Nomaad's Outdoor Adventure 2009 v1.2

[nomaad]

Confirmed. No new rust this morning- two mornings after foliar application of:

General Hydroponics Subculture B @ 1ml/gallon
Natural Wet wetting agent from SaferGrow

I know I can use soap, but I notice a buildup. Weed Santa swears by this stuff and it contains Saponins (Yucca Extract) which is a good thing that your plants will like. Its also OMRI listed.

 

[nomaad]

I am pulling up a seat!!!

Your really showing how much of a noob you are, BY growing plants that are already beastly..
Jesus, you have some nice genetics to work with, be grateful my friend.

Have a good and safe season, and a ultra harvest!

Somehow, I missed some posts. Thanks for the support, Glaze. Our family is blessed to have some very good friends here in the 707. When I announced that I was packing up the family and coming (been talking about it for a while) 4 different friends started keeping up a collection for me in their veg rooms. By the time I got here was given almost a hundred plants (more than 50 from one person) which I picked through to come up with my final 36. I was able to stoke out some other people with my extras. Some of them were pretty huge.

Fisher; Indo Blue Dream is like... the best smelling, tasting and heaviest hitting medicine that I have smoked since arriving back in the states. I have had some Orange County OG Kush (Larry Clone) that was superb and this Tahoe OG that was tasty... and if you asked me what my two fav Cali strains were 4 months ago I would have probably said the (portland) Cough and OG Kush. Now, hands down, OG has been bumped by the Blue Dream.

And yeah, I am a Jazz fan. I grew up on a diet of strict classical from my dad, but when CD players hit the market, he started building a Jazz collection. Pretty sick one, too. I like all kinds of music. I am a techno/house and old school jungle DJ (vinyl and digital.) I have also found myself getting real into some bluegrass since getting here. Never thought I would hear a banjo and not want to puke. I still prefer the banjo-free stuff.

The Monk Cut I mentioned is on my favorite record of his. Its called Underground and boasts the single best album cover of the entire OG Jazz era.

 

[$HoRtDaWg]

very nice grow man, wish i could grow on my property in the open like that...props

 

[fisher15]

Subculture sounds legit. Guess I've just been leary of anything GH, but I should get over it...

Your 60' ducted hoophouse vision sounds killer- I know there's folks out here rocking some top notch shit. I say dream big...a few mini splits should do it

Yucca extract is a great spreader sticker...Santa knows what he's talking about

Blue dream is a great one for sure, I love it. High yielding chronic meds. Think you're gonna like the bubba tho, so damn tasty...will be interested to see if you can get her to yield. The burkle I got in mine veggs a lil faster and yields a bit more, but the flowers just make me wanna smoke bubba.

What a sic album cover that is. I'll have to pick it up. I'm a drummer and wanna be guitarist, have done a few jazz gigs...among other stuff, but always lookin out for something good. Thanks for the tip.

 

[nomaad]

Welcome, $hortdawg. Thanks for stopping by.

Fisher: I have smoked the bubba. I am definitely a fan. Smoking the MK Ultra right now from a real shitty local dispensary. Really sucks to have to pay for herb at the moment...

TS Monk, son of Thelonius, is a percussionist. I remember a really good album from probably 10 years ago where TS and band were playing dad's cuts. The idea was a percussion homage to Thelonius' piano playing... which was pretty percussive in its own way.

Have you seen the push-of-a-button lite dep greenhouses that they make. I think a 10x10 with climate control and ventilation goes for around $30K. can't remember the name of the company that makes em. I figure I could probably build my own about 6 times the size for that much.

 

[.clunk]

Have you seen the push-of-a-button lite dep greenhouses that they make. I think a 10x10 with climate control and ventilation goes for around $30K. can't remember the name of the company that makes em. I figure I could probably build my own about 6 times the size for that much.

First off, amazing looking grow! I wish that I could do the same in my backyard with as great of a season as you have. I'll be watching to see how big these monsters get because it's always nice to see people pushing the limits of what a plant can produce, and I bet you're going to max it out with those!

My old neighbour designed and built a pretty simple (sounding) automatic greenhouse cover "furler" for some people on private property around here. He had the motor's run on timers with some kind of PVC rollers to do the work for them. They only visited the property once a week and put out well vegged clones, and forced 3 crops out of a season here where people could only do one normally. It worked pretty well for them but at the end of the 3rd rotation they got busted. I guess the 3 giant 50'x25' greenhouses attracted a bit of aerial attention on the otherwise undeveloped piece of property.

