How deep do you dig your holes?

Just curious. I've been doing small scale outdoor growths and I've been digging mine about 1-2 feet + 1ft6in wide. I'm starting to think a bit bigger could improve the plant through, since the surrounding soil is pretty hard packed clay. I think I'm going to try my next set with something outrageous like 4ft deep 3ft across, just to see how much difference it will make with my plants.

I go 2x2x2

the deeper the better!!!
more room for roots means more growth

I Was just going to make a thred about this.. good thing I saw one allready made, all of your holes seem pretty big considering the size of containers indoor growers use.. thats alot of holes to dig and soil and money before you even find out the sex of you rplant

I forget where I saw it, but somehwhere on the web someone did a huge outdoor grow and dug a huge plot 20X40 or something like that and then let it sit for a year or something, I may be way off base but all I know is the plants were monsters...like fdd2blk, 04ausername, and hodge grow. these things were Trees not plants...anyway point I was trying to make is the farther those roots can travel the more growth you will have. The huge plot allowed the roots unlimited growth area. Big plants need lots of roots to move lots of H20 and nutes to create new cells. I am no expert, but I bet you ask any of the guys growing 10ft+ plants on the regular and they will tell you root mass is major factor. Hope this helps, if anyone knows the grow I am talking about please fill in... just finished

Will allso depend on the soil you start with. For me the soil is nothing but sand. when I water I can only get about 4" of moisture in the soil and it's gone in 42 hr. max. And yes the 2x2x2 is a bucket with no sides

I get pounders with half of a bale of pro-mix bx. 3.8 cf



Thats 25 gallons a hole.

for reference next time you go to a store look at a 25 gallon barrel. I always dig up to the knee so they are slighty recessed in the ground. Im 6 ft tall.

Boulderheads said:

I forget where I saw it, but somehwhere on the web someone did a huge outdoor grow and dug a huge plot 20X40 or something like that and then let it sit for a year or something, I may be way off base but all I know is the plants were monsters...like fdd2blk, 04ausername, and hodge grow. these things were Trees not plants...anyway point I was trying to make is the farther those roots can travel the more growth you will have. The huge plot allowed the roots unlimited growth area. Big plants need lots of roots to move lots of H20 and nutes to create new cells. I am no expert, but I bet you ask any of the guys growing 10ft+ plants on the regular and they will tell you root mass is major factor. Hope this helps, if anyone knows the grow I am talking about please fill in... just finished

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Oo now this raised another question I was thinking about. I'm in a super secure location- logged area that was done two years ago +100 acres were logged so finding my plants would be hella hard- And i was thinking about trying to leave a plant there through the cold seasons. I'm not sure if it would work, but I don't really mind dropping off a plant on the chance that it would be able to survive. The only problem I see is that through winter most plants recess and don't really grow, the only benefit would be from a very early start in spring, but then you'd have to compete with frost and all the bad things that come with early crops as well. Then again if the root system for these plants did spread during the winter months the benefit would be pretty high in having an active and hearty plant that's got a huge foundation starting the next year.

Last year Faded had a 1.5 I believe out of a 5 gallon pot. Kind of like hydro. i remember he said he watered, fed, and watered again in one day.