No use for a name farms El Dorado 2016

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The dog pictures still coming out the best. Finding the right light and place to stand in this garden has been difficult. I think a good photographer will be back on the farm soon.

Had an accident this morning. My gardener dumped a concentrated bottle (1.75L of protekt strength) agsil 16 in to 10 gal of foliar spray instead of 20 ML. Instructions were on bottle but not clear on note that said " add this". Just as much my fault as hers. Probably more.

I caught it way too late when I saw the empty bottle. The girls all look great so far, they get Ca, Mg, an P foliar the dày after tomorrow (Wed).

I just got the replacement bladder for my feet injector so I'll fertigate 1x a week on top of my SST and or Compost extract program. The gals look like they gonna want more food.

I purchased some Bio-Ag Ful-Humix to use. Over the years I have used several humic products, mostly new Mexico humate " Baseline" and " Diatomic Humus". I believe this is an extract of those types and is more powerful. I will add this to my midweek foliar as well as my compost extract.
The label says the 1kilo package makes 1000-2000 gallons of solution that cost $38. That would likely be the most effective humate I have used excluding leonardite which has been shown ineffective.

Really like the efficiency of your grow and have always liked the pics shared. But those dog pictures are really high quality, has a lot to do with the dogs but it seems like a lot of their personalities maybe come through a bit.

I've got friends evacuating over that fire, looks to be spreading moderately even though a lot of resources are being sent. Helicopters have to go to grass valley for fuel because Auburn is out. Hopefully the tankers and dozers put a dent in it, hopefully the wind will stop tonight

 

[HillMizer]

How to unload a tote redneck style.

How to unload a tote redneck style.

Well I still don't own that tractor. Here is how I unloaded a tote with the quickness.

Chaining it high in a tree works better, could be hooked up pulley style and hooked to trailer hitch.

My tailgate folds down vertical, you could take the tailgate off on most trucks.

The fun part, hammer down.

Good enough.

Fire is cranking along, I'm feeling better about not losing my house and garden, but things have been known to go south quick.

I'm saying fuck it, I'm going to High Sierra Music Festival.

It looks like my thread became the Gunshot Wound
thread. If my neighbors are watching just saying, I'm not affiliated with these stories. You guys are welcom to bring most things to my thread. I'm just hoping for and supporting, kind hearted, healthy, community supporting abundance for everyone

 

[HillMizer]

I'm new here, but do y'all think we should clean this thread up? For the benefit of the community?

Anyone can just cruise in here off the web and get a bad impression. A lot of us have had "colorful" lives and we're real people with real problems. I got the ball rolling with my story. I'm thinking we might want to edit, especially where it turns toward things that are not as legal and wholesome as the herb.

Y'all tell me what you think. Should I clean up my part as well?

 

[Noonin NorCal]

I hope that fire stays clear from your property

 

[plantingplants]

I vote no for cleanup. It's truth, and plenty of people who don't smoke weed end up in the same circumstances. I think you made a good point- we are real people with real lives. I don't think anyone should ever sugar coat the truth for the sake of upholding an image. That's marketing. That's politics. Fuck all thay. I appreciate you and everybody else sharing ther real stories!

 

[Chunkypigs]

I'm new here, but do y'all think we should clean this thread up? For the benefit of the community?

Anyone can just cruise in here off the web and get a bad impression. A lot of us have had "colorful" lives and we're real people with real problems. I got the ball rolling with my story. I'm thinking we might want to edit, especially where it turns toward things that are not as legal and wholesome as the herb.

Y'all tell me what you think. Should I clean up my part as well?

leave it. remember that alcohol is a plant medicine too for many and abstinence can cause problems for many.

check out harm reduction, many folks with alcohol trouble can learn to drink safely.

good luck with the garden!

 

[Shcrews]

i edited my story

 

[maxmurder]

subbed
thanks for sharing.
don't edit until i get caught up hahahah

 

[HillMizer]

Thanks everyone. Thanks chunkypig I will try and look more into that.

Day 23 it's getting hazey in there.

I'm getting a slight leaf twist only in the new leaves in the flowers. I've never noticed it before. I'm not feeding much at this point, compost extract and I threw some bio-live mixed with 0-11-0 seabird on the top today.

Full season is doing well, I'm starting to feel my short days over here. You can see that even though all plants are 7-11 ft. The node spacing is large, they have few branches and are not very wide. The azure haze and deadhead OG got put in " Shady Grove". The Azure haze ended up being pretty burly plants, it was just russets that had em fussin'.

The plants in shady Grove have a really nice color and thick stems. Last year the quality was much higher at my shady property, nose and potency were better but yield was much less.

