Outdoor Growing On A Budget...HELP!

Sounds like you have everything. Water soil location. What do you need help with? Late in the grow you will need nutes but the simple organic dry fertilizers from HD will work fine added to topsoil and watered.

grow in the ground. dig holes 3 feet buy at least 2 foot deep. dump two five gallon buckets of water in the hole and see how long it takes to drain. if it takes all day your goin to have to dig anther foot at least. and your going to have to add perlit sand and some kind of organic soil. peat mushroom soil. something and mix that all in with your native soil and back fill. now depending on what your native soil is like. your going to need bone meal. for sure that never hurts. your going to need lime. and you should be ok with that. now if you wan to grow killer stuff take a soil sample to your farm office and tell them your tamtoes wont grow can they send it out to be checked and theyll tell you what your soil is missing. or you could fill your hole with bags of soil from homedepot.


i have hard clay soil. what i do is. dig a huge hole 10ft by 10ft 3ft deep and lay in a layer of straw 4 inchs the i put in a layer of clay 4inchs. some perlit bone meal and some sulfer not alot. clay alkaline i do this to lower the ph. then i do it again tell its a foot higher the the ground level. i then take five gallon buckets of water and put back strap molasses about 5 table spoons per bucket a coffe can of alfpha pellets some fish emulsion. and i let that sit for a week. it smells great. i then dump it on my spot. i uaslly make 6 buckets. i also add a few tubs of worms i pay the local kids to get. a penny a worm. this is all done a yr before i plant. in spring i usally have to add anther foot of clay and straw to the top. i aslo add other thing as they grow and feed them but that makes a good base. best thing to do is read up and see for yourself.

Originally Posted by Warlock1369

Sounds like you have everything. Water soil location. What do you need help with? Late in the grow you will need nutes but the simple organic dry fertilizers from HD will work fine added to topsoil and watered.

I need help in determining what organic nutes from HD or Walmart that I should use. I'm growing from clones that will be rooted and already flourishing when I buy them. The soil in the area seems fertile enough because there's lots of peat moss covering the ground, and it doesn't need amendment, but I'm sketchy on it. That's why I opted for buckets. And since planting season around here is the first week in May, I don't think I have time to prep the soil. I could be wrong, cause I have never grown outdoors, but that's why I am asking for help. And since my overall supply budget will be roughly $80 after buying clones, I don't know if I can afford nutes plus soil amendment supplies. I'm still a noob to growing. That's why I have come to this forum. I don't wanna waste my investment.

You might need caterpillar killer they mess your buds up bad.They eat from the inside out so you can't find them really.If you have them out there buy something.

Originally Posted by CR500ROOST

You might need caterpillar killer they mess your buds up bad.They eat from the inside out so you can't find them really.If you have them out there buy something.

Ok. Thanks. Will neem oil be enough for that, or should I invest in something more specific?

good luck with your grow

So does anyone have any ideas what nutes from HD are okay for mj? There's quite a bit of them in my store. But none are veg or bloom specific. Also they sell something called Organocide. Anybody know if it's effective or should I use neem oil?

don't use 5 gallon buckets...too small..
use rubbermaid totes...get them on sale for like 3-4 bucks..
or grow bags (online)

could you buy your nutes online?
i use something called jack's classic...its cheap...
it's not organic....but that's something i don't want to get into...
i wouldn't worry to much about bugs...

the bigger containers you get the better...