Possible to rely on rain as main water source?

Hey all, i just moved out of town and left 6 plants outdoors 2 hours away, .. My question is can i rely on rain/morning dew as my main watering source? Up until my move they had been getting watered about twice a week and fed each watering with flora nova grow and then bloom, i also have been applying heavy harvest every 3 weeks.
my soil is a mix of organic top soil with manure in it/hydro shop soil with perlite in it/ native soil/ bone meal and heavy harvest top dressing and then a natural mulch to help them blend in better (grass clippings/sticks/leaves)
we have been getting a decent amount of rain lately and i was wondering if this will be enough for them to get by, my plan is to only return to add maybe 1-2 more heavy harvest top dressings and a flora nova bloom feed each of those times and then return at harvest.
btw i am in southern ontario its starting to cool down and my plants were started from seed indoors and went into the ground in july so they are well established

One year I did an amazing outdoor grow in my own soil mix, and never once fed them. The yield lacked slightly, but still turned out much better then I had hoped for. I'd be willing to say as long as you dont go through a drought then you should be just fine.

It's a weed will do what ever it can to survive. good luck

I would plant them in the soil to do that. Just burry it deep. Water very very well in the plant hole before putting in the plant. This way your plant could probably hold water for much longer - that's what i do here anyway. But here soil is pretty moist most of the time. So make sure you don't plant it in dry soil as it will suck all the water out of the plant's soil ball.

Brimi said:

I would plant them in the soil to do that. Just burry it deep. Water very very well in the plant hole before putting in the plant. This way your plant could probably hold water for much longer - that's what i do here anyway. But here soil is pretty moist most of the time. So make sure you don't plant it in dry soil as it will suck all the water out of the plant's soil ball.

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yup there in the soil..

Northside.roost said:

yup there in the soil..

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Argh - sorry i see that now. Been vaping a bit ;O) I think they'll be fine without more work. I have plants like that - haven't watered or fertilized at all. Just planted where other plants like Urtica Dioica grow well. They indicate N. My plants will be about 1.8 - 2.1 meters at harvest time in a good summer - this year we had a bad summer so they are not quite as big.

i think another benefit of this method is alot less traffic at the grow spot and trail making , i find when i obsess over my plants and over care for them its only negative where as everytime i go check on my plants in the wild they are a lovely deep green and look like they need nothing besides for picking off a couple leaves

ps. dont know if any of you know this or not but on the weather network site they have a lawn and garden forecast that tells you the gardening conditions for each day and the need for watering as well

does anyone else plant outside and only come back a few times?

anyone? at all?

yo anyone can offer some help?

I have no experience doing this but I don't see why you couldn't pull it off. I mean I think weather and the region you're growing in will play a big factor, but to say this couldn't be done would seem weird to me considering plants/weeds have been doing this for millions of years. One thing I would be worried about also would be critters eating them, that would suck to drive a few hours expecting to see some flowering buds only to find a few raccoon laying on the ground stoned off their asses.

Depends on your climate. I have heard to use about half native soil in your mix to hold water better, also a good mulch over the top to hold moisture.

dude its a plant, its been growing like that for thousands of years...ur good....

I also live in Ontario and Watering my plants is pretty unnecessary, so usually I fertilize them every two weeks with a molasses feeding in between. You should be good Ive had friends who've planted like 100 plants and just left them, to return in October to some monsters with great smoke

yo, i checked my plants after over 2 weeks of no water added by me, they were all good except for one which would of been good but on the main stem all four of the nodes have snapped not fully off but like half way and everything is laying on the ground, the weird part is all the leaves and everything was still sticking up towards the sun like it was still alive? its real bushy, i know its kind of hard to picture but do you think that one might survive?
all other patches were good, my sour diesel is a good 5 footer at least and is nicely budding with a nice smell to it already, everything else is being real slow to flower..
when i returned i re applied some more heavy harvest, watered with flora nova bloom, pruned leaves, foiler fed with flora nova bloom, and added mulch over the base of plants made of native growth in the area, sticks, grasses, leaves from the plants them selves... i am pretty confident that they wont need as frequent watering now as they all were a deep green like they were healthy and no sagging leafs ect.. my only concern now is length of harvest.. first frost is supposed to be oct 8. they were started indoors in late june, put outside in july..