Oregon Rec. Grow

Amshif87 said:

I've followed hyroot for a while. And am familiar with someguy. Thanks for the heads up on thorhax. I don't know if outside links are allowed but this is one of my favorite local guys rocking the SIPs

http://freemygreenpdx.com/topic/12464-my-no-till-garden/?fromsearch=1

He's got 20s and maybe 40s sitting in cut of barrels filled with lava rocks and water. He rocks a couple of cootz/lumper cuts and seems to be doing really well.

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Took a quick look at the thread, kind of rushed this morning... There is a fork in the road with SIPs, some folks are just using them as self-watering mechanisms, and some are using them as hydro/soil hybrids. The latter has no barrier between the res and the roots. I'm sure each has its advantages and disadvantages, so far all of my experiments are on the hybrid versions. It is great to see peoples experiments from beginning to end though! Lots of ways to grow good medicine.

Humanrob said:

Took a quick look at the thread, kind of rushed this morning... There is a fork in the road with SIPs, some folks are just using them as self-watering mechIanisms, and some are using them as hydro/soil hybrids. The latter has no barrier between the res and the roots. I'm sure each has its advantages and disadvantages, so far all of my experiments are on the hybrid versions. It is great to see peoples experiments from beginning to end though! Lots of ways to grow good medicine.

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I just made two that are going in my vert grow and like them so farAs for @SomeGuy i have had the pleasure to visit his old place and he is a hella smart really cool dude. @hyroot i have not met yet but will i am sure and is where i saw the sips to start with. Told him then they where going in the vert, but might look more at a total change over for the 4k also.

Thanks man. I have learned a ton from all the folks on riu. Sharing my own experience is the least I can do. You would like our new place so much more. Lol.

Yes. With mine I'm only filling up every week or so, definitely worth it to run all SIPs

Dr.D81 said:

I just made two that are going in my vert grow and like them so farView attachment 3697163As for @SomeGuy i have had the pleasure to visit his old place and he is a hella smart really cool dude. @hyroot i have not met yet but will i am sure and is where i saw the sips to start with. Told him then they where going in the vert, but might look more at a total change over for the 4k also.

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Dr.D81 said:

I just made two that are going in my vert grow and like them so farView attachment 3697163As for @SomeGuy i have had the pleasure to visit his old place and he is a hella smart really cool dude. @hyroot i have not met yet but will i am sure and is where i saw the sips to start with. Told him then they where going in the vert, but might look more at a total change over for the 4k also.

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I was looking at doing something just like this until I inherited 4 earthbox's yesterday. When I scale down indoor for the summer I want to re do my flower I'll either do 12 SIPs or 3 no till beds under the 3k. I got some time to decide I guess. ill sub to your thread and see how those end up working out for you. Happy farming

I don't think you can go wrong. From my understanding earth boxes work great. I love my overgrown octopots and will probably not use anything else indoor again. Outdoor I still prefer soft-pots, raised beds or in the ground

Amshif87 said:

I was looking at doing something just like this until I inherited 4 earthbox's yesterday. When I scale down indoor for the summer I want to re do my flower I'll either do 12 SIPs or 3 no till beds under the 3k. I got some time to decide I guess. ill sub to your thread and see how those end up working out for you. Happy farming

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SomeGuy said:

I don't think you can go wrong. From my understanding earth boxes work great. I love my overgrown octopots and will probably not use anything else indoor again. Outdoor I still prefer soft-pots, raised beds or in the ground

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Yeah I've got holes outside this year and have been running #7-#10 inside. I'd really like to switch it up

Dr.D81 said:

I just made two that are going in my vert grow and like them so farView attachment 3697163As for @SomeGuy i have had the pleasure to visit his old place and he is a hella smart really cool dude. @hyroot i have not met yet but will i am sure and is where i saw the sips to start with. Told him then they where going in the vert, but might look more at a total change over for the 4k also.

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We can meet up at the emerald cup in dec. I already have a time share reserved about an hour away from the cup.

hyroot said:

We can meet up at the emerald cup in dec. I already have a time share reserved about an hour away from the cup.

