Western slope growers

Hey folks 32* an rising at my spot at 8200 * on the other west side of Dallas peak from telluride just in telluride yesterday.
I got two outdoor greenhouse going an a "solar" green house attached to my home .i am on my third harvest of the year prepping plants for #4 I do the 30x 12 solar ghouse with 4x1000 supplement if needed for year round vitality.
I possess many sought after cuts and seeds I am not stingy but am kinda an asshole when it comes to tourons looking to exploit these amazing mtns. If your here to stay let's meet for a beer a colorado boy an talk about weed!

I dig your solar green house and being able to have as many crops as you do outdoors. I understand your frustration with the tourans but i work in the hotel industry and without them i woulnt have a job where i could ski 100+ days a year. so i enjoy the tourans and the money they bring me. I guess if i lived in telluride before it was anything and now being the glitzy town that it is i would most likely be sad about it.

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did you see crested butte sold there town to budweiser for the weekend for half a million. I use to live in crested butte and i would have loved to be part of this shinnnaginz

Joedank said:

View attachment 3251245 Hey folks 32* an rising at my spot at 8200 * on the other west side of Dallas peak from telluride just in telluride yesterday.
I got two outdoor greenhouse going an a "solar" green house attached to my home .i am on my third harvest of the year prepping plants for #4 I do the 30x 12 solar ghouse with 4x1000 supplement if needed for year round vitality.
I possess many sought after cuts and seeds I am not stingy but am kinda an asshole when it comes to tourons looking to exploit these amazing mtns. If your here to stay let's meet for a beer a colorado boy an talk about weed!

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Nice greenhouses joedan! I wish I had the space and the privacy to set something up like that. I am in a great family neighborhood with a lot of prying eyes so..
Long time resident of the mountains and it will be year 13 for me on the west slope. Former Midwesterner that couldn't handle it anymore. Married a 6th generation Coloradan who's family homesteaded in the valley over a hundred years ago so we are not going anywhere anytime soon.
I am always down to meet like minded folks And am willing to spread the love of my genetic library as well

Wow real folks on the west slope! Cool !
Yea brother I can't hate on the tourons too bad but shit there needs to be lots of em before things get spread around . Too many it seems but oh well at least we still have our shoulder seasons to have the mtns back an clean em up.
I got 100+ days for 6 years then found climbing an only ski 30-40 back/slackcountry. This is my solar ghouse attached to my home;In January the metal pipe goes under ground to a plenum an splits 6 ways to hart the soil as thermal mass

What ups western slope gardeners. High altitude danks

out here in durango.

I'm looking for some good genetics to restart my indoor if anyone's is willing to part with some clones or cuts for some compensation I'd be stoked

I'm a little east of Rifle, weather looks good thru first week October, maybe high thirtys...
Should be able to finish up with no problems. I'm interested to hear from anyone growing Charlottes Web outdoors on the Western Slope...I have heard there's a huge demand with a supply problem.

Its dumpin rain out here hope all of you without a greenhouse such as myself are doing alright

Looking cold oct 1 blessing farmers o dank

Two light frosts, two mornings of frozen rain, and a couple of heavy frosts at 27° & 28° at 6600'. Due to all the rain, I cut my Durbin Poison, Sour Diesel, and my own strain a week ago, as they were listing heavily, one DP was on the ground. The remainder are doing well, The MW x TB is Mauie Wowie crossed with Thunder Bay, and PH is Purple Heroin. I left the Bay 11 because it turns very purple, and gets a lavender flavor with a little frost. The others are slower Hawaiian strains and need more time, they all are 27 weeks old. The R4, I just want to go as long as possible.

Mine finished on the 15th, I'm going to try some next year that finish in mid September, I don't like the stress associated with waiting this long. My Critical is extra sticky, but maybe I let it go too long, it made a few seeds. I'm sure that no males were present, I suppose it morphed a little on me. I wonder if these seeds would be viable and breed true??

This year seemed a little rougher on the finish than past years. Too much late rain, too early a killing frost, 21° on the 14th. It would have been nice to get two more weeks, but just being able to grow is great.
The story I have heard on those seeds are they are prone to being hermaphrodites. I have had good luck with them in that they have not been hermaphrodites. I usually start 5-6 seeds and get 2-4 females. Some strains may be more prone to hermaphrodites than others.

Another thought on those 'self-produced' seeds. I usually have 6-7 months growing, beginning April 1, indoors, then outdoors usually by June 1. So other than varieties that come from the equatorial regions, say +/- 25°, the plants must be craving to finish up since they are way past their normal growing season. This may cause them to pop a male calyx and self-fertilize. But, if said male calyx bearing limb is hanging over another plant's limb, it could fertilize the other plant. I suspect I had a White Widow fertilize a Sour Diesel last year in that manner, the SD this year suspiciously looked like a WW. It is damn good smoke none-the-less. I've got to increase my plot size, I want eight feet minimum between plants.

I would really love to have that kind of room to grow in, eight foot circles with a walkway would make all the difference in taking care of the plants. But, just don't have the room.
My plants nearly all are touching, leaving very little room to get in between to tend them. The regs still state the grow needs to be locked up but I'm afraid I just don't comply in that regard. I'm just hiding in plain sight, but don't want to expand any more.

Mine are hiding in plain sight too. A little rough terrain, and maybe fending off a bear or mountain lion to get to it. I would just like to see how they do without crowding or shading each other for a change. Maybe next year. I want to get my ground prepped for spring, burying a lot of branches and small trees under dirt with leaves on top, so the decomposition provides for lots of worms.

I'm working my soil too, digging in leaf and grass compost with a big handful of 12/12/12.
Did this last year and didn't have to feed any more all summer. Grew plants two meters tall and some were three inches in diameter. I wonder sometimes about all these fertilizer recommendations I read in RIU and other places, I keep waiting for my stuff to show signs of starvation but they seem to do fine on just the previous fall preparation.

Hi Colorado Old Guy, I'm no spring chicken myself. I like to use lots of organic material, to keep the worms happy. You say your plants get two meters tall. Are they Indica strains. The only time I have had plants that short was this year growing the R4 strain, an Indica. My Sativa dominant strains did 3+ meters this year, but many hit 4 meters last year. I think the sun's spectrum is off this year, we are having an unusually inactive and long solar cycle.

Pagosa