Exp'd indoor grower - but 1st time outdoor

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DaBull

Active Member
I've been doing indoor soil growing for a few years and I want to do an outdoor grow.

I live in Oakland, CA and my wife has a card so we're legally "safe" to grow a few plants at a time. For indoors I've been doing about 6 plants at a time and usually 2-3 end up being males. But I have questions regarding outdoor.

I have neighbours but its difficult to see my garden from the st. I do have bi-monthly gardeners (they happen to be Mexican, not that there's anything wrong with that). Worse comes to worse, I will move the plants somewhere during the days that they come.

Secondly, would someone still use buckets outdoor, or do you make a hole in the soil and then put in your soil recipe (I always use FFOF mixed in with a 1/4 perlite)?

Is the sun too strong or is it more ideal than the indoor (I use a 400w Lumatek in a 2x4x5 tent)?

Finally, do you just let it flower naturally in season, or can you induce it. Its April now and I don't want to wait til like October or something.

I have no clue about outdoor, so if someone can chime in with advice, that would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
 
alexonfire

alexonfire

Well-Known Member
For inducing flowering this should help.

Outdoors

Most cannabis plants cultivated in the Northern Hemisphere begin to flower by late July. The plants are harvested from October to November.
In much of the North and high-altitude areas, many varieties will not have time to complete flowering before fall frosts. To force the plants to flower earlier, give them longer night periods. If the plants are in containers, you can simply move them into a darkened area each evening.

Plants growing in the ground can be covered with an opaque tarpaulin, black sheet plastic, or double or triple-layers black plastic trash bags. Take advantage of any natural shading because direct sunlight is difficult to screen completely. For instance, if the plants are naturally shaded in the morning hours, cover the plants each evening or night. The next morning you uncover the plants at about eight to nine o'clock. Continue the treatment each day until all the plants are showing flowers. This usually takes two weeks at most, is the plants are well developed (about four months old). For this reason, where the season starts late, it is best to start the plants indoors or in cold frames and transplant outdoors when the weather is mild. This in effect lengthens the local growing season and gives the plants another month or two to develop.

Outdoor growers should always plant several varieties, because some may naturally flower early, even in the northern-most parts of the country. By planting several varieties, many of you will be able to find or develop an early-maturing variety after a season or two. This, of course, is an important point, because it eliminates the need for long-night treatments.

From Barneys Seed Farm
 
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kushman091

Member
5 gallon buckets are great to grow in and mobile a nice blend would be 20 percent wormcastings 40 percent promix and 40 percent coco husk 2-3 tbsp bat guano is nice to sprinkle into the soil
 
D

DaBull

Active Member
alexonfire said:
For inducing flowering this should help.

Outdoors

Most cannabis plants cultivated in the Northern Hemisphere begin to flower by late July. The plants are harvested from October to November.
In much of the North and high-altitude areas, many varieties will not have time to complete flowering before fall frosts. To force the plants to flower earlier, give them longer night periods. If the plants are in containers, you can simply move them into a darkened area each evening.

Plants growing in the ground can be covered with an opaque tarpaulin, black sheet plastic, or double or triple-layers black plastic trash bags. Take advantage of any natural shading because direct sunlight is difficult to screen completely. For instance, if the plants are naturally shaded in the morning hours, cover the plants each evening or night. The next morning you uncover the plants at about eight to nine o'clock. Continue the treatment each day until all the plants are showing flowers. This usually takes two weeks at most, is the plants are well developed (about four months old). For this reason, where the season starts late, it is best to start the plants indoors or in cold frames and transplant outdoors when the weather is mild. This in effect lengthens the local growing season and gives the plants another month or two to develop.

Outdoor growers should always plant several varieties, because some may naturally flower early, even in the northern-most parts of the country. By planting several varieties, many of you will be able to find or develop an early-maturing variety after a season or two. This, of course, is an important point, because it eliminates the need for long-night treatments.

From Barneys Seed Farm
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Thanks for the reply. Why is it good to grow a variety in an outdoor setting? On my indoor grows I follow the Fox Farm schedule. How will that be affected for an outdoor grow? Do you still top or FIM or LST?
 
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