What happens if you have more than 4 plants?

Canadain Closet Gardener

Canadain Closet Gardener

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If I do have plants outside next year. It will be at a friends house.
I'm going to make her 4 self watering planters out of those CT 210L 55Gal bins. Much like the self watering buckets. I will even put an air stone on the bottom reservoir.


Jay p123 said:
Ya for sure.
I hope people see my plants and actually have the room to grow them that big outdoor next season so they have a crazy amount of bud at the end of season.
I suggest Booking your vacation time for October 5 to protect harvest lol.
Wasting 5 months on 7 gallon pots outdoor is just not worth it.
You can get a pretty nice yeild from 60 galloners.
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Jay p123

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Canadain Closet Gardener said:
If I do have plants outside next year. It will be at a friends house.
I'm going to make her 4 self watering planters out of those CT 210L 55Gal bins. Much like the self watering buckets. I will even put an air stone on the bottom reservoir.




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To be honest all that self watering stuff sounds complicated lol. ( not really) but if your friend is not willing to water it for you then ya sounds cool.
 
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Lightgreen2k said:
That is true..
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I was skeptical when I researched that a 200 gallon pot would yield in between 2-5 pounds grown depending on the grower.
My pots were 200 gallon ( 1 yard organic soil each ) and they performed remarkably.
I could only imagine what a 1000 gallon pot plant would look like grown in 5 yards of soil.
My roots were touching the side of raised beds in Mid July.
 
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Jay p123 said:
Take the 4 plant count and 4 1000 gallon pots and you won't need any meds for 2 years lol.
You know how long it takes to water 5 yards of soil per pot lol.

Everyone should overgrow the system.
They say 4 with no height limit so fuck them and the neighbors.
No point to grow a 7 gallon pot outdoors .

That's why with only 4 plants they are pushing us to grow outdoors cuz as I said 4 plant count indoors is probably not worth the hassles.
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20 to 30 minutes for each plant, once a day, when it's hot sometime twice. Should pull at least 10 pounds a plant. At least in southern california
 
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757growin said:
20 to 30 minutes for each plant, once a day, when it's hot sometime twice. Should pull at least 10 pounds a plant. At least in southern california
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I pretty much got those numbers here if you do the math on a 200 gallon throwing 5 smokable and more than a few for oil and I'm far from California lol.
If I had done 1 1000 Gallon I would have been knocking on the 15 mark.
To top it off it's great smoke.
 
cannadan

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I have always tried to avoid buying soil...cause unless you know exactly where it can from....it can be a crap shoot...
but of course not everybody has the property to dig at or to make their own at.
I would tend toward building my own soils by making a large compost pile and using only my own lawn clippings( no additives) and household food scraps ,leaves weeds,etc...
there is no arguing that it makes a good soil since the rye grass on the top of the pile grows easily to 6 feet each summer....nice and fertile.
you do need to plan ahead though and it will take a few years to get the whole process working good.
 
Jay p123

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gb123 said:
how much you payin for soil?/ yard
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Yes that's definitely a factor obviously.
175 for a yard with some Amendments thrown in.
About another 100 for extra amendments. However the soil is reusable as you know.
So whatever you choose will cost in the beginning.

275 per 200 gallon. Say 4 pounds per plant.
Next year it will cost about 100 per 200 gallon pot with having to top up amendments.

So ya a 1000 gallon get get expensive.
Say maybe 1500 for soil and food but I would have been looking at 15 pounds.
I'd pay 1500 for 15 pounds lol.
 
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cannadan said:
I have always tried to avoid buying soil...cause unless you know exactly where it can from....it can be a crap shoot...
but of course not everybody has the property to dig at or to make their own at.
I would tend toward building my own soils by making a large compost pile and using only my own lawn clippings( no additives) and household food scraps ,leaves weeds,etc...
there is no arguing that it makes a good soil since the rye grass on the top of the pile grows easily to 6 feet each summer....nice and fertile.
you do need to plan ahead though and it will take a few years to get the whole process working good.
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Ya I agree not all Soil is the same however I reuse my soil.
 
cannadan

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wow that seems pricey for soil....must be the trucking...bumping that up to 175.00
we pay about 30 bucks a yard at the local garden center...you do need a pick-up truck..though...
Jay p123 said:
Ya I agree not all Soil is the same however I reuse my soil.
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I have always just continually added to the same garden space, year after year, and would put about 3 or 4 wheel barrows worth of compost per plant
each spring. Now its a giant raised bed ,since I had to disassemble my green house,due to C-nty neighbour.
Still plan to rebuild the greenhouse just in a different spot...which is fine now with the building dept.
 
Jay p123

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cannadan said:
wow that seems pricey for soil....must be the trucking...bumping that up to 175.00
we pay about 30 bucks a yard at the local garden center...you do need a pick-up truck..though...

I have always just continually added to the same garden space, year after year, and would put about 3 or 4 wheel barrows worth of compost per plant
each spring. Now its a giant raised bed ,since I had to disassemble my green house,due to C-nty neighbour.
Still plan to rebuild the greenhouse just in a different spot...which is fine now with the building dept.
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I was thinking the same thing.. here a tote of plain triple mix delivered is about 100-130 delivered . My soil has things like perlite,vermiculite, spangnum peat moss and a few other things already added .. So basically I'm thinking its a pretty good deal compared to plain triple mix that won't get me anywhere lol.
 
cannadan

cannadan

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I use the perlite and peatmoss with my homemade soil for indoor, but outdoor the garden sits over basically sand so the drainage is real good.
just a little fluffing in the spring when I add some new compost is all the basic maintenance.
This set up has allowed me to go with no required feeding throughout the crop, just a consistent watering schedule is basically all that's required and maybe some hand pruning late in the grow.
 
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