DGBAMA 2015 Grow.... 3rd season

[grgfinney]

Nice haul DG,you are going to be very busy very soon,looks to be a great crop

 

[DGBAMA]

A bad day......

10 min thunderstorm with 40-50mph winds and dropping an inch of rain. Was sunny and quiet an hour before.

Nothing to do but see what I can salvage.

 

[DGBAMA]

There is just over 6ft between rows

 

[Knucklehead]

Jeez that sucks. I need to go check mine. I had some high winds but only enough rain to keep the cement wet for 15 min. I'm still in a bad drought. Dogwoods are dying in my woods around the house (they're in the shade) and the grass is severely drought stressed. If I can count what I got today as a rain, it's the fourth one since planting the patch back in April, none of them giving more than a quarter to half inch, most of that run off due to the quick hard rain that did come.

Hopefully you can stand them up and press them in place with your foot while the ground is still moist. Good luck.

 

[deluxestogie]

That's a lot of leaning plants. It looks like the leaf is still intact. If you can stand up enough of them to clear the path between the rows, you could probably just leave the rest of them.

I wonder if a cross path at the mid-point of the rows might have minimized the blow-down.

Bob

 

[DGBAMA]

That's a lot of leaning plants. It looks like the leaf is still intact. If you can stand up enough of them to clear the path between the rows, you could probably just leave the rest of them.

I wonder if a cross path at the mid-point of the rows might have minimized the blow-down.

Bob

No "leaning" about it, most were flat on the ground. Doubt anything could have saved them. If they were staked up, most probably would have broken in the middle instead of laying down at ground level.

The house next door.... Wind enough to shear a 10" + dia pine tree 30' above ground and drop it on the roof. Vicious.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Jeesh, that sucks.
You will recover. You are almost there!
Good Luck,
Bt

 

[DGBAMA]

So, it could have been worse.. Got them all stood back up with no broken stalks. We will see how bad the leaf damage is in a couple days.
. the a golden burley got harvested instead of stood back up...... It was ready anyhow, just a question of this week or next.

 

[deluxestogie]

I sense a glimmer of optimism.

Bob

 

[DGBAMA]

The burley.




And the repaired garden, the flute cure leaves took a pretty good beating but mostly OK.

 

[Shundahai]

Glad that wind wasn't worse on your crop, bad enough as it was.

 

[bonehead]

mother nature can be a bitch. i wish you well. i got hit hard by hail a few years ago and i felt like sh@t for a few days. the golden burley sure looks nice.

 

[Chicken]

I got all my plants staked up...3 strings per plant..top..middle..and bottom.

And your right..one string in the middle will make the plant bend and break.

 

[grgfinney]

The burley looks really nice hanging

 

[DGBAMA]

The burley looks really nice hanging

Thanks Greg. Your "Bamboo Shoot" is just starting to show budding at near 8'. Nice to have the burley out of the way. Prepping to start flue curing this week, a ton of leaf to go.

 

[deluxestogie]

...a ton of leaf to go.

For your grow, that's probably not hyperbole.

Bob

 

[DGBAMA]

For your grow, that's probably not hyperbole.

Bob

I was thinking the same thing as I wrote it. The next 8 weeks is going to be like having a second job.

 

[Chicken]

I'm doing some picking right now..I used a spare bedroom and built a hanging rack....it turned out great.

I gotta get a USB cord so I can show some pics.

 

[DGBAMA]

Burley yellowing nicely

 

[JOE1977]

Cool pic bama