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105 Degree! WTF?!!!
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Buddy Holly
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4 gallons a day? oh me oh my. i hear ya though, carrying water gets old fast. my younger years were good for that and 4 gallons was probably what we spilled just getting it out to the plot. nowadays the garden isnt some deep recess in the woods and its irrigated. work smarter not harder boys.
Damn, I used to wish I could grow outdoors but this stuff has me grateful for my indoor tent. 1 gallon of water carried 30 feet every 2 days....
The temps out here are pretty mild so far, no 100's and cools off at night. I think the air currents are off this summer and the heat we should be getting is getting transferred east.
The temps out here are pretty mild so far, no 100's and cools off at night. I think the air currents are off this summer and the heat we should be getting is getting transferred east.
Pumps? Irrigation? My grows are guerilla. There aint no water to pump and there aint no way to pack in tubs or tanks or pumps unless you got a helicopter. Its either pack it in or let them die so each morning with 3 milkjugs full of water on each arm, i head out. Even if you could get eqipment in, in these hills with the humidity lid on us, the sound of a generator would echo for 5 miles.
Kaotic's right though. The thought of no weed to smoke makes the load a little lighter and the trip a little shorter. I just try to think about all the crystals on the Sensi star bud and the mind numbing buzz and away i go - whistling while i work.
I make 2 trips each morning, 8 days a week. I think my fingers are getting longer from holdng the jugs...... and my back? More loritabs.
Kaotic's right though. The thought of no weed to smoke makes the load a little lighter and the trip a little shorter. I just try to think about all the crystals on the Sensi star bud and the mind numbing buzz and away i go - whistling while i work.
I make 2 trips each morning, 8 days a week. I think my fingers are getting longer from holdng the jugs...... and my back? More loritabs.
Find a spring and set up some drip irrigation, it's the only way to go. If you can risk carrying 6 milk jugs every morning, you can certainly risk carrying a few hundred feet of 1/2" poly once a year. Bury the waterline and you'll never have anything to worry about.
Temps are over 100 here but my garden is getting 240 gallons of water every day without me leaving my house, just have to go for a hike once every 10 days to feed with slow release food.
Workin' smart, not hard
Temps are over 100 here but my garden is getting 240 gallons of water every day without me leaving my house, just have to go for a hike once every 10 days to feed with slow release food.
Workin' smart, not hard
S
Space Ghost
it's 74* here (PNW) Ahhhhh... just about right....
thaicat
Member
I hear ya, man! I'm in the same circumstance. I rigged up two ''handles'' that I clip two buckets to each one. I drag these through the woods repeatedly for about 4 hours...I may enter the Mr. Olympia or powerlifting competition by the end of the year.
I do have an awesome water source (A well.) but can't pack in tubs or powered pumps. I'm considering buying one of those barrel pumps and trying to rig a hose to the closest plot. I think that could work. My other plots are too far away to try.
K
KSP
Guys I'm going to go the blumat route for outdoors too. You would still have to pack water in to reservoirs, or set up rain collectors nearby. But I'm sold on these, especially after this drought we're going through. It's supposed to break tomorrow night friends, stay cool.
thaicat
Member
I've had the same conditions for at least a month. Out of 60 clones, I'm down to about 15. I had a whole plot wilt and die, replaced each one 2-3 times and they're dying still. Out of the 15 or so, only three have established themselves and shown significant growth.
We're supposed to get a ''cold front'' tomorrow, which will bring the temperatures from 105-114 to the high 90's...This will be my worst year in a long time.
YOrtbogey, thats my dog you got locked up in your car there and i want him back now! I would recognize that high quality stare anywhere.
thaicat and dubwise, about 2000 i stoped planting my typical 30-40 plants because every single year harvest was of those plants i was able to really tend and water.
I now plant 12 plants with 4 replants in pots ready to go in case one of them bites the dust in the first 45 -60 days and then i baby those 12 so that i get pounders.
Ive found that i harvest more weed, usually 8-12lbs from those 12 plants than i ever recieved from my 30-40 plant grow. Even when we had rain and all 40 survived, i averaged 4-6 ozs at the most from the scraggly survivors.
Everything is so much more doable with the 12.
thaicat and dubwise, about 2000 i stoped planting my typical 30-40 plants because every single year harvest was of those plants i was able to really tend and water.
I now plant 12 plants with 4 replants in pots ready to go in case one of them bites the dust in the first 45 -60 days and then i baby those 12 so that i get pounders.
Ive found that i harvest more weed, usually 8-12lbs from those 12 plants than i ever recieved from my 30-40 plant grow. Even when we had rain and all 40 survived, i averaged 4-6 ozs at the most from the scraggly survivors.
Everything is so much more doable with the 12.
After many, many years of upper desert and valley growing in SoCal, we finally moved shop to OC where we have not even touched 90 degrees this year.
Dispensaries on every block and a true Mediterranean climate have made for the best growing and living environment I've experienced in a long time.
Gone are those endless days of 95-105. I highly recommend this place.
Dispensaries on every block and a true Mediterranean climate have made for the best growing and living environment I've experienced in a long time.
Gone are those endless days of 95-105. I highly recommend this place.
redneck shogun
Member
After years of drought we finally broke out of it around here this year so the rest of the country has got it. I guess someone has to suffer just glad it isn't me this year. Even the peaches were a couple weeks earlier with record production.
