Anyone into gardening here?

[Mad Mike]

good heads up. did you notice if they had any celery plants? Paying $ 4-5 for a single bunch at the grocery store?! is motivating me - I've never grown them b4.

Celery is a no brainer. Save 1" off the crowns off your store bought celery, stick them in a shallow dish with water -- in a few days a clone will start growing. After a week you when roots appear, transfer to the garden. I do the same with green onions.

 

[Roadghost]

My pot plants are 2' high already. Moby Dick (about 20% Indica/80%Sativa). Amazed at how well they're doing. Followed my friend's advice who said they love to go deep with their roots, so dig a deep hole and fill with rich soil. It appears to have worked.

 

[GateKeeper]

My pot plants are 2' high already. Moby Dick (about 20% Indica/80%Sativa). Amazed at how well they're doing. Followed my friend's advice who said they love to go deep with their roots, so dig a deep hole and fill with rich soil. It appears to have worked.

I wanted to try this 'pot' growing stuff, but not sure where to get it, do you go from seed or a small plant, wanted to plant a couple along with my tomato plants...

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[Baggsy]

Is there any use for dandelions? I just picked two big leaf bags full of them.

 

[Mad Mike]

I wanted to try this 'pot' growing stuff, but not sure where to get it, do you go from seed or a small plant, wanted to plant a couple along with my tomato plants...
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You can do either. If you go from seed, you have to sex the plants at some time, all males are executed. If you buy plants from someone reputable, they will be clones of female plants -- plant, fertilize and wait. You can also get 'feminized' seeds, these are specially bred to produce female only plants.

Seeds are not cheap. OCS store sells them for about $10 each. jahseeds.ca is a reasonably priced supplier.

 

[Mad Mike]

My pot plants are 2' high already. Moby Dick (about 20% Indica/80%Sativa). Amazed at how well they're doing. Followed my friend's advice who said they love to go deep with their roots, so dig a deep hole and fill with rich soil. It appears to have worked.

They grow like weeds. If you want to keep them low and bushy, you can bury the stalk right up to the first set of leaves.

If they get tall enough to peek over your fence, neighborhood kids will get angry and cut them down.

 

[jc100]

Is there any use for dandelions? I just picked two big leaf bags full of them.

You can eat the leaves as salad apparently and if you roast the roots people have used that in the past for cheap coffee substitute. The second one sounds iffy, the first one I think is true because I’ve actually seen dandelion greens in one greengrocer. Check first though lol.

 

[shanekingsley]

If they get tall enough to peek over your fence, neighborhood kids will get angry and cut them down.

or bend the branches and train them like espalier.
works well and significantly changes the flower form.

looking forward to legally doing this!

 

[Roadghost]

They grow like weeds. If you want to keep them low and bushy, you can bury the stalk right up to the first set of leaves.

If they get tall enough to peek over your fence, neighborhood kids will get angry and cut them down.

Yeah, so you have to remove the centre of each stalk, this causes them to split into two, then four etc. Keeps them low and wide and you get more flower. Right now my lawn is growing 6" a week. Everything is growing like crazy in this weather. Just need a bit more sun. Not worried about the neighborhood kids. Most people around me are too square and anal to know what a pot plant looks like. Mine are planted with the tomatoes and red peppers in my front garden. Look kind of like red pepper plants but with no shine in the leaves.

 

[Joe Bass]

Any suggestions on best privacy hedge? Want it to grow to at least 6'

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[Roadghost]

You can eat the leaves as salad apparently and if you roast the roots people have used that in the past for cheap coffee substitute. The second one sounds iffy, the first one I think is true because I’ve actually seen dandelion greens in one greengrocer. Check first though lol.

Yes, my neighbor in Montreal was from France. She used to make salads with them all the time. The name of the flower comes from Lyon, France. "Dan - de - lyon" for flower of Lyon. Man, back in the 1960s this neighbor used to cut them from our lawn before my dad put 2-4-D on and killed them all.

 

[Roadghost]

Any suggestions on best privacy hedge? Want it to grow to at least 6'

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White Cedar. Low maintenance, extremely hardy, beautiful cedar smell in the hot summer. They'll grow to 20' if you let them. Trim them once a year (spring) and they become very dense and opaque. Much better than emeralds.

 

[Mad Mike]

White Cedar. Low maintenance, extremely hardy, beautiful cedar smell in the hot summer. They'll grow to 20' if you let them. Trim them once a year (spring) and they become very dense and opaque. Much better than emeralds.

