Blazing Oaks 2016

[Blaze]

Growing 25 plants is less restrictive than going for the permit for the 99. You don't have to sign up for the Sheriff's program, water board, etc, no additional permits are needed. You still are supposed to follow the basic guidelines, most of which are fairly common sense IMO (No growing next to a school, no growing in the creeks, your plants cannot be seen from public roads, etc).

 

[royfree2grow]

Growing 25 plants is less restrictive than going for the permit for the 99. You don't have to sign up for the Sheriff's program, water board, etc, no additional permits are needed. You still are supposed to follow the basic guidelines, most of which are fairly common sense IMO (No growing next to a school, no growing in the creeks, your plants cannot be seen from public roads, etc).

So if I got it right, hypothetically I can just move to mendo and start growing without any permits or hassles by the local police (as long as i'm operating under the guidelines)?

 

[Blaze]

If you have a medical recommendation and can find a property that meets the requirements, then yeah, you can do 25 plants with probably not a whole lot of risk. A garden that size is much too small for local law enforcement to mess with, unless they get a complaint called in. Of course the regulations don't stop a lot of people from just blowing up massive gardens wherever or setting up trespass grows out in the National Forest. There is also no guarantee the local police won't hassle you, Mendo has it's fair share of incompetent and corrupt cops, some of which absolutely do not give a shit if you are 'legal' or not.

So I wouldn't say it's quite that easy, good grow properties are scarce and usually expensive and there is definitely going to be a rush on them here now that it is clear we will be one of the counties that will have legal commercial cultivation in 2018. Not to mention all it takes is one bad or crazy neighbor to ruin your whole scene. Plus law enforcement and most of the locals, even other growers, tend to have a very negative view of new arrivals moving out here just to grow. It is very much a 'good old boy' network that runs things around here - if you or your family have been here a long time, you will have an easier time not getting hassled. If you're new and from out of town, good luck....

 

[Blaze]

Well, had a very informative community meeting with the Undersheriff today. The new cultivation program sounds pretty good, I think we are going to sign up! A number of my friends and neighbors have either already signed up as well or are planning to a this point. Only local residents who were cultivating medically before Jan 1, 2016 will be able to sign up. A smart move in my opinion, it will help keep the 'green rushers' out and give the locals a change to get established.

It will be a lot more restrictive next year, so I think it will be good to get in now while things are more lax. Plus this will give us what we need to prove to the state government that we were in good local standing with the county. That means we will have priority status when the state starts issuing commercial cultivation permits in 2018.

Not having to worry about getting busted by local law enforcement will be such a huge relief! Not to mention I would be able to grow 2-4 times as many plants as I can now, completely legally. Looks like 2016 is going to be the year we finally come out of the green closet!

 

[sanvanalona]

Well, had a very informative community meeting with the Undersheriff today. The new cultivation program sounds pretty good, I think we are going to sign up! A number of my friends and neighbors have either already signed up as well or are planning to a this point. Only local residents who were cultivating medically before Jan 1, 2016 will be able to sign up. A smart move in my opinion, it will help keep the 'green rushers' out and give the locals a change to get established.

It will be a lot more restrictive next year, so I think it will be good to get in now while things are more lax. Plus this will give us what we need to prove to the state government that we were in good local standing with the county. That means we will have priority status when the state starts issuing commercial cultivation permits in 2018.

Not having to worry about getting busted by local law enforcement will be such a huge relief! Not to mention I would be able to grow 2-4 times as many plants as I can now, completely legally. Looks like 2016 is going to be the year we finally come out of the green closet!

Congratulations on expanding! Curious,How would they know if you were growing on a property before 2016?

 

[Blaze]

They fly these hills every year, they already know (not to mention you can just look on google earth). Heck even the state water board has developed software to identify grows and calculate their square footage and size, unless you are growing indoor or under the trees you can't really hide from them anymore. So much gets grown here that it is impossible for them to eradicate even a small percentage of it, but I think that's going to change as they switch more to civil enforcement. It is really easy and cheap for some water board employee to just sit behind a desk with their ID software and send out fines and notices to people not in compliance....

The local cultivation program won't require much proof, something like having your non profit already established, or a re-sellers permit from the state, or an EIN number from the IRS are probably best, but even just receipts for materials or even just photos will work too. I believe you have to show you were a resident in the county as well.

