Last year I finally tried and outdoor auto grow for the first time and it didn’t go so well. I used fem autos of two strains and the 2 that did autoflower were males, one of each, and the other two grew as regulars and got pretty big. About the middle of Aug they began flowering and damned if one wasn’t a male too. I cut off a couple of branches to get pollen I never used and fed the plant to the chickens.
You can read all about it here.
The linup for this year are 9 plants, four of which are auto regs with the rest auto fem. Two Mazarilla by Urban Legends I got recently at an auction here and two strains from Sebring’s line-up. Three Dragon Tongue that are hi-CBD with almost no THC and four Dragon Heart, (the regs), supposedly a 2:1/1:1 ratio of CBD to THC.
Last year I dug holes in the clay for the four plants then joined the holes for more room for roots and water to move around. Mixed up lots of ProMix HP, compost and a long list of other things you can read about from last year’s journal. This year I added another 107L bale of the HP, half a bale of home compost, most of a bale of peat moss, perlite and a lot more stuff like last year. All organic pretty much and don’t plan on feeding much at all if anything.
This is what it looks like under the surface. Those are 4gal pots and all that clay is in the barrow.
Got everything all blended then spread out nice and flat so I could put our fancy new sprinkler to work watering just that spot. You can adjust everything on that thing to water just the area you want. We enlarged it a bit so it’s a nice 8x8’ plot. The wife’s 1750 plant garlic patch in the background. Our cash crop. 
Decided to make a mound for each plant so there’s extra soil under them. There’s two Mazarilla under those screened tomato cages and a 3rd one in the pot. They were already beginning their 2nd set of tru leaves when planted and all the others got put in the ground as soon as they cracked in paper towel inside a few days after the Maz were planted.
Par for the course the weather went to shit and it was raining all day and forecast to get down to 5C. Wind gusts up to 100km/h. Had to do something so came up with this and was out there in the storm saving my babies. One of the Mazar was laying on it’s side earlier that day so used a skewer and twist tie to stand it up.
Drizzled all day but not so cold tonight so rigged this up so they don’t drown but now should be clear with possible short cloudbursts which is usual here. Just praying there’s no hail and need to rig up better supports for a tarp and have one ready to put up in less than a min. May set up a bit of a greenhouse in the fall if any are taking longer but not going to the end of Oct like I did last year. I’m going to be in BC fishing mid Oct on my b-day if there is any kind of justice in the world. All but 2 are up now so must really want to grow if they can push their way out in this crap. Was 45F last night when I went to bed about 3am. 50F now. Remote thermometer in a baggie under that little stool in the garden.
Next year I’ll probably be moving my grow spot further out in the yard in a raised bed that’s full of onions this year. They’ll get at least 4 more hours of direct sun every day. 20 hours of light up here now.
As the title says, Fingers crossed!
