NE First Time Grow

This is my first time growing, so I want to make sure I get this down pat before I start. I have a few questions on my set up.

My spot is in these sand pits. They are surrounded by forest, and the soil is a sand/dirt mix. I was planning on digging a trench, and filling this trench with high quality soil, so then the plants will have good soil, and the water will drain well due to the sandy soil surrounding it. Will this work out?

Also, I live in Mass, so when is a good time to start? I'm growing all outside, without the option to start them inside, so I will be germing them outside also. So when's a good time to plant the seeds?

For any other New Englander's, around when do your plants start to flower, and when do they finish around? I don't know what strain I will have, because I have 30 bagseeds, but I just want a rough estimate on when they will be done. Will they finish before the first frost?

Thanks in advance to anyone who answers my questions. I greatly appreciate it.

Anyone?....

Bagseed: was it indica, or sativa? Indica and mostly indica will finish in your time frame. A equatorial sativa will not.
I had 9 ft giants just begining to bud in late Sept, ended up harvesting less then an ounce per plant. It snow in October where I live.
Try an dig holes instead of the trenches, each plant should have 4' between plants. For this reason holes are much better, as long as they are 1'x1'x1' or greater. Sandy soil is great for weed, the problem is water retention, and lack of nutrients. Try mix 50% natural soil and 50% amendments (cocco coir, peat, manure, compost, worm castings,....)
Try and accomplish the digging and filling as soon as possible, let the microbial activity develop, while your plants begin their development in pots.
Pots because they warm fast and that encourages root growth, greater then you will achieve in the ground. You can plant them before April, and keep them near your planting site. Traveling with half grown plants in your car is a hair raising adventure I will never do again unless I have too.

Thanks, and I couldn't really tell if it was indica or sativa because they are all from different bags of mostly mids. I'm hoping for a little mixture of both.

Should I really plant them soon though? Because it's 40 degrees as an average right now and it won't warm up til mid April.

Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it. If worst comes to worst and it gets too cold before I can harvest I will probably just make hash out of a few plants that didn't finish in time.

Anyone else?

victozap said:

Anyone else?

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I'm about 300 miles north of you in Canada.

I planted mine the first week of june last year. Harvested in mid october last year.

If you have the ablity, start them asap, in pots to transplant. You will get growth in pots until the soil warms up.
Starting early in the spring soil, will devolop a small plant that will take off once the soil warms up.

We're getting snow tommoro, it's only going to be an inch, but it will still make the ground cold, so I don't have the ability to plant them very soon.