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i am located in an area that has historically been orchards and veggie farms.... the kind of industry that would be ruined by devastating weather like that with any regularity
ya NC is trying to shut down smokable hemp, not the entire program
SC already banned smokable sales, meaning you can have, use, give, produce smokable hemp in SC just can't sell it (this was done VIA the state DA)
NC just wants to END smokable entirely, making the sale of any raw material plant matter illegal from a farm to anyone other than a processor, and sales of any form of raw plant matter is illegal at the retail level
^ this is where it all started, seeds i produced last season made everything this season possible
my seeds are being growin in colorado, south carolina, north carolina, oregon, michigan, california, oregon, new york, wisconsin and more states this season
it's been a helluva season, preparing to harvest in Colorado now, another month in NC....
here are some pics from the south carolina farmers growing my gear :
here are pics from my family farm in North Carolina:
^ "cherry sweeten" clones - a sativa leaning cherry which finishes later and hence spikes thc later so it's popular in NC, fluffier buds and longer node spacing make it better candidate for the southern humidity due to mildew and mold resistance, lets air thru the plant instead of shorter denser plants that will tend to have issues in the humid south.
^ field of my "wulf" genetics being grown for seed production
^cherry sweeten clones in the front
wulf genetics on the upper right of the picture
^ beautiful expression from my cats meow (suzyq type) x wulf seed stock
this plant is growing in colorado in a field of one of my pals who bought seeds pre-season
^ same plant, sideways, but still impressive
^ Wulf F1 hybrids growing in another field of a friends who purchased seeds pre-season
this year at Bong-a-thon i sponsored the ice bong!
^ bong a thon ice bong was a big hit, one side for flower and one side for dabs
plus it had an LED strip beneath it that would illuminate the entire stand
^ long field in South Carolina filled with my Wulf hemp genetics
thanks, bobbles, for the kind words
and yes, lets get back to what is important, the THC garden
im still growing in my big indoor bed, cranking out the dank;
^this picture is from a previous run (not the one im about to show off)
it's a big deep bed of recycled no-till living soil, it has never let me down. it is full of worms, so much so that the worms require food above and beyond what the plants require, so heavy mulch layers have become the norm - usually hay or straw, more recently wood chips. Availability of wood chips near me tend to be mostly pine; however, recently i have been lucky enough to get some ramial chips of cottonwood, elm, aspen, russian olive and whatever else is unlucky enough to grow in local easements.
worms love these mulch layers, it is not unusual for my worms to consume a 3 -5 inch deep layer of mulch in a 90 day grow cycle, requiring more to be added for the next run.
^ bed full, veg concluding, ready to bloom when the canopy is full!
^canopy is full!
^ side view of the canopy around the time of transition from veg to bloom
^canopy stretch
the taller plants around the outside are NOT in the bed, those are on "benches" that flank the bed, they are designed for experimental plants, pheno hunts, and isolated experiments - these plants can be removed from the room if something goes wrong or unusual, such as a hermaphrodite on a tester plant or a late (or very fast) finishing variety.
^^ buds forming
sadly you can see the outside plants, on the benches, are fading early, way too early. also unfortunately, this plant showing early fade is GMO, a long flowering variety. i did the best i could to spoon feed these ladies thru the run... the bed never shows these early fades because it never seems to run low on fertilizer (altho i'm sure it needs some micro-nutrient balancing).
^^ "the lean"
3 layers of trellis net and i still get buds leaning.... can't complain, all that resin weighing them down...
you can see the GMO in the back, they are just starting to swell when the rest of the room is well on it's way toward ripening, 82 days is what most of my peeps consider a proper time to finish GMO at, i didn't get that far along, altho got close...
Thw whole room came down between days 74 and 77
^ post harvest
after this harvest i dug my bed and turned the soil, the first time i have done so in 3 and 1/2 years since starting this bed of soil...
i guess it is no longer NO-till... did i just lose heady points?
^next run in the bed before trimming the last one has finished...
^ this current run i've planted heavy cover crops and even got a pumpkin volunteer, must have come from the pumpkins i buried in the soil to feed the worms...
^ mesa cookies seedling doing great in a pot of recycled living soil surrounded by cover crop of grasses, radishes, vetch, clover, peas and more...