[gorilla ganja]

Why not try half with and half without raised beds and see if it makes a difference.

Roots getting plenty of oxygen is very important. But if the soil is loose and fluffy naturally and will not get flooded and turn to muck, then you should be good.
Some amendments will always help, really depends on your budget and time you want to spend working the soil. And security of the site.

Looks like you have a bunch of babies ready to go so time is important.

Cheers GG

yeah , those seedlings look fine little stretchy . not bad though . compared to the rabbit shit episode you nailed it .

raised beds are better , even if the area,s not prone to flooding you still don't want any heavy rain them sitting in water .

ph test the soil most important thing , you can always feed as you go . as long as you regular don,t over do or under do it . keep them happy.

nice updated prep work on the spot , lots good light. vegetation around looks good too/healthy

Originally Posted by Purple Jungle

Spacing?

That's a map of the garden that I made. Again, it's 20m x 26m, got 90 4sq.m. patches. Every little square is one square meter.

I was considering planting 3 plants per 4 square meters and leaving 1 meter between rows. However, I realized that I am starting a bit late, so I am not sure if my plants are gonna be able to achieve their tree potential... Plus, I haven't done this before like that e.g. trying to feed the right things, top and babysit.

So, I am not sure how should I space them really. Roughly, half of my babies are kushes and the rest are sativa dom Bodhi's.

I have 80 plants from the first batch (April 25), 150 from the second (May 15) and another 100 on the way.

Tomorrow I am going there to turn the soil and likely the day after I am gonna be doing the raised beds. Any suggestions?

Also, not sure how high/deep should I make the raised beds and how deep do mj roots go, can't find specific info?

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depending how how late in the season you are ? i have seen plants planted later and if the conditions are right , overtake the plants in on time ( i month behind is no problem they will hit your goal ). they are a lot more flexible and robust also . looks like you may turn this around hay .

if they are going out sexed , and you have plenty of seedlings . put in double and pick the better ones after 4 weeks that you want to go with . is an idea !

[Purple Jungle]

Originally Posted by gorilla ganja

Some amendments will always help, really depends on your budget and time you want to spend working the soil. And security of the site.

Keyword - budget, cause it's 500sq.m. If there's something critical that I can add, I will do it. Like if the pH is not right... Otherwise, I think local soil is fine. After I mess with it today, I will know for sure.

If netting the plants is necessary, probably that's where my money will go.
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What hit the first batch is fungi or something, cause it also affected the cucumber plants in the greenhouse.

Originally Posted by BAKED_BEANZ

raised beds are better , even if the area,s not prone to flooding you still don't want any heavy rain them sitting in water

Yup, that's a major point in fact, rain might be an issue, never know! I might indeed do half and half, cause the slope, which is almost half of the spot, is pretty steep. Depending on how well tilling is going there, I might not do raised beds there and do them just where it's level.

Originally Posted by BAKED_BEANZ

ph test the soil most important thing , you can always feed as you go . as long as you regular don,t over do or under do it . keep them happy.

Yeah, that's the only 'fancier' thing that I plan to do. Thanks for reminding me though!! cause, honestly, I was not thinking about it.

Originally Posted by BAKED_BEANZ

depending how how late in the season you are ? i have seen plants planted later and if the conditions are right , overtake the plants in on time ( i month behind is no problem they will hit your goal ). they are a lot more flexible and robust also . looks like you may turn this around hay .

Not too late I'd say. I see people in Nor Cal putting clones out around 15th of June because of the day length, so that calms me down. The season here should be pretty much the same. Unless weather this year continues the weirdness into fall, October should be warm.

Originally Posted by BAKED_BEANZ

if they are going out sexed , and you have plenty of seedlings . put in double and pick the better ones after 4 weeks that you want to go with . is an idea !

Not going out sexed. The 80 from the first batch are 1 month old. Should be showing preflowers in a couple of weeks or so, right.
The rest are younger.

I am shooting for 300 plants (excluding clones), the site could hold ~100 girls with plenty of room. The plan was to plant 3 plants per 4 square meter patch like that:

and keep 1 of those plants. I am still leaning towards that with the 80 one month old plants.

For the rest, not sure. I might want to plant in a a way that would allow me to keep all females instead.

Also if my clones decide to root finally... that would only add to the fun

Going there now. New photos coming up.

[Purple Jungle]

No new photos as a storm was coming and I evacuated the spot asap cause my nursery top was off. Good that I did.

Working on that slope with the rototiller is a bitch. I will likely follow the terrain and try to make it into terraces. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have new footage, so you guys finally get a good idea of what my secret garden is like.

you want to be checking the ph now and getting lime down , hopefully get it washed in with some rain/storms . you may not need it .

if i,m putting out unsexed i normally put 4 to a hole . leave one girl remaining . that being the best structured female left . sometimes you may get 4 males , rarely but it happens . no big deal , think you will find you,ll need the space if all go,s to plan.

hopefully you get decent rainfall during the grow season , i know you plan to hand water . but you cant beat mother nature . it will make your season if you do .not sure if you have considered a pump or if you could get away noise wise using one . make life easier .

[Purple Jungle]

I want to check the pH just in case, so I don't get off on the wrong foot, even though I am pretty confident that the soil is perfect. That's why I haven't done it yet (among other practical reasons). Gotta make sure though.

Yeah, initially I was gonna follow your advice regarding 4 to a hole, but I am completely out of space, the greenhouse is a no go zone, also getting low on seeds (keeping some in case something terrible happens with the current babies, gotta make ends meet at the end, be it even indoors) and I figured 3 should work too. And I was planning to do some clones too as you know! However, something doesn't seem right with these cuttings... that white stuff doesn't seem to be roots to me.

I did a test clone before I did these, it went great, but....

I am doing drip irrigation for the lower part, stream water will fill a a tank/barrel where I can mix food. For the upper part of the slope, I will likely just run water from the other spot where there's water (lower volume). Summer rain here is unpredictable though, sometimes it does rain, sometimes it's dry as hell.

Also need to figure out a food regimen on the cheap. Thinking alfalfa & nettles tea (not bubbled), worm tea foliar, SST's, could do chicken shit tea, molasses and willow water. Haven't looked into it much further than this yet. Also got a bag of NPK fert (that I don't like) and micro elements. Gotta finish the spot first, I am soo damn burnt out... no energy for anything else.

[Purple Jungle]

Ended up doing raised beds as the top layer of soil's good, but under that tilled layer it's pretty hard because of the roots of the native vegetation that I removed.

Busy and TIRED as $#!^.

Pics from a few days back, already installed dripping irrigation on the ready parts.

[klint]

Looks good PurpleJungle I See the amount of work that You put in this field. Good luck and stay safe bro!!!

[Purple Jungle]

Yeah man and it's 530sq.m. it's no joke, sometimes I get someone to help me, but it's mostly a one man job. I feel like an old grandpa, pretty much my entire body is sore, I've been working on it for AWHILE now, I am half way there though!... Will check in again once I am done transplanting, etc, will do a proper write up...