need help bad frost on plants

buddgrower43

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I have 5 plants 2 in ground others in pots and weather has been nice sunny 70-78 degree during day and 50-60 at night well I kinda got ahead of myself an stuck.them outside to soon and here in two days the lows are one night 43 and the next night is suppose to.be 33 and after that in may is gonna be 80 degree weather after this last frost and I need some advise iv gonna stick the pots in my outhouse for the night a trying to.figure out if I could use a table cloth to cover my plants there already 3 foot high in the first of may
 

growone

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40's should not be any trouble, the low 30's is getting close to being a problem
if that's the actual temp(33), that's not frost
but you could wrap them, just make there's no strong wind or that will snap them if you have no other support in there
 

buddgrower43

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40's should not be any trouble, the low 30's is getting close to being a problem
if that's the actual temp(33), that's not frost
but you could wrap them, just make there's no strong wind or that will snap them if you have no other support in there
Yes I have them staked and you think they'd be fine sitting there ? All of them I'm in northeast states and I was thinking of hitting them alil but with fertlizer that night to warm them up and pray its all fine yes as of now the actual temp is gonna be 33 and the next night is gonna be 43 and then high of 78 low of 60 I just gotta get throu these couple of cold nights .... I'll take as much advise as possible
 

growone

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this is my best guess, and the weather is tough to guess, but i will say reports have gotten better over the years
i'm in upstate NY, and from what i'm seeing, we won't get a frost
so i'd be surprised if you get a frost where you are
and weed can be tolerant of some light frost - usually
 

buddgrower43

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So you think they would be perfectly fine for these two cold nights and also have another question I bought a big ass pot from Walmart 6or7 gallon I have miracle grow organic soil mix I'm using to bags of that some reg scotts at the bottom of the pot for more root pentration and I'm mixing in perlite some blood meal and bone meal and hopefully ill be able to pull a female out of this one good organic grow and other in the ground with good soil also bought some anminal repellent bc of the blood an bone meal and iv been using black pepper crushed peppers red and shakeing it in the area so over all what do you think ? Btw I started plants in Feb to get a early start do you think that's a good idea for some monster plants and I'm gonna be useing miracle grow all purpose plant food and miracle bloom booster for flowering what you think of this whole message sorry its long
 

growone

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no problem with the length, growing is a long process, lot of stuff going on
animals can be a bitch, i used to do outdoor grows, mostly an indoor grower now
repellents won't hurt, but you're right to be concerned about the blood/bone meal, they could draw unwelcome company
don't have a great answer other than the sure fire way is fence/physical barrier
but that's often not possible
 

buddgrower43

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Yeah but I think I can controll it but do you think the frosts and my plants will be fine where they sit ? And ima gonna use a lot of black pepper and crushed red peppers and use that repellent and I think ill be fine and iv got a lot of cyotes around my area so iv got my gun with me everynight for protection , answer the whole message please and also do you think ill be growing monsters being 2 months ahead of time ...?
 

growone

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Yeah but I think I can controll it but do you think the frosts and my plants will be fine where they sit ? And ima gonna use a lot of black pepper and crushed red peppers and use that repellent and I think ill be fine and iv got a lot of cyotes around my area so iv got my gun with me everynight for protection , answer the whole message please and also do you think ill be growing monsters being 2 months ahead of time ...?
with the frost, i'd say watch the weather report like a hawk, the reports are best for about 24 hours
if you see a freeze warning, then wrap 'em up the best you can, that should work
you could get some big plants with the early start, i never did that, always started from seed outdoors
your soil mix sounds good, i use the MG Organic Garden myself, it's not a bad soil
the bloom nutes should work, but it's a ways off, a lot of growing between now and then
 

mightyBUMone

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Cover them with clear or opaque plastic for the night and take them off in the morning. Maybe a couple holes for ventilation.

Disclaimer : I've never grown outside.
 
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