really dry dirt and leaving for a month

hey there str8 to business. i recently moved my plant into the ground. see pics :). the hole i dug was about the size of a bucket and i mixed regualr dirt in with store bought regular potting soil. i gotta leave for a month or more now. what can or should i do befor i leave? the soil around here is shitty i would say. its clay about 3-4 feet down and rocky till that. i havent done anything to this plant. germinated it, threw it into a cup, set it outside, and kept it moist. im wondering about maybe pesticides of some sort or fertilizer sticks, because i will not be there to baby it. thanks to anyone that replies. this web site is awesome and im gonna continue searching. THANKS! just click my prof for the pics i cant seem to attach them

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Originally Posted by ThaFooT

hey there str8 to business. i recently moved my plant into the ground. see pics :). the hole i dug was about the size of a bucket and i mixed regualr dirt in with store bought regular potting soil. i gotta leave for a month or more now. what can or should i do befor i leave? the soil around here is shitty i would say. its clay about 3-4 feet down and rocky till that. i havent done anything to this plant. germinated it, threw it into a cup, set it outside, and kept it moist. im wondering about maybe pesticides of some sort or fertilizer sticks, because i will not be there to baby it. thanks to anyone that replies. this web site is awesome and im gonna continue searching. THANKS! just click my prof for the pics i cant seem to attach them

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Well im assuming that ya cant trust anyone to check it for you to feed an water it. Sucks, but you could get a few gallon jugs and put a small hole in it so it just dribbles out slow. If you could find one thats bigger, say 5 gal and use a very small drill bit, i think this would work for a good amount of time. If its a 5 gal you should find a cover as the pressure would make the water go out in a day. But if ya picture a gallon jug with a cap on it, dripping water and pre mixed ferts in it, i say your cool:cool: Now i might hit it with some paint to blend into the background, or rough it up good and put some branches over and around it.

Man its the best i got. At least, if the hole was small enough and you have a cap on it, i think it should get ya a couple weeks at least. I don't know anything about the fert sticks. Id giver a shot, if ya cant come up with anything else. But let me know man:thumbsup:

Good luck man:rasta:

hell yea man i did something very similar. check out the pic. i ever so slighlty tapped on the spigot until i got about 1 drop per 10 seconds. filled that bitch up n there she wll sit. o ya i made sure the jug doesnt shadow the baby :)

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hell yea man i did something very similar. check out the pic. i ever so slighlty tapped on the spigot until i got about 1 drop per 10 seconds. filled that bitch up n there she wll sit. o ya i made sure the jug doesnt shadow the baby :)

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Cool man, how big is that jug? And is it cool sitting there without someone getting curious?

Im glad its working bro:cool:


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i think its about 2 gallons. i took a pic of the water level befor i left and ill mark what it is when i get back...if any. then ill set out another n see how long it takes to be empty so ill know how long its gone without water...i been checkin the weather its gettin down there and its been pretty dry:(....and people dont usually pull into drives down there where i was at and if they did it would look like some garbage in the yard. its a construction zone so it will fit in :jointsmile:

um kinda late but water crystalz work good,

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i think its about 2 gallons. i took a pic of the water level befor i left and ill mark what it is when i get back...if any. then ill set out another n see how long it takes to be empty so ill know how long its gone without water...i been checkin the weather its gettin down there and its been pretty dry:(....and people dont usually pull into drives down there where i was at and if they did it would look like some garbage in the yard. its a construction zone so it will fit in :jointsmile:

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How long before ya leave? And maybe take a black marker out and put a line where the water level is, then you can do the math for just how many days it would take for it to run out. Oh i just noticed, ya might have left already, but with 2 gallons of water dripped down into the ground, i think your cool as the roots should follow. And there is moist soil down into the ground that should keep your plant good till ya get back:thumbsup:. And yeah the site is titts for sure:thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by middieman440

um kinda late but water crystalz work good,

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Hey mid, hows it going:jointsmile:, hes got the plant already in the ground. I thought you would need to put them down under ground. Iv never used them, but would like to know how they work as im sure they could come in handy:thumbsup:. And yeah i guess he could have dug it up, so if thats what you were saying, i get it. But if you could spread them around the plant, that would be way cool, just don't know how that would work.


Later man:rasta:

well im back 4 weeks later and the picture speaks for itself!!!!! nothin but a jug o water!!!!!! time to spoil her befor i leave again. new haircut. and get rid of some neighbors.

if you have to leave again mulch if possible, though you're kind of out in the open. If you can get away with it is all. She's a beauty :thumbsup:

i was wondering about topping...would now be the time to do it? i plan on bending it down to the ground slowly, so should i wait?