Tags 2012 outdoor garden

tags420

tags420

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This s my thread to show off my 2012 outdoor. 30 gallon geo pots with fox farms happy frogs soil. I used maxsea all purpose and bloom, plus some tea's. About 95% organic ,just the urea in the all purpose I believe is not. I had so much fun with this years crop! I grew a lot of strains...

Girls Scout Cookies (thin mints)
Chem 99
Pineapple Thai
Fucking Incredible
Dragon
Bubba x trainwreck
Sour Tsunami
Kandy Kush
Skunk #1
Fire OG
Blue Dream
Afghani Bullrider
Bogglegum
Starlight kush
Bubba x OG
Super Sour OG
Blueberry Headband

Here the pics...
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TheHaze

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very nice crops you got there and a perfect area as well. How did you get water to all those plants by hand?
 
tags420

tags420

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TheHaze said:
very nice crops you got there and a perfect area as well. How did you get water to all those plants by hand?
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Cupped my hands and walking very carefully..haha
Actually I had a well, that I pump from into trash cans to leave out each day to kill anything the best the sun can(only needs about 2 hours and should break down chorine). The ppm on the well was only 75 so could have gone straight from it but cans made it nice for mixing nutes and bubbling tea's. Then I had a water pump w/ hose to walk around to each with. Next time I would just install lines so I could just plug in the pump and they would get watered at once.
 
tags420

tags420

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Just me except for 5 days when my dad made the trip to come help. took about 3.5 weeks to get it down and hung. I used a 300$ trimpro knock off to take all the fans and big secondaries then hung and dried it, then final trim and cure. I have to hand trim it all but the auto made it possible to get it all down and drying by myself. best 300 I ever spent...better than any buddy/worker for what I needed it to do.
 
doubletake

doubletake

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Beautiful grow man, what are you plans for this year, have you gone bigger with your pots I did 9 in 30 gallon grow bags last year this year I only want to do like 4 or 6 in 50 or 100 gallon smart pots
also was this in NorCal? Sorry if this is to much did you rent the place? It seems like its kind of a bitch to find a place some people I know are looking in the central valley for the prop 215 spots
 
tags420

tags420

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I'm in norcal. This year was almost like a outdoor sog. I was gifted just as many clones as I planned on to begin with and didn't have the heart to kill them so I figured out away to get them all out there. I wouldn't got that much bigger in pot size...maybe 50-60gals, but I will do less plants for sure and let them spread out to really max yield of each. Plus dig them down into the ground to have some more height cause my fences are low.
 
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doubletake

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Yah that's what I was thinking for mine as well my fence is only like 6 feet so in a smart pot my plants can't reach much taller than 5 feet so I was thinking maney go in pots or just go huge grow bags and dig a hole a little like you were saying, any reason you don't go straight in the ground? That was another possibility I was thinking of going with but I'm kind of worried about gophers last youths couple I put in the ground did great though
 
tags420

tags420

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doubletake said:
\... any reason you don't go straight in the ground? That was another possibility I was thinking of going with but I'm kind of worried about gophers last youths couple I put in the ground did great though
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I had a few gophers but digging 60+ holes is what kept me from going in the ground. I only had a 6 foot fence too and had to put lattice up all around. 30gallons geo pots can grow plenty huge enough plants for me. I was super cropping and bending like crazy. Didn't put them out till last week of junes anyways.
 
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tags1942

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That was quite an experience, being in your garden of delights. It was primevil and spiritually uplifting. I expected to bump into Eve chewing an apple, but all I ran into were increditably sticky donkey dongs. Chopping those massive sticky dongs was like picking up gold on the ground. It was an honor to experience the fruits of the many, many hours of hard work you put into making that possible. Hats off to tags420. It is living proof that the bud does not fall far from the bush.
 
piatch

piatch

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Awesome grow Tags! Caught myself drooling on the keyboard. How did you control bugs and mold? I'm returning to the grow game after a few years off and am trying to figure out a game plan for the coming months. I'm using bt right now, but I've heard good things about azatrol for mold. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. +rep.
 
tags420

tags420

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It's not in SoCal but that's where I grew up and learned to deal with mold(mostly botrytis) and bug(caterpillars).

Spinosad for bugs and Serenade for mold. It is all about being preventative for both cases. Once things are infested it's an uphill battle specially with the molds. I treat every other week at least, even if neither are there. Caterpillars and most outside bugs are pretty easy. Spinosad takes care of most except mites but they ususall aren't a problem outside. Serande smells like shit but won't effect your buds unless you use it on day/week of harvest and still you have a chance of being ok. Use it liberally all the way to week3/4 of flower, then still use it every other week or more, just don't soak your nice big buds cause that would be counter productive.
I stop using both 3-2 weeks before harvest based on how worried I am.

If you see a bunch of butterflies(caterpillar mommies) you should spray spinosad more often. And if it is wet/humid/cloudy then you should up the serande usage a little.

Those two are my main things. But I also had organocide on hand as a backup if anything needs some extra control. and a few others just incase like azamax or oxidate. I have dealt with a lot over the years and have built up an arsenal of products.

If PM is a real bad problem there is a product called eagle20. It's definitely not organic but it fucking works! I've never used it outdoors, but after a real bad indoor problem, I had to use it and haven't seen PM in 3 full indoor cycles. It works/effects bud rot too but that was never a problem indoors for me. Expensive too. Just be preventative with serande and you should be fine for al mold problems.
 
piatch

piatch

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tags420 said:
It's not in SoCal but that's where I grew up and learned to deal with mold(mostly botrytis) and bug(caterpillars).

Spinosad for bugs and Serenade for mold. It is all about being preventative for both cases. Once things are infested it's an uphill battle specially with the molds. I treat every other week at least, even if neither are there. Caterpillars and most outside bugs are pretty easy. Spinosad takes care of most except mites but they ususall aren't a problem outside. Serande smells like shit but won't effect your buds unless you use it on day/week of harvest and still you have a chance of being ok. Use it liberally all the way to week3/4 of flower, then still use it every other week or more, just don't soak your nice big buds cause that would be counter productive.
I stop using both 3-2 weeks before harvest based on how worried I am.

If you see a bunch of butterflies(caterpillar mommies) you should spray spinosad more often. And if it is wet/humid/cloudy then you should up the serande usage a little.

Those two are my main things. But I also had organocide on hand as a backup if anything needs some extra control. and a few others just incase like azamax or oxidate. I have dealt with a lot over the years and have built up an arsenal of products.

If PM is a real bad problem there is a product called eagle20. It's definitely not organic but it fucking works! I've never used it outdoors, but after a real bad indoor problem, I had to use it and haven't seen PM in 3 full indoor cycles. It works/effects bud rot too but that was never a problem indoors for me. Expensive too. Just be preventative with serande and you should be fine for al mold problems.
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Right on man! great info, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again.
 
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