Wind storm destroyed goldfish farms today!

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I’m currently processing rosin for a small business that holds a cultivation and solventless manufacturing license just outside Albuquerque in New Mexico.

The business is owned and the cultivation side is run by a couple that have been very good to me and a pleasure to work with. I can tell their hearts are in the right place and they have put their life into their farm.

They had 2 beautiful greenhouses newly constructed and that were very sturdy at the beginning of today, each with about 200 babies they had planted 5 days ago.

Here’s what they looked like a week ago…

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I was stoked to have a full greenhouse of the same pheno of strawberry guava genetics that I’ve been washing over the last 2 days. It was a super loud, greasy dumper for water hash/live rosin…

Then… this happened…

Eveeything is obliterated.

They tried to get it under control but the wind is hitting tropical storm speeds up to 80+ mph still as I write this. It is wimdy enough to uproot small trees and lift large dogs off the ground. They had to just watch from safety as the wind deconstructed everything right before their eyes.

I am less than a mile away but cannot even step outside becuase tree branches, small rocks and other debris is flying through the air right now.

I’m doubtful anything growing in there is salvageable…some of the structure could be.

I will assess damage when it’s safe to do so tonight or tomorrow.

Its obviously a devastating blow to these people and they’ve been very respectable amd kind in my dealings with them as I built out and launched there lab over last 2 months.

I know their budget for plants was depleted after filling both houses.

They have a solid radiant heating system running through the bottoms of the raised beds to climatize the space for out of season crops.

If anyone in the Southwest has good gentics for solventless and clones/teens ready to go please hmu.

They don’t know I’m posting this and I’m not exactly sure what the aftermath will be or how exactly anyone can help. I just think they couod use some community support and also wanted to share the experience with you guys.

Has anyone else in the panhadle/southwest region gotten wiped out today? It’s fucking crazy outside.

Be safe :pray: :blue_heart:

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I’ll send a pack of seeds if y’all need something to recoup & start inside real quick! I hope for a fast recovery from this devastating blow!

I’ll see what clones I can get my sights on real quick as well, got good connection to a lot of the strains some of my close friends wash, including some of the genetics used to make my last seed run

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Thanks brother man much appreciated :pray: :blue_heart::pray:

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Of course!

Something like this has always been my fear of outside grows. Not that i don’t love them but the uncertainty of not knowing what your canopy covers can withstand or what may or may not have been planned for always dawns me for them as it’s much easier imo to survey indoor buildings to be builds out for stability purposes of course.

But now that you guys can collect information on how the wind will disperse through your area, it might be worth it to get a aerodynamic platform for the area to suffice & create a safety feature for this type of situation. I wish you luck with it & if I were available to go I’d come lend a hand in the works.

I’ll keep you updated on what I can find. I know one of my guys has quite a few moms to choose from so I can post a list here if he allows and can allocate them for those who’d like.

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Hit the dm. I’ll get you lined out

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Thats rough. Hard to tell but looks like the GH are plenty salvagable, sucks to lose the crop especially when budget is tight.

If you don’t get plugged with cuts, you are welcome to my gelatti biscotti sundae crosses. I know seeds arent ideal but they’re yours if they can help, everything GBS hit turned to gold.

Got GBS x (forbidden fruit x watermelon zkittlez), grape dog d (both chem d and grape stomper phenos), malibu pie, jelly cocktail remix (slurricane x jelly breath)

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You guys are awesome. Thanks so incredibly much

I’m going to sit down and respnd to everyone at the same time in a couple hours as the wind seems to be gettung even worse and I’m packing up my valuable shit to put in the car in case a fucking tornado rolls through here.

SEVERE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL at LEAST 8PM TONIGHT for ANYONE in Texas/Oklahoma panhandle and New Mexico!!!

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Stay safe!

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We got hit with 100+ mph winds about 5 years ago, that’s when I learned the reason all the locals use rope over the top of their hoop house to lash down the plastic…

Hope these guys are able to rebuild stronger

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love the new avatar @Future

And I’m going to have to say @very.good.cannabis is one hell of a good dude.

