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I live in Nebraska and ditchweed grows like crazy in the summer. These plants are not taken care of by anybody, yet they still thrive. Does that mean that it would it be easy to grow weed outdoors in the summer then? Obviously you would need the right strains for the environment, the right place to plant it, access to seeds, time to cure it, etc. But it seems to me that it would be fairly easy to do if ditchweed is already so common. Does anyone have any specific experience with this too?
It is easy. Lots of information on site here. A separate sub forum for outdoor growing.
Welcome, JD.
What does easy mean to you? I grow at 42N. It's a huge pain in the ass schlepping all my stuff out to the gardens in the woods. However, as far as the plants are concerned, once established it's just a matter of making occasional visits to check in on them. They grow like crazy all by themselves.
Does seem to like the out doors, But like any lady it seems to love attention.
Hey! Mother natures on your side, so you're already half way there. But here's the part that bums me out. Ditch weed grows every where unmolested, yet we have to bust our asses hiding our beautiful cultivated grow. Jack ass backwards if you ask me. The audacity of a PLANT being illegal. What's next? Arresting kitty cats? Governments drip stupidity. Why are we not having a world revolution? But back on point. Yeah, your enviornment has already proven hospitable to cultivation, so yeah, go for it & good luck! :)
well as for indoors goes.. the exertion is very little effort now.with a timer and only water every other few days they'll be fine . do check in on them every day and use a fan to stimulate them like a breeze would do.. and clip anything that needs clipping.. but all in all dont really do anything and they seem to do fine .... either way i think you will find and be amazed at how easy it is to grow :rasta:
I'm at 45ยบ Doof. Awesome yields and quality if nature cooperates.Quote:
Originally Posted by HipsterDoofus
I have a slightly longer growing season than Shovel. Dont know my longitude or latitude, but I'm zone 7 on the usda ag map. Droughts are rare here, biggest problem is too much rain most years & fighting fungus disease because of it (see older thread by Esteban called 'nasty east coast weather'). Any time you're growing stealth away from your home, its hard strenuous labor. You'd better be young & healthy to keep this up the whole season. I think the issue here was, is the dudes inviornment conductive to good growing? General consensus was, YEAH! :/
Grow season is determined by first hard frost, generally. I don't rush getting the plants out early. Up here on the Canada border they can go out May 1st, if you're lucky and it's not too cold and/or wet. If you start them indoors you can wait until July 1st and still have time to get four weeks of veg outdoors before they start to bud. June 1st is when our veggie gardens normally go in around here.
That said, success growing outdoors is very strain dependent. You want strains that will finish in 8-10 weeks as most strains will usually start to bud the beginning of August and by the middle of October the good growing weather is done, frost or not.
the only ditch weed around here is the stuff that's so potent after smoking it you can't drive or you end up in the ditch. you get out what you put in........
Well.. yes it is easy if you're trying to grow ditchweed. If you're growing outdoors you want to get away from the mentality of easy does it because your product will suffer. Small mistakes or focusing on results instead of PROCESS will produce crap unless you have a super strain or the odds are in your favor.
This past year I discovered the greatest strain for my climate.. pest resistant, vigorous, hardy, fast flowering, early finishing, great for LST, and many many budding sites with short internode spacing. HEAVEN right? Yea, it was but I still had to put in work. You have to maintain stealth, you have to keep pests and animals away from your crop, and you NEED WATER. If you aren't working to upkeep then the forces of nature are working to break down.
But yea you can definitely take 100 seeds spread them across a 100 sq. ft and get some of them to grow with little effort, but I've learned from experience that YES cannabis is generally hardy and persistent and it will grow on it's on... but every little stressor will bring down the overall health/vigor of the plant which will kill your yield and the plants ability to give you the best possible produce.
LLH.. aint it the truthQuote:
Originally Posted by lipps
Md, I often forget that many climates aren't like mine. Droughts are VERY rare, abundant rain is normal, soil rich. Plus I grow in my back yard, so easy access. Once they're in the ground no more transplanting or lugging around pots. The biggest worry around here is bud rot from too much rain once the buds plump up. Zone 7 on the ag map, long growing season. So for me, outdoor growing is actually easier on these old bones. When I grow indoors its sog, sm plants/pots are easier on arthritis with the labor. I may bitch about winter, but if we had no freezes, we be over run by insects & soil borne plant pathogens. So climate/area is the determining factor as to whether outdoor growing is easy, or really hard labor. Damned I got lucky! ;)