Best state to grow outdoors?!?

[dbdweller]

Well, I've grown in both S. Florida and central midwest. Both have distinct advantages and drawbacks. The soil is crap in Florida, has to be heavily amended or replaced. This makes a true in-ground very difficult, but it's how I started. The real advantage to Florida growing are the strains you can run, particularly long flowering sativas...which cannot be placed in-ground further north unless you have a cold frame etc. At the same time, humidity is a real problem down south until that first cold front clears the peninsula.

The midwest and corn belt, and even mid-south regions have soil full of microbial life, and that clay medium is loaded with nutes once you lighten it up a bit. You can grow monsters in these areas, unless of course there is a major drought...which isn't an issue in Florida since it rains damn near everyday for 6 months straight.

Your right about South Florida. I am there growing in the winter (now) and California in the Summer. Days are 80 and the nights r 65 Humidity 40% you know thats workable. We are just about to harvest now. This global warming has kept this winter hot..shit middle of January and it was 81 today. The first real short cold front comes about a week from now
Soil...what soil lol lots of sand. We use big burlap sheets. Fill them up... i like worm casting, Coco and such. At least Hawaii had better soil.

You would be surprised now a days how well cross breeding works down here. Everything still wants to touch the sky but with some of these great genetics
it blows me away.

But i have to say I love Northern California. Garberville is were my first grow was 1985.

This is out of Florida, California, Hawaii, Colorado, Texas, Rhode Island

 

[Stay Brewin]

But i have to say I love Northern California. Garberville is were my first grow was 1985.

Hands down bruh in terms of quality nor cal bush beats hydro indoor from anywhere else in the u.s. The strains they're growing indoor across the country were mostly developed there anyway lol.

 

[blindbaby]

there are plenty of streins that work well in washington. ive done jack herer, with good results. this year, its going to be aurora indica, as its a 59 days indoor. just go for fast finishers. i will try a couple madshack outside, as well. rumor has it that it will also include some blue dream. i guess this stuff is a huge producer. not sure about its finish time. my place, accoording to the county, is only worth 127k right now. over half acre. i paid 143 in 05, and dumped 30k into it.

 

[ShotgunWally]

kentucky has been known for thier good bud in the montains

 

[getawaymountain]

it isn't maine lol.................

 

[HolySmoke420]

Northern Georgia, southern Tennessee. Basically anywhere in the applachian mountains. Beautiful scenery
And you can produce some great plants if youre on the right slope. Land is cheap and soil is ehh, but we do
See lots of choppers but in my years of growing I've never been bothered besides wildlife and some hikers that
Got a hold of some of my plants

 

[dababydroman]

there looking for moonshiners and pot growers in those woods!

 

[kindnug]

North Carolina has Mountains/Rolling Hills/Coastal Plains and mild winters > only problem is legality

I've had Sour D/chem91 grown in NC coastal plains that was better than anything I've smoked here in Cali/Oregon
Those were Clones that originated just a few states away and are considered some of the best genes in the USA

I live in Cali and I don't agree with all the West Coast grows better MJ > the climate is VERY similar if you look SouthEast(Below Virginia)

East Coast can produce just as much with same quality + When laws change > They might surprise you.

 

[0regonKush]

I hear Oregon.......

Oregon is a great state. We have great weather here in the Willamette Valley.

 

[Corso312]

Southern Illinois, Kentucky,Tennessee. All great...I have ripped out monsters in Chicago n just outside city but southern Illinois has a 4-5 week lingers season...you can grow 12 week sativas there...not as much rain as Oregon or Washington. So no mold/mildew. Problems...land is very cheap.

 

[notbusted]

I live in Colorado. Never have grown any MJ and will try this year. Certain plants like cilantro and chives grow sickly quick. Year 'round weed states would be sunbelt and CA. Look where most of the produce comes from in your region or country and your should have an answer. Eastern slopes of OR and WA are mild and produce great crops. I also have noticed that when wine is being produced so should our leefy green do well. Pick the proper strains for your geography and give it a whirl. On my folks farm we have tons of the so called "ditch weed" growing in eastern Nebraska. Violent swings in the weather and winters very cold at times. Summers remind me of basic training at Ft. McClellan and winters of Siberia. What I am saying is choose your crop and go to where it is best suited. It is my understanding that some MJ plants take many months and others just two or three to mature. After you arrive upon your true goal you should then be able to narrow your choices as to locality or reformulate your goals based upon feasibility and economics. Report back on the first home-grown fatty!

