The Great Outdoor 2025 grow season

[OldBoy25pnw]

Morning all -
It’s a bit damp here so I’m going to write while it’s drying out.
The 25 outdoor season is in progress and my main goal this year was to reduce my use of grow bags as I imagine they are another source of micro-plastics other than that they are a decent way to grow. So I built another bed, this one’s a 3x14’ and put some of our compost & living soil (Coots mix) from grow bags & broad forked the area then added more of my living soil to fill the bed. I only grow outdoors and first tested this approach in a 3x8’ bed a couple of years ago. The beds should get a covering in the winter months to reduce leaching from our PNW rainfall.
The plants get the best benefits from the soil & environment plus they get actual soil contact, moisture etc…
The plants you see are:
Snow G
Strawberry Blonde
Honeyface
Durban Pie
Heart Shaped lunchbox
Persian Pie
Truffle Monkey
ER Super Chocolate
And whatever I’ve forgotten…
Started the seeds in March - April & they’ve been in the ground a couple of weeks so they’re just starting to root into their new homes and the leaf color is getting darker on all of them. Our night temps have been down in the 40’s but are going up which will help them grow.
Will be adding compost plus an alfalfa sileage, that blend really puts the energy into the soil life’s activity and the plants respond with very healthy growth. I will use BioAg Nitro-mino if I’m not seeing the nitrogen cycle working quickly enough but I only do that occasionally and figure it’s my human desire to maintain some control…
I will try to update this as things progress but I’m busy so perhaps not too often, here’s pics & I will try to respond to any questions.
I’ve been growing cannabis for 50+ years and this is by far my favorite method due to simplicity, plant health and yield + quality.
Here’s to a healthy 2025 growing season & all it has to offer

 

[Oldchucky]

Morning all -
It’s a bit damp here so I’m going to write while it’s drying out.
The 25 outdoor season is in progress and my main goal this year was to reduce my use of grow bags as I imagine they are another source of micro-plastics other than that they are a decent way to grow. So I built another bed, this one’s a 3x14’ and put some of our compost & living soil (Coots mix) from grow bags & broad forked the area then added more of my living soil to fill the bed. I only grow outdoors and first tested this approach in a 3x8’ bed a couple of years ago. The beds should get a covering in the winter months to reduce leaching from our PNW rainfall.
The plants get the best benefits from the soil & environment plus they get actual soil contact, moisture etc…
The plants you see are:
Snow G
Strawberry Blonde
Honeyface
Durban Pie
Heart Shaped lunchbox
Persian Pie
Truffle Monkey
ER Super Chocolate
And whatever I’ve forgotten…
Started the seeds in March - April & they’ve been in the ground a couple of weeks so they’re just starting to root into their new homes and the leaf color is getting darker on all of them. Our night temps have been down in the 40’s but are going up which will help them grow.
Will be adding compost plus an alfalfa sileage, that blend really puts the energy into the soil life’s activity and the plants respond with very healthy growth. I will use BioAg Nitro-mino if I’m not seeing the nitrogen cycle working quickly enough but I only do that occasionally and figure it’s my human desire to maintain some control…
I will try to update this as things progress but I’m busy so perhaps not too often, here’s pics & I will try to respond to any questions.
I’ve been growing cannabis for 50+ years and this is by far my favorite method due to simplicity, plant health and yield + quality.
Here’s to a healthy 2025 growing season & all it has to offer

Welcome, old boy! Washington? Oregon? i’m a little south in the North Sacramento Valley! A little south of Redding! Will enjoy watching!

 

[BearWater]

Welcome to the Farm Oldboy! You got some neighbors around here : )

Nice patch!

 

[cbrians]

I don’t have the patience to read the intro but damn I really like your set up. Welcome to the farm, we’re gonna have jump you into the outdoor gang

 

[OldBoy25pnw]

Welcome, old boy! Washington? Oregon? i’m a little south in the North Sacramento Valley! A little south of Redding! Will enjoy watching!

