July plantings ?

[Tactical Farmer]

Wondering how many gorillas are planning on still planting on into july ?

The plants wont have alot of veg time but since the sizes would be smaller, maintenance would be lower and plant numbers could go up.

Would small seedlings be worth the investment or just focus on larger june plants ?

 

[gorilla ganja]

Depends a lot on how much time you have left in your season. Most seedlings IMO should have at least 3-4 weeks from germination + the amount of time your strain needs to finish flowering.Rooted clones on the other hand can go out with only the amount of time the strain needs to finish flowering. If you have earlier plants that you can take clones from, the lower branches or tops if you are topping anyway, that may the better way to go.
Good luck and may all your Buds be huge.
Cheers GG

 

[Xorc420]

Hey man, maybe now it would be better to buy some autoflowering seeds, don't you think so?

In my opinion the plants would be really small and the harvest wouldn't be that nice, but maybe with some autoflowerings you can do a good harvest.

It's my opinion man!

 

[MountainBudz]

Hey Tactical, doesn't look like many people have much experience planting late but im in the same boat. Every day i'm digging holes and pushing plants outdoors. I've never really planted past July 20th but from what I remember I done some patches a long time ago and put them out around July 15th and averaged around an ounce per plant or a bit more with a set and forget type method. I only visited twice and that was to pull the males and harvest.

I'm thinking with late plants you could yield more in containers just for the fact that the soil is pure and adjusted for better control and stuff. If I could start seeds today and sex them out indoors in one gallon containers and have them set out by July 20th i'd be way more than happy if I could get 2 ounces per plant that way. I'd probably transplant them into 5 or 10 gallon grow bags. Anything more than two ounces per plant would make me a very very happy camper!

What do you have in mind?

And I think i've read somewhere in one of my posts about planting late where you recommended autos, my honest opinion I think the photos would yield better and they would finish just the same as flowering will start in about a month and a half from now anyway.

 

[jackel]

I've planted clones in July. They averaged 3-4oz or so.

 

[greendiamond9]

I'm at 40 degrees north and I can put them out until about mid July.

 

[MountainBudz]

Green Diamond I am at 36N, my season usually runs into the latest, the beginning of November for harvest. What do you usually yield when you put out mid July? Are you speaking of clones or seed plants? What age are they when they are set? How many days from veg to going outdoor? Ground or pots?

 

[MountainBudz]

I've planted clones in July. They averaged 3-4oz or so.

Thats what I was figuring with clones. But not so sure about seed plants, but they will be vegged for a month before going out in July. Do you put them in the ground or containers? If containers, what size?

 

[MountainBudz]

While i'm thinking about it, since all seeds I will be running for my July plantings will be regular, I might just force sex them on 12/12 then switch back as soon as I can determine sex and plant them on August 1st (If there not already showing by July 15th or so on 18/6). That way I won't have to put the labor into planting a bunch of males and since flowering will be starting around that time anyway.

I would think that if they are vegged indoor under a 18/6 to 24/0 light schedule from June 20th to almost August they would be some bushy little girls and you would have everything under control for a jump start in a healthy life lol. Then place them outside and they would explode. I am starting to see this as a good idea, as by that time, the LEO choppers should slow down a tad as well.

 

[greendiamond9]

Green Diamond I am at 36N, my season usually runs into the latest, the beginning of November for harvest. What do you usually yield when you put out mid July? Are you speaking of clones or seed plants? What age are they when they are set? How many days from veg to going outdoor? Ground or pots?

I have put them out at in July from 2 weeks old to a month old from seed. I have put out some 2 week old Mistress Midori and got about an OZ off each one. If I put them out in the first week of July when they are about 8 inches they can get over 6 foot tall depending on the strain. They are planted in the ground

 

[greendiamond9]

I forgot to add that I start them under fluorescent lights and after a week I put them out during the day and back under the fluorescents at night.

 

[ceausescu]

If you have established plants vegged for a couple of weeks or some vegged clones you can pull some yield of them so its worth it.
But starting seeds middle of july i wouldnt bother in most cases only exeption is if you start many seeds like hundreds
I dont think late plants are less maintenance if anything its revers more work. Well adapted plants to the enviroment planted in may is less work for the guerrilla grower.

 

[1madtrapper]

Well sure july is deff not to late the corn is knee high by 1st of july...thats when they spray of course we are still planting in july.Hell I have planted in july and got 3/4 lb off some averaging 1/4 lb on 280 plants and that is including the stollen ones..so hell yha I am still planting and when the corn is done spraying I will be in it to and it wont be till july like every year.Cheers

 

[DoubleTripleOG]

Yeah I'm with the trapper. Im at 47 north. Here's some Northern Lights x Big Bud plants. Grew some auto's in 5 gal. pails. When they were done I dumped the dirt, worked it over some, and replanted 6" rooted clones into them. That was in mid-July. Topped them once. Averaged 110 grams per plant.

 

[1madtrapper]

Nice double triple, thats what i was talkin bout.Hell I plant my second round of IAF mid july. on the seed end I wont start any after the 15th of june although this is only the 2nd yr i ever really messed with seeds.I know the IAF seeds are done in 90 days give or take a few so if your area allows you to harvest mid oct then you could still start seedlings upto mid july.I am sure there are many auto a person could run and sow seeds at that time of year.Cheers

 

[Mountain Sprout]

I bought 25 different clones from harborside on july 15 a few years back and planted them outside a week later. they yielded from an ounce to almost a pound. Late july is too late to plant for them to finish on time. Strains that should have finished mid October went into November and later strains never finished. It was fun to have all those flavors but most of it was shit due to the harborside genetics. I will not put plants in the ground after july 7 or so because flowering triggers sometime mid july.

 

[MountainBudz]

Wow Mtn Sprout, that is a huge difference "ounce to almost a pound" lol. I have experience planting late but I was so stoned in those days I hardly remember the times and dates, strains etc. lol. I do know one year I planted an unkown local bred strain as a 6 inch clone in mid to late June before in a two foot wide by one foot deep hole before and yielded 5 oz's just in native soil amended with lime, water polymer crystals and osmocote time released ferts.

Hope the ones i'm putting out this year in June yield the same as well. All I know is I have been digging nearly everyday since mid May at about 5 to 10 decently large holes a day, so i've been averaging about 5 to 10 plants set out per every other day, clones. Now i'm going to get the seed plants out ASAP as I have ran out of clones lol.

 

[sprinkl]

I've planted clones in July. They averaged 3-4oz or so.

Latitude? What type of area? How did you prepare the holes?

6-inch holes with small plants(3-4 nodes) with some added 1-1-1 organic NPK ferts, halfway july, 50N, in a forest with about 70% direct sunlight. Didn't yield more than 2-3 grams.
Iirc I blamed the fact that they were rootbound, and already went into preflower stretch before planting out. Bigger holes or prep wouldn't have made much difference...

 

[MountainBudz]

Oh Lord sprinkl don't tell me that bro, thats bad lol. Sorry man but if I put all this work into just a few grams per plant id go nuts, literally. Shit like this is going to force me to put out thousands and thousands of hundreds of seed plants hahaha. Thats some scary shit to think about... Thanks for the motivation to push like ive never pushed before lol. I need a 10lb yield this year minimum!

 

[MountainBudz]

Were they already rooted as well? I have ran upon someone growing close to me that had pit out tons of cuttings, pulled one up just to check it out and no roots. Honestly they invaded my grow area and it was on my land and could have got hey grow caught by LEOs, they had rows and rows and had cut down trees and everything like they were putting out a corn field. You cant do that shit here in Ky!