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The start of a great season is upon you CanniDo. Enjoy your gardening, and the fruits when they are ready. Hell yeah!
Nice work, makes me feel like a wussy growing indoors.
The start of a great season is upon you CanniDo. Enjoy your gardening, and the fruits when they are ready. Hell yeah!
not trying to be hating on your grow at all but imo that start is too big for your container, it will be root bound before long unless it is allowed to grow out of its container into the naturalk earth
just my 2 cents
smaller clones r teens would be better imo
hope ur enjoying the sun
Heh, it's been well discussed already
CC - Cool man, yea I always like to just let mine go vertical and then clean up the mess as it happens LOL. You seen those texas tomato cages? (www.tomatocage.com) I bought a 6 pack to try on half my garden this year, I think they'll be great for inner support as things start to weigh down on the lower/side parts of the plant. They definitely seem strong enough for the job compared those measly normal cages... and like you I expect to go with the hortonova for an extra layer of support higher up..
Weather is kickin' and so are the plants. Take care CC!
All right they're in the ground!!!!
Just my opinion but I don’t agree with the root bound scenario comments. Most of my plants don’t grow that deep and I know its because I am supplying all the ferts they need. Looking at the pic of your plant out of the pot I didn’t see any signs of root bound and again in my opinion you wont see that in the holes. I think with your long season 1lb per plant (depending on strain) is a no brainer. I know you are looking for more than that but for sure 1 lb per. But we will see and it will be fun to do so. ------Good luck CC
EDIT: wow it's actually been nearly a week man, that's not normal for this thread - sincerely hope things are going well.
Alrighty then...All is well fellas, just got a bit busy doin life's stuff. Thanks all for the checkin-ins and concerns...Sleepy Hollow is doin fine, putting the final touches on the mechanics of the garden ie: back-filling the remaining container holes, raking out the pathways for them damn small ankle-turner rocks, figuring out the water system etc.
Speaking of water system, here's the update: I was hoping to use on the natural spring located on my property but the reality is: until I go thru this season, I wont know if the spring flow (seep) will remain constant thru-out the summer months and sufficient enough to sustain the Hollow (18 plants). I suspect the spring will slow down as the water table drops during the summer and if that were to happen, I would have to rely on my city water supply and the mid-way switch to chlorinated water could create problems I would just as soon side-step now.
So, I'm utilizing my 55 gal barrel by filling it with the city chlorinated water, letting it sit 24 hours with running 2 airstones bubbling 24/7. It works out well because it's a perpetual, non-stop tea brewing process with all the nute goodies I throw in the barrel. I split the plant watering schedule into 2 parts. I hand-carry a 5 gal bucket and water 9 plants, replenish the barrel, wait 24 hours and then water the remaining 9 plants. So basically, I water 9 plants every 2 days with an approx 3 day break in between which is OK, considering the fact I'm toting a 5 gal bucket a minimum of 9 times up thru the Hollow. A drip system would be nice but with the chlorinated water, it would mean an RO system and that would mean a lot of water waste. For every gal of filtered water means at least 5 gals or so of untreated water going to waste? So for this season, I'll grow-man up and tote the water...
What else? Oh yea. A growth update. Over all, things go real well. No issues or problems. I would like to say the plants really took off once in the ground but actually that didnt happen. I planted during a 4 day evening time process with all the plants showing minimal stress/shock and they all then kind of went thru a "root re-grouping" period. lol I cant say they just "sat" but because they were in the 3 gal Smarties so long, I think it took longer than it might have normally for them to acclimate and proceed on with their business. I switched to some higher-tech nutes (30% nitrogen) for a little bump start and that got em rockin. I'm keepin an eye on a couple "slow-growers" in case I need to replace with my still growing back-up clones. Gonna wait a little longer to see if I need to do that...
Weather update....Damn, it got hot real f'n quick. 94 yesterday. Gonna be around 102 today, pushing 104 tomorrow... That's a bit too much too soon for this cowboy but I guess I dont know enough about outdoor growing to be real scared... LOL
I'll post pics soon but wanted to get the last of the Sleepy Hollow clean and tidy before showing her off. I'm really stoked how it's all coming together. It isnt anything on a grand commercial scale but then again, it aint your grandma's apartment veranda operation either. lol You guys can be the judge of how the girls are doin. Comparisons from when I first planted to where the plants are now should show respectable progress. At least I think so...
Hope everyone got everything in the ground OK and y'all have a fine and safe growing season...CC
. A drip system would be nice but with the chlorinated water, it would mean an RO system and that would mean a lot of water waste. For every gal of filtered water means at least 5 gals or so of untreated water going to waste? So for this season, I'll grow-man up and tote the water...
Nice to hear from you, man! Geez, I thought your elevation was similar to ours, but you're obviously lower if it's getting that hot. We are looking at 90 or 91 for the high tomorrow, not bad when it's triple digits in the valley.
Say, why couldn't you do a gravity feed with your aerated city water? Hauling those buckets is manly, but will get old in July and August.
Keep it cool.
Thats what it means for R/O with hydro.
The "trash" water in my R/O system read 40ppm... the "trash" water goes through the carbon and prefilter, then is used to wash the R/O membrane.
The trash water is chlorine free... i just mix it 50/50 with the clean and call it 20ppm water
DO NOT THROW AWAY TRASH SIDE OF R/O for soil growing...
on outdoor soil, use it as clean
hope this helps
Manitoid
(and yes from personal experience i use the "trash" from R/O as clean water, 40ppm is NOT 370ppm water... chlorine free for sure)
and glad to see you back... i used to huck 48 X 5 gallon trips while watering... watering system will be done today or tomorrow, so I wont be doing that anymore.