why thank you DJ....I always wanted this thread to be more than a normal grow thread, more like a consciousness of thought.......please stop on by again!
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Megayields VERT Paradise...c'mon in!
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Update
Update
Ok Gang here is a quick update, everything is going great, new business's being started, one of my new employees Mom got into his BHO production accidently and put herself to sleep for about 15 hours, she said she felt "real rested" but was incredibly hungry LMAO
.....noone was hurt except the food budget.
Ok flower room this is a mix of; Tangerine Haze (ol standby), Allen Wrench (btw we are saving cuts if this, amazing response from MANY customers are convincing me to keep this), Alaskan Ice - soo frosty like The White, I think their is some Grape Skunk even and a single huge Mango which will just be for good friends and employee rewards.
Temperatures are holding very steady from about 73 - 79 night/day, humidity is "finally" under control and now in flower room at about 56 %, could be lower but I am pretty happy with that ...even so we are keeping a close eye on PM ESPECIALLY when the rainy season starts.
Ok on the the BUD PORN!
Applogies about taking pics with Halides on but it was 5:30 am and I had to get , they gave me one night at home in the middle of my two week run...soooo check out the purples in some of these (I don't know if you can tell but some are getting real purple look great!
and.....
smells so good!
omg theirs MORE!
Alaskan Ice budscicle, their about 2 weeks behind row 1 & 2 , THAT will end with the next run, (see upcoming Veg room shots)
Macro's!
and.........
Veg room ALL this is just Abusive Dog, Tang and Ultimate Strawberry Diesel, but today we took some Allen Wrench as well.
OK this is HOL Abusive Dog and it was started from seeds, note the Aggressive growth I am really liking what I am seeing already, these were the BEST out of about 9 that sprouted and we still have to look for males.
Abusive Dog (House of Love) #2
ok I am seeing some weirdness Bobblehead in the USD can you diagnose this yellowing of a few leaves, it is not on every one and it might just be baby growth dying off while new growth comes in nice and green(???)
and....
Overall I am very pleased with this run BUT we are going to go to ALL #2 Smarties next time and increase our plant count to(hopefully) 100+ plants to increase yields, also I am buying all new bulbs to replace the current ones.
Update
Ok Gang here is a quick update, everything is going great, new business's being started, one of my new employees Mom got into his BHO production accidently and put herself to sleep for about 15 hours, she said she felt "real rested" but was incredibly hungry LMAO
.....noone was hurt except the food budget.Ok flower room this is a mix of; Tangerine Haze (ol standby), Allen Wrench (btw we are saving cuts if this, amazing response from MANY customers are convincing me to keep this), Alaskan Ice - soo frosty like The White, I think their is some Grape Skunk even and a single huge Mango which will just be for good friends and employee rewards.
Temperatures are holding very steady from about 73 - 79 night/day, humidity is "finally" under control and now in flower room at about 56 %, could be lower but I am pretty happy with that ...even so we are keeping a close eye on PM ESPECIALLY when the rainy season starts.
Ok on the the BUD PORN!
Applogies about taking pics with Halides on but it was 5:30 am and I had to get , they gave me one night at home in the middle of my two week run...soooo check out the purples in some of these (I don't know if you can tell but some are getting real purple look great!
and.....
smells so good!
omg theirs MORE!
Alaskan Ice budscicle, their about 2 weeks behind row 1 & 2 , THAT will end with the next run, (see upcoming Veg room shots)
Macro's!
and.........
Veg room ALL this is just Abusive Dog, Tang and Ultimate Strawberry Diesel, but today we took some Allen Wrench as well.
OK this is HOL Abusive Dog and it was started from seeds, note the Aggressive growth I am really liking what I am seeing already, these were the BEST out of about 9 that sprouted and we still have to look for males.
Abusive Dog (House of Love) #2
ok I am seeing some weirdness Bobblehead in the USD can you diagnose this yellowing of a few leaves, it is not on every one and it might just be baby growth dying off while new growth comes in nice and green(???)
and....
Overall I am very pleased with this run BUT we are going to go to ALL #2 Smarties next time and increase our plant count to(hopefully) 100+ plants to increase yields, also I am buying all new bulbs to replace the current ones.
what did you do to that plant?
I've seen it look like that before... No big deal. The new growth looks healthy, and that's what I focus on. Cut off the nasty stuff, keep feeding it pH balanced nutes and you'll be good. That happens when I use straight tap, and water irregularly. Looking closer I see you have tip burn... so that plant is over-ferted imo.
