Buckets or ground?

I bought 5x feminized White widow seeds, i'm planning a spot for them outdoors but i dont know if when i plant them i should put them into the ground? or should i put them in cups and upgrade the cups into eventually 5 gallon buckets? will i need bigger than 5 gallon buckets?

depends what the ground is like, there are goods and bads for both. but if you use pots, id use 10 gal atleast. i find in the ground to be less obvious, but containers can be moved if you have to. for me containers generally cost more, need to buy the container plus the soil, but you have total control over the nutrients in them. in ground requires hard ass work, if you wanna do it right, you gotta dig big holes, but you can just amend the soil thats there, rather than having to buy enough soil to fill a 2 x 2 x 2 hole

5 gallon buckets are too small imo...
i use 18 gallon totes for my small plants...

Another option is to build 3'x3'x6" raised beds. No digging so you don't damage the existing beneficial microbes and it still allows you to use premium potting soil. It's also cheaper then bags and every Sq ft is roughly seven gallons. I usually do one sativa or hybrid per bed or four indicas per bed. If you like autos you can fit 12 in a 4x4 bed.

SenorBrownWater said:

5 gallon buckets are too small imo...
i use 18 gallon totes for my small plants...

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Yes, outdoors use 18-20 gal totes. If you use 5 gal. it will be root bound by the
time it starts to flower. You would get a yield but larger with the larger pots.

climate and soil make the deciding factor. if there in your yard and your going to water them every day. raised bed. if your in the middle of the moutains. ground.

if i use 10 gal bags and dig them into the ground like 4 inches or so, and put more holes in the bottoms, will they still get rootbound?

Moss logs said:

I bought 5x feminized White widow seeds, i'm planning a spot for them outdoors but i dont know if when i plant them i should put them into the ground? or should i put them in cups and upgrade the cups into eventually 5 gallon buckets? will i need bigger than 5 gallon buckets?

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Hey whats up man, def start those seeds inside. Let them get like 7" tall and put them in a book bag and transport to your outdoor spot.. Whats the dirt like at your spot? If your spot is far away and in the woods then bringing dirt isnt really an option.. You could bring perlite, vermiculite or anything you want to add to the soil.. I always dig my own holes and mix up lots of different things and then transplant them into the ground..

Nice thing about pots is that worse come to worse you can always move them...
However I'd personally go with grow bags submerged in the ground as I strongly believe on a hot summers day your roots can get stressed when your pots begin to heat up, not to mention you will need to water potted plants much more often. This summer I had 2 crops; a batch of 10 in pots and a batch of 10 in the ground. It was basically a drought year and I was out every other day watering my plants to the point I decided to abandon my in-ground plants as they were further and I wanted focus on keeping the other batch alive. After a few weeks I decided to check my inground plants and to my amazment they were all doing fine by themselves when my potted plants were drooping heavily without water for a day or two.

As for bag or pot size I think 5 - 7gallon pots are ideal if youre going guerilla...
This is a great article that kinda talks about it
http://bigbudsmag.com/grow/how/article/grow-great-marijuana-nugs-forcing-your-plants-july-2011

ill never use buckets again unless its for an auto strain or something small

too many rocks here where i am to dig. so im going with 20 gallon pots this year. 5 gallon isnt gonna be enough for outdoors. wasnt for me last year. was root bound around the time flowering started.

I say go pots 10-20 gallons, some kids found out about my plants but luckily i was able to hide them before they found em, you cant do that in the ground

ya blakus has a point. them being mobile is really nice for several reasons.

The Texas heat get's to bad for them so I have to bury them, pots get 100F easily in august.

wow never heard of the pots getting too hot outdoors.

start inside in cups. transplant into the ground when temps are right.

doowmd said:

start inside in cups. transplant into the ground when temps are right.

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I know this is late. But when you transplant them from cup to ground what do you mix in the ground? I ask cause the ground has no nutes.

LoRd MeGaTR0N31 said:

I know this is late. But when you transplant them from cup to ground what do you mix in the ground? I ask cause the ground has no nutes.

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Usually when transplanting into the ground you will have soil that you either made or bought to fill the holes with. That is unless your native soil is good.

angryblackman said:

Usually when transplanting into the ground you will have soil that you either made or bought to fill the holes with. That is unless your native soil is good.

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I'm tryna keep away from buying soil because that's a lot of money. You figure 5-6 good plants 15 gallons a piece with soil. To much money I rather just buy the stuff to mix with the ground dirt and make some good soil out of the dirt.

Without good soil you are doomed to failure. Hopefully you have good enough native soil to amend and go with.

Good luck!