First time growing...

I was given two plants yesterday, one is a bit eaten, the leaves I mean, but the other is fine. We speculate the larger, rougher condition one is a male and the smaller better shape one is female. I'm growing them in western Michigan in little planting pots inside of a thicket of bushes, that i made a sun hole in the top of. We do have an old hunting stand out back that I could put them in though. Nobody would be up there till hunting season, and by then, I can have a better place for them. I'm just wondering on soil, watering routines, if they should stay in the pots or in the ground. We have very moist soil where they're located. I don't really have worries about cops or being followed, I just need to get some good growing tips. I want to be relatively succesful and have some decent bud come picking season. Tips?