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PlantManBee

PlantManBee

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I'll check it out when I'm in Bastrop next time... which should be next week :) . A shame Bastrop is no longer known for the other pine :eyesmoke:
 
TexasHank

TexasHank

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PlantManBee said:
I'll check it out when I'm in Bastrop next time... which should be next week :) . A shame Bastrop is no longer known for the other pine :eyesmoke:
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It's a damn shame.. my biz partner volunteered in the state park. Caring for those trees, picking up trash, etc, for 25ish years..
She went back to the park for the first time since the blaze, last week.. she came back to work crying.

We are actually a wholesale nursery (forgot that tidbit).. a retail outfit would just be too expensive to run.

We'll be up this fall. Gonna have a bbq and blaze to celebrate. I'll send an invite if anyone is interested.

I've got friends (and myself) tangled in the landscaping biz in Austin. The plan is to channel plants to those folks at about 20% lower than the other guys (Far South, GO, NG). We are just doing cacti, native, adapted, etc.. trying to stray from water features, irrigation and such. This drought ain't goin' nowhere..
 
TexasHank

TexasHank

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I was in Lakehills, Bandera and Canyon Lake last wknd on biz... man.. Medina Lake and Canyon Lake are GONE!.

Insult to injury.. the fucking golf course on Canyon Lake is green as can be.. right next to a dry lake.. Sad..

Wanna see what Lake Travis will look like in a few years? Checkout Lake Medina..

I don't wanna be the guy that tries to beat folks over the head about water conservation, but, I feel like this nursery is a chance to make a difference in Central TX.. if it takes 6 mos of drinking water (for an individual) to bring a single plant to sale... something ain't right. At the rate of folks moving to Austin... something has to change or we'll be using BRAWNDO to brew our morning coffee soon..

We have 2500 gal of rain water collection in place right now.. Adding another 2500 this fall. Our hopes are to not use a drop of water that didn't fall out of the sky. That + getting cacti and low water needs plants in the hands of Austin landscapers is what I can do for the Central TX water (lack of) situation..
 
PlantManBee

PlantManBee

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hahaha canyon creek is more like it. I was there last week as well. I used to live adjacent to the Hancock trail on the "lake". I spent my childhood in Minnesota and Wisconsin so they don't seem like lakes to me, even when they are full. Only one real lake in texas and it's a gator infested bog lol.

Cool on the xeriscaping thing.

Yeah, the park is toast. But it is cool to see how it is rebuilding.... so many shrooms and shelf fungi on all the downed trees and there lots of seedlings coming up. Unfortunately it looks like a bunch of the planted seedlings aren't fairing so well, but the ones from scattered cones are doing great.

Good luck on the business!

pmb
 
ReefBongwell

ReefBongwell

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TexasHank said:
I was in Lakehills, Bandera and Canyon Lake last wknd on biz... man.. Medina Lake and Canyon Lake are GONE!.

Insult to injury.. the fucking golf course on Canyon Lake is green as can be.. right next to a dry lake.. Sad..

Wanna see what Lake Travis will look like in a few years? Checkout Lake Medina..

I don't wanna be the guy that tries to beat folks over the head about water conservation, but, I feel like this nursery is a chance to make a difference in Central TX.. if it takes 6 mos of drinking water (for an individual) to bring a single plant to sale... something ain't right. At the rate of folks moving to Austin... something has to change or we'll be using BRAWNDO to brew our morning coffee soon..

We have 2500 gal of rain water collection in place right now.. Adding another 2500 this fall. Our hopes are to not use a drop of water that didn't fall out of the sky. That + getting cacti and low water needs plants in the hands of Austin landscapers is what I can do for the Central TX water (lack of) situation..
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Well just wait til the government comes after you for depriving the aquifers of their refill water.. it's happening in other places around the country -- craziness.

The current water issues are related to drought, not lack of conservation... droughts can last for years but they don't last forever. although it's definitely true that the population and their water needs are outstripping the rate at which the aquifers are refilling in general in central texas even in good weather years. Part of it's the stupidity of the existing system -- do you really need treated, non-recycled drinking water in your toilet or garden hose?
 
TexasHank

TexasHank

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ReefBongwell said:
Well just wait til the government comes after you for depriving the aquifers of their refill water.. it's happening in other places around the country -- craziness.

The current water issues are related to drought, not lack of conservation... droughts can last for years but they don't last forever. although it's definitely true that the population and their water needs are outstripping the rate at which the aquifers are refilling in general in central texas even in good weather years. Part of it's the stupidity of the existing system -- do you really need treated, non-recycled drinking water in your toilet or garden hose?
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Lake Medina was used for municipal purposes. Farmers irrigated crops with water from Lake Medina as well. I think I remember reading as late as 2010. Def in 2006.

From what I understand, Ag uses significantly more water than any other. Then, municipal? Prbly..

But yeah, rain, damnit..

I've heard about states making rain water collection illegal.. hoping that doesn't make way to TX.
 
Hydrotech364

Hydrotech364

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TexasHank said:
Lake Medina was used for municipal purposes. Farmers irrigated crops with water from Lake Medina as well. I think I remember reading as late as 2010. Def in 2006.

From what I understand, Ag uses significantly more water than any other. Then, municipal? Prbly..

But yeah, rain, damnit..

I've heard about states making rain water collection illegal.. hoping that doesn't make way to TX.
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That would be a very bad idea..Stopping rainwater collection will piss off every survivalist and pot farmer in Tx and that's not even counting the average mom and pop.
 
lowryderlove

lowryderlove

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I'm in Bexar.. I'm dying right now... Stash gone know no other growers, and have never seen anything higher than big. Hash etc doesnt exist here... Wish I had a friend that did hash and we could trade genetics n shit lol
 
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cricket101

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What is a basic start up cost for a small nursery, like 1500 sq feet to 2000 sq feet space? I have always wanted to run an herb nursery with exotic/shamanic plants.
 
SOMEBEECH

SOMEBEECH

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I miss Mr Sweets.Glen was a good dude.And Jolly Green Hydro went out of bus.
Beech
Been going to TX Hydro or lone star.
 
Bricksquad2625

Bricksquad2625

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I stumbled across Ron's Organics in Mesquite, its not a grow shop whatsoever but it has amazing organic nutes, I'm currently using, I will look at the other places, thanks for the responses
 
TexasHank

TexasHank

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Anyone know about the cowboy cup?
Some sxsw thing? I hear about it this time of year, the last few years..

I'm pretty sure I asked the same question about a year ago, in this same thread.
 
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