starting plants outdoors?...

[dpn]

Im thinking about next season already lol, i want to do it much better this time round.

I cant start plants at home. How would you start your babies and keep them moist at a semi remote location... im thinking a wicking bed like design for 1 litre plant pots?

Has anybody else got some ideas they would like to share?

cheers dpn

[vapor]

how early are you stating, if you start to early you will need light to extend the day light hours or plants will start go into flower try and come out of flower as the sun increases. aswell watch you dont get rootbound on your moms.....

[dpn]

ill be starting early-mid may i reckon... its the plants drying up, if i can only visit once a week, id like something extra to keep them moist.

cheers.

[vapor]

well some strains started in early may will start flowering with out extended day lights....
you may find one that works for you... have you added polyamer crystals at all....

[c-ray]

if you are starting from seed you should be fine for most strains except the fastest finishers.. I recommend getting your seeds in their final home by mid may if possible, they will have that much extra time to put down a good tap root and water will be less of an issue.. you may want to use some sort of pop bottles or mini-hoops keep the soil warm in the early season, ideally soil should be 10C or warmer for as much as possible
winter germinating, ie planting seeds in late winter under a pop bottle might be a good experiment to try if you have a few seeds (you can always transplant in some reinforcements if it doesn't work)
make your holes deeper under the tap root, 3 feet or more, the tap root is the keep to waterwise plants
bring in some well composted manure, mulch and plant your holes with fava beans, austrian winter peas and red clover right now

[outdoordreams]

You can build a cheap table using plastic and wood, or use a kiddie pool, and use a timer to add water to your pool from a resevoir. Bottom feeding your babies, they will suck up what they need. I would put a drainage hole in your pool so too much water does not build up. Build a small greenhouse over top and you will be rocking.

[vapor]

yes seed would be different then clones, you may get away with it from seed.....good call...

[dpn]

i think i may give the pop bottles a go and the mini hoop for my gg2's :)

thanks for the insight, i had problems with a very dry spring, watering those 1 litre pots every 2-3 days nearly killed me lol

i think a ring of lime around the mini hoop, to keep slug/snails away might be a good idea?

[vapor]

why not use bigger pots?
slug bait is a tricky one, i thought the iron phosphate was a good choice till i read this
http://www.hostalibrary.org/firstlook/RRIronPhosphate.htm
basically they slipped something called EDTA which is a chelating agent that causes the iron phosphate to release its poison load, without it the iron phosphate has a hard time letting go of the poison, it basically has a super high pass rate so they call it safe. anyways this is kinda fuct sneeky fuckers...

[luisypanther]

For outside planting this is best trick. If we are thinking to make beautiful garden outside then we have to collect information related to it so that we can take care of it.