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Hey guys, my partner and I are first time GGs.
I've been lurking these forums for a couple months now, and have learned a lot.
We bought 70 seeds, and 49 have popped. I'm fairly certain no more will, as we started trying to germ them April 28th.
We have two main locations scouted, fairly near each other, in the mountains. Both get direct sunlight all day.
Location A is about 150 yards from a hiking trail. I'm confident hikers won't happen to deviate that far off trail at this exact location over the course of the season, as there are not visible trails headed off the main trail, and hikers in these parts are usually quite well behaved and stay on-trail.
One main concern we have for Location A is that there is some mountain pine beetle activity in the area, and "bug dicks" may come 'round, and will definitely be buzzing the area by helicopter. The location is also visible from a ridge nearby, though this is intentional to provide overwatch during harvest time. To counteract these issues, we plan to keep our garden as inconspicuous looking as possible, hopefully blending it into the surroundings adequately.
Location B is on a mountainside, about a 1.5 hour trek from visible human activity. Our only concern is that it is quite high in elevation, and we don't want our plants freezing.
The babies are currently in veg growth, trying to get them big enough to handle bug attacks. We have two grow boxes and one 8 inch fan for ventilation. I fashioned an air intake with a garbage bag and some duct tape. Our other box is currently not receiving any ventilation, though I plan on fixing this in the next couple days.
As you can see, we've taken two plants to Location A already, anticipating a good period weather-wise. That was last Tuesday, and we went back yesterday to check them out. They didn't look very good at all. The weather dipped to -2 C one night, and one looks like it's probably going to die. The other will hopefully pull through. We gave them water, and will check back on them tomorrow. We're keeping them in little plastic bell shaped "individual greenhouses" from a gardening store. Once they outgrow those, we'll be moving to chicken wire.
One question I have is regarding fertilization. We've been using liquid sea weed in 100% of our watering, but that's it. We're also providing foliar feeding of the liquid sea weed, and growth has certainly improved since we began this. Should we use an additional rooting hormone during transplantations? And how do we know when/how much to chemically fertilize? We're using potting soil in our locations and a specialized seedling soil in the grow boxes. We can't use anything like blood/bone meal since we have a lot of wildlife issues to worry about. A grizzly (we hope) moved our potting soil out of its hiding spot on-location already.
We're not sure about planting more plants. Historic average last frost is May 20th, so we'll probably give it another week or two of veg growth before planting more. In the meantime we'll keep digging (we only have about 20 holes right now) and moving soil.
We also wonder if we need to transplant to larger pots. If not, will we need to, or will we be able to go from cup to hole in two weeks?
I took all these pictures last night, and there has been some reasonable growth since. I've got the plants on 22/2 right now, which I'll adjust an hour at a time to ease the transition before sending them out.
Our harvest strategy is to have an overwatch position on the ridge with a radio and a telescope. Keeping an eye out for Babylon, we should be able to avoid ever getting caught with harvested product. We're going to dry in a secondary location, where we will dig a hole for a large bin filled with screens to hold the bud, and a dessicant on the bottom to keep things dry. We'll seal that and leave it, checking daily. The reason for this is that we can't dry at home, due to roommates.
That's all I can think of to post just now, though I'll keep updating this thread.
PS: We've got Rainbow Skunk, a mix of outdoor strains, Emerald Wonder, Early Wonder, Blackberry, White Grizzly, and a Kish based mix that sucked for germing and we probably only have two plants of. Blackberry was also not the best performer for germing, but has shown incredible vigor since. These are all fairly early finishers. We picked one autoflowering strain (Early Wonder) so we could evaluate our proposed drying method.
I've been lurking these forums for a couple months now, and have learned a lot.
We bought 70 seeds, and 49 have popped. I'm fairly certain no more will, as we started trying to germ them April 28th.
We have two main locations scouted, fairly near each other, in the mountains. Both get direct sunlight all day.
Location A is about 150 yards from a hiking trail. I'm confident hikers won't happen to deviate that far off trail at this exact location over the course of the season, as there are not visible trails headed off the main trail, and hikers in these parts are usually quite well behaved and stay on-trail.
One main concern we have for Location A is that there is some mountain pine beetle activity in the area, and "bug dicks" may come 'round, and will definitely be buzzing the area by helicopter. The location is also visible from a ridge nearby, though this is intentional to provide overwatch during harvest time. To counteract these issues, we plan to keep our garden as inconspicuous looking as possible, hopefully blending it into the surroundings adequately.
Location B is on a mountainside, about a 1.5 hour trek from visible human activity. Our only concern is that it is quite high in elevation, and we don't want our plants freezing.
The babies are currently in veg growth, trying to get them big enough to handle bug attacks. We have two grow boxes and one 8 inch fan for ventilation. I fashioned an air intake with a garbage bag and some duct tape. Our other box is currently not receiving any ventilation, though I plan on fixing this in the next couple days.
As you can see, we've taken two plants to Location A already, anticipating a good period weather-wise. That was last Tuesday, and we went back yesterday to check them out. They didn't look very good at all. The weather dipped to -2 C one night, and one looks like it's probably going to die. The other will hopefully pull through. We gave them water, and will check back on them tomorrow. We're keeping them in little plastic bell shaped "individual greenhouses" from a gardening store. Once they outgrow those, we'll be moving to chicken wire.
One question I have is regarding fertilization. We've been using liquid sea weed in 100% of our watering, but that's it. We're also providing foliar feeding of the liquid sea weed, and growth has certainly improved since we began this. Should we use an additional rooting hormone during transplantations? And how do we know when/how much to chemically fertilize? We're using potting soil in our locations and a specialized seedling soil in the grow boxes. We can't use anything like blood/bone meal since we have a lot of wildlife issues to worry about. A grizzly (we hope) moved our potting soil out of its hiding spot on-location already.
We're not sure about planting more plants. Historic average last frost is May 20th, so we'll probably give it another week or two of veg growth before planting more. In the meantime we'll keep digging (we only have about 20 holes right now) and moving soil.
We also wonder if we need to transplant to larger pots. If not, will we need to, or will we be able to go from cup to hole in two weeks?
I took all these pictures last night, and there has been some reasonable growth since. I've got the plants on 22/2 right now, which I'll adjust an hour at a time to ease the transition before sending them out.
Our harvest strategy is to have an overwatch position on the ridge with a radio and a telescope. Keeping an eye out for Babylon, we should be able to avoid ever getting caught with harvested product. We're going to dry in a secondary location, where we will dig a hole for a large bin filled with screens to hold the bud, and a dessicant on the bottom to keep things dry. We'll seal that and leave it, checking daily. The reason for this is that we can't dry at home, due to roommates.
That's all I can think of to post just now, though I'll keep updating this thread.
PS: We've got Rainbow Skunk, a mix of outdoor strains, Emerald Wonder, Early Wonder, Blackberry, White Grizzly, and a Kish based mix that sucked for germing and we probably only have two plants of. Blackberry was also not the best performer for germing, but has shown incredible vigor since. These are all fairly early finishers. We picked one autoflowering strain (Early Wonder) so we could evaluate our proposed drying method.