I didn't ask for abuse just your opinion LOL....I think it is the clone baby growth just dying away, you'll note the beautiful NEW GREEN growth on the top, should I worry about the yellowing? It has happened before and never seems to adversly effect the final product??
Oh an if you don;t give me an answer I have some boys that will come over and pay you a visit...
if they don;t work I'll get out the BIG guns....
Oh an if you don;t give me an answer I have some boys that will come over and pay you a visit...
if they don;t work I'll get out the BIG guns....
lmao... I'm from Michigan bro, bears don't scare me. You just have to hold your arms out, make yourself look big and make a lot of noise... and if that doesn't work it helps to have a sharp stick... lol
You know I don't really know Shhhh,mNo offense but some. Of the crappiest genetics I ever had the displeasure of growing out we're GHS stuff......I got these teens after gro-bro tripped and took out a rack of teens and we needed replacements toot-suite....so I just went to CL, if they are GHS genetics these are looking a hundred times better that the Super Lemon Haze I over paid for, that was pure crap.
great shot n plants dudeeee, expect amazing things and sweetest days for sure
Schrews dude have not forgot you....I have some Mango cooking and some "budder"....I would love you to try...I'm just so busy ATM...KW31....thanks for stopping by man!
mega, that ai looks very nice and has good structer. nothing like anything i got in my pack. had 2 phenos with SOARING highs but both were lanky and airy. never got 1 that had a traditional type bud on them, just wild hazey fingers or big air buds that never really filled out. wasnt impressed with ghs alaskan ice (my boys had similar experiences with them), but 1 of those ai had a phenominal high, but took 115+ days and didnt fit into my system at the time. i have access to a super lemon haze cut from them i might try, but i think im just gonna put another order in and get some mns hazes instead (can choose the one i want).
on another note, things are looking good mang!
on another note, things are looking good mang!
Bobble and others might appreciate this....
Bobble and others might appreciate this....
I have the solution to your cloning issues Bobble.....I am hauling 28,000 pounds of vermiculite, uhhhh I could "get lost" and end up delivering it to you in Michigan....lol....
Edit:was it perculite or vermiculite you clone in?
Bobble and others might appreciate this....
I have the solution to your cloning issues Bobble.....I am hauling 28,000 pounds of vermiculite, uhhhh I could "get lost" and end up delivering it to you in Michigan....lol....
Edit:was it perculite or vermiculite you clone in?
MRHEADIE;
Checkmout House of Love's genetics or Greenhouse Medical Seed Co., they have a Blue Sonja that is off dah hook man, HOL is coming out with a "Midnight Madness" that is truly just crazy funky OG crossed with I cannot remember but sound totally SICK.... I am going to run that for sure.
thanks for the kind words this week has been a total bitch.....so....I appreciate kind words
Unable to pay bill, Mich. city turns off lights - HOLY CRAP?
Unable to pay bill, Mich. city turns off lights - HOLY CRAP?
Bobble is this true? I just saw this article on Yahoo news OMG???
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HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) -- As the sun dips below the rooftops each evening, parts of this Detroit enclave turn to pitch black, the only illumination coming from a few streetlights at the end of the block or from glowing yellow yard globes.
It wasn't always this way. But when the debt-ridden community could no longer afford its monthly electric bill, elected officials not only turned off 1,000 streetlights. They had them ripped out -- bulbs, poles and all. Now nightfall cloaks most neighborhoods in inky darkness.
"How can you darken any city?" asked Victoria Dowdell, standing in the halo of a light in her front yard. "I think that was a disgrace. She said the decision endangers everyone, especially people who have to walk around at night or catch the bus.
Highland Park's decision is one of the nation's most extreme austerity measures, even among the scores of communities that can no longer afford to provide basic services.
Other towns have postponed roadwork, cut back on trash collection and closed libraries, for example. But to people left in the dark night after night, removing streetlights seems more drastic. And unlike many other cutbacks that can easily be reversed, this one appears to be permanent.
The city is $58 million in debt and has many more people than jobs, plus dozens of burned-out or vacant houses and buildings. With fewer than 12,000 residents, its population has dwindled to half the level from 20 years ago.
Faced with a $4 million electric bill that required $60,000 monthly payments, Mayor Hubert Yopp asked the City Council to consider reducing lighting. Council members reluctantly approved it, even in an election year.
"We knew it was going to hurt," Councilman Christopher Woodard said. "We're all hurting."
