First outdoor crop

[TrichomeChaser]

What's up everybody. Got my first outdoor run going this year. 2 greenhouses. 1 being 8.5x8.5 foot hoop house design. Center is around 9 feet. 2nd green house is 12x7 and abourt 7 feet high. I've got 8 strains.
Blue dream
Purple haze
White queen
Cali dream
Chronic widow
Bianca
Ak-47
And then I have a couple clones from a few of those strains. The 7 originals were from seed and were started in mid march I believe. So they are pretty large and have been outside for about 3 or 4 weeks. I have 4 of them setup with scrog nets. Filling in great. Ill throw up a couple pictures I have from 6/21 and ill try and put new ones up tonight if im out of work before dark.

 

[TrichomeChaser]

Please feel free to drop any comments or questions on my journal. I appreciate any input from some of the amazing growers on here as well as any questions or comments from New growers.

Plants are growing beautifully. Greenhouse got filled up quicker then I had expected so I'm currently expanding it a couple feet on the sides and height. Plants have been starting to stretch and should begin flowering in the next couple weeks.
I was originally watering the 25g pots with 5g of water once every 5 days or so. Right now they are getting 7g every 4 days. I have a couple pics from 7/13.

 

[Nugs1]

Very nice man, I almost bought one of those green houses but I wasn't too sure about the green color. But clearly they are doing just fine. If you don't mind me asking what area of the world are you in and if your US what section?
I'm in the southeast doing a decent outdoor grow, you can check out my grow log too.
Also what are you using for nutes?

 

[TrichomeChaser]

Very nice man, I almost bought one of those green houses but I wasn't too sure about the green color. But clearly they are doing just fine. If you don't mind me asking what area of the world are you in and if your US what section?
I'm in the southeast doing a decent outdoor grow, you can check out my grow log too.
Also what are you using for nutes?

Thanks for reply man. Yeah the green greenhouse is actually pretty mint in regards to the color. Been getting better growth in there then in my clear one. The construction on it sucks though. Cant handle much wind. It broke early in the year so I had to reinforce it.

I am in the Massachusetts area.
I am currently using stonington blend plant food as a general feed and ill use some high n bat guano when needed. Did a couple veg boost teas as well. Plants have never been so healthy before.

 

[Nugs1]

Nice dude they are looking good. Like I said before almost got one, but I ended up doing something a little different.
I think I'm going to be making a hoop house over the winter. For a fun grow next year.
Keep up the good work man!

 

[TrichomeChaser]

Nice dude they are looking good. Like I said before almost got one, but I ended up doing something a little different.
I think I'm going to be making a hoop house over the winter. For a fun grow next year.
Keep up the good work man!

For sure man, thanks. Yeah I actually setup a little hoophouse structure as well. Framed out the bottom 3 feet then used off to go over the rest. Worked out pretty well.

 

[Nugs1]

Good looking. I'll have to do a little less see through. Theres birds that fly around here lol.
I've already been making plans, I think its going to be about 35-40 ft long. And I'll have to do some tree trimming to make sure the bottom half of the house won't get enough light.
I'm going big next year, gonna have some product to move lol.

 

[TrichomeChaser]

Good looking. I'll have to do a little less see through. Theres birds that fly around here lol.
I've already been making plans, I think its going to be about 35-40 ft long. And I'll have to do some tree trimming to make sure the bottom half of the house won't get enough light.
I'm going big next year, gonna have some product to move lol.

Looking good bro. You got some good size bushes glong as well. What are you expecting for a harvest?
I look forward to seeing how this year finishes up and getting ready for next year. I'm hoping I can acquire a larger piece of land to setup on so I can have 4x20 set up. I'd like to be able to designate about 6x6 areas for each plant at least. Cause this year they are pretty tight. All about 7ft tall and 5x5 wide.

 

[Nugs1]

Dude they've shot up so much more lately and really budding, let me find a recent pic.
I'm hoping at this point for 2 lbs or damn close to it.
6x6 is huge, start them early and start planning now. I will tell you from experience having a garden and then trying to fix it up while its growing doesn't work that well.
Ive measured out and it looks like my greenhouse will be 38 ft long and about 15/20ft long.
I'm going to do a raised bed with all organic soil and nutrients. Because I'm in the south I'll need a lot of ventilation. I've gotten a few websites that I'm going to buy a large fan for one side and a couple louvers for the other to pull a lot of air through it.
How are yours coming along?
This is only really half of the garden.

 

[TrichomeChaser]

Little update. Posted a couple pictures from august 14th. Couple plants filling in nicely. Sativa dom. Strains are not far behind. Looking forward to the progress they should make over the next couple weeks.

 

[TrichomeChaser]

Dude they've shot up so much more lately and really budding, let me find a recent pic.
I'm hoping at this point for 2 lbs or damn close to it.
6x6 is huge, start them early and start planning now. I will tell you from experience having a garden and then trying to fix it up while its growing doesn't work that well.
Ive measured out and it looks like my greenhouse will be 38 ft long and about 15/20ft long.
I'm going to do a raised bed with all organic soil and nutrients. Because I'm in the south I'll need a lot of ventilation. I've gotten a few websites that I'm going to buy a large fan for one side and a couple louvers for the other to pull a lot of air through it.
How are yours coming along?
This is only really half of the garden.

