Competition With My Dad!

My dad and I have decided to have a tomato growing contest this summer. He does not know that I have been growing marijuana, though he knows I smoke. I am hoping to show him that I can grow quite well and if I win this contest then I will show him how I was able to beat him haha.

Was going to grow outdoors obviously but with essentially the same soil and nutes I have been using for my cannabis, will this work as well? I've heard so much that tomatoes and weed are quite similar in growing so I figured it would work just fine?

Any help guys? +rep for advice and help.

I stole my parents car once thinking that once they saw that i can be responsible they would let me drive more.

My idea and yours are wrong.

Should work great I would think. I'm using my old soil and the same nutes that I have in my room. Wonering if I might get a root clone or two? Anyway, I would think it would work well. My dad loves to garden and since I let him know I'm growing, he's been coming to me for advice! LOL!

jesus of Cannabis said:

I stole my parents car once thinking that once they saw that i can be responsible they would let me drive more.

My idea and yours are wrong.

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Again, my parents know that I smoke and don't care, I am out of their house and all of that, just gonna surprise him with my hopeful skills that will transfer from growing cannabis. Not like I am trying to have them see me as a responsible kid or not, it's the fact that he doesn't know I grow anything, so it is going to be a fun surprise.

budlover13 said:

Should work great I would think. I'm using my old soil and the same nutes that I have in my room. Wonering if I might get a root clone or two? Anyway, I would think it would work well. My dad loves to garden and since I let him know I'm growing, he's been coming to me for advice! LOL!

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That is what I am hoping will happen here, just something else to share you know? Figure that once I show him I can grow too he'll be talking more gardening with me haha.

I'm still waiting for my dad to come trim with me. Maybe this November!

kewl..sounds pretty good..your prolly gonna smoke him with all the "secret weapon info" you have in your possesion lol

good luck dude!

"What's this Fox Farm stuff? Happy FROG?!?"" LOL!!!

Setup a outdoor NFT system.

For taste, carb load them veggies close to harvest, fruits carry alot of natural sugars and supplementing sugar will give a nice crisp, flavorful fruit.

With a bit of research, you can grow these vegatbles with tomatoes in the same hydro setup if you choose that route.

Vegetable Compatiblity Group 1
Shared pH range = 6.0 (that's it)
Shared CF level range = 20-24
Shared PPM level range = 1400 - 2800
Tomatoes
Beans
Zucchini

Good info BBYY! Thank you!

DO you got certain tomatoe strains picked out? or can you freeball on it? Check out "Pepper Joes" he has some kickass tomatoes..you should run a cheater strain for the upper hand LOL

HA! I agree, you are probably gonna blow him outta the water. He's gonna be like "Beneficial microbial agents"? Rhyzzo-whatsit? What the fuck is an LST? HAHAHAHA Let us know the outcome.

How will the winner be determined? Yield per plant? You'll be growing the same strains, I guess?

A tomato scrog might be a fun experiment.

Rooting tomato cuttings is pretty much as easy as mj...very similar.

He wants to grow purple heirlooms, as soon as I even suggested the contest he already knew what strain he wanted to grow for the summer. I am not sure how we are going to determine the winner really, probably just yield. I was thinking of fun ways to grow like a scrog grow or LST them, wasn't sure if you did that with these but why not I guess lol.

I figure that if this tomato growing thing goes well I might get a garden started as well, something to entertain me during the days.

Aaahhhh, the tranquility of tending to your veggies. Almost heaven on earth.

Pipe Dream said:

I think your being hustled LOL.

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"Son, did I ever show you that blue ribbon I won at the state fair? The one for that 87lb tomato?"

Hahaha, now wouldn't that be some shit? Growing up I was able to see his growing skills when it came to veggies and I have to say, and maybe it's just the kid against dad thing, but I'm pretty confident I can beat him haha. We will just have to see in the end huh? lol

Dig a big hole. Really deep. The bigger the hole the bigger the plant. That has been my experience any how.

"Son, why are you renting a backhoe?"

Bury a tote full of rocks and gravel in the hole about foot and a half deep. Run a piece of 1 1/2" piece of PVC out of the tote a foot above the ground. Cheap water. When the roots hit the Rez. BOOM. Explosion.

Polecat said:

Bury a tote full of rocks and gravel in the hole about foot and a half deep. Run a piece of 1 1/2" piece of PVC out of the tote a foot above the ground. Cheap water. When the roots hit the Rez. BOOM. Explosion.

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That make a HELL of a lot of sense! I'm going to be dropping a couple ladies in the ground tomorrow. And the nursery will sell me rock in 10(?) gallon buckets so all I'd have to do is drop them in the ground.