Thebarnlot
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How much taller will they get?
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dunphy
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Have they started flowering yet? stretching? Probably not much more if they have, but doesnt really look like they've stretched yet, so you may get another 2 feet out of them or so..
Whats the total height at now?
What is your native soil made of? Did you excavate and refill the holes with soil? For me when I plant in my native soil like that, even if digging a big hole and refilling with soil, as soon as the roots reach that boundary, they stop in their tracks and the plant stays roughly the same size it wouldve been if that hole were a pot.
Whats the total height at now?
What is your native soil made of? Did you excavate and refill the holes with soil? For me when I plant in my native soil like that, even if digging a big hole and refilling with soil, as soon as the roots reach that boundary, they stop in their tracks and the plant stays roughly the same size it wouldve been if that hole were a pot.
ganga gurl420
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I always figure a good rule of thumb is they will triple in size from start of July to the harvest. It will still probably get a bit bigger.
Freedom seed
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To plant into clay try this:
Dig straight down until you hit moisture. Fill up with broken clay chunks and manure. Set the plant on top. That’s your shit wick.
Break up a six foot diameter circle about one foot deep around the hole. Break the clay into chunks and mix in manure, peat moss, compost, tomato pellets or whatever organics you have into this layer.
Your start with its tap root sits on top of the wick. The surface feeding roots go out easily through the ammended clay to set the diameter of your plant.
Clay: mix the organics in.
Sand: topdress the organics.
Op: depends how long the buds get on that variety. Sure looks like you have lots of room there.
ganga gurl420
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Lol you must not get rain like we do here. I tried growing in ground in clay one yr and it did nothing but rain that summer.To plant into clay try this:
Dig straight down until you hit moisture. Fill up with broken clay chunks and manure. Set the plant on top. That’s your shit wick.
Break up a six foot diameter circle about one foot deep around the hole. Break the clay into chunks and mix in manure, peat moss, compost, tomato pellets or whatever organics you have into this layer.
Your start with its tap root sits on top of the wick. The surface feeding roots go out easily through the ammended clay to set the diameter of your plant.
Clay: mix the organics in.
Sand: topdress the organics.
Op: depends how long the buds get on that variety. Sure looks like you have lots of room there.
Because of the clay working almost as a bowl to hold in the water, it turned my soil into soup. While others were working their ass off to water their plants I was working to remove the water. It was aweful and I decided then and there it will be raised beds from then on out.
I make sure the pots are open tho at the bottom so that the roots do enter the clay. I also use an ice fishing auger to break up the clay before I put my pots down.
Freedom seed
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It will end up being a few inches higher than the ground around it because of the added material. We get lots of rain and the clay still cracks in the heat. Last rain was 3.75” here.
Dirt augers have much heavier duty gearsets than ice augers. Only mentioning because I know how thick the ice gets in the midwest. Hate to be stuck with a hand auger during a cold winter.
Dirt augers have much heavier duty gearsets than ice augers. Only mentioning because I know how thick the ice gets in the midwest. Hate to be stuck with a hand auger during a cold winter.
JoeBlow5823
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You going to put up any sort of trellis? They gonna need some support.
Thebarnlot
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Thought I put newer pictures up. Spent hours putting cages up seems like. It was dark when I started putting this cage almost just didn't do it. Very next night had 60mph wind gust and rain..no broken branches at all just knocked my mom's potted plants all the way over..
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Thebarnlot
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Here lately it has been raining alot but nothing like last year. It is just farmland surrounded by a Creek on 3 sides in 50 year old barn lot. Used to be an indian camp to . Still find Arrowheads ....About a foot down the dirt turns to hard reddish clay . I still can't pull the dried stalk up from Last year's plant out of the ground. But it was 2 plants growing side by side 8-10 feet tall and had 4pounds.
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dunphy
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Looks good, I love when all the preparation pays off and you dont have to sit there holding your breath during storms worrying whether the plants will survive or not. Lot of work in the beginning, but worth it for sure.
Future tip, WAAAY easier getting the cages in place before the plants reach them, much easier to come by and pull the branches through as they grow.. I've broken so many branches trying to get trellis and caging on late, especially when working by myself for many grows.
Does your trail cam have a live feed? What brand/model is that and how much did it run you?
Thebarnlot
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In the back grounds a treeline for the creek all the way across
dunphy
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Beautiful looking plot, would love spending time out there.
The name makes sense now too, sorta a play on sandlot too kinda...
Very nice, I want to buy a big ass property like that with an old barn out in the middle of nowhere (mass still has best growing laws for new england area,... and after living in cali, I didnt think I would miss the winter/snow, but I definitely do... I cant deal with 75 and sunny day after day... I love my thunderstorms too much for that.
Thebarnlot
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Yeah I was a little late putting on but it was cool looking at the Johnson grass layed over in all directions and treelimbs down but no broken branches . No live feed but it was like 50$ on Amazon. Has time dew lapse but can't use timelape and motion.
Thebarnlot
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I only dug the holes about 1 1/2 feet deep maybe 1 1/2 wide. The ground was so hard and I was still carry buckets out there to water. I started with 10 at once that a buddy started for me. And had to work night shift so I kinda rushed the transplanting. Not even sure what the strain is on the caged ones. The one with trellis is orange sundae and it's 2 plants growing side by side. They were the same size til I broke a main brach off.
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Thebarnlot
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Not sure on hours I'll get some better pics with my drone
Thebarnlot
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Yeah I couldn't believe I come up with a username like that. I thought of it that same way to
dunphy
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Yeah I hear you, I grabbed a couple of these... They have wifi live feed, and sd card storage, but the software absolutely sucks... and its some weird no name chinese knockoff so I really dont even trust it. I already painted them all camo, so I cant exchange them for others..
I think they were only 35 when I bought them though, the price mustve gone up. They each came with a $15 amazon gift card too if you leave them a review...at least mine came with a paper offering it. This was months ago though.
But I mainly got them so I can have live feed at work on my tablet, and night vision / motion detection (not very good... or hard problem, but bugs and wind blowing branches will set off the motion detection because its so sensitive.
I also have a ras pi camera I built for about 50 bucks for another purpose, its modular, but takes time so for conveinence sake I just bought the cheapo chinese security cameras, and a couple "dummy" decoy cameras that are just out in the open as a deterrent for anyone that happens to peak over into the yard. They were only like 8 bucks each, and have a small red led and look pretty legit... Just makes my plot an extra hassle to deal with...Let the rippers find an easier target.. (Same idea/reason for having two tents set up and only sleeping in one... Just the sight of them alone is almost as effective of a deterrent than someone actually being inside the tent..)
Thebarnlot
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Well my house 50 yards away and someones always home. I got 1 more camera up . I'm going to have to check out the live feed ones tho
Thebarnlot
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Any one ever used this stuff? Or know how often I should be using it?