WV: Jetson
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Lookin' good, HR! What are you building with the cinder block in the first pic? After today's clouds, we should be golden for a while. Anyone get that crazy assed wind yesterday afternoon?
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Humanrob
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In my micro climate, today's clouds have so far been fairly constant rain. Oddly, my windy city didn't have any unusual wind yesterday.
The cinder blocks are just another odd project on the property. Its a short wall, somewhat of a retaining wall. There will be sections of benches with planters in between built along the top, and at some point we'll smooth the whole thing out and either tile it or paint a mural on it. We have countless projects either in the works or in our dreams. Things move along at whatever pace we get to them.
Dear ol" Thankful Grower!
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This is my grow its not so great outdoors keep getting hit with bugs did neem oil with dish soap and i also tried dr.earth insect spray and the last straw was diatamacious earth at least its coming back and hoping at least get something
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papapayne
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Hey my fellow oregonions. Been busy so haven't had a chance to keep up, but just read up a little. I'm curious to see which of your oes genetics works out, I'm researching my strains for next year now, so will be interested to hear what finishes when for ya.
I have 19 strains or so this year outdoors, so will be able to share my findings as well.
I have been In the process of converting my living organics to include Korean natural farming these days, and one of the inputs is from colonizing your own microbes from local sources, to much to really explain in a short message, but it's been the bees knees vs pm, and the guy mentoring me on it swears it's the ticket here in oregon for no mold as well. The microbes (bennies) feed on any pm or botrytris spores or fruiting bodies, and create a very hostile environment for new spores to land. A quick google search of Korean natural farming will get ya the pdf about it.
Genetics is still crucial, I'm personally aiming for genetics to be finished by October 1st, as imo anything past that is a crop shoot. Even if there's no rain, there's still to little sun to burn off daily dew and fog here in my neck of the woods.
But yra, anywho,
Stay free stay high
Papa
I have 19 strains or so this year outdoors, so will be able to share my findings as well.
I have been In the process of converting my living organics to include Korean natural farming these days, and one of the inputs is from colonizing your own microbes from local sources, to much to really explain in a short message, but it's been the bees knees vs pm, and the guy mentoring me on it swears it's the ticket here in oregon for no mold as well. The microbes (bennies) feed on any pm or botrytris spores or fruiting bodies, and create a very hostile environment for new spores to land. A quick google search of Korean natural farming will get ya the pdf about it.
Genetics is still crucial, I'm personally aiming for genetics to be finished by October 1st, as imo anything past that is a crop shoot. Even if there's no rain, there's still to little sun to burn off daily dew and fog here in my neck of the woods.
But yra, anywho,
Stay free stay high
Papa
Vnsmkr
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Amshif87
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Are you making an open air culture and feeding it milk like when making lacto for FPEs and Bokashi, or is there a different technique. I'm about to make some compost tea, the first I've mad in a while for PM but if my lacto culture will work id much rather not brew a tea. I'm assuming it will as I've sprayed our blackberries with skim milk/water @1:10 for PM and had pretty good results. Just looking for confirmation from someone who isn't assuming.
WV: Jetson
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^ ^ ^ our master Librarian! ^ ^ ^
HR: I have a perpetual project list too. I tick one item off and two appear. I wish my wallet worked the same way!
@Dear ol" Thankful Grower! Not to play 20 questions, but.. Are you a flat lander or up in the hills? Native soil? Are the plants in your backyard? Clones or seeds? I have a friend outside of Ashland, up in the hills at around 4200'. Lots of sun (& cool nights) but the soil is not so hot. He know a couple farmers in the area, I'll quiz him in a couple of weeks when we get together. My 2 cents for next year would be to put them in pots; but that advice may only be worth a penny.
HR: I have a perpetual project list too. I tick one item off and two appear. I wish my wallet worked the same way!
@Dear ol" Thankful Grower! Not to play 20 questions, but.. Are you a flat lander or up in the hills? Native soil? Are the plants in your backyard? Clones or seeds? I have a friend outside of Ashland, up in the hills at around 4200'. Lots of sun (& cool nights) but the soil is not so hot. He know a couple farmers in the area, I'll quiz him in a couple of weeks when we get together. My 2 cents for next year would be to put them in pots; but that advice may only be worth a penny.
