buckets
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Hi fellow growers:
Well holee crap! I've been growing the elephant outdoor strain and they do get big but I don't know about the claim of ten pounds a plant. A person I've been talking to planted directly into the ground and the one plant that he has is 18 feet tall and is being pulled over so the top is tied to a stake that's on the ground. He said he'd definitely get between 5-6 pounds off of it.
But I didn't do that unfortunately (plant in the ground). I planted in 80 litre garbage buckets with drill holes in the bottom. I have a few plants that are at ten feet but the majority are at about 5-6 feet tall. Some are bushy. Some aren't.
It's late August and believe it or not, they haven't gone into flowering yet but I'm told that they will within the next two weeks. So I have a couple of questions I'd like to ask those of you who have experience growing outdoors to completion.
Should I cut the bottoms off of those garbage buckets and let the roots grow down into the soil? Is there still time for that? Would the plants continue to get bigger if I did since I'm not yet in flowering mode? DO you think it's to late to do that or should I give it a try?
I don't know about you guys but in Canada July and August were terrible months with maybe 1-2 days of sprinkles. That heat had an effect on the plants I have no doubts. I was hiking out water every day since the creeks dried up!
Oh, and for those that are curious about using backstrap molasses. I have been using it since two weeks ago and man, the plants just love it. Must be backstrap mollasses and I use 1 tablespoon per plant with between 4-6 litres of water. You can go to 2 tablespoons if you want but not all the time. I don't use any other sort of fertilizer during flowering. Wait, that's a lie, I came accross a pile of bear crap and I picked it up and hiked it to my location and then I mixed it into the top of the soil. It's berry season and it looked like a giant helping of berry smoothy. heh heh.
Thanks for your insight!
Buckets
Well holee crap! I've been growing the elephant outdoor strain and they do get big but I don't know about the claim of ten pounds a plant. A person I've been talking to planted directly into the ground and the one plant that he has is 18 feet tall and is being pulled over so the top is tied to a stake that's on the ground. He said he'd definitely get between 5-6 pounds off of it.
But I didn't do that unfortunately (plant in the ground). I planted in 80 litre garbage buckets with drill holes in the bottom. I have a few plants that are at ten feet but the majority are at about 5-6 feet tall. Some are bushy. Some aren't.
It's late August and believe it or not, they haven't gone into flowering yet but I'm told that they will within the next two weeks. So I have a couple of questions I'd like to ask those of you who have experience growing outdoors to completion.
Should I cut the bottoms off of those garbage buckets and let the roots grow down into the soil? Is there still time for that? Would the plants continue to get bigger if I did since I'm not yet in flowering mode? DO you think it's to late to do that or should I give it a try?
I don't know about you guys but in Canada July and August were terrible months with maybe 1-2 days of sprinkles. That heat had an effect on the plants I have no doubts. I was hiking out water every day since the creeks dried up!
Oh, and for those that are curious about using backstrap molasses. I have been using it since two weeks ago and man, the plants just love it. Must be backstrap mollasses and I use 1 tablespoon per plant with between 4-6 litres of water. You can go to 2 tablespoons if you want but not all the time. I don't use any other sort of fertilizer during flowering. Wait, that's a lie, I came accross a pile of bear crap and I picked it up and hiked it to my location and then I mixed it into the top of the soil. It's berry season and it looked like a giant helping of berry smoothy. heh heh.
Thanks for your insight!
Buckets
