Outdoor Containers

[buddhaspalm]

I'm doing an outdor medical grow this year and have contaminated soil in the area I live from an old oil spill, so I'm thinking about going with rubbermaid 40-50 gallon totes for containers, lava rock and hardware cloth for drainage. I looking for some feedback from those who have grown outdoors with containers before to see if the size is large enough; or overkill. Any coments would be appreciated.

BP

[budpuffer]

i've grown outside in a 20 gal.and had good results,i think the rule of thumb is the bigger the better though,good luck with you grow..zb

[MiMedicalMJ]

That is a big container for sure but if you are not worried about height

and those factors for outdoors GO FOR IT! I should be a very interesting

experiment, I bet you will get some real monsters there for sure.

 

You could probably do the same with a 30 gal BUT why not go big....

 

I tried outdoors years ago a few times up north and the deer and everything just

ended up eating them up whenever they got into flowering.

[welj31]

Back in the day I used 55 gallon drums cut in 1/2 in the middle. Lava rock has a lot of fine dust and keeps shedding. I some times find food grade drums for free.

Another way to go and cheap is to stack old tires 3 or 4 high. Fill and grow. I have done this too, but spent a year dumping leaves and compost into them to fill them. Seems like they never fill all the way up but they will in time. You can run some drip line inside them before you start. Makes watering easy.

[buddhaspalm]

Thanks! I think I'll go as big as I can get, my cage is 20x15 I beleive, so I should be able to manage 10 good ones for sure. I'll post pics start to finish. I'm planting Memorial Day weekend!

Thanks again!

BP