Grow Journal Week 5

Well, well, well. It's been a bit since I have posted on my cannabis garden and I wanted to provide a few updates to catch everyone up as it's been super busy lately.

After my last post it was time to prepare the plants for transport to the garden. I actually have the "official" garden located approximately thirty miles from my own house because of local restrictions on the amount of cannabis a person can grow. In the city I live in, no medical or recreational cannabis growing is allowed which means all of my plants needed to be transported from my home to their final destination at the garden and outside of the city.

I have had the plants for almost six weeks. I had taken them from little clones maybe a foot in height to a decent size with good plant structure and a pretty dark green hue to the leaves.

And here are they are just before being loaded up:

Even though it is legal to transport immature cannabis plants where I live, it still isn't a god idea to be driving around town with a bunch of ganja plants hanging out of the car window or back of the truck. As a result, most folks here resort to using a fully enclosed trailer to load and transport their plants. In my town, that means renting a U-Haul trailer or towing your own enclosed one. I borrowed an enclosed trailer from a friend.

By this time I was of the opinion the plants were ready to transport to their permanent home. I typically wait until at least June 1 to do the final planting in the garden because the weather where I live can be very unpredictable each spring. One day we will have sunny skies and nice, warm temperatures followed by three days of clouds and rain, and then another day or two of sun. Typically by June 1 the wetter weather has passed. Of course this year became the exception, but I will get to that later. For now, I load up all the plants and it's off to the garden!

I had done a lot of preparation at the garden site, in my opinion. I grow eighteen plants so the labor is not extreme, but just enough to always keep pushing me. After harvest last year I went in and took out all of the old plants and amended the soil of each grow pot that I use. And my first year in the grow game I used 100- gallon grow pots. The past two years I have used 200- gallon grow pots. Grow pots have their pros and cons, and I will get into some of that in a later post.

This is what the grow site looked like as I brought the plants to their new home (and my second home for the next six months):

That's where I will leave things for this week. Next time I will be writing about what happens once the plants are brought on site on how I transplant. This has been a bit of a tough year so far for the plants and I which I have been documenting. I look forward to sharing some of the minor successes thus far as well as the challenges I am currently struggling to overcome in the garden. Until next time, thanks again for reading, please up-vote and share these posts as you like and don't forget to follow me on this amazing platform.