In late August, contractors from DTE Energy Co. began rolling through the streets, taking out two-thirds of the light poles.
"It is a winning proposition, but that doesn't make it a winner with the citizens who find themselves in the dark," Woodard added. "We had to watch our backs when we got out of our cars before. Now we have to watch them even more closely."
Unless the government gets an unexpected infusion of cash or sees an uptick in its dying tax base, many parts of Highland Park will remain beneath a shroud every night.
The city's monthly electric bill has been cut by 80 percent. The amount owed DTE Energy goes back about a decade, but utility executives hesitated to turn off the juice.
"We are extremely concerned with public safety," said Trevor Lauer, vice president of marketing and renewables for the Detroit-based utility. "We recognize that street lighting is something that contributes to public safety."
Now, he said, the company has "a municipal lighting customer I'm confident can pay its monthly bill."
Most of the 500 streetlights still shining in Highland Park are along major streets and on corners in residential areas. DTE Energy has listed the city's overdue bill as an uncollectable expense.
The leader of a nonprofit group that works to reduce energy costs for low-income families said he's not heard of any other communities becoming so desperate to save money that they turned off streetlights. It might be a sign of things to come.
"If it works in Highland Park, I could not imagine other cities not looking at that as one option," said David Fox, executive director of the National Low Income Energy Consortium in Alexandria, Va.
In its heyday, Highland Park was one of Michigan's urban jewels, with large yards, spacious homes and tree-lined streets.
Henry Ford put his first moving assembly line here, and his factory eventually churned out a car every minute. By 1930, the city had grown to 50,000 people.
Ford later moved his primary manufacturing operations to River Rouge, southwest of Detroit, in search of room to expand. Highland Park survived that loss. But it never recovered from Chrysler's decision in the 1990s to move its world headquarters 50 miles north to Oakland County.
"That took away $6 million" in taxes, Woodard said. "That was a lot of money to not have anymore. It was a major industrial operation moving out of here. When Chrysler moved out, things started to happen."
Small businesses catering to Chrysler workers began to fail, and the city struggled to pay its bills. And like Detroit, which lost 250,000 residents from 2000 to 2010, people moved out, leaving hundreds of abandoned houses.
In 1980, the census counted 27,000 people living in Highland Park. By 2010, that number had fallen to 11,776.
The median household income is $18,700, compared with $48,700 statewide. And 42 percent of the city's residents live in poverty.
"It's pretty ghetto," Cassandra Cabil said from her front yard. Voices drift in the darkness from down the street, but the speakers can't be seen.
The 31-year-old short-order cook works odd hours and sometimes makes it home late at night. She watched recently as crews removed the streetlight and pole from in front of her rented home.
"It's really dark unless people have their lights on," she said. "There's a lot of vandalism going on, people breaking into these houses."
Unable to pay bill, Mich. city turns off lights - HOLY CRAP?
Bobble is this true? I just saw this article on Yahoo news OMG???
===================================================
HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) -- As the sun dips below the rooftops each evening, parts of this Detroit enclave turn to pitch black, the only illumination coming from a few streetlights at the end of the block or from glowing yellow yard globes.
It wasn't always this way. But when the debt-ridden community could no longer afford its monthly electric bill, elected officials not only turned off 1,000 streetlights. They had them ripped out -- bulbs, poles and all. Now nightfall cloaks most neighborhoods in inky darkness.
"How can you darken any city?" asked Victoria Dowdell, standing in the halo of a light in her front yard. "I think that was a disgrace. She said the decision endangers everyone, especially people who have to walk around at night or catch the bus.
Highland Park's decision is one of the nation's most extreme austerity measures, even among the scores of communities that can no longer afford to provide basic services.
Other towns have postponed roadwork, cut back on trash collection and closed libraries, for example. But to people left in the dark night after night, removing streetlights seems more drastic. And unlike many other cutbacks that can easily be reversed, this one appears to be permanent.
The city is $58 million in debt and has many more people than jobs, plus dozens of burned-out or vacant houses and buildings. With fewer than 12,000 residents, its population has dwindled to half the level from 20 years ago.
Faced with a $4 million electric bill that required $60,000 monthly payments, Mayor Hubert Yopp asked the City Council to consider reducing lighting. Council members reluctantly approved it, even in an election year.
"We knew it was going to hurt," Councilman Christopher Woodard said. "We're all hurting."
In late August, contractors from DTE Energy Co. began rolling through the streets, taking out two-thirds of the light poles.
