......alright. Looks like fun! I know it's a lot of work too, but that's okay if you can get a decent harvest.....or if even you just gain the experience to make it better next year and again the year after..... I 'd keep security a priority and keep your grow friends contained to here. IMO, Rule #1 always come first; master that.
Those are some excellent looking growing spots! I agree with
Bob letting them veg awhile longer in a protected area....yeah, a good month more! I 've found that trying to get them out earlier ends up doing more harm than good: Those kids are how old??<---from what I could figure out 2-3 weeks? I just think that they grow so much faster and with less stress when put out after it has warmed up and in the end can put on more buddage.......and that's just imo. And somebody else said about only planting a few in an area.....very good advice, and for the reasons they said. Dont take the same way in there either--avoid making trails if possible......what are your plans for the deer and rabbits? Cages of chicken wire? Repellent? Keep in mind also that as is gets late in the season your girls will really start to stand out, so dont necessarily go for height---you can keep tieing them down until around the 1st-2nd week of July, providing they keep in the sun as it moves to the south with the season. If this is your first time growing anything outside you'll find it'll really pay off next year to keep note of where the sun hits at what time of the season where your at(somethings in the sun now will be blocked by trees/brush later in the season as the sun moves towards the lower horizon). And you may very well know all of this stuff, or have read it elsewhere.
I am in an area very similar to yours @ N48 degrees though our winter is more rain than snow. Fall comes on quick and your lucky to be able to get your bud to finish right without molding if the strain you grow requires going into October very much....this is a big part of not stressing the plants early on or stunting them; they can take longer to finish. When I was growing outside every year I always used the same plots that worked best and kept them 'maintained ' year-around. I mean I even went there in the middle of winter to keep up on the tire tracks/footprints, etc., in the snow, albeit I was making a living off of this. I packed in promix bx and renuted it ever year. It was fun, very hard work....very rewarding at times, complete failure at others.
Keep the spiders around! Most all of those ground type spiders are benifitial in some way or another. Pests can be the biggest problem however......and if you use pesticides you risk hurting the benifitials that really do help you naturally. I think I always ended up with spidermites by the end of the season because I didn't use any maintenance to keep them in check. Be preventitive wherever you can.......there are lots of good products out there that only harm the pests that harm the plants and not the benifitials. DE....search it if you dont know. I used it in all of my soil at the start of spring and made coffee can shakers to sprinkle it all over EVERTHING in the area once the snow melts, them more selectively thoughout the season using wetting agents to keep it on the leaf undersides, etc.<----a good trick here is neem oil! DE is $10 for a big bag that will get you all through the season(I was bad though: I didn't use the "food grade" stuff, bfd.). One more thing I am thinking: it also helped the pest probs by spraying everything down with an 'all-season'(or even dormant) fruit and veggy spray oil all over everything in the area after harvest or first part of spring.... It gets everything as it hatches out of the eggs and comes out of the nests to MULTIPLY....
Haha! Glad I am too old for that stuff anymore!
yep, really! There's just something about being able to KNOW what the weather at your grow will be tomorrow, and next month, knowing that it will be at the lowest 67 degrees and the highest 77, that every variable is controllable completely......yet the yeilds aren't quite 10-40 zips per plant as is possible outside, but instead they are consistantly predictable
, and it was an option I had available. It's kind of hard to do both inside and outside without bringing bringing pests in.....albeit, possible.....
Okay, as you can tell, this is some GOOD sh*t I am smoking.........make me dumb as f*&^! ramble ramble ramble......sorry there
Anono! It's beautiful outside and 60's today!! I 'll go and jump on the tiller and turn some veggy beds.
But the biggest/best advice I can think of is to not be in a big hurry to get them in the ground---and keep in mind that if exposed out in the open in the pots the soils temps will fluctuate more extremely than if protected by something......
Best of everything to you and Happy 4:20 tomorrow!
growinman
edit: now I see they're one week old(good)
