Yup, you're "up North"
I moved here to north OC after working for Apple for three years. I've lived in a few different countries and in locations across the continent but have never been in a place that's as crowded as this place. People here have lots of $$ but, yikes, it's ugly here. I met someone where in 2010, just as I was planning on leaving, and we agreed to stay as long as her parents are alive. That was an OK plan but, now that I might need to cough up money for "reparations" (ironic since I'm an immigrant who arrived in the US with $100 and a suitcase), I might "take an earlier flight".
Anyway, the valley isn't the prettiest place in SoCal but SoCal, to my surprise, is pretty full of concrete and buildings. I ride a motorcycle and have covered a lot of the lower 48 and SoCal ranks near the bottom for beauty. Great place to sell concrete and "glass and brass" but, other than that, it hurts my head to think about the places I lived in Colorado, Santa Fe, Austin, Raleigh, etc.
Always the optimist!
I appreciate that insight. Perhaps this last crop will work out like that. It got mauled by thrips so I lost some yield but I sampled it and it did the trick. That was an FB Strawberry Pie grow.
The tent temp is mid 70's to low 80's. I'm growing in an unfinished garage but I have a 14k BTU AC unit that I've run to stay below mid 80's. I like the increased growth from higher temps but Bugbee's sidekick Mitch Someone said in a video on hemp growing that trichome production took a serious hit above 78° so I've tried to keep temps down. Offsetting that, of course, is that > temp will get more cannabis so… Bottom line for me is that if you don't screw things up, this plant will yield a
very large crop.
Interesting. They're common outside but you keep them out. What steps do you take to keep them out?
I grow in hydro and minimize the amount of time that the door is open and/or trips out the back door to the "yard" (that's a couple of hundred square feet of gravel + some bushes is called in OC).
This was my third grow to get hit with thrips and I started it in the Fall since "thrips are only active in the Summer". Hah, hah. The pisser is that the plants grew into the top of the tent (>50" tall) and the only way I could see the canopy was to get on a step stool and look through one of the exhaust ports in the tent wall. Everything was so stable that I stopped checking daily so they had a head start before I was aware of the issue. I don't know the source of the infestation but my SOP for all grows now includes prophylactic spraying of Spinosad. I'm a "trust but verify" person from way back but I let my guard down and got gobsmacked.