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Where is that at in Sac right? Would love to burn one with you

hyroot said:

We can meet up at the emerald cup in dec. I already have a time share reserved about an hour away from the cup.

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Santa rosa BBQ weekend that could happen

Dr.D81 said:

Where is that at in Sac right? Would love to burn one with you

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Santa Rosa at Cow Palace

Dr.D81 said:

Whats up @WV: Jetson just saw this and will pop in time to time if thats cool.

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You bet, Doc - the more the merrier! I feel like I'm sledding down a good hill sometimes: info is flying left and right an' I'm barely catching any of it. I have to go back and reread from time to time

WV: Jetson said:

You bet, Doc - the more the merrier! I feel like I'm sledding down a good hill sometimes: info is flying left and right an' I'm barely catching any of it. I have to go back and reread from time to time

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Right on! I know how you feel

I had a lot of fun today. I have a small two door hatchback, and I used it to bring four two foot tall plants in 10 gallon pots to my brothers house. I drove through three counties with the back seat folded down and entire windowed back space of my car visibly filled with pot plants. Three times along the way vehicles pulled up along side me with their occupants laughing and smiling, giving me the thumbs up. It was hilarious. People seemed caught off guard because everyone is still getting used to the fact that its LEGAL. At first glance it feels like you're in a Cheech and Chong movie, and then you realize this is the new normal.



On the way home, the back of the car was empty... nobody smiled or waved at me... I want to drive around with a car full of pot all the time! LOL Anyway, fun day.

Humanrob said:

I had a lot of fun today. I have a small two door hatchback, and I used it to bring four two foot tall plants in 10 gallon pots to my brothers house. I drove through three counties with the back seat folded down and entire windowed back space of my car visibly filled with pot plants. Three times along the way vehicles pulled up along side me with their occupants laughing and smiling, giving me the thumbs up. It was hilarious. People seemed caught off guard because everyone is still getting used to the fact that its LEGAL. At first glance it feels like you're in a Cheech and Chong movie, and then you realize this is the new normal.



On the way home, the back of the car was empty... nobody smiled or waved at me... I want to drive around with a car full of pot all the time! LOL Anyway, fun day.

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Yea drive thrus are great fun

To me, it also feels like they are going to figure someway to rip it right back from us. (I don't really think so - just me being paranoid {still!}) Which they have kind of done in my backwater little berg: banned recreational sales."Let's deprive ourselves of an income stream, to prove some archaic point. That will show 'em". Amshif87 was talking about discussing growing with a neighbor. I don't see that happening to me anytime soon. (another reason I visit here: company) 'Specially with the geezer to the north. The couple to our south, maybe. We were chatting with south a couple sunny weekends ago, talking about gardening in general, when she's like: I smells pot! We kept our game faces on and glossed over it & chuckled about it when we got back inside. They know what it smells like and I can't believe they haven't peeked over the fence. Maybe I should offer them one my last seedlings...

Anyhow HR (and the rest of ya'll), I'm smiling and giving you the thumbs up! Good morning & wasn't that rain nice last night?

My brother lives in a part of Yamhill County that is a mix of multi-generation old school conservative farmers, overlaid with the relatively recent wine industry and all the tourism that has brought. While I was there a guy knocked on my brother's door handing out information about an upcoming county meeting to approve (or not) an application for a dispensary in their neighborhood. The guy had a point that the proposed location (from what I understood its on a stretch of 99w that is single lane in both directions, 50mph speed limit) was a bad place for any kind of retail store. He was definitely opposed to MJ but trying to keep the discussion around the logistical dangers of the location. It was an odd juxtaposition, being that we had just carted four plants to the back yard.

From what I've heard, when the wine industry started moving into Yamhill County they were not welcome. They are now way past "here to stay", but it was not always a smooth ride. This process is bound to have some back and forth. There will be instances where someone who is high gets into a car wreck -- just like there were before it was legal -- but now it will make the news and lots of fingers will get pointed. But when the dust settles, county and city officials are primarily fiscal managers, and if the numbers add up, for the most part, I think things will continue to change and open up in what we would consider a positive way. It's just going to take some time for the numbers to come in.

