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Humble Beginings OD 2010
- Thread starter sierrahippy
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taking a seat, got to see how this one turns out.
seems like you're on the way to your dream garden.
great job
seems like you're on the way to your dream garden.
great job
sierrahippy
Member
Thanks brothers, A little update on my humble gardens.
My area has had allot of rippers comming thru and cutting tops off so I am not sleeping very good, man talk about bad karma jackin someones herb. This is my medicine truely helping me to stay alive and to cope with my other theropys... If I pull it early out of fear it does me no good with my tolerance I need em to go the distance. And my dog is still a puppy lol. Maybe ill move a cot out there.
The in ground plants were augered around 4-5' wide and about the same depth and the little 7 gallon smart pots are keeping up and my tallest plant (6') is in a 7 smarty. The 65 only 3/4 filled is owning the inground stuff and was put out way later. I am sold, Air Matters. They do use way more water it seems. We feed em nothing but organics and ive been fooling around with the airated teas trying to get into it, we have so much organic matter on this land from the livestock I want to make use of it. My goal is to eventially not import anything here even their organic feed.
Good Morning from my Afgan 1's.
GDP, Afgan 1, Blue Dream, JTR, Chemd, Grape Punch
Grand Daddy.
BD.
Chem.
Mantis in the Afgan.
JTR.
Scored something I was looking for at Fruitridge in Sac.
Pre 98 Bubba.
I do believe this is our answer to allot of our problems.
Peace everyone and have an amazing day.
SH
My area has had allot of rippers comming thru and cutting tops off so I am not sleeping very good, man talk about bad karma jackin someones herb. This is my medicine truely helping me to stay alive and to cope with my other theropys... If I pull it early out of fear it does me no good with my tolerance I need em to go the distance. And my dog is still a puppy lol. Maybe ill move a cot out there.
The in ground plants were augered around 4-5' wide and about the same depth and the little 7 gallon smart pots are keeping up and my tallest plant (6') is in a 7 smarty. The 65 only 3/4 filled is owning the inground stuff and was put out way later. I am sold, Air Matters. They do use way more water it seems. We feed em nothing but organics and ive been fooling around with the airated teas trying to get into it, we have so much organic matter on this land from the livestock I want to make use of it. My goal is to eventially not import anything here even their organic feed.
Good Morning from my Afgan 1's.
GDP, Afgan 1, Blue Dream, JTR, Chemd, Grape Punch
Grand Daddy.
BD.
Chem.
Mantis in the Afgan.
JTR.
Scored something I was looking for at Fruitridge in Sac.
Pre 98 Bubba.
I do believe this is our answer to allot of our problems.
Peace everyone and have an amazing day.
SH
sierrahippy
Member
Hard to look at a few small plants here with these monster smart pot grows, I cant stop looking at em either. I understand.
Overhead traffic has slowed down considerably...Not really affecting me but they patrol over my neighbors so they must be sleeping better, their plants are all bigger than mine not just all yours lol.
Im already vegging indoor for 2011 1000 gallon pots so you guys will look at my grow. just playin, well kinda.
Peace.
One of the first things I learned from reading your grows was keep plants in differant areas because of rippers, pests and law, the first grower I met here kept some of his diversification on top of his metal trailer he slept in, he was wise like you. This thing heated up inside during the day to deadly temps and even hotter temps on the silver roof. He told me those where his monsters last year and they were in 100 gallon containers. Those where also the only plants he got to harvest. My tallest are on top of a nite time coop. It gets hot up there.
Next thing I learned was never poisen your medicine with anything non organic.
I also learned felt pots outgrow in soil. My one 65.
There still standing. I got peking ducks cooped in the grow at nite, they are very loud and when anything gets near they bark. Lots of problems going on in my area with ripping right now. Guard dogs all around us at nite are making sleep impossible. So many lessons we have learned. Like outdoor growers keep massive amounts of cats to keep down the rats.
Im leaving a glutenous corporate life to raise poultry for my community. Free ranging organic smaller than commercially ran poultry the way they should be raised with the largest cats I have ever seen that eat only meat all around you is trying. This is a camo pattern I am working on and these girls are quick, bred with the most bad ass fast and light rooster I found in 300. I think I may have learned how to breed for my environment from you also.
Startin early.
Peace.
