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2016 Outdoor Garden of Eden

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FoothillFarming

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Well, it's really 4 planes and four buildings right? But great point.

Two trade towers
Field crash
Pentagon
building #7 with no plane

Hows the garden Caterpillar710? Everything still rocking?
 

FoothillFarming

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I heard of an interesting bug approach today from a bug professional that has transitioned into the cannabis industry over the last 8 years. He promotes a lot of essential oils, but also promotes Kaolin Clay. Use as a foliar, and coat the plant with a super fine mist. Anybody else heard or use this approach?
 

LostTribe

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I have been super bad at posting up my flowers from my deps. However, I now have a couple people teaming up with me at the farm, and they have been doing a good job documenting some of the flowers on IG. I hope it's not a TOU violation, but I am going to throw up their IG accounts so people can check out my flowers. Throw them a like or two for the hard work.

@misskatiemay
@GoldCountryGuy

Is that Snow Wookie and the Sunshine Daydream yours? or is it called hellnback? Either way they look especially frosty! Bet you feel lucky to have the extra hands too!
 

FoothillFarming

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Is that Snow Wookie and the Sunshine Daydream yours? or is it called hellnback? Either way they look especially frosty! Bet you feel lucky to have the extra hands too!

Everything they are putting up on IG is my flowers from my deps. Hellenback was from swamp boys and produced some really nice flowers.


Gardens cool. Looking forward to just changing to greenhouse only ! Electrician came over today to plan putting 21 more lights in.

Nice! 21 more lights in the GH that already has lights? Or a second one? All GH sounds like a big time win. I am really enjoying my full season outdoor ladies, but a full out GH is the way to go.
 
Going in my green house with curtain system in it.

Also getting two more 2 ton mini splits for my containers so they'll have 3.5 tons per container

Put s Honeywell commercial thermostat in my big shop

Floored geodesic dome for my trimmers

Painted cabin and installing solid bamboo floor and fully moving in to that and making a better trimmer pantry area
 

plantingplants

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Cat, what kind of schedule do you run your greenhouse lights on?

I heard of an interesting bug approach today from a bug professional that has transitioned into the cannabis industry over the last 8 years. He promotes a lot of essential oils, but also promotes Kaolin Clay. Use as a foliar, and coat the plant with a super fine mist. Anybody else heard or use this approach?

I've seen that stuff at a fruit growers store. Surround WP. I was curious about it. It seems like it would inhibit photosynthesis.. a lot.
 

slownickel

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There are two types of surround. One is clear and the other is milky white.

We used to use them on our avocado fruit in the early afternoon heavy direct sun fruit that will almost always get sunburn and be rejects.

The milky stuff has calcium in it and sticks like a chalk. The clear stuff is not that clear.

It lowers the level of intense light in the afternoons. Lots of citrus guys use it too to prevent that afternoon sunburn too.

Both are a pain in the ass to get off the avocado fruit.

Why would you need it?

What did they tell you at the store?
 

plantingplants

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4:20 hehehe. Do you run them in summer, too?

I bet you get a super fast veg extending the days.

What percent increase in yield have you found in your lit greenhouse?
 

FoothillFarming

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There are two types of surround. One is clear and the other is milky white.

We used to use them on our avocado fruit in the early afternoon heavy direct sun fruit that will almost always get sunburn and be rejects.

The milky stuff has calcium in it and sticks like a chalk. The clear stuff is not that clear.

It lowers the level of intense light in the afternoons. Lots of citrus guys use it too to prevent that afternoon sunburn too.

Both are a pain in the ass to get off the avocado fruit.

Why would you need it?

What did they tell you at the store?

Had a bug guy over to see if I could rid myself of my mites. Been a very mild problem, but I am always looking to up my game. He helped in many ways, the most important being technique and delivery system.

I always test things out, and my grapes is where the mites started so I tested the clay there. I have the milky kind. With my atomizer set on low volume and fine atomized mist, after the application I couldn't even see it on the leaves. So I am not sure how it would block out sun. Maybe if you applied the crap out of it? I put on about 1/8 pound for a 50 ft row of grapes. When taking advice from pros, I test their methods out 100%, even if on a small test run. If it pays off, next year I have another weapon in my arsenal.

Next year I am going to get more into essential oils. If I remember correctly, Kempf's sister makes some top grade oils. There seems to be a huge difference in quality between brands.
 

slownickel

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Tess,

Which oils are you using?

In how much water? With a soap or without?

Do you use them into flowering?
 
The BAS blend rocks but I hate supporting that company...I think I'll make my own blend next year. 15ml/gallon with some Bronners destroys mites. Never seen it burn either. I've used organic clove oil too on its own when I ran out of that stuff at the same rate. Yeah I've used them on flowers up to about week 3 indoors. It was this plus the sulfur that complety eradicated cyclamens from my garden...with pfr97 and swirskii mites after just to be 100% sure.

Been awesome following your thread Foothill you are crushing it this year.
 
4:20 hehehe. Do you run them in summer, too?

I bet you get a super fast veg extending the days.

What percent increase in yield have you found in your lit greenhouse?

Days aren't extended any lights click on after sunrise , I do run the lamps all year

If I had to compare the house with and with out I'd say a 100% difference
 

FoothillFarming

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I like essential oils a lot. I've found them very effective. Their compatibility with sulfur is nice...unlike azamax

Exactly what I was thinking. Sulfur is nice to use with broads/russets and mildews. I would love to put up a burner in the GH and use the essential oils on top of that. Maybe some Stylet oil as well.
 

maxmurder

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Gardens cool. Looking forward to just changing to greenhouse only ! Electrician came over today to plan putting 21 more lights in.

what wattage are you running and how many square feet per fixture?

speaking of feet i hope your trim room is just plywood, those damn trimmers get resin everywhere- floor, door knobs, light switches, remote control, phone, shower beaver blaster etc.
 
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