NW Oregon at 1000 ft elevation

 

[OldBoy25pnw]

Well we’ve about burned through another month, halfway through the year and I thought it time for an update, today was a busy one in that part of the garden.
This week the plants were all pruned up to a bit below the first trellis net & they’ve mostly grown through or are about there. I tipped the tallest limbs earlier this month to even things out a bit so some are just starting into the July growth phase. As I was finishing up this evening I went ahead and added a second layer to both of the beds, set it around 18” above the first trellis.lo
They’ve all been top dressed with compost and alfalfa sileage, today was the second time and depending on how it holds up I may not have to do it again.
I applied some Nitro Mino & TM7 today as well, the micronutrient is added for the boron content & because our season stayed cool I’ve been pushing them in a catch up game which seems to be working. We had a lot of rain last weekend which beat them up and I needed to give them some recovery time which meant doing a bunch of things together…

I put out the beneficial mite sachets last Friday as I am seeing Thrip evidence, it’s a good year to be a leaf hopper as their #s are pretty high everywhere and I saw a brown marmorated stink bug which didn't survive, moths are very active this year & there was a leaf that looked to be worm chewed so maybe BT. Thinking about some additional predator introduction's but really have minimal damages from the insects though the thrips can be a problem if they populate too much. Sticky traps this evening or tomorrow, I have one plant that really wanted up and I don’t do that anymore so it’s going to be a semi-scrog thing to keep it down.

Next month
I’ll do an application of malted barley flour in later July, note that if you choose to use this it should be the whole grain when you get it & not ground, the flour should be very fresh like right out of your blender or grinder. I do it 1 or 2 times a month @ 2 cups per plant
Probably will do a July liquid fertilization and will start including some fulvic acid with waterings that’s a once a week thing and I use it when our temps go up.
Any final pruning I try to get completed by the middle of the month of July, a little tip or clip might follow but we’re damn close to flowering so not too much of that.

I’ll try to get some pics up in mid July for comparison, the two I’m wowing on are the Ed Rosenthal Super Chocolate & Twenty20’s Strawberry Blonde both have the prehistoric growth and look.
Sorry about this discombobulated update got started early and managed to keep a it which = tired
Got to monitor the insects to stay ahead of them but all in all I feel good about where things are at this point

 

[moocher71]

this is my first grow ,
Repotted her yesterday.
She's had nothing but water so far and I'm looking for advice on nutrients to feed .
Any advice be gratefully received.

 

[drmyk8837]

This is my girl got from a buddy two months into grow season she is now two weeks into flower not sure if it's auto or the strain....let me know how she looks in upper South Carolina and have had her on fox farms fertilizer since she came home...pics are from Monday of this week....

 

[OldBoy25pnw]

What was the soil mix used to up-pot the plant? If it has a low level of fertility let the plant sit for a few days and adjust to the new condition.

Is it a photoperiod or auto plant?

At any rate I think you’re going to need things that can go into a liquid form since many dry forms of fert can take awhile to activate (organic fertilizers)
There are likely a lot of choices but at this point in the season where I live it would be a lower percentage of nitrogen and higher potassium and phosphorus. A few trace elements wouldn’t hurt but for your first grow I think just getting her to finish is good enough.
A bit of compost on top would be beneficial as well.

See if there’s an organic supplier in your area that you can talk with & if not legal in your State then it’s a tomato.

If you like growing my push will be towards a living soil based system and you have time to look at that between now and the 2026 season
Good luck

 

[moocher71]

What was the soil mix used to up-pot the plant? If it has a low level of fertility let the plant sit for a few days and adjust to the new condition.



At any rate I think you’re going to need things that can go into a liquid form since many dry forms of fert can take awhile to activate (organic fertilizers)
There are likely a lot of choices but at this point in the season where I live it would be a lower percentage of nitrogen and higher potassium and phosphorus. A few trace elements wouldn’t hurt but for your first grow I think just getting her to finish is good enough.
A bit of compost on top would be beneficial as well.

See if there’s an organic supplier in your area that you can talk with & if not legal in your State then it’s a tomato.

If you like growing my push will be towards a living soil based system and you have time to look at that between now and the 2026 season
Good luck

Thanks for the reply,it's a photoperiod,I used a shop bought grow bag for tomatoes,with some compost mix from my allotment.
I was hoping of getting her in the ground inside a Polly tunnel on my allotment but some very nosey gent as taken on the plot next to mine so that idea as gone out the window so she's in the back yard among the sun flowers .
I'm going to search for some organic feed and hopefully I'll get her to finish line and next year hopefully get a couple in the Polly tunnel.