Nomaad OD:2010

[nomaad]

Shoulda had some Jack Herer or somethin for dude....

Is this the same Chris that was workin @ Eddys?

He was very stoked on the NL5xHaze... he spotted it right away and was like "that's obviously some oldschool genetics." Different Chris, though the one you speak of is my neighbor and, if I am not mistaken did some editorial work for Jorge in the past.

you think youll have anything going after this upcoming full moon or is that the final push? pineapple cough looks killer

All the Blue Dream should be down by the next full moon on the 22nd. The Pineapple Cough is going to go a bit longer and I have Chem 91 and Chem D and some other random strains that will be coming down even later. Had the PC started flowering when the Dream did, it probably would have finished at the same time.

 

[Yankee Grower]

he spotted it right away and was like "that's obviously some oldschool genetics

All the Blue Dream should be down by the next full moon on the 22nd.

Yeah REv is stoked about the SH crossed to the Cough.

If you just pollinated you're gonna have to leave part of a plant up for at least another week longer. I also question making any viable J1 beans cause that should be finishing fairly soon but you did say the other plot is running behind. You have plenty of time left for the Cough beans to develop completely. That pollen will keep for months in the freezer if packaged properly so maybe start a few clones now and flip to flower once rooted?

 

[Trinity Gold]

Right on. Cats like Jorge , Jack (RIP) , Eddy etc., all prefer more Sativa type varietal ....

 

[nomaad]

Shoulda had some Jack Herer or somethin for dude....

Is this the same Chris that was workin @ Eddys?

Yeah REv is stoked about the SH crossed to the Cough.

If you just pollinated you're gonna have to leave part of a plant up for at least another week longer. I also question making any viable J1 beans cause that should be finishing fairly soon but you did say the other plot is running behind. You have plenty of time left for the Cough beans to develop completely. That pollen will keep for months in the freezer if packaged properly so maybe start a few clones now and flip to flower once rooted?

Here is what I was thinking. There is a wide harvest range in a Blue Dream crop. Some could go until the 7th of November...certainly parts of some. I will be harvesting successively since the Blue Dream really develops the small buds once the tops have been removed... The buds that have been pollinated will be the fursthest behind and will have at least 3 weeks if not 4 to finish. Last year i left some tiny immature inner buds on the Blue Dream and they continued to develop (and become a beautiful bluish purple in the process) until the third week of November, through rain and generally shit weather. When it was harvested and dried by a stashless neighbor, it was reported to have smoked very well.

So... do you think I can render some viable seed from the Dream given 3-4 weeks on the plant?

 

[McDank8O5]

you got some chem diesel cuts out there? damn i think im gonna have to go back through all these pages and find those! do you know how much longer they go than the chem 91?

 

[Yankee Grower]

So... do you think I can render some viable seed from the Dream given 3-4 weeks on the plant?

Yes and the longer the better. If some do go to the server fund I'd recommend you do a test sprout after they cure a bit just to make sure.

 

[nomaad]

how many beans for a credible test sprout? 10? Time to cure?

 

[nomaad]

I have Chem D. As in A, B, C, D. I am not sure which finishes first (especially full season outdoor) but i have them both out there, so I'll have more data in a month. I took the Chem D down at 65 days in the light dep.

 

[Yankee Grower]

how many beans for a credible test sprout? 10? Time to cure?

10 is fine and for me I usually go a few weeks in a warm, dry place open to the air (non sealed container).

 

[Trinity Gold]

You can pop wet seeds right out of the bud

 

[Ganja D]

Hey Nomad,what did you pollinate?

 

[nomaad]

Hey Nomad,what did you pollinate?

At some point today when the breeze dies down I am going to pollinate the Cough and The Blue dream with Shadow Haze bx2 pollen.

 

[Yankee Grower]

At some point today when the breeze dies down I am going to pollinate the Cough and The Blue dream with Shadow Haze bx2 pollen.

Nice!

 

[simos]

Had I been able to keep the dome up at the original site, I would have put a single Cough plant in it in 400-500 gallons of soil. In a Smartpot, of course, but, my fantasy it would have a radint heating pad under it or radiant heating tubing inside the smartpot itself. I would have take off the cover for the dry months of summer, and sometime around a 2 weeks from now, I would have covered it back up and started up the radiant heating to get her thru till thanksgiving.

Next year, you can expect something like that to happen.

I just stumbled on a clever, sustainable, low-cost heating method that reminded me of this idea. It might well be the way to heat your hypothetical mega plant's root zone.

Heating with compost!
http://energymd.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/heat-free-nearly-with-a-compost-furnace/

If the inventor can heat his house during Wisconsin winters, I think you can probably work out a much simplified version to keep your mega plant's root system nice and toasty. Looks like your only costs would be a big loop of tubing and a recirculating pump, assuming you'll have a pretty substantial compost pile come next fall... Something to consider, at least.

Cheers

 

[nomaad]

I had a neighbor in El Honduragua that messed with this method of heating water. He was a bit of a madman... never had a lot of success with the method.

I am probably going to reverse engineer a product that is meant to passively heat water for showers with solar energy on the roof and use it under my pots flooded with hot water (heated with propane) to heat them radiantly from beneath.

It seems like it would be fun to try to tap into the heating potential of the compost pile, but after watching my neighbor pull his hair out over it for a couple of years, its probably not on my list of winter projects.

The grape growers are expecting a warm Spring in 2011. I hope they are right.

 

[humble1]

If you're looking for pointers come on over! I know quite a few people in the radiant heating biz.... just bring some of the pineapple cough with you!

 

[Trinity Gold]

Look up hydronic beds...all you need to do is get some 2 x4 and set it to the size you want the pot to sit on so if you wanted a 8x8 pot you'd make a 10 x 10 square and lay down some sand run copper pipe, heat it via wood stove as if it was wood fired hot tub, lay down more sand over the copper and put the bed on top...rockin

 

[Babbabud]

If I was going to lay a radiant bed out I would look into pex for the bed tubing. Google it .. its awesome to work with and bends in pretty much any grid you can dream up. Its whats used in radiant floors these.

 

[BrotherGanja]

I took a weeks long solar installation back in June and learned that solar vacuum tubes are the most efficient way to heat water. They usually use these to radiantly heat other water through coils or radiant heat floors. They are designed to be super efficient the guy showing us these things busted one out of the box brand new and its heating element was cold to the touch in a matter of 5 mins of being in the sun it burnt the shit out of you, he said that element gets up to 300 hundred some degrees in minutes.

It is a glass vacuum sealed tube with a small panel inside of the tube fused to a heat pipe that sticks out the end of the tube, that then is put inside a pre-made mount that is then filled distilled water or propylene glycol(antifreeze mix) and then ran through a heat exchanger or you could pipe it through anything you wanted to, you just need to control the temp.
Here are a couple pics and a wiki link on Solar Thermal Collectors. Usually they place them at almost 90 degree angle and facing south to optimize for winter it doesn't take much sun to heat these babies up. They are super efficient and will pay themselves off quick as shit there is several guys that install them up in here in the northern region I could dig out the guys info if you need.

More info here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_collector

Also your plants are unbelievably epic, one hell of a year for you man. Great Job My Friend.
Hope all is well with the family too!

 

[Yankee Grower]

If I was going to lay a radiant bed out I would look into pex for the bed tubing. Google it .. its awesome to work with and bends in pretty much any grid you can dream up. Its whats used in radiant floors these.

Yeah Pex would rock in this type of application and second that idea. Also better heat transfer than copper if I'm remembering correctly and you can set up manifolds pretty easy.