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Oh, I applied for a post harvest assistant job at a local dispensary.

Did not get the job. They were kind enough to send sorry it wasn't you emails out. So I thought, that's nice, I wonder if they'll answer a question?

I replied with a thanks for letting us know comment and asked what they are looking for in a candidate.

She said she was overwhelmed with folks who simply want to work in this industry. and it was an extensive process to choose one. I had gotten a phone interview with her, but was not called in to interview further.

Here's what she told me in her reply.

"I am overwhelmed by the number of resumes I have gotten from people who just want to work in this industry. What will set you apart is a great cover letter with a focus more on the job you are applying for and why you want the job and to work for us versus simply wanting to work in this industry. Having a good work background is more important than having experience in cannabis. Having general horticulture/plant experience or schooling is also a plus."

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Put the 2 lone survivors in a closet in the house. put in the old led



well, there were three, but the last white widow died shortly after.

started a bunch of seeds.

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poor dog's toe:




I could watch this woman sing all day. Rachel Flotard. she used to have a band called visqueen, not crazy about the band, but i'm crazy about the redhead.

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I have some more pics to upload. then a few new ones on the camera. hopefully I get them done and up this weekend. That will bring the diary up to date. well, it'll probably take me a week or two to get it up to date, but it'll be worth it.

there is a night and day difference in that closet a couple months ago when everything went to crap, and what's in the grow room now.

All the 45 seedlings have been cloned, planted in coco and all the 'moms' flipped 3 days ago. so about two months things will be back on track.

The new idea for layout looks like it is going to work great. got 3 600s fired up.

Already have spotted 4 females. All mofo crosses, (there are 33 of them). Also 4 males, but I'll wait a day or two before I yank them just in case I'm wrong, though I rarely am when it comes to spotting males. One of the mofos was tossing out pistils over a week ago in veg. It is # 9.

Awesome part is the 9 is the fastest vegger, has the best structure, nice short internode distance, and just looks super.

hopefully it's a keeper.

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I know my friends come over and are thinking, fuck the rocks, show me the weed!


drilling with a shitty drill bit, new ones soon. then i'll be cooking with gas.


i'm making fun of the fluffy cat. But i shouldn't cause i just love my Halle Berry. Named her after the way she walks all cat-like. reminds me of Halle Berry as Catwoman walking into the moonlight at the end of the movie Catwoman.

[Littleleaf]

What size is your diamond saw?

I've modified a tile saw to cut the few stones I found here in SE nm. need to find dove oil for the saw. Makes the blade last longer.

Do you have the grinding and polish wheel set too? Tumblers?

I found a small 6" wheel set in the dump, just need to get a new lapidary table set up. Also need to find a facet wheel too.

Have you found any geodes yet?

I'm a stoner who like to work with stones too.

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hey Littleleaf,
It's a 10" blade on my Target tile saw. Don't set tile anymore, but I'm having a lot of fun cutting rocks. I do have to get a new granite blade soon though.
I just use water, as long as i don't try to push the stone through too fast, it's not bad. Well, cutting quartz,(7 on the hardness scale) it's slow going and i have to sharpen the blade while i'm cutting the rock. i use a brick to sharpen.
I have a bench grinder with 6" wheels, I took them off and as soon as i find some grinding and polishing wheels cheap, I'm going to set it up with three wheels on each side.
Should be real nice.
I have some geodes, but am most interested in agate and jasper. I do know where some geodes can be found, but it's out there for me and my car. Need a 4 wheel drive truck.

I am going to make a flat lap, but probably won't do a faceting jig on it.

Hopefully in the next few weeks to months I'll get it going.
new drill bits in the next week or two. yeehaw!

Not sure exactly what this is, I call it desert fire:

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NEW STRAINS, OLD DOGS
The grow rooms were a disaster most of the summer. I had my 2 plants in the closet, vegging up so I could get some clones. Bubba must be saved.
Since I was starting...

Hold on the big dog is throwing up again...

Aight, cleaned things up and ended up making the guy some mashed potatoes. I already made a batch of chicken and rice for him earlier, but in spite of some peptol bismol, he still can't hold much down for long. I've been told I should have him put down, after all Great Danes die young and he's like 11 or 12, but just yesterday he was trying to chase the cat outside. He ran like 4 or five steps before he felt those 80 dog years. Crazy, because 6 months ago he was running and jumping and keeping up with a fast little puppy like he was in his prime.



I think too many anti-biotics trying to beat the infection in his toes wiped out the bacteria in his intestinal tract and even though he takes probiotics, just can't digest enough food, so some of it just sits in his stomach, blahhgghh. Enough to make you sick just thinking about it.

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So the shed was a mess, this is after a couple days of shoveling out dead plant matter and emptying pots of coco.




Since the shed was empty and I only had 2 strains, and one is still unknown, I decided it was time to search for those keepers in all those little packets.



I'll try to document this adventure well enough so folks get what it takes, the trials, the frustration. the fun.


I have one table i already made, time to put together the other two.

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Found this rock down at the VA in Tucson,(i know), and I knew it was special even though it was ugly and varnished (thing called desert varnish, happens to all rocks here). But I could tell...
Bam! cream green that's beautiful, though it does have a dendritic formation in it(the tree like squiggles in it, probably manganese oxide), that might spall out as I polish it. It will be a nice looking pipe though.



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So from 45 seeds I got 12 plants. So I popped about 45 more Mofo crosses and got 33 plants. I had more but
some damped off when they were babies. Got them all in cups. I started some in the cups and they grow so much better and faster in the cups than they do in the seed starter cells. space may force me to use them sometimes, but cups for seeds from now on.



Potted up all the moms and got them vegging in the shed, nice to have some room. Seed runs can take a lot of space. Soon there'll be clones in cups and moms in 1 gallon grow bags.
I'll take clones from all of the plants from seed, which I'll refer to as the moms from now on, till they're culled and one becomes an actual mom.

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Potted up most of the moms, a few seedlings not ready. Bubba and ?^^^


John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin, Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age, Dave Grohl from Nirvana and Foo Fighters
Them Crooked Vultures
Fucking good band I like the concert in Germany vid.