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Nomaad's Outdoor Adventure 2009 v1.2
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wow time lapse. nice....
what's the max temp's with the tarp pulled over?
that tarp is huge. what's the cost of that?
thanks.
what's the max temp's with the tarp pulled over?
that tarp is huge. what's the cost of that?
thanks.
i got a 40x50 and a 50x50 "super silver sun blocker" (yeah right-had to deploy 6mil black plastic to achieve total darkness in there) by Duratarp from CreativeShelters.com for $620 delivered.
The original hoop house was 60 feet long and 11 feet high... the two tarps were needed to overlap and cover the whole thing. broke the structure down into two smaller structures for a number of reasons- less plants, impossible to pull tarp alone as it was...
Now I wish I had smaller tarps that were exactly the right size. Less excess to deal with. I guess I could cut these to size, but it seems a shame...
The original hoop house was 60 feet long and 11 feet high... the two tarps were needed to overlap and cover the whole thing. broke the structure down into two smaller structures for a number of reasons- less plants, impossible to pull tarp alone as it was...
Now I wish I had smaller tarps that were exactly the right size. Less excess to deal with. I guess I could cut these to size, but it seems a shame...
tennesseetoker
Member
that sucks man I'd probably just cut it yeah its kinda a waste but ultimately will fit your needs better.
yeah... when i have an impulse to destroy something, i try to wait as long as possible for a reason NOt to destroy to emerge.
ongreenday: I never answered your question about temps in the light dep. To be honest, I have no idea. Its usually in the 70's when we close it at 8pm. There may be some evaporative coolijng going on between the transpiration of moisture in the plants and the air movement from the fans inside. I do not know for sure. What I do know is that when we open it at 8am, its not too hot in there. Nothing that makes me worried that overnight temps are too high. The hottest it gets is at 7:45 when the sun peaks over the trees and hits one of the hoophouses. but the duration of any heating up period is very short.
I am as curious as you are about the actual temps and humidity levels, so I am going to put batteries into this shitty little remote thermometer I have and deploy it tonight. I'll let you know when I have the data.
ongreenday: I never answered your question about temps in the light dep. To be honest, I have no idea. Its usually in the 70's when we close it at 8pm. There may be some evaporative coolijng going on between the transpiration of moisture in the plants and the air movement from the fans inside. I do not know for sure. What I do know is that when we open it at 8am, its not too hot in there. Nothing that makes me worried that overnight temps are too high. The hottest it gets is at 7:45 when the sun peaks over the trees and hits one of the hoophouses. but the duration of any heating up period is very short.
I am as curious as you are about the actual temps and humidity levels, so I am going to put batteries into this shitty little remote thermometer I have and deploy it tonight. I'll let you know when I have the data.
tennesseetoker
Member
logical
tennesseetoker
Member
What exactly is that? something that magnifys anything that you take a pic of?
irieeyes808
Member
I pulled this off one of my True Headband plants in the light dep. There are maybe 6 more leaves like this on the one plant and none visible on another of the same genetics five feet away.
Best I can do is a boron deficiency... and that is comparing it to the photo in Ed Rosenthal's Garden Saver book. I have a cervantes bible somewhere... Which toilet did I leave it on... Garden Saver says the boron def is super rare.
Does it look like burn? Not the pics of burn in Garden Saver...
It could also be a reaction to some bad human energy in our garden the last few days. Had to ask the guy who has been helping me to leave... a process that has involved a few days of high drama. Think: passive aggressive hunger strikes. What my dad would have called "cutting off your nose to spite your face." My wife and I worked swiftly and together (this is a new thing we're trying) to nip this shit in the bud and the guy, bad juju and all, got dropped off with his belongings at a curb in Santa Rosa this evening and I was back home in time to pull tarp.
So, if its not boron and its not Toxic Martyr Juju Residue, what could it be? Any thoughts?
I had some that did that as well, I was just puzzeled, nice garden.
irie: That is a breakout of Rust. We controlled it with foliar application of Subculture B by GH and some cheap fans to move air around at night.
toker: its a video/still camera with 100/200/400x magnification:
from: https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=105558&page=2
toker: its a video/still camera with 100/200/400x magnification:
from: https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=105558&page=2
tennesseetoker
Member
that's a great deal then
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nomaad, how are you with deadlines?
that sounds creepy. No creepy intentions. Scout's honor. I just have to think with all of that planning, and the incredible amount of capital that must have been involved, You must have had a very good plan, so I'm sort of just wondering how much of that was accomplished under a deadline? Have you lived my dream, and never worked under a deadline one time in your life?
drifting once more away from the evil creep thing... What's up with the Sherpa? Do you think that's a good idea? (ps. he's probably reading this RIGHT NOW!)
ps. About the creepy "evil" thing .... don't get all paranoid, ANYONE!!!! I am not "that guy!"
