Mass/RI/Con Growers here! ...Part II

[Ottoman]

I feel like back in the 70's and 80's getting a college degree was the equivalent of getting your masters today. A College degree is the one of the most overrated achievements in today's society in my opinion. I saw a lot of stupid kids walk away with a diploma in their hands which just lead me to believe if your willing to pay the money, show up to class, and do minimal work, you'll walk away with that piece of paper. I thought back in college that I would be working in the banking industry at this point in my life but needless to say the corporate world just wasn't my cup of tea, too many douche bags willing to stomp on anyone for their own advancements. If I could go back and start over I may have became of a mechanic, licensed electrician, plumber, etc. Young adults don't like to get their hands dirty and those jobs are in high demand since too many college grads have their nose in the air and look down at jobs like that. Well the tradesman get the last laugh, no one wants to do their jobs anymore so they can charge $60-100 an hour for their services no questions asked. I do admit though that college wasn't all a negative and I don't regret paying for the education I mean the easy college girls and parties were almost worth the whole debt itself . On the serious side the most important things college taught me was how to manage my time, money, and work; efficiently and responsibly not to mention its something I can always fall back on if need be. Also I was able to meet a handful of really good people who I still talk with today and consider close friends.

 

[Ottoman]

Sour around day 58 or so....

 

[MOneYMiKe]

Hit me about the same 1st blaze.

Starting to chop today.
Honey White #6 @ 66 days.

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Daymn what a beautiful Honey White....reminds me of a great white shark cutting I lost many moons ago...stunner for sure.....props
Oh and Otto that whole situation looks like my cup o tea pretzels n stardawg...yummy......u guys are rocking it....

 

[highsteppa]

nice carpet of sour! Makes me want to take a break from growing trees and try a scrog....how long of a veg did you need on that?

 

[GeorgeWBush]

fine looking tent o sour, nicely done scrog.........I also quit college,was also a business major with a minor in marketing but I was paying for it myself. found myself not bothering with the work and like otto said the easy girls and frat house lifestyle were the best parts of the whole shabang......in today's world that piece of paper is pretty irrelevant cause they have 12 year old genius's designing software to do any office job there is....phd's are now slinging coffee and dropouts are making just as much......so the tradesman wins looks like my grandfather was right, very insightful otto. Slip I'm still laughing about that cure line.........

 

[Slip Kid]

I had this guy in my dorm with a haircut like Eraserhead and a low rider Nissan pickup truck with it's name on the back window in huge letters "Sweet n' Low".The guy had the Cure on loop for about 3 months. I actually owe him a favor because he made me find a great apt near the beach that I shared with a marine for less money than the dormitory.I never met any easy women in college, maybe because I smelled skunky all the time... The greatest thing in school was the science labs which most likely gave me the patience and organization needed to do a few decent grows in my life and not pick off the leaves to smoke while the plants were in veg.

 

[AlterEgo860]

smoking leaves? shitt.. man. thats a waste of time energy and fan leaves. lol

 

[ChemDgMillionre]

Fuck ya trades are the way to go. It's sad nowadays that everyone wants to suit up and go to corporate high school everyday and babysit someone else's money. But I still do see lots of young dudes gettin into the trades.. Mainly hvac or electricians, I honestly don see that many young carpenters :-/ whatever; more work for me.

 

[Ottoman]

Sweet n' Low, blasting the cure, and a eraserhead for a haircut sounds creepy. Kids at my school thought they were "hippies" and had grateful dead on non stop everywhere you went. Don't get me wrong I enjoy a good dead tune from time to time and love Jerry Garcia Band but still to this day any time I hear the song Sugaree I start getting the urge to pull out a dreadlock from some fake hippies head. Also not for nothing some of those kids you would've sworn they thought they actually toured with the dead, ummmm dude you were like 3 when Jerry died don't tell me how great that show from 78 was.....idiots. I use to love running over to the ipod to change up the music, I'd always kill the "vibe" throwing on some Rage against the machine or Alice in chains. Too bad you didn't come to my school freshman year Slip the smell of skunk would have gotten you lucky, you probably would have had to listen to Sugaree while you did it though.

CDM, I agree I don't catch too many young carpenters myself I swear kids are age just don't like to get down and dirty, probably cause they don't have to. I know this girl up here that got laid off from her job and now she is on unemployment and won't look for another job because unemployment will pay her more.....yeah nice job gov't let all these young and old people think their no consequences for them losing their jobs. Just hand them money and they'll be motivated to work hard right? Such BS.