Anyone looking for consultation on cultivation buildouts (all styles) and a propagation specialist should look no further than this guy @very.good.cannabis

He was who originally sold us the straw guava clones and personally delivered them to our farm. When he saw my post he immediately reached out and said he’d do us a solid and replace whatever we lost in the storm!

You sir are a exemplary human being and we can’t thank you enough man :pray:

And for anyone listening we’ve heard nothing but excellent reviews from several owners of other cultivation facilities you’ve built on farms in the region!

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What one of my guys has available currently

I’ll send you a pack of (Zack’s cake x Wilson) x back yard boogie

And if you see anything of interest on the list above I can coordinate or connect you to them

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If we can salvage most of the structure (which we likely can) we’ll be covered and feel right accepting more help thanks to @very.good.cannabis

But I’d love to pop off some of the strains you mentioned @anon94533769 and see what you’re working with @Cheebachiefextracts

I’ll reach out individually and see what we can work out cause I can’t in good faith say we need anymore charity…but I’m sure we can work something out. Let’s chat tomorrow when shits calmed down. Thanks gang gang

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Nothing green made it out alive…we have the materials and help to build a sturdier frame.

We welcome any more seeds or local babies…still about 100 shy of filling out the second hoop without going from seedling to clones…which is all good. Just updating on the situation.

We started 400 plants in the ground, 5 days out in the soil.

3 plants survived todays tornado… @very.good.cannabis hooked us up with 200 cuts… @Cheebachiefextracts is sending some fire seeds, and potentially @anon94533769 and @Greenleafpro

Thanks for all the love guys… I shall reciprocate one way or another in the near future. Just hmu when you need a favor

The winds recorded in our neighborhood today were the highest ever on record.

@Future Gusts got up to 124 mph with consistently around 85-90 mph for 3 to 4 hours.

What a day

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Terrible experience. I am sorry. Farming is a hard hard game to play. If there is any silver lining, it is that it happened at the very start of your grow before all the costs were sunk into it.

This quote feels like it was made for the canna industry:
“The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.”
President John F. Kennedy

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Thanks for the positivity :sparkles:

As a manufacturing consultant I have a system of redundancy I follow each time I build out a lab

Gets easier every time

I generally stay put of the cultivation affairs bc there’s often no need or time for me to be involved outside the lab

But these folks are a mom and pop small biz style and I really feel more welcome here than the last 5 places I’ve been hired for lab buildout, launch and training.

So I felt their pain and wanted to show them there are supportive people in our community and you guys really boosted their moral and spirits with the offers and the kind words…I let them both read this thread and they are so amazed that a place like the forum exists

I think I forget sometimes how unique of a place this is…amd how much my knowledge and success has stemmed from the individuals that contribute here

Good vibes :call_me_hand: much love

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Thabks for stopping by the farm today :pray::muscle::call_me_hand: @very.good.cannabis

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@Cheebachiefextracts you are the man…thanks for the beans coming my way!

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Yessir! Can’t wait to see the rebuild! :handshake:t3::call_me_hand:t3: my pleasure to aid in any way I can

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I’m in the panhandle as well, this last storm just dumped a ton of mud all over the hoop house. But last year there was an 80mph storm that ripped my plastic straight down the middle lengthwise after establishing a small hole over the course of hours.

My mistake was not criss crossing rope over the top as future suggested #2 but I feel #1 was not fixing the plastic down as absolutely tight as possible. I’ve been through 3 of these now and it looks like letting even a tiny bit of airflow in is catastrophic. I don’t feel like extra purloins or corner braces would have changed anything but I’m adding them to the next build anyways.

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Ya we (not I but the farmers on the team) made that fatal error of not fully sealing it up properly and it turned into a windsock

Definitely re-engineering the opening/closure and putting a solid spine all the way down the center at the apex of the ceiling on the underside of the ribs

Also anchors for synching down with criss-crossed rope

How many points along the length are youguys pulling straps across the top?

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