First outdoor grow using Mega Crop

Wanted to document this years outdoor grow. Using Mega Crop for the first time start to finish. Medium is Batch 64 Moonshine Mix; it’s amended coco and perilite. Clones are Guava D,Jabberwocky, and Night Nurse. Gifted a bunch of clones to friends and got everything transplanted to their final pots for flowering. Thanks for checking out the grow.

It’s been raining a lot the past week and they seem to be loving it. Going to be supporting everything with bamboo poles this weekend now that they’re filling out.

Very nice man!

Thanks

Have you thought about cover to help dry them out?

The coco and fabric pots have been drying out great so far and saved me having to water so much.

Guava D JabberwockyNight Nurse

The color on the strains that I just grew indoors using age old organics were not as vibrant vs the outdoor mega crop run.

Flower update

Med68w, great pics and crop, thankx for sharing.

I too grow outdoors and last year used Nector of the Gods which was very successful. This year I'm reading up on Mega Crop and really enjoyed your grow.
Perhaps you could assist me by providing me with your MC feeding schedule, I grow in soil with vermiculite (6 gal fabric pots) .

Thanks

looking GOOD!!

Looking nice i like to wrap the pot with 6by6 wire mesh,it keeps your plants secure in heavy wind & wind

garybo said:

Med68w, great pics and crop, thankx for sharing.

I too grow outdoors and last year used Nector of the Gods which was very successful. This year I'm reading up on Mega Crop and really enjoyed your grow.
Perhaps you could assist me by providing me with your MC feeding schedule, I grow in soil with vermiculite (6 gal fabric pots) .

Thanks

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I ran my outdoor plants start to finish with Mega Crop last year, I was really happy with how my plants performed, aside from a few mistakes that were 100% my fault. One thing to note is mine were grown in coco and perlite.

I think a good starting strength for your plants is 4 grams/gallon. I've used that strength on 2 node seedlings in my coco grows and they responded nicely, no burning or other adverse effects. Only thing I'd suggest is letting the plants tell you when they're hungry and then feeding them, as your soil will have some amount of nutrients in it.

I think you'll like Mega Crop, it's super easy and offers a complete macro/micro nutrient profile to go from start to finish.

Looks smelly!

Assistance is greatly welcome. I live in Florida (similar to the Mediterranean area) and wish to know how often I should feed using Mega Crop.

I grow in 5 gal pots and they are outside exposed to the elements.

In the past, using Nectar of the Gods I fed every 3 days and water the other 2 days and flushed monthly. The crop turned out very satisfactory. Since this the first time using Mega Crop I’m open to advice. If it makes any difference, most of the girls are sativa.


Thanks.

garybo said:

Assistance is greatly welcome. I live in Florida (similar to the Mediterranean area) and wish to know how often I should feed using Mega Crop.

I grow in 5 gal pots and they are outside exposed to the elements.

In the past, using Nectar of the Gods I fed every 3 days and water the other 2 days and flushed monthly. The crop turned out very satisfactory. Since this the first time using Mega Crop I’m open to advice. If it makes any difference, most of the girls are sativa.


Thanks.

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I've been using Megacrop indoors with the sample 300g and it has been excellent.
I have one male plant outside in a 1.5g hempy I've been using MC feeding calculator here

https://greenleafnutrients.com/feeding-calculator/?v=7516fd43adaa

4g is about 300ppm it, I go around 6-800+ ppm depending on what i amend with for root sim or flowering. 300ppm just seems low and will give you pretty light green leafs.
The directions say just dial it in until you maintain a nice green.

My only issue is ive never done 100% soil-less outdoors, MC has natural ingredients (it smells great like a hearty meal), would an outdoor large hempy attract bugs or rot?

@Med68w Great job btw did you top dress or pre-mix or foliar?
If you lay a 2" deep saucer under the fabir pots, and theoretically pour 2" of perlite into the fabric pot before transplanting into them...would that make it a hempy just aerated better? That's what I think of doing since it gets hot and dry AF here it wood cool down the plant via convention but would get very dry fast ..or just amend with vermiculite...ideas.

Thanks!

Mordynyc, Thanks for your reply and very informative.

The folks at Greenleaf appeal to the indoor growers which are OK for reservoir feeding, but don’t apply to outdoors-growers, such as I who hand feed.

Due to the positive review of the product I bought a package of MC along with Sweet Candy to augment the Fox Farm soil which I’m using, also for the first time as well.

Once the FF nutrients become null, which I understand is about 4 weeks, I should start hand feeding.

When that time comes, my grow plan is to start out with low doses of MC and work up to Greenleaf’s suggested recommendations.

In the past my feeding schedule was to feed every 3rd day and water the other two days, and work well here in NW Florida.

My concern is putting the plants in shock by feeding too often or not often enough. As well as nute burning the plants.

Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Flame up.

@garybo if you follow a feed-water-water-feed schedule with Mega Crop, I think you'd do just fine. Greenleaf has been including a scoop with the new formula, if you use one scoop per 5 gallons of water you shouldn't risk any nutrient burn/shock as long as the plants are not too young.

When I used the old formula MC last year, I was feeding at 4 grams/gallon every watering at 2-3 leaf sets and they took to it just fine. That was using inert media, so my feeding frequency was higher than what you'll likely be doing.

Just lovely nice work!

socaljoe said:

@garybo if you follow a feed-water-water-feed schedule with Mega Crop, I think you'd do just fine. Greenleaf has been including a scoop with the new formula, if you use one scoop per 5 gallons of water you shouldn't risk any nutrient burn/shock as long as the plants are not too young.

When I used the old formula MC last year, I was feeding at 4 grams/gallon every watering at 2-3 leaf sets and they took to it just fine. That was using inert media, so my feeding frequency was higher than what you'll likely be doing.

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Excellent. This will put me in the ball park, something to sink my teeth into.
Thanks for the feedback.

Spark it up.