Morning peeps, I am one sore son of a biscuit reporting in this fine Sunday. Got to take care of head real quick
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Much better hahaha. Alright so me and my crew descended on the patch early yesterday to plant the remainder of the clones that will be the last to go in here. Its was an utter mud hole from all the rain weve got in the last few days. Even with 4 wheel drive it was a bit sketchy just getting to the hiking point.
On the first 2 planting sessions i used my quad to get the gear down to the valley floor but with it being a slippery mess that was not an option this time. My quad is also a loud mother fucker as its built up for MX racing and with as many yins in the ground as we have making all that noise for another 27 is not very wise. Don't need to be drawing unwanted attention to our area.
But for shits and giggles here's a pic of my baby hehe.
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She gets the job done but a 4x4 would work much better for hauling gear.
So to this point we had stock piled all the bags of manure and soil at the tip top of the hiking point, which is still a good 1/2 mile or better from the patch and the terrain is rough and challenging. I brought along a wheelbarrow to help speed things up as we still had a half pallet of manure and soil to haul in.
My god what a job that was.
Fortunately one of my partners is a ninja with a wheelbarrow from all his years in the concrete trade. Lol I wish i had a video haha, it was so hilarious watching him run behind the wheelbarrow stacked full of shit down a rocky hillside spilling over and tumbling a few times doing cartwheels down the hill hahahaha. Needless to say we all took turns with the wheelbarrow and all 3 of us got our asses whooped by it.
We decided to break up the grunt work, the worst part of the poop haul was coming down the rock hillside which is no small hill. From there to the mid point of the valley and from there to the patch. It took us about 3-4 hours just to get all the poop to the pre-dug holes.
We have the holes spread out in an effort to make things look as natural as possible. Most of what we already planted 40 or so plants are in the wide open direct sunlight which is the way to go if you can get away with it. Me and my boys have full permission to plant ganj in this valley from the land owner and he didnt seem to mind that we put them out in the open. However to many like that can be a recipe for disaster should the pork choppers fly over. So what we did is made mini patches of 10 plants per spot and in no pattern spaced them out over a wide Area.
For these last 2 mini patches we went for a bit of cover from some standing dead trees and totally barricaded them in with dead fall and thorn bushes.
Not all the mini patches are this well protected yet. Most have natural barriers already in place which im hoping will keep out the cattle that are going in here in the next few weeks. This particular mini patch is almost impossible for the deer to get into and so far i haven't seen a single hoof print in here.
Deer are really no longer a concern though since discovering my stake trick.
Very simple and very effective. Out of 66 hole weve lost only 1 and sadly it was my only Chemdawg Bio Diesel
was really looking forward seeing that one grow out. ??? But it may have been the Trainwreck ??? I cant recall but its one of the 2.
Anyways these 4ft garden stakes are the key to keeping the plants in the ground. I may have explained the procedure already on here but what i do is shove the stake through the root ball as close to the stalk as possible and secure the clone to the stake with a bread tie. My hole are also wide and most of the animals that step into one back off when they get into the soft dirt.
So my batteries went dead on me after only a few pics. Here is what we are planting in these 2 mini patches within the mega patch.
In here we have some Timewarp Pheno's 2,3, Which is the small and medium phenotype VS the TW Bertha that is the big momma with the large colas. And the remaining are all Grape Ape.
Be right back!!!!!