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Have you ever thought about selling those lights you make? I would like to see some pics, I might have something for you if you interested. Anyway All the best bro, looking forward to thisHello fellow farmers. My name is Sean and I live up in Maine with my four kids and wife on our small 5 acre farm. We don’t sell much of anything from our farm and I’m not really interested in any of that BS but when you have four kids, raising your own protein (eggs, chicken and rabbits) helps the wallet a lot.
I’ve been around thcfarmer for a few years. I love growing plants and try to spend as much time as I can doing some aspects of it. We have a greenhouse which makes winter in Maine a bit more bearable. We grow fresh apples/pears, cider apples/pears, berries, nuts, flowers and many other trees and shrubs...we grow a lot of types of plants but cannabis is by far my favorite and always has been. I love the plant like many of you do. I grow organically and build my own lights and soil trying to cut out the middle man from everything.
I was using two sealed rooms using CO2 but had no way to vent out the room if I needed to, which only became a problem when I fed my plants fish and the smell would make me mildly nauseous for a few days. I also wanted to fix a couple smaller issues of inconvenience with the room and figured I would document it and maybe help someone with their construction.
My new room will be a total of 12' by 12' with the smaller veg room taking up 5 foot by 8 foot of that area.
Demolition: Completed last week.
Construction: Building a small veg room within the larger room today. Rerun electrical to put the box in a more convenient spot on the ceiling. Run a pex line so I can have water access from the room and not have to haul it in. Tile and sheetrock and put doors up.
Time to get to work. Ill post a few photos later. Hope you all are doing well and have a great day.
Thank's bro. Hope everything is going well with you.Glad i clicked in @Homesteader im real interested seeing what you are up to. :-)
Thank's bro. Hope everything is going well with you.
We lost an entire variety of elderberry we grow to them this year. I couldn't figure out why the plants weren't growing or producing until I dug one up and found the roots were covered. I thought it was kind of wierd because it they didn't go after any of my other varieties nearby. Glad you got them all under control.
Have you ever thought about selling those lights you make? I would like to see some pics, I might have something for you if you interested. Anyway All the best bro, looking forward to this
that's awesome! digging the lifestyle and setup. i planted a few varieties of pears, plums, and cherries a couple years ago so they should start bearing fruit this summer. got some blueberries going too. i was thinking of doing nuts as well, most likely hazelnuts. which type of nuts are you growing?We have a lot of varieties, probably too many to list. Mostly old varieties from the 1800's the perry pears go back even further into the 1700s.
Golden pippen, Porters perfection, black oxford, blankeney red as well as some newer varieties. Gala is one of my favorites.
My hope is to get several smaller acre purchases and convert them into cider orchards for my kids to take care of in the future. A $20k field can turn into a $100k+ orchard in about a decade. You just have to plant the right variety I guess. Many orchards are all in on honeycrisp.
Hello homesteader, I will follow this thread. Interesting to see :) did you have photo of the lights?
Yeah hazelnut is a great one. Make sure you get the hybrid though because the native American variety is really hard to crack and is a much smaller nut.that's awesome! digging the lifestyle and setup. i planted a few varieties of pears, plums, and cherries a couple years ago so they should start bearing fruit this summer. got some blueberries going too. i was thinking of doing nuts as well, most likely hazelnuts. which type of nuts are you growing?
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