SH
Overhead traffic has slowed down considerably...Not really affecting me but they patrol over my neighbors so they must be sleeping better, their plants are all bigger than mine not just all yours lol.
Im already vegging indoor for 2011 1000 gallon pots so you guys will look at my grow. just playin, well kinda.
Peace.
One of the first things I learned from reading your grows was keep plants in differant areas because of rippers, pests and law, the first grower I met here kept some of his diversification on top of his metal trailer he slept in, he was wise like you. This thing heated up inside during the day to deadly temps and even hotter temps on the silver roof. He told me those where his monsters last year and they were in 100 gallon containers. Those where also the only plants he got to harvest. My tallest are on top of a nite time coop. It gets hot up there.
Next thing I learned was never poisen your medicine with anything non organic.
I also learned felt pots outgrow in soil. My one 65.
There still standing. I got peking ducks cooped in the grow at nite, they are very loud and when anything gets near they bark. Lots of problems going on in my area with ripping right now. Guard dogs all around us at nite are making sleep impossible. So many lessons we have learned. Like outdoor growers keep massive amounts of cats to keep down the rats.
Im leaving a glutenous corporate life to raise poultry for my community. Free ranging organic smaller than commercially ran poultry the way they should be raised with the largest cats I have ever seen that eat only meat all around you is trying. This is a camo pattern I am working on and these girls are quick, bred with the most bad ass fast and light rooster I found in 300. I think I may have learned how to breed for my environment from you also.
Startin early.
Peace.
SH
wow i love your farm man, that's like a dream come true. just can't beat self sufficiency for quality.
sure looking at those 200 gallon smart pot grows is amazing, but i like seeing all kinds of grows. everyone has different conditions and materials, it's always fun seeing how people solve their problems and get the best out of their given situations.
as for the rippers i would camp at the spot from the time the plants look like they are worth stealing to a ripper, till you harvest them. either that or install cameras and movement sensors so you get warned and can go chase away the rippers.
all the best
sure looking at those 200 gallon smart pot grows is amazing, but i like seeing all kinds of grows. everyone has different conditions and materials, it's always fun seeing how people solve their problems and get the best out of their given situations.
as for the rippers i would camp at the spot from the time the plants look like they are worth stealing to a ripper, till you harvest them. either that or install cameras and movement sensors so you get warned and can go chase away the rippers.
all the best
sierrahippy
Member
Flowers and Predicted Showers.
Flowers and Predicted Showers.
Been pretty quiet on the farm. Watching them swell and change colors is my favorite time in growing. The 7 gallon smart pot Afgans are way ahead of the 65, I have fallen in love with the monsterous growth of the afgan and their colors. Started laying out the greenhouse and picking what I wanted to run in there for the winter, we get pretty good snow here and I am going to have to heat it and run suplimental lighting and I am sure this will be another lesson in growing for us....Cracked some Jamaicans and those may go in there. The inside gardens is starting to have strong upward growth, we have sourd, purple erkle, Straw Cough, Sour Grapes, Chem4, JTR and Bubba rolling in mamas custom felt pots.
Morning.
GDP.
Lots of Mantis about, this one made its way inside.
This one on our Grape Punch.
Blue Dream.
7 Gallon Afgans
Hunting.
Peace everyone.
sh
Flowers and Predicted Showers.
Been pretty quiet on the farm. Watching them swell and change colors is my favorite time in growing. The 7 gallon smart pot Afgans are way ahead of the 65, I have fallen in love with the monsterous growth of the afgan and their colors. Started laying out the greenhouse and picking what I wanted to run in there for the winter, we get pretty good snow here and I am going to have to heat it and run suplimental lighting and I am sure this will be another lesson in growing for us....Cracked some Jamaicans and those may go in there. The inside gardens is starting to have strong upward growth, we have sourd, purple erkle, Straw Cough, Sour Grapes, Chem4, JTR and Bubba rolling in mamas custom felt pots.
Morning.
GDP.
Lots of Mantis about, this one made its way inside.
This one on our Grape Punch.
Blue Dream.
7 Gallon Afgans
Hunting.
Peace everyone.
sh
G
gdawg
Very nice farmwork sierra thanks for sharing.
