Ive got the net set at around 26", the larger plants need to be fed 5ml/gal ab and procal because theres been some yellowing on the lower leaves but ive got some 2ml/gal solution left and im using that up. The net is 4 1/2 feet x 4 feet and im going to fill that out and I do need to move these plants to a different location to flower outdoors because the sun changes position so drastically without a field area to grow in that they really need to be light depped in July or put into a greenhouse thats warmer during the end of September and October and has light controllers for the weather when it isn't sunny at all. Pink Kush Mints finishes the end of September apparently and thats probably a better strain to sow outdoors and grow, you purchase 100 seeds for 0 and thats not a bad deal for 30-50 female plants if your not getting runts but its also not a job that there opening up for the public because it is alot of work to hand trim and thats usually the only thing that would of worked, I can only hand trim for 2 hours per day and im not wanting to do anymore of it and that doesn't mean I wanna do it more than a week but thats usually the case and I do need to wear a mask during those two hours. This plant is the worst allergen that you could force someone to work with in confined spaces with and without ventilation meaning I can't trim outdoors im so allergic and if I don't wear long sleeves my arms are covered in bumps and its really bad, I absolutely disagree that people hand trim it because its so many hours of work to do a huge amount of it, so you need 1 person per plant to sit down and trim and that person might want to trim another one but I don't wanna trim for 3-8 hours straight day after day.
Its been warm and the weather has been good, I would say June can be a great growing month but it can also be rainy and cold, its not always going to be June, July, August, September amazing weather and thats another reason why the indoor lighting industry is better but the plant isn't as useful as you would think but it is nice if your not high all the time, they visually look better indoors but after running them through bubble bags I doubt theres any difference. I wouldn't use it beyond once or twice a week and I wouldn't eat it because it might not be an edible plant.
If you had 4-6 plants under each net you could light dep them at this size but usually about 1 square between plants is a good size to light dep, some people fill out there nets completely before flowering but it isn't necessary because you usually can train branches through the empty squares in the first 3 weeks of flower meaning at around 75-80% full under the net is good.
The next day it was rainy and cloudy and it was only 150's to 180's reading the PPFD with the light sensor and it was only 66f during the day so that is good reason to use supplementary lighting in a greenhouse during June.
The rain can wash out the fertilizers in the coco but it usually isn't enough of an issue that you can't just rewater them but if you do grow organically its possible to mix peat mixes and coco coir with wormcastings or compost or both with dry organic materials and grow that way with water after 4 weeks of the soil sitting and being turned once per week but it is easier to reuse coco after flushing with water than it is to reuse organic soil mixes and determine what nutrients need to re added into the soil, you can usually reuse soil and grow in it again and top dress but the problem is figuring out what needs to be added. Im not sure if coco coir and ewc castings work organically. If you had 100 gallons of used soil that already had earth worm castings, compost and perlite in it after how many seasons and how many gallons of ewc or compost would you need and nobody really knows what needs to be added without testing the soil, im sure a few people know but not alot of people. I know the organic soil recipes but it is an extra cost when you can reuse coco.
Its kind of an exciting activity to buy all of the organic ingredients and mixing them up yourself but its an environmental activity so your not using coconut fibre, farmers do it all the time planting cover crops and tilling up the soil and planting in it and running drip lines and watering when its really warm and low humidity. The peat moss is an additional thought upon what is traditionally done in farming, I didn't think these plants were that important to do that extra work but people use alot of peat moss. I do like using peat pellets for cloning but ive used coco for cloning before and it works, id probably say that the most difficult part is disagreeing with the peat industry because it does work. Peat has also been used as a source of fuel or for heating in some areas but I don't think that its a renewable enough resource to do that and the same for gardening. If you really wanted to farm cannabis or hemp you could mix in compost and organic materials to make it usable for growing in a large area without using peat moss but they use alot of peat moss. Its very easy to use hydroponic fertlizers in coco and very little runoff into the ground soil and the coco can be replaced after a very long time, what happens with the coco is the leaves don't yellow anymore when you give them fresh water and im not sure how many salts are retained into that coco but I do know that you can start clones in it without it burning before deciding to replace it. I would think that if the people used vaporizers the coco would not need to be replaced at all if that was part of the issue of them not yellowing.
Some organic ingredients are animal based products and some gardeners only grow with vegan based organic npk fertlizers, blood meal and feather are both very high in nitrogen as in 12-0-0 and bone is 4-12-0 but that does bother vegan based organic gardeners so there are alternatives like Soy Bean Meal 7.0-1.5-2.0, Alfalfa Meal 2.8-0.5-3.6, Neem Cake 6.0-1.0-3.0, Kelp Meal 1.0-0.1-2.0 but thats used in blood meal and bone meal recipes aswell, Fish Meal 6.7-11.4-0.4, and then you can use other materials to provide calcium to the soil but they usually use dolomite lime but there are alternatives that you can mix up. Some of the organic fertilizers take a very long time to break down so there only used if the soil is being conditioned to be reused for a very long time. Crab Meal is another good organic product and its 4-3-0 but if your vegan you might not be able to use it. the complicated part is after you've used that soil and grown in it, its still filled with nutrients if the containers are big enough so your not really sure what needs to be added while not adding compost, manure, earth worm castings and extra perlite that may not be needed. The big issue with organic fertlizers is theres only so many tons of it and after that you need to use synthetic npk products. AB formulas are so easy to measure out and use and thats why there used instead but once you try to feed at higher ppm levels its very easy to get high runoff numbers that can burn your plants, at 400ppms of co2 you couldn't push these plants past 6ml/gal AB 5ml/gal Procal in flower and that means 6ml/gal AB 5ml/gal Procal alternating with freshwater is enough feed for these plants outdoors in high temperatures. Fertlizers are very easy mentally to produce or require alot of education and engineering and thats what growing in coco is.
Heavy rains again and with the low feeding there is alot of yellowing on the lower leaves, so im going to keep the 2ml/gal mix for another time and up the feeding to 5ml/gal while the coco is soaking wet because that is one of the reasons why organics is used outdoors instead, the nutrients would normally all be available.
@Todzilla,yhea you can pull the rebar with lawn staples probably I like using rock, you can hold the rebar in with a lawn staple if its not in super deep but I could probably hammer it in as deep as the container, I think that for photography purposes the rock explains the plant, its like the sands of time unfolding before you, you can't explain why something so large is so small yet so many times larger.
@blackskaarj1,I use lawn staples in rocky hard soil and it works for stabilization quite well. The staples are the lowest cost and easiest to install.
I also have used bamboo, stakes, and rebar. They all work for wind.
You just gotta get it done.
@Todzilla,no you can't use lawn staples you need to take a piece of rebar hammer it into the ground and then put a long piece in and your likely to either hit up against another rock or it'll work or not at all.
Hey, you can get a magnifying glass app for your phone that works good enough to see trichomes. No need for a loupe or physical magnifier. Can get good bud pics easily, even using an old phone.
What an nice outdoor grow so far - good job and well done 🤝 never did outdoor myself.
Happy Growing & cant wait for your upcoming weeks 🌱
Cheers, Bud Boutique 👩🌾
I did feel that not having any structures or roads in the way of the plants as they grow is better visually, the material that the plants are up against affects how you feel about them. Its better than landscaping that you would normally see, its better. I do encounter alot of wildlife though, its definitely there to see. Its my experience vs your idea of what is supposed to be enjoyable and that means I couldn't imagine it being a good idea for August and September because of the fire season but that is what im looking at.