slaquer

Okay so I have 4 plants that are at just over 1 month old. They have been grown indoors under fluro/400HPS. My HPS died so now I have moved them outside 2 days ago. the problem with this is I jsut got the hang of growing indoors. also I live in Virginia...not sure how it is to grow here.

I have 3 sativa dom and one indica dominant. The indica is very very healthy and about 8 inches tall. The best sativa is almost at 1ft. The other two sativas are very small but well developed (about 4-6 inches tall with 4-5 nodes).

Okay so here are my questions:

Most important: I live in Virginia, when does the 12/12 cycle start, and will sativas be able to finish before the frost hits here, if not how can I induce flowering early without too much traffic in my grow spot?

1.) I left them in their 1 gallon pots, I have not put them in the ground and really do not want to so that I can move them around. I have just realised that 1 gallon of soil will dry out really quick. So how often should I water, and if the 1 gal pots def won't work what will?

2.) I started these babies on low dose Foxfarm big bloom about a week and a half ago. Foliar and water feedings, had some burn one time but very little. Now that they are outside, and the rains interfere with watering, how do I go about my fertilizing?

3.) How often do I need to check on these lil babies? Every 3,4,5,6,7 days?

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alice1967

Pretty sure 12/12 has already started where you live. I live in NC, and outdoor plants have been flowering for weeks now. Since your plants have been vegged out for about a month, I don't think it will pose a problem to you. When those sativas finish, though, is entirely strain dependent. They'll finish eventually; if you need to, simply harvest early before frost hits. Your indica-dom strain should finish in roughly two months (give or take).

Unless your outdoor patch is secure, i would suggest burying the containers in the ground. This will help keep temps down in your container (which will cook the shit out of your rootball on a good, hot day like we've been experiencing here.) It will also afford your plants a little camo.

What will haunt you, however, are those small containers. I've never really had much experience with 1 gallon pots and flowering. I've grown in either 4 inch starter pots or 3-5 gallon pots to finish up in. I do know that yield corresponds to pre-flowering plant size, and 1 gallon pots seem too small to comfortably grow your babies all the way out. I fear they'll be rootbound before they finish. Smaller pots also dry out quicker. Keep that in mind.

Find out how quickly your girls get dry in their containers outdoors, and use that interval to check on them. The more you visit the patch, though, the more trail you leave and the more chance of someone observing you entering the woods. If your patch is smartly hidden, or extremely remote, you'll be alright.

Try fashioning some auto-watering devices. Simple as a container full of water with a small hole in it. Ample water will assure a bumper crop.

Don't know about fert schedules, not quite my area of expertise. Maybe every other watering, half strength?

I'll be putting a couple of already vegged late starts out, all indica-dom (Big Bang fems). Still have a couple weeks of veg before they're ready to go out, so we'll see if this works together.

Trancerdancer33

You managed to burn them with big bloom at low doses!!!! Shocking... that stuff's NPK is 0.01-0.3-0.7 must have been your sativas that didn't like it? Too early maybe?

My advice would be to put them preferably in the ground, or in 5 gal pots. 1 gal pots don't have enough root space to finish out well without constant ferts/care... and they'll have you up there watering daily.

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slaquer

I figured one gallon would not be enough, and if 12/12 started thats fine at least I will get something. I will start the search for some free 5 gallon buckets, and then bury those.

**Also the reason they were burned is because I was away for a week and my friend watered them too much with the low dose, and also gave them a foliar spray. I flushed them as soon as I realised when I got home. The burn is minimal, and I cut the burned tips off a few fan leaves and now they look fine.**

Will my sativas be able to finish out before the frost?
Also if I throw them in the ground, do I jsut dig a hole for the 1 gal or dig out 5 gal and fill that with soil mix?

Anyway, blunt + taco bell time.

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ILLEGAL-SEED

cutting the tips wont fool anybody or make it better. it will most likly make it worse since its leaves had been 'eaten' away. besides putting buckets in ground you should try grow bags. they are cheaper, and you dont have to dig the perfect shaped hole. whens your frost? if its a 100 percent sativa frost shouldnt be apart of your vocabulary. sativas can take 60 days to 120 days. some are harvested in november and december. if you have frost in october and its a true sativa, you may not have great luck.

aepaepaep

Why not just put them right into the ground. Dig a hole and use the same soil you would have used...and transplant it right to the ground. They will love you for it.

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slaquer

They're all doin well guys, sorry can't update much atm, but yea they are all green, nice and tall and lovin this sun. I just hope they can finish flowering in VA before frost hits or I will feel so...not good.



-slaquer

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