Is there any way to put them straight on the ground? the bigger the root mass the bigger the yield right? Or do you have a reason for the bags? This is will be my 3rd outdoor grow fully organic I just dump a dump truck of local cow shit let it cook over winter and throw them in usually after mothers day because of frost danger. this year my plants were much bigger and had some P and K deficiencies and my plants were attacked by pest even with my regular pest management. Now I know that healthy plants cannot be attacked by pest so I am reading this post to improve my organic gardening. For strains that grow nice outdoors, i would say master kush it also helps me sleep
Taproots Vs. Secondary roots. intact taproots make for an easier life when growing any plant that has this structure, so MJ too.
I am fairly certain that people are trying to live in a dream here. Many plants form an essential part of the soil food web, by offering a point of focus to insects for many reasons, not just food. What happens when we attract an insect to point A? Does type A insect come alone?
If people really knew how to keep plants healthy and prevent insect/ pest attack, then no one would ever have considered using a pesticide. It is unrealistic to present this message to people without telling people exactly how to keep a plant healthy. if those saying so are telling people this message from the likes of Elaine, then really she ought to tell people the truth and stop pushing her method from false advertising bases imo. I like her but she gets carried away trying to convince me her method is the answer to all my prayers. Frankly, we need food and so we must grow plants in ways that inevitably leads to large problems, eg monoculture practice, one at risk, all at risk.
Outside you have no chance of this healthy plant no bugs reality being true. There are plants, and there are bugs, this is balance, it has nothing to do with healthy plants. Healthy plants are made sick by virus carrying insects, as in the case of the cucumber beetle, it will find cucumbers, this is its preference, healthy, unhealthy no matter. yes they might attack the weak first, but we can be weak because of genetics, so whose fault is this and can you fix it with a compost tea or MBP??
Try using records to help you better understand the biggest times in the year where threats occur and install mechanical barriers where you have young plants that are vulnerable to pests, larger adult plants are typically more resilient but no plant is safe, it just depends on a much wider system of balance that is more often beyond our personal control :)
BTW, I really like you method, have you ever seen Ruth Stout?
