2019 New Zealand 30lb Backyard Attempt

[Flying Monkey]

30 elbows. Ive crossed my fingers for you bros- big mana- but amazing what can be done with some regular water and tlc. No Matter what your gonna have plenty of buds.

Reach for the stars and at least you'll get a low hanging apple [fijoa maybe]. Give those girls some foliar Fe too. Thats a hard lockout and even when you fix the ph its gonna take some time to sort out through the roots. Irons not real mobile in the girls. Ph is almost definitely the problem- could be soil could be bore water- your liquid nutes can have massive ph flutuations batch to batch. I use them myself. Just wanna keep an eye on it.

Unless your in woop woop id check your regulations and grow the max no of plants to stay under the felony level.

Make your own compost. Its easy and its almost always going to be better even than the expensive stuff. Cow shit and straw is enough to make banging good soil.

 

[Pumpkin]

All looking pretty good. I am concerned that you will end up with hermies and a seeded crop. This can often be a pitfall of using bagseed. If that happens next year you will wise up. What are the dimensions of your garden? I think next year try to have all your plants the same height. Dotting small plants around as an after thought may not receive enough light to perform well. It really is a spectacular first grow though. I've seen many gardens look a lot worse from people with far more experience. You may just well have the touch!

 

[Pumpkin]

Defoliation, if you are not sure what to do, just leave them I reckon. I normally just whack of low poorly performing branches, and let em do thier thing outside.

You may want to think about how to support them in flower.

Flying monkeys advice sounds good to me. Go get a liquid ph tester so you have some idea what your water is. And with nutrients, never add more than the directions. Hope something there helps

 

[pahut]

Thanks for the tips guys, appreciate it.

Dimensions are approx 10m x 6m currently... but that may change to 10m x 10m soon.

17th November Pix



Ladies:

Some Plants Started Budding :/

Old Soil PH:

New Soil PH:

Plants From Veg (Should have been repotted a long time ago, whoops)

 

[pahut]

62x plants out at the moment.


Some Plants In Natural Soil:

High Shot 1:

Shot 2:

High Shot 3:

High Shot 4:

 

[MedFaced]

Looking good! Did you do anything to the soil? If that meter is accurate, I would think both those readings are in the good zone.

 

[amanda88]

A Knock and Talk would make you disappear for a long time?

neem oil for the end of season mould and forthcoming bugs
and organic is a big must in your country from TMe

9.6 buckets are only good for autos use black as roots don't like light

tomatoe bags at pb28/15lit are the best from above

plan for the mould .......say that again?

good luck

 

[Noonin NorCal]

Nice garden! Looks like a ph issue but I’m not the best cannabis doc around here.

Ph and lack on N, i hope you have plenty of holes for runoff!?

 

[Noonin NorCal]

I can see maybe 8 pounds in that space? Figure a pound per plant that is in the ground if they actually fill out to their potential

 

[PDX Dopesmoker]

Looking great and still more than a month to go to southern midsummer. I don't doubt that the possibility of that 30 from that size of plot is within the realm of possibility.

 

[kickarse]

How big is ya yard ?

It would easy to get more than "8 fucking lbs" in there

 

[Swamp Thang]

This is a very promising start down in Kiwiland where the seasons are reversed, Pahut.

Pulling up a chair for this one. I counted close to 30 plants, so it looks like you are going for one pound weight of harvest per plant.

Gotta share an open soil amendment secret that I only just tried under a month ago. Bought about 30 kilos of fresh frozen mackerel sea fish, and buried a couple of them cut in halves, under each of my newly transplanted outdoor plants.

The impact of those buried whole fish, was nothing short of astounding. The plants absorbed up that extra nitrogen fast, and now all new growth is a very dark green, compared to the earlier vegetative growth that was a more faded pale color.

The improvement is so dramatic that my plants are actually two-tone in appearance now, with the lower half of old growth a faded green, topped by the upper foliage that has become a deep emerald green, all thanks to the sea fish and its payload of minerals.

It it is not too late in the proceedings, I recommend that you bury a fish under, or alongside each plant, for some growth on steroids that will amaze all who see the change in that garden. I will always include fresh whole sea fish in my soil amendment recipe, henceforth, given the results I have seen here.

 

[Brother Nature]

Looking excellent mate. Looks like they've come right in the last few weeks. Should be a stellar harvest, regardless of if you reach the 30 mark or not. You've got me inspired to start looking for some guerilla plots this year. Keep up the good work mate!

