1st Georgia Outdoor Grow

In the pick I got
4 Barneys LSD (visible row of 4)
5 super silver haze (cant see yet)
6 attitude freebies (see 2 on far right).

This area gets about 7-8 hours of hot Georgia sun. I just started giving the bigger boys earth juice grow and catalyst today.

Im going out of town for the next week and wont be able to water the seedlings that you cant see in the blurry pick. Is overwatering them before I leave a good idea.

overwatering is never a good idea

are they straight in the ground, or did you amend the soil? georgia soil isn't exactly famous for it's fertility

it might get reeeaaaal dry right there. I went to college in georgia= ABAC
I might recomend what Angus stated, and try to amend the soil.
how long have they been under?

driftwoodg said:

it might get reeeaaaal dry right there. I went to college in georgia= ABAC
I might recomend what Angus stated, and try to amend the soil.
how long have they been under?

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Not much you can do now to change the soil it's in, not to increase wate retention. You'd have to dig those up first and they are almost too big and too close to do so safely. I don't think you could help too much anyhow.

I was just asking because the ground doesn't look disturbed, and if he just planted straight into southern red clay then I'd be real surprised if the plants got a foot tall.

Water it good right before you leave and cross your fingers is all you can really say, unless you're looking to make some sort of irrigation.

andy appleseed said:

In the pick I got
4 Barneys LSD (visible row of 4)
5 super silver haze (cant see yet)
6 attitude freebies (see 2 on far right).

This area gets about 7-8 hours of hot Georgia sun. I just started giving the bigger boys earth juice grow and catalyst today.

Im going out of town for the next week and wont be able to water the seedlings that you cant see in the blurry pick. Is overwatering them before I leave a good idea.

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so whats up ? is that a sandy area, with oaks and pines, or a low lying area with mulberrys all around.?
and I'm guessing all the plants are from seed?

dude, you have a chance of rain from the 11th to the 15th.. might want to think outside the box a bit there Andy.
not being a prick or anything, but you must have done a little research before trying this, no?



good luck with this grow

I did not plant strait into the ground. (Ive done that before and it didn’t work out.) I had four large bags of MG organic soil that I mixed with a little bit of the native soil. Probably a 4-1 ratio. The larger ones have been in the ground for almost three weeks. The rest are not even a week old and I put them in the ground directly after germination. They all have two small seedling leaves.

I live in a neighborhood on about 2 acres. The grow spot is a briar patch/weed/kudzu in my backyard next to a wooded area that divides my property.

The ground actually was really really disturbed after I dug it up. Having no topsoil around the visible amended soil looked way too obvious. So I added some oak leaves and grass clippings to protect my plants and help conceal them. I guess I did a good job since everyone thought I planted directly in the ground. Haha.

What do you mean by thinking outside the box? I wanted to ask you guys with more experience what I should do. I wasn’t sure how bad it was to overwater the plants. I thought maybe overwatering might only stunt their growth temporally vs drying up and dying. And yes there is a 30% of scattered rain for the next 5 days where I live. But that is not very comforting. i would rather be proactive if possible.

andy appleseed said:

I did not plant strait into the ground. (Ive done that before and it didn’t work out.) I had four large bags of MG organic soil that I mixed with a little bit of the native soil. Probably a 4-1 ratio. The larger ones have been in the ground for almost three weeks. The rest are not even a week old and I put them in the ground directly after germination. They all have two small seedling leaves.

I live in a neighborhood on about 2 acres. The grow spot is a briar patch/weed/kudzu in my backyard next to a wooded area that divides my property.

The ground actually was really really disturbed after I dug it up. Having no topsoil around the visible amended soil looked way too obvious. So I added some oak leaves and grass clippings to protect my plants and help conceal them. I guess I did a good job since everyone thought I planted directly in the ground. Haha.

What do you mean by thinking outside the box? I wanted to ask you guys with more experience what I should do. I wasn’t sure how bad it was to overwater the plants. I thought maybe overwatering might only stunt their growth temporally vs drying up and dying. And yes there is a 30% of scattered rain for the next 5 days where I live. But that is not very comforting. i would rather be proactive if possible.

