Mephisto Old School Mango Haze outdoors in Tidewater VA

These started life in CowPots under a California Lightworks light and a couple square LED panels. I nurtured them in this manner for around a week and a half, and saturated the CowPots every few days. Once ready to transplant, I used two empty CowPots to create a void in the FF Happy Frog soil, then enlarged it and placed the plant with the CowPot in the hole. I cut down each of the 4 corners from top to bottom and splayed out the sides to the edges of the void, then backfilled around the rootball with Coast of Maine Seedling Starter Soil.

The first year I used CowPots, I did not cut the sides and make a void larger than the pot. There was decent root penetration thru the container, but I like to give the roots a path of least resistance. Since they are made from cow manure, the CowPots decompose over time and add nutrients to the soil.

Here they are after a couple days of heavy rain and scattered sun; the rain hopefully ends tomorrow for 4 or 5 days of uninterrupted sun. The orientation of my patio is nearly due east to west, so the plants are in the sun from around 0830 to 1930 now and that will increase as they days get longer.

They are in square fabric bags in milk crates. Allows me to get them up off the ground for airflow, and makes it easier to move them around if needed. I built the soil as a 4 inch lift of Happy Frog, a dusting of powdered bat guano, another 4 inch lift, a dusting of EWC, and the final 4 inch Happy Frog Lift. They got a dusting of Great White around the planting hole, and some other stuff.

Advertised days to harvest is 70 days I think, I’ll probably push them past that until conditions outside dictate harvest. My major problems with bugs, mold etc happen around the end of Aug with longer, more humid and cooler nights. I’d love to get 2 outdoor grows in a year, but the conditions in late summer/early fall are tough around here…`