Ak48 outside might be too big. Advice?

So i planted a single ak48 outside in a spot on my garden inside a pot set in the ground under my auto watering for my garden with the intent of replanting it somewhere much more secure. Well after checking on the root situation i found that the roots have busted through the pot and are now in the ground itself. The stem is about an inch or more thick and the plant itself is around 46 inches high from the soil, pretty bushy too.

I am afraid that the plant will get too big. It shows signs of pre flowering but no bud sites yet, so i fear it may go through the typical growth spurt soon and double in size. Does anyone know how much ak48 stretches during flowering? It is the nirvana strain btw, and out of a decent batch this one seems to be the most common phenotype and matches descriptions.


Myself and my fiancee both have legitamate medical licenses, but it is still very spooky. I mean at this rate the plant could finish over 8 feet and bushy too. It already sticks out like a sore thumb and i cant think of what vegetation would be able to disguise it.

My theoretical options are;

1. Plant emerald abrogate tree/shrubs to create a wall on the northern most side, blocking most of the concerned area. The problem is they would look out of place just in a line at a random spot on on my property. Maybe leave them potted as large movable container plants, though keep in mind they are about 7 feet tall.

2. Buy a harbor freight greenhouse and replant the plant inside it in a slightly better location. The one I am looking at is 8feet tall and wide enough for many more plants(though to remain legal this would be the only plant inside it). The foggy glass would make it difficult to see exactly what is inside. The problem here is I am not quite the garden master. I do have grapes and roses and some other fun edible plants, but i still think i would look out of place with a greenhouse in my yard. I could expand my current garden to better justify the look of a greenhouse. The other concern is uprooting the plant and transplanting, would it be too much on the plant?

3. Again dig up the plant and transplant it somewhere off property somewhere safe. This would entail disrupting the roots and transporting a pretty large plant in a generally small car.

4. Digging up the plant and transplanting it into an indoor room. Doubling in size or even close i would run out of height, could i still scrog it or is it too late for that? The only free lit i would have would be a 400w CMH or maybe a 600hps with an additional 180w led(a nice quality one). Screened it could be enough do get a little, but i see a lot of waste with this. Perhaps flowering the best i can with super cropping and/or lst the top, flowering the top half and just harvesting what is ready as it is ready?

5. Chop her down or donate it to a dispensary that can giver her a good life.

6. A variation on the greenhouse idea, dig a pit and make a cold side(cant remember the name) greenhouse. Much smaller than a real greenouse and mostly below ground. But very labor intensive.



Thank you all very much for your ideas and help.
EDIT here is a pic of the plant at the most clear angle. Most angles are obscured by the rose bush and these long weedlike plants that have sprung up fast that i will need to chop down soon but have been using as cover. The camera picture is taken from the north and the plant is about 50 feet from the street.

I edited the pic to hide any location clues.

i am growing the same ak48 strain from nirvanna and mine is just about 7 feet tall outdoors and hasnt started flowering yet so they can get quite big.

if i were you i wouldnt be to worried since your both legal

but you could always top or suppercrop it to keep it shorter and bushier along with some lst ing

I should mention that i live in a poor neighborhood. Most of the neighbors are just simply good people just poor, but there are a few that would be interested in a good sized plant free of work.


And wow 7 feet not yet flowering, that is going to be a legitamate plant! I started this plant a little late and not under ideal conditions for certain, but to spite me it is still almost 5 feet tall.

Tie her down. Simply tie some string near the top 1/3 of her and pull her down as much as she will go. I'm sure this will solve your problem.

yeah tying down, topping, fimming and lst-ing will all be useful for you

p.s. is that your fiancee in your avatar pic? or just some internet pic?

I've had potted plants snatched in the past.

I'd suggest LST or supercropping her, along with whatever screening/plants you can place around her. Never assume "The neighbors don't know". They know, even if they don't.

Lacing barbed wire through and around the plant will make her less attractive. Especially if you anchor the barbed wire to the ground, and hang some large jingle bells to her. Pain and noise have dissuaded a lot of thieves.

If I had the option, I'd advertise her presence. Thieves make a great soil amendment. Very high in nutrients!

I think veggie gardener ^^ has the best suggestions with the barbed wire and bells I had never thought of that, excellent idea. Though instead of lst you could take the top third off the plant and clone it, you could put it in the ground right beside it, donate it or move it indoors. I did this with three of may plants last season that got too tall. It worked awesome by making the plant that were still in the ground a lot bushier and I moved one of the clones indoors and turned it into a mother which I still going today. The other two I gave away to friends and the karma on them has already come back around in the form of nuggets lol.

I have never cloned that much of a plant before. That would be basically the size of a decent indoor plant before flowering, i thought the thing would dry out too fast due to not being able to uptake enough water without a root system to support the entire mass.

I am leaning more and more to a greenhouse, yes it may look out of placeish, but i can maybe make it not so much so. I saw a youtube video on a 6ft deep coldframe greenhouse. Basically it only sticks above ground by 1 or 2 feet but is dug out and positioned at an angle such that it gets great light. Added bonus it gets the cave benefit and with snow on the ground the inside still maintained a grow able temperature. 6 feet of hard clay soil x maybe 4x4 would be great space but the WORK haha. that is a LOT of soil to dig. I planted a tree a month ago and that hole was only 2x2x2 if that and it was a pita with my crap clay soil.


EDIT: how stressful will digging up a plant this size be? lets assume i dig up a very large circle and set on/in a tarp to contain the rootball as best i can.