bluewavexx
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I have some killer seeds and i was thinking of starting them indoors in mid feb and get them about 2 feet tall in veg then in may plant them guerrilla grow them outside in the woods or by safe clearings. Any thoughts?
MInnesota Outdoor when to start?
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TokeSmoker420
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spray them with neem oil 2weeks in and 4weeks into veg so when you put it outside bugs arent attracted to it.
also get the stocks well established, run a oscillating fan 24/7
this is so when you go to put them outside the animals cant do much damage.
or you could always set up a fence around your babies.
also get the stocks well established, run a oscillating fan 24/7
this is so when you go to put them outside the animals cant do much damage.
or you could always set up a fence around your babies.
hillbillybobb
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you should adjust your lights to match the amount of daylight before you put them out or they may start to flower and then re-veg. i had this happen before and it wastes a tremendous amount of time. what i do now is run 24/7 and wait until june 1 or after. ive noticed no ill affects this way but you could go17/7 0r 16/8 and you will have monsters if you put them out at 2ft tall!!
bluewavexx
Active Member
So go 24/7 then go like 16 8 for how long before i put em out or do i have to adjust the light gradually?
Micromaster
Active Member
veg at 15/9 so when you put them out in may or so they wont flower right away
And you can also try this
"Harvesting 60 oz of weed in 60 days of outdoor growing.
This method of growing is the fastest way i know of to harvest a good crop without much outdoor exposure. It's cheap in that you only need one female plant and that can come from bag seed, but quality strains are better. Site development is minimal and easy. Its the only way I can grow 12-14 week flowering strains, so I know its the only way anyone north of me can grow long flowering strains, without a greenhouse. This method is not about growing marijuana plants. but instead, just growing marijuan buds using controlled forced flowering
Heres what I do.
In early April,(now), i start my target females. If its a standard strain,I start 5 seeds. This year Im using a femmed strain, so I only planted 2 seeds. By early june, this female plant will be big enough to provide me with 25 clones. I have a little home made aerocloner from walmart materials. I start my 25 clones.
The plan will progress like this: 14 days to root well in the cloner. As soon as they have decent root development, I put them in soil and start 12/12. Within 5 days, i begin to set them outside to harden off and continue the 12/12. Within 10 days im starting to see real flower development and its out to the grow site to be harvested 60 days later , the first week of august. These plants will finish however many days your strain takes to finish minus a week, after you set them out. If that date is the first of july and its a 60 days strain expect to harvest the first of September. If its a 14 week sativa like Kali mist, it will be early october, but without this method, it will be november +.
This is the most critical part. Timing. You must know the date in your area when the clones wont try to reveg. Usually, on a typical october finishing strain, i will see my first flowers at the end of July or by the 1st of August. That date minus 25 days is my FF date.
I am at 38 degrees, and I can set 4" clones that have been forced into flower outside on the first week of july and it won't try to revege. Those 4" clones finish 55-60 days after I set them out
which is the first of August at 20" or so tall, with 2-2.5 oz each of yeild and I have 25 of them. (sativa's may stretch and could reach 4')
No pest problems here, i know of know creature that will try to eat resin producing mj. Before flowering it may be eaten, but not stinky buds.
These 20" plants are very easy to hide. I have a few spots where i have more than 1, but not many. They never get found. Im only outdoors for 60 days and I harvest 5lbs of weed.
I know a grower at 46 degrees that is using this method except that he is now planting almost 100 clones of critical mass and he is harvesting up to 300 oz of weed 55 days later. He plants his clones on July 25, and harvest them in the 2nd week of september. Its a 50 day strain and a branch breaker.
Site development is so easy, because your root ball is going to be small. Heres my site prep. I take a plastic 2 gallon pot like a typical nursery pot. Theyre cheap but you can get them for free from any local landscaper. They throw them away by the dozen.
I fill my 2 gallon pot with soil, whateverkind you use. I then tape a plastic top on it so it wont spill out. This is one site, and during the winter or when I dont have anything to do, i take my posthole diggers out and bury my little ready plant pot. 1 spot ready and 24 to go. When my clone is ready, i will come back, pull off the plastic cover and plant my clone and 6o days after that..."
And you can also try this
"Harvesting 60 oz of weed in 60 days of outdoor growing.
This method of growing is the fastest way i know of to harvest a good crop without much outdoor exposure. It's cheap in that you only need one female plant and that can come from bag seed, but quality strains are better. Site development is minimal and easy. Its the only way I can grow 12-14 week flowering strains, so I know its the only way anyone north of me can grow long flowering strains, without a greenhouse. This method is not about growing marijuana plants. but instead, just growing marijuan buds using controlled forced flowering
Heres what I do.