As far as I can tell that's the world we live in. Between the lifted burden of law enforcement and jail overhead and the jobs and tax revenue generated, I think eventually it will be a financially obvious decision. The opposition may start as a moral argument, but it will end with money. See, I may not as paranoid as you, but I'm at least as jaded.

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To me, it also feels like they are going to figure someway to rip it right back from us. (I don't really think so - just me being paranoid {still!}) Which they have kind of done in my backwater little berg: banned recreational sales."Let's deprive ourselves of an income stream, to prove some archaic point. That will show 'em". Amshif87 was talking about discussing growing with a neighbor. I don't see that happening to me anytime soon. (another reason I visit here: company) 'Specially with the geezer to the north. The couple to our south, maybe. We were chatting with south a couple sunny weekends ago, talking about gardening in general, when she's like: I smells pot! We kept our game faces on and glossed over it & chuckled about it when we got back inside. They know what it smells like and I can't believe they haven't peeked over the fence. Maybe I should offer them one my last seedlings...

Anyhow HR (and the rest of ya'll), I'm smiling and giving you the thumbs up! Good morning & wasn't that rain nice last night?

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Robtend, i to agree that it's all about the money w government. It's not jaded, it's being discerning. Lol.

My wife and I were just talking about legalities. My response was go ahead and make it illegal. All that happens is the product becomes even more valuable. What we will see as it.continues to be legalized is growing pains

Yea, it definitely seems the trend is going towards the rec side being handed over to big business. Either way, I know Ill be growing. Every month they change the rules, add requirements, then change those requirements. There is a lot of money trying to keep it on the fringes, and as we all know, money and power go hand in hand. The sad truth about the prisons, an prosecutions, and police force benefit from the illegality. We have many for profit prisons, and the police unions and prison unions are some of the largest in the US, and whats paying their bills is the weed trade (confiscations of assets, legal fees etc) Sad thing is to is homicide solve rates follow a downward trend as the drug war exploded, that's even with all the new advancements in tech. The business man in me doesn't want it blanket legal. Id rather keep cutting my small piece of the pie then left pfizer and monsanto take the pie over. The grower / cannabis lover in me though does wish it was so legal and accepted I could plant in my front field and no one give 2 shits or try to steal it.

SomeGuy said:

Robtend, i to agree that it's all about the money w government. It's not jaded, it's being discerning. Lol.

My wife and I were just talking about legalities. My response was go ahead and make it illegal. All that happens is the product becomes even more valuable. What we will see as it.continues to be legalized is growing pains

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yea its funny to me...all the new guys and industry getting into the market dont seem to get it. We all should realize the value from cannabis is directly from the risk to produce it. No legal commodity goes per ounce what cannabis does on the black market. Its funny to me when i see the legal dispensaries charging more then the street, and the quality (atleast in oregon) leaves much to be desired at the price point charged.

papapayne said:

Yea, it definitely seems the trend is going towards the rec side being handed over to big business. Either way, I know Ill be growing. Every month they change the rules, add requirements, then change those requirements. There is a lot of money trying to keep it on the fringes, and as we all know, money and power go hand in hand. The sad truth about the prisons, an prosecutions, and police force benefit from the illegality. We have many for profit prisons, and the police unions and prison unions are some of the largest in the US, and whats paying their bills is the weed trade (confiscations of assets, legal fees etc) Sad thing is to is homicide solve rates follow a downward trend as the drug war exploded, that's even with all the new advancements in tech. The business man in me doesn't want it blanket legal. Id rather keep cutting my small piece of the pie then left pfizer and monsanto take the pie over. The grower / cannabis lover in me though does wish it was so legal and accepted I could plant in my front field and no one give 2 shits or try to steal it.

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I hear you about the privatization and the unions, but inevitably tax payers foot the bill and when they go to local budget meetings and they can't pay for school upkeep let alone improvements (for instance) because they are covering these other costs, eventually (I hope) it comes to light and gets worked out. We live in strange times though, I have a really bad percentage of success when it comes to guessing what homo sapiens will do next.