Oh yeah and the crews were able to get the fire under control. The cooler stable weather helped out a lot.

Thanks!

 

[plantingplants]

That is one nice hoopful of haze. Looks great!

 

[_tessarecting]

Beasts!

 

[HillMizer]

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See thru Azure Haze at the beginning of "Shady Grove"

Standing in Shady Grove.

Critical Haze. Not bad for S1! May not be the dankest but it's been fun so far.

Just started being able to keep the dressings off of my hand. I made just Salve with Blue Dream small buds, coconut oil, olive oil, beeswax, Calendula Flower and Yarrow flower. 2 herbalists intimidated me about Comfrey so I am making tea for plants with it!

After 1st day using salve I am seeing a lot of improvement on my paw. I'm getting optimistic about getting back use of my index finger. The surgeon was not, he made it clear that I may end up asking him to amputate at the middle knuckle if the tendon did not work.

Tomorrow I'm applying some brew. "Shotgun Tea" Compost extract, with Sprouted Barley, alfalfa pellets and comfrey tea. Because why not? I just use an old-school brass twist garden hose sprayer to foliar after I rootdrench.

I'm going to do another diatomaceous dusting in the full season garden too. For that I dust the foliage and throw handfuls of DE while holding the leaf blower. It's a new technique for me, I'm digging it. Just can't do it on flowers.

I made some Game Changer clones to put in the greenhouse when it finishes. They are ready to shove in some home depot buckets. I also took cuts of some of the full season plants and might put a row of Sky Lotus or deadhead OG in the greenhouse.

 

[hobbyhorse]

Looking tight over there mate good job. Glad the hand is feeling abit better. That salve looks like the right sorta medicine for it.

 

[FoothillFarming]

Subbed, very nice. Have no idea how grows like this escape me.

 

[self]

subbed, nice work... and I feel for you with the drinking/dui.
something about my body chemistry changed when I got close to thirty.
or maybe almost 2 decades of partying just caught up with me.
Or something to do with chronic lyme disease, since it seems to have changed so many things about how my body works.
anyway, I learned the hard way that I can't predict my tolerance or reaction to booze anymore.
4 beer afternoon blackout? no thank you.
cannabis, concentrates and the ocassional clean and tested party favor makes for a much happier and healthier Self.

in a very general, and very literal sense, alcohol is toxic. just depends on how much toxicity you can handle/tolerate in your body/environment.
being very conscious of what I feed my plants has turned a mirror on what I put in my own system and its hard not to notice when something has a deleterious effect on performance.
know what I mean?

 

[HillMizer]

Subbed, very nice. Have no idea how grows like this escape me.

Because you're crushing it and living life and raising family and posting all over the place?
Thanks for stopping in FF

subbed, nice work... and I feel for you with the drinking/dui.
something about my body chemistry changed when I got close to thirty.
or maybe almost 2 decades of partying just caught up with me.
Or something to do with chronic lyme disease, since it seems to have changed so many things about how my body works.
anyway, I learned the hard way that I can't predict my tolerance or reaction to booze anymore.
4 beer afternoon blackout? no thank you.
cannabis, concentrates and the ocassional clean and tested party favor makes for a much happier and healthier Self.

in a very general, and very literal sense, alcohol is toxic. just depends on how much toxicity you can handle/tolerate in your body/environment.
being very conscious of what I feed my plants has turned a mirror on what I put in my own system and its hard not to notice when something has a deleterious effect on performance.
know what I mean?

I believe a lot of struggles we have as part of the human experience are misdirected and misused instincts and genes. Likely ones that don't serve the lifestyles we live in our society.
I am guessing that for me and some of my family it's what is called ADD or HDAD. It's mostly in males.
We were hunter gatherers who used to go on long journeys, hunting, walking, running down animals. The women did more focused jobs like gathering berries.
As we became agrarian sometimes the instincts are suppressed. Some skills to cope with our society as we know it are more difficult to maintain.
The alcohol is self medication for these issues, but just like other items that are a little difficult to obtain in nature ( fat, sugar, carbohydrates) we can easily go overboard in the presence of such bounty.
I'm back on long walks and runs. I'm trying anyway, bring a workaholic doesn't help. I was sober for years and did great things and hiked 1000 miles in a shot.

I just thought I could be like a normal person. Nope.

Thanks Self. Thanks for the self help.

 

[plantingplants]

The ills of domestication.

 

[slownickel]

Humic acid vs Fulvic Acid

Humic acid vs Fulvic Acid

Mizer,

When you buy all that woo woo juice, does it tell you the fulvic and humic acid content?