In early April,(now), i start my target females. If its a standard strain,I start 5 seeds. This year Im using a femmed strain, so I only planted 2 seeds. By early june, this female plant will be big enough to provide me with 25 clones. I have a little home made aerocloner from walmart materials. I start my 25 clones.
The plan will progress like this: 14 days to root well in the cloner. As soon as they have decent root development, I put them in soil and start 12/12. Within 5 days, i begin to set them outside to harden off and continue the 12/12. Within 10 days im starting to see real flower development and its out to the grow site to be harvested 60 days later , the first week of august. These plants will finish however many days your strain takes to finish minus a week, after you set them out. If that date is the first of july and its a 60 days strain expect to harvest the first of September. If its a 14 week sativa like Kali mist, it will be early october, but without this method, it will be november +.
This is the most critical part. Timing. You must know the date in your area when the clones wont try to reveg. Usually, on a typical october finishing strain, i will see my first flowers at the end of July or by the 1st of August. That date minus 25 days is my FF date.
I am at 38 degrees, and I can set 4" clones that have been forced into flower outside on the first week of july and it won't try to revege. Those 4" clones finish 55-60 days after I set them out
which is the first of August at 20" or so tall, with 2-2.5 oz each of yeild and I have 25 of them. (sativa's may stretch and could reach 4')
No pest problems here, i know of know creature that will try to eat resin producing mj. Before flowering it may be eaten, but not stinky buds.
These 20" plants are very easy to hide. I have a few spots where i have more than 1, but not many. They never get found. Im only outdoors for 60 days and I harvest 5lbs of weed.
I know a grower at 46 degrees that is using this method except that he is now planting almost 100 clones of critical mass and he is harvesting up to 300 oz of weed 55 days later. He plants his clones on July 25, and harvest them in the 2nd week of september. Its a 50 day strain and a branch breaker.
Site development is so easy, because your root ball is going to be small. Heres my site prep. I take a plastic 2 gallon pot like a typical nursery pot. Theyre cheap but you can get them for free from any local landscaper. They throw them away by the dozen.
I fill my 2 gallon pot with soil, whateverkind you use. I then tape a plastic top on it so it wont spill out. This is one site, and during the winter or when I dont have anything to do, i take my posthole diggers out and bury my little ready plant pot. 1 spot ready and 24 to go. When my clone is ready, i will come back, pull off the plastic cover and plant my clone and 6o days after that..."
hillbillybobb
Active Member
i have noticed plants that were vegged 24/7 dont flower if i put them out after the beginning of june. if your going to put them out early then i would start on 17/7 in feb and then a month before you put them out start gradually reducing the light to match the hours of daylight. you could go 15/9 like micromaster said too but just make sure you have a strong light so you dont end up with a bean stalk.
bluewavexx
Active Member
Any recommended journals also you mentioned you use your post hole digger in the winter.. how does that work the ground is like concrete.
sonar
Well-Known Member
Is this your own write-up or from somewhere else? Where can I find the entire document? I've thought about doing something similar last summer and was thinking about trying it with a few this year.
hillbillybobb
Active Member
my question would be how the plants dont dry out fast in 2 gallon pots even if their burried? you must have to water them plants frequently. i like the burlap idea better then nursery pots. i did that this year. dug my holes at my new plot, mixed the soil in my yard and filled each burlap bag with a cubic foot of soil. dropped them in the holes ( this was end of october) and next year just take my seedlings and clones out and plant them. the burlap also works as a water wick. good thing is the plant roots can get through the burlap if need be.
bluewavexx
Active Member
damn its cold here....
TokeMySmoke
Active Member
Kinda late but how did it go? Have any advice for another mn grower who wants to try outdoor next year?
Minnegrowta
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Late. Friend, this thread is from 2011, literally TWELVE YEARS ago.
shnkrmn
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This is the most active MN growers thread. I think almost every poster in this thread is no longer active.
Ask your questions here:
Ask your questions here:
Minnesota Growers
So today the Senate is set to vote on the Recreational Marijuana bill finally! So I figured it’s time to start a thread for Minnesota growers if there is any others here?
www.rollitup.org
TokeMySmoke
Active Member
Yep. Still would like to know how things went or have been going since. Just trying to get some info for outdoor in mn
TokeMySmoke
Active Member
Thanks I'll check it out.
I would keep them inside in veg until the solstice to prevent them from reveling.
Make sure you got genetics that will finish outside by mid September before you have to worry about frost.
Start them as early as possible to get a strong of a root stock as you can and top and train to keep them from getting bigger then you want them for guerrilla spot.
Make sure you got genetics that will finish outside by mid September before you have to worry about frost.
Start them as early as possible to get a strong of a root stock as you can and top and train to keep them from getting bigger then you want them for guerrilla spot.