starting outdoor grow

[Chumlie]

I have a plan, not a good one yet. I have 150 arces but it is about an hour or so away.

Is that to far away?

Now I have plan to look for spot with lots of thorn bushes..by the way my property is very hill should plant a north or south facing hill?

When I place the seedlings out I was going to a patch here and patch there to make it seem wild.
When comes to water I going to have to dig a well or something. There are ponds out there, and I was wondering this, when I was using house water I had to bring the pH down to 6.5 and rain water has higher pH than my house water.

I thought about using gin trash along with compost, and I really don't how to use lime because lime is use to sweeten the soil, but everytime I measure to soil's pH it was already in the high sevens. Maybe some would could help me out with that as well.

Thank you to RIU members for helping in the past an them on this one.

 

[Angus]

It depends on how often you need to get there. No one here can tell you if it's going to work out for you.

South-facing.

If there is water there, I'd use it. You can pack filtered water, but that seems kinda waa-waa.

Gin trash?

Why do you want to bring the ph down?

 

[Chumlie]

Gin trash is some badass shit never seen what it does for green but my grandma had her garden covered in the stuff and she hasen't fertilize in 5 years or so.

I don't want to lower if don't have to but every where I've read says that the soil pH needs betwenn 6 and 7, and every time I've tested the soil it was around 7.5 or higher.
For the water I've read that it needs be around 6.5, and my sink water is 7.8 so I lower it, and the rain water I've collected was around 9.1. I don't know what the pH of pond water is.

I want to do a grow that organic and simple, rely on nature for the most part. Like I see some of these outdoor growers that just don't have any worries and just do what they need to do and let God do the rest.

 

[Angus]

What medium are you going to be using? Peat moss (main constituent in most potting soils) gets acidic over time so starting a bit high may not be a bad thing.

Soil is naturally acidic here so I've never had to lower soil pH before

 

[Chumlie]

well, I thought about tilling the patch up and through out some gintrash and some compost and stir it in along with some lime and wait another week or two then plant.

 

[Angus]

What kind of lime? There are different kinds with different uses depending on if you want to buffer the pH or lower it instantly.

 

[Chumlie]

Im going out there in couple more weeks to pick a spot and find water and find the ph of the dirt, and so I think dolomite lime.
Any ways do you have any advice on what to do out there for the first trip Thanks again Angus. "give me my cat back!"

 

[godsgarden]

on my first trip i always make sure the spot gets morning mid day and atleast some evening sun
i also look for tracks(human/animal) and last but not least i smoke a fat joint and picture what my spots will look like in a few months when the ladies are in full bloom
Good LUCK! if i had 150 acres i would definitely utilize the best spots of the property

 

[Angus]

Kitties aren't supposed to smell like cigritts, they're s'posed to smell like kitties.

 

[Chumlie]

Kitties aren't supposed to smell like cigritts, they're s'posed to smell like kitties.

Na man, you seen the jeorge servantes grow vid with them three stoogies on your avatar.

Hey thanks GodsGarden, I'll be goin out there, but what sucks is I want be smokin anything...and I'm craving that inhale... it's been at least since December since I last. I can't find a damn job.

 

[Angus]

jeorge cervantes

 

[Chumlie]

That would be a cool name for a "cafe" The Shroomery, but it might already exist... or a band, Shroomery. Lets start a psychedelic farm.
Hey man should I do a pH test of the dirt before and after I add the compost and gin trash. If if take two milk jugs of water with me, one has the pH of 7 and the other has a ph of 6. Now I take two samples and put them in beer cups and poor the water of 6 on one and the 7 on the other. Collect the run off and test the pH of both of them to see where my ph is. Does anybody think this will work?

 

[zig1670]

i know wat u mean about the job,i got laid off 2 months ago and thats wat got me growing once more