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I sometimes spend hours reading about rare plants or ordering weird seeds online. I am interested in growing exotic/unusual/poisonous plants. My Desert Rose (Adenium Obesum) seeds had a germination rate of 100%, pretty cool. These desert plants have a poisonous sap that, if consumed, stop your heart. Some african tribes use them to poison their arrows.

>watering my cannabisplants
>left my growbox half a day without ventillation
>come back home and see 99% humidity
>plants have lime on their leafs
>everything is back to normal
>see that arround the plant itself its still wet and arround the wet spot everything is dry
>check moisture on the bottom of pot
>its >80%
what to do? pot size is 5 Gallon / 20 Litre Cannabis in sprout stage a little over a week, soil is pre-fertilized. Did add a little guano fertilizer before the ventillation failure. Watered with 180ml

>>2724900
and also, which humidity should be near the bottom of the pot?

>>2724900
>>2724901
It's probably fine. You can trim the lower leaves and branches to lower the humidity at the base

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Planted 2 acres of corn last week

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wheres that tree

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>>2725422
Along with a side plot beside the corn field that has rattlesnake pole beans, squash, okra, cucumber, a ton of cantaloupe (put half my seed direct sow and half are in starters, probably not warm enough yet for direct sow but im experimenting), zuchini, pumpkin, turnips and radishes, taters, and onions

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>>2725424
Plowed all of my furrows with this 1944 Farmall A tractor. Walk along rows and drop seed in then come back along with the under-body plow and covered the seeds up

>>2724375
Have you ever looked into Poison Hemlock? The leaves are very very cool, smell interesting, and the flowers and pleasant. Grows all over the place around here and I let a lot of it grow up because I think it is pretty

>>2725426
one of my favorite children's books a kid was about an old red tractor, kind of like that, i would say it was a Fergusson, but not sure, was probably the first book i read all by myself.
if anyone knows the book, post it hell yea

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Should i just remove one of each of these pairs? Bell peppers. They grew in the cell together and i neglected to thin them but they seem fine.

>>2725432
>Fergusson
Ferguson (single 's') is a brand of tractors, named by their constructor.
In Poland in 70's (when we were still forcefully assigned to the 'red' side of the political world), for reasons unknown the socialistic government decided to buy a license for these and the state companies started manufacturing and selling Ferguson tractors.
This ended up in a total mayhem in farmer's garages as well as farm machine repair shops, for these f***ing tractors had imperial sized bolts, screws, axels etc. and if any part broke or got loose and got lost, it was virtually impossible to find a replacement.
The machines worked fine, but once a fault occurred (and 50+ years ago all the machines were not as reliable as they are now), it was a nightmare to repair.

>>2725450
Peppers do better as a pair

I'm wanting to build an earth ship out in Terlingua or Marfa Texas due to the complete lack of building codes. The problem is that very little grows out there and there are no aquifers so I would have to rely on rain water alone. I was thinking of buying 40 acres. Is it doable? I don't expect this to be easy or something that will be set up in a day.

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>>2725547
>Marfa Texas
average rainfall?>16 inchs?,,HORY FLOOD!!,
,,, 8 gallonsquare foot collector area?!,
,DROWNING!,thats plenty for an Earthship.

>>2725547
If you collect rainwater from most of your property then it might be doable. Dig a bunch of trenches to guide the rainwater to a holding pond and pull your water from there. You should build something over it to prevent it from evaporating and check the annual rainfall for the area. Expect to collect less than half of the water.

>>2724375
Neat

>>2724900
checked. need pic to help more
canna dont humidity above 50% after germ.
how tall is the one you talk about? 20 l sounds a lot.
also that 20 l bucket is dif to water and 180ml is just shite. show more from your setup also state what light you use.

>>2724900
Put a thick layer of straw over your soil to reflect light away from it and prevent moisture loss.

>>2724900
>sprout stage
>5gallon container

Start in a solo cup and progress to larger containers as the roots develop. Where do you think the water in the bottom is going to go if the roots can't reach it?

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>>2724333
Speaking of bio char, spread most of my charcoal out, now in the process of covering it with compost, very dry lately though so it's an absolute dust bowl, though that makes the compost really easy to spread as it's so light and airy. Ran my sprinkler over the spread material for about 45 minutes last night, and it just sponged it up no puddles at all.

anyone have resources on how to keep ELK off your fucking property
>shoot them

they have rfid chips in their ears and are protected by the government. any time one of them sneezes some government employee goes to the location to check on it. I just want them to stay the fuck away from my fruit trees.

