Lurking No More....I want to share my first outdoor season with everybody.

My season began last November (I got impregnated weed from a relative) and I chosen the best looking beans out of the bunch, germinating them in a enclosed greenhouse made out of water bottles. I have some autos growing in this fashion; I'll post pics to show y'all what I'm talking about. I started out with nine seedlings and only two survived the winter. I picked out the genetically superior plants, because four seedlings died, two became male, one herm, and two females. They both show characteristics of being Sativa dom. One has a sweet skunk scent and the other smells like lemon/salt.

I let them grow in the water bottle green house until they reached a little over a ft. Around the first week of January I transplanted them into 5 gallon buckets. I lollipop'd them and buried the main stem, making sure the root ball was a few inches from the bottom of the bucket. That foot of stem pretty much becomes the tap root, expelling tons of roots throughout the 5 gallon bucket. They survived the upper 30's to mid 40's nights without any problems.

The few inches of vegetation sticking out of the dirt was then mainlined, and grown to about a foot above the soil line around mid-may. Last week I transplanted one into the a 100 gallon hole. This week I'm going to transplant the other female into a 200 gallon hole. I will post pictures of my ladies in their final homes.

I amended the soil with cow manure, guano, and compost. I live next to a cow pasture, so I have an endless supply of cow shit, and I also have an endless source of bat guano. I store the guano and cow manure in black trash bags, until it fully decomposes. I make compost and guano sun tea for the girls. I mulched the bed with dead leaves from the fall, and placed good sized logs over the mulch to help retain moist and regulate soil temps.

You are pretty much all caught up with my first outdoor grow. I plan on post pictures as soon as possible, so sub-in for an epic season.

Sounds like you have a plan.

I need to know more about this water bottle greenhouse.

I'm curious as well, is it more of a cloche? (self contained greenhouse for a single plant)

Yep, I planned to grow trees by focusing on the growth of the stalk, rather the number of tops (but there are plenty of those too.) haha Yeah, it's pretty much a mini cloche.



I found growing this way promotes more stem growth. I transplanted the teen into a 5 gallon bucket when it was about a 15-18 inches. The top should only be 3-4 inches above the soil in the bucket, so that about a foot of stalk is subsoil; it establishes the plant really well.



I'm pretty sure that the plant developed major roots. I'm transplanting this one into that huge hole.




The hole is 2,500 sq inch by 24 inches deep.
A lot bigger than the first and final home of my second female.



The hole I dug for this one was 1,600 sq inches by 20 inches in depth. I mulched it with dead leaves topped with guano, and covered it the logs. Here's a stem shot of the first to be grounded.


Tips and advise is always greatly appreciated.

Why are you covering your holes with the logs?

TIL that salt has a smell...

The logs help distribute my teas evenly over the bed.
hahah I swear it smells just like the taste of that limon salt for beer.
So I'm gonna fill her in, and I'll update you when she is laid to rest.

Quite the enterprise there. Not sure your location but a friend in SoCal had a beauty destroyed by an underground rodent ( not sure what type )....best of luck.

Dang. You gonna have some beasts. Be careful with those dead leaves as mulch. They can be a breeding place for insects. Everything looks nice though. Gonna have monsters for sure.

Yep, there's a whole gopher village in the cow pasture next to us. I've also seen rabbits. Has anyone heard of rabbits fucking shit up? Hey, Fres, I went out to check the mulch for insects, and you were right! I found two huge pincher bugs within seconds of looking, so I mixed up some dirt and guano compost and topped dressed the dead leaves. It shouldn't take long for decomposing microbes in the guano to take out those leaves. I'll of course keep an eye out for any insect insurgency.



Here's a close up of that main cola.

Yeah. Earwigs are bastards to get rid of too. They love cannabis leaves. But most of all, the roots. I have lots of them in my compost piles, which is ok since they help break down the organic matter. But once that mission is accomplished, they all must die lol. I also like to mulch with compost and top dress. Has done me well in previous years.

I've had mice eat a dozen clones before. Friggin little bastards. Vermin seem to be worse then insects! Your girls look good!

Accordingly to organic gardening.com, the common house fly is a natural predator of earwigs and some caterpillars. The guano and cow manure attracts lots of them. So do you think the earwigs will go after the roots? What would indicate that bugs are eating the roots? Hah My neighbor is a cat h}"[;p[[[[[[[[', excuse my dog; he just wanted to say hi. but anyways my neighbor has two outdoor cats and the are thriving. This whole town has really large cats.

When your plants wilt for no apparent reason it is usually a rootzone problem. Maybe disease or insects.

Thanks, I hope I don't encounter that problem.
One got transplanted today; I stopped filling the hole at 100 gallons. I plan on topping it off with soil tomorrow.


Here's a shot of the root mass close up.



Roots near the bottom of the 5 gallon dirt ball.



And here is a pic of it filled to 60 gallons.

Gonna have a good amount of bud to smoke with all that soil

Quick question, you said you got bud that was impregnated. So it was pollinated or was it from a plant that hermied? Big difference on outcome potential based on how the plant got seeded.

Hmmm I can't say with sure certainty, but I think one of my uncle's females hermied, and pollinated all his other females. In the beginning of the year I isolated out a plant that was without a doubt a hermaphrodite, and two male plants. The newly transplanted plant has yet to show its sex, so I guess that one could potentially hermie on me.

So this is the final home of that newly transplanted one. I added a couple inches of dry grass clippings and dry leaves, topped with soil and bat guano. The total volume of soil is 150 gallons, just shy of the 200 mark I wanted. I also put in a 17 inch stick to determine the decomposition rate of the carbon source material. The transplanting was a success; it didn't seem to phase her.






And shots of my other plant, Skunky.

Passthat, what do you think are the possible outcomes are? Shitty bud?