OPOP...One Pound..One Plant V

[nomaad]

Yes, I've found that works great for me. Although we are researching the giant grow bags I keep seeing here and determining what benefits they may have

if you had smartpots on top of shipping palletes you could move that smaller skunk out of the shadow and foliar competition space of the romulan. that shaded zone where the two seem to touch is going to only get x amount of bud from both plants. have a foot of space between them (like your other plants) and you get x from each. I have seen your grows and I am sure you are aware of this... just pointing out a benefit to pots.

 

[fisher15]

wow, N, how large of a plant have you seen moved around this way...container size? Never heard of doing it like that, figure best to space them properly from the start.

GG- nice, yes mine have grown through their caging as well, some feet outside the outer cage. Thinking about wraping everything in hortinova. Yes, harvesting will be a bitch, but part of me dies with broken branches.

 

[nomaad]

i have never seen a plant of any size moved like that. but i wish i could move one of my afpaks out of the shadow of the Clueberry.

I have seen bigger, heavier, just-as-awkward shit moved with a loader on a pallete. OK OK... I am just trying to justify the purchase of a bobcat. sue me. But seriously... its unlikely that you run into this situation if you a) monocrop, AND b) have/give enough space in the fist place OR c)no all your strains well enough to place them in order of size in the direction of the sun's path.

the ideao of the hortinova mesh appeals to me on the one hand cuz I don't want broken branches (and i suspect that the wind is going to get kinda ugly at some point) but the idea of dealing with all that brittle mesh at harvest is a real downer.

 

[VoDvaR]

My garden 2008...

 

[3rd I]

OK OK... I am just trying to justify the purchase of a bobcat. sue me.

The pallete thing sounds like a great idea...been going thr/ ideas for while for moving those containers...thought about the hoops that are on bulk soil bags that forklifts use to move them but that way would crush the root system as you lift them up...pallet sounds like the way to go

don't feel bad...i have my eyes on a kubota front loader w/ backhoe, a dump truck, soil mixers, and the list goes on and on..haha ...i'm allowed to dream right?

 

[nomaad]

beautiful vodvar! they sort of outgrew the hoop structure, eh?

3rdI- sounds like fun.

 

[Hindu Killer]

Cool pics everyone.....heres to a safe and happy harvest.

 

[humboldtlocal]

Nomaad I would have given you rep for the smart pots on pallets idea but I need to spread more around first. I love that idea.

 

[Grandma Gudenhi]

if you had smartpots on top of shipping palletes you could move that smaller skunk out of the shadow and foliar competition space of the romulan. that shaded zone where the two seem to touch is going to only get x amount of bud from both plants. have a foot of space between them (like your other plants) and you get x from each. I have seen your grows and I am sure you are aware of this... just pointing out a benefit to pots.

Interesting.
I think the problem we have is not enough room. I can only spread the plants out so far before we risk them being seen from the street. Right now they are planted almost eight foot apart.
I wish I could move that little Skunk. I'm sure it would benefit to be moved out into full sun. That plant has a few things going against it, that's the one I experimented with and planted on it's side. It's a Skunk, which all the Skunks were smaller. Also, that plant next to it started as a mother plant I bought from the neighbor. It is way bushy and crowding out the Skunk runt out.

 

[BigTex]

This one will go a lb. for sure. It's hard to appreciate the width because of the plants growing on both sides of it. Oh yea that is a 5 gal. bucket under it, not a 32 0z. cup. LOL Big Tex likes big plants.

 

[nomaad]

This one will go a lb. for sure. It's hard to appreciate the width because of the plants growing on both sides of it. Big Tex likes big plants.

I am hoping for more like 3 from a bubba kush in a 200 gallon pot that looks about the same size. Am I delusional?