Just don't plant them on your property line. I had a gorgeous 40 year old hedge, about 18' high and 140' along one side of my back yard - it was beautiful. It was planted on the property line in the late 60's and grew to about 8' wide, 1/2 on my side 1/2 on the neighbors. My neighbor decided to shear it back to the trunk on his side and 2 years later the hedge is dead.

 

[Roadghost]

Agree Mike. Had a similar problem and lost a hedge that way. Always plant 2' inside the property line and trim the hedge accordingly.

 

[Mad Mike]

Agree Mike. Had a similar problem and lost a hedge that way. Always plant 2' inside the property line and trim the hedge accordingly.

I'm thinking after the killing of my hedge, I'll just replace it with a fence 2 inches inside my property line -- that way I can paint the boards on the other side any colors I choose.

 

[Baggsy]

I'm thinking after the killing of my hedge, I'll just replace it with a fence 2 inches inside my property line -- that way I can paint the boards on the other side any colors I choose.

Not if I get my fence in first, you won't.

 

[boyoboy]

My pot plants are 2' high already. Moby Dick (about 20% Indica/80%Sativa). Amazed at how well they're doing. Followed my friend's advice who said they love to go deep with their roots, so dig a deep hole and fill with rich soil. It appears to have worked.

So good to see people growing outdoors naturally. One thing to take into consideration when growing outdoors in urban areas is light pollution.
Pot plants generally require 10.5, 11 or even 12 hours of UNBROKEN darkness to trigger flowering. Any stray light during this "dark period" and it will hinder or even stop the flowering. This stray light could come from patio lights, a street light, porch light etc. . Take this into consideration when choosing a spot for your plants.

 

[hdsomeday]

well...that kills that idea. First off, in the summer there is no way to get 10.5 hours of darkness. Second, there is no place in my yard that isn't affected by some kind of lighting. The only place would be my shed which means I have to move them twice a day

So good to see people growing outdoors naturally. One thing to take into consideration when growing outdoors in urban areas is light pollution.
Pot plants generally require 10.5, 11 or even 12 hours of UNBROKEN darkness to trigger flowering. Any stray light during this "dark period" and it will hinder or even stop the flowering. This stray light could come from patio lights, a street light, porch light etc. . Take this into consideration when choosing a spot for your plants.

 

[boyoboy]

or bend the branches and train them like espalier.
works well and significantly changes the flower form.

looking forward to legally doing this!

Pinching the top of the plant will make the plant bushy and provide more flowers, but the flowers will be smaller than plants not pinched. Depending on the strain this will or will not provide more flowers overall. Pinching off the plant top(s) after mid summer isn't a good idea as it delays flowering.
The most difficult part of growing outdoors is the lack of control over the dark/light cycle. Pot plants outdoors will start flowering around Aug. 1 and finish (at best) around sept 22 or even into october (dependent on strain). The danger of growing late into the season is fall rains which mght cause the flowers to go mouldy. Indica dominant plants finish earlier than sativa dominant strains.
Bending plants instead of pinching them is a very good solution. The flowers will grow upwards from the horizontal plant. The plant is hardy - Ive had 1/2" branches break off under the weight of the flowers; Simply straightening the branch and putting a duct tape "cast" at the break will keep them growing with no real adverse effect.

 

[boyoboy]

well...that kills that idea. First off, in the summer there is no way to get 10.5 hours of darkness. Second, there is no place in my yard that isn't affected by some kind of lighting. The only place would be my shed which means I have to move them twice a day

The idea of moving them into a shed at say 7pm and then back out at 7am would work very well. Excellent even. You could start the dark period early, say july 1st, and have fully ripe flowers sept 1st. Another benefit of this is the increased light intensity they get in july and august compared to plants flowering in aug and sept. Maybe you could have some sort of plastic hedgerow greenhouse and use blackout tarp. I have seen this done successfully.

I was out for a ride to look at a new grow operation announced near brantford. About 6-8 weeks ago I had noticed that a farm had high fences w barb wire around its fields. More than 100 acres. Probably 200 acres or more. I knew what it was going to be before it was even announced. Cams placed about every 100' around the perimeter. They won't be growing this season. Heavy equipment is on site now preparing foundations. They are building what appears to be huge permanent expensive greenhouses. These greenhouses generally have automated darkening - kind of like the dome. Very nice automated darkening.