal, yell at me if I’m being stupid, and we can all see together what comes of it. Thanks in advance!