 

[nomaad]

Interesting.
I think the problem we have is not enough room. I can only spread the plants out so far before we risk them being seen from the street. Right now they are planted almost eight foot apart.
I wish I could move that little Skunk. I'm sure it would benefit to be moved out into full sun. That plant has a few things going against it, that's the one I experimented with and planted on it's side. It's a Skunk, which all the Skunks were smaller. Also, that plant next to it started as a mother plant I bought from the neighbor. It is way bushy and crowding out the Skunk runt out.

I just convinced my neighbor that she had too many plants in her yard... she's been doing it for a couple of decades longer than me, and I think it took a big gulp of pride to do it, but she got rid of some of the most competitive plants. luckily, she did it before stretch... in the smace she made dozens of new fat colas formed where nothing serious was going to happen before. musta been hard to get rid of big ass plants, but I think that in the end she'll do better. thankfully we're in cali and she only had to go as far as her next door neighbor to relocate the plants.

 

[fisher15]

Nice plant Tex.

Nomaad, that thing looks maybe 10' with some width...you have a bubba that size?!?

 

[nomaad]

ok.. maybe not that big. she's about 7 ft tall. and 4.5 ft wide. still hoping for 3 from her. smartpots make everything seem bigger.

 

[try comb]

my indoor bubbas are veggin hella slow..........thats okay though......i wont be harvesting them for 13.5 months........ lol

 

[North]

some of you folks..your FOOKIN CRAZY, I cant imagine pulling off grows like that in my YARD!

that said, I'm dreaming of the day i move outta this damn city.. then I WILL!

 

[Hindu Killer]

Awesome stuff everyone..........this is a inspireing thread.

 

[nomaad]

Interesting.
I think the problem we have is not enough room. I can only spread the plants out so far before we risk them being seen from the street. Right now they are planted almost eight foot apart.

Been thinking about this... 8 foot spacing with unrestricted root space is a problem. The plants will just keep growing... the better your are treating them (and you KNOW how to love up some plants) , the more guaranteed you are that they will crowd. I have 10 foot spacing with 200 gallon pots. If I were growing all blue dream or clueberry, they would be just barely touching... not competing, but filling up all available space. My friend with the 600 gallon holes has 16 foot spacing and his blue dream monocrop is growing into that space juuuust right. You may want to consider restricting your root space so that the plants are just right. Or not... an experiment like that could wind up yielding less than the current paradigm. Just taking out a couple of plants could do the trick... but who knows how it would all average out in the end. Not trying to advise one way or the other, just sharing my thoughts on small garden management. Its easy to grow big when you have unrestricted space... but more people are trying to make it happen in a residential garden or whatever...

if kept to a cetain area, are you hidden from the street regardless of height? You may want to try half as many plants with 16 foor spacing! 600 gallon holes... 15# per plant with the right strain. half the plants x tripple the yield... you still come out on top.

 

[Grandma Gudenhi]

Been thinking about this... 8 foot spacing with unrestricted root space is a problem. The plants will just keep growing... .......... You may want to consider restricting your root space so that the plants are just right. Or not... .....
if kept to a cetain area, are you hidden from the street regardless of height? You may want to try half as many plants with 16 foor spacing! 600 gallon holes... 15# per plant with the right strain. half the plants x tripple the yield... you still come out on top.

We've been doing alot of thinking about this also. Trying to make the best use of the space we have.
When we first grew outdoors, over ten years ago, we grew in pots and the plants were small. The space has graduated over the years and two years ago we hit our max. No matter what the height, you can't see our grow from the street, not even if you're walking.
In the space we have now the roots never max out but the plants do. I know it sounds weird but I think it's because the branches are touching.
More room would equal less plants. We may try that with a few of our own plants just to see what happens. However, half of our plants go to other patients. They get one each and we just chop it down and wrap it up. The size of the plants we grow now are perfect for that.

 

[nomaad]

In the space we have now the roots never max out but the plants do. I know it sounds weird but I think it's because the branches are touching.

doesn't sound weird to me. sounds like one of the gazillion cool things these plants are capable of. yay ganja.