[Shcrews]

Hey everyone it's my favorite time of the year again here in California: outdoor weed growing season! This is my newest project:

Motherlode Gardens is a 7 acre medical cannabis farm in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, just a few miles from Yosemite Valley. We believe cannabis is a sacred gift from Earth, our goal is to grow each plant to it's full circumstantial potential.

https://instagram.com/motherlodegardens


Planned for this year:

-an early season light-dep garden of 250 clones. In coco, 10gal smartpots, handwatered daily with House&Garden Coco nutrients.

-a full season garden of 50 plants, mostly seeds and a few clones. In soil, 200gal smartpots.

-a late season garden, 250 clones, reusing pots and coco from the light-dep.



last year:



Cherry Pie:



Pure Kush x Northern Lights




PK x NL grown outdoors in soil (left) and coco (right)

[ponobegone]

tagged good luck and have a great season brah

[Shcrews]

Strains this year include

clones
-Original Glue #4 (i'm stoked to grow her finally)
-Hardcore OG Kush
-Woody OG Kush
-Tahoe OG Kush
-Paris OG Kush
-Girl Scout Cookies (forum cut)
-Cherry Pie


seeds:
-(BOG) Sweet&Sour Cindy (testers he gave us at the cannabis cup)
-(BOG) Sour Bubble
-(DJ Short) Vanilluna
-(??) Royal Truth OG

...and these:

[Sleeper7784]

Subbing up for this one Shcrews. I've been following you for a while and you've always got some of the cleanest Cali set ups I've seen in a while. I've got mad respect for your style. I've been running straight coir in 20 gallon pots for the past 4 years with an exception of last year I tried a little soil, but I have always had great results and mega yields (2-4lb per plant). But let me say you bust you ass hand watering, especially down below you in the Valley floor. You know what we go through with weeks of 100+ degree summers. I usually water 2x a day but sometimes once the heatwave hits have to water with 10 gals 3-4 times a day per plant. Or really as many times as I need to. The plants show you real quick when they're thirsty.

So any how man, show us how you rock that clean air medical cannabis. Good luck on your season brother!


What kind of summer time and end of season temps do you guys deal with at that elevation? And what were your greatest challenges?

Investing in some upper foothills or sierra property, is one of my biggest set goals.
Your a lucky man to have the opportunity

[Sleeper7784]

[quote=Shcrews;6210752]Strains this year include

clones
-Original Glue #4 (i'm stoked to grow her finally)
-Hardcore OG Kush
-Woody OG Kush
-Tahoe OG Kushu
-Paris OG Kush
-Girl Scout Cookies (forum cut)
-Cherry Pie


seeds:
-(BOG) Sweet&Sour Cindy (testers he gave us at the cannabis cup)
-(BOG) Sour Bubble
-(DJ Short) Vanilluna
-(??) Royal Truth OG

...and these


And your line-up looks A+ juicy as fuck.

[Shcrews]

My business partner and gardening assistant, Mr. Drue Bleam, will be stopping in on this thread as well...

[Shcrews]

Originally Posted by Sleeper7784

Subbing up for this one Shcrews. I've been following you for a while and you've always got some of the cleanest Cali set ups I've seen in a while. I've got mad respect for your style. I've been running straight coir in 20 gallon pots for the past 4 years with an exception of last year I tried a little soil, but I have always had great results and mega yields (2-4lb per plant). But let me say you bust you ass hand watering, especially down below you in the Valley floor. You know what we go through with weeks of 100+ degree summers. I usually water 2x a day but sometimes once the heatwave hits have to water with 10 gals 3-4 times a day per plant. Or really as many times as I need to. The plants show you real quick when they're thirsty.

So any how man, show us how you rock that clean air medical cannabis. Good luck on your season brother!


What kind of summer time and end of season temps do you guys deal with at that elevation? And what were your greatest challenges?

Investing in some upper foothills or sierra property, is one of my biggest set goals.
Your a lucky man to have the opportunity

thanks so much for the praise! I am just a young up-and-comer, i dont know shit 'cept for what i picked up here on ICmag in the past 5 yrs or so. It's ppl like Tom Hill and Ganja D, Heath Robinson and Moonshine, those pioneers who inspire me daily with their work.

To answer your questions, average temperature here is about 85 degrees in the spring and fall. Summer gets to be 100 degrees regularly but nights are mild. Very low humidity, which is a nice change from growing in Santa Cruz where everything turns to mold in october. In my opinion this is an optimal climate for growing cannabis outdoors. We could even run late-finishing sativa strains if we had any... The Yosemite area is very beautiful, I highly recommend getting a place here if you dont mind living in a rural area. I think my entire county has 18,000 people.

You said you are using 20gal pots of coco for full-season outdoors? when do you put your plants outside? I cant imagine the amount of water they require by the end of the summer. We have 200gal smarties with soil for our big plants. The smaller coco pots will only be outside for 9 weeks so watering will not get too crazy.

[Drue Bleam]

This year should go better than last, looking forward to it. Special thanks goes out to MR. & MRS. B.O.G. for taking time at the Cannabis Cup to talk. Really excited to see how Sour Bubble turns out. A few of the Sweet & Sour Cindy testers will be going out as well. I'll try and give the best descriptions I can of them as they progress. We are going to run a bunch of clones for the most part, but also choose seeds out of each of the packs to grow out as well. Schrews posted a list, but there is a couple bag seed found in some Vegan OG we might pop in addition. Stoked to have these beautiful genetics, going to try and maybe do some breeding projects of our own.

nice..

Hope `14`s good to yas Shcrews bro.....

Peace....DHF........