So far the best one I have been able to find here in Peru is a Codahumus, which has one of the highest rates of fulvic acid. We use quite a bit here, but it is pretty pricey at $7 per liter. The codahumus has 10% fulvic and 10% humic acids here.

To my understanding, the big response to "humic acids" which is the term used for the family of humic acids, which include humic acid proper, fulvic acid, humin and some other minors. All the work that I have seen says we can get all the humic acids we need from organic material, but fulvic acid is something difficult to get, as it only comes from deciduous organic material (trees that shed their leaves once a year) and is quickly oxidized. This is why the lenoardites that have the highest levels of fulvic acid come from areas that have long winters, North Dakota, New Mexico etc... and that the best concentrations in humates are actually found in Russia and the Chec Republics (can't keep track of them anymore).

Which "humic" or "fulvic" acids are you using if you don't mind me asking. Price per gallon/liter?

 

[_tessarecting]

I just thought I could be like a normal person. Nope

I said the same exact thing over 2 years ago. Some people are just better off staying away.

I also like the DE technique. That stuff saved my veggie garden.

 

[HillMizer]

Mizer,

When you buy all that woo woo juice, does it tell you the fulvic and humic acid content?

So far the best one I have been able to find here in Peru is a Codahumus, which has one of the highest rates of fulvic acid. We use quite a bit here, but it is pretty pricey at $7 per liter. The codahumus has 10% fulvic and 10% humic acids here.

To my understanding, the big response to "humic acids" which is the term used for the family of humic acids, which include humic acid proper, fulvic acid, humin and some other minors. All the work that I have seen says we can get all the humic acids we need from organic material, but fulvic acid is something difficult to get, as it only comes from deciduous organic material (trees that shed their leaves once a year) and is quickly oxidized. This is why the lenoardites that have the highest levels of fulvic acid come from areas that have long winters, North Dakota, New Mexico etc... and that the best concentrations in humates are actually found in Russia and the Chec Republics (can't keep track of them anymore).

Which "humic" or "fulvic" acids are you using if you don't mind me asking. Price per gallon/liter?

I'm not much of a woowoo juice man, I'm more if a chicken shit worm castings fish hydrolysate and bonemeal kind of guy.

I did jump on the AEA bandwagon from watching this forum but I'm not sold on it, and I'm ashamed to have spent some of that money. I don't visit grow stores aside from the Fruit Growers' coop.

Humic acid is not part of my system that is very dialed. Most has come from compost. Some products have content % and some do not. There is currently big discrepancies on which testing methods to use and they give vastly different results.

I know just enough to know I might be buying bullshit
(Just like biology in a bag/jar/bottle) that makes me hesitant to use much of it.

My understanding is that New Mexico humate is NOT leonardite Dakota brown coal IS leonardnite. Studies have shown leonardnite not to be an effective source of humuc acid in trials. I know leonardite can be had for CHEAP. Every nutrient manufacturer uses it as a filler ingredient these days.

The dry new Mexico humate i'm using is 50% humic and due to some labeling and testing disputes it does not advertise fulvic content. I impulse purchased a small package of this because I didnt commit to purchasing bulk humate as I usually do. Mix with 1000-2000 gallons or $30. But its a 1 kilo package. It warns that stronger usage will cause leaf curl.

In the past I have bought totes of new Mexico humate from a friend that rebrands it. I believe it was $600 for a 54 cubic foot tote. Or $2.5/L
A different biologist friend sold me a 55 gallon drum that was a combination leonardite and new Mexico humate product that I liked a great deal. I never got a label or paperwork on those He got to be unreliable and delivered everything really late. I used one barrel for several years and don't remember or have records on the price.

Thanks for the information. I'm currently in the process of locating good sources of raw amendments for a retail store I'm opening.

I intend to run a business geared towards the commercial cannabis farmer supplying supplies for biological cultivation without all the fancy artwork, molasses and "woowoo" juice.

There are several grades of New Mexico humates from different veins to consider. I'd love to feel better about what I'm buying. It definitely looks like I'll be selling dead diatoms and not brown coal

I'll keep my amino chelated minerals. I'll ditch the AEA. I'm finding good sources for crab hydrolysate right now. I like that stuff!

I'll try not to be offended that you asked me about my woowoo juice. I feel like I've been throwing the woowoo juice out of people's sheds for the past 10 years.

Do you have a Cannabis garden on the forum yet Slow nickel? I saw your fruit tree beds on another thread. Did you use a bed shaper implement? Get off the slownickels and on to the fast quarters,?

I spent WAY too much time in the mag today. I gotta go dig up a water line. Peas.