Fisher's Farm

[fisher15]

Thanks for the sprayer advice guys...

Funds are starting to get tight and that $24 ace hardware job looks pretty good. Got all ready to head out, went to start the truck and my battery is dead. Being out here in the boondocks by myself, I really should have a battery charger. One of the members is coming up tomorrow though, so it could be worse. I read about the concrete sprayer in a great book I have called Teaming with Microbes. Definitely worth checking out.

Nice wal mart scheme nomaad, yeah they will take almost anything back, which is nice because most of what they sell is complete shit. I never used to go there, moved up here from a lil city down on the coast that prided itself at being anti-corporate. People here are all about wal mart, completly different scene. Their shit is cheap though, and if money is tight, it's hard to stay away...

I admit that I'm a little skeptical on 'jailbreaking' my iPhone S. Need to keep reading but I'm confused as to what jailbreaking really does? Do keep me posted on if you get your bud's working.

I hope to do some more work caging the plants tomorrow, as I'll have some help. Thinking about placing them right inside my planters, so they're more like five feet in diameter. Additional support can't hurt, and I've got 400'+ of fencing to work with.

 

[nomaad]

I moved to Central America so I could raise my kids in a wlmart-free environment. About a week after we made the move, my wife and I were in a huge supermarket in the big dirty capitol city and I commented that the place seemed to be built in the image of Walmart and that if Walmart ever came to town, they'd probably buy it. I thought it was a great business plan. Anyway... two years later Walmart came in and bought up a thrid of the corporation that owned that and several other supermarkets in the country. two years later, after Oscar Arias (nobel prize winning fraud- neoliberal whipping boy) won the presidency, Walmart schwooped in and bought the other two thirds. The company not only owned the big superstores but about 2 thirds of all the smaller supermarkets and retail stores in the country.

Now, in the small city closest to the village in which we live, there are at least two walmarts (not carrying the walmart name, but mysteriously half the recycled cardboard boxes in town now have walmart logos on them) and maybe a third. I have never once shopped in any of them.

Here, with my budgetary constraints and with Walmart being literally the only place that carries certain things around here, I have no choice. Its kinda sad. Looking forward to phase two of this whole thing where I move my family to a danker spot with better options.

 

[quadracer]

dang looking good fisher. Things are really going to boost over the next month. How tall are those containers?

 

[fisher15]

What up QR, containers are just shy of 2' tall by 5' wide. I cut 4' fencing down the middle, then bent cut ends down. Hear that on blow up time...it's about to get fun

N- so sad it's becoming that hard to escape the WM, ect corporate stronghold. I'm still pretty jealous of your cloud forest sanctuary though. You're bouncing between some beautiful spots

 

[nomaad]

Next spot is Barcelona. I lived there for 3 years in the 90's. That's where I want my kids to go to high school. Gotta put some serious ends together to make that happen.

 

[humble1]

Does it clog? If it does, how often and how long does it take to clear them. What brand do you use?

it does clog if you're applying something non-soluble or if you fail to fully clean the sprayer inbetween applications and your chemical cakes up inside. this is simply remedied by unscrewing the spray tip and dislodging any particles trapped inside. it happened to me yesterday because i failed to clean it out the time before. probably the third or fourth time this has happened with the sprayer in a little over a year. the sprayer says 'RF' on the side, but the spray wand says 'Solo' on it, so they may be the same brand; I don't know. I got it secondhand at a hydro shop.

 

[Corpsey]

I love your style!
if jamaica ever gets mmj you can bet i will be back down there and have a spot like yours!

maybe you have seen these, solar fridge and freezer chests
this is what i want to rock:

 

[MntBerry]

wonderfull grow fisher, very impressive.

how much do you water.

ps stoner party end of year

 

[fisher15]

Thanks, Yourcorpse- the solar fridge/freezer is now definitely on my list of upgraded amenities for next year. Just having the freezer would be clutch, wouldn't have to go to town for food nearly as often. Would love to hook up a nice solar rig to run lots of stuff...

MB-cheers, brother...the larger ones, I'm soaking about every 4-5 days...letting the hose run for a good hour at about 2gpm. Probably getting hard to overwater...and a stoner party it will be

So that 400'+ of wire fencing didn't go very far...hooked up like 9 or 10 big ones with some serious caging. Wrapped one 4'x21' piece around the outside of the planter and secured it with ground spikes. Then doubled it up, adding another piece of fencing on top it. It's working well to bush them out further, I'm pulling branches outward through the cage with green tape. Starting to get that 'feeling'

 

[Shangri-la]

Great garden, Fisher. Thank you for sharing the photos and techniques that are required to sustain big plants.

 

[fisher15]

Right on Shangri-la, I'm still learning, as we all are, but I'm happy to show my techniques.

So I spent an hour early this morning giving everything a foliar feeding of brix mix. It's a mix of things put out by Peaceful Valley that raises brix levels and aides in overall health. I've used it a couple times this season and my plants just love it...can find it at groworganic.com or at the store in GV. I found the Ace deck sprayer and while it is an upgrade from my other POS, it wouldn't spray the brix mix through any of the included tips, even with major agitation (brix mix is a powder and liquid). So I removed the tip alltogether and whipped the wand back and forth to create a sort-of spray. I'll try mixing up the foliar the night before next time, maybe it will dissolve a little better.

The light dep is about two weeks in since I started using the duratarp and things are looking good. The only plant showing signs of 'rust' in there is the chem3. I've been runninng a fan in there from about 8-9pm and from 6-8am. The CJ's are forming some nice sized colas...making me excited for those going full season! I'm going to brew up a drum of compost tea, elevating the airstone like try comb was doing. Really should have multiple drums brewing, as I'll snap through 55 gallons in a minute.