T
Trinity Gold
Welcome to the great out doors
jakezking
Member
sierrahippy, you've got an awesome farm, dude! I've toyed with making the same move as you - it's nerve wracking growing in a state where it isn't legal to do so. Those free range chickens ROCK, dude! And, that choco lab pup is absolutely precious; I used to have a choco, and she was the sweetest dog in the world.
Be good out there, amigo!
Be good out there, amigo!
sierrahippy
Member
Thanks everyone, appreciate the love.
We built hoops using a emt hoop benders over the last couple days. Added security lighting and baby monitors inside. We have been closing it up at night with the ends open for vent. I should sleep good tonight unless one of the baby monitors goes off lol.
I am also holding 5 of my loudest peking ducks in a cage in the middle of the grow. No one can get near them without them barking. Geese and Ducks are the bomb for audible security I am finding out.
Except my lab loves duck and she is getting very fast. We are Trying to ballance it all out.
Layed out the property for next season, that light depriv and early medicine would suit us real good so my wife is on board.
I tried to post pitures but my gallery is full. Can I buy space?
We built hoops using a emt hoop benders over the last couple days. Added security lighting and baby monitors inside. We have been closing it up at night with the ends open for vent. I should sleep good tonight unless one of the baby monitors goes off lol.
I am also holding 5 of my loudest peking ducks in a cage in the middle of the grow. No one can get near them without them barking. Geese and Ducks are the bomb for audible security I am finding out.
Except my lab loves duck and she is getting very fast. We are Trying to ballance it all out.
Layed out the property for next season, that light depriv and early medicine would suit us real good so my wife is on board.
I tried to post pitures but my gallery is full. Can I buy space?
sierrahippy
Member
I was inside california, born and raised, but the city I was in was very unhospitable to the point of I got followed from a grow shop and had helecopter traffic overhead the next nite. We left soon after.
If you have toyed with it make the move. We gave up and sold everything to do it.
I could not afford up north we looked and tried so I moved more central cali sierras and will be able to avoid corporate life forever. But then I read of the guys searching for grow land with river front and ohhh man.
If you have toyed with it make the move. We gave up and sold everything to do it.
I could not afford up north we looked and tried so I moved more central cali sierras and will be able to avoid corporate life forever. But then I read of the guys searching for grow land with river front and ohhh man.
Yeoman
Member
SH - I love the fact that you have 'guard ducks'.. That is outstanding..!!
In one of my plots I use these cheap little personal alarms with a series of mono-filament fishing line trip wires. They are 130 decibels, use a 9v battery, and my models have a strobe light effect that blinks when it is triggered. Its like a grenade. It has a pin that when removed from the device activates the alarm and light. Attach the pin to the trip wire, and voila..
I bought this particular device from amazon, but can be purchased at a variety of places.
These things are incredibly loud for their size; much louder than most alarm clocks at high volume. Plus, during the night, or low-light conditions the strobe is useful for adding to the confusion that the alarm creates..
I definitely think I will get a guard duck next year.. You've inspired me!
Regards,
In one of my plots I use these cheap little personal alarms with a series of mono-filament fishing line trip wires. They are 130 decibels, use a 9v battery, and my models have a strobe light effect that blinks when it is triggered. Its like a grenade. It has a pin that when removed from the device activates the alarm and light. Attach the pin to the trip wire, and voila..
I bought this particular device from amazon, but can be purchased at a variety of places.
These things are incredibly loud for their size; much louder than most alarm clocks at high volume. Plus, during the night, or low-light conditions the strobe is useful for adding to the confusion that the alarm creates..
I definitely think I will get a guard duck next year.. You've inspired me!
Regards,
only problem with that is the noise might attract more people to the scene, better would be if it just sent you a sms or made your phone ring in a certain way.
can't beat the ducks though, that's really making use of mother natures creatures, lol.
can't beat the ducks though, that's really making use of mother natures creatures, lol.
sierrahippy
Member
Yeo,
Thanks. Ordered them along with a couple other little security things.
We had 10 pekings that we did not breed, so they were feed store purchased. Out of 10 only 7 made noise, the others barked but nothing came out but a wisper, out of the 7 that made noise only 2 are aggresive. I may breed the aggresive ones. When they bark the others freak and bark. One is male one is female.
Their poop is runny and it usually sprays and they smell like wet crap, I hand wash mine about once a week, they are our least favorite animal, completely anti social the opposite of turkeys. But last night a deer came down the hill near the garden and the ducks would not have it. They barked and the baby alarms went off.
