That’s the plan if we can actually put it together. A 100’ x 20ft roll is about $100. Might have enough on the roll we have now to do the job. It’s a Quonset hut style so can only use the middle 2/3 or so.
We’ll have to see how things are going in the spring.
I believe that neglects the shrinking volume of air due to temperature difference
I’m starting to rethink growing a bunch of plants outdoors. I cut off the top portion of one of the lowest branches and 4 tops off side branches lower on the same branch and it took me 5 hours to trim that up to fill a 1L tobacco can with 166.8g of wet bud x 0.25 = 41.7g dry. At this rate I’ll still be trimming at Xmas! Had a little snow yesterday morning and when I got up to pee at 6:30 this morning my carport temp sensor was -12.2C! I had to put a big blanket over the back side of her to help keep the heat in and put the heater on it’s High setting with the thermo at half to get it up to 45F. Was getting down to 31F where I had it set before the temp nose-dived.
All alone out there as winter settles in.
First branch of many. That colourful display on the bottom right is the weather station one that has the remote sensor out in the middle of the plant. I have a 2nd regular digital temp/rh one hanging right beside it now to back up what the remote tells me and both are within a degree or percent of the other. Plant temp/rh is the readings on the left side. Turned out it was just dead batteries so the remote has a new pair of Energizer lithium batteries in it now. The remote is the white one behind the new addition.
There is a remote temp sensor in the grow room that displays on the bottom right of that Atomic Clock above that display so I can monitor the temp downstairs.
The plant started flowering on Aug. 16 so has had 9 weeks flowering as of tomorrow. Judging by the size of the calyxes on that branch she could have used at least 2 more weeks of nice weather to fatten up to ripeness and she isn’t going to get that. I’ll have to see what her prime flowering time is once I get cuttings from her clone and grow some indoors.
The weather looks like it’s going to be like it is for the foreseeable future so thinking of doing the hang and dry thing so I can bring it all in then trim at my leisure but really want to freeze the buds fresh off the plant as planned. No way I could do a dozen plants like that if I grew that many outdoors next year. A dozen real autos maybe but not 5’ trees like this girl.
I did trim the bud more than I planned too. Not as well trimmed as I do with buds destined for smoking but more than originally planned. Got a shitload of nice sugar trim off that one branch for making dry sift or oil with tho and will have a 5gal pail of it if I keep doing what I’m doing. I plan to trim up enough to get a couple of oz for a good slow-dry and cure to make some smoking bud but might not bother. She’s a medicine plant and smoking it is not going to be as effective as eating it. I took a double dose of the cocobudder before starting to trim last night and my hands aren’t too bad today so it seems to work. Smoked a little Hindu Kush too. 
Got my pressure tank flushed out and rebuilt my aerator pump so have bubbles in the dugout and the water is better in the house. Still have to get in my belly boat and put the soaker hose on the end of the 1/2" air line out there and put a good screen on the intake. All these little fresh-water shrimp getting sucked in through the foot valve I’ve had out there for a few years. This is the first year I’ve seen this happen so need some trout in there to eat them up but that’s a lot of money. Keep plugging up the basket filter solid. I replaced the old back-flow valve in the basement when I repaired the corroded and leaking connection between the inlet pipe and jet pump a couple weeks ago so don’t need that valve on the intake end of the water line from the dugout. I have a big basket filter that can be screwed on out there and will keep the little buggers out. If it ain’t one thing it’s another.
Have to find time to get my RO unit all set up and installed. One more box from TheWaterGuy and I’ll have everything I need to begin. Wife needs to clean off the table in the shop so I can lay everything out in proper sequence and mount it all on a sheet of plywood so I can hang the whole thing on the wall where the distiller is now. That needs cleaning out and a new heating element so I can sell it to pay for the RO stuff which is now over $500. They sell the same unit refurbished for $1750 down at the Polar Bear store in Edmonton so hopefully I could get $1000 for it. I have the old receipt for mine and it was $3000 new. The previous owner of my house originally had it installed.
I’m hoping I don’t need a booster pump for the RO but from what I gather if the pressure is a little low it just reduces output so that’s fine with me. It’s a 75gal/day but if it only puts out 10gal/day I’d be fine with that. I have a 150L storage tank for the plants so it can just slowly fill up so I have lots in reserve and a 5gal jug lasts us almost 3 days for house use.
