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Hi Morcheeba.
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^ back from the dead
Welcome back
Thank you my friend!Welcome back
What up dude!? Yup…setting up to screen out some plants! In New Mexico now. Down on the Gila National Forest. Been a wild few years!
Awesome man! Glad you are building your dream!
I left California in 2019. I went on the road into the South West (mostly) for 1 yr 8 months…living out of the back of my ‘99 Ranger and running mountain ranges…looking for our next spot to live. Colorado, Nevada, Nor Cal, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Started in New Mexico…ended in New Mexico. Silver City. The Gila. 3.3 million acres of National Forest.
The wife and I…have been living here over a year….but it’s my fourth monsoon season running the Gila.
I’m growing my first garden in 3 yrs…on a friend’s ranch property. Growing Eazy Mox Trilogy S1 (I made those beans around 2015…documented in this thread)…12 plants…4 plants per Island…horizontal screen technique.
I’ll drop in and fill this thread in a bit…connect the dots.
Home Range
Welcome back. 
dank.Frank
dank.Frank
^ Spent some days roaming the Blue Wilderness with the wife. I’ve camped up there several times…for weeks at a time..over the last 3yrs. Tough place.
^ The garden progression. Monsoons are here. Getting wet.
Hey hey hey!!!!!Welcome back.
dank.Frank
^ Monsoonal Flow from last night’s efforts
^ Doing some super cropping and using some bale rope on some of the sisters. Using the rope just to pull those that were growing into their cages.
Guessing that I’ll start the horizontal screen process in a couple weeks. I intend to keep the plants screened around 4’…makes it easier to work with them, keeps them more secure out of the winds, and when fall frost comes…I’ll be using bed sheets to cover them…so I’ll build frames over the screens for holding those off the flowers. I’ll also have to cage in the screen tops from mule deer. It’s what it takes.
^ Adding more worms to the medium. Also dumped several loads of Oak duff. My medium is mostly made of duff…that I raked up….from under the Oak and Juniper trees on the ranch property.
^ Example of a load of duff. I’m…routinely…adding this stuff. Always Be Amending. The soil here is Caliche…so when digging out the plant pits…it was similar to digging in rock. A pick and shovel kind of deal. It doesn’t drain fast.
All the soil I excavated was moved…and not mixed into my grow medium. It’s not like the decomposing granite I grew outdoors in…in California…which drained well. Yes…there is a learning curve. The Oak duff though…I know that stuff…and it acts the same as…the duff I used in CA. Familiar and I know how to operate in it.
* from the time I left IC I was on a private forum and documented there. I documented a 2017 outdoor grow…and my last grow…another outdoor in 2018 was documented there and on IG. I am no longer on IG though. I quit that platform last January. My 1 yr 8 month exodus into the various mountain ranges…was documented on IG. How I came to be in New Mexico.
^ From our rented shot gun house on…Chihuahua Hill…an evening cell letting go. There is actually a 7400’ mountain hidden by that downpour. Good stuff. I fucking love the Gila and New Mexico!
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^ Sisterhood hedged up…lollipop and innards removed…in preparation for screening flowers.
^ Insecticide
^ on a running binge…from yesterday’s grind…clockwise circled Bear Mountain. Hot and difficult run. In a phase of breaking my body and mind down to the running. Running through some aches…injury…going on. Break Down Build Up…like about anything else in the real world. It’s a very long and disciplined cycle. No short cuts.
^ Summer Shoes (for the record)
^ today
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^ Screens are built. The wife and I…pieced them all together…out of mostly…ranch boneyard…materials. Besides 7 T-Posts, some poultry wire (bought for the original cages), and a 50’ roll of welded wire, several bags of zip ties…everything was scrap. It’s a serious Frankenstein monster…totally dangerously sharp and complicated to navigate.
Most of the plant training will be done from below the screens. I had wanted to keep it to 3 Islands of 4 plants per Island…each Island its own entity….but because I was short on materials…it came out as…one continuous piece.
How we will bed sheet (for frost) and harvest this monstrosity…well…I have no idea. Probably end up harvesting by cutting ties/separating screens and collecting the flowers from below.
Basically I’m a tunnel rat
* Most of the sisters are growing in a vine fashion…very flimsy branching…just like the selfed mother. These plants represent not only my favorite type of smoke…but also my preferred style. Creeper Vines….with potent heads.
** I took apart the original plant cages (poultry wire) to fill in on the top of the screens…and attached along the bottoms to protect the plants from mule deer. After the plants get above the screens…I’ll raise the wiring a few feet to protect the top. It’s a pain in the ass/time consuming to have to build all these protective measures….but that’s the game
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so...have you been in nm long enough to answer the most important question? red or green?
if you ever head over to cruces drop a line and come by
if you ever head over to cruces drop a line and come by
and if you ever need a bike check out Mone' bikes,he's right there in silver
