Weed can grow in your garden
Yes you can!
An amazing amount of cannabis does grow without problem outside in the UK! And as we know weed that has been grown in the sun is always going to be better than weed grown using artificial lighting.
Guerilla growing (growing weed in the ‘wild’) is quite popular – costs are low and it can be done almost anywhere. The south of England is better, but plenty of fine weed has been grown outside in the north of England, Scotland and even Wales.
If you have a nice private back garden, all the better.
Strains proven to grow well in the UK are:
Passion Number One from Dutch Passion – an easy to grow indica that thrives outside in the UK. The dutch have been apparently growing this outdoors since the 1980′s – in their cold climate.
Frisian Dew also from Dutch Passion – This strain is half indica half sativa and again will thrive outside in the UK.
Purple Maroc from Female Seeds – A sativa that produces lots of resin and finishes in mid July, does well in the UK.
Himalayan Gold – one of my favorite strains, also does well in the UK.
Plants are normally started outside in in April.
Flowering normally begins in August or September, depending on the strain and can take several weeks at the least. Some plants will not finish until October – some strains such as Purple Maroc will finish much earlier.
Never plant seeds directly into the soil. It’s much better to grow the plant in a controlled environment for 4-8 weeks before slowly introducing them to an outdoor space by increasing their exposure by an hour or two extra each day before replanting or leaving them outside permanently.
Consider also that plants grown in pots will generally not grow as big as ones grown in the ground, so if you have to use pots consider using something like airpots and use a good soil – something containing perlite and natural fertilisers is good. The plants can use different types of fertilisers when they are in their different stages, flowering requires different nutrients to the initial vegetative stage. You can get organic fertilisers for this (Cannabium etc) or use real poo etc.
Another thing to bear in mind is that you can get a plant quite a long way on with just a fluorescent kitchen type light, then gradually introduce it outside for flowering (controlling the darkness ensuring 12 hours of total darkness each night) so this way it is possible to kind of do an indoor/outdoor grow and grow during winter. The (initial) vegetative stage is fine under a kitchen light. I did this recently with some Northern Lights and it worked fine.
Flowering requires powerful lights or the sun. This way you can grow whenever you like, but you do end up looking after the plants a lot, putting them to bed each night.
If you can’t be bothered with all that you can still start plants outdoors when it is not April. You could plant something in August or June or July and all that would happen is that it would go straight into flower if there is enough darkness. In effect seeds planted when we have long nights (12 hours dark or more) will ‘autoflower’ and should be fine as long as they don’t get too cold. You can protect plants from the cold with cloches, cold frames, a greenhouse or by bringing them inside for cold nights. Growing out of season yields are obviously not as big as normal, but certainly are larger than that of your average specialist autoflowering plant. For many people the smaller size of plants grown like this can also be an advantage.
Sensi Seeds say these Northern Lights #5 X Haze seedlings “can be flowered immediately” and Early Pearl are supposed to be OK in colder temperatures – so could be started early or late if kept warm enough.
Autoflowering plants are becoming popular in the UK, with the possibility of two grow seasons in one summer. For best results though, autos really need to be growing in the earth, not pots, the results are very different.
