Outdoor coco attempt. Advice please

[torrietree]

Evening all.

 

I'm in the planning stage for the coming seasons outdoor grow, and I'm after some advice from the guru's.

 

Last season I grew out bush in some too shallow holes filled with some composted horse poop. Since it was my first real go at growing the plants really suffered. I ended up with two 4.5 foot tall females and got about 5oz of dried pretty decent but fluffy buds. these are some pics of my two plants

 

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/07/12/69f82f63adba49e6fd157f7e8742de8a.jpg

 

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/07/12/8b93e1211c841b2a8cf58fb9366ed440.jpg

 

This year I've ordered some SSS rather than using bag seed. So I'm wanting to do it as right as possible. Planning on cracking the seeds in a little hotbox type planter box using jiffy pots or something similar

 

Coco in sunken 30-40litre pots look to be the way I'm going this year with some coco a+b nutes (I didn't use nutes last year). And some pea mulch over the top.

 

Is there a difference between a premium bunnings bought coco and a hydro shop coco like Nutrifield?

 

Would mixing horse poop in be of any use? Like 70% coco 30% poop? Or am I missing something like perlite?

 

Thanks for taking time to read through this idea in motion. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[old toke]

why coco? it's not that easy in pots outdoors, needs a lot of attention. horse poop perlite and good soil mix sound ok.

[torrietree]

why coco? it's not that easy in pots outdoors, needs a lot of attention. horse poop perlite and good soil mix sound ok.

I've just been doing a heap of reading and coco looked like a nice constant place to start

[Jagged]

I'm thinking of coco with soil and amendments for this years grow, prob some perlite as well

[Stix87]

I did 8 plants outdoors last year had 4 x 15 litre pots and 1 x 4 l and 1 x 50 l 1x 30 l and 1 x 65 l pot . Only ever had to water 2 x day for the extreme heat but other than that it was my best yield to date and I would be lucky to ever beat those numbers again. Coco in pots is fine I will be doing the same again outdoors this year but won't let them get to 7 ft in the back yard again

[torrietree]

I did 8 plants outdoors last year had 4 x 15 litre pots and 1 x 4 l and 1 x 50 l 1x 30 l and 1 x 65 l pot . Only ever had to water 2 x day for the extreme heat but other than that it was my best yield to date and I would be lucky to ever beat those numbers again. Coco in pots is fine I will be doing the same again outdoors this year but won't let them get to 7 ft in the back yard again

Hey Stix.

 

Did you do anything special with you coco mix? What sort of nutes did you use? Did you have a grow diary for me to scour through?

 

Any other advice for a newbie?

 

Thanks for popping in with your info.

[Stix87]

I just use canna coco with gt coco a and b and some gogo juice and monsta bud. I have a diary somewhere but wouldn't call it much of a diary more just a few really.

[Stix87]

I just use canna coco with gt coco a and b and some gogo juice and monsta bud. I have a diary somewhere but wouldn't call it much of a diary more just a few really.

[Matanuska Thunder]

hey Torrie

those plants are under watered. 

makes me think that your under-performing plants just needed more liquids

another grower here saw incredible increases in harvest just by putting in a irrigation system  - it could be that simple 

https://cannabis.community.forums.ozstoners.com/topic/71774-my-2nd-victorian-outdoor-grow/

[torrietree]

Hi Matanuska Thunder.

Damn I thought out of anything I had them watered enough.

 

I'll have a good look at that system and see how much I can steal

 

Thanks for the advice