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No use for a name farms El Dorado 2016

slownickel

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Seems like it takes the widest part of the photo and makes it the width of the page. So if the photo is taller than it is wide, it lays down.
 

HillMizer

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So I've resized all the photos to 800x800 then I cropped the vertical ones at a 5:4 ratio which is wider than it is tall. I lost a bunch of my photo and I think they still came out sideways. Thanks for bearing with me folks, I am not good with these types of devices.

I have used my phone for most of the season until I got affordable web service at my house (via cell). I'm new to posting here this season too. My apologies to anyone who I didn't give their well deserved reputation to, I've spaced it a few times and the phone just sucks to work on. Lately it makes me sign in between each action and even then it doesn't allow me to give rep out

Thanks a bunch to Slownickel for helping me with my soil game. The analysis is new to me this year and I've been all over the place with my numbers, but I'm going to start this winter fresh using the methods he recommends.

The sky lotus is not cranking in the weight quite yet, though I did get some response from a potassium bicarb foliar so I might ease a little K2sO4 foliar in. Can anyone recommend a volumetric foliar rate for this? I'm not getting back into meters until after this harvest.

Super critical haze is actually really nice. I thought it might be TOO commercial type, but some far it smells GREAT and grows really well. My deadhead OG has some nice phenos, nothing producing super well, those are double and triple potted and probably won't reach the yields of the single plants of other varieties.
The azure haze is super dense with a ton on weight. It is almost ready for harvest. It has a higher calyx-to-leave ratio than the blue dream showing a little more blueberry I guess.
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HillMizer

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The hillside, left to right Super Critical Haze>Sky Lotus>SCH>Crispy Sky Lotus is putting on some flowers.
There's a Super Silver Haze in the center that is barely in flower, she needs some trellis this week.

All is well, the sunlight played games in the garden and "Shady Grove" now gets more sun that the big gals. The Azure haze in Shady Grove has dense nugs that you could get knocked out with.

The greenhouse hardly gets any now and has the little plants that stayed indoor too long. I might run some 10 Gauge extension cords up and run some 1kw HPS, maybe.

I've been catching up on office work and bills, and working on my new building. I also have been working on some household stuff to keep the lady happy during trim. I hired a bunch of her friends so she likes that.

I got that truck I rolled fired up and cleaned out finally. I will probably have it on the road really soon. I'm driving the work truck that I got from the junkyard for $1100 in 2008. I'm holding out to get that flatbed 5th wheel hauling diesel for delivering amendments next year.

I need to take pics in the middle of the day I guess, I always miss my window.
 

HillMizer

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Super Critical Haze. Blocky buds and I love the smell. Paint thinner and grapefruit
Some deadhead OG. Good smelling phenos. I'm not sure if there is any real winners though. Last time I grew it I got two awesome phenos. One was all dense calyx and purple, not very OG like but had fuelly smell along with that purple phenolic smell.
 

HillMizer

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Oh yeah. It makes no sense that resized properly oriented photos are sideways. I'll try for the next time. I have a pro photographer showing up tonight maybe we'll get something better going.

Found mildew in Azure Haze tops today! Up top in the sun and wind.

There's none anywhere else. I've never had this happen.
I'm cutting > trimpro >h2O2 bath > rinse >hang dry.
It was the most ready and we have cool wet weather for tomorrow.
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slownickel

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Sounds like you can't get coverage of your sprays up high and in the wind. What are you applying?

It is very difficult to ever achieve 100% control without using atomic bombs.
 

HillMizer

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We don't have wind :). I thought about the coverage issue but they get drenched. Someone else sprays, so it might be a quality control issue.

PM remedies i've been using are
Regalia
Potassium bicarb
Micronized sulfur

I think the rest will be ok. If the OGs don't have PM I'm doing fine.
 

Wise420

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They look awesome HM. Very impressive set up your running mate. Could you give some detail into how your irrigation system works and what your feeding from? Id really appreciate it.

Cheers.
 

HillMizer

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They look awesome HM. Very impressive set up your running mate. Could you give some detail into how your irrigation system works and what your feeding from? Id really appreciate it.

Cheers.

Thanks Wise!

Irrigation is just a 1" line running to a set of 1" solenoid valves with a hunter irrigation controller, it goes to several zones via 1" poly pipe. 1/4" "spaghetti" tubing feeds the last few feet to the microsprayers, 3-4 per plant this year, around 6 sprayers next year if I can get the supply big enough.

fertigation was minimal, most feeding is through dry amendments. I've used several devices for this. This year we tried a Young Mixer-proportioner, it's a piece of junk for sure.

In the past I used a homemade setup where a Shur-flo diaphragm pump pushed into the main irrigation line. The main line was throttled to 30PSI at the point and the pump pushes 40psi. It was plumbed to a 55 gallon barrel and you just had to do the math. How much left the barrel in how many minutes of irrigation time with how much water. Sometimes I got inconsistent cycles with the pump setup.

Next year I might try dosatron or other device. I am finishing out the year pumping out of a 330 gallon IBC tote with a submersible pump. This is my setup for pumping chunky compost extracts and seed teas. Those don't go through my irrigation but most other things will. Even powdered humates and kelp and whatnot.
 

BrainSellz

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I feel for these guys with big grows harvesting in this shyt storm. Looks like he got a head start on it.

Nice plants HillMizer. How are you keeping the ground in your greenhouse dry? looks like water would run down the bank into them.
 

HillMizer

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Sorry guys. I took a social media break, was building, harvesting, sick as fuck for 2 weeks.
I ended up firing the whole trim crew that was partying, missing work and trashing my place.

Sorry I know I'm lame. That's not the best way to contribute. I was on the phone all the time and bounced.It turned out great. No major mold issues. Didn't finish trimming until December. I hit my goal but those big plants could have used a bit more sun. SSH was out until December never finished.

I built a whole building and it's got an 8kw all planted out and has my buddy living in it. Pictures to come on my other thread.

I'm in Costa Rica, just finishing up a vacation and contemplating my first dep. Snow on the ground at my place.
 

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