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TheUrbanFarmer

TheUrbanFarmer

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OPfarmer said:
Interesting with the light deprivation Urbanfarmer!. (Nice looking plants.) But Isn't it a late start to flowering for 48+ degrees lattitude in Washington?. Must have way better fall weather in the Okanagan valley, than me on the OP. 40's dark and damp by Halloween some years.

Interested in following what you do to achieve maturity before they mold out.
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Thanks. This is around the time they normally would flip without light dep but I did it a week or so early so I can actually plant another crop and and get in another harvest. Low temps here should stay around the 50s every now and then dropping low 40s halloweenish. I’m planting really fast flowering plants around 5.5-6week strains to get one more harvest accomplished. If weather turns to shit and I don’t think it will they say it should be a late winter this year. I’ll drop the greenhouses and put electrical heaters in for just at night.

I’ll try to keep updating even if things go sour failure is a part of life and I don’t like selling b grade bud. I’ll just turn it into oil if it’s not quality.
 
TheUrbanFarmer

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Next year I’m aiming for 4 harvests in 4 greenhouses. I’ll prob start a grow journal. My methods are not complicated very simple but if people want to hear I’ll do it. I used to grow hydro(ebb and flow) completely changed methods so I’m pretty knowledgeable indoor and outdoor.
 
TheUrbanFarmer

TheUrbanFarmer

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I veg in my wharehouse and had problems this year with a couple power outages. Had a lot of clones die so sucks the plants were not bigger when I plant them outside. This is the next line of plants for after this harvest. Each greenhouse has 200 plants and I have only 2 greenhouses this year. I veg with led and can’t complain they veg great with little heat output. I’ll send a pic of one of my rooms when I grew indoor ebb and flow with only leds.

I’ll give some people my experience with leds I know it’s a big topic.

When I grew in a 13,000 sqft wearhouse I kind of got suckered into leds I’m not going to dis on them but you need a lot of them side by side to get the results I’m used too. So I spent 100k just on lights and still wasn’t enough to fill all the rooms I needed. I got dank bud tho out of them lol. My lights are illumitex.
 

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TheUrbanFarmer

TheUrbanFarmer

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OPfarmer said:
Interesting with the light deprivation Urbanfarmer!. (Nice looking plants.) But Isn't it a late start to flowering for 48+ degrees lattitude in Washington?. Must have way better fall weather in the Okanagan valley, than me on the OP. 40's dark and damp by Halloween some years.

Interested in following what you do to achieve maturity before they mold out.
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Just updated
 
hydra-glide

hydra-glide

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How do you control pests during veg? EcoVia 3-N-1?
How do you control mold and bud rot? Milstop and Cease?
How do you control mites and aphids? TetraSan translaminar topical spray, and Kontos systemic drench? both for aphids and mites.
And how do you spray under leaves? Hudson battery-pack hand held? or backpack pump-sprayer, or pesticide-drone?
Nice crop!
 
TheUrbanFarmer

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hydra-glide said:
How do you control pests during veg? EcoVia 3-N-1?
How do you control mold and bud rot? Milstop and Cease?
How do you control mites and aphids? TetraSan translaminar topical spray, and Kontos systemic drench? both for aphids and mites.
And how do you spray under leaves? Hudson battery-pack hand held? or backpack pump-sprayer, or pesticide-drone?
Nice crop!
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Good question sorry I have a lame answer. I actually do no sprays or anything like that. I’m surrounded by apple orchards who spray constantly. I’m far enough away that I don’t get any pesticides from them but all the predatory bugs stay away from there and stick by me. If I get spider mites or aphids inside I’ll put them outside and in a week no more bugs like magic lol.

I’m super lucky but when I grew indoors I used to buy predictor bugs to feel with spider mites/other pests.
 
Miyagismokes

Miyagismokes

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TheUrbanFarmer said:
I actually do no sprays or anything like that
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I'm not surprised, considering your scenario.
hydra-glide said:
Hudson battery-pack hand held? or backpack pump-sprayer, or pesticide-drone?
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Those Hudson battery powered backpacks are not for plants of size, in my opinion. My shoulder would give out swinging that wand around so much just for one plant.
I bet they work great for nurseries though.
 
hydra-glide

hydra-glide

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Cool. A fogger. What chems do you use in Veg? In Bloom? and in Flower? Do you use any systemic pest control products?:peace:
 
INF Flux

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Iraq vet here, interesting to hear about your log cabin. I got medically retired with a smashed one and went nuts for a while from the forced inactivity. Took about 4 years to kick the opioids and start walking without assistance, now I obsessively grow herb and medicate my pain issues that way. Do you think having something to obsess over helped you work through it? That's a great woman you've got there, mine left, lol.
 
doublejj

doublejj

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INF Flux said:
Iraq vet here, interesting to hear about your log cabin. I got medically retired with a smashed one and went nuts for a while from the forced inactivity. Took about 4 years to kick the opioids and start walking without assistance, now I obsessively grow herb and medicate my pain issues that way. Do you think having something to obsess over helped you work through it? That's a great woman you've got there, mine left, lol.
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welcome home brother (hug)....yes my wife is a saint, I don't deserve her, sorry yours left but I understand why....best of luck bro
 
ganga gurl420

ganga gurl420

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TheUrbanFarmer said:
Good question sorry I have a lame answer. I actually do no sprays or anything like that. I’m surrounded by apple orchards who spray constantly. I’m far enough away that I don’t get any pesticides from them but all the predatory bugs stay away from there and stick by me. If I get spider mites or aphids inside I’ll put them outside and in a week no more bugs like magic lol.

I’m super lucky but when I grew indoors I used to buy predictor bugs to feel with spider mites/other pests.
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That is freaking awesome... I'm always so glad to hear of growers now drowning their plants in poison! Props!:clap::clap::clap:
 
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