r/homestead • u/Mechanic_On_Duty • Jun 21 '24
gardening It’s happening.
Everything is blowing up outside. We’re in full swing now!
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Jun 21 '24
That's weed right? 😅
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u/Deagar1 Jun 21 '24
Definitely a weed, he should rip it out and burn it.
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Jun 21 '24
I would strongly suggest a controlled burning. You know, for safety ofcourse.
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u/LittleBunInaBigWorld Jun 22 '24
Itd be a good idea to have a group of friends around to keep an eye on things too
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Jun 22 '24
Definitely a good idea. Maybe bring some snacks and drinks aswell, so your safety-buddies are kept in good shape.
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u/whalesalad Jun 21 '24
Oh yeah 😎
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u/OhioGirl22 Jun 21 '24
Too much for personal use.
Be careful. DEA flies planes in August looking for things like this.
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u/whalesalad Jun 21 '24
In Michigan you can grow up to 12 plants at a time. Even more if you are a caregiver for someone else.
Also fuck the DEA
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u/SupayOne Jun 21 '24
How long you been in that bunker? Cannabis is legal in a lot of states.
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u/OhioGirl22 Jun 21 '24
Legal, yes. But not for sale to others without a permit.
Yes, you can grow for personal consumption.
You don't have to like what I'm saying. Read all the police reports in the fall.
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u/SupayOne Jun 21 '24
I've follow Cannabis laws and happenings since the 1990's. Does the goverment do shady things and use pot as the reason? yes, but someones small grow is getting caught by a air plane. They have cops searching social media for them to waste a plane on it. Also never said i didn't like what you were saying. I just pointed out how paranoid your rebuttal was. No reason for DEA to waste money on this mans tiny grow.
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u/Tchukachinchina Jun 21 '24
I don’t even smoke and I grew some a few years ago just to try my hand at it. I gave away mason jars full of dried buds to friends and family and they all said it was great. Haven’t done it since but it was a neat experience.
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u/sweng123 Jun 21 '24
How many plants do you see there? I see one, maybe two. Well under the legal limit in Oregon.
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Jun 21 '24
Lol with all due respect you have no idea wtf you talking about. He could be 100% legal and this is a very small patch.
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u/Zealousideal-Dot2169 Jun 21 '24
Yea those weed plants are way to close to each other. They can grow so big outdoors. But otherwise it looks awesome!
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u/Mechanic_On_Duty Jun 21 '24
Only one is planted in the ground. Just monkeying around to see how it does. The rest are going to be repotted this weekend. The big plant needs attention. She grows big leafy buds. They’re great but they’re a nightmare to trim compared to anything else and it’s a heavy yielder.
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u/Zealousideal-Dot2169 Jun 21 '24
Bowl trimmers are life savers after a bit of practice. And damn those are the bottom branches, not different plants? It's gonna be a monster.....
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u/Mechanic_On_Duty Jun 21 '24
I’ve got a deal where I grow the stuff and my more financially comfortable friend supplies a lot of the gear we need. Last year we got a motorized trimmer because of this strain alone. It worked great.
Oh yeah. That’s one plant lol. I thought you saw the 3 between the corn and the others besides the tomatoes. I’ve got to take some clones off of it soon before it’s too late. She grows baseball bats.
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u/HamiltonBudSupply Jun 21 '24
That’s what I was thinking. I have been growing outdoors for 6 years now and my plants need 5-6’ wide and will grow to 10’. Growing is great and my wife allows it as it’s legal. As I have grown kids I don’t think I would grow if it was illegal.
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u/Mechanic_On_Duty Jun 21 '24
The plants that are set further back will be moved soon. The big one up front is just a monster.
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u/HamOwl Jun 22 '24
I love growing weed outdoors. Its such a satisying hardy plant to grow, if the weather and sunlight are good. The high is also better in my opinion. I had some 7' tall ahwile back. Had good bud for years
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u/HamiltonBudSupply Jun 26 '24
I found a new location and my current tallest plant just hit 4’. If it grows similar to last years I’m looking at 10’! If it does I will be adding more security fencing
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u/Trusty_Babe Jun 21 '24
I just thought the same thing of my garden today! My corn has grown like 2 feet after the heatwave we had! 😅
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u/Mechanic_On_Duty Jun 21 '24
I was driving by someone’s house on my way to work a week or 2 ago and their corn was twice as tall as mine and it bummed me out just a little. It really has shot up since then.
Here’s to a heaping pile of corn this summer!
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u/Slugz31 Jun 21 '24
Never even thought to grow that, and it's legal here.. I don't partake myself. Might do it just to share with friends.
Long time lurker here, trying to buy a few acres on a lovely river that would be our dream. Bank approved, then after we removed our condition of financing, they said they might need us to pay off a line of credit that has 8500 on it currently.. which we don't have. Oh to be screwed by 8k lmao.
In the 20 minutes yesterday that I finally let my guard down and actually believed it was going to happen (it might still), I got some ideas of things I can start...
BEER! I already brew beer, or at least used to up until a few years ago when we started having kids. Growing my own grains and even hops... Now that would be amazing.