 

[pahut]

Yard is 10m x 5m approx. Will be extended out soon hopefully as there's a bunch more to go out.

Thanks for the tip Swamp Thing - have seen others using the fish method, need to get back in touch with me mates with boats haha. And there's a few more than 30 now, some are hidden behind others and there's still a few in the cage at the back. Think its about 60 now. But still some small ones.

Thanks Brother Nature, if you do go guerilla please start a thread! Love a good guerilla grow

 

[Chunkypigs]

the holes look a little small for 1 pound plants to me,and planted a bit tight as well, I'd amend the native soil and plant into mounds as opposed to planting into a low spot.

I did better than 30 units this year in a 60' x 12' plot. tad over seventy clones in 10 gallon bags scattered between thirty in mounds in the ground.

I spent about $800 total on Manure compost, worm castings, lime, gypsum, kelp meal, bone meal, rock phosphate, super triple phos,alfalfa meal, Chicken manure pellets, and lots of free green compost that I make from chipped wood.

top dressed 3 times during grow with more chicken manure, gypsum, alfalfa, kelp, castings and bone meal, some guano at the end

Wedding Cake, Forum Cookies, Durban Poison, ECSD, GMO cookies, Chem D, Dos-si-dos, OGKB 2.0, Chem Sis, GG4, MendoBreath,
Sour Dubble, Headband, Chem 4, Super Silver Haze are some of the clones I ran this year.

 

[Chunkypigs]

Hope you have as nice a year as mine was Homie!!!

 

[Pumpkin]

That soil meter is crap, it does not mean anything. Throw it away

I got about 20 to 30 off a 7x7m plot. So it's def possible in that space it you can fill it up.

 

[kickarse]

20 to 30 ?

are ya to stoned to remember lol

good job anyway

 

[Swamp Thang]

Hope you have as nice a year as mine was Homie!!!
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Holy Moly ChunkyMon, that is a massive harvest, and that field of dreams got me dreaming of pulling down a harvest like that some day.

You sure did get your money's worth on all that expenditure amassing soil amendments, with change to spare - LOTS of change ha ha.

 

[pahut]

the holes look a little small for 1 pound plants to me,and planted a bit tight as well, I'd amend the native soil and plant into mounds as opposed to planting into a low spot.

I did better than 30 units this year in a 60' x 12' plot. tad over seventy clones in 10 gallon bags scattered between thirty in mounds in the ground.

I spent about $800 total on Manure compost, worm castings, lime, gypsum, kelp meal, bone meal, rock phosphate, super triple phos,alfalfa meal, Chicken manure pellets, and lots of free green compost that I make from chipped wood.

top dressed 3 times during grow with more chicken manure, gypsum, alfalfa, kelp, castings and bone meal, some guano at the end

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Wedding Cake, Forum Cookies, Durban Poison, ECSD, GMO cookies, Chem D, Dos-si-dos, OGKB 2.0, Chem Sis, GG4, MendoBreath,
Sour Dubble, Headband, Chem 4, Super Silver Haze are some of the clones I ran this year.
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Wow... just wow mate. That is a beautiful plot you've got going, a true inspiration

We'll see if we can get ours as much as a sea of green as yours

Yes holes are tight but we're dealing with some crazy roots underground (you can see the stumps in other pix I think) so holes were placed where I could dig/cut roots. Will either go no til next year or get a mates digger in and til the whole yard and get a few truck loads of good soil.

Have re-potted 4 of the plants we put in natural soil - that was a mistake to be honest but live and learn. The natural soil just turns to mud when watered :/

What were you yeilding off the 10 gallon bag plants? That's 45 litres, and our holes take 80-100 litres of soil.

Did you have any issues having all those different strains growing at once? Some finishing earlier/later or some having certain strain dependant issues?

Have some chickens running around so will heed your advice with the topdressing - cheers!

Thankyou so much Chunkypigs for taking the time to comment so detailed, really appreciate it mate.

That soil meter is crap, it does not mean anything. Throw it away

I got about 20 to 30 off a 7x7m plot. So it's def possible in that space it you can fill it up.

Haha it's good for a quick and dirty measure I guess - new meter and new everything once we get some money coming in

Shit that's good the hear bout your yeilds, were they monster plants of many small suckers?