Blackpill me on beekeeping

Does anyone here actually homestead or is this LARP central?

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>>2726571
I'd be on the more optimistic side of actual homesteaders and those that dream of homesteading.

>>2726571
You've got several anons ITT posting pics of things they grow, one on two acres.
I'm sitting in the tropics planting trees for the last two years.
>>2726441
If you're in the americas, honey bees are an invasive species.

dogs killed my last rooster. I’m in city limits so would have trouble if I stay up and shoot the fucker but I built a big ass trap for it. Also putting in for a suppressor for my 22LR.

>>2727917
Avenge the cock, Anon. The blood of hounds must nourish your garden.

>>2727917
Xylitol is a water soluble natural sweetener which is completely safe for human consumption (and quite sweet) however it's extremely poisonous for dogs, as little as 0.5g per kilogram of dog's body mass will usually cause acute liver failure, higher doses practically guarantee death.

Does code require you to build houses of "engineered" wood instead of real wood?

>>2727917
Get a rooster that can kill dogs. Maybe a Malay.

>>2727976
The have collars but they've been coming on the property for a while now shitting in my garden. I almost caught them in the trap but I left the hotdogs out and they ate the whole pack instead and then took a gigantic shit on my potatoes.

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>>2728858
here's the photo.
You can see the one in the back is mid-shit on my potatoes.

now I have to build a rail for the door. Did you know a shitty 1/4 inch aluminum channel from home depot is 15 dollars? 2 of them costs more than all the wood I had to buy, how does that make sense?

>>2726373
>shoot them
>with a paintball gun
ftfy.
Eventually they will associate your land with pain. Just make sure the government never figures out where all the rainbow elk come from or you're screwed.

>>2727917
>>2728858
Buy a motion activated sprinkler

>>2729212
no water or electricity back there.

>>2729336
The sprinkler is battery powered. If you can get a reservoir of water and a battery powered pump over there then you'll be good to go.

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>>2727917
like >>2727981 said, xylitol is your answer
i don't wanna kill things, but when shits a problem, it should be solved

I bought a home with a creek last spring. In the summer the mosquitoes were awful. It was one of the hottest summers on record so I figured it was a fluke but this year already walking outside I am bombarded with mosquitoes.
The creek is about 150 feet from the house and it is fed by a reservoir at the school where they release the excess into it whenever it gets too full, so the creek usually is just a bunch of standing water. We had two really heavy rains that caused it to overflow a lot but now it’s all just standing pools in there and now we swat off a mosquito per minute when outside and they are sneaking into the house and getting us at night even.
Am I fucked or is there anything I can do?
It got so bad last year that to go out after dark I had to wear my bee suit. I had walked out without it at first and was swarmed like literally 50 biting me in a span of a minute and now they’ve detected mosquitoes here with zika or west nile or one of those. Dunks don’t do enough and I don’t even know how to fog that much i’d need a fog truck. it’s 6 acres with the creek right through the center and lots of trees and vegetation.
also they evolved and there are the biggest mosquitoes i’ve ever seen. we had the zebra ones but these ones can feed THROUGH clothing.

>>2729791
Drink a bunch of vinegar and they'll stop biting you. Make switchel and drink it constantly and you'll never be bit again. You can also try keeping ducks or ibis and encouraging dragonflies to breed near you.

>>2729791
There are several things you can do.
One is revegitate, certain shallow rooting plants will just drink all the surface water, they're known pond destroyers.

But this might have a significant impact on the volume of water in the creek.

Another option is to try and boost the number of animals that eat mosquito larvae. Some native fish might pond hop, there are frogs etc.

Are electric tractors viable?
On the one hand, a conventional tractor is cheaper if bought old and used, but it also makes you dependent on big oil and if SHTF, you're pretty much fucked. Moreover, the pollution from the tractor might contaminate your food, air, and water.
On the other hand, electric tractors are more expensive and their reliability hasn't been confirmed yet, it seems.

>>2730012
If you have enough money then electric everything is recommended.

>>2724333
Nice thread

>>2730262
Adorable. My broody girl has a clutch of eggs that are getting ready to hatch and I can't wait.

>>2730012
I've thought about getting an old tractor and converting it to run on ethanol. Grow enough corn or sugar beets to make alcohol for fuel, and stock several years supply of lubricants.

