Hello Everyone,
I own an outdoor recreational grow in Colorado. This is our first year and its been wild learning to grow on this scale.
We got a late start (July 1st) due to construction delays.
We have 1100 plants that are all looking great. Some are 4 feet tall after only 6.5 weeks (started as clones). Due to being understaffed, we've only been able to transplant 900 plants... Transplanting from 1 gallon pots to directly in the ground (in coco and Perlite). Transplanting the 900 has taken nearly 18 days... We only have a 2 man crew. My brother waters and I transplant.
Today I was looking at our 200 remaining plants and debating if we should just leave them be. Its been fairly hot and dry and very hard to avoid some transplant shock. I've noticed that transplanting has slowed their growth for around 2 weeks. Its also raised water consumption significantly (i had a large Afghani that I swear wanted 20 gallons of water a day after transplant).. We have to truck in our water and are already using 900 gallons per day+. Most of the plants remaining in 1 gallon pots have grown out of the bottom of the pot and rooted in the ground. They're doing okay with being watered once per day.
I'm still getting 13 hours and 25 minutes of sunlight but showing a good amount of flowers on these plants.
The other consideration is that I need to start preparing for harvest and managing plants.
What would you do if you were me? Should I push to get these transplants done? or just call it good enough knowing we will have less yield on the remaining 200 in 1 gallon pots? We have about 50 - 60 days left until we take our plants down.
I own an outdoor recreational grow in Colorado. This is our first year and its been wild learning to grow on this scale.
We got a late start (July 1st) due to construction delays.
We have 1100 plants that are all looking great. Some are 4 feet tall after only 6.5 weeks (started as clones). Due to being understaffed, we've only been able to transplant 900 plants... Transplanting from 1 gallon pots to directly in the ground (in coco and Perlite). Transplanting the 900 has taken nearly 18 days... We only have a 2 man crew. My brother waters and I transplant.
Today I was looking at our 200 remaining plants and debating if we should just leave them be. Its been fairly hot and dry and very hard to avoid some transplant shock. I've noticed that transplanting has slowed their growth for around 2 weeks. Its also raised water consumption significantly (i had a large Afghani that I swear wanted 20 gallons of water a day after transplant).. We have to truck in our water and are already using 900 gallons per day+. Most of the plants remaining in 1 gallon pots have grown out of the bottom of the pot and rooted in the ground. They're doing okay with being watered once per day.
I'm still getting 13 hours and 25 minutes of sunlight but showing a good amount of flowers on these plants.
The other consideration is that I need to start preparing for harvest and managing plants.
What would you do if you were me? Should I push to get these transplants done? or just call it good enough knowing we will have less yield on the remaining 200 in 1 gallon pots? We have about 50 - 60 days left until we take our plants down.