"It is a winning proposition, but that doesn't make it a winner with the citizens who find themselves in the dark," Woodard added. "We had to watch our backs when we got out of our cars before. Now we have to watch them even more closely."
Unless the government gets an unexpected infusion of cash or sees an uptick in its dying tax base, many parts of Highland Park will remain beneath a shroud every night.
The city's monthly electric bill has been cut by 80 percent. The amount owed DTE Energy goes back about a decade, but utility executives hesitated to turn off the juice.
"We are extremely concerned with public safety," said Trevor Lauer, vice president of marketing and renewables for the Detroit-based utility. "We recognize that street lighting is something that contributes to public safety."
Now, he said, the company has "a municipal lighting customer I'm confident can pay its monthly bill."
Most of the 500 streetlights still shining in Highland Park are along major streets and on corners in residential areas. DTE Energy has listed the city's overdue bill as an uncollectable expense.
The leader of a nonprofit group that works to reduce energy costs for low-income families said he's not heard of any other communities becoming so desperate to save money that they turned off streetlights. It might be a sign of things to come.
"If it works in Highland Park, I could not imagine other cities not looking at that as one option," said David Fox, executive director of the National Low Income Energy Consortium in Alexandria, Va.
In its heyday, Highland Park was one of Michigan's urban jewels, with large yards, spacious homes and tree-lined streets.
Henry Ford put his first moving assembly line here, and his factory eventually churned out a car every minute. By 1930, the city had grown to 50,000 people.
Ford later moved his primary manufacturing operations to River Rouge, southwest of Detroit, in search of room to expand. Highland Park survived that loss. But it never recovered from Chrysler's decision in the 1990s to move its world headquarters 50 miles north to Oakland County.
"That took away $6 million" in taxes, Woodard said. "That was a lot of money to not have anymore. It was a major industrial operation moving out of here. When Chrysler moved out, things started to happen."
Small businesses catering to Chrysler workers began to fail, and the city struggled to pay its bills. And like Detroit, which lost 250,000 residents from 2000 to 2010, people moved out, leaving hundreds of abandoned houses.
In 1980, the census counted 27,000 people living in Highland Park. By 2010, that number had fallen to 11,776.
The median household income is $18,700, compared with $48,700 statewide. And 42 percent of the city's residents live in poverty.
"It's pretty ghetto," Cassandra Cabil said from her front yard. Voices drift in the darkness from down the street, but the speakers can't be seen.
The 31-year-old short-order cook works odd hours and sometimes makes it home late at night. She watched recently as crews removed the streetlight and pole from in front of her rented home.
"It's really dark unless people have their lights on," she said. "There's a lot of vandalism going on, people breaking into these houses."
If I lived in that neighborhood, I would get the fuck out. There is obviously something wrong. My family is from Michigan, and some parts of that state, particularly Detroit are not safe for us crackers... I can imagine roving gangs pilfering darkened neighborhoods, sad really...
Why do you think I chose to specialize in vacation homes?
Update and pics
Update and pics
Ok gang went to the local Hydro Whore house, Santa Cruz Hydro ...41st ave location ....got me two new Ushio 1Kers since I have not replaced my bulbs in xxx (too embarressed to say BUT they made a lot of runs)...so I just checked..NOTICEABLY different and brighter! So I hope that will help everything a little bit,
Ok concentrates just been working my little tabletop washing machine and making more bubble.....gotta get it dried so it sits above the wood stove...it got down to a frigid 50 degrees today brrrrrr!
and I put my best man on it to protect the bubble.....beware!
should have some new indoor finished product to show you and will get some Veg room shots because the USD are MONSTER's and are taking off!
Have a great weekend all!
Update and pics
Ok gang went to the local Hydro Whore house, Santa Cruz Hydro ...41st ave location ....got me two new Ushio 1Kers since I have not replaced my bulbs in xxx (too embarressed to say BUT they made a lot of runs)...so I just checked..NOTICEABLY different and brighter! So I hope that will help everything a little bit,
Ok concentrates just been working my little tabletop washing machine and making more bubble.....gotta get it dried so it sits above the wood stove...it got down to a frigid 50 degrees today brrrrrr!
and I put my best man on it to protect the bubble.....beware!
should have some new indoor finished product to show you and will get some Veg room shots because the USD are MONSTER's and are taking off!
Have a great weekend all!
Got down to 50 degrees huh. I think our high was 46 degrees. I thought it was to hot and was sweating in a tee shirt out side.