I bet you could build something basic but functional for a few hundred dollars each if you want to take on a project, I think my neighbour used some kind of appliance motor's (industrial washing machine maybe rings a bell?).

 

[antimatter]

looking awesome, I like the smart pots.

 

[nomaad]

Thanks for the input .clunk. I am going to see what these systems are like. The idea looks pretty sound. Of course, I can't see myself paying somebody for something that I can build myself.

http://www.grobots.com/

 

[nomaad]

Welcome antimatter. I am diggin the smartpots too. Can't wait to go to the laundromat and wash em all for another use after this season.

I just remembered the name of those insane lite dep greenhouses.

http://www.foreverflowering.net/?page=hobbyist

 

[nomaad]

OK... so the rust problem is not completely gone. It just took a couple of nights without fans to come back... I am going to grab the fans today. I think I will go with oscillators rather than box fans. And I am going to hit it with SubCulture B again in a slightly higher concentration.

 

[antimatter]

Welcome antimatter. I am diggin the smartpots too. Can't wait to go to the laundromat and wash em all for another use after this season.

I just remembered the name of those insane lite dep greenhouses.

http://www.foreverflowering.net/?page=hobbyist

dam you can reuse them to that is very nice, its a lot work digging 65 gallon holes, and as long as you have drip set up you won't have to worry about them drying out.

 

[fisher15]

A friend grew mk ultra a few years ago and I actually really liked it, awesome unique taste. But yeah buying herb does suck. Soon enough...

Gonna see if that TS album is on iTunes...sounds like a winner

The auto-darkening systems are way cool. Saw the grobot with PV panel down at our shop. I've heard of guys using garage door openers rigged up to pull tarp. Would be a good winter project, I'll start brainstorming...

Good luck with the rust...my big coral reef in the dep (and the only one I'm really concerned about) isn't showing signs of it but I'll grab the subculture if I need to.

 

[nomaad]

dam you can reuse them to that is very nice, its a lot work digging 65 gallon holes, and as long as you have drip set up you won't have to worry about them drying out.

actually, we've dug some holes under some of the smartpots because the plants were getting too big... we could also raise the hoophouse for the same effect, but then you'd see more of it over our fence.

 

[antimatter]

actually, we've dug some holes under some of the smartpots because the plants were getting too big... we could also raise the hoophouse for the same effect, but then you'd see more of it over our fence.

dam you guys in california need crazy rootspace, ive seen some pretty big plants grown in 20 gallon holes, but then again even doing everything perfect here you wouldn't be able to get more then a 1lb a plant.

 

[White Devil]

looks like youre going to come ut on top
good job man

 

[nomaad]

your average cali med grower is stoked on 1lbers.

I would say that there are even still a lot of commercial growers who grow 1-2lbers in smaller holes or pots. I have found a lot of people stuck in their first successful grow paradigm. They are like... OK...I do X, Y and Z and i get this much yield. I can do my math with those numbers and know what I get at the end of the year. Once they have seen some success, the don't strive to constatly take it up notch after notch. I see it both indoors and outdoors.

These guys are busting their asses and breaking the laws (big time, even in cali) to get the same yield out of 99 plants (these same people also think that 99 outdoor plants is legal) that We are hoping to get out of 18.

you're right, man... it's all about rootspace. I may not know much about growing (except what I have learned over the past 2 months) but I know that much.

 

[nomaad]

Thanks White Devil. I hope I do.

 

[rasjano]

thx for sharing the info of that beautifull NL....

do you like sativas???sativas grow in your garden would be awsome...

redards
rasjano

 

[nomaad]

I have a farm in central America where I will someday be growing a collection of pure landrace sativas. I'm hoping to become proficient in plant tissue culturing so that I can transport down there the genetics that I collect.

I've been lurking in the Sativa thread here at IC for a long time... maybe I can build up some good credibility with this grow and get some of those heads to help me collect those genetics.

 

[yortbogey]

nomaad I'm shellshocked...after reading thru that thread..... U got ballz and skillz.....one LUV.......look'in like tomhills younger cooler brother.......

really NICE outdoor plot.... U should be proud of that place......
I'm glued to this one all summer long.....................