5 Gallon Buckets

[C21H30O2]

Hey guys i was wondering what type of yields you are getting outdoors in 5 gallon buckets. please list the strain name if you know it. I am trying to get a feel for how to best use my space. also is a 5 gallon bucket enough medium for an entire outdoor season?

 

[Guest]

Hey C21,

I use 5 gallon buckets each year in locations where my soil is poor or where I want the plant to finish sooner.

With buckets, in my view it is essential to drill 1" holes in the bottom and sides of the bucket and bury it to its top. This does 2 things.

1. It keeps the soil temperature down to the temp of the natural soil. An exposed pot will be the air temperature which is often too hot and will delay flowering. High bucket soil temps cause moisture loss terribly, forcing the grower to water daily and leach the nutrients from the soil.

2. It allows the moisture that is already in the soil to wick into the bucket soil, reducing your need to water as much. I often see little balls of roots formed at these holes

3. Rootbinding speeds maturity and the plant may finish up to 10 days sooner than it otherwise would

Yield? A buried bucket will give you 80% of what a natural grow would. Plant produces 12 oz's, You'll get 10.

Buckets are an easy way to grow in poor, rocky or wet soil.

 

[C21H30O2]

yield anyone...

 

[Germanator]

uhhhmm yield in any case is just about impossible to guess, you know this bro.

I made the mistake of using black pots outdoors last year, on concrete no less, and they dried up at an incredible rate. This year they are all painted white and are up on bricks... not as beneficial as burying them, but something.

Germ

 

[C21H30O2]

uhhhmm yield in any case is just about impossible to guess, you know this bro.

I made the mistake of using black pots outdoors last year, on concrete no less, and they dried up at an incredible rate. This year they are all painted white and are up on bricks... not as beneficial as burying them, but something.

Germ

i didnt ask for a guess i asked for what people were yielding in a 5 gallon bucket outdoors.

 

[Guest]

Yield has primarily to do with strain selection. Choose a big yeilder and thats what your more likely produce. After strain selection, soil is a factor, but If you use good store bought soil in your bucket, and the strain yeilds well, then you will get a decent yeild. If the strain you have chosen doesn't yield well, there's nothing you can do with your bucket to make it yield well.

These are decent yielders
Critical Mass
Northern lights
Sensi star

 

[Hindu Killer]

I done buckets one year...had no problem pulling QPs per. Sure they could get bigger. Bdw is growing in bags in Canada and some of those plants are very large....think it has to do with...the irrigation.

 

[Stalldaworld]

i think he puts holes at the bottom of his bags as well...tap root grows down through the holes

 

[C21H30O2]

I done buckets one year...had no problem pulling QPs per. Sure they could get bigger. Bdw is growing in bags in Canada and some of those plants are very large....think it has to do with...the irrigation.

thanks you this is the information i was looking for anyone else.

p.s. i know the answer is subjective... thats not what i was asking about i was asking what people have been yielding outdoors in a 5 gallon bucket. if you havent grown outdoors in a 5 gallon bucket then you cant help me (sorry being honest) if you have please just tell me what you were growing if you know and what your yield was around like "hindu killer."

 

[purrpullkush]

damn near impossible to get a whole elbow off anything in a 5 gal bucket...Way too restrictive...most strains I wouldn't expect more than a qutie pie off a tall plant flowered outdoors in a 5 gal. Just my opinion.

 

[trybud]

the 10 (or 18) gallon sterilite tubs are a bit better than 5 gallon buckets and they're even cheaper when bought new. my results over the years w/ buckets is 4-6 oz each, BUT i have had a few 10oz plants too. in the 10 -18 gallon tubs ive yielded 4-20 oz using LST. in my greenhouse thread i have a harborside sour diesel in a 10(?) gallon grow pot and im hoping 10 oz or better.. when growing in containers your yields can go up an avg of 150% when you double the amount of soil you grew in previously...just my penny(broke, cant afford a whole whopping 2 cents)....hope my experience helps a bit.

 

[C21H30O2]

thanks for the info guys

 

[C21H30O2]

I think this is a better question... what size containers have you grown with outside and what were their corresponding yields?

 

[Gantz]

planting in the ground is better if you want big plants. but if the ground conditions don't permit it then a container would be the next logical choice.

look at kov's 2006 grow. this grow was fantastic. he worked his ass off but it all payed off in the end.
Backcountry had a good grow last year too.

I know what you're thinking: "those are not containers, those are growbags". So what? It's the same thing. It's something you put soil in to grow a plant and it has drainage holes so that the plant doesn't drown...guess what...that's a container

 

[Guest]

If the bucket has holes in it and the plant roots can exit those holes, multiply bucket size X 1.25
(5 x 1.25= 6.25 oz)

If the container is exposed above grade, multiply by .85

 

[C21H30O2]

planting in the ground is better if you want big plants. but if the ground conditions don't permit it then a container would be the next logical choice.

look at kov's 2006 grow. this grow was fantastic. he worked his ass off but it all payed off in the end.
Backcountry had a good grow last year too.

I know what you're thinking: "those are not containers, those are growbags". So what? It's the same thing. It's something you put soil in to grow a plant and it has drainage holes so that the plant doesn't drown...guess what...that's a container

i was actually thinking of sewing up some sacks to grow in. your right .. cant grow in the ground... wish i could.