anonymousgrow
Active member
Hello,
So I am a first time outdoor grower this year. I have been doing indoors for a bit and this is my first attempt at an outdoor garden, as well as my first attempt at a fully organic garden.
We have 18 200 gallon dirt bags made by hydrofarm. They are similar to smart pots. The soil mix is great! It's topsoil, green waste and farm animal manure compost, castings, pumice, rice hulls, chicken manure, dolomite lime, mushroom compost compost, garden humus, and peat moss. The bottoms of the planters have much richer soil than at the top.
We got most of the clones on May 5th and for the most part haven't had many problems. I under watered them a bunch at first because i wasn't used to the giant planters. So they are probably about a week or so stunted in growth.
The strains we have are Skunk Chunk, Blackberry Kush, Lemon Kush, Cherry Pie, Black Domina, Ultra Skunk, Sensi Star, Master Kush, Headband, and J-1.
I am giving them water that has been set out and aerated for at least 6-12 hours to remove chorine and PH'ed to around 6.0.
When they were little we gave them some simple worm casting AACT with EWC and Molasses. Now they get a more rich veg AACT with liquid humid acid, EWC, Compost, Liquid Kelp Extract, Fish Emulsion, Molasses and just a bit of SN-14 added in after brewing for some additional Nitrogen. They have had foliar feedings of compost tea, kelp extract, fish emulsion, and SN-14 at various times.
Also they get a weekly spraying with Azamax to aid in keeping the bugs away, They also get sprayed with water almost every morning to knock off any bugs from overnight. We have also used insecticidal soap twice also when we started to see some thrips. They garden floor gets sprayed with a 20% canola oil solution to kill the weeds and the bugs.
The plants have been doing well so far. We got most of them into the 200 gallon planters around the 1st, dusted the roots with great white when we did. One of the Black Dominas went into flower and we can't get it to come out so I think we are going to pull it out and put it in a 20 gallon planter and just bring it in so it only gets 12 hours of sun and just keep it in flower. Then put a different plant in that hole.
Here are some pictures of the plants as babies and a couple weeks ago how they were earlier today, also a pic of Black Domina that is in Flower.
So I am a first time outdoor grower this year. I have been doing indoors for a bit and this is my first attempt at an outdoor garden, as well as my first attempt at a fully organic garden.
We have 18 200 gallon dirt bags made by hydrofarm. They are similar to smart pots. The soil mix is great! It's topsoil, green waste and farm animal manure compost, castings, pumice, rice hulls, chicken manure, dolomite lime, mushroom compost compost, garden humus, and peat moss. The bottoms of the planters have much richer soil than at the top.
We got most of the clones on May 5th and for the most part haven't had many problems. I under watered them a bunch at first because i wasn't used to the giant planters. So they are probably about a week or so stunted in growth.
The strains we have are Skunk Chunk, Blackberry Kush, Lemon Kush, Cherry Pie, Black Domina, Ultra Skunk, Sensi Star, Master Kush, Headband, and J-1.
I am giving them water that has been set out and aerated for at least 6-12 hours to remove chorine and PH'ed to around 6.0.
When they were little we gave them some simple worm casting AACT with EWC and Molasses. Now they get a more rich veg AACT with liquid humid acid, EWC, Compost, Liquid Kelp Extract, Fish Emulsion, Molasses and just a bit of SN-14 added in after brewing for some additional Nitrogen. They have had foliar feedings of compost tea, kelp extract, fish emulsion, and SN-14 at various times.
Also they get a weekly spraying with Azamax to aid in keeping the bugs away, They also get sprayed with water almost every morning to knock off any bugs from overnight. We have also used insecticidal soap twice also when we started to see some thrips. They garden floor gets sprayed with a 20% canola oil solution to kill the weeds and the bugs.
The plants have been doing well so far. We got most of them into the 200 gallon planters around the 1st, dusted the roots with great white when we did. One of the Black Dominas went into flower and we can't get it to come out so I think we are going to pull it out and put it in a 20 gallon planter and just bring it in so it only gets 12 hours of sun and just keep it in flower. Then put a different plant in that hole.
Here are some pictures of the plants as babies and a couple weeks ago how they were earlier today, also a pic of Black Domina that is in Flower.
