Outdoor low yield?

just a question really...

i grew a plant outdoors - lots of sunshine, roots organic soil, but very little nutrients through all summer. i had the plant in a 5 gallon bucket full of roots organic with expanded clay pellets at the bottom. then i dug a hole in the ground and put about 2" of expanded clay pellets in the bottom of the hole and placed the 5 gallon bucket (with the bottom cut out) into the hole with about 2 inches of the bucket still above ground. i, then, covered the top of the dirt with rocks and left a one inch gap around the perimeter of the bucket hoping to bottom feed the plant as this particular area gets lots of rainfall throughout summer. why did the plant only yield around 10 grams? when i cut the plant down i pulled out the root mass and it was huge. the plant was green and healthy throughout and formed only three stalks with minimal colas. it is a 8 week flowering plant indoors, but this was the first time i put her in the wild. any ideas??

pictures please. I am sure more will chime in,

i do have a photo somewhere, but i just cleaned this computer and need to find where it is. the plant really never had much going on - i topped it once and it just shot out three main stalks with airy colas and no size. i will look for that photo now.

Was it a tropical sativa? That might explain it ... cn

nope. the plant it always right at 8 weeks when grown indoors. nice chunky frosty hybrid with good yield when grown indoors. the local name is gumtree - you can check it in my other journals.

here is poor plant.

silouan said:

here is poor plant. View attachment 1901809View attachment 1901809

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Thats wierd how it's just three branches from the main stem. Looks like hemp. I'm sorta flabbergasted.

tell me about it man. i grow this as my main genetic indoors and it does fantastic. what went wrong?

wow, never seen that before and i have seen some weird stuff . Lools like it never went to flower,or did not have the nutes to do it

no it flowered and only produced about 10 grams of dried buds. but, it was very good.

lack of nutes and light looks like to me

With such far node spacing my guess is lack of light. It looks like it's really trying to stretch up to get more. Idk though :/

brandon727272 said:

With such far node spacing my guess is lack of light. It looks like it's really trying to stretch up to get more. Idk though :/

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Thats the first thing that came to my mind but I thought I remember him saying that it was in direct sunlight. Maybe not. I was stoned at the time I read his post lol

EDIT: "lotsa sunshine" he said. But, it does look to me like it spent it's life in the shade.

Maybe its not a strain that does well outdoors.

Toolage 87 said:

Maybe its not a strain that does well outdoors.

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Considering he's happy with the same strain's performance indoors ... that's reasonable. cn

cannabineer said:

Considering he's happy with the same strain's performance indoors ... that's reasonable. cn

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Yea but also its almost like trying to grow a outdoor strain that is breed to grow well in those conditions indoors.

There are so many factors into why it did that its hard to pin point.

my guess would be the lack of nutrients, but still its a mystery of some sorts. it was in a good location to receive sunlight - i would be shocked it that were the issue. rain bringing on overcast weather maybe - which could account for being in good sunshine and yet not getting it at the same time? there is a lot of rain in that area, in fact it's classified rainforest. i was planning on doing more there next year which is my reason for isolating the problem.

The problem is the soil not enough food the more rain you have the more it washes out the fert I have to fer more then the Kona boys cause I get 40" more per yr. Also get rid of the 5gal bucket completely no need and it transplants fine that done it 1000 times for sure find some local if can to help you with a good soil mix and ph and all that good stuff your spot has potential. I use a version of Wheezers it worked really got for me Aloha from Puna

It looks like it doesn't get a lot of light. I know you said it did but I don't think so. Look at the long stretched out nodes. And just overall lack of foliage. Only thing I can think is not enough light. Look like a lot of tall trees blocking the sun.

PeyoteReligion said:

It looks like it doesn't get a lot of light. I know you said it did but I don't think so. Look at the long stretched out nodes. And just overall lack of foliage. Only thing I can think is not enough light. Look like a lot of tall trees blocking the sun.

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that must be it. i will say that the plant is in the mountains so they, by themselves, block light. also it was not on top of a mountain, but rather kinda low - so that is also a contributing factor. also, the overcast weather is worth mentioning. it was grown in a section cut out for power lines. looks like i will be doing a lot more hiking this spring. the only thing is that during the day that spot was hot warm and super bright.

thanks so much guys for the input!!