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Stovepipe

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  1. I like your setup Carvers! You should be able to anchor that down nicely.
  2. Annnnnd the wind just picked up and blew off a bunch of stuff. FML
  3. Alright, let's see y'all's frost covering pics. I'm dreading having to take all of this down and then put it up again tomorrow evening but that is 2020 for ya. Hope it works. I did hold off on planting the rest of the root bound seedlings. So probably 30% of my maters are in the garage tonight.
  4. Well it's not too windy here and the rain has stopped. Guess I'll start trying to cover plants up.
  5. Trying to cover the garden tomorrow evening during downpours and gusty winds will be fun. GFS showing upper 20s for here Saturday morning. What a mess.
  6. I've got around 60 plants that are badly root bound in cups. I'm going to have to risk it and get these in the ground this weekend, otherwise they'll be ruined anyway. Plant seeds in February they said. You'll get jump start on the season they said. Never again.
  7. The 12z NAM had me at 35 degrees with calm winds tomorrow morning. Hoping that was a blip and we don't get a surprise frost. NWS isn't sounding the alarm so that's good. @Carvers Gap I'm jealous that you found wheat straw. I'm all out of wood chips and desperately need something to mulch with. I'm going to call around tomorrow and see if I can bird dog a few bales.
  8. Even here in the central valley, I will not be putting warm season stuff in the ground before May ever again. This has been too much stress and hassle. Lesson learned.
  9. I'm thankful to have survived the two frost threats so far. Hopefully we done with it for the season.
  10. That is terrifying. I can't imagine dealing with that right now.
  11. Can you imagine having to deal with damage, injury, or loved ones dying from a tornado while everything else is going on? I'm so sorry for anyone affected.
  12. The latest RAP is bottoming out at 36 degrees for my area, that's above MRX, I'm encouraged.
  13. I gambled and put out damn near 70 hemp plants and 40 maters figuring we were over the frost. Tonight is my fresh hell. I've basically buried the hemp in what I could find in packaged wheat straw at Lowes. Maters, peppers, basil, cucumbers, etc covered in a redneck array of tarps, buckets, coffee cans, whatever for the time being. I'm reasonably confident I can survive the night, but the GFS was advertising inches of snow next week lol, so who knows.
  14. What are y'all's thoughts on frost at this point based on modeling? Asking for a friend.
  15. Knox County schools closed today for the 3rd day in a row for flooding. I imagine they'll be closed tomorrow as well.
  16. Glad to hear your cover crop is off to a good start Carvers! One nice thing about this friggin heat, I may still be harvesting maters in November. I'm also going to try to get several auto flowering hemp plants done before frost. Seedlings just coming up now.
  17. I can't compete in the extract market where people are growing 100's of acres. My niche will be trimmed smokable flower to be sold from smaller shops. It remains to be seen how profitable it will be but I'm going to find out. Here's some pics of the warm season cover crop which is mostly sunn hemp taken last week.
  18. That cover crop mix looks pretty good. Hairy Vetch is very good for the soil but can be sort of hard to get rid of. If you plan on tilling the area up next spring then probably not an issue. My main mix for the cool season this year will be turnips and winter rye. I'll dress crimson clover around berry bushes and fruit trees. Right now I've got sunn hemp that is 10 to 12 feet high and growing. It is one hell of a biomass producer and will make a large amount of compost. I put 120 mater plants in the ground this year, staggered over several weeks. Yield has been overwhelming. I've canned until I'm sick of it and am giving them away now. Next year I'll be scaling those back in a big way. I've decided to go all in on CBD hemp. Got my license and several clones already growing indoors. Planning several hundred plants outdoors next season growing in compost made from cover crop.
  19. The thunder and lightning show has been impressive here tonight, I was not expecting that. Big winter storm in 10 days, book it, done.
  20. Almost time to get mater seeds planted in the green house! I've used florescent tubes in the past but I'm gonna try to find some cheap LED lights on Amazon this go around. Planning to go probably 2/3rds Cherokee Purples and 1/3rd Pink Brandywines. The Purples seem to be more disease resistant at my location. Last year the Brandywines got that yellow blight and never did really recover properly. I'll supplement the seedlings with some other purchased plants from Lowes but I'm aiming for 100 or more in the ground this year.
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