Open Show n' Tell 2016
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Jozikins
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Tap is fine as long as it's not crazy. I once had tap at 1300ppm, that was crazy. Right now mine is about 280. I've never tried Schultz, I normally go with a more cannabis specific fertilizer, so I couldn't tell you much about it. Right now I'm loving botanicares pure blend pro formula, it's inexpensive and all-in-one. But you can't go wrong with something economical and proven like maxsea all purpose
jaybllr333
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Are you doing light dep in the greenhouse for those beauties? How old are they?
supchaka
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Same nutes I've been using for a couple years. It's like $35 a gallon after discount. I'm thinking of trying their new Kind line when I run out. I like them though!
jaybllr333
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I don't think el Nino its going to let me use the greenhouse as early as I had hoped.
The plan was to move the Critical Auto out with the Tomatoes and peppers this week.
The plan was to move the Critical Auto out with the Tomatoes and peppers this week.
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jaybllr333
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I've heard light dep can be tricky....that's why I wanted to try it with this first run. I'm hoping these girls will finish late april or may in the greenhouse, right before I move the main crop outdoors for the summer. Here's what I plan on running for my first outdoor crop.
jaybllr333
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papapayne
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These will be full season plants in 200 gallon smart pots. They been veggin 5 maybe 7 weeks
Your gonna need way more soil for those beasts to run full season. Your green house roof film will have to be removed and replaced with trellis netting. They will be enormous! I just up potted some of my full seasons and they will fill up a 1000 gallon. At least I'm pretty sure they will .
I'm ordering 45 yards for 9 plantsGot damn a 1000 gallons of soil.
Aeroknow
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I'm ordering 45 yards for 9 plants
papapayne
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The greenhouse has 14' of headroom...I hope that will be tall enough lol. Gonna keep topping them till they go outside, so they go round and bushy. Hoping 10x10 and 14 feet tall will be filled by each plant.
Humanrob
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Wow. Seriously, wow.
This year I'm putting a couple in 10 (yes ten) gallon pots, to keep them small enough to move into the garage if I need to finish them there at the end of the season. The rest are going into.... eh.... a 100' x 100' pot... known as the ground in my backyard. I will dig about 18 cubic feet (3x3x2) of native ground out per plant and fill it with a mix of compost, steer manure, peat moss, chicken manure, etc. (all from the local farm store), to give them a good start, and then they're on their own. Obviously your harvest goals are orders of magnitude larger than mine.
Last summer (my first outdoor) I grew two in 100 gallon smart pots and two in 100 gallon sized holes I dug in the ground and filled with the same good soil I put in the smart pots. I really didn't notice any difference between the two. Maybe that's because their ultimate potentials were all actually limited by my lack of experience -- but they all bulked up, filled out, and were generally healthy.
Other than things like gophers, what are the advantages of potting them outdoors? I see most folks who know what they're doing, do it (which is why I tried it last year). Thanks for the info --
For me the advantage is I live on a pile of rocks and boulders. The dirt I have is sand and infested with gophers and ground squirrels. So pots solve all those problems for me.Wow. Seriously, wow.
This year I'm putting a couple in 10 (yes ten) gallon pots, to keep them small enough to move into the garage if I need to finish them there at the end of the season. The rest are going into.... eh.... a 100' x 100' pot... known as the ground in my backyard. I will dig about 18 cubic feet (3x3x2) of native ground out per plant and fill it with a mix of compost, steer manure, peat moss, chicken manure, etc. (all from the local farm store), to give them a good start, and then they're on their own. Obviously your harvest goals are orders of magnitude larger than mine.
Last summer (my first outdoor) I grew two in 100 gallon smart pots and two in 100 gallon sized holes I dug in the ground and filled with the same good soil I put in the smart pots. I really didn't notice any difference between the two. Maybe that's because their ultimate potentials were all actually limited by my lack of experience -- but they all bulked up, filled out, and were generally healthy.
Other than things like gophers, what are the advantages of potting them outdoors? I see most folks who know what they're doing, do it (which is why I tried it last year). Thanks for the info --
Humanrob
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Thanks for the reply. Now that you mention rocky soil, I can see that people with poor draining soil (too much clay) would also have reason to pot them. I guess we're pretty lucky, our native soil is full of worms and drains well.