my first outdoor grow

hey guys well i just finished my first indoor grow went pretty swell, took some clones and now im waiting for my outdoor grow to start this will be my first outdoor grow so just a few questions. im looking to put my girls in the ground now i have a plot and all but i need to know a few things like what type of fert's i should mix in with the soil. Do i go out and buy bags of fox farms ocean forest and dig up the ground and mix it with that? or should i plant my ladys and go from there? also should i water the soil around the plants with nutes? but any ways those are the only questions i have if you can help please do also the strain is white widow

We need to start with where you are located as the length of daylight or night time low temperature will determine when you can plant outdoors. You must be experiencing a minimum of 14 hours of daylight per day or they will flower. Here is a great link to a sunrise/sunset calender for your specific zip code, I have found it to be very accurate and I live in the mountains where the daylight is actually shorter than a hundred miles due west of me.

http://www.sunrisesunset.com/predefined.asp


As for hole prep, I dig my holes 3' x 3' and plant my girls a minimum of 8' apart. I made a screed and sifted rocks and roots (and an arrowhead last year) out of the soil with a 1/4" screen and mixed in 2-3 bags of Miracle Grow potting soil. Into the first 1' of the hole I put a mixture of the soil/MG and about 3 gallons of very old chicken shit also run through the screen and mixed it thoroughly in the hole. The rest of the holes are filled and the plants are placed about 1" above ground level with the soil mix level in an 18" circle around the base of the plant and tapered to ground level. I then make a 6" tall and 1' wide barrier around the rim of the 3' hole. I will water them weekly with regular Miracle Grow plant fertilizer mixed at a ratio of 2 level spoons (the large end of the green measuring spoon provided in every box of 4 bags about $10) per 5 gallons of water and each plant gets 5 gallons a week. Additional watering depends on the variety and your weather mainly heat and wind, I have both and water frequently in the hottest part of the summer. I also use a bud hardener ( I use Gravity ) starting in late August when they have begun to clearly show signs of flowering. My latitude is exactly 45N and my elevation is 4100ft so I must take extreme measures to protect my plants both early and late in the growing season when the ground is cool in the spring and night time temperatures drop into the twenties beginning in late September ( I run some late finishing varieties until early November ). Another thing I do is take my outdoor clones at the beginning of March and veg them under 1000W HID from the outset. They will need to be given indirect light for the first 3-4 days when they are first put into soil as clones and again when they are first exposed to actual sunlight. This puts the plants at around 24"-30" tall and about 24" around with fairly aggressive topping starting initially between the 4th through the 6th set of nodes ( clones should have alternating nodes with single shoots, seed plants will have 2 shoots per node for several nodes and then begin alternating). After the initial topping I will top them after every third set of shoots making sure that the terminal shoot remaining after the cut is pointing to the outside of the plant. This will give 3 ( and occasionally more ) new primary branches at each topping site with the proper stem spacing to provide good cola spacing. Ideally using this method I will end up at the end of the season with 60-100 colas and depending on the strain I get from 1 1/2 to 3 pounds per plant. Good Luck and I hope this helps, Larry

PS In re-reading my post I see that I inadvertently omitted 2 cubic feet of perlite from the initial soil/MG mixture. Sorry, the 50+ MPH winds are keeping me awake. I have already been out to my "hoophouse" twice to make sure it is intact. I did say extreme measures right? In addition to my indoor, I have about 40 plants outside in the hoophouse with supplemental lighting. It's kind of funny, from 4 am until after daylight and from before sunset until 7 pm the 1000w MH makes it look like the sun is setting in my backyard.

dude holy shit thats alot of plants haha well thanks for all your help man i will put it to good use

if your soil is halfway decent(?) you can amend with perilite, maybe some additional "good" soil. depends on how much stuff you want to tote and holes to dig. keep it real simple first time around. i would have to carry water in and fertilized every other watering. also mixed in some Osmocote in soil originally. Simple and easy.