My D’Qar Cannabis Seed Garden

My D’Qar Cannabis Seed Garden 7/4/24….I have just returned from a trip up to my mountain, off grid, permaculture property on the dry east side of WA state. Located in the foothills of the Simcoe Mountain Range.

My D’Qar Cannabis Seed Garden

Last year I very successfully grew Granddaddy Purple cannabis seeds at my property to produce seed. The season was just a bit short, but produced very viable seed anyways.

This year I decided on a very Indica dominate plant called D’Qar.

D’Qar is a very Indica dominate plant, bred by Paul at new420seedguys. It seems to be a very hardy, robust little plant that is not likely going to get that big up there (time will tell.) And I predict it will finish well.

Here is the D’Qar plants as they looked two days ago…

My D’Qar Cannabis Seed Garden was very thirsty when I got there, I watered them in with about 15 gals of water, and will get back up there soon to make sure they are getting some drip water as well.

D’Qar update 7/29/24…

Permaculture Food-Forest Practices

Truthfully, I had been wondering just how well most of the plants I have been introducing would fit in to that somewhat harsh environment including My D’Qar Cannabis Seed Garden. This trip up however has put my mind at ease. Many of the trees are finally getting established, their roots have gone deep enough to take advantage of the ground water I have made available…and the new growth is obvious!

How is there ground water in that semi arid part of the country?

That my friends is permaculture in action, as you can see in the newly dug trench in the image to the left. That is a pool of ground water on top of the bedrock at the bottom of the small hill there.

The reason there is ground water is the fact that my well pump is solar direct….it pumps water any time there is at least 30 volts of solar energy available.

So, on a sunny day, my well pump pumps about 2500 gals at about 6 gallons a minute.

6 gallons a minute=360 gallons an hour=3140 gallons in a 9 hour day!

Some of this water directly waters my plantings, but much of it is simply pumped out on top of the ground at the top of a small hill. This water then percolates down to bedrock (about 4 feet deep), and then makes it’s way down the hill on top of that bedrock….making it available to any plants able to reach it with their roots.

Permaculture is basically trying to hold back, and preserve what water is available in a landscape, and, this becomes even more important the dryer the environment. If you read about permaculture food-forests online, you will find many want to complicate things, they worry about planting guilds, companion plantings, swales, mulch, etc. etc.

It does not need to be that complicated, all I am doing is planting lots of different plants, without much concern about where I plant them. I will basically let nature sort things out, those plants I want that grow well there I will propagate….those that are unable to flourish in that environment I will not.

Starting a New Gig

I am excited to announce I am going to be adding something new to my cannabis seed business.

And that is the addition to other herb seeds, and perhaps the herbs themselves. And my off-grid property will be instrumental in this endeavor….as I will grow many of these herbs there.

I have also decided to name my property, and am settling in with this name….Windy Ridge Farms. Tell me what you think of the name in a comment, and make a suggestion for another name you have one you think would be a good fit. If I agree I will hook you up with some awesome free cannabis seeds!

But I regress, back to the herbs…

I am in the process of learning about herbs, and which ones would be a good fit, business wise.

I have 3 I am interested in right now…Yarrow, Stinging Nettle, and Mullein.

Yarrow it turns out is native to my area, grows abundantly with a bit of extra water, and it is called White Yarrow…

Yarrow also comes in several other colors, and I think might have different medicinal properties, any herb experts want to chime in?

Yarrow is helpful for treating various conditions such as….

• Applied to the skin for wounds and minor bleeding.
• Taken by mouth to reduce inflammation, especially in the digestive tract.
• Taken as a sedative to relieve anxiety or insomnia.

Stinging Nettle is a common plant throughout WA state. I know where there is a few acres of it on the way up to my property. I am just getting some growing up there…

Stinging nettle is used to treat a host of ailments, and is also very nutritious.

As with many herbs it is a common plant, and can flourish in a wide range of environments.

