AuNatural

[Rudelais]

G-day to ya’ll aye! I am into my 59th year of life been growing for the last ten years, smoking for the last 45 years! I have grown in a tent, in an open room, and outdoors. If you’re looking for yield “top” numerous times, if you want giant colas try not to “ top”. It is a preference not a “ need” as stated countless times she is a weed…. But not made of concrete! Stress is most detrimental and this is to include indoor growing, moving pots in n out of the tent, missing a light cycle, having continual deficiencies, all this can be monitored and rectified if addressed in a timely fashion. Indoors. Now outdoors I tend to start my plants in 5 gallon fabric pots in mid April. By late May I have a 2-2-1/2 foot start, I dig a hole in my garden prepped with potting soil and some strawberry fields with a bit of added perlite, then do not TRANSPLANT I instead cut the bottoms of the fabric pots and place them in the 4-8” deep holes I dug and secure them good by hand. Water the pots and viola’ you have your pots for tying down LST and opening up light paths. Also it is a slight deterrent to any insects!!( insects? Get some lady bugs) this and planting a mum nearby helps to reduce the insects as they are drawn to the mum! Cannabis is very sticky and most insects defer from it! Spray your plants with water in an upward motion bottom to top as insects will tend to be on the underside of the leaves. White flies, and aphids can hide under leaves! Do not mistake silkbworm
Invasion as bud rot!!! More later!

 

[Hossgrows]

Nice..!
I bury a piece of garden fence, for LST, and bury straight into the ground

 

[Ninjadogma]

G-day to ya’ll aye! I am into my 59th year of life been growing for the last ten years, smoking for the last 45 years! I have grown in a tent, in an open room, and outdoors. If you’re looking for yield “top” numerous times, if you want giant colas try not to “ top”. It is a preference not a “ need” as stated countless times she is a weed…. But not made of concrete! Stress is most detrimental and this is to include indoor growing, moving pots in n out of the tent, missing a light cycle, having continual deficiencies, all this can be monitored and rectified if addressed in a timely fashion. Indoors. Now outdoors I tend to start my plants in 5 gallon fabric pots in mid April. By late May I have a 2-2-1/2 foot start, I dig a hole in my garden prepped with potting soil and some strawberry fields with a bit of added perlite, then do not TRANSPLANT I instead cut the bottoms of the fabric pots and place them in the 4-8” deep holes I dug and secure them good by hand. Water the pots and viola’ you have your pots for tying down LST and opening up light paths. Also it is a slight deterrent to any insects!!( insects? Get some lady bugs) this and planting a mum nearby helps to reduce the insects as they are drawn to the mum! Cannabis is very sticky and most insects defer from it! Spray your plants with water in an upward motion bottom to top as insects will tend to be on the underside of the leaves. White flies, and aphids can hide under leaves! Do not mistake silkbworm
Invasion as bud rot!!! More later!

Everything you really need to know about growing cannabis, rolled up into one paragraph...

I grow outdoors in containers year round, can't put em in the ground because of local otdinances. Only a full IPM will keep you from weeping and gnashing of teeth over a lost grow around here, the spraying from the bottom you mention is an awesome point and don't forget to do your bug sprays that way too! And if the bugs aren't enough, last year I had rats coming in the middle of the night on my winter grow chewing off branches and dragging them away... (fkn stoner rats, haha!) had to build a cage for keeping the plants safe. If you grow like I grow the best advice I have is to learn and know what the sun is doing at all times of the year so you can provide them with the light cycle they need. It requires some artificial manipulation and I found the easiest hack for it by regulating the morning side. On the short days I'm using a shed, plants go in at night and lights come in in the middle of the night that support an 18 hour cycle... they're programmed on the 18 hour schedule so I can sleep in and take them out whenever I want for sunlight. Similarly on the long days when I'm flowering, the light comes on later so they remain in the dark after the sun has come up and the lights come on per schedule and I move them out when I want but later in the morning. If I can't make it home, they can stay in the shed and the schedule doesn't get hosed. For me it's more about refusing to pay for optimal light energy that the sun provides for free.