Nomads Landing Update 5 -19
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CHERRY AK-47 ( Mislabeled in previous entries... apologies)
SENSI STAR (Runt of twins)
Maui (deficient)
Here you can see the 45 degrees in the branching at the nodes from the main stems through the 1st cage. We do this for support to help keep those joints together when the weight comes, and so does the twist and flop. Also most of the foliage is removed from below vent level allowing adequate airflow into the plant. And boy do these ladies really get moving when the winds pick up... fine by us, building strong stems and stalks which they will need later, again for support.
Here you can see between the first and second cage the branch takes a whole new direction. Bush time. Before the entire 2nd cage gets added we will totally clear out the first cage for increased air flow. Help keep mold at bay, and make sure those girls can breathe.
This is what it ends up looking like. Gets those ladies down a bit, adds light to the interior growth, as well as making the bush formation with the 90 degree branch angle. A majority of these ladies may need an additional cage by flower time.
In the end floral tape kicks ass.
When the res was flat on the crate, there was about 10 gallons left as residual in the res. We put it on tilt on that got us to about the 5 gallon mark as you can see the mark above. Added a little plumbing here and got it down to about 1 1/4 gallons, we can live with that. The water will evaporate, and we will sweep up the residual powder from the compost tea, then it can either be a topping for a couple of girls, or added to the compost piles and worm bins.
Here is a shot from the North, that is one of our neighbors over for a visit, he likes to see the progress especially this year.
View from the south, the rain we have had off and on has helped keep the film free from dust and debris.
Note the 3 furring strips vertically on each bed, these are used to rotate the cfl around nightly to help ensure light saturation without manually "light washing". BTW. Still loving the ground cover, swept it later that evening.
Here is you can see the start of a S def. The new leaves are very thin, yellowing from the apex out, effecting only the new growth of the entire plant. There is plenty of sulpher in the beds, but we had some days where the greenhouse reached 104 degrees. It cooled down for a while, and the deficiency started to fade. This shot was taken late in the week and I actually had a hard time finding a good example after the cooling period. It usually hits us, with high heat and periods of heavy growth.
Ahh, This is a leaf on the Blue Dream in bed 1. You can see the heavy might damage on the finger that is twisted over for viewing. Yikes. Nah, not really. The longer we grow we don't run in to less problems per say, but we can handle them much quicker and fairly effectively... always learning you know. The significant thing about this pic though is that 24 hrs before it was covered with mites. In fact BottleKap says "Looks like there is Epsom Salts on the underside of that leaf?" I replied "Eggs, brother, eggs." Our psi rating from the well is 40-60. We use one of those garden hose nozzles with the various sprays. I believe we use the "flat" setting for this. We then spray the shit out of the girls. Yep... freaks most folks out, we do it when they are young adults, toughens up a bit in the early stages. If you spray a leaf with your hand behind it at this pressure it will seriously damage the tissue, usually we use plyboard about 3' away, but here the cages work great at a 18" - 2' distance. This leaf examined up close with a 40x showed no signs of adult mites or eggs. Woo hoo, lovin it. A few more high psi water spray applications and then we will start backing off.
Bio char from the stoves, to be added to our compost piles in small doses only.
Ahhh earth on the way.
The orchard is looking better every week. Even though we are still really years out.
The rogue red delicious... This tree is at the bottom of a 5' elevation drop, and shaded in the late afternoon by the Junipers to the West (in the background here), allowing the orchard grass to really kick in.
A small little onion bed from a bag of onions.
Here is a veggie garden shot, potatoes up from, corn and tomatoes in the rear. We fell asleep one night, and forgot to cover the corn and tomatoes with the Agribon, and jumped up about 3:00 Am. We got them all covered, but most still took a hard hit. Shit, in the hour or so it's taken to do this post a half inch of snow has fallen.
Here is Neemo and our leak catching system, parts got to get real bad around here before replacing them, and we are kinda at the end of our budget for this year. You can also see another compost bin has been built at the veg garden there in the back right.
We started our 12 cu ft. worm bin this week, added about a pound that we took out of our Can-O-Worms for population control. The bin in front is for presoaking/precomposting before feeding it to the worms. This bin is full of wild plants, orchard grass, lambs quarter, ganja stems from last year, and horse manure. mmm-mmm, good.
Here is our attempt to take a weekly shot of the same branch throughout the grow, we hope our tripod will make it high enough. lol... We chose to shoot American Crippler, a local strain, not much info out on her, and whew, she can be omni-potent.
