What do you get when you cross a Sankofa and a Phoenix?

[anonymousgrow]

As some of you know, our house burned down on the 12th of this month. My girlfriend had just picked me up from the airport and my neighbor called and told us our house was on fire. By the time we got home the house was gone and the fire was out. We lost everything including our two dogs that were in the house. Life has been a bit of a roller coaster since then. We have been blessed with help and support from lots of people and organizations. Right now we are staying at a hotel, Tomorrow we are going down to San Francisco for 10 days because a friend is going to be out of state and offered us to be able to stay at his place for free.

The property was a rent to own agreement and we fulfilled the rental portion and hadn't signed the title because in the weeks leading up to the fire we had found out that we were lied to about liens against the property and it was becoming a headache; that paired with the heartache of losing the dogs and everything else has led us to make the decision to just walk away from the property and start over. Ideally we will be putting a down payment on another place to buy but if we need to we will rent. So right now we are just looking for a place to live and start over and try to get in the ground in time for full season plants.

This has been a devastating blow that I still find kind of hard to digest. The only thing to do is go forward one day at a time. Hopefully sooner than later this will turn into a grow diary instead of just a heartbreaking story.

I want to thank the icmag community also. We have already gotten some help from some members that I hadn't met before this happened. I am truly humbled by the generosity of others.

 

[McKush]

Best of luck brother. Fires suck worse than most people understand. Even possessions not burned get ruined by smoke. You can clean some things but it is too expensive or prohibitive to clean and get the smell out of most of what's left. Sorry to hear about your pets. After our fire we had to put down our 15 year old dog who couldn't handle the change.

Best of luck to you both

 

[anonymousgrow]

Here is what's left. Also I have tried three times to keep it from being upside down and I give up. maybe stand on your head when you look at it.

 

[anonymousgrow]

After a couple months of searching we are now at a rental where we can garden. Big things are to come.

 

[anonymousgrow]

So we are running 12 plants outside. All blue dream. All in ~700 gallon mounds of soil. I tilled up an 8x8 area underneath each mound and lightly amended with alfalfa, kelp and fish; Then covered in thin layer of straw and soaked it in EM1 then put the dirt on top of the tilled areas and finally planted in the mounds this morning. I broadcast a bunch of cover crop seeds on and watered. I need to get caging up around the plants and need to get irrigation down. I am happy to say that we have a garden again though!

 

[dickcorn]

Gonna be awesome! Glad you were able to bounce back!
What are you using for cover crops?

 

[Kalyx]

Congrats man glad to hear about the turn in luck for you. Looks like you have quite the grow you are about to undertake... cant wait to see what happens.

 

[anonymousgrow]

Cover Crop is Barley - Haybet, Oats - Jerry, Flax - Brown, Buckweat - Mancan, Lentils - Indianhead, Safflower, Millet - Golden German, Hairy Vetch, Vetch Common, Millet - White Proso, Rape - Dwarf Essex, Japanese Millet, Clover - Medium Red, Clover - White Dutch, and
Clover - Crimson

 

[anonymousgrow]

We have been getting a bit of wind. This was yesterday afternoon, and it looks like today will be slightly windier. It doesn't look like it will do any damage, just strengthen them up a bit.

 

[Cep]

Is that vermifire as your base mix? You could prob pull 4+ even with this later start.

 

[anonymousgrow]

It's the norcal blend from the EWSF, my goal is 5 per mound. I need to get some more pictures up soon. we have been way busy around here, getting the rest of life back to somewhat normal now that we have the garden established.

 

[ponobegone]

how did I miss this? tagged bro good vibes

 

[stoney917]

Way to fight thrue some shit the difference between the 2 pics is amazing. .. hope u have a great season

 

[Nes]

Those mounds look sick! hopes its still going well!

 

[sticky367]

LEEETTSSS GOOOOOOOOO! Cant wait to see more of this

 

[sticky367]

Hey, how are things going? Hope you're having a safe season