I didn't read about the Sherpa's departure until just now. (again...creepy!)
Hoping everything was amicable, dude! Sorry about being creepy!
pps.... And by that I mean here, on the forum -- Not in real life because I have never met you in real life, I've just been following your grow right! And about a week too late, and a dollar too short, to advise you against hiring any strays. He probably wanted $100/hr right, while you're just running a low viz op. I hope everything was amicable! I hope nobody got hurt!
In one of my past lives I was a film/television/commercial producer, director, AD, PA and about every other thing you could be in that industry. I worked on everything from national commercial campaigns to major motion pictures with A-List talent to Law and Order (find a film pro in new york who hasn't worked for law and order!!) to "Reality Television" and on and on.
That whole world is basically the spiritual home of deadlines. So I am pretty good at setting goals, breaking down what its going to take to accomplish that goal, creating a plan and executing. The hidden skill that makes me better at this kind of shit than the next guy is that I am also adept at scrapping the entire hard-faught plan and making up a new one from scratch to fit the ever changing scenario that is the 'real world'.
I have also been a contractor... of sorts. In Central America I designed custom houses made of timber bamboo... each house was completely unique and even the structural concepts involved were often unlike anything I had ever done before. Each structure was its own work of art. More like a giant piece of furniture than a house... The last one I built, was pretty much made up as we went along... the original design for the house was little more than a scratched out skeleton of the basic structure. On top of the obvious set of challenges involved, this was all going down in Central America... anybody who has been there can vouch for the fact that things ain't always convenient like they are in Babylon. Before I began building bigass bamboo houses, I had never built ANYTHING before.
So plan or no plan, I just get it done.
here's a couple of images of my last obsession:
the main cathedral roof of a house that is currently for sale (LOL buyers PM me)
Side of same house. This roof is the master bathroom.
Back patio of same house.
This is the place that basically got made up as we went along. Of all the cool things I have built with bamboo, this one is the coolest.
Full set of plans for the above house. I lie. The full set of plans amounted to about 5 images like this one, showing the basic structure from different angles.
That whole world is basically the spiritual home of deadlines. So I am pretty good at setting goals, breaking down what its going to take to accomplish that goal, creating a plan and executing. The hidden skill that makes me better at this kind of shit than the next guy is that I am also adept at scrapping the entire hard-faught plan and making up a new one from scratch to fit the ever changing scenario that is the 'real world'.
I have also been a contractor... of sorts. In Central America I designed custom houses made of timber bamboo... each house was completely unique and even the structural concepts involved were often unlike anything I had ever done before. Each structure was its own work of art. More like a giant piece of furniture than a house... The last one I built, was pretty much made up as we went along... the original design for the house was little more than a scratched out skeleton of the basic structure. On top of the obvious set of challenges involved, this was all going down in Central America... anybody who has been there can vouch for the fact that things ain't always convenient like they are in Babylon. Before I began building bigass bamboo houses, I had never built ANYTHING before.
So plan or no plan, I just get it done.
here's a couple of images of my last obsession:
the main cathedral roof of a house that is currently for sale (LOL buyers PM me)
Side of same house. This roof is the master bathroom.
Back patio of same house.
This is the place that basically got made up as we went along. Of all the cool things I have built with bamboo, this one is the coolest.
Full set of plans for the above house. I lie. The full set of plans amounted to about 5 images like this one, showing the basic structure from different angles.
The original Sherpa was a person we knew from the tropics who just didn't have the needed qualities to go the distance. Nor could he take the intensity of life in this family. It played out in a really, really silly drama that I hope one day to forget as our life, while exciting and intense, is not dramatic in that way. At harvest, he'll be given enough medicine to last him a year as payment for his 6 weeks of labor. Pretty good deal if you add the amount it cost to feed, house and medicate the guy. I bought his cigarettes evem though i'd just quit them myself a month before.
I truly don't think he would rip this crop... but since there is 24 hour security with motion sensors, ipcams and a human being living in the garden full time, he'd really have to be real determined to get away with it.
Sherpa II is younger, smarter more open-hearted, and more resilliant. He's also someone we know from the tropics. I haven't been able to make him cry yet. Plenty of time between now and November, though.
I truly don't think he would rip this crop... but since there is 24 hour security with motion sensors, ipcams and a human being living in the garden full time, he'd really have to be real determined to get away with it.