And the snow thrower needs new drive belts so the whole front has to come off to install those. Dog needs a house. Grow room addition needs building. Clones need cutting, seeds need planting. Etc Etc Etc . . . No end to it! Death. Wherefore art thy sting! 
Fuck bro Death sitting back with his feet up laughing sayin i dont need to take this dude,his workload will do it for me…Sounds like you have more than enough to do and keep you busy through the long cold winter.Be safe buddy and dont work yourself to death.
the price we pay living in the cold ass north!
Yep heading to my uncles cottage next weekend to prep the snow machines and ice hut for another season of ice fishing
just moved my shack to the front yard so i don’t have to dig it out jan.1. you guys get any smelts out there? my wife loves to fish for/ eat them. the lake i put my cabin on has great big fat ones as well as some cocker landlocked salmon. caught my p.b last winter of 8lbs 6oz. going on the wall.
I am in Ontario.The lake we fish has perch, walleye,norther pike,white fish,herring and lake trout.
Man that looks like a main top cola, pretty impressive for a lower side branch Lab 
I guess the excitement of a huge plant wanes quickly when you think about your arch enemy, trimming, especially if you had to do it all at once. The leaves are quite big on that branch, which makes trimming easier for me, I hated lots of little leaves.
That’s a good idea building the RO unit on plywood first and then just attach the ply to the wall, save a lot of holes being drilled in the wall and trying to hold stuff while marking everything out for fixing in place.
I need to check my snow blower as well it’s not driving the wheels well, last year I was having to push it a lot harder and it almost does nothing in reverse. I got that in February 2016, I hope I can get away with just adjusting the tension, I need to check the manual before I start pulling it apart I guess lol. Probably something on YouTube that will show me what and how to do it.
One day at a time Lab, if I look at everything I have to do here it gets depressing, my neck is getting noticeably worse this last couple of months, starting to make some horrible crunchy noises lol.
Driving or I should say reversing out of parking places is where I am making it worse, having to look behind me, as stupid pedestrians will just walk behind your vehicle as your reversing out because they have right of way and no brains.
They seem to think because they have right of way they are wearing a suit of armour that will protect them from being run over if they are not seen in time, when they step in front of you and you can’t stop in time.
Thinking of getting some kind of neck brace to stretch my neck, and wear at night, might slow down the disc destruction wear and tear. I don’t want that operation but I think it may be inevitable, the neuro surgeon said 4 years ago, if I don’t have it I will be in a wheelchair in 5 years. I thought he was just pressuring me to have the op, and I so want to prove him wrong 
but he might just be a couple of years off target 
we have tons of y.and w. perch, lake/ brook trout , whitefish , landlocked atlantic salmon and rainbow smelts. the smelts are the primary forage for the others but are also targeted for their taste. they can get up to 12in. and are fun to catch on u. lights. we even have a sea run variety.
I’m still trimming it more than I should. Not as good as when I’m prepping buds for curing and drying but more than I need too really. I changed how I sit to do it and that’s helping my back a lot. I usually pull out my 32" wide desk drawer then pad the junk with newspapers to level it off then cover that with parchment paper but in 20 min my back is screaming. I tried setting up a couple of big cereal boxes on a little stool and now bend over those and can go an hour before needing to get up and stretch with very little pain in comparison. I take my big plastic tray out and chop some bud then keep that in the mud room just taking small amounts in at a time so they don’t go all limp in the warmth. Then I hang the branch upside down in the fan leaf box and snip off those. Can spin the branch to get all the bits off easy too.
Then move to the sugar leaf box and snip off lots of that then snip off the buds for individual attention. After each small batch I put the pile of trimmed buds into a tobacco can to keep them from drying up and once full weigh it, label it and wrap some electrical tape around the seam to seal it up and into the freezer it goes. Untaped ones still have room for more. I was just air-drying the trim but freezing some of that too now. Can get 200g of bud in one of those cans that hold 1L. Just right for a 1L batch of cocobudder.
If yours is like mine there’s a pressure plate in the gearbox that could be worn out but may just need a tension adjustment. Do a search for your model if you don’t have a manual and you should be able to get one to show you what to do. Ours f’ed up like that too but it was a pin on the drive shaft for the wheels broke and the wife actually found the problem and I put a new one in. Now it’s the drive belts are shot and one broke so the auger and housing has to come off to replace those. My manual only shows one belt and gives the size but there’s two so I’ll have to get it apart and measure for the 2nd one to see if it’s the same. It’s got an electric start and a pull cord but had to replace that with one I took off a discarded lawn mower at the dump. You plug in an extension cord to make the electric start work. Really nice when it’s -30 out there and once warmed up it starts easy with the pull cord if you stall it way out at the end of the driveway.
