Golden Triangle Growers, need advice please.

psychadelibud

psychadelibud

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Howdy ho,

Well, lets start off with a little introduction. I am in south eastern Kentucky in the southern Appalachia, currently running a guerilla operation that is pretty hefty. I have a (disclosed) amount of plants all in 20 to 50 gallon containers but I will say there is more than you can count on each hand times 8.

Plants are getting bigger, some are almost done but the bigger ones are only in mid flower and some just fresh from veg placed out to flower for a late November early December harvest (yeah I know, i'm pushing it, but i've got this ;) ) I have ran them into late November before with no problemos.

So I am actually a pretty well experienced guerilla grower and been at it 15 plus years. My issue is that I usually grow in the ground and the containers are starting to get to me during feeding time. The problem? Watering and feeding, specifically feeding.

How the hell do you guys supply food to all your girls at once? Is there a type of reservoir (small mixer container) you can put onto your garden hose and it mix your nutrients as you water sort of like the miracle grow fertilizer feeder? What I have been doing and is very extremely tiring, is mixing the nutrients into a 20 and 50 gallon barrels, dipping 5 gallon buckets and milk jugs and start off hauling it one by one to my gals which is kicking my ass if I have to say the least but more time consuming if anything. Having to do this several times, refilling the barrels. I did assemble and place boiler drain valves on them and the flow is slow it is ridiculous!

I have also tried gravity feeding with garden hose, got a mouth full of nutes a few times and thats a bitch as well. My plants are pretty well spread out along side a mountain that has been logged.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I do have a constant water source near by and plenty of pressure, but its the feedings that is killing me. Thanks!
 
psychadelibud said:
Howdy ho,

Well, lets start off with a little introduction. I am in south eastern Kentucky in the southern Appalachia, currently running a guerilla operation that is pretty hefty. I have a (disclosed) amount of plants all in 20 to 50 gallon containers but I will say there is more than you can count on each hand times 8.

Plants are getting bigger, some are almost done but the bigger ones are only in mid flower and some just fresh from veg placed out to flower for a late November early December harvest (yeah I know, i'm pushing it, but i've got this ;) ) I have ran them into late November before with no problemos.

So I am actually a pretty well experienced guerilla grower and been at it 15 plus years. My issue is that I usually grow in the ground and the containers are starting to get to me during feeding time. The problem? Watering and feeding, specifically feeding.

How the hell do you guys supply food to all your girls at once? Is there a type of reservoir (small mixer container) you can put onto your garden hose and it mix your nutrients as you water sort of like the miracle grow fertilizer feeder? What I have been doing and is very extremely tiring, is mixing the nutrients into a 20 and 50 gallon barrels, dipping 5 gallon buckets and milk jugs and start off hauling it one by one to my gals which is kicking my ass if I have to say the least but more time consuming if anything. Having to do this several times, refilling the barrels. I did assemble and place boiler drain valves on them and the flow is slow it is ridiculous!

I have also tried gravity feeding with garden hose, got a mouth full of nutes a few times and thats a bitch as well. My plants are pretty well spread out along side a mountain that has been logged.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I do have a constant water source near by and plenty of pressure, but its the feedings that is killing me. Thanks!
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Next year I recommend you try organic super soil in your containers. You only need plain water all the way to harvest. If you see it needs a little boost in flower, just top dress them with some bat guano and then water.
 
My soil mix this year consists of promix, worm castings, bat guano, mykos, azos, azomite, dolomite lime, chicken poop, and a little compost. But it still needs much more as those amendments were mixed kinda lightly.

I have been feeding Earth Juice sea blast grow, sea blast bloom, seagrow bloom, earth juice catalyst, seaweed juice, cal mag and Earth juice microblast. They sure are loving it and I will keep slaving myself if I have to, but maybe some sort of hose end feeder would be better than nothing.

Yes next year I am for sure looking into super soil and will likely go back to ground again as well on most. Getaway Mountain inspired me to use the grow bags and they do an amazing job, just gotta get the feeding part taken care of.
 
Also another question I have is when I water I usually give my 10 gallon pots 3 gallons of water and my 20's 5 gallon. Had been giving my 10's 2 and 20's 3, but since last night it is 3 and 5. I give my 50 gallon pots 10 gal of water. Does this sound right or am I over watering? They are extremely healthy gals but I made this change and increased their water intake last night, they seem like they needed it.
 
This year I grew in pots for the first time. Had planned on putting most into the ground, but life got in the way, and they finished in 5 gallon pots. I did have the pots buried flush with the ground, so I'm sure that helped with water retention. Not that I had to worry about that this summer. I use rain catchers and five gallon buckets. But I didn't have the numbers you do, and I didn't really have to water very often due to rain.

But I have a plan to let me grow full season plants, and hike the AT at the same time. All it will need is for my BIL to add nutes about once a month, and for it to rain. I use tarps to hold water now, but I plan on putting a spigot in the bottom of a few cheap steel trash cans and run soaker hoses off them. The trash can will be fed with a tarp, and should do fine as long as the rain keeps up. I will have to raise the can some, so I can use gravity. In the mountains you won't have to bother with that.
 
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If you live in a hilly area you could put A large 250 wire container up hill, and then run a hose down to the garden. Walking around with a hose is a bit better than buckets. If you get really crazy you could put a booster pump on the outlet and run a multi hose manifold. Drippers don't do well with organic nutes,, but the 1/2 black plastic tubing with holes does pretty good. You will need to clean out the container every time so it wont go nasty..
 
An ATV with a tank sprayer may help but it will be a lot easier for someone to track down your plants. No trail in and no trail out is impossible on an ATV. Also depends on the terrain because a tank will make an ATV that much more unstable in the mtns.
 
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Guys thank you for all the advice. It has been a while since I made this thread but I have it all under control now. Watering and feeding is a breeze compared to the way it used to be!
 
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