Well well well, look at this fresh hell… Seems like a bunch of people will need to have smoke contaminates removed from their extract. And if anyone can figure this out it’s you people. But seriously, how much of an impact on growth does smoke cover have, it’s obviously blocking the higher end of the light spectrum, hence the burnt red sun. Anyway, that’s the view from the music studio… The garden isn’t far away.
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Stay safe! Leave if you feel like you need to! Fire can move faster than it would seem. Hope your neighbors stay safe, too!
Reach out if it gets bad and you need help. Probably someone in the area that can provide some assistance.
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Humanity doesn’t need to consume smoked out herb. I just seen some weed in town that smells like lays BBQ chips. Remediation sounds like a waste of time. It’s sad to see farmers lose their livelihood, but it’s not worth peddling smoked out crops IMO. Sure I have no data, but who knows what chemicals are raining down? Let’s get some data, find out the impurities in the smoke and go from there.
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I’m safe, already out and in Redding. The auto sprinklers and irrigation is on, my homie stayed, he has the most to lose garden wise. Everything is as prepped as it could be, now it’s just fingers crossed and video games at my girlfriends, I’m so fucking bored as she has like, a real job.
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Might have some product for testing here soon…
But if there’s a safe way to recover a product, lots of farmers who can’t get crop insurance could maybe not go bankrupt.
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I’ll see if I can grab a sample for testing as well. It smelt real bad.
I know the smell, lots of stuff from the August complex last year, real cheap, smelled like campfire, unsalable.
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Let’s work on this together.
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How you holding up, you in the smoke? Redding is ok, but getting smoke from from Dixie as well.
I don’t know where to start, but I can source mountains of crap, it’s just gotta be on the up and up.
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We had super bad smoke for weeks last year here in Oregon. Ash all over the leaves and flower. Fall rains came and washed the plants so you couldn’t even tell they had been covered in ash. That was our cue to start looking for botrytis, which we started to see a few days later. Spreads fast, so harvest time it was. Flower turned out beautiful. We also ran some fresh for Terps and they turned out super nice, albeit yielded quite a bit less than expected. Everything went through testing with no problem. I think the smoke actually may have benefited the plants, providing CO2 and nutrients. I imagine smoke during the drying / curing process would be no good.
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I live on the up and up, baby.
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The full term was salvageable but the deps that were not covered and were ripe when ashed on went from very nice to not saleable . So far this year we got blessed in the willamette valley .
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LAYS BBQ OG ON DECK TAP IN!!!
fiddy an 1/8
$110 a quRter:chart_with_upwards_trend:
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For the Estacada fires near Portland last year, we had a Tier 2 with fires a couple hundred yards away on three sides for almost 6 days.
We were able to sneak in and water one time on day 4. Plants survived no light for 5 days, no HVAC for 7 (should remain off during fires and replace all filters before restarting).
We lost only 25% of our indoor flowering crop, a few clones (aero cloner). Our biggest hedge was having flower rooms setup for perpetual harvest. Everything before week 4 of flower was ok with some tlc, after week 4 was Smokey and had to be extracted and turned out ok (I never detected smoke in extracts).
If I mentioned this story last year while it was happening, my apologies. If we didn’t sneak past the cop in Estacada blocking the road on day 4-5 to water plants, we would likely have lost the entire indoor crop. We did it with hard hats, a white truck, and yellow vests.
It’s a fun thought exercise to see how many disasters you’ve survived. Root/broads (basically locusts), Forest fires, thefts/break-in’s, rogue enforcement, attempted rippers, and landlords from hell. Sucks it happens but it gives us a leg up on those who haven’t suffered such calamities.
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I’m not worried about the indoor as the room is well ac’d, but the outdoor is my “bonus” and I worry it’ll all smell like campfire, so we’ve been washing it off with clean water regularly, that is all we can think to do currently to mitigate smoke damage.
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The three farms in our “plaza” nearby had flower farms with arguably worse damage because they left their a/c’s on without good filtration, just a heads up. It drew smoke inside their warehouses and was enough to force them to extract.
That’s weird, the AC shouldn’t be exchanging air with outside, ours doesn’t at all, but HEPA filters in the room wouldn’t hurt.
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If the room is sealed there is no reason to turn off ac. Unless you lose power a sealed room should be bisness as usual
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This might be naïve, but would it be possible to just use the smoke-contaminated plants for distillate? I imagine if you’re able to get into the mid or upper 90’s for purity that most of the bad taste would be gone, and it could be sellable to edible or topical manufacturers.
Not sure if there would be heavy metals, or other contaminants in plants that have been near wildfires. Definitely worth doing a good bit of testing.
My heart goes out to everyone affected by the fires.