Green Fields
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Funny you should say that. This evening on my way home from the hill I was daydreaming about a big DWC outdoor in one of my 275gal reservoir cubes.
I'm totally gonna bury a few next year and give it a whirl.
I reckon it could be pretty efficient all around when dialed in proper.
First and foremost, thanks for stopping by Trinity, I'm a big fan of your grows. Been quietly watching for a few years.
I'm far far ahead of everyone in the area. There's 4 other grows on the hillside, I'm about double the largest. There's also a guy up the road growing in kiddie pools..I'm ahead of him aswell.
The other people aren't using basement. They're all in various soils. The runner up on the hill is using Happy Frog cut w/ perilite.
The problem is mine were obviously started long before there's. Mine came to the hill larger, so the fact that they're larger now says nothing at all. They came in 25 gal's..like 6'+ tall. The neighbors planted at maybe 3'. So any comparison is subjective at best
I'm the only grower that I know of using Basement Mix outdoors.
Honestly there are several reasons I didn't just buy a ton of soil, bigger pots and amendments. The biggest being that these plants were extras from indoor operations...and were already in 3gal coco pots. I know coco like the back of my hand...soil, not so much. I've been growing in hydro/coco my whole career, so the idea of going outdoors from in and switching mediums was kinda intimidating.
Curiosity was a huge player too. I couldn't really figure out why nobody had tried a large plant coco garden aside from cost.
As far as being happy with the size of my plants, yeah I'm happy. Remember, this is my first season of outdoor. I'm especially happy when I look at the pictures of them going into the pots on the hillside 2 months ago. I'm blown away when I look at it like that.
That being said, I'm certain they could have been much bigger. They were late getting onto the hill. They hardly got any sun in the space they were in from April til the hill. Had they just been out on the hill, I'm sure they would have been MUCH bigger.
In the 2 months on the hill they blew the fuck up.
I definitely wish I would have done larger pots. They hit the walls almost a month ago..I'm certain they'd have filled 300, maybe even 400 gallon pots.
Next year I fully intend to do a side by side. It'll be somewhat flawed since I've no experience in soil gardening, but I'd be happy to put any of you experienced cats soil/nute recipes to the test.
Cheers, I appreciate the questions. Allowed for some nice introspective thinking.
In some ways I feel bad advertizing coco outdoors. The idea of other people seeing success w/ this method could be bad for the environment. I'm starting w/ this and heading to organics. Next year gonna do 50/50 coco/organic soil.