That's mint man. Alot of space there to work with. Pics look good. How many plants do you have going? Looks like 2 in the picture? What size pots? Have you ever had any plants harvest anywhere near 2lbs each? I don't have much experience outdoors but I'm in 25 gallon pots with very bushy plants and was shooting for a 1lb per plant goal. Each of mine has atleast 50 tops.

 

[Nugs1]

Little update. Posted a couple pictures from august 14th. Couple plants filling in nicely. Sativa dom. Strains are not far behind. Looking forward to the progress they should make over the next couple weeks.

Damn thats awesome!!
Looking great dude keep whatever your doing up!
I got a question, how many times did you top you plants. Mine aren't round on the top like that they are more Christmas tree like. Which is fine but I see the rounded tops and wonder what it is that makes them like that.

 

[TrichomeChaser]

Damn thats awesome!!
Looking great dude keep whatever your doing up!
I got a question, how many times did you top you plants. Mine aren't round on the top like that they are more Christmas tree like. Which is fine but I see the rounded tops and wonder what it is that makes them like that.

Thanks man, been putting alot of hours into the garden lately. To be honest I only topped them a couple times each. I do a initial topping when they are small (5 or 6 nodes) and then ill let them grow for a week or two. Once the new growth looks good ill top those branches and that's it. The rounded tops your seeing are a result of supercropping and LSTing. None of those plants have been topped in the last two months or so

 

[Nugs1]

That's mint man. Alot of space there to work with. Pics look good. How many plants do you have going? Looks like 2 in the picture? What size pots? Have you ever had any plants harvest anywhere near 2lbs each? I don't have much experience outdoors but I'm in 25 gallon pots with very bushy plants and was shooting for a 1lb per plant goal. Each of mine has atleast 50 tops.

I have a total of 8. In that pic you looking straight at the tops of 3 of them and some limbs from a couple around them. The pot sizes range from 5 gallons to 15 gal., no man I've never harvested anything like that lol. I've mostly done indoors and did pretty decent. But now I have the space I wanted to move outdoors. I wold say your easily gonna get pound each no joke, well the big ones anyway.
Next year I really hope to do a multiple pound harvest though. With that big of a raised bed they should have more than enough root space to grow some monsters.
Heres two pics that are the full shot of the garden.

 

[Nugs1]

Thanks man, been putting alot of hours into the garden lately. To be honest I only topped them a couple times each. I do a initial topping when they are small (5 or 6 nodes) and then ill let them grow for a week or two. Once the new growth looks good ill top those branches and that's it. The rounded tops your seeing are a result of supercropping and LSTing. None of those plants have been topped in the last two months or so

I was thinking that it had something to do with LST thanks for the info.

 

[TrichomeChaser]

I have a total of 8. In that pic you looking straight at the tops of 3 of them and some limbs from a couple around them. The pot sizes range from 5 gallons to 15 gal., no man I've never harvested anything like that lol. I've mostly done indoors and did pretty decent. But now I have the space I wanted to move outdoors. I wold say your easily gonna get pound each no joke, well the big ones anyway.
Next year I really hope to do a multiple pound harvest though. With that big of a raised bed they should have more than enough root space to grow some monsters.
Heres two pics that are the full shot of the garden.

Nice man. Looking healthy and full. I would lower your expectation of 2 per plant though. I would think that's nearly impossible in those size pots. You should get a nice pull though. Outdoor is a great thing. The next month and a half are crucial.

 

[OnePrays]

Little update. Posted a couple pictures from august 14th. Couple plants filling in nicely. Sativa dom. Strains are not far behind. Looking forward to the progress they should make over the next couple weeks.

Big girls nice and lush nice op those sativa don girls you've got are Gina give you some nice weight. That's going to be "fun" at harvest haha nice job brother.

 

[Nugs1]

Nice man. Looking healthy and full. I would lower your expectation of 2 per plant though. I would think that's nearly impossible in those size pots. You should get a nice pull though. Outdoor is a great thing. The next month and a half are crucial.

I don't think I will get anything like 2lbs per plant lol you'll get close thought man those things are awesome. At most I have 2 that might give me 1/2 pound each, the rest I'm hoping for a 1/4 pound. Honestly I'm hoping for maybe 2 lbs total out of all 8.

 

[TrichomeChaser]

Big girls nice and lush nice op those sativa don girls you've got are Gina give you some nice weight. That's going to be "fun" at harvest haha nice job brother.

Thanks man. Been putting in a lot of time out there. Hoping for a unit on each one which is looking doable at the moment. Gunna have a lot of trimming to do that's for sure

 

[TrichomeChaser]

I don't think I will get anything like 2lbs per plant lol you'll get close thought man those things are awesome. At most I have 2 that might give me 1/2 pound each, the rest I'm hoping for a 1/4 pound. Honestly I'm hoping for maybe 2 lbs total out of all 8.

Yeah that seems doable I think you can get 2 on those. Looking healthy. Should be a good run for you. Id be thrilled to get 2 on each but anything over 1 and my goal was met.