Platnium GSC outdoors

willamettemike

willamettemike

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I'll stick to my magnesium sulfate since most info says water softener salt actually takes the mag out.
But like all things, go with what works for you....carefully.
 
willamettemike

willamettemike

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More questions for you experts!

My two older plants are now about 44 inches above the pot and about 2 ft across. Are the 25 gallon fabric pots going to be big enough???

Last year I got a late start because of the laws and grew two to maturity in fairly small. It appears these are becoming monsters. Also, should I do any pruning? Will post picture when I have time.

Thanks
 
Humanrob

Humanrob

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willamettemike said:
More questions for you experts!

My two older plants are now about 44 inches above the pot and about 2 ft across. Are the 25 gallon fabric pots going to be big enough???

Last year I got a late start because of the laws and grew two to maturity in fairly small. It appears these are becoming monsters. Also, should I do any pruning? Will post picture when I have time.

Thanks
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First, I'm not an expert. That said, here are my opinions based on my limited experience...

You might want to add some nutes as the season progresses and the soil in the pot depletes. I use dry time release nutes in mine, like Happy Frog / Fruit and Flower, and just follow the directions. About every 3-4 weeks sprinkle some onto the top of the soil, scratch it in a bit, and every time you water more breaks down and makes its way to the roots. I like to keep things simple, and that works for me.

As far as it being big enough... big enough for what? In general, the more soil the more plant you'll get. You can maintain a healthy small plant in a small pot (10 gallon, for instance). I have found this to be more straight forward with indoor grows, because there is a light/soil balance. Under the sun, plants just want to grow like crazy, especially if you have full sun for most of the day. If you took two clones and put them in identical soil and pots, and put one outside (in full sunlight) and one under ANY kind of indoor lighting, the one outside will get bigger. And in getting bigger, it will need more nutes. So keep an eye on it and feed it when it tells you its hungry.

Pruning is an art form I'm still working on. It depends on your goals. You can top them to create more smaller buds, if you prefer that. This year I topped them to avoid the x-mas tree shape, but I'm also removing all the small (mostly lower) stems, I don't want to deal with trimming a ton of small buds. In general for Oregon I would say keep the center of the plant fairly open, and trim up the bottom 1/4 or 1/3, all for air flow. Dense plants are more likely to get PM or mold. Don't trim too much in one day, especially as it gets closer to flowering, that seems to shock them and it can slow down flowering. I'm also super-cropping mine. I'm going to put a hoop house over them this fall, and I don't want them too tall. Just a thought.

My $.02
 
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