Outdoor coco hempy

[BudSkunkly]

Howdy, long time lurker, first post…
Im an old hippie with 40+ years of growing experience.
Evolved from bagseed dirt grows to coco under LEDs.
Sceptical of bro “science” and overpriced chemicals sold
at the grow shop. KISS Hempy works best for me…

This summer I tried something different out on my sunny back deck in the
Monterey area about 2 miles from the ocean.
Plant on left is a Gelato I cloned. Vegged under LED for 30d, then moved outside
end of June and topped and trained. On the right is a Platinum Blueberry Cookie I bought
at local shop and popped directly into a 3.5gal hempy outside May 15th. Decided to let
it grow au natural.
Both buckets have hydroton layer up past single 1/4” drain hole. 100% well washed brick coco.
Charged with GH calmag on last flush before planting. I use tap water and never check PH.
7gr/gal GH Maxigrow dtw once a day till flower, then switch to7gr/gal Maxibloom.

Always been more into top shelf quality for personal use and gifting friends over quantity…
Looks like Ill need more friends this season…

 

[Billytheluther]

That looks nice man. Hows it going along

 

[BudSkunkly]

My favorite part of the cycle. Stretch has stopped going into full flower.
Just came back from 10 days away relying on timer and small pond pump to fertigate once a day for an hour.(about 1.5 gallons maxibloom @7gr p/gal). Added a second afternoon hour interval till harvest time.

 

[zebracake]

Nice setup. How did they turn out? Is the high humidity where you are a problem? I want to do coco hydro outdoors too but where I'm at is humid as well but a mold resistant tropical sativa should be fine they just take forever to flower.

 

[BudSkunkly]

 

[farmerfischer]

Looking good Budskunkly..

 

[BudSkunkly]

Taking them down in stages now… allows lower buds to finish up in full sun. I like to trim fresh colas, hang to semi dry, clip buds off into a paper bag for a week or so of stage 2 drying… finally into glass jars with 62rh boveda packs to cure…
So far, 13 oz in jars and zero mold!

 

[Billy the Mountain]

Plants looks great!

Not nitpicking, but you want to cure first and then add any boveda packs

 

[BudSkunkly]

Nice setup. How did they turn out? Is the high humidity where you are a problem? I want to do coco hydro outdoors too but where I'm at is humid as well but a mold resistant tropical sativa should be fine they just take forever to flower.

Lucked out this season with hot dry weather in the last month… Im close to the water on the Monterey bay, so mold is usually something to watch for. I cut a bunch of foliage below the canopy to help airflow…

 

[BudSkunkly]

Plants looks great!

Not nitpicking, but you want to cure first and then add any boveda packs

Whats your reasoning on that? Always open to good ideas

 

[Billy the Mountain]

The boveda packs are to stabilize the humidity within the jar.
Once you get humidity to your target, you add the boveda packs to keep it there.