Outdoor Growing outdoors in the Northeast

[pop22]

Hey everyone! I'm just going crazy with growing! I've got my first grow, Auto White Widow in DWC nearing completion, some Northern Lights photos in DWC that are still in Veg, and and single cheese Fem in dirt thats i call Little orphan cheezy, and she's an experiment in neglect lol.

Now to top it all off, i'm preparing for my summer grow outdoors. Well, my growroom is now officially full! I'm starting 16 plants in pots to transplant outside next month. I'll be growing:

10 KC Brains KC White - regular photos
1 G13 Labs Gigabud - feminized
1 TH Seeds Critical Hog - feminized
1 Emerald Triangle Lost Coast OG Kush - Feminized
2 Emerald Triangle Blueberry Headband - regulars
1 Humboldt Seeds Green Crack - feminized

Last night I soaked the KC White, Lost Coast OG Kush, and the Gigabud in shotglasses of water and put them on top of my ballast, which only get slightly warm.
about 10 am this morning, I moved the seeds to paper towel and into labeled baggies. I followed my previous method of putting the baggies inside a folded
bath towel, it blocks the light And keeps temps even for the seeds.I'll check them tomorrow and any early sprouts will go right into the pots I've prepared.

The pots are filled with Stay Green Potting Mix. I wanted to use Pro Mix but I can't find any within 125 miles of here and I just can't pay $95 a bale to
order it online. I tried to find a mix with no added nutes but here at least, such a thing doesn't exsist, and the only decent garden center we have is
Lowes, who sell 99% MG products, geez, even their perlite had MG in it! At least the Stay Green uses their own formula and isn't owned by Montsanto.....

Hoping in another 2 weeks to build a greenhouse, more to keep out prying eyes than anything else. I'll be planting a screen of tall flowers also to divert
wandering eyes,.I got some Heirloom seeds, Outhouse Hollyhocks, they grow to about 7ft tall. in the 17 and 18 hundreds they were planted around outhouses to
disguise them.

some pics of the growroom:

 

[Duggy]

Best of luck pop..."AFN smoke out"

 

[Balarama]

Cool, finally someone growing the Blueberry Headband.
I was thinking about getting some fems for this OD season, maybe next year.

Good luck pop22! "Bailers Booya"

 

[pop22]

Cool, finally someone growing the Blueberry Headband.
I was thinking about getting some fems for this OD season, maybe next year.

Good luck pop22! "Bailers Booya"

I wanted to buy some blueberry, but I got these in Attitude's birthday giveaway and I'm excited too! If I get a female, I'll clone her for sure!

 

[pop22]

Update: So Soon!

I put the second batch of seeds in the shot glasses of water at 11am yesterday. I was transferring them to damp paper towel. Well.... the Green Crack already had a tap root!!!! it was only about 1/8" long but still, that be some potent seed! I will check all seeds early this evening to seed if the are ready to go into their pots.

 

[krug]

Sounds pop! All the best mate :Sharing One:

 

[Muddy]

Pop, I've tried that Stay Green potting soil before and it left a lot to be desired. If you only have access to the big box stores you would be better off mixing your own. Sphagnam peat moss, perlite, dolomite lime and composted chicken manure are all readily available. Buy some myco on line and you're set. Bonnie also makes a potting mix that is very similar to Pro Mix. Only thing it doesn't have is the myco. If Lowes doesn't have it, check Ace Hardware. Add some composted manure and myco and it makes a good mix.

 

[Chester]

'Coast of Maine' products are available throughout most of the northeast ... I use Quoddy either 50/50 w/ Perlite or as a 1/3 mix along w/ perlite and Lamberts organic potting soil ... both are not pre-fertilized and the Lamberts comes in huge bags for cheap at Home Depot ... Many nurseries carry Coast of Maine products ...
:tiphat:
http://www.coastofmaine.com/soils-quoddy.shtml

 

[pop22]

Pop, I've tried that Stay Green potting soil before and it left a lot to be desired. If you only have access to the big box stores you would be better off mixing your own. Sphagnam peat moss, perlite, dolomite lime and composted chicken manure are all readily available. Buy some myco on line and you're set. Bonnie also makes a potting mix that is very similar to Pro Mix. Only thing it doesn't have is the myco. If Lowes doesn't have it, check Ace Hardware. Add some composted manure and myco and it makes a good mix.

The problem is i live in a very small "city" population 14,000. Hell the whole county's probably only 20,000. Our Ace is just a dinky little store, and at the big box stores, even the damn peat moss they sell has MG in it! Yea I'm going to doctor it a bit, some composted manure and some earthworm castings, at least I can get that here...

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'Coast of Maine' products are available throughout most of the northeast ... I use Quoddy either 50/50 w/ Perlite or as a 1/3 mix along w/ perlite and Lamberts organic potting soil ... both are not pre-fertilized and the Lamberts comes in huge bags for cheap at Home Depot ... Many nurseries carry Coast of Maine products ...
:tiphat:
http://www.coastofmaine.com/soils-quoddy.shtml

No local nursery or garden center other than Lowe's or Wally world, isn't that pathetic lol.

 

[pop22]

Ok, well, I got the manure and worm castings and dumped my pots into a tote and blended things well. refilled the pots. I checked and most of my seeds have sprouted already! All ten KC White, the Lost Coast OG, and the Flower Bomb Kush are all planted. The greencrack is still not cracked and the Blueberry headband, one is cracked but not ready to plant and the other hasn't cracked yet. The gigabud has cracked but needs to get a longer taproot. They should all be planted by morning I think. I'm real pleased with the 100% germ rate of my ten KC white! Makes up for the poor performance of my Northern Lights. I suspect I got a batch of the bogus seeds that was going around. These seeds even looked better! Got to go pick up another 4' florescent light!