The growing large plants, outdoors, thread...

[Yes4Prop215]

cherry garcia, (GSC bagseed) in the 6-7lb range, 400 gal pot

Area 43 via obsoul33t

gorilla glue 4

 

[TheSilverMullet]

Hell yeah Prop. I know you went through some shit this year but it looks like you managed to do pretty well regardless. Good on ya.

 

[theJointedOne]

Nice prop.

 

[EssentialGround]

Nice work Prop!

 

[50YardLine]

Fantastic crop Prop.

How did the Tangie turn out? I have a bunch of seeds from Crockett, and at least three packs of the Tangie. Thinking they might make my full season garden next year.

In your light dep, did a quadruple plant work out for you? Were you happy with your yields per square foot? I have a very similar house as yours, mine is 8t x 12w x 50 long. I have 22 45gal pots in mine, and I was not happy at all with my yield per sq ft. I am contemplating building beds, but I might just stuff all my old smart pots (random 65-200gal) in and do it cheap. Any advice?

Once again, fantastic garden. You are always an inspiration for me season after season. Respect.

Edit: picture for reference.

The first thing I notice is the space in the center. Should have filled that better for sure.

Double edit: What is that shadow running the length of your greenhouse? Is that to help with ropes rubbing on the plastic when pulling over your blackout tarp? I am buying those metal arms for my hoop house this season. Unless you have a better method?

 

[Yes4Prop215]

my spacing situation in that GH was not ideal...it was setup to grow 22 massive plants to comply with plant counts, each 200 should have been 2-3x the size. instead code enforcement fucked our schedule up and i was forced to replant at the last second with 2 footers in late july. if i was doing two foot starts i would have made the walkways way more narrow.

im designing the other GH to fit 80ish 1-2lb plants in 4 rows to cover more Sq Ft..

the shadow is the automatic tarp black out system, it rolls down and retracts back to the top. it was only 2k extra and it fully automated with manual controls too...kills any golden arm pulley system.


i wish i could just be like colorado and washington and grow 1000s of 2-3 ft plants in SOG style, but my damn county and its rules requires me to stay under 99 on the entire property.


tangie came out bomb, pulled 1.5lb off 25 gal pots which surprised the hell out of me. its great bud and bag appeal but it doesnt make good ice wax, smells awesome but not full melt, lots of growers have been saying the same. will still run it because it was quite popular this year in flower form.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

also your spacing looks fine. one thing i learned about GH farming this year is that cramming your plants together actual decreases yield per plant. if you give each plant a little space it can push out a solid canopy around its entire circumference, instead of just yielding the top half like indoor growing. thats how we had some 25-45gal pots put out 1-2lbs instead of my friends GH who crammed his 45s together SOG style and probably only got 1/2 lb of tops. but then again he is able to run more plant counts than me but his overal yield in a similar GH as mine was lower.

basically im kind of growing my 25-45 gal pots like they are 200-400 gal plants. treating them like an individual bush instead of going SOG style like indoor growing.

its also necessary for my situation because if code enforcement shows up again i have to be able to yank all the plants out one by one, and that wold be impossible SOG style with trellis nets.

 

[50YardLine]

Can you hook me up with a link for that automated blackout system? Farmtek?

Thanks for the response. Very valuable information for me.

 

[milkyjoe]

Yes...cool set up for drying bro...nicely

 

[Yes4Prop215]

Can you hook me up with a link for that automated blackout system? Farmtek?

Thanks for the response. Very valuable information for me.

Four Seasons in marysville, CA! depending on where you are in norcal they can usually install an entire GH with blackout system in 3 days. its not a complicated design but i wouldnt trust myself trying to install it i would let the pros handle.

milky- not an idea drying space but it worked good lol....hopefuly next year they will be full of actual living plants instead of just drying..

 

[milkyjoe]

Right...but that wall indo somewhere would be awesome. We debated the horti idea but didn't do it...I am jealous now

 

[theJointedOne]

Well built dedicated drying rooms/sheds/houses ect, with proper cord/bailing wire setup ect is my fave.

Add a couple dryez, osculaters, and a Mr heater or two, boom your set.

 

[50YardLine]

Four Seasons in marysville, CA! depending on where you are in norcal they can usually install an entire GH with blackout system in 3 days. its not a complicated design but i wouldnt trust myself trying to install it i would let the pros handle.

milky- not an idea drying space but it worked good lol....hopefuly next year they will be full of actual living plants instead of just drying..

Awesome! Thank you. I built my greenhouse by myself in about a week. That blackout unit actually looks really simple, I wonder if it would work on my greenhouse from farmtek.....Calling on Monday.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

Right...but that wall indo somewhere would be awesome. We debated the horti idea but didn't do it...I am jealous now

haha its not that fun honestly...having to climb up and down an orchard ladder and throw down huge branches is a pain. also when your standing and reaching up to take off dried branches, it just rains trichomes down on you and gets into your eyes and shit. but we had to make due with space...the wall of bud pic is pretty cool lol i have some other pics that are pretty crazy.

50yard...i forgot to mention that the blackout system in that pic is actually off center, they came back out and fixed it to go back into the middle. heavy winds and storms made it shift a bit. it didnt look too hard to install but they did spend a bunch of time calibrating things, it uses two motors one for each side of the tarp, it all wraps up to the top, and the motors drop them up and down slowly via a long metal pole which the tarp is wrapped up into.

 

[plastochron]

prop, great to see you killing it in the face of the draconian bullshit in some of these ignant counties.

what's the word with your cherry garcia? the next ogkb?

 

[Mr Chocolate]

Here's a tangie pic from first week of October. Haven't finished with the final weigh in but think itS about 12-14lbs which is surprising because the buds weren't overly big. I also did a couple sour banana sherbet and one double tangie banana from Crockett. The double TB got huge but went pretty late. Everything else in my garden was from Bodhi and really seemed to be a little stronger over all.

 

[50YardLine]

Farmtek is having 20% of site wide today. Saved a ton of cash on my purchase.

Edit: Just an FYI, no 20% on financing. Just cash purchases. I know where and when I am buying my next greenhouse.

 

[bamboogardner]

Here's a tangie pic from first week of October.

Is that Tangie single, double or triple planted in one hole? How did the buds turn out? Tight, larfy or any description would be appreciated, as well as how much she yielded per hole. Thanks.

 

[Mr Chocolate]

Is that Tangie single, double or triple planted in one hole? How did the buds turn out? Tight, larfy or any description would be appreciated, as well as how much she yielded per hole. Thanks.

Thats a single planted on a 8x8 mound. The buds were medium. Medium size and medium density. Was worried they were going to be Larfy but tightened up in the cure. That particular plant got pretty shaded though words the end. The citrus in the nose came out a lot more after they were dried too. I had two other tangies about the same size and don't have an exact count but they were all 10+ lbs but with a lot of smalls. If you get a premium for the name I would say worth a try but I don't so not going to run it again.

 

[OvergrowDaWorld]

Nice job Mr. Chocolate.
I wasnt happy at all with the Tangie. Way over priced beans.
Out of 7 phenos, all of them were just mediocre.
I got complaints and no one wanted it again.
Im sure theres much better genetics that you'll want to take up that space for next year.