Actually I misspoke about that - proof of prior cultivation is not actually a mandated requirement for this year, and none of this stuff is required this year if you grow 25 plants or less, but it will be required by next year for cultivation of even 25 plants. So if you can show proof of being an established medical cultivator prior to Jan 1, 2016, the Sheriffs Office will basically write you up a document stating that you have met their requirements, are an established cultivator who should receive priority permitting, and are good to go for next year. If you want to enroll you have the option of doing it now, or it will be mandatory by next year. I would rather do it now while the rules are still lax and they aren't looking too hard at anyone, plus it will help ensure that we are in that first wave of permitted legal growers in the county.

 

[royfree2grow]

If you have a medical recommendation and can find a property that meets the requirements, then yeah, you can do 25 plants with probably not a whole lot of risk. A garden that size is much too small for local law enforcement to mess with, unless they get a complaint called in. Of course the regulations don't stop a lot of people from just blowing up massive gardens wherever or setting up trespass grows out in the National Forest. There is also no guarantee the local police won't hassle you, Mendo has it's fair share of incompetent and corrupt cops, some of which absolutely do not give a shit if you are 'legal' or not.

So I wouldn't say it's quite that easy, good grow properties are scarce and usually expensive and there is definitely going to be a rush on them here now that it is clear we will be one of the counties that will have legal commercial cultivation in 2018. Not to mention all it takes is one bad or crazy neighbor to ruin your whole scene. Plus law enforcement and most of the locals, even other growers, tend to have a very negative view of new arrivals moving out here just to grow. It is very much a 'good old boy' network that runs things around here - if you or your family have been here a long time, you will have an easier time not getting hassled. If you're new and from out of town, good luck....

That's a shame... I almost started packing...;) Thanks for the informative answer bro.

Well, had a very informative community meeting with the Undersheriff today. The new cultivation program sounds pretty good, I think we are going to sign up! A number of my friends and neighbors have either already signed up as well or are planning to a this point. Only local residents who were cultivating medically before Jan 1, 2016 will be able to sign up. A smart move in my opinion, it will help keep the 'green rushers' out and give the locals a change to get established.

It will be a lot more restrictive next year, so I think it will be good to get in now while things are more lax. Plus this will give us what we need to prove to the state government that we were in good local standing with the county. That means we will have priority status when the state starts issuing commercial cultivation permits in 2018.

Not having to worry about getting busted by local law enforcement will be such a huge relief! Not to mention I would be able to grow 2-4 times as many plants as I can now, completely legally. Looks like 2016 is going to be the year we finally come out of the green closet!

Good for you guys! you earned it!

 

[Blaze]

Busy week! All the full season outdoor plants are in the ground as of June 1 and appear to be acclimating nicely to their new home. Starting Monday I will be applying their first round of top dressings, laying down the mulch, finishing the drip lines, and putting up the first layer of hortanova trellis netting for support.

This little guy decided to hang out with me while I was transplanting:

The light dep is almost two weeks into flower now and looking good. We have had a huge number of cucumber beetles show up over the last few days and they have been doing quite a bit of damage to the leaves so I sprayed everything with stylet oil today and dusted the area around the gardens with diamataceous earth. That that doesn't do the trick I'll probably hit them with either Azamax or maybe Spinosid. All the dep had some 0-7-0 bat guano applied to it this week, which was watered in with aerated compost tea.

Urkle Wreck starting to cluster
up:

Watermelon Rancher with it's bright pink pistils, a trait inherited from the Guava Kush mama I used to breed it.

Fruit trees are in full swing now, the pomegranate and guava trees are loaded with flowers:

The Pilgrim geese are just about full grown now and I booted them out to the pond last week. They were getting almost a little TOO friendly. If they saw me inside the house they would come wait by the nearest door or window and try to come inside, and they kept waiting for me every morning by the front door. As a result they kept pooping all over our porch and deck and shoes and causing a big mess. Turns out we have all males (not females as I originally thought) and all the hatcheries I've been able to track down that breed Pilgrims are done for the year. I guess I'll have to wait till next year to get some females and get our meat production going.

 

[MendoGiantZ]

Nice, everything looks really good on your farm.. I had some of those dark magenta hairs on a couple of the babies I got... Is the frog covered in dirt??? I like how you built the dep greenhouse it looks really stable for pulling the tarp over it :)

 

[Blaze]

The original Guava Kush has the dark magenta hairs as well. Looks even more intense once the buds stack up. Getting the dep house more sturdy makes it so much easier to get the tarp up and over, definitely worth the extra effort. The first one I build didn't have any of those internal supports and it was a bitch to cover because it would always bend under the tarp and it was so wobbly the wind shredded the plastic cover to pieces before it was even June.