>>2730012
Machinery will make you dependant on one kind of big business or another anon.
Do whats cheapest for you, any kind of serious economic problem isnt going to be fixed by using electric over diesel.

I'm getting a lot of pressure from the wife to start keeping a few chickens. I've done farm work before and know what that would mean, and I will be doing all the work. She knows a good amount about this, but has not had experience. Likely she will be at her job and I will be doing the animal care (scheduling just works out that way).
This would be a residential, backyard situation. They would have space inside a large coop which is part of a detached garage used as a shed, and a connected chicken run outside that we can move.
It's been a while since I've worked with chickens. How much cost to feed 3 or 4 hens? Any easy to forget tips before starting out?

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>>2731177
Hens eat roughly 1/4 lb of feed per day. I buy the organic feed because it's mostly grains and non-organic grains are often dried using glyphosate. It's about $26 for 40 lbs or $0.65/pound which translates to about $0.17 per hen per day. I pay a bit more than that because I ferment my chicken feed with apple cider vinegar and greek yogurt and I add garlic, cayenne pepper, and crushed lump charcoal to their feed to improve their health, the egg quality, and the quality of their manure. Once you have a good culture established you can stop adding the vinegar and the yogurt and just use feed from the previous batch to ferment the new batch. Hopefully I'll be able to grow enough peppers and garlic this year to feed my chickens all of next year and that will cut most of my costs and I can work on making my feed from scratch. Here's a good guide on how to do that.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/wholesome-home-made-chicken-feed-without-sweat-tears-a-calculator-or-deep-pockets.78655/

As for a tip, if your city doesn't allow roosters and you have issues with hawks then you can paint eyes on something or buy a bird scare like pic related and move it around your yard a couple times each week.

>>2730012
Best SHTF tractor is a workhorse. Runs on gras and hay, multiplies, isn't dependent on any industrial parts or fuels, has all terrain 4WD, pulls ploughs, wagons, logs etc.

Is there an area of a red state that doesn't drop below 20 in winter/over 90 in summer, has water, is naturally green, and minimal natural disaster risk?

>>2724333

>>2731301
Thank you, this was helpful!

>>2731545
No problem, anon. Good luck with your girls.

>>2731449
No.

>>2731080
>>2731174
Alright. Thank you.

>>2731449
Congrats on your new home in Appalachia, the poorest and least desirable area of these United States.

What do you guys think of all the small/local farms and home gardens that are being shut down in the US and Europe?

>>2731925
if they dont comply with regulations, then they get closed. If they comply with regulations it gets expensive. But the big companys are somehow able to survive, arnt they?
So in total, they need to step up their game if they wanna keep their farm, some middle aged farming techniques with old ass machines doesnt work today.
Same as jobs are being laid off because people dont wanna educate themself.
>dont educate yourself somewhere else.
Its easy being lazy and reap the same rewards as someone who does R&D.
Our whole land is contaminated with nitrate, it stinks everywhere, its bad for the soil in the long term as the bad parts of shit go deeper into our water thus why water treatment facilitys need to up their cleaning capacitys. Its like to clean up after yourself.
The planet is not yours, you cant do whatever you want, you can on a small scale as a hobby, but as soon you get money, there will be people watching.

Anyway, why are the small/local farms are being shut down from your point of view?

>>2732096
>Anyway, why are the small/local farms are being shut down from your point of view?
Greed, of course. Possibly Agenda 21/30 conspiracy where they intend to prevent everyone from growing their own food so a large portion of the population dies of starvation while the rest is forced to eat bugs.

Your post is confusing, btw. You list these things big corpos do but get away with, then blame small farmers and hobby gardeners.
Organic small farmers (such as the Amish and others) don't use the synthetic fertilizers contaminating everything; they don't need to. Neither are they trying to cheat the system someway; people are simply willing to pay more for the health and quality of their products. Yet they are the ones getting targeted and forced to sell their land for cheap.

>>2732096
>$1 shopping credit has been deposited to your monsanto-fanclub membership card
Small farms still feed more than half of the world population with much less land, industrial inputs and funding. They also keep the genetic diversity of our crops and domestic animals alive and are generally less harmful to soil, water and natural ecosystems.
Small farms have just been taken out to remove competition for agrochemical cooperations. All regulations and laws are written by their lobbyists. They are trying to even make exchanging your own seeds illegal ffs. You already need a loicense to sell seeds and it needs to be from registered variants. Supporting this is suicide on a civilization level.

>>2724900
Weed bad