Planning For 2011 Outdoor :-) Need Input

Okay Im planning for my next grow season and I recently ordered some seeds and was really curious if 1- any one has had success with either strain 2- What soil and nutes are/were you using and what was your yield outdoors and how often were you nuting. here are the seeds:

• 10 PurpleWidow Regular
• 2 Tangerine Dreams (this years cannabis cup winner)feminized
• 2 Acapulco Gold Feminized
• 2 1024 femized
• 2 Super Lemon Haze feminized
• 2 Im not sure ( they were freebees)feminized

Any feedback/input is appreciated thanks.

Hello Nugz! If you venture around my profile and see my other posts around the site, you may become more familiar with my experience and types of approaches.

I have had much good experience with super lemon haze outdoor in the ground, and find it to be one of the few plants that I will go through the trouble to produce myself. It is an unbelieveable yeilder (1/2+ pound easy) and the quality causes it to dissappear much faster than most other strains of the same calibur. I had ordered 5 S.L.H seeds early 2010 and the batch turned out to be quite a winner. I would highly suggest that you look into ordering more of the plants/seeds you see being successful as soon as you can, because strains are known to change over time and alot of the early S.L.H are the real deal. Plus, if you will, I would recommend that you plant just one seed of the strains that you have two of, becasue the success rate and stability of most ordered seeds are highly proven and documented. With this approach, take cuttings and create clones early in the season to save the other seeds but have more than just one plant by the time mid summer rolls around. This is something that I stick by, and feel as if I can hang on to the seeds until next season, the financial situation becomes amazing. The clones of S.L.H do very well, and are very stable if given the proper attention early. Last year, with this strain I have let mother nature take its course and left the plant fighting for all it needed except water. I could have not been happier, and it proved to all who caught a lungful that it can provide for itself if provided with decent soil. I have grown in FoxFarm Ocean soil filled containers and have planted right into the ground in about one spaded shovels worth of 'tilled' or 'turned up' soil. The roots broke into un-tilled soil and the plant did its magic.

I think you will pat yourself on the back when it comes to choosing the S.L.H. It can stand 35+ mph winds and 1 & a half inch and hour rains, 95 degrees for weeks at a time, no added nutes, and turn out ready for harvest like a champ! As for the other strains, I cannot give you personal grow stats and notes, but the Acapulco Gold has been known to take root around a common stranger of mine's watch a few seasons back, and it happened to live up to the world renowed hype. I gurantee he used nutes to provide a much richer soil like those found in Hawai'i, but like me, he didn't do much else other than the very basic planting method. It stormed like hell on his plants too (including the gold) and they survived-

Study Study, each strain and what they like, and get a few good shovel fulls of soil around the determined plot and examine the composition of it. A little help goes along way if its to get the plants off to a good start.

Nice to have had the chance to lend my two cents! Peace!!

Thanks for the input Up On a Limb. I had a friend who did the SLH indoor and it was good but no one who did outdoor, I really appreciate your feedback and am looking forward to this season and seeing what these ladies do for me.

Hey no problem. Thanks for being the type to give thanks!

With caution, I assume you may understand how a clones roots act much different than a plant that has sprouted from seed. If you don't, take a bit of my start here and continue the investment in some good knowledge around here and in general google'ing and whatnot of the difference.

The main difference between a seeded plant and a clone plant's roots is the definition and importance of the tap-root. A cloned plant spreads its roots outwards very powerfully once self-sustained. Staying concentrated on the surface layers of the plot. A seeded plant goes deeper and deeper, and uses much less energy to 'branch' its roots as early, but does so later. As you may already know, a cloned plant takes to a container much better than one that is tap rooted as deep as the plant is tall, and can be examined after harvest and noted to hardly show the symptoms of being root bound. Confusion and question about a contained plant that outgrows another seemingly fairly comparable one usually boils down to the ability of the plant to "spread" its roots rather than "dig" its roots. Plants from dry and arid reigons dig and dig for the moisture to sustain vigourous growth and have very flexible and wimpy surface layer roots, able to absorb what they can when they can, and not be relied upon for the everyday tasks given to the life lines. -Thus, the damp out tendencies of sativas trying to grow indoor that have been bred to be outdoor strains, oorr the droopy flooded looks they display when watered in measure with other plants who do well with the rice patty treatment- Letting the plant know that it's okay to spread its roots is crucial, and focus should be taken to water the peripheries of the plot in respect to the trunk of the tree. The mirror of the plant above the ground is the safe bet to put down when guessing where the roots have gone when we are discussing in-ground soil grows. So put the water to the things right under the branching. Of course do the plant good and water its trunk soil well, but drench/flood the circumference of the area to encourage the spread of the roots. *i.e Got plants 7 feet apart? Put 20 gallons down directly inbetween them* type idea.

The intake of air, water, nutes will be greater, you will get a a fat as well as tall plant, and the winds wont be able to touch them vegitative state-wise (not saying that the branches won't break once laden with triple ripe nugs AND a 40 mph wind but regardless you will have a standing plant when the calm returns). -The only mis-hap with the encouraged spreading of the roots at the surface is the fight between the mary jane, and the turf grass/overgrowth that has already taken hold around the plant. I make sure to hit the dirt with the mower or weed wacker in the proximity to cease the uptake of soil fertility by the grasses and foilage that are living off the surface.

Brainstorms make Wonderstorms. Wonderstorms make progress. lol ok Peace Man!!

WOW.... Only 1 person to respond??? No one has any comments or experience with these strains outdoors??