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Started digging out some photos from a grow in Humboldt County California USA 2016. 1,000 plants, 5 greenhouses + outdoor smart pots. 42 strains from 6 breeders across the emerald triangle. 1/3 light dep (two grows that season), 2/3 full term.
Farm was way up in the mountains. One mountain peak from the ocean. Near Honeydew (relatively speaking), and the swimming hole close to the general store. Trip to town took you thru the giant redwoods, that was @#$%^& awesome!
We grew everything we could, plus a few things we probably shouldn't have 😜 Wax, Crumble, Shatter, Oil, Extract, Butter, Various Hash Recipes - Oh my! - By the end we were looking into making our own vape pens.
Anyways, I thought it would be cool to post a few photos.
This is round two of photos, but fair warning - major nug porn will be posted from this grow 😝
During this part of the grow - the problems were more of a four legged kind - groundhogs and moles borrowing under the plant's defenses, eating the roots.
soooo - we were attacked by minions today - the carnage...was insane - those little (!@#$%^&)'s are faster than you think and just as devious as advertised too! as you're stomping with one foot, they're crawling up your other leg. with arms flailing around in every direction, i managed to get in a few good hits. i'd smack one out of mid air and i swear i could hear it's tiny little scream fade away as it went flying off into the distance.
my buddies told me they were after the mushrooms i had eaten but i didn't believe them - i think they were coming for the batch of brownies i had just made.
my advice, when you make brownies, stay away from the mushrooms and watch out for those demon minions or deminions if you will👹
fair warning
major nug porn coming next
at this point, things were going very well, still having some issues with four legged borrowers
with them nipping at the roots, you can see a difference in the plant's canopy and color
( the plants getting eaten were lighter green and canopy density was far less )
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
We were about half way done with the grow at this point
Took a break and went down the mountain to catch a Cheech and Chong show
I have litterally thousands of pictures from this grow
So it's not realistic to post them all
I'll make a few more nug porn posts and then close out with the harvest shots
This is the Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Storm damage -
A really strong storm rolled over the mountain and straight through the farm.
For 36 hours it was a non-stop downpour.
We tried to cover what we could, save what we could - but you cannot fight mother nature.
It rained so much, the water table rose up and drowned plants from the bottom up.
This mountain, EATS vehicles -
Humboldt mountains are no joke. You better have a good vehicle or you will be walking back.
Cars with blown brakes, blown tires, left on the side of the road, are doomed when left unattended.
Locals run the roads at night, making sport of any vehicle left behind.
Standing Dead -
After nearly two weeks straight of rain and cold weather.
A plant that could not be saved stands whole and dead.
One of the saddest things I've seen.
8 months of work into that plant, for nothing but a few pictures.
So if you ever find yourself heading to Humboldt.
Have a plan, prepare and prepare well - do not go in blind.
There are many types of dangers.
The weather, the wildlife, marauders and greed, all have free reign.
95% started with clones
the grow went as expected
had significant damage from storms and rodents
lost about 1.5% to mold
some problems with ants attacking the lower branches
all of the blueberry plants had an issue with mites
overall a very successful grow, even with losses still made the goal
If you ever get the chance to grow in Humboldt, take it.
Respect the locals, respect the land, respect the traditions and you'll be fine.
Most important thing, make sure you work with good people.
Greed changes some people.
@Kid95, you gotta get yourself into a location where it's possible 😎 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 drove😀
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 👍 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 😎 👊
@@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 😎 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 😊
@@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 rest👍
@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 😋 That was split between 10 med licenses. But it still was one of the best harvests I have had, so far. 👍
@@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 !! 😎
@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
420_observer
