okay - thought I'd show the weirdest problem we encountered
Ants
In one greenhouse we had 48 Tahoe plants, about half way thru flowering
We started finding lower branches on the ground
After a couple of weeks of really trying to determined what the hell was going on
We made a discovery early in the morning before sunrise
Ants were munching on the junction where the branches meets the stalk
They would munch until the branch fell
Then leave
They didn't go after anything else, just the lowest branch on the Tahoe plants
@Kid95, you gotta get yourself into a location where it's possible ๐ its a different life, but it was awesome. for me i got an opportunity to go to the west coast of america, just got lucky. those mountains are like wine country, hillside after hillside all growing green. if you drove with the window down... you could smell it in the air as you drove๐
Wow best diarie ever. And what a sad ending. Man I can feel for u , and that huge beautiful purple girl too. Why didn't your chop it, when all this nightmare wether starts?
@smoking_hills9, Can't go wrong with genetics from Barney's ๐ and I'm a huge fan of the strains you listed. Sending you my best wishes for a safe and successful grow in Nigeria. Would love to see the pictures ๐ ๐
@@420_observer,
O yes I am sure the grow was very successful:) the mould and bugs are a big problem for outdoor. But this year I am going to live in Nigeria for a while, so planning to make big outdoor like yours:) planning to go with sativas. Already got Dr. greenspoon, Acapulco gold, g13haze, from Barney F and will have few pure local african strains. Respect bro
@smoking_hills9, Thank you ๐ By the time the rains hit, we were already harvesting and already maxed out on drying space. So we fabricated what we could, as fast as we could, and continued harvesting in the rain. Got to a point, to where the rain simply won. There was one plant that was not damaged by the storms, but was simply eaten by mold. Over it all, we still hit the goal for the grow.
Thanks again ๐
@@420_observer, Thanks! Really appreciate this in-depth insight! Hats off my friend. Sounds like a tough fight against the environment. Looking forward to see the rest๐
@BillMonroe, basement and two barns made into clean rooms. each space had plastic laid out on the entire floor. each room wired wall to wall for hanging harvested plants. each harvested plant was tagged with the medical card of the owner of the plant. each tag contained the name of the strain and position in the field or greenhouse in which it grew.
harvested plants hung in a controlled environment until about 90+% of the water weight had been used or expended. during the day, we worked on the living plants, at night we worked the harvested plants pulling leaves off until time to sleep.
once the branches were dry enough to crack upon bending. we would remove the flowers from the branches, and put the branches with the pulled leaves, saving as much as possible for later processing.
The untrimmed flowers were placed into marked paper bags, for further drying. when ready, the large flowers were trimmed by hand, anything thumb sized and smaller was trimmed by machine.
November brought tremendous amounts of rain. so things had to be amp'd up a bit. We bought 3 outdoor tents. as it rained during the day, we harvested plants as quickly as possible and hung those inside the outdoor tents, until we created enough room either in the barns or basement.
By December, as everything was harvested that could be - meaning some plants could not be saved -- we had every single cubic meter of available dry space being used to dry the plants.
Was a VERY hard fight to maintain the temp and humidity needed to dry properly.
Dried and Trimmed flowers were placed in plastic bags, and burped daily for two weeks. After two weeks, plastic bags were bundled into ten and placed in a cool dry storage room for six weeks.
After six weeks of curing, the product was delivered or picked up by the medical card holders.
@@@420_observer,says"Anyways, I thought it would be cool to post a few photos. " for sure for sure.. looking like my garden^^ lool nah iam joking , but looking like my imaginary garden. Just the best whishes over the big blue sea
@CoastGrower, I surely wish it was all for me ๐ That was split between 10 med licenses. But it still was one of the best harvests I have had, so far. ๐
@@Ssomeguy, best advice i can give.... they're easier to maintain and they're safer above ground vs digging a hole... for us, it was a constant battle with rodents and critters eating the plant's root system... if you can spring for the large fabric pots, they're worth it.... otherwise, you're going to love it, once they start to flower, going to work in the morning, puts a smile on your face... best of luck to ya !! ๐
@Drtomb, lb/plant avg --- greenhouse averages were way different though. Plants that grew let's say waste high to chest high, they would avg 3/4 -ish pds / plant --- but the plants that were ten foot and higher yielded between 5 and 8 pds/plant. So in the end, we still hit the goal, but in a round-a-bout way.
this is seriously my retirement dream to move to an area like that and do this alot of work but lovable work and great comradery ausome plants absolutely beautiful great great journal thank you for sharing this makes my dream seem so possible