Dear ol" Thankful Grower!
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A lil ways from ashland we dug holes and added soil mixed top with compost and mulched the top its in my backyard the soil is really dry and solid i think it was the dr earth spray i was using because issues didnt start until i actually started sprauing em i just hope yhey come out decent ! What u think do i have a chance?
papapayne
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Yea, using organic whole milk direct from the cows tit to make LAB, got like 7 fermented fruit input sources (FFJ) and 5 fermented plant juices (FPJ), got the OHN going, but still need to implement the Liquid CAL MG inputs, and the fermented fish.
Amshif87
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perfect. retaking my lacto culture out of the fridge right now
WV: Jetson
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You always get something, but return is based on plant size when she flips to flower. And you pups are pretty small... The soil where my buddy is sounds like yours: dusty, sun baked and not very absorbent. He's amended, mulches heavily and waters all the time in his veggie garden. Are your plants clones or seedlings? I would imagine your local growers have some pretty specific genetics dialed in. It is a big learning curve for us all; you'll get the hang of it.
WV: Jetson
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My guess would be that PM is less of a threat your way, since you guy are rocking, like what, 2% relative humidity? I'm up in the Willamette Valley keeping my fingers crossed and my gals uncovered. I just checked: 32% for you and 51% for me!
WV: Jetson
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testify Papa!
breadboy
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Amen!
I'm real lucky and live on a sun baked, windswept hilltop- about 3000' high- with a relative humidity that usually hovers around 0%.
So PM eats shit and dies in my specific micro climate.... got a good balance of natural predators too. In seventeen years of growing at my house, I've had zero mite or other pest issue (my indoor runs are another story) and PM only made a quick cameo about four or five years back during a particularly wet and humid late summer/early fall.
My native dirt is straight clay and rocks... reddish, rock hard, and impenetrable. So I've got big ass trenches dug out and filled with compost horse shit and hay... been building it up for over a decade.
My dirt is probably the most valuable thing on my property lol.
My girl says I'm really a dirt farmer
Here's some of my outdoor monsters, nice and healthy...
Heavy sativa Panama red.
I'm real lucky and live on a sun baked, windswept hilltop- about 3000' high- with a relative humidity that usually hovers around 0%.
So PM eats shit and dies in my specific micro climate.... got a good balance of natural predators too. In seventeen years of growing at my house, I've had zero mite or other pest issue (my indoor runs are another story) and PM only made a quick cameo about four or five years back during a particularly wet and humid late summer/early fall.
My native dirt is straight clay and rocks... reddish, rock hard, and impenetrable. So I've got big ass trenches dug out and filled with compost horse shit and hay... been building it up for over a decade.
My dirt is probably the most valuable thing on my property lol.
My girl says I'm really a dirt farmer
Here's some of my outdoor monsters, nice and healthy...
Heavy sativa Panama red.
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slow drawl
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Very nice breadboy, livin the dream. Your plants are beautiful.Amen!
I'm real lucky and live on a sun baked, windswept hilltop- about 3000' high- with a relative humidity that usually hovers around 0%.
So PM eats shit and dies in my specific micro climate.... got a good balance of natural predators too. In seventeen years of growing at my house, I've had zero mite or other pest issue (my indoor runs are another story) and PM only made a quick cameo about four or five years back during a particularly wet and humid late summer/early fall.
My native dirt is straight clay and rocks... reddish, rock hard, and impenetrable. So I've got big ass trenches dug out and filled with compost horse shit and hay... been building it up for over a decade.
My dirt is probably the most valuable thing on my property lol.
My girl says I'm really a dirt farmer
Here's some of my outdoor monsters, nice and healthy...
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Heavy sativa Panama red.
Hard to beat your climate there for growing weed. I'm up in Forest Grove and have to deal with PM every fall.
I had to build a small climate controlled GH to finish out what I like to smoke. Another year and I'll be on medicare, won't have to pay fukn crazy ass insurance premiums anymore.
Sell the house and then I'm headin your way.