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06-09-2007, 06:42 PM
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High Alpine Guerilla Growing.......
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Hello Guys. Im Fast Pine. Welcome to my grow journal!  ..Pull up a seat and enjoy the show. Things are just getting started for me. We had 2inches of snow fall overnight on May 20.(my usual transplant date)   ...So i decided I would hang back and be safe...Things are just starting to go out now.Lemme tell you a lil bit about whats goin on.... Im growing at VERY high altitude..Plots ranging from 6500 to 8500feet above the waves....Even though im at 36degrees N. The altitude causes me to have a short season like many up north..  The season is June, 1- Sept, 15. A rule of thumb to remember about climate and elevation is that every 1000 feet gained in elevation is the same as traveling 400 miles north. This means, as I climb the thousands of feet into the mountains, its almost the same as starting out in the desert of central Arizona or New Mexico, and ending up in the spruce-fir forests of lower Canada....Annual precipitation in the higher elevations is 25-30 inches, wile lower elevations only receive 5-10...Drastic changes in weather and temperature can occur in minutes!..The terrain is rough and taxing with many granite faces..The soil is very hard clay, that holds water well but has absolutely no nutrients in it.. Strain selection is very important for me. They must be tough plants that can handle a hailstorm and be ready by September. Heres the lineup: Paradise seeds Sensi Star Belladonna Durga matta Sweet Purple Nirvana Ice Chrystal Master Kush Swiss Miss Bigbud WW THSeeds Mendocino Madness With the front runners in bold. Ive grown most of these strains before and have the most confidence in the Madness, Sensi Star, and the Sweet Purple.. I ran into alotta clone troubles, so my lineup kinda got thrown off a lil.  I will be pumping water to my plots using a gas powered water pump. (Honda WX-10)....The water will be pumped from remote streams, over a small ridge into the adjacent valley...  ..and held in trash cans, Ill mix up some nutes in the reservoirs and hand water with a bucket  Water will also be pumped from a twin size water bed bladder .....   I use a water meter to gauge how much water goes into the bladder in order to apply the right amount of nutrients. The drive to the plot is rough so the nutes mix up in the bladder kinda like a concrete truck mixes its load on the way to a jobsite  ...The pump allows me to get 120Gal down the hill and into the tank in under 15 min...Which really limits exposure time. Last year we used nothing but gravity..Same job took 2-3 hours. Very sketchy...  .....down hill to a reservoir. There is a gravity fed drip system in place, with slow feed drippers. I will experiment with some rain harvesting this year too.  Weve been prepping since last fall. Replacing soil and such. Back breaking carrying hundreds of bags of soil back into the woods...     The days are getting longer and hotter. Summer has arrived for me and im very excited to share the journey with yall. Lets go camping!       
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06-09-2007, 06:51 PM
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Dude hell yeah your shit is awesome! Major props to you my friend! GOod luck to you and hope the best yields! I will be deffiently following this. peace
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06-09-2007, 09:08 PM
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Awesome thread already, Pipeline. Great job of outlining exactly which challenges you face and what you do to overcome them.
The area is extremely similar to mine... quite a bit greener native vegetation and my plants sit at 6000-7000', so I'm a little lower... but if I wanted to make my garden fully automated, I'd have to do what you do for water, and then some. Can't wait to see this one!!! You kill it, brother. Dig
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06-09-2007, 09:17 PM
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peace fast pine, your plot/grow is simply masterful
 the place is so nice too, loving the elevation as well k+! fuerza!
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06-09-2007, 09:31 PM
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Jesus Christ man!!!
Awesome thread thus far, looks like you've done some serious planning. Great pics too, I especially like the canoe one. Sounds like hard work humping all that soil out there, especially in the terrain you describe. BTW, how are the drip emitters working out for ya? Keep us posted. 
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06-09-2007, 11:31 PM
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Looking good man, keep it goin'!
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06-12-2007, 04:58 PM
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Thanks for the well wishes and comments guys. I truly appreciate tha support.
Its time for a update... I checked one plot yesterday, This one is at 7500feet. So far it hasn't been watered by anything but rainwater. To prep this plot, I mixed the soil 2'x2', added perlite and slow release nutrients. This is the plot that has the rain harvesting equipment, the tarp blew down. we've been getting some pretty harsh storms lately. I may put it back up, but im pretty sure it will get blown down again. I will prolly just leapfrog some water up the hillside with some trashcans and the gaspowered water pump from a nearby stream. This is my most remote plot, being over a mile uphill deep into a very distant portion of natnl forest. .............................. .............................. .............................. ............. Things havent been this green in years!  All this wetness is causing me to pop more beans, and take more cuts!..  Portion of the plot. It gets good sun, and is very level for being on a hillside. It collects water well.         This is a Mendocino Madness motherplant.    These holes havent peen planted yet.  It rained lastnight. Hard, all over. I cant wait to put out the next round. I will visit another spot here in a fiew days...Stay tuned..   Im goin fishin.  Peace and love fellas.
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06-12-2007, 05:15 PM
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God damn Fast Pine. This looks really great.
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06-12-2007, 05:19 PM
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Excellent.
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06-12-2007, 09:55 PM
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Mourning the loss of my dog......
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Looking great Fast pine! This thread has lots of promise, go guerrilla!!
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