Fireknot farm 2016

[_tessarecting]

thanks man, great info!

I know how you feel, learned so much this year and I feel like I only scratched the surface

 

[caterpillar710]

Well I already have 6 tons so I'm putting 4 more tons in the form of 2 mini split.

I have two 40' containers and a 24x40 shop. The containers share a 3 ton 4 head unit they need some oomph so I'm giving em 2 ton heat pumps so I can dial them in better. I want to dry at 60% rH and 68F

 

[Avenger]

advanced nutrients pH down liquid is 75% phosphoric acid according to their msds

GH liquid pH down is a mixture of 10-30% phosphoric acid, 5-10% monoammonium phosphate and 5-10% citric acid

 

[_tessarecting]

Oh damn, Avenger to the rescue! Had it here the whole time! Thanks man!

I'm still afraid of my super low pH water though..but will do it anyway.

 

[caterpillar710]

If you just acidify the stock solution then dilute it in the barrel you'll be fine

 

[caterpillar710]

Lower temps increase humidity by default. The trick is bagging it at just the right time so it never dries out completely. A snap in the stem and you're good to go, stems look less green, and when you bag it it stays at that RH and brings it up a bit more from the moisture in the buds. You can see/smell/feel the difference. When its too dry it crumbles/ disintegrates. I've seen guys run the shower hot with open totes to rehydrate.

Good to know thanks we'll see how tomorrow goes.

I like these new bagging techniques. Very organized.

If you bag it up for long term storage like that you'll come back to fermented bud in the summer.

You need to dry it bone dry for storage and then just 'fluff' them when you break them out

Best fluff technique I found was pouring the herb back out in to twister hanging baskets and running a humidifier on a humidistat and letting them rehydrate from atmosphere for 12-24 hours.

This also will get any shake you missed screening out

 

[_tessarecting]

good to know, I dont plan on keeping anything that long this year, but definitely will someday, makes sense though. I know you need a constant controlled cool temp for storage for that long too instead of fluctuations like normal weather.

I like my bud to be perfect rh when I bust it out to trim. Not too wet and gunky, not too dry and crumbly.

Time to head up the hill and get those micros and phosphorous watered in.

 

[caterpillar710]

It's all about playing the market right.

Get to a point where you have enough revolving cash flow to pay trimmers and harvest labor as well as yourself to live to April or May , maybe some extra for spring start up or new toys and then unload when the market is more in your favor.

 

[_tessarecting]

Goals.

Heaven mountain

Some plants

Sorcerers

More cowbell

 

[_tessarecting]

Dragons fruit

Sorcerers

 

[FoothillFarming]

It's all about playing the market right.

Get to a point where you have enough revolving cash flow to pay trimmers and harvest labor as well as yourself to live to April or May , maybe some extra for spring start up or new toys and then unload when the market is more in your favor.

Not sure about others, but I have been getting great prices for my deps all the way up to yesterday. Usually the flood is hitting by now, but the cost has been staying high. 1600. The bottom was hit two years ago, and it seems to be slowly rising. Not sure I would hold on to anything at that price, move it while it's hot.

 

[caterpillar710]

1600 is low for deps. just saying

 

[_tessarecting]

Damn I can smell the garden from the bottom of the hill now!

Between my buddy getting here within the week and my dwindling budget somethings going to have to get chopped soon...I'm thinking 10/7 I need to call it. Might be a smaller sky lotus, the chunky heaven mountain, or the sea of green'd dragons fruit....we'll see.

And I'm now officially out of zinc.

 

[Shcrews]

i expect some of my plants to be finished by 10/7

 

[_tessarecting]

Yours look a lot more mature than mine do

 

[Shcrews]

my farm probably gets more sun..

still though you should be fine chopping a few early ones in a week or so, they should be pretty far along. do what ya gotta do obviously, just saying i wouldn't worry about it

 

[_tessarecting]

I think so too. I would be dropping trees right now if my chainsaw worked.

I'm shooting for doing one at a time until the bulk starts coming down.

 

[FoothillFarming]

my farm probably gets more sun..

Unless he is growing on Mercury, you have more sun.....lol.

 

[HillMizer]

Not sure about others, but I have been getting great prices for my deps all the way up to yesterday. Usually the flood is hitting by now, but the cost has been staying high. 1600. The bottom was hit two years ago, and it seems to be slowly rising. Not sure I would hold on to anything at that price, move it while it's hot.

1600 is good for yesterday as prices are dropping fast. I sucked it up and sold my late august dep for 16. Picked up from the farm, but I sold my full season for 1650 in early July or June? (stored hydrated and ready to move )

Last summer I got 2200 for all dep and 25 for just a handful. I think CO and WA created a vaccum. People were calling almost every day for 100 but I couldn't get em together. If AUMA passed I think there will be a short vaccum.

Tessa I think you'll have something good by 10/7. I'm going to cut some around then. My sky lotus looks like a week behind yours maybe.

 

[_tessarecting]

This is the one I'm eyeing at the moment...