First time growing OUTDOORS. Wondering what to expect

I jus planted like 5 plants in a secluded spot. I'm wondering what I should expect to be different from an inside growth. Also I used random pot seeds and germinated before planting. I'm in Dallas. Its real hot. Lots of sun and humidity. How often should I go check on my girls. Its going to be a long veg stage so can I count on huge plants? And if all the plants turn out to be female what would be the averge yeild with random strains and a long veg stage with plenty of light? The soil is not top notch but its good I don't plan on using any nutrients. Any tips on how to make sure the quality of the weed is grade A? Thanx[SUB][/SUB]

Btw I'm really trying to go for the natraul home grown type of pot.

It will grow, but without nutrients, you may not get but a fraction of it's potential. I would recommend amending the soil with whatever you can. manure, guano, blood and bone meal, etc... look at Subcool's super soil recipe and look at the amendments, that will help. Also, dig the hole up about 3x3 ft deep and around to loosen it up for the roots. You will get better results from proper soil and amendments, but I'm sure it will, at the very least, grow without them.

Probably a lot depending on how the soil is you are planting in. But growing outdoors is a cakewalk compared to growing indoors.

I first started outside, and it was sooooooooo easy. I grew some of my most monster plants outdoors. I routinely grew plants that would grow upwards of 7 feet tall, with huge buds...... and this was back when I was using bagseed, and well before I knew ANYTHING about growing herb for the most part. Hell I didn't even know there where ways to control height and the WAY your plant grows.

Of course not all plants where worth keeping just due to me using bagseed.

When growing outside, imo it is less about actual growing, as nature will pretty much take care of that, particularly if you have the fortitude to pretty much leave them alone. Growing outside is more about dealing with thieves, and keeping your grow unknown.

A few years back, the reason I switched to indoor growing was b/c someone broke into my backyard and stole my crops.

Here are some pics of some plants that were a bit early on.

Awesome pelt1. That's exactly where I'm at. I have little to no knowledge on growing. I just got tired of paying five bucks a gram for average quality buds. I don't have any resources except the seeds (bagseed) and the great out doors. When I get a hold of some cash I'm gonna get soil and other things and plant more. I will probally get nutriants as well as I do want potent bud. Will my plants be worth keeping? And do you remember what you harvested your first time?

Good deal stoner!

Whether or not you will have herb worth keeping is highly variable with bagseed. A lot of times, when I first started growing, I would plant quite a few, as I knew about half the population would be males, and about another 10-30% of those left over would just be crap. But in the end, I would always wind up with quite a bit of decent smoke. At least for me and a few friends.

When I was doing this, I didn't bother with paying for soil or nutes. Although I did hit them with Miracle Grow from time to time.

As for what I harvested in actual weight, at the time I wasn't too much into it and never bothered to measure, nor did I have a scale at the time.

But in my experience, growing outside is super easy! Mother nature pretty much takes care of it. I did water them, but that wasn't even needed as much as I probably did. My main problem was keeping things hidden, as some of them were so tall they would peak over my 7 foot fence! And if someone was paying attention and knew what to look for, you could clearly smell herb if in the vicinity.

I would advise you to have fun with it, plant as much as your space will allow, and try not to mess with them much. Don't think you're going to increase yield or growth by taking a pair of scissors to them. New growers tend to like to cut off foliage thinking they are allowing more light to reach their plants..... A BIG NO-NO!!!!!!! Just let them do their thing, especially as you are learning. The more green your plant is, the MO-Better!!!!

Nice. Letting them grow on their own. That's exactly what I plan on doing. Knowing you got a decent amount of bud and have good soil or fertilizer kind of eases my mind about my plants doing well. I'm going to germinate more seeds and plant as much as I can in the space I have. Thanks for the help.