My old man always warned me that half the people in the cemetery had the right of way. 
I was told I’d need an op on my neck too after an MRI but it’s not bothering me much any more. Feather pillow just right and almost no pain at all. Since starting on the new cocobudder made with this Earth Lover pot I have almost no pain in any joints. Slightly achy but half of what it was a couple weeks ago so I’m loving the Earth Lover! Seems to help with the depression as well and I’m feeling damn near happy these days. Cheerful at least most of the time.
Still have a box coming for the RO. Probably in already but went to see the doc on Tuesday instead of town so will check the mail tomorrow. Got our medpot forms renewed for another year and will be filing to grow real soon. How do you work it for renewal for that? Just send off the renewal forms to HC a couple months before your doctor’s form runs out and hope he renews that or do you need the doc to renew before applying to HC for the new grow permit? Pretty f’ed up system when you have chronic conditions that are going to be around forever and they take so long to process the paperwork.
Still plodding away at getting my girl cropped and will need another 40 hours of trimming to finish her off I think. Weather has gone cold and a bit of snow but she’s hanging in tho dehydrating I think. Tried giving her 12L of 80F water but no change so the ground must be freezing up lower down and preventing her from taking up water. A lot harder to trim when the leaves are all limp and soft. Thinking of cutting her out of the ground and setting her in a bucket of water in the basement to see if she can soak up some water. Supposed to be warming up to maybe +5 during the day but that won’t change things out there.
Pic from last night when I went and got some buds to trim.
My indoor flowering kush girls are still going yellow really bad. On Oct. 7 I gave them both a good dose of the REMO nutes I have as they are the freshest. I even got nute burn with brown tips and leaf margins and adjusted the pH to 5 but other than the burn no change. I had a plant a few years ago that did that and tried all sorts of things to help but nothing worked. I had two other strains flowering at the same time and they didn’t yellow at all until the very end so it could just be the way these ones are. I’ll find out when I flower more from the mother I have upstairs which is showing no signs of yellowing in veg.
The two lowest branches, one far left and one far right are the ones getting STS sprays. No balls yet after 4 sprays but hoping soon. Big lady buds forming tho.
Even the almost totally yellow leaves are showing the burn. I know it’s not toxic salts buildup or the leaves would be all dry and crispy but these are yellowing like normal for end of flowering. Just fading to yellow and going all soft then drying up. The buds are looking normal and nice and green so I’ll just let it go and see how they turn out I guess.
I’d suggest cutting her down hang for a week or more then trim and jar . She’s froze
She did get a touch of 28F when the wife plugged her chicken’s watering pans into the same plug and flipped the breaker but I caught it right away so I know she’s not froze thru. The limp leaves didn’t start showing up for a few days after so they may have got a hit but it was only 20 min or so before I had the heater going again.
This pot isn’t for smoking so I want it all frozen fresh with no drying. None of the buds I trimmed last night showed any touch of freeze. -8C/18F outside but +8C/44F in her little house atm.
I’ve already pulled over half a pound dry weight equivalent off her and not quite half done I figure. She’ll keep.
my 2 in the unheated greenhouse are still going well. 13 frosts so far. 4 got to 25f. fan leaves are long gone but sugar leafs and buds are still good and really frosty. i think another week and ill cut.
Awesome thread! I just got caught up!
Mine’s in about the same condition. Fan leaves all saggy and likely got a bit froze but the buds and colas look great. Got some nice warm sun going on today and it’s 66F in her little house at 1pm but getting little sun from the sides. Tempted to taking the sheet off the front and see how warm she stays without the heater. I highly doubt she’ll progress at this point and I got what I got.
When we went to see the pot doc on Tuesday I was in a store when some sniffling kid got in line close behind me at the till and today I’m sneezing and coughing and feeling run down more than usual. 
My bones are freezing just to think about that girl outside 
, hope all your efforts will lead to a great harvest … 
mines pretty much done just waiting for the hairs to darken a little more. hasnt grown in 3 weeks.
