Rising Suns Guerilla Grow

[risingsun]

the seedlings

early misty

[Luke Skywalker]

Good stuff Rising Sun. Hope this grow goes well for ya. Unless you're in the northern hemisphere though, you've started just a tad early. Like 3 months or so. But if you can grow out these little ones until the days start to noticeably get longer, then you should be okay.

 

Unless this is all indoors and will be transplanted out later in the year after growing under fluoros for a while. In which case ignore what I just said.

 

Anyway, as to the pots. Yeah, you can certainly do that. Make sure that the surrounding soil has good drainage, and ensure that your own mix, whilst being full of organic matter and being nice and moist in comparison to the "outside" soil, should also drain well. As well as possible.

 

You can place the pot on top of a hole which has been dug out and filled with more potting mix, and have large drainage holes, or even none, just an open cylinder on the surface, so that the plant can grow down and into the soil below and get a good root system started.

 

Other plants will compete for nutrients, which is why pots are a good way to keep the plants nutes to themselves, but make sure it's big enough for a full grown plant. They can get darn big outdoors, so keep this in mind when you choose your pot.

 

Have a bit of a squizz through the forums with the search function, should be able to turn up some threads with some good tips for outdoor growing.

 

Good luck, and hope you have a great harvest in autumn of 2005.

[risingsun]

LS: I am in the northern hemisphere.

Thanks for the heads up with using pots in the ground outdoors.

I think i might give flopeyes trick of lining the holes with plastic a go because it sounds very easy and effective.

One of the reasons I am posting here is that it is wrong time for outdoor growers in Australia to be busy so I am hoping to get some help when needed.

Do mites cause problems outdoors for plants or only in-doors? I have never had mites on outdoor plants before and my seedlings seem to have picked them up while waiting for transplanting. I spray the back of the leaves with water every morning and night but I know this will only annoy them!

[Luke Skywalker]

Heh heh, course you're in the northern hemisphere. Japan is up there... D'oh!

 

Outdoor plants are certainly susceptible to mites. They're also predated upon to some degree, but yeah, certainly. Mites just become endemic very quickly in growroom perfect conditions, which they happen to love.

 

On the spraying, I'd hold it back. Don't do it every day as you'll end up leaching nutrients from the leaves. If you can pick off the individual mites, you may need a magnifying glass, with your fingers, great. If not, I'd say try a light white oil mix to wipe them out. I've done some posts on using white oil to control insects, particularly mites, before here, have a bit of a search and you should find it.

 

Good luck with the grow, and keep us updated on it mate.

[ThcAholic]

Unless you're in the northern hemisphere though, you've started just a tad early. Like 3 months or so.

..Not for me I live in Sth hem..and i'm starting now...although indoors of course Gotta germinate...sex...then clone off me mothers and get the clones ready (15" or so high) by mid september i figure. With a little protection...they'll be huge by Christmas..and better still all girls.....

 

..Nice Sounding flavors..keep us posted on how they go..as I waz very close to trying some of those strains...

[risingsun]

seedlings all double in size some are around the 4th node will be planting outside shortly

photo's to follow soon.

[dirty]

hey risingsun

good to hear the grow is going well. I thoroughly enjoyed my misty girls, i don't think you'll be disappointed

[ThcAholic]

Look forward to the Photo's..I'm interested to see what the Misty is like....

[risingsun]

Came home to find that my plants had been cut up by wife.

She had rightly decide that they were not tomato seedlings after all.

I am very disappointed but I knew there was a real risk of this. She is not supportive of growing in this country due to the severe penalties for cultivations. Seven year max I believe.

Cant really blame her. If caught it would have meant ostricisation from her family. They have a history of being policemen.

In the future I will update some of the last photo's I took before they were destroyed.

I still have some of the seeds left which I plan to plant when I return to Australia.

And there is a plant somehere out there in the wild maybe alive. I originally had transplanted three plants but I am sure that two died from heat stress and 1 was still alive when I last checked two weeks ago.

So all is not lost.

I am thinking about just putting some of the freeby skunk seeds outdoors and see what happens?

Sad thing is I was about to transplant them all outside when she caught on.

Ke sera sera

[F420]

Well you must be a caring and forgiving man, Thats a good thing.

Because if my Wife did that she would get fucking lonely sleeping out in the dog kennel whilst the dogs slept in her bed.

 

Really I would kick her out and make he wake her ideas up.

 

lets weigh it up,

 

on one hand is wife, on the other hand was weed but it tipped the scales and fell off.

I would much rather have weed thanks.