Stinging nettle can be used to treat…

• Inflammation
• Pain control
• Treats gout
• Allergies
• Benign prostatic hyperplasia
• Managing diabetes

Mullein is also very common around the area. I have taken the seed heads several times and simply walked around while beating them together to scatter the seeds. Here is a plant, one of many growing there now…

There are many FaceBook pages (100,000’s of folks) sharing their love for this medicinal herb.

Mullein is a biennial plant, and blooms and produces seeds it’s second year of life, as you can see in the image.

On a side note, you can see Yarrow growing next to the mullein, (the white flowers) Yarrow is very common there.

You can find all of these seeds for sale on Amazon, and I will likely sell the seeds I (grow) collect there as well.

Mullein is used to treat…

• cough
• whooping cough
• tuberculosis
• bronchitis
• hoarseness
• pneumonia
• earaches
• colds
• chills
• flu
• swine flu
• fever
• allergies
• tonsillitis
• sore throat

Are you a herbalist, do you know a lot about these plants? If so lets connect, leave me a comment or an email on my contact email.

Hügelkultur

I am going to utilize a growing technique some of you may never heard of. It was first developed in Scandinavia I believe, and is basically a great way to grow all kinds of plants in a very wet environment. You build mounds to plant in, and they are called Hügelkultur. Here is Google’s description…

Hügelkultur is a centuries-old, traditional way of building a garden bed from rotten logs and plant debris. These mound shapes are created by marking out an area for a raised bed, clearing the land, and then heaping up woody material (that’s ideally already partially rotted) topped with compost and soil.

I will be changing it up a bit however. When built as a mound as you can imagine water drains away, the higher you look in the mound, that is why I say this technique would be great for a wet area.

My property however is semi arid, so rather the make a mound, I will actually just dig a ditch as you see in this image…

Then I will fill the ditch with the debris you can see in the image which I will burn creating bio-char, then add other un-burned debris, fertilizer, and other amendments as well. A second benefit is I will be getting rid of all the trees I have cleared.

I will finish with a slight depression, rather the a mound. I am calling it my Dry-land Hügelkultur.

I will bet a dollar to a donut that this will create wonderful growing environment for many of my trees and shrubs. I of course will keep you in the loop of how this turns out.

Creating a Seep Pond for My D’Qar Cannabis Seed Garden and More…

I have gotten up to the top of my hill and dug a ditch. Why? Because even though I pump a ton of water to the top of the hill for permaculture reasons, what I really want is a pond up there. Kept full by my well.

So to start I have dug just a ditch…

Why not just dig the whole pond? Well because the soil in that neck of the woods does not hold water well. So I will start with just a ditch, and the next time I am there I will run that 2500 gallons of water for that day into it, and see if it will say, or if it all runs away down the hill.

If it holds water I will think about a pond, if it does not hold water, I will figure something else out.

Notice the big brush pile to the side?

I have many thorn-less blackberry plants planted on the other side, and the plants are surrounded with brush that tall. There will be several advantages to this. One, the brush keeps the deer out of the blackberries, which they have taken a liking to. Two, I have over flow water running out by the blackberries, and a buries bucket gives birds and small animals a place to drink. the brush keeps them safe from most predators. And three, once the blackberries grow up, and over the brush piles creating a huge bramble, what an excellent place for small creatures, and birds to take refuge.

The Seep Pond at the Bottom of the Hill

I will end with another advantage of pumping all that water out on top of the hill. And that is it created standing water at the bottom of the hill, which allowed me to create a small pond for all the animals to take advantage of….including my two labs.

I had just dug this, and that is why the water is so dirty, given a few days it will clear up, fill up, and look like the spring water it actually is.

Conclusion My D’Qar Cannabis Seed Garden

Now that I have my excavator I am getting much of the dirt work done. I cannot tell you how much this floats my boat! I am beyond ecstatic, things are happening, and they are happening quickly.

I am looking forward to acres of trees, alfalfa, clover, herbs, a wild diversity of plants! I also plan on many ponds, and wetland features…a bio diverse haven for animals and humans.

Thanks for reading, and as a reward for reading what I write, tell me in a note with your next seed order….’give me the permaculture freebie!’ And I will include an extra freebie over and above what you would already get! Head over to Bulk Weed Seed for bulk cannabis seed purchases!