A Few Pictures to Make You Smile (hopefully!) and Perhaps Salivate a Little Bit...
I'm Just Kidding, Please Sit Down For This Post, It's as Good As It Gets, You'll See
I PROMISE you won't be disappointed if you stick with it and go to the end. It would be impossible.
We might as well start with the big guns. I love it when a band comes out and decides they're going to go full bore on the very first song and blow the crowd out of the venue. If you're a Grateful Dead fan and you're not yet aware of JRAD, do yourself a favor and become aware of them. They are a full bore, jammed out to the max like you never even imagined the Dead doing, extremely highly skilled (one of the players is a former member of Ween for example), Dead cover band playing every song the Dead played even way back in the day, ie, the good stuff, like St Stephen, The Eleven, Alligator, Golden Road, etc...I've seen them twice and I'll never miss them again if I'm in the area. I saw 150 Dead shows with Jerry, seen every good Dead cover band in existence pretty much, played for 12 years in one that was as good as Dark Star Orchestra or better, and seen all the jam bands who think they jam stuff out, and JRAD absolutely destroys every single one of them. They make Dead and Co. look like an opening act. If you see them be prepared to not breathe because they never let you take a breath.
So with that intro, I give you first a cola shot from one of Titan's colas, showing her thick, off-white, almost greasy looking pistils, and the shape she's beginning to take. You can also see the frost train is finally rolling in.
Our second Sunday salvo is a closeup on a lower bud top, also from Titan, showing more closely the nature of the pistils I was referring to above.
This one is for @Emilya, @InTheShed and @West Hippie, and anyone else I'm not mentioning who has an indoor space that is larger significantly than a 5 x 5 tent. Guys, I really think this is maybe the perfect fan for your indoor situations. This thing gets to be almost six feet tall with the telescopic lift pole. It oscillates an astounding 85 degrees! The head has a 25 degree tilt capacity both up and down. It has an ECO mode which slows everything down a little bit, a natural mode with 3 speeds, and a regular mode with 5 speeds. I am using it in the tent in the pics you may have seen at it's lowest setting in the regular mode, and I'll probably switch that tomorrow to the natural setting low mode with the ECO on, so as to even lessen the air flow. It's built extremely solidly. 5 leaf plastic blades - it's very quiet. And it's 18" in diameter. The base is very heavy and solid and the head is extremely light by comparison, so it doesn't in the least suffer from the common head heavy problems you get with a lot of these kinds of fans, thus eliminating the concern of it falling over on your plants. It also comes with a remote. And it has a real power cord, not batteries. It's literally by far the best fan I have ever purchased. $73 on the Zon. In you guy's indoor situations, this thing is powerful and manipulatable enough that with the 85 degree oscillation, you could stick it in a corner and it would completely take care of your upper air flow in a very large room. It's right on the edge of being too bif for a 5 x 5, and that's on the very lowest setting. Anyway, I don't believe I am stepping on any
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You guys didn't think I hyped up THAT crap, did you? Lol. Nope. I saved the real guns for this. This is where this post gets truly mind blowing.
This is a picture of one of my Yoda's greenhouses in Oregon. He sent it to me to show me how he trains and nets in a greenhouse situation where the plants all end up 15 to 18 feet tall. I'm in school with Yoda almost as often as I'm in school with you guys, when I'm not on the site he is often who I am speaking with. My first teacher!! And lord, does he know his shit. In this picture he just got done netting up the trough on the right. These go end to end in a 90 foot long trough inside a 100 foot long greenhouse. Not sure what the width is but there are four equal sized troughs end to end in each of his four greenhouses, and he has a fifth under construction but in use at the same time. This is his current Blue City Diesel grow in these two troughs.
These next three pictures show his new greenhouse under construction but obviously already in use. You get a good idea of the size of these things from this.
One of Yoda's more radical methods for controlling pests on this scale, besides using ladybugs in swarms at the right time of year, is to employ a couple dozen of these guys. Apparently tree frogs love to eat caterpillars and any other vermin they come into contact with, but do absolutely nothing negative in the garden. Anyone ever seen this before? It blew me away when he told me this.
This is another Yoda greenhouse in mid flower where you can get a much better idea of the scale we're talking about here. It also displays his overhead Gavita light game. These kick in at sundown pretty much or a bit before, preceding the closing up from the outside, starting rooftop and moving down, of the entire greenhouse. I can't imagine what that system costs. This photo blows my mind. Imagine managing four of these with only two employees. My man knows all about gardening like a boss, Emilya.
These next three pictures are just straight up jaw dropping.
This is a field and a closeup of Yoda's Blue City Diesel from the previous harvest. Which, by the way, I may or may not have a half an ounce of headed my way as we speak that I should have by mid week. If anyone was saying, okay, great, veg shots, but can the guy actually finish? this should be adequate to answer that query.
Here we have a small picture of some of Yoda's harvest buds that makes me want to eat it.
And I saved my favorite picture for last. This is Yoda's drying room in action. OH MY GOD.
I told you you wouldn't be disappointed. Feel free to pick your jaw up off the floor and clean up the damn drool.
Thanks for stopping by this Sunday evening, I hope everyone has a great week of growing!!
- Mint look!
