growingforfun
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Hey everyone, I'm going to be doing a outdoor grow this year and I have alot of the detailed worked out but comments and sugjestions would be great to fine tune the ruff edges.
The crop: sour bubble, blueberry x2, coletrain, and sour strawberry kush. Each plant is currently vegging in 5 gallon smartpots. Each plant is old, iv been vegging these for 3-4 months, so all are very mature and all are trained out sideways in each direction.
The plan is to dig a large hole for each, prolly a cubic yard or slightly larger for each plant. I'm hoping with as advanced as these are the roots will be very ready to take over atleast that much dirt. The current soil is already fairly good. Pretty much going near last years veggie garden so that soil is regularly tilled an mixed with compost. Thinking a truckload of aged manure and some high quality soil would be what I'm going to bring in.
This is where my first question comes up. What can I mix in to help add air to the soil? I'm used to indoor style where coco solves that problem but outside I don't think it's as practical because of the ammount it takes.
Im looking for large bulk things. I was wondering about like a bale of staw or something like that I'd thought I heard of before but can fin the info again...
I want as much drainage as possible because I want to use flower hardeners like phosphload and gravity but that will require a sort of flush.
I plan to add dolimite lime to keep ph in line.
A greenhouse is going to be sat on top of the plants with a (maybe) removable roof to keep rain off of late flower buds.
Anyone have some tips for me or things I should do diff?
The crop: sour bubble, blueberry x2, coletrain, and sour strawberry kush. Each plant is currently vegging in 5 gallon smartpots. Each plant is old, iv been vegging these for 3-4 months, so all are very mature and all are trained out sideways in each direction.
The plan is to dig a large hole for each, prolly a cubic yard or slightly larger for each plant. I'm hoping with as advanced as these are the roots will be very ready to take over atleast that much dirt. The current soil is already fairly good. Pretty much going near last years veggie garden so that soil is regularly tilled an mixed with compost. Thinking a truckload of aged manure and some high quality soil would be what I'm going to bring in.
This is where my first question comes up. What can I mix in to help add air to the soil? I'm used to indoor style where coco solves that problem but outside I don't think it's as practical because of the ammount it takes.
Im looking for large bulk things. I was wondering about like a bale of staw or something like that I'd thought I heard of before but can fin the info again...
I want as much drainage as possible because I want to use flower hardeners like phosphload and gravity but that will require a sort of flush.
I plan to add dolimite lime to keep ph in line.
A greenhouse is going to be sat on top of the plants with a (maybe) removable roof to keep rain off of late flower buds.
Anyone have some tips for me or things I should do diff?