Old man needs advise(sometimes I get so confused)

OK... First you have to bear with me a little bit. My last grow years were 1983,1984 and 1985. Great seasons of gardening in very small patches where the soil was so sweet you could stick your hand in up to the elbow without the use of a tool. The seeds came from the Super Sativa Seed Club and my journal indicates they were Skunk#1, ML, Swazi, and a "hash" variety. My only knowledge came from High Times and a tiny little paper back on growing your own.

Now some 25 years later I find myself in a world of 100's of available varieties and things called feminized and auto flowering. Even though I have underwear older than many of you I seek your counsel. Next season I will be growing in 5 gallon buckets so I don't expect any ten foot monsters. The soil will end up being my own well aged compost with seaweed and lobster shells and is as soft and healthy as can be.

So my question is simply this..... If you had to plant in buckets where the sunlight is less than full what strains would you use. I need a short season plant but don't think I want as small of yield as say Lowryder. I need a plant that will do well in a bucket but provide a fair yield of sumpin sweet. Are feminized seeds worth the extra$$$. I won't have an opportunity to sex them and will be lucky to give them a decent start inside.( Kids and stuff ) I hoping to get 10 or 15 buckets out there and maybe a handful of ten gallon nursery pots.

Hook an old guy up and pick your brains guys. It's a new world from when I last nurtured any babies so throw out some ideas so I can check them out. I'm thinking 3 different varieties of five seeds each.

Thanks............

well fem seeds save u time and money, do all the hard work and look, a bunch of males. Another thing with homemade soil becareful animals want to dig and will tip ur buckets over. Seems like most outdoor strains do well in buckets just get something that will finish in time for ur region maybe nothern lights.

Femmed seeds are worth it to some, because they are gonna be female, that's why they're twice the price of regular seed which are roughly 50/50. Make sure you add both dolomite lime and perlite to your compost because compost tends to be more acidic and not drain very well. Also this late in the season I would probably go with an auto flower because the will flower roughly on que no matter the photo-period.

invest a few bucks in a PH soil test kit

its a little late in the season to be just gettin goin, so you might not end out with much at all unless you have a lot better season than me, i have until late september - early october. if i were you id look for any hybrid 50/50, does well for my short season. id use 10 gals to get more yeild. as for the fem seeds they are handy, but you could also just go out to your patch later and pluck the males. and like the guy said above the animals like the organics, but im sure youre aware of that. good luck and stay safe

hello --i too am right there with you.my last grow was on my youngest sons birth 19 yrs ago .i was busted with 2 plants within 1.4 mile of my door. took the other 6 i had elsewhere to pay court and lawyer.big damn waste i too am amazed with all this new seed--lights--etc you got bigger balls than me never would i attempt that many outside 1--- 5 footer an im a nervous wreck and i got 6 or 7 more weeks to go and its bagseed

if u want a short season plant ur best bet would be autoflowering strains. havent had too much exp. with them but i kno that they all have a realatively low yeild(1-1.5oz/plant) look up LST(low stress training) its a method to bush ur plant out and get more bud sites, its debateable if it increases yeild, but i believe it does. the thing about female seeds too is that theres about a 10% chance there gonna be hermie which will pollenate ur girls, so ur gonna have to get out there and to check and sex them. ur not gonna be able to plant them leave them and just come back for harvest, youll be lucky if even one makes it. i dnt kno ur situation and its understandable that u have kids but if ur able to find 15 min for 2-3 days a week, that will be enough time to give them attention to water them, feed them, sex them and ensure they make it through., and as long as ur plant gets some direrct sun throughout the course of the day u can pretty much grow any strain

Get a carport!

peace
doublejj
P.S. And use smart pots instead of buckets, they are cheap & still worth every penny!

haha get a carport.........what is the ML you listed as one of your old strains you grew?

i think it was a typo, the m and n are rite next to eachother, NL (northern lights possibly) idk just a shot in the dark, i often will hit the wrong keys when im typing