 

[lloyd_christmas]

Half those fools are "too cool" for phish too.

"Sweet and low" made me crack up!!

 

[ChemDgMillionre]

Hahah Lloyd, are u talking about the fuckinh new wave of flatbrim dead head kids that never saw the band play, but still associate with the fam. Those are the biggest losers, lol.. They despise phish.

Shit man I'm dieing to see a show, phish, panic, it doesn't matter at this point I just need to shake my shit! Been working weekends for too many years now without a break :-/ gotta do what I gotta do.

 

[Highlighter]

"You don't know, you weren't there!"

Taking a break from trimming to read this riff. Natch, I'm listening to the Dead.
DP#12, Boston Garden, 6/'74.
My best friend was a Deadhead, he took me to a lot of shows, Garcia too.
I just couldn't buy into the deadhead shtick, and never fully got them til doing multiple shows in the early 90's.
This show sounds awesome now, but all I remember is it sounding real muddy 20+ rows on the floor. I smoked about 30 joints of shitty weed and got a headache.
What was cool was Phil walking around the floor pre-show, visiting w/ his MIT freak-buddies.

My buddy & I were roomates for a while. I'd come home from work and him and his BU
deadhead pals would be having a session. I had a real nice stereo, so I'd always yank the Dead off for some Mahavishnu Orchestra, King Crimson, or Allman Brothers, just to fuck w/ them. Not enough to bum 'em out, make them realize there are other bands fer christ's sake!

 

[highsteppa]

Hey, I got dreads and wear a fitted, WTF?? My sister was telling me bout some goofy dead family "wings" that need to be earned to prove your wookiness??

Trades can be good $$..I used to tile set with the best guy in the mid-atlantinc, may be the east coast. my old boss was tiling Toni Morrison's(the color purple) house in Princeton and she was hanging out with Louis Farakhan smoking a joint. We did Trey Anastasio's moms house, jobs like that. My little bro was getting free tickets and back stage through her. Tiling is hard though, electric always seemed cool and the guys who specialized in trim work had it good, all clean, lightweight work.

And unemployment is great, but disability is the holygrail around heah!

 

[lloyd_christmas]

I will tolerate zero flatbrim hate! Chem bro I'm blasting some disco biscuits over here just for you!

 

[Ottoman]

Did you earn your wings for that flat brim hat, fam?

 

[ChemDgMillionre]

Hahaha I'm rolling in laughter over here guys; maybe these last few posts were a little too insightful !!

Haha, just kidding....

Sorry Lloyd & highsteppa, I just can't get into that whole flatbrim thing... My brim curls from the weight of sweat collecting on it ;-) ....I been rocking the same black cap for many a year now, lol.

Otto --- I know so many tards that live their life collecting pins. Don't get me wrong ppls, I love the music, but I don't subscribe to any other "scene" than "outdoorsy", lol. I prob look like a page outa a Columbia catalog :-x

 

[ChemDgMillionre]

Hahahahha please everyone, go find the trailer for "Frat Brothers" and watch it. Fucking epic, hahahah

 

[lloyd_christmas]

CHemD, no worries bro. Oh my god the pins! Get's dumb when their hat weighs like 5 lbs and clinks everywhere they go.

Otto the heady crystals you have in your living room make you a wook by proxy. Undeniable wook status.

 

[Ottoman]

Ahhh, are those the things I call rocks? Only kids in flat brims with wings would call them "heady crystals." LOL. JK, it does feel nice to be accepted by the wook community because of the rocks. Maybe next time we chill we can get you to wrap those "heady crystals" and I can be like the Flavor Flav or wookie crystal wraps, maybe I'll even gain mystical healing powers. Also gonna have to give the credit to my geologist friend for those majestic energy stones aka rocks. He dug those up I think near the White Mountains, minus the coral rock I stole from the DR that stuff is cool looks dead on like honey comb just with a more red color.

 

[Highlighter]

Still going strong OD. Candy Chem x Apollo 11

See that weed seed stuck on there? Another reason why I prefer indoors.

I'm on the hard funk for today's trim.
Do yourselves a favor and learn the best funk anthem to ever come out of Boston.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuLUW9Snqu0

You play that at a house party, everyone singing that chorus, floor shakin', House Quake, y'all!