Enjoy your saturday, folks.

 

[try comb]

Right on Shangri-la, I'm still learning, as we all are, but I'm happy to show my techniques.

So I spent an hour early this morning giving everything a foliar feeding of brix mix. It's a mix of things put out by Peaceful Valley that raises brix levels and aides in overall health. I've used it a couple times this season and my plants just love it...can find it at groworganic.com or at the store in GV. I found the Ace deck sprayer and while it is an upgrade from my other POS, it wouldn't spray the brix mix through any of the included tips, even with major agitation (brix mix is a powder and liquid). So I removed the tip alltogether and whipped the wand back and forth to create a sort-of spray. I'll try mixing up the foliar the night before next time, maybe it will dissolve a little better.

The light dep is about two weeks in since I started using the duratarp and things are looking good. The only plant showing signs of 'rust' in there is the chem3. I've been runninng a fan in there from about 8-9pm and from 6-8am. The CJ's are forming some nice sized colas...making me excited for those going full season! I'm going to brew up a drum of compost tea, elevating the airstone like try comb was doing. Really should have multiple drums brewing, as I'll snap through 55 gallons in a minute.

Enjoy your saturday, folks.

i cant wait to see some pics of the depo plants.........next year i hope to do alot of that.........no time or space this year ne more........

i just found someone on craiglist that has a whole gang of those barrells cleaned out for 20 bux each that im gonna go grab a few of.......one barrel does not last long enough now.......and certainly wont in the coming weeks......

peace.

 

[nomaad]

Thanks for the update, Fisher. I'd be interested to see a pic of the bud growth. How long had you been pulling leaky tarp before starting with the DuraTarp? My light dep is looking AMAZING... i keep forgetting to grab the camera at morning tarp-pulling time and that's when the light is best for budporn. I took some yesterday, but the sun was shining and they came out like ass.

I was over a friend's and he mixes his nutes in a 250 gallon rubbermaid container... Its like a big-ass reinforced tote with a top and everythingThe thing is perfect, but I cannot find it anywhere. I am taking a trip into Ukiah today, so I'll check out the better hardware/home stores.

I am sick of mixing multiple 50 gallon drums too. In another couple of weeks its conceiveable that I'll have to mix up multiple 250's.

 

[Johnny Rotten]

Fisher, Your grow is very inspiring. Hopefully i'll be doing the same thing legally in the near future. Thanks for showing how to do it right.

I'd also like to second the backpack sprayer. I've got a small grove of citrus and fruits and it makes the job so much easier. It will also spray my teas although i filter them with a paint sock. Here's the one i got. It's made by Chapin but has Stanley on it. I got it last year and it hasn't given me problems yet.

http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-61804...1?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1247350766&sr=8-1

 

[smurfin'herb]

ill check this one out.

 

[neongreen]

Tagged!

Looking forward to reading through your thread, to put it mildly

 

[fisher15]

Try- I've kinda botched the light dep, had I had my shit together, I would've got the duratarp a lot earier and been halfway through the second crop...next year is right I'll try to get some pics up of it.

Nomaad, are you talking about those 275 gallon totes? Like this one ?http://sacramento.craigslist.org/for/1257018158.html

That thing won't fit under my camper shell on the truck, else I'd think about it. Actually got my one 55 for six bucks from a place around here. Used but clean. Probably just get a few more of those...Oh I was pulling the cheap tarps for about a month before getting the duratarp. It wasn't doing anything, so I'm only about two weeks in, which will F me with my numbers of flowering plants. There's like 40 acres of nothing next door...maybe I'll guerilla those bitches.

I still havn't got the drip sys setup proper, been just leaving the hose on em. Watered all day yesterday, hose ran for 12 hours and my pool was emptied multiple times making me start the siphon again. Knew all those bong hits were practice for something...I think ideally, the drip system would be in place and I'd have an injector to put the nutes in. The only ones I've seen though are way too small.

Everything went nuts for that brix mix...absoultly love the stuff. I'll hit them once more with it in about a month. These Casey Jones' in veg just reek. Stinker than many plants in full bloom, shits gonna be nasty.

Thanks for stopping in Johnny and it makes me happy to inspire others. That's awesome you hit your orchard with CT foliars...bet you got some DAMN good oranges And the sprayer looks solid...I'll definitely be picking up a backpack before next season.

What up smurf, thanks for checkin me out...looks like you know how to put in tha work...

Hey neon, glad to have another organic fanatic around here!

 

[fisher15]

Hey jenn, yeah after harvest I'll pull the main rootball and plant a cover crop in each of em. Then in spring I'll mix in more dry nutes. It was such a job filling those planters you better believe I'm not doing it again!

 

[nomaad]

New bag dirt every year (though next year it will be mixed with more perlite and/or rice husks). The smartpots go into the washing machine with some hygrozyme in the mix and they are good as new. Old dirt gets mixed into the compost pile with aged horse manure, ashes and kitchen waste and added to the food garden next spring.

 

[nomaad]

12 plants total, six in flower. If I could have 12 in flower for each patient, that would be cool. I hear you can buy a whole building in Detroit for macaroni necklaces and canned beans. Collectivize that motherfucker and cover it in green. I bet you could find old warehouses with a collapsed roof...

Urban decay...yum. I have these fantasies of retaking the cities when the hordes abandon them. Detroit may be the first opportunity. Just as prophesized in the Music of Mills, May, Atkins, UR, etc.

If any State (other than Cali) needed an influx of cash from ganja more than MI, I dunno what it is.

Fisher, why is it that I always wind up atlking about music in your thread?