SouthEastern Kentucky, Growing in the Mountains

you've got some nice plants. I just wanted to say hi because your post title drew me in, I've got family down in pikeville in burning fork branch LOL love the names of the hollers and in barbersville(I think that's the name). You live in a beautiful area. I can see why my gma doesn't want to live anywhere else. awesome grow!

doubletake said:

DAMN my dude you have a field over there looking good and super healthy ha.
and I hear you on some of those old timers they don't know how to take a tip for shit ha.


id assume weed is a little more pricey in Kentucky what do the pounds go for over there, I'm in Cali so it's obviously pretty cheap here I'd assume like 3000 to 4000 for some of you dank?

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Well man it took quite a while for quality weed to come in here strong and it still hasn't got itself hooked into the market firmly. There's just so much of what they call HomeGrown or HG around here which is just fresh green weed that is subpar at best and is most of the time leafy and seedy. It's no more than just Mexican wrag weed that has been grown here with the seeds from brick weed. People sell it for $800 -$1600 a pond and they just sell the hell out of it and at dirt cheap prices and flood the market with it, All these younger people that will pay very little for shwag just can't get a grip on better quality weed. Sure it costs more but it's just the same as any other product - You get what you pay for...
I sell my smoke at $350 an ounce for the best and i always grow some mids to sell for around $200-$250 for the people that want to turn a profit. So, It has taken a while but there are connoisseurs coming out that want great medical grade marijuana at any cost so I just have to find them and keep them feed.
When I sell my Highend weed by the pound I price it at $3000 a pound and I have a special price for my best of friends at $2500 because they will buy tons of it.

So, Slowly but surely the medical grade weed is staking its feet here. All it takes is people getting to try it and their hooked and will pay the price for great weed.

Krspies said:

you've got some nice plants. I just wanted to say hi because your post title drew me in, I've got family down in pikeville in burning fork branch LOL love the names of the hollers and in barbersville(I think that's the name). You live in a beautiful area. I can see why my gma doesn't want to live anywhere else. awesome grow!

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Pike county is just next door to me, I live about 30 miles from Pikeville.
It's pretty here but if you have allergies and live here winter time is the preferred time of year. I just grin and bear it because growing season is my favorite time of year, So much so that I started growing indoors about 5 years ago. Now all year long I grow my babies and spread my medicine far and wide...

Keep it Green RIU!!!!

Kentucky is not a med state ? and why is better quality weed not grown there ? Great prices you get by the way. Pre Cali gold rush prices.

TWS said:

Kentucky is not a med state ? and why is better quality weed not grown there ? Great prices you get by the way. Pre Cali gold rush prices.

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No TWS, Kentucky isn't a medical state. We have just recently passed a bill for industrial hemp and it has yet to be implemented because their working out how to regulate and how to determine whom can farm it.
Seems that here in Kentucky change comes much slower, I see my state becoming a medical state within the next 20 yrs or so but many other things have to happen first like no more Mitch Mcconnel for one and a whole lot more of people like Ran Paul...

The quality Marijuana is slowly taking it's place here but it seems to be taking it's time because people are taking a long fucking time realising that better quality weed will cost more but it will last you a whole lot longer and it will help you a whole lot more. After these guys out here that are getting an OZ of HomeGrown for $100 and they smoke it up as fast as they can roll it, Also their bodies get immune to it really quick. Soon as they smoke some of the quality herb they see that it's worth the extra cost, The older generation are even slowly starting to use it as medicine instead of these very addictive opiates and benzodiazepines.
So what is taking place is the smokers and self medicating people are becoming connoisseurs of high quality medication and I'm just the man for he job.LOL
The rest of the country is so ahead of Kentucky but everyone that likes the good herb is watching and listening. They want the good smoke too...
What Kentucky needs is advocates with loud voices and clean slates, We need NORML and the like...

Moral of the story is Kentucky is lagging behind but we are getting there, Slowly but surely we will get in line with the rest of The United States of America!

why don't the other growers invest in good genetics ? Un educated in strains ? Or because it is not a med state so it is not as prevalent ?

TWS said:

why don't the other growers invest in good genetics ? Un educated in strains ? Or because it is not a med state so it is not as prevalent ?

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Mostly the people are uneducated on strains and genetics. They assume that just because they can have fresh green herb that it doesnt matter where the seeds came from in their minds fresh is good enough.
It's fairly easy for us to order seeds and get them here with little problem but they just seem to think it's much harder or they just don't care. You oughta see how stupid people act over fresh green fluffy weed, They get giddy and happy over shwag weed because they think fresh means great no matter the genetics.
My circle of friends that grow have started using only strains of high quality with my help we have made the market for high grade medication and the people that are growing and trying to sell the shit weed are following suite because their unable to sell their herb. So they've slowly begun to get better strains because the smokers are all becoming connoisseurs...

