Outdoor grow in containers or directly in the ground?

Ok everyone as this is my first legal outdoor grow I have the option of either growing in large buckets or planting directly into the ground. My soil is mostly clay but I will dig large holes and fill with topsoil and have a bucket of Advanced Heavy Harvest to enrich the soil. I wont have to haul water either and I have acreage to grow on.

What is best here?

I have a fairly long growing season, the same as northern California even though I'm in Canada. Even cactus live here and survive our winters.

Instead of plantpots go grow-bags. Avoid clay based soils.

If your gonna dig go down at least two feet and replace with proper soil.

Dig deeper than 2'...They love being in the ground and will take off HUGE...If you have the space for it, put them in the ground. Pots are nice because you can move them to a sunnier spot, rotate, truck them in the garage/under cover during a rain storm...or to a safer location. But if non of those seem like they will matter. Put them in the ground where they belong

digging threw clay sucks esp. if you plan to dig a few a them. go with smart pots. whats the difference between putting dirt in a hole or dirt in a fabric bag? beside the digging. work smarter not harder!

i got some in the ground and in pots. my area has a red clay like soil to but i found a patch of some good dirt and it works great, look for some pine trees, usually the ground there wont be as much clay

How about putting the pots in the ground.u don't gotta worry about other roots stealing ur nutes plus u can move the if need be.but my multiple spots will have some in ground some in pots and some pots in the ground that way if two plans fail I got backup and backup patches.good luck may we all have heavy heady harvests

i love clay as a base. it has alot of k in it. and hold nutrit well. your going to have to add differnt things. i do two thing. i like to add mushroom soil to it. large holes with alpha pellets and perlit. bone meal ect. also diging holes and filling thme for a yr with scrap works great like grass. leaves compost stuff. sand works great. but id take clay over most other soils. diging is easy. dig the top 3 inchs out and add water. let sit for a few days and keep adding water. it will soften up and dig easy.

Go with the bags and work on your plot for next year.

gladstone said:

Dig deeper than 2'...They love being in the ground and will take off HUGE...If you have the space for it, put them in the ground. Pots are nice because you can move them to a sunnier spot, rotate, truck them in the garage/under cover during a rain storm...or to a safer location. But if non of those seem like they will matter. Put them in the ground where they belong

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For your first post you are absolutely right. Pots are nothing but trouble.

Start digging; Big Holes.

They both have there advantages but I like the ground morr aslong as your area gets plenty of light theres no reasson to use bags unless you cant dig plus it looks way more natural gets bigger plants and dont have to water ss often I like to till up the whole area 2 Weeks atleast before planting and lime and use a time release fert alot with throwing down about a bag of perlite then dig my holes and replace with 20 gals of quality potting soil like ffof then when the roots outgrow the hole they can still spread there roots easily and the perlite keeps alot of moisture in the area good luck brotha make a journal when u start either way grow bags or ground u will be happy with the results just make sure there good size bags.

Thanks all. I am going to grow...

White Widow-Dinafem
Liberty Haze-Barney's farm
Acapulco Gold-Barney's farm
Sweet Deep Grapefruit-Dinafem
Cannatonic-Resin seeds

aseboy101 said:

digging threw clay sucks esp. if you plan to dig a few a them. go with smart pots. whats the difference between putting dirt in a hole or dirt in a fabric bag? beside the digging. work smarter not harder!

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Root space. I'd build some big ass raised beds about 18" deep on the surface of some decent dirt and fill it with high quality soil and watch the trees grow huge (probably lay a semi permeable material to keep out gophers and such from the 18" but to allow roots to grow through). Just my opinion.

Garm said:

Thanks all. I am going to grow...

White Widow-Dinafem
Liberty Haze-Barney's farm
Acapulco Gold-Barney's farm
Sweet Deep Grapefruit-Dinafem
Cannatonic-Resin seeds

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Watch them closely for herms. Barney's Farm... all fem Watch em close!

Treat em well, and good luck on your grow (outdoors you always need a little!).

This is the second year of growing outdoors and last year I did strictly containers. This year I have 2 in the ground and 3 in containers (5 gal) 1 of the two in the ground is doing very well ( gets the least amount of light versus any others) and the 2nd one which is my raised bed garden seems to be doing as well as the ones I have in the containers, which all are doing normal for a GDP clones in my opinion. I have some pics, I think i will share with you guys and we can see how my five lil ladies do and differ by this one difference this season. Peace