first hole of 2010

[stratmandu]

About 3' dia by 2 ft deep. Very nice sandy loam with great drainage. Amendments shown include EWC, lime, bone and blood meals, plant tone, bio tone, PSB and Mex bat guanos, mushroom compost, some water keep polymer at the bottom. Late afternoon in Feb hence the shade; there will be plenty sun beginning April-May. I hope to pull a lb or better...

All done and marked with sticks. I'll return to transplant in at least a month; the rain will take care of any stray dirt. I checked it 2 weeks later to see if anything dug it up (nothing touched it) and any signs of digging are already gone. This is one of several in this area, scattered hither and yon, very hard to find (I hope). Wish me luck.

 

[Expat]

Ah, The rush and excitement of an outdoor grow. Good Luck.

 

[Ramius]

I'm excited! Good luck

 

[Sinsemillian]

Hehe. Gl to you this season. Never to early in the spring to dig holes IMO. Peace and big buds to ya.

 

[Ribsauce]

awesome man gotta love your pile of amendments... i actually was just out hiking around for a few hours this afternoon checking out some spots i had from last year and man does it feel good to be back out in the woods... good luck with your grow this year man

 

[McDank805]

Nice man nothing like waiting all winter and then starting the first few prep steps. chair pulled up for this grow! goodluck

 

[reddy1]

Hehe. Gl to you this season. Never to early in the spring to dig holes IMO. Peace and big buds to ya.

i disagree, ground is too moist right now, and you can easily compact the soil, depleting it of oxygen and water won't penetrate the soil as well. all depends on location, weather, etc. i'm waiting at least another month before i get my shovel out, the last frost date.

 

[theJointedOne]

right on. nicehole....good choice on the mushroom compost!

 

[stratmandu]

Its not too early for me - the lat is 32N and I will be very surprised if there is another frost before mid-Nov. I turn it over good again when I transplant, so no worries about compaction. This is some of the nicest soil I've grown in, easy to dig, sandy, just a little acidic.

 

[swicker]

nice man, i plan on getting out there after our first big rain, so everything is nice and soft for me

 

[GrnMtFinn]

lookin tight. i wanna get my yankee ass down south after college. The longer growing season must be nice.

 

[La Buena Hierba]

cant wait too begin too Good luck


LBH

 

[rubbanutz420]

I dug my first hole today as well...Im in south Eastern VA area....75 degrees today..last week it was pretty much mid 60's all week....night temps next week will be from 45-55...A tad early, but shit...not by much.

 

[NickMode]

good luck! Im using bone and blood meal too. hoping the animals stay away.

 

[Green]

Fortune Cookie say: You have a long sunny season young jedi. Many moons will pass with many suns when moon is not up. and you shall grow tasty outdoor herb.

Best wishes StratMandu

 

[Smoke_A_Lot]

Hehe. Gl to you this season. Never to early in the spring to dig holes IMO. Peace and big buds to ya.

you got that right!

 

[Guest129216]

Hey stratmandu, have you ever been to Kathmandu?

Thx for the treegrowing tips Btw.

Good luck with your grow!

 

[stratmandu]

No, but I have five strats and man, I du play them.
Carrying all those bags and shit out to the woods was a mistake. I only got 2 holes done in one day and mixing on site was a hassle. So, I went and got some 5 gal buckets with lids, and I premixed all the ferts in them except the compost, ie the ewc (15 lbs), happy frog, guanos, lime, bio-tone, bone meal, epsom salts, etc, which for one hole nearly fills one bucket. I put just enough of the water-sorb for a few holes in a small jar for the backpack because I want it at the bottom of the hole only (not premixed), as well as a jar of lime for the hole soil. So for each hole I just haul a 5 gal bucket and one 1.5 CF sack of compost to each site. More stealthy that way, no obvious sacks of EWC etc, like if someone looked in the back of the truck, just four sacks of compost and four buckets. I can't do more than four in a day if I do them right. Thankfully I have an ATV. I'll be done in couple weeks.

 

[stratmandu]

Back to the top for an update of my small personal guerrilla grow. I can only get out there about every 2-4 weeks. The hole in the OP now has a big White Widow about 7', and was budding the last time I saw it. It was fimmed and pruned by whitetail deer back in May/June, but now they have moved down the road to the farm fields now lush with peanuts, soybeans, squash, and other tasty shit like wild persimmons and muscadines, and it has filled back out into a big ice-cream cone shape, with several top shoots. It may need staking. IMO ,from experience, the deer won't fool with them anymore from now on. I tried deer-away from Lowes and it seems to work - not a nibble since I started spraying it on the lower leaves and surrounding vegetation.

I water with Botanicare PBP deeply (7 gal container heavy as fuck, I set it under the plant, turn it on low), spray the leaves with neem, spread a little DE and granules around the base. I do all the plants, then double back and pick up the water containers. It is so fricking hot, around 100, and so humid you are soaked in the first 5 minutes. Tick and chigger city - permanone and deet is a must). I'm in and out at dawn in about 2 hours. Struggling thru the stickers and vines with 7 gal of water is hard hot work, my friends. Without the ATV... no way.

I cloned a Hawaiian Snow and now have 4 nice bushes, replacing the ones the hogs dug up, still vegging hard, the biggest about 6 feet and fat. I've killed 3 hogs and wounded one that I didn't recover (coyotes probably took care of him, they were really howling that night). I nearly stepped on a huge canebreak rattler that never made a sound and scared the bejeezus out of me - I had "chicken skin" for over an hour after.

The WW is my only surviving indica, but is so huge the yield should be fat. Now for the finish. I changed the nutes to the PBP soil Bloom, top dressed a little hi-P guano, and bought some greencure. I have some white blotches on some big fan leaves, not too bad, PM I am pretty sure, so I need to get on that with the greencure. Never had it before, but I never grew an indica before, so I gotta watch that, as its so frickin' humid and thick here. I think I'll be better off with sativa dominant strains here. that ripen later in Oct, hazes and such.

SO another water/fert/spray run is coming up soon and I will take some pics, I promise. I also started some seedlings of OJDs SSSDHxG13, REZ ChemdogxSour Diesel, and Ganesh' Strawberry Diesel F2s. These are going strong and will go into 10 gal smart pots for a little extra late-season dank and some pollen, maybe. I should be able to go into Nov before the first killing frost.

Man, I have learned a lot, both reading here, as well as working my grow in the bush. I think I am going to end up with enough decent stash to get me thru to next year, which is going to be FAR better.

Pics soon, I promise. Nothing like the norcal big boys, but pretty good for an old-school hippie, sneaking around the woods like a VC in a felony state.

 

[Guest129216]

Man, I have learned a lot, both reading here, as well as working my grow in the bush. I think I am going to end up with enough decent stash to get me thru to next year, which is going to be FAR better.

Lovely, just lovely!
Glad things are working out for you. Really looking forward to some pics..... he he. Ok, catch ya later man.