Today we started planting our Cannabis clones in the first garden. To get you started, here is a video of how to properly transplant from a one gallon bucket into the ground with @hempress (taken today). You will want to make sure your planting area has been weeded and tilled with compost before hand.
We almost finished planting two greenhouses today, but unfortunately my partners crapped out early because of the heat. I was feeling it too, but not enough to quit before finishing the second greenhouse. Coming out of a Portland winter into an 80+ degree day is quite shocking on the body, so I understand why they could not push through. You can tell we live in the northwest.
When I dig my holes, I burrow a little deeper than necessary so we can back-fill some of the dirt after mixing it with worm castings (more on that later). I dig every hole far enough apart from the previous so that there is room for the plants to grow outwards without them interfering with each other. I also dig out my rows in strait lines, but alternate their placement in each row to maximize growing space.
Our mothers we cloned from were strong girls and provided us with some beautiful offspring for our garden. We usually plant the mothers in bigger pots and place them elsewhere so they don't waste room in our greenhouses. Mothers seem to struggle more through the year and ultimately yields lower than the clones it produces.
To assist the growth of our plants, we mix organic earth worm castings into our planting soil, and back-fill our dug plant holes with a little of the mixed composition so it gets underneath the roots. Earth worm casting are a super plant food rich in nutrients and trace minerals that cannabis plants require to flourish. Worm castings are digested food scraps that earth worms excrete.
Worm castings have an immense number of advantages. Not only do they make your soil more nutrient rich, but also assist with decomposition of dead leaves, release substances in humus that destroys toxic fungi and bacteria, fight off diseases that would weaken your plants, introduce beneficial microorganisms to your plants, make your soil more water absorbent, corrects imbalances in PH levels, repels pests, removes unwanted heavy metals in your soil, and has ten times more nutrients than ordinary potting mix. In fact, these castings contain over 60 micro-nutrients and other essential elements including nitrogen, phosphates, and calcium. In addition, they prevent nutrient burn and mineral buildup by releasing slowly into the soil, unlike commercial fertilizers. This ingredient is pretty much necessary if you want your ladies to be healthy and prosperous throughout the season.
The second greenhouse is coming together nicely so far. @hempress did a beautiful job planting the clones behind me after I dug the holes for them. Black matting is also a great idea that will save yourself a ton of work throughout the season. By blocking the light from everywhere besides where you are planting, you will only have to worry about weeding inside the boxes throughout the year instead of weeding entire greenhouses. We decided to cut out the mat for first greenhouse, and cut a little more space in the mat for the second greenhouse. You can see our cedar boxes we crafted lined up on the sides of the greenhouse as well.
While some of us worked on planting the garden, others started to reconstruct the fence surrounding our grow-site. OMMP requires all grow-sites to have a fence around them if there is a chance of seeing the plants from any roadway. We had to move that part of the fence after last season to make room for construction equipment to get through. Today we were able to reconstruct part of it by cementing and reinstalling all the 4x4 fence posts on that side of the garden.
I am looking forward to updating with another post about our garden planting tomorrow evening. Hopefully we will be a lot closer to being done planting the first garden by then. I also hope it will be a little bit cooler out so we don't get cooked as bad. But hey, at least we can get baked before we get cooked!
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Everyone have a blessed day and consume the finest herb available for a relaxing evening with chill vibes. It is my hope that this post has been informative and helpful to anyone with questions about planting cannabis in the ground outdoors. Stay tuned my friends - into the right frequencies.
You have a beautiful set up. Lovely mother’s in the pots. I’ve worked on a few legal farms, some not so legal hehehe. But nowadays I do real labor and buy from the store like a white ass American.
lol, I am currently also doing remodeling, vending, and releasing my first album. I may have to go full time manual labor as well if the market doesn't improve this season.
I think every farm can be done with less then ten people, until harvest and trim. And if you write down a plan and explain it ahead of time, usually all can be done in a week(giant farm) and then trim as needed.
Definitely less than 10 for sure. We only have 6 at ours.
I wish I could grow outdoor, looks fun and hard. Maybe in the future.
It is hard, unless you are only doing a few plants. The work can be fun sometimes, but I would mostly describe it as rewarding.
I bet it is
not always financially rewarding though unfortunately.
I have gardens. I like your photos. Upvoted. Thanks for sharing. You have a big green house. You have good advice here. Worms do help. Thanks for sharing about Cannabis. Very good.
Worms are great. I hope to have a worm bin soon.
Its nice to see people still graden
in my country if you dont grow your own food you will be a very siknny no safeways out in the outback of australia
I hear ya. Permaculture should be the standard not horticulture. I bet the food you grow tastes amazing!
Yes food is our medicine
Indeed.