 

[papapayne]

The original Guava Kush has the dark magenta hairs as well. Looks even more intense once the buds stack up. Getting the dep house more sturdy makes it so much easier to get the tarp up and over, definitely worth the extra effort. The first one I build didn't have any of those internal supports and it was a bitch to cover because it would always bend under the tarp and it was so wobbly the wind shredded the plastic cover to pieces before it was even June.

Yea i found this to be my designs failing. Arch collapses and bends while tarping, that and 3 tarps and still not light proof. May have to scrap light dep till next year and do it right with proper planning.

 

[Blaze]

Or throw up some more purlines and internal supports, I wouldn't give up on them yet. What type of covering are you using? You do really need to get something heavier than the standard black plastic they sell at hardware stores. I use silage tarps on mine, its more sturdy and more light proof and having the one side white helps a lot with heat gain once it's covered.

I amreally looking forward to having this all automated by next year, I hate that fucking tarp. Always having to be home every evening at the same time twice a day sucks, makes it hard to do much during the summers.

 

[Blaze]

Hope everyone did their civic duty yesterday, there were a lot of important initiatives across the state. Many counties had either bans or supervisor seats up for election. Far to many growers are absolutely terrible about voting.

 

[Little Hill]

Nevada county showed up to vote. Hayfork did as well.

 

[Blaze]

The only two victories in the state for growers then, as far as I am aware.

 

[grayarea]

Hope everyone did their civic duty yesterday, there were a lot of important initiatives across the state. Many counties had either bans or supervisor seats up for election. Far to many growers are absolutely terrible about voting.
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nuh. i don't vote for religious reasons.

Growing 25 plants is less restrictive than going for the permit for the 99.

how many plants are you displaying in this pic blaze ? looks like around 136 plants imo. which makes all the sherriff and compliance stuff sorta hard to accept.

do you know what a shadow corporation is ? i was born with one , you seem to be trying to create one which is disappointing to me because u don't need one. you only get one life and most of what you are displaying shows trying to transition to the life i was born with and i can assure that you don't want. both my grandparents are millionaires and they got less emotional and financial returns then u can get from 25 plants and compliance.

don't sell out and be a vampire.

 

[Blaze]

Numbers are for *flowering* plants. They do realize to end up with 25 or 99 you need to start a lot more than that. Half the plants in that photo are males as they are seedlings.

Since the county ordinance was an emergency measure aspects such as propagation and nursery production were not addressed. Under the old ordinance you were allowed 200 immature plants if I remember correctly. Because there has been a shift towards square footage, I am guessing that is how it will be dealt with in the future. One of the supervisors had suggested that immature plants simply count towards the square footage you are allowed which seems pretty logical.

 

[SpiderK]

i never can quite understand how people " trust " .gov regarding anything. people understand that growing is illegal in the eyes of the fed's ? & look toward d.u.i's going up in green states now, or the fact once you are in the system regarding growing for the rest of your life this will be built into your personal profile.( much like employers looking into your social media post today ) have you not noticed what is happening in colorado now, so many promises years ago regarding green rush. and as the industry is taken over by the " big dogs ", everyone who was in said industry will always have this information about you on your profile if they look.( i.r.s , or who ever ). people are just leaving a digital history accessed in seconds 24/7/365

how did we forget " green merchant " so quickly, regarding trust and dirty tactics.


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You may have heard of civil asset forfeiture. That's where police can seize your property and cash without first proving you committed a crime; without a warrant and without arresting you, as long as they suspect that your property is somehow tied to a crime. Oklahoma Highway Patrol has a device that also allows them to seize money in your bank account or on prepaid cards. It's called an ERAD, or Electronic Recovery and Access to Data machine, and state police began using 16 of them last month. Here's how it works. If a trooper suspects you may have money tied to some type of crime, the highway patrol can scan any cards you have and seize the money.

http://www.news9.com/story/32168555...e-money-used-during-the-commission-of-a-crime

 

[Blaze]

nuh. i don't vote for religious reasons.

Are you joking or serious? I can never tell.

 

[Blaze]

Watermelon Rancher looking gorgeous at two weeks into flower. The sour watermelon smell is starting to develop:

Night temps have still been too cold to take the plastic cover down. Maybe in another week.

Persimmons, pomegranates, grapes, pears, apples figs and light dep: