UnderGroundKing
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Mr Celsius said:I believe why WAMEN says this is a silly thread is because so many variables come into play. Growing pot usually isn't as easy as saying, I'll grow 3 pounds from 5 plants.
It tends to be as complicated as factoring in sunlight, temps, humidity, nutrients, pot size/in ground, when they were put outside, when they were harvested, weather, latitude... I think that covers all the aspects. With 10 variables there you have so many combinations that it isn't possible to have a straight answer. I could tell you the ideal conditions.
Direct sun light, temps in the 70-80s, RH 40-60%, Nutrients... thats subjective (I like organics), 15 gallon pots or in the ground (amended), put them out early May, make sure they get at least 8 hours of direct sunlight. You'll yield 3 pounds for sure.
I put 3 plants out early july once, they got about 3' tall when finished and I got a lb. They were in direct sunlight the entire day and the temps were good.
Sorry I don't have more info about the Pot 40 statement...
Wamen is wrong, because Gantz is wrong. (Please don't take offense fellows, you're usually right and I'm certainly not questioning your skills. You're just wrong on this point). It sounds logical that big plants produce big and they do, but in a bucket that huge root system can cause you real problems come august, the very time you don't need problems. Smaller statured heavy producers are much better strains than the big strains. Northern lights is a good bucket strain. KC36 is a small structured plant that will produce a pound in a bucket. Skunk X NL varieties yield big. Critical mass, Hashberry. I could and will if asked, put together a list of smaller statured plants that produce heavily.
Big strains such as KC33, Jack Herrer, Hollands hope will grow up big initially with lots of vegatative growth that the bucket size cant support during flowering. Yield gets reduced to below the level you would have achieved had you grown smaller, denser strains.
i agreeWAMEN said:silly thread.
Gantz is giving good info anyways. Listen to him.
Good luck.
TomHill said:They are in homemade containers out of heavy gaged wire & ground cover, they go about 500 gallons & are 6 feet in diameter. From clones, vegged inside through April & most of May then set out. Added to the soil & perlite is 5 cubic ft composted chicken shit, 50 lbs steamed bone meal, & 15 lbs gypsum. Then I use field meters to try & hover around perfect ( PH 6.5, ergs 500, na + 2.5, ORP 125-150) as best I can with Earth Juice products mostly. They should get pretty big, though I only get about 6 hours of direct sunlight per day. Here's a couple of old pics a bit further along in the season with the Salmon Creek clone. My apologies, for these pics are old news to many of these guys.
Aye, well one of the reason I do want to grow in buckets is because of all the red clay around here. I'm afraid if I try to amend the soil ahead of time it'll still kill my plants and with pots controlling the soil will be easier. I could be wrong though. I'll probably end up doing 5 gallon bucks in a guerrilla grow. I figured also if I grew in pots it would reduce the size of the plant thus making it harder to spot. Am I wrong?Generally, pots arent needed. I would always recommend that a grower modify the existing soil if possible. Sometimes because of rock or heavy clay, you don't have a choice but my first intent will always be to find out what the soil is lacking and fix it. The guy in that "Browndirtwarrior" clip would have saved himself tons of hard work had he taken a sample of his soil in the fall and then adjusted it over the winter and spring.
Jon said:I'm just as outdoor as anyone else in this forum.
I'm sure he has, that's why I'm in the outdoor forum, to get advice from outdoor veterans.The Iceman said:LOL!!! come on now Tom has forgotting more then you know bro and thats just going on the little bit from this thread but as George Castanza said "Jerry, its not a lie if YOU believe it"....lol