Sherpa II is younger, smarter more open-hearted, and more resilliant. He's also someone we know from the tropics. I haven't been able to make him cry yet. Plenty of time between now and November, though.
Elephunk
Member
Awesome bamboo houses man. Oh and the grow is pretty nice too.
Was it hard living down in Central America? I've been toying with the idea of buying land somewhere out in Central/South America to start a permaculture/ aquaponics farm to escape everything that is soon to come. I was planning on growing bamboo for a number of reasons, but one of them definitely being for building housing structures/ wind breaks and stuff. I imagine it can't be easy to just do that though.
Did you guys live more commune style or was it just you and the fam working hard to do stuff. Sorry if I seem intrusive in any way. I assure you I'm not leo. You're just someone who as experience doing what I am seriously thinking about doing to escape this corrupt government and live truly free.
Was it hard living down in Central America? I've been toying with the idea of buying land somewhere out in Central/South America to start a permaculture/ aquaponics farm to escape everything that is soon to come. I was planning on growing bamboo for a number of reasons, but one of them definitely being for building housing structures/ wind breaks and stuff. I imagine it can't be easy to just do that though.
Did you guys live more commune style or was it just you and the fam working hard to do stuff. Sorry if I seem intrusive in any way. I assure you I'm not leo. You're just someone who as experience doing what I am seriously thinking about doing to escape this corrupt government and live truly free.
Elelphunk: LOL. My grow is legal and small and is obviously about legit patients growing medicine. I surround myself in a bubble of white light and good intentions toward my neighbors and law enforcement who, by law, protect my right to grow this medicine. So... if we all respect each others' rights and societal responsibilities the whole thing works out. I am confident that my adherence to state law will protect me from state law, and would hope that the Federal government is beyond "making examples" of those who are taking state law seriously and respectfully, as is the policy of the current administration.
Those of us who grow legally in California and post here are taking an activist stance and asserting their right to grow openly, in the full light of day. It puts us at risk. To some extent this is part of the driving force behind any hope of greater decriminalization of the medicine or the recreational intoxicant. OK, I'm done with the soapbox.
Our thing in the cloud forest is a pretty amazing little micro-community. We could not have done it ourselves and birthed and raised two babies during our time there. Its not on the order of these big hippie intentional communities that are really just the intended fiefdoms of wannabe-guru-trustafarian-rainbow-crusties. We are a tight little tribe that all understand the basic realities behind successful life-partnerships whether they be with your lover/mate or your land partners, or whatever. Its not fucking easy, but its satisfying.
I have at least 7 species of bamboo growing on the farm including an established grove of guadua angustofolia (what I build with) that has produced more than enough new canes to replace the entire structure of my 2 story 2000 square foot house in just the 4 years since I completed construction. I have not found a more important component of sustainability in my decade of pondering potentially sustainable paradigm. Bamboo is as important a part of the return to a more natural existence for the purposes of shelter, warmth, food and fuel as cannabis is as a medicine and industrial hemp as a source of nutrition, fiber and fuel.
Ripshot: Thanks for stopping by.
Those of us who grow legally in California and post here are taking an activist stance and asserting their right to grow openly, in the full light of day. It puts us at risk. To some extent this is part of the driving force behind any hope of greater decriminalization of the medicine or the recreational intoxicant. OK, I'm done with the soapbox.
Our thing in the cloud forest is a pretty amazing little micro-community. We could not have done it ourselves and birthed and raised two babies during our time there. Its not on the order of these big hippie intentional communities that are really just the intended fiefdoms of wannabe-guru-trustafarian-rainbow-crusties. We are a tight little tribe that all understand the basic realities behind successful life-partnerships whether they be with your lover/mate or your land partners, or whatever. Its not fucking easy, but its satisfying.
I have at least 7 species of bamboo growing on the farm including an established grove of guadua angustofolia (what I build with) that has produced more than enough new canes to replace the entire structure of my 2 story 2000 square foot house in just the 4 years since I completed construction. I have not found a more important component of sustainability in my decade of pondering potentially sustainable paradigm. Bamboo is as important a part of the return to a more natural existence for the purposes of shelter, warmth, food and fuel as cannabis is as a medicine and industrial hemp as a source of nutrition, fiber and fuel.
Ripshot: Thanks for stopping by.
bongcritter
Member
Love the grow show nomaad...Keep on doing what you do...I love the attention to detail and of course, the beautiful flowers!!!
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to nomaad again.
K+
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to nomaad again.
K+
tennesseetoker
Member
I'd give k+ if i could, that's awesome. I've always wanted to go off the grid like that.
