i hav grown outdoors in washington two years in a row. Its pretty tricky but you can get the hang of it. It is true that the weather up here kinda sucks for growin outdoors but you just have to cross your fingers and start early. I usually start indoors and move outdoors around late april early may somtimes thats not possible. Like this last summer it was so shitty i didn't get any bud rot this years becaus i harvested around mid septmber. Last year i waited till second week in october and had a few top kolas rot (most depressing thing ever). pretty much its trial and error up here. The only chemicals i use are alaskan fish fretilizer and organic bug spray. just be careful especially if your gorillan it.