Smoketastic's 2016 Outdoor Grow

smoketastic

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Hey everybody. It's time to get started with my 2016 outdoor grow. This will be my second grow.
Last year, I planted a few plants in small fabric pots, and they did okay. I got around 12 ounces of bud, which should have been plenty to last me for the year, if most of it hadn't been stolen. (But that's another story for another time.)

This year I'm looking to go a little bigger, and I'm going to plant most of my plants in the ground instead of using fabric pots. Today I dug out 20 holes out deep in the woods. They are divided between two locations. After all that digging, tonight I'm feeling tired and sore for sure !!! :) My elbow's also hurting a bit. It didn't help that most of the soil was pretty rocky, and when combined with a lot of tree roots, it made for some strenuous digging. The soil wasn't the best. Lots of clay. I'll have to haul in amendments, which I plan on doing over the next two or three weeks. The plan right now is to mix the native soil with some ProMix, compost, peat moss, water crystals, worm castings, dried cow manure, and some perlite. I'll also throw in a cup of dolomite lime per hole with some time release fertilizer like Osmocote. During the season, I'll be feeding with Dyna-Gro Grow and Dyna-Gro Bloom.

My theme for the year is to keep it simple and easy. This is a guerrilla grow, and I'll probably only be able to visit my plants once a week. I'll have to carry in water. Nearby creeks are shallow and will probably go dry. Luckily for me, a couple of ponds are a short five-minute walk away from each of the plots. I don't care about growing monster plants. I really only need about a lb of weed in total to be happy at the end of the season. I'm well aware that I'm capable of getting that from just one plant, but I also want some variety, so I'm going to plant around 20 plants. I expect to lose several along the way to critters, diseases, weather, etc. But with 20 I should end up with a good harvest.

I have the seeds in hand. I'll post my *tentative* lineup below, but it will likely change several times before planting time arrives. :) I'm aiming for a good variety of sativas, indicas, and hybrids with staggered finishing times.

Autos
  • Auto Seeds - Auto Pounder with Cheese
  • Auto Seeds - Chemdog
  • Dutch Passion - Think Different
  • Mephisto - Fantasmo Express x 2
  • Mephisto - Sour Orange Diesel Kush
  • Seedsman - White Widow
  • TH Seeds - MK Ultra
Photos
All FEM except for the Cornbread
  • Dinafem - Purple Afghan Kush
  • DNA Genetics - Nicole Kush
  • Female Seeds - Red Purps
  • Freedom of Seeds - Dieselicious
  • Genofarm - Goldenberry
  • Greenhouse Seeds - Super Lemon Haze x2
  • Humboldt Seed - Blue Dream x 2
  • Kannabia - Afrodite
  • Kannabia - Karamelo
  • Kannabia - Mataro Blue
  • Kannabia - White Domina
  • MOC - Northern Lights
  • Moxie Seeds - Viper Cookies
  • Rare Dankness - Cornbread x 2
  • Seedsman - Somango
I'll try to keep you all updated during the grow, hopefully with a few pics. Advice, comments, suggestions, criticisms, etc. are welcome along the way.

Here's hoping for a great 2016! Wish me luck.

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smoketastic

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I dug six more holes today in a new plot I discovered while on a hike with my dogs. It was a wonderful spot. Very stealth. Great southern sun exposure. And the soil was dark and rich, so I will not have to amend it much at all. I will have to carry in water if the nearby creek dries up, but it'll be manageable. Deer and rattlesnakes are my main concern here.

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Larry {the} Gardener

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I'm in for the whole long grow. I'm an outdoor grower too. To check the humidity in my grow room, I just click on weatherunderground.

I've been digging holes too. I told myself I had plenty dug, but when I see a sunny spot with good cover, I just have to dig another one. Last year I grew out 12 girls. Got seed from almost all of them. I'll be mixing and matching, hoping for some males. I'm growing my BIL's strain, and it is known for going two and three years between males, so I'm going to grow a few more than I normally would, just to increase my chance of a male.

I use lava rock in my mix to help with water retention. The mix is mushroom compost, black kow compost, peat moss, Metro Mix potting soil, and lava rock. To that I add coffee grounds, lime, blood meal, bone meal, Epson salts, time release plant food and 13-13-13. For really long walks I have a mix that is extra heavy on the time release and 13-13-13. I can get three holes out of a 5 gallon bucket of it. For a few that are a long, long walk away, or you just can't risk being seen with buckets and shovels, I mix up time release, 10-10-10 and 13-13-13 and put them in gallon baggies. With a folding shovel, you can pack it in with a small pack.

Sorry so long winded. It is nice to find someone who grows in the woods. Good luck with your grow.

Larry
 

smoketastic

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I've re-thought everything, and decided to scale down the grow a little. I'm going to have one main plot of 6-8 plants. Then I'll probably scatter 6-8 more in a few various places as insurance in case something happens to my main plot.
Now I've just got to narrow down what strains I want to go with. That's the hardest part for me. I WANT TO GROW THEM ALL, DAMMIT! Lol. If anyone's interested, here's a spreadsheet with all the seeds I have on hand: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QAKXhk62Vz_Zi2Dtx40wvAh16XTm7G5X0AROHrZhIRU/edit?usp=sharing. I've highlighted the strains that I currently am most interested in growing, but I'm always changing my mind. Decisions....decisions.

I mixed up some soil this weekend. I'm going to start carrying it out to my holes soon. I'm hoping that one 5 gallon bucket per hole will work. I found quite a few different recipes for soil mixes online, but I mostly came up with my own, making use of some things I already had on hand:
5 gallons of manure/soil from an old cattle lot
5 gallons of compost from my home compost pile
5 gallons of sphagnum peat moss
5 gallons of ProMix Flex
4 quarts of perlite
1/4 cup (2 oz) soil moist granules
1/4 cup blood meal
1/2 cup bone meal
1/2 cup garden lime
1/2 cup Osmocote Plus
 
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