The growing large plants, outdoors, thread...

[bamboogardner]

Thats what I was going to use. Although alot of peeps recommend 18" I think 24" is the magic number. Say, what is the best size for the hortinova. I used concrete wire this year with two of them per plant not including the inner 24" ring.

 

[Bulldog420]

http://www.amazon.com/Tenax-Hortono...UTF8&qid=1411693541&sr=8-4&keywords=hortonova

They have a couple options on length and height, but hard to beat Amazon's prices. This is what I used and the pictures on the last page are an example.

Also, those soil reports look right on the money. I would take that soil as is and add some calcium as I potted it.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

winds got real strong this morning, when i woke up and saw the trees swaying i figured i would have a fuckload of broken branches. went out this morning and i think its a damn miracle, nothing would snap everything just flopped. spent the morning tieing plants back up and adding new trellis…in total lost 3 small branches. but the rain is definately exacerbating caterpillar damage, seeing alot more damage popping up even with the BT sprays. i really need a bat colony next year.

all the real yellow stuff is done…if its yellow I'm chopping it. and my new trim crew is doing a real nice job of cleaning it all up so you can't even tell it had yellow leaf. today felt like first day of winter low 60s up here, dont like this weather at all hope it gets warmer.

went over to a friends garden and he had a plant tip and rip in half….

 

[mendo-local]

Let this be a lesson to new large plant growers. Its all about Support.you can't let them grow through a cage and call it done.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

haha he wasn't too upset about it, said the plant was close enough to harvest. double wrapping with trellis is super important, without it i would have more branches down as well.

love my new european trim crew, these girls are awesome, they hit 3lbs each yesterday trimming a mix that wasn't even deleafed. and all they eat is raw veggies they never ask for fancy steaks and beer like all the lazy local trimmers i had last year. locals wanted 200/lb and these girls are happy to do it for 150…once they start on the deleafed tops i wonder if they can hit 5 a day. no more once an hour smoke breaks while socializing and drinking non stop, just giggling to themselves and scissor snipping. makes last years local trim crew look like a joke.

happy harvests y'all i kno alot of folks are real busy chopping right now!

 

[Backyard Farmer]

Bro you'll have to send them here when you're done

 

[analogcricket]

i call thirds!

 

[Luther Burbank]

Here I am blowing out my left wrist from trimming well under 1/3 of that a day. I apparently have some skills to learn from your European girls.

 

[theJointedOne]

its all about the euro trim crews, they kick ass, and always have friends who are eager to learn.

 

[hup234]

Picks of Swedish bikini trim team plllllllleassssssssssse...

 

[hup234]

OK after further review online "bikini trim" team has a whole other meaning... willing to investigate further....down the rabbit hole

 

[Shcrews]

Our garden made it through the storm ok, just some bent tops.

Randomly met a german chick at a hollywood diner at 4am on wednesday, brought her back to the farm with me, gonna get her started and see if she can trim like prop's euro girls, Hope its a regional thing

 

[theJointedOne]

its nothing new, theres actually quite a history of euros coming to work in norcal...

 

[bottomland]

love my new european trim crew, these girls are awesome, they hit 3lbs each yesterday trimming a mix that wasn't even deleafed. and all they eat is raw veggies they never ask for fancy steaks and beer like all the lazy local trimmers i had last year. locals wanted 200/lb and these girls are happy to do it for 150…once they start on the deleafed tops i wonder if they can hit 5 a day. no more once an hour smoke breaks while socializing and drinking non stop, just giggling to themselves and scissor snipping. makes last years local trim crew look like a joke...................................................................
If that trim crew is heading my way (mich.) I could use them in a couple a weeks.

 

[mendo-local]

I've got some french girls I use on the big garden. Best trimmers I have ever had...

 

[Yes4Prop215]

its nothing new, theres actually quite a history of euros coming to work in norcal...

yea these girls were on a scene last year and had to live in squalor with "cockroaches" and were real happy with their new digs…..we put them up nice they have their own master bedroom and bathroom, nice lazy boy couches and cable TV, basically gave them my bedroom up there and now i live in squalor in a dirty trailer on a dirty mattress on the floor, with a rusty shower with barely any pressure…..sacrifices we make, I know transients living better than me right now.

 

[Luther Burbank]

Seems to be the case. I know two Irish girls on their way to NorCal to trim right now as well.

 

[Red Berry]

no such thing as a local trimmer. all im saying is no more mr nice guy.

 

[cannascholar]

My full season got planted late July this year due to a July dep. Luckily aea'a products have helped me see a decent spike crop in my Mendo mix(coco) beds. Blue dream and green cracks will probably finish in a month.

 

[cannascholar]

Tallest plant is peyote purple x taskenti at a little over 8 feet . I packed about 200 plants in my 20 x 100 wish I had spread them out more.