 

[viper2020cobra]

i dont think i would even recommend south florida. lots of mold problems. soil is non existant its all sand and the majority of remaining available woods are marsh lands or flood during the summers. and i have lived all over south florida and everyday i see and hear atleast 10 helicopters flying around looking.

 

[wakenvape]

Anyone from Arizona? I will be flying out to Phoenix next week and will be in need of assistance...

 

[bradley104]

OH-IO buddy. all the way. lots of land, flat or hilly depending what side of the state, lots of forests/farmland close to cities. not an outrageous cost of living.

 

[Sunbiz1]

Your right about South Florida. I am there growing in the winter (now) and California in the Summer. Days are 80 and the nights r 65 Humidity 40% you know thats workable. We are just about to harvest now. This global warming has kept this winter hot..shit middle of January and it was 81 today. The first real short cold front comes about a week from now
Soil...what soil lol lots of sand. We use big burlap sheets. Fill them up... i like worm casting, Coco and such. At least Hawaii had better soil.

You would be surprised now a days how well cross breeding works down here. Everything still wants to touch the sky but with some of these great genetics
it blows me away.

But i have to say I love Northern California. Garberville is were my first grow was 1985.

This is out of Florida, California, Hawaii, Colorado, Texas, Rhode Island

Damn, totally missed this post...sorry.

http://soils.usda.gov/technical/classification/orders/mollisols_map.html

Did some homework on this subject...the colored areas are loaded w/humus etc. Little wonder why so much corn is grown in Iowa.

 

[joe blow greenthumb]

Find land that you can rent on one of the reservations in South Dakota. The white man won't come looking for you and its pretty secluded. South Dakota is the highest elevation east of the Rockies which means it gets sun much longer than most places. My mom visited and said she would never come back due to the sun waking her so early.

 

[petert]

I live in Colorado. Never have grown any MJ and will try this year. Certain plants like cilantro and chives grow sickly quick. Year 'round weed states would be sunbelt and CA. Look where most of the produce comes from in your region or country and your should have an answer. Eastern slopes of OR and WA are mild and produce great crops. I also have noticed that when wine is being produced so should our leefy green do well. Pick the proper strains for your geography and give it a whirl. On my folks farm we have tons of the so called "ditch weed" growing in eastern Nebraska. Violent swings in the weather and winters very cold at times. Summers remind me of basic training at Ft. McClellan and winters of Siberia. What I am saying is choose your crop and go to where it is best suited. It is my understanding that some MJ plants take many months and others just two or three to mature. After you arrive upon your true goal you should then be able to narrow your choices as to locality or reformulate your goals based upon feasibility and economics. Report back on the first home-grown fatty!

As a resident of the eastern slopes of the Oregon Cascades I swill agree with you...We essentially get little to VERY little in the way of rain from late May- October but water is plentiful. September is probably our best month. I've been growing outdoors for more than a few years and with the exception of picking a late finisher one year, have always had great success. I'm in Oregon fruit and wine country, so that says a little also.
That said I don't know if you can pick a "state" as best..but I've always heard that NorCal-southern Oregon are also great areas to grow. (NorCal goes without saying) but southern Oregon has a great climate.

 

[BustinScales510]

Find land that you can rent on one of the reservations in South Dakota. The white man won't come looking for you and its pretty secluded. South Dakota is the highest elevation east of the Rockies which means it gets sun much longer than most places. My mom visited and said she would never come back due to the sun waking her so early.

I dont think thats how the sun works

 

[Stay Brewin]

Find land that you can rent on one of the reservations in South Dakota. The white man won't come looking for you and its pretty secluded. South Dakota is the highest elevation east of the Rockies which means it gets sun much longer than most places. My mom visited and said she would never come back due to the sun waking her so early.

Ya I gotta second the comment above me. The sun will definitely be longer in part if not all of june/july so auto's that you can veg under constant light indoors will yield u a nice amount in the shorter growing season. But in september/october the days are going get shorter faster and very cold.

 

[ktrack11]

The best region of the country I would say is actually probably Kentucky. The humid summers promote female plants better than the dry climates of the West coast, but the humidity dies down significantly in September which prevents bud rot. The KY frost, especially in Western KY does not come until about Halloween, so you can imagine the sizable buds you might get if you plant your seeds May 1.