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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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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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?

yeah he cant use crystals now unless he does dig his plant up,but if you dig about 6 inches around the the plant,and put the crystals in they should work,never tried it this way but worth a shot,because the roots where grow towards the water i would think..

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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.

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Hey man i told ya it would work:thumbsup:ya need to send me a half now, lol. And yeah you could top it now, but if your bending it i might fim it as you will get more tops. I got 7 last year and the plant luved it too. Just cut the very new growth on top of the plant or use the search option in here if your not familiar with the method.

Glad it worked man, oh an like 86 said you should put mulch around it to keep the moister in the ground, this should help even more to keep them moist.


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mulch is an excellent idea thank you! im not gonna top it or bend it just to see what happens. i did see a few shitty leaves on the bottom area so i plucked em away. thanks for all the advice and shit for such a simple grow op. i love this site!:hippy:

i have 1 other question. ive been learning as much as i can about fimming and cant figure out y u WOULD NOT want to do it everytime. if it double, triples, or quadrupples the main colas, y wouldnt everybody want to do that everytime? i ponder. thanks. :jointsmile:

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i have 1 other question. ive been learning as much as i can about fimming and cant figure out y u WOULD NOT want to do it everytime. if it double, triples, or quadrupples the main colas, y wouldnt everybody want to do that everytime? i ponder. thanks. :jointsmile:

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because ive found the LST and bending them over worked better for me.

FIM doesnt triple the amount of colas your plant has, it just makes 1 or 2 extra growing shoots pop up. Everytime you top or fim a growing shoot the 2 nodes right under it grow faster. If you Fim Correctly you can get 3 or 4 shoots , instead of just 2.

but like i said personally i dont like to cut any of my plants. I just gently bend them over when i feel they need it. I want as little stress upon them as i possibly can give them.

id really like to try the LST but since this is my first grow id like to see how it naturally grows to get a better understanding of how it will look and first hand experience.

trial and error are my best friends.

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id really like to try the LST but since this is my first grow id like to see how it naturally grows to get a better understanding of how it will look and first hand experience.

trial and error are my best friends.

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Man i fimed this plant last year, here is a pic of what it did for me, 7 tops, which iv already took in this pic. I should have waited, but as you see i cut off the tops thinking it would help the rest of the plant, but i should have just let them go, they would have been much bigger in the end. I like the fim a lot man.


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o man those plants look very nice!

but the question still remains...is fimming/topping always the best thing to do when considering yield and quality?

because from what ive read people always realate it to "keeping it low". ive got plenty of space and privacy and sun hours are at a maximum. should i want to fim it even if height isnt an issue? where does letting it grow naturally benefit? even when it comes to LST...does it benefit in any way to NOT do LST? i understand these are questions that i could eventually find out myself but i may as well use this internet machine for good :D

Some plants respond well to topping and training, while others will produce more when left alone. It's a matter of many smaller buds or fewer large main colas. It may also be a matter of laziness sometimes haha. If a plant grows to its full potential it can get pretty branchy without topping anyway. I for one prefer the christmas-tree look :D

Nice job Foot. Heres what I say. Top it, and leave it. Youlll be very pleased later. Shes perty. Dont wanna bring her down yet anyhow:thumbsup:

wow just 4 weeks and water.. thats incredible. Just goes to show you what direct sunlight can do for a plant. If I my area wasn't so damn unsafe Id plant a few in an open field just like that

hers an update pic. not much goin on wit her. 6 inches since i got here. no nutes. just water. and lots of sun. giddam lots of sun. 94 degrees with a heat index of 101.

its really amazing how when i started her in the paper towels it sparked this huge interest in horticulture. i look at her now and its a raging inferno! this site has more information than i know because im always clicking on threads and learning more.

im gonna stick to doin outdoors for sure, cuz all that lighting mumbo jumbo just aggravates me.

thanks guys for all the info!!! (but man i hate unfinished grow logs!)

stomper my man, im just too damn scared to cut her to be honest!

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o man those plants look very nice!

but the question still remains...is fimming/topping always the best thing to do when considering yield and quality?

because from what ive read people always realate it to "keeping it low". ive got plenty of space and privacy and sun hours are at a maximum. should i want to fim it even if height isnt an issue? where does letting it grow naturally benefit? even when it comes to LST...does it benefit in any way to NOT do LST? i understand these are questions that i could eventually find out myself but i may as well use this internet machine for good :D

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Well Foot thats just one plant, but thats what im saying, it gives you more tops. In that pic iv already harvested the tops as they were giant colas. But letting tour plant go is just fine, your going to have one cola and a bunch of buds as i got a bunch of cola type buds and then what you see on that plant. As far as LST outside, i wouldn't use it in less you just bend it over. LST is used more inside because of height reasons. But if your safe grow a x mass tree, im doing mine this way this year.


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thanks letsseeya, you have reassured me that not doin anything in natural light will benefit in its own ways. i havent seen how first hand but im confident ill be satisfied.

.....it might be a male

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Well get a few more seeds in, they might not be giant but im sure you will get buds. But what makes ya think its a male, have you seen balls?



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heres a pic. :(

yea i got 3 seedling already started as well. 2 of which r interesting but odds of survival arent that great. none are more than an inch tall right now and im bouncin tuesday.

its always sad when one ends up male, especially if your only one is that one.

yea...i been so obsessed with it, now im just devastated to find out its a male....wheres jerry springer?

ive amended 3 more little spots in my yard and im goin to transplant my seedlings today...now im not sure if i want to chop the male down, id like to see how big it will get to have a better understanding of how well they actually can do on their own. but what if one of me seedlings is a female? beggers cannot be choosers. im no reaper :hippy: