Nomads Landing 2013 Season

[Nomads Landing]

Thank you kindly. except it's really fucking cold this minute....woohoo 17 degrees. Sorry, anyways, we are in Cali, about 13 miles south of the Oregon border. We do most of our shopping in Klamath Falls OR, no sales tax...;) or in Mt. Shasta, CA (a much better place than KF). One perc for sure is being able to see the North face of Shasta on daily basis is still a big treat.

 

[kolah]

sounds like CO temps where I am.

You have quite a few strains up there. What do you see that really thrives in those temps? I find Skunks and Afghans do well up here at 9400 feet with cold nights. ( I use a wood stove to buy me more finish time in the Fall here). I would guess I have lower rH here compared to your region though.

And surprisingly AK-47 strains do very well. The Kush strains do OK but stay squatty and yield low.

 

[Nomads Landing]

sounds like CO temps where I am.

You have quite a few strains up there. What do you see that really thrives in those temps? I find Skunks and Afghans do well up here at 9400 feet with cold nights. ( I use a wood stove to buy me more finish time in the Fall here). I would guess I have lower rH here compared to your region though.

And surprisingly AK-47 strains do very well. The Kush strains do OK but stay squatty and yield low.

Honestly brother, we haven't had a strain in the greenhouse we weren't able to pull off. Last year there was 32 strains.
Let's see how many I can remember:
Pineapple express
maui
sour cream
ice cool
Lambsbreath
sour diesel
og kush
Chemdog 91
purple wreck (beans from Ole Timer)
BRAK, bubba o x romulan x ak (beans from ole timer)
bubba kush
mendo purps blah
blue dream
ace of spades
qrazy train
cheese quake
cannatonic
kushberry
la blanca
sour ak
grape romulan
that's what is off the top of my head anyways. (we travel all over nor cal looking for genes)
Usually potency is the ultimate cause of keepers, however, we do keep some for flavor too. We have yet to do any real hardcore landrace sativas though. ie. columbians, alcapoulcos, laos, etc. They are usually some form of hybrid. Currently our maturation times are extended because we are broke and gas costs abit to keep the heater system running, so the girls are from their optimum night temps, then to compound as these things usually do, as they run longer into the year, as you know the light gets weaker, and again we are increasing our maturation times. Last year Sour D didn't come down until 11/24. We are trying to get into more exotics, and unusuals however, getting tired of the top 40 lol... we just gotta be able to sustain the night temps.
Man 9000'...that is really up there . Interesting, I would've expected the kush's to do well at such an environment. Lot's of leaf and squatyness, (helping the plant deal with cold temps). Are you able to keep your soil temps up? Pineapple express and blue dream and maui we have rocked up here for 4 or 5 years, and they are always hearty.

 

[Nomads Landing]

gotta go... genny is going down willl continue response

 

[Nomads Landing]

sounds like CO temps where I am.

You have quite a few strains up there. What do you see that really thrives in those temps? I find Skunks and Afghans do well up here at 9400 feet with cold nights. ( I use a wood stove to buy me more finish time in the Fall here). I would guess I have lower rH here compared to your region though.

And surprisingly AK-47 strains do very well. The Kush strains do OK but stay squatty and yield low.

Hmmm... the GDP, maui, cheese quake, and the sensi's was about 8x8x8, bbk 5x6x6, everyone else is pretty much close to the same 10x10x10. Now the express the maui, and urkel have done great here, maui fades hard from the cold but she is hardy, and also we periodically let our mothers run down to 28 in the spring, they tend to take flucuations and low's a little better, ie, at 23' one night, we got some leave and nug damage a couple of years ago, but only on the parts where the plant tissue hadn't thawed out and the sun burst the ice crystals inside the tissue. Damage was all on the east and south east sides, the rest looked great..lol... purple cream hermied, and so did grape romulan but the later was due to light stress, we had problems with willie wonder, PGK (PurpsxGooxOGKush), green crack, and hindu kush, cheese quake querkel dom, and Qrazy train both phenos with grey mold, mostly from high RH nights and condensation that forms on the ceiling at night, then in the morning the sun warms the film, the breezes come and create a rain forrest inside. Still working on that. Also when we had mold issues with them our venting was only a 1/4 complete. We have cut a few nugs here and there that got hit with mold (blue dream and brandy's og). The pineapples have always kicked ass here, and apparantly our Pexp has quite a following with a group of elderly women that have FM.

 

[Nomads Landing]

Update 11/8/13
1 of 3

Bed 1 Blue Dream
(This was originally the mother plant, the daughter cut in BED 3 is nearly twice the size. The only difference was the mom was rootbound at one point, while the daughter was never cramped.)

Bed 1 Blue Dream

Bed 1 Blue Dream

Bed 2 Sensi Star - Citric Metallic Sativa Dom Pheno

Bed 2 Sensi Star

Bed 3 Blue Dream

Bed 3 Blue Dream

Bed 4 Sensi Star - Grease Indica Dom Pheno

Bed 4 Sensi Star

Bed 5 Sour Diesel

Bed 5 Sour Diesel - Sorry about the out of focus on this one...

Bed 6 Pineapple Express

Bed 6 Pineapple Express

Bed 7 Pineapple Express - This time I just straight up forgot to take a shot of Bed 7. So look at the right side of Bed 6 shot, there ya go.

Bed 8 Ogre - Flopped

Bed 8 Ogre

Bed 9 UK Cheese - oh man she smells so funky, mmm-mmm!!!

Bed 9 UK Cheese

Bed 10 Sour Tsunami - Some SoHum Gear here.

Bed 10 Sour Tsunami - the bracts are turning purple, we don't know if that is a signifier for the 1 of 4 ratio of the High CBD pheno, like the Cannatonic, fingers crossed. We are gonna get her tested when she comes down.

 

[Nomads Landing]

Update 11/19/13
Fed the girls their last tea, "TLO finishing tea", took down Blackberry Kush, Cheese Quake, Humboldt Purps, Bed 7 Pineapple Express, and currently working on buckin down Blue Dream in Bed 2. It has been super cold lately, ie. tonights low is 13'F@93%RH... Still low on resources, so we've been basically keeping the girls just above freezing. Maui is fading the hardest and also the most sensitive to the cold. Usually she fades wicked purple, but not this year, red, and so dark purple it's damn near black...totaly cold snap though...the bracts are still green.
Here is a link to these pics on flickr, just gets a bit better detail on the nug shots.
http://www.invalid.com/photos/105577983@N02/sets/72157637906733366/

BED 1 BLUE DREAM

BED 1 BLUE DREAM

BED 2 SENSI STAR

BED 2 SENSI STAR

BED 2 SENSI STAR

BED 3 BLUE DREAM

BED 3 BLUE DREAM

BED 4 SENSI STAR

BED 4 SENSI STAR

BED 5 SOUR DIESEL - SUPER FLOP!!!

BED 5 SOUR DIESEL

BED 6 PINEAPPLE EXPRESS

BED 6 PINEAPPLE EXPRESS

BED 7 PINEAPPLE EXPRESS

BED 7 PINEAPPLE EXPRESS

BED 8 OGRE

BED 8 OGRE

BED 8 OGRE

BED 8 OGRE

 

[Nomads Landing]

UPDATE 11/19/13
2 OF 3
sorry about the over exposure on some of the pics, the darker pics are taken with a flash, the lighter pics are natural sun with full cloud cover so... we are still workin on it

BED 8 OGRE

BED 9 UK CHEESE

BED 9 UK CHEESE

BED 9 UK CHEESE

BED 9 UK CHEESE

BED 9 UK CHEESE

BED 9 UK CHEESE

BED 10 SOUR TSUNAMI

BED 10 SOUR TSUNAMI

BED 10 SOUR TSUNAMI

BED 10 SOUR TSUNAMI

BED 10 SOUR TSUNAMI

BED 10 SOUR TSUNAMI

BED 11 MAUI

BED 11 MAUI

BED 11 MAUI

 

[Nomads Landing]

UPDATE 11/19/13
PART 3 OF 3

BED 11 MAUI

BED 11 MAUI

BED 12 HUMBOLDT PURPS - HARVESTED

BED 13 OG KUSH

BED 13 OG KUSH

BED 13 OG KUSH

BED 13 OG KUSH

BED 13 OG KUSH

BED 13 OG KUSH

BED 13 OG KUSH

BED 14 BRANDY'S OG

BED 14 BRANDY'S OG

BED 14 BRANDY'S OG

BED 14 BRANDY'S OG

BED 14 BRANDY'S OG

COMPOST TEA BREWER - AIR LIFT PUMP - DESIGNED AFTER MICROBEMAN'S BREWER, BREWIN UP THE LAST TLO TEA OF SEASON. WHOO HOO!

 

[iCultivate]

Everything looks great Nomad! You're going to be kept busy harvesting all of that. Should be a good total yield by the looks of it.

-- iCultivate --

 

[Nomads Landing]

Thanks iCultivate, Dia and I rotate, she works the day, and I the night (keep the fires burning) ie. it's 13'F right now outside. Anyways, it's taken us 2 days so far to whack down Blue Dream in bed 3...lol... we should have her down tomorrow. lol...

 

[Nomads Landing]

At the above link for update 11/19/13 part 1 of 3, please type flickr in place of invalid.... thanks

 

[Nomads Landing]

Update 12.8.13 here they are at flickr
http://www.invalid.com/photos/105577983@N02/sets/72157638497002013/

For past week and a half, the girls have been below 20F. We got the last down yesterday, and a good thing too. Last night the temps got down to -22F and the 3 year old greenhouse film ripped apart. Crews are supposed to arrive tomorrow, so we had to get a temp work area up for them. Our dry shed is totally full, as well as our wood shed, so we built a temp dry area inside the greenhouse, lucky for us, it was unscathed by the roof collapse.

BED 1 BLUE DREAM

BED 2 SENSI STAR

BED 3 BLUE DREAM

BED 4 SENSI STAR

BED 5 SOUR DIESEL

BED 5 SOUR DIESEL

BED 5 SOUR DIESEL

BED 5 SOUR DIESEL

BED 5 SOUR DIESEL

BED 5 SOUR DIESEL

BED 5 SOUR DIESEL

BED 5 SOUR DIESEL

BED 5 SOUR DIESEL

BED 6 PINEAPPLE EXPRESS

BED 6 PINEAPPLE EXPRESS

BED 6 PINEAPPLE EXPRESS

BED 6 PINEAPPLE EXPRESS

BED 8 OGRE

BED 9 UK CHEESE

BED 10 SOUR TSUNAMI

 

[Nomads Landing]

Update 12.8.13 2 of 3
http://www.invalid.com/photos/105577983@N02/sets/72157638497002013/
if invalid comes up, lol....
replace it with "www.invalid.com" for higher res pics.

BED 10 SOUR TSUNAMI

BED 10 SOUR TSUNAMI

BED 10 SOUR TSUNAMI

BED 10 SOUR TSUNAMI

BED 10 SOUR TSUNAMI

BED 10 SOUR TSUNAMI

BED 10 SOUR TSUNAMI

BED 10 SOUR TSUNAMI

BED 12 HUMBOLDT PURPS

BED 13 OG KUSH

BED 13 OG KUSH

BED 13 OG KUSH

BED 13 OG KUSH

BED 14 BRANDY'S OG

BED 15 AMERICAN CRIPPLER

BED 16 BLACKBERRY KUSH

BED 17 CHEESE QUAKE

BED 18 GRAND DADDY PURPLE

SOME SENSI BED 4 HANGING

TEMP DRY AREA IN THE GREENHOUSE

 

[Nomads Landing]

12.8.13 UPDATE 3 of 3

BED 8 OGRE - HANGING TO DRY

BED 8 OGRE - HANGING TO DRY

BED 8 OGRE - HANGING TO DRY

BED 8 OGRE - HANGING TO DRY

This here is a parsnip grown ontop of hard packed clay. 2" of Hmanure, seeds, 1/4 " straw, and walla.

Same dealio, but a beet. All this vegetation has mostly all died back from extreme cold temps.

same as above...

OK, so... after a night of -22F for 4 hours or so, the 3 year old film on the greenhouse snapped, and gave way. We were lucky in that the temp dry area inside was unharmed. whew...

Here we got some temp film back up on a 30' section for the crews to work.

temporary interior wall for work area

 

[iCultivate]

More great pics Nomad. Enjoying watching the entire process unfold.

You're fortunate the roof didn't take out any of your harvest! Are you going to replace it with something stronger than film, such as polycarbonate panels?

-- iCultivate --

 

[Thoth]

Epic thread bro!

I may have missed this as I skimmed through...but how many plants do you fit in the greenhouse and what are the greenhouse dimensions?

 

[Prince Blanc]

I could never imagine growing on such a scale that harvest needs to be done around the clock.

So much tree and bud porn..!

Very impressive Nomads Landing.

 

[Nomads Landing]

More great pics Nomad. Enjoying watching the entire process unfold.

You're fortunate the roof didn't take out any of your harvest! Are you going to replace it with something stronger than film, such as polycarbonate panels?

-- iCultivate --

Thanks ICultivate, as you know it has surely been a ride. ps. so far we are averaging bout 5-6 ea. but that is just the avg, at the moment, still got a lot more to work through, so it could go up or down still. We have thought about polycarb panels, it's just really expensive, as an initial cost. One thing we have also been discussing is, we would like to precondition the intake air at night, then possibly send that night moisture back to the girls during the day. A thought is to run 2 layers of anti-condensing film seperated by the framing ( our moma house recently had a 85 degree difference in temp when compared to outside temps and not a drop.). We would like to be able to remove the roof film or panels on a daily basis for light and air. And finally at the moment anyways, we would like to be able to light dep the whole thing or sections, so we can cut down before Dec., grow longer flowering landrace sativas, and to flower during or closer to peak UV. lol, yeah buddy, the last girl (Sour tsunami) came down the day of, that night was the collapse. The film was old and we had to perform many folded seam repairs earlier in flower.

 

[Nomads Landing]

Epic thread bro!

I may have missed this as I skimmed through...but how many plants do you fit in the greenhouse and what are the greenhouse dimensions?

Hey Thoth, how's it goin? TY.
The greenhouse is 20'x96'x15'10". Before this year we ran 6, 5'x24' beds with 4 girls per bed on 6' centers makin 24 ladies. This year we ran 18 girls, each in their own 4'x4' bed, but on 9 1/2' centers. Over crowding was still an issue, and without the bud flop, we would've had to do a lot more LST, and supercropping to keep em off the roof. ;)