Times are changing for the good and I'm just trying to speed it along and with the help of others hopefully the shit weed will be a thing of the past...

Sounds like you have a good market left with a little more risk. The good ole days. Thanks for the info. Kinda hard to believe and hardly ever being out of California that there are states still like that. I can't imagine Kentucky being the furthest state behind in times ?

well horse shit must be great or the fine Kentucky soil, you will have some monster kolas.
I need to get some of those old Kentuck genetics.

Great plants RNC, have you had a problem with all the rain this year? Mine have stayed wet alot this year & i've not been able to feed them much.

glad I found this thread! im from southern Indiana myself. amazinf looking ladies you got there! cant wait to see how they turn out!

Cowboykush said:

Great plants RNC, have you had a problem with all the rain this year? Mine have stayed wet alot this year & i've not been able to feed them much.

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Yeah man, I've had a hell of time trying to keep up with my girls because of all the rain. I predict a moldy flowering season, I'll have to keep an eye out for yellowing leaves and water siting on my girls or mold is sure to start. But it's better than a drought but its hard on them, Yesterday I had to make like 40 stakes so I could stake up one of my LST plants that got knocked over in a very strong thunderstorm yesterday morning...

Hey RNC420, welcome to RIU and nice looking grow. Interested what's your yield will be from those monsters. Keep us posted!

diet coke said:

well horse shit must be great or the fine Kentucky soil, you will have some monster kolas.
I need to get some of those old Kentuck genetics.

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The soil here is good not to acidic and not to much clay, Another 100 miles south and the dirt turns red and just gets redder as you go south I guess I'm lucky to have such good top soil everywhere. But I don't grow in the natural terra, My uncle has a racking horse training facility and he has a surplus of horseshit and sawdust just laying around. I use the stuff that's at least 3 years old and its perfectly matured and mulched. It's really airy, fluffy and dark and the plants love it man, Their roots can grow freely and they just explode with growth.
I hardly ever feed the plants but when I do feed them I use the organic 3 part Fox Farms concentrates...
There are some really good Kentucky specific strains but there usually owned and grown in a tight knit family or collective. My plants are Afghan Kush, Pakistan Valley Kush and something that I call Pakistan Valley Haze it's a cross between Pakistan Valley Kush x Haze#1 F1. I've just started selecting them and stabilizing them, So far the phenotypes that are showing up are exactly what I'm looking for. They are dominant Sativa but the PVK has shortened down the flowering time and seems to have put some weight and thickness to the buds and thats just what I'm looking for.

Keep it green RIU!!!!

Gs3000 said:

Hey RNC420, welcome to RIU and nice looking grow. Interested what's your yield will be from those monsters. Keep us posted!

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Thanks for the welcome!
Yeah I expect a fairly hardy yield, This is the first year in a long time that I haven't grown in buckets. Usually I'll grow 50-75 females in 5 gallon buckets but I decided that I would dig some really big holes and fill them in with my Mulch. The idea is to get more with less... Have to keep in mind that Ky isn't very liberal when it comes to Marijuana and the like so I took the Californian growers idea and got hold of some big genetics that I could get off of one plant what I would normally get from 3 or 4 plants...

Yea defiantly be getting around a pound a plant instead of just halls or quarter pounds.

Would you say it's easier taking care of abunch of little ones or fewer big ones or about the same?

doubletake said:

Yea defiantly be getting around a pound a plant instead of just halls or quarter pounds.

Would you say it's easier taking care of abunch of little ones or fewer big ones or about the same?

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Well, I'm leaning toward fewer bigger plants are easier to keep up with but if their tall thick plants it gets a little hard to manage anything over your head and out of your reach. With the rain fall and thickness of the plants even one yellowing rotting leaf can ruin an entire plant if left to mold. So both have their pros and cons but fewer bigger plants are more manageable in my mind and that's not mentioning that legally it's much safer. In Ky anything over the felony amount of plants can get you an extra year per plant!

I've had my encounters with the police too. They definitely know who I am and they know what I do but that's not enough for them to get me with. It takes rats and CI's and I'm very careful not to mingle with folks I can't count on. I don't do any nickle and dime dealing and I don't fool with people that I don't know or trust, My main worry is the helicopters and I strive on stealth and new ideas to hide my giants. What seems to be working is LST and never killing the surrounding greenery and shrubs because camo goes a long way.

Keep your fingers crossed for me guys but I'm not a rookie and I don't plan on going to jail anytime soon!
Keep it green RIU!!!!

A little update, Buds starting to form and swell.

Loves me some Haze!!!!

Cant wait to see your "Just before harvest" pics! these look sweet my man!

bigbillyrocka said:

Cant wait to see your "Just before harvest" pics! these look sweet my man!

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Thanks my friend...
I'll for sure be updating from now until harvest...