I slept good for the first nite last nite as we covered the garden and that plastic is noisy also. Next season will be completely differant. Tensions are high all around us people sleeping in chairs, I never had any idea what the outdoor involved. Sooooo much more work and stress.
Thanks brother.
Thanks. Ordered them along with a couple other little security things.
We had 10 pekings that we did not breed, so they were feed store purchased. Out of 10 only 7 made noise, the others barked but nothing came out but a wisper, out of the 7 that made noise only 2 are aggresive. I may breed the aggresive ones. When they bark the others freak and bark. One is male one is female.
Their poop is runny and it usually sprays and they smell like wet crap, I hand wash mine about once a week, they are our least favorite animal, completely anti social the opposite of turkeys. But last night a deer came down the hill near the garden and the ducks would not have it. They barked and the baby alarms went off.
I slept good for the first nite last nite as we covered the garden and that plastic is noisy also. Next season will be completely differant. Tensions are high all around us people sleeping in chairs, I never had any idea what the outdoor involved. Sooooo much more work and stress.
Thanks brother.
sierrahippy
Member
EMT Benders and Some Coverage.
EMT Benders and Some Coverage.
We purchased up our lostcreek hoop benders 6 and 12 footers. Very simple and Very Cheap. We put a hoop every 5 feet. There 6 foot wide bender, bends a 10 foot piece of conduit and from the arch to the bottom is 3 foot, so we added 5 foot uprights for a total of an 8 foot center height. We used a 20x100 6mil lowes plastic cover. I am going to reduce the uprights a half foot so I can seal both sides a lil better. We will frame in doors front and back from ply and 2x4 and install fans and trench power to the garden. That garden is 32 feet long so I can get 3 out of a 100 foot roll.
So what happens to our flowers when the rain gets on it? Never been rained on in my lil room.
Everything seems to love being in there at night all cozy. Sure feels more secure so I can have some piece of mind and let them go all the way to stupid. What a first time outdoor grower all freakin someone is gunna jack em....he.
few pics.
We got a few sprinkles in the Calaveras Hills but not much.
GDP tuccked out of the cold.
Blue Dream has been passed up by the JTR in Height but not near the weight of the BD.
Grape Punch.
Bending and installing.
Afgan gone Pink.
Mom with a batch. Diet that nite was red romain, kale, mixed greens, flax seed, poppy seed, hemp seed oil, oat, corn and pellet all certified organic.
Solar with battery light. I shine the light off the plants but run the motion right in the middle of the row.
Caregiver deleafing.
Goodnight and Sleeptight All.
EMT Benders and Some Coverage.
We purchased up our lostcreek hoop benders 6 and 12 footers. Very simple and Very Cheap. We put a hoop every 5 feet. There 6 foot wide bender, bends a 10 foot piece of conduit and from the arch to the bottom is 3 foot, so we added 5 foot uprights for a total of an 8 foot center height. We used a 20x100 6mil lowes plastic cover. I am going to reduce the uprights a half foot so I can seal both sides a lil better. We will frame in doors front and back from ply and 2x4 and install fans and trench power to the garden. That garden is 32 feet long so I can get 3 out of a 100 foot roll.
So what happens to our flowers when the rain gets on it? Never been rained on in my lil room.
Everything seems to love being in there at night all cozy. Sure feels more secure so I can have some piece of mind and let them go all the way to stupid. What a first time outdoor grower all freakin someone is gunna jack em....he.
few pics.
We got a few sprinkles in the Calaveras Hills but not much.
GDP tuccked out of the cold.
Blue Dream has been passed up by the JTR in Height but not near the weight of the BD.
Grape Punch.
Bending and installing.
Afgan gone Pink.
Mom with a batch. Diet that nite was red romain, kale, mixed greens, flax seed, poppy seed, hemp seed oil, oat, corn and pellet all certified organic.
Solar with battery light. I shine the light off the plants but run the motion right in the middle of the row.
Caregiver deleafing.
Goodnight and Sleeptight All.
roughnice420
Active member
really good job! looks like an epic lifestyle man!
sierrahippy
Member
Thanks everyone.
Would this be catapilar poop or eggs?
Would this be catapilar poop or eggs?
