New Zealand Outdoor Grow. Road to 1pound plants.

TrentCNz

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Haven't seen a grow journal from NZ yet so thought id do one. Its my first time growing as well so if anyone has any advice it's more than welcome. I'm using seeds that I don't know the strain of but for the past 5 years has produced many 1 pound plants for my friend so I'm hoping for my first time i can get at least 1 big girl.
 
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TrentCNz

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Here are my plants so far. The bigger one is 3 weeks old and the 3 little ones are 2 weeks. I have just put 4 more seeds into soil today. I feel as if these plants are growing quite slow but they seem to be quite healthy so I'm happy. For soil I mixed compost mix and potting mix (just cheap stuff) and some slow release fert. The compost mix was quite barky so I now think I shouldn't have used that and just stuck with the potting mix which was dark rich soil. The seeds I planted today were just into potting mix so we'll see if they grow any faster. They've been getting around 6-8 hours sunlight a day with the odd overcast day with bugger all direct sunlight. These will be getting put into the bush as they get bigger which is were I'm hoping they thrive into the huge plants I've heard about. I'm also planning on forcing flower to sex them early and them putting them back into veg so I don't waste my time putting out boys. Any tips so far would be handy.
 

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vostok

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More perlite or sand in the soil please,
but above all either fold the plastic down
to half an inch of the soil line or
continue filling that plastic bag,
as you will ge the frying pan effect!
those bags look to small and disrupting to your roots
but maybe OK?
 

TrentCNz

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Yea I realized afterwards I should've used some sandor perlite in the soil, but now i don't wanna disturb plants with a transplant. What's the frying pan affect? And the planter bags are around 1gallon? Im planning on putting them out in the bush at around 1 foot tall so they should be alright?
 

vostok

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In that case fill the bags full,
so you plant out with developed 'hunter' roots
less watering required
frying pan is like standing in a desert or crater in full sun
to hot too very very hot
 

TrentCNz

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Okay sweet thanks for advice. I will start updating with more photos when there's more to see, seedlings aren't very interesting haha.
 

TrentCNz

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So don't really have much to report! Everything seems to be doing fine. Slow but steady progress on the 3 younger seedlings. They seem to be growing healthy but the weather has been not so great lately with two out of the last 7 days being completely overcast which meant bugger all sunlight. My oldest seedling is doing okay. I topped her two days ago (young I know) but there seems to be no shock and she's growing. I do have one problem with her tho, her leaves are curling up and the bottom node leaves are yellowing new growth seems to be healthy but curled up as well if anyone can let me know what this maybe it would be great, I got told heat stress maybe? . And a bird ate half one of my leaves that's why it looks funny haha.
 

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