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no offense, just thinking about checking the weather first.

it sounds like you have prepaired well.

I think a good watering would be ok, your medium should drain well, and with the amount of mulch , it shouldn't dry out much.( great job covering your tracks) you should be great.
i'll be watching, as I also have LSD in the ground.

Here is an update. I topped most of my plants about two-three weeks ago because I dont want them getting too tall. I kind of wish I waited because it has really stunted their growth. Im sure the temps in the high 90's doesn't help either.

I am also having some bug issues, I lost three seedlings. As of right now there is 11 plants. the one surviving seedling you can barely see (its next to the biggest plant)

just realized that I topped about 1.5 weeks ago.

I'm in mississippi and the heat is a bitch for starting seedlings. Mine are growin in my window cill for the first couple weeks. Then I'm gradually introducing them to natural sun and heat, puttin them outside for a few hours a day

also growing barneys farm lsd, do the leaves look very long and skinny on your too? I noticed Very strange genetics with this plant.. very hairy very early hopefully some good buds gl man

budbuster3000 said:

also growing barneys farm lsd, do the leaves look very long and skinny on your too? I noticed Very strange genetics with this plant.. very hairy very early hopefully some good buds gl man

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Not positive since I dont have much personal expericen but for an indica dominant plant my LSD plants don't have typical fat leaves. and ya all my LSD are starting to preflower and the rest of my crop isnt

andy appleseed,

I saw your thread and it caught my attention.
Back in the early 80s, me and two friends used to grow outdoors, in Georgia.
We grew on an island, a very small island, in West Point Lake, near LaGrange.

In spring, we had a boat and pretended we were fishing, we had walkie talkies, so we could check the area out first. We 'd pretend we went to the island to pee. After we saw it was safe, we'd water and feed our plants with lake water.
In September, we'd pretend we were duck hunting. We did a grow there of 24 plants, spread out not in one spot, for 3 years in a row and got away with it. We grew tall Sativa, we didn't know anything about Indica, or pH, or trichomes, and really nothing about growing. We also let it seed, to get more weight. We'd get about 16 to 18 pounds of buds, and leaves together. We did it for the money.

We didn't have the deer to contend with, they couldn't get to the island.

Since I last posted I have been applying Earth Juice Grow and Earth Juice Catalyst.

I started out with 2 tbsp of each, every week and worked up to 6 tbsp every week.

Anyone ever used these, what rates did you use?

Island must've been a long way out...or they had no motivation to go there.

I've seen a deer swim for 45 minutes...they're persistent fuckers...

Roseman said:

andy appleseed,

I saw your thread and it caught my attention.
Back in the early 80s, me and two friends used to grow outdoors, in Georgia.
We grew on an island, a very small island, in West Point Lake, near LaGrange.

In spring, we had a boat and pretended we were fishing, we had walkie talkies, so we could check the area out first. We 'd pretend we went to the island to pee. After we saw it was safe, we'd water and feed our plants with lake water.
In September, we'd pretend we were duck hunting. We did a grow there of 24 plants, spread out not in one spot, for 3 years in a row and got away with it. We grew tall Sativa, we didn't know anything about Indica, or pH, or trichomes, and really nothing about growing. We also let it seed, to get more weight. We'd get about 16 to 18 pounds of buds, and leaves together. We did it for the money.

We didn't have the deer to contend with, they couldn't get to the island.

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I'm from LG, just minutes from the marina, you should have told me you were growing there!

beginningbotanist420 said:

I'm from LG, just minutes from the marina, you should have told me you were growing there!

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I've drove throught LaGrange a thousand times.

Angus said:

Island must've been a long way out...or they had no motivation to go there.

I've seen a deer swim for 45 minutes...they're persistent fuckers...

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very true !! i live where one of canadas fastest tidal rivers where boats have been known to capsise and ive seen a deer swim from the other side ( in january mind you) and when he made it to shore he hit the ground running and went up a very steep hill, that island in lagrange must be pretty freaking big!!! LOL