elchupacabra
Well-Known Member
you seem to have some things wrong there. first of all:
1) you will never need manure AND nutes. if you're using manure, it's organic and you won't need nutes, you will need organic sources of nutrition. if you're using nutes, manure is useless.
2) if you got the dirt from near ulsoor lake how do you know whether or not there's poop in it? and if you do know, how do you not know which kind? :-/
3) ratios aren't so important in organic growing, they can be roughly estimated. for ex, cow poop is more n and k than p, bone meal is more P and almost nothing else, but has a solid supply of Ca as well. chicken poop is more N than anything, goat manure is RELATIVELY evenly balanced, etc.
4) if your seedlings are getting attacked by pidgeons, whether they're 2 days old or 4 days old, the seedling will die.
buy a simple chicken wire and just get a rectangular size of length and width of your choice, and force it into a half cylinder shape as shown below:
http://www.plamondon.com/poulthous_files/poulthouse_hoophousediagram.gif
this is just to give you an idea of the shape the chicken wire needs to have. using it as a roof, place all the plants under it. if you can't physically force it open, you can always use something like bricks lined up either side on the inside to keep it in the inverted half-pipe shape. cover the ends with plastic or physically obstruct them with something and you have outdoor pigeon defense.
below is chicken wire, you will find it in any hardware store. shivajinagar, kaggadasapura, fraser town, commercial street (backside), pretty much ANYWHERE that has a standard hardware store.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C1TlDf0bSq0/UUYLjnYRXaI/AAAAAAAAkRI/MkQaa_pIyFI/s1600/109.JPG
5) to grow indian seeds, your pot size decides your final plant size.
bigger container = bigger plant, slightly slower start, but once it gets about a month old you will see a change in growth between morning and night, bigger yields also. absolute must for plants started outdoors between march and july. 60 litres+
smaller container = smaller more manageable plant, faster start, smaller yields, could run into problems if you don't have a rich enough soil mix. it basically depends on your space and freedom. i'd give an indian plant a good root space of about 100 litres to get max yield from here. if i wanted to keep her smaller, i'd start out in plastic cups (transparent) and when i see roots growing vigorously up the sides everywhere, transplant to 3 litres, then when the roots are noticeably coming out the bottom, transplant to 10-20 litres (final transplant). an indian plant grown this way would have to be planted around september.
bottom line, if you want small indian plants (4-7 feet without training) start around mid-end september. if you want big ones (10+feet guaranteed without training, 350 cm is not uncommon) start july or earlier. august is a gray region for me, for some reason, something always came up in august and i never got an opportunity to monitor seeds planted then carefully.
you can calculate your pot size in litres…assume it's a cylinder and calculate the volume in cm3. 1cm3 = 1ml
1) you will never need manure AND nutes. if you're using manure, it's organic and you won't need nutes, you will need organic sources of nutrition. if you're using nutes, manure is useless.
2) if you got the dirt from near ulsoor lake how do you know whether or not there's poop in it? and if you do know, how do you not know which kind? :-/
3) ratios aren't so important in organic growing, they can be roughly estimated. for ex, cow poop is more n and k than p, bone meal is more P and almost nothing else, but has a solid supply of Ca as well. chicken poop is more N than anything, goat manure is RELATIVELY evenly balanced, etc.
4) if your seedlings are getting attacked by pidgeons, whether they're 2 days old or 4 days old, the seedling will die.
buy a simple chicken wire and just get a rectangular size of length and width of your choice, and force it into a half cylinder shape as shown below:
http://www.plamondon.com/poulthous_files/poulthouse_hoophousediagram.gif
this is just to give you an idea of the shape the chicken wire needs to have. using it as a roof, place all the plants under it. if you can't physically force it open, you can always use something like bricks lined up either side on the inside to keep it in the inverted half-pipe shape. cover the ends with plastic or physically obstruct them with something and you have outdoor pigeon defense.
below is chicken wire, you will find it in any hardware store. shivajinagar, kaggadasapura, fraser town, commercial street (backside), pretty much ANYWHERE that has a standard hardware store.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C1TlDf0bSq0/UUYLjnYRXaI/AAAAAAAAkRI/MkQaa_pIyFI/s1600/109.JPG
5) to grow indian seeds, your pot size decides your final plant size.
bigger container = bigger plant, slightly slower start, but once it gets about a month old you will see a change in growth between morning and night, bigger yields also. absolute must for plants started outdoors between march and july. 60 litres+
smaller container = smaller more manageable plant, faster start, smaller yields, could run into problems if you don't have a rich enough soil mix. it basically depends on your space and freedom. i'd give an indian plant a good root space of about 100 litres to get max yield from here. if i wanted to keep her smaller, i'd start out in plastic cups (transparent) and when i see roots growing vigorously up the sides everywhere, transplant to 3 litres, then when the roots are noticeably coming out the bottom, transplant to 10-20 litres (final transplant). an indian plant grown this way would have to be planted around september.
bottom line, if you want small indian plants (4-7 feet without training) start around mid-end september. if you want big ones (10+feet guaranteed without training, 350 cm is not uncommon) start july or earlier. august is a gray region for me, for some reason, something always came up in august and i never got an opportunity to monitor seeds planted then carefully.
you can calculate your pot size in litres…assume it's a cylinder and calculate the volume in cm3. 1cm3 = 1ml
Pots are truncated cones, so easy to calculate volume. 
... actually got one of my own at 12 feet high which recently started buding after 5 months. The yeild you would get from an indian sativa would be ranging from 1300 grams to 2 kgs per plant.