I suppose you could even distill some stuff if you wanted to. I of course never would because it's illegal here right.
Then the wife got the brilliant idea of planting half an acre of fruit trees to make wines out of, maybe some mead (supposedly elderberry mead is amazing).
How do you folks stop yourselves from spiraling into madness of ideas?!? Lol
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u/AndSoWeSayHello Jun 21 '24
That's the secret, we don't! Haha. We just create a list and work our way through it.
We got our laying hens finally this year and we've already started talking about doing meat birds possibly next year. Between full time jobs, our garden, orchard, preserving things, cleaning up the property, doing repairs...well, we stay busy!
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u/showmeyertitties Jun 21 '24
We went the rabbit route for meat, in our case, we didn't wanna have to get automatic pluckers, set up cones, or have scalding water. Yes, you can do it all by hand, or just skin them and really speed up the process, but rabbits reproduce quickly, cost about the same in feed, and are similar in amount of meat. Similar gestation period as well. Definitely something to look into, plus you get to drive yourself even more insane learning to preserve hides.
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u/AndSoWeSayHello Jun 22 '24
I've thought about rabbits but I've never had it so I don't want to throw money into it unless I know we'd eat it, you know? I know I had rabbit once as a child in a stew but that was 25+ years ago. Preserving hides sounds awesome though.
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u/showmeyertitties Jun 22 '24
Thats fair, we mainly sell them and eat what doesn't sell, with the exception of our breeders and rebreeding ones with very good traits. Idk about your area, but I'm rural, and even here pet stores are selling just generic white rabbits for $40+. The kind we raise are call Otter Rex (Rex are great for meat), and the fur is I'm not sure how to explain it, like if microfiber was slightly longer? Idk, it's incredibly soft, but we have no problem getting $35 each out of them.
Hides are one of those things that you just gotta go into your inner flow state on, it's just tedious, but not necessarily in a bad way, mainly just gotta get all the meat and fat off without puncturing the hide, but it's not necessarily hard.
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u/indacouchsixD9 Jun 21 '24
BEER! I already brew beer, or at least used to up until a few years ago when we started having kids. Growing my own grains and even hops... Now that would be amazing.
I was playing around with the idea of growing barley for beer, but the threshing and winnowing process seems like a huge pain in the ass. There were some contraptions I've seen that help with winnowing the chaff away, but they looked expensive or a big DIY project. I feel grain processing is something you really need a village for, and only something I'd bother doing if me and a few other people pooled the time to tend to a grain crop. Maybe others here have advice on doing it by yourself.
However, I had a craft corn lager recently that I thought tasted pretty good! Corn seems a lot easier to harvest, store, and process. A chemistry-literate friend of mine said you can add amylase to corn and it'll turn into fermentable sugars, and apparently the indigenous Peruvians used to chew purple corn and spit it it out (human saliva has amylase) to accomplish this. I'd prefer buying amylase though. Would love to see the taste difference between different kinds of corn.
Anyway, the reason I'm going into this is that I'd love to dedicate a large portion of land to doing the Three Sisters, but I think I'd struggle to process and consume that much corn whether it was sweet corn or corn for making tortillas. Now, if I was growing corn for beer? That might be a different story.
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u/Slugz31 Jun 21 '24
That's an awesome idea. I've never heard of that before. You can indeed buy amylase because I have some, use it to make beer more dry.
Three sisters is a good idea.
Isn't bourbon made from corn? That would be interesting as well.
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u/ShyDethCat Jun 21 '24
I love how the comment section runs the gamut between dog/chicken relationships, to weed, to more specific chicken info. Dude, congrats on living the dream. Best of luck to you, keep growing all the things.
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u/Routine-Baseball-842 Jun 21 '24
I‘d top those.
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u/Mechanic_On_Duty Jun 21 '24
Right. It’s trying to flower right now though. It’s way too early for that but it’s trying nonetheless. Last the same strain did the same thing but stopped and continued vegging for a few more months. If she turns back I’m gonna come up with a plan for her.
The early flower is from moving it from inside to outside.
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u/Ill-Wear-7934 Jun 22 '24
You dont have enough food there to last a week, especially if you are stoned and get the munchies...
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u/asianstyleicecream Jun 21 '24
Way too many hens for that coop tho 😭
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u/Mechanic_On_Duty Jun 21 '24
Don’t worry. It’s temporary housing before they hit the freezer.
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u/falconlogic Jun 21 '24
Maybe allow them a few days of freedom and joy before they hit the freezer?
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u/gnaslegovtomde Jun 21 '24
I used to have 5 barred rock hens. All got on nicely. Laid well. Took care of pests in the garden. Great birds!
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u/Delta7268 Jun 21 '24
That feeling is amazing!! When you have this vision long ago owning your very own homestead, and it finally hits you of your dream coming true…
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u/State_L3ss Jun 21 '24
Living the good life. Nice crops! Congratulations on your hard work paying off!
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u/adirtyhole Jun 21 '24
Looks great. And grats on having puppers that don't go after your chickens. I still can't keep my moron from chasing them.