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I like the brownish/purplish rocks, they are going to make nice pipes. very few fractures too.
Nice big piece of Fire Agate I found down the street in a wash.
This rock is layered white and green. It is Serpentine layered in limestone and metamorphosed with heat and pressure into this. The crystals are just melted into the layers, looks like Irish Spring soap.
I've been experimenting with methods to revive old seeds.
The germ rate is terrible. Even though i can break one that is just not popping and see a nice seemingly alive baby in there, they won't pop, or do but don't break all the way open and let the plant get going.
So I've been giving them a soak in water with a little peoxide in it to clean the seed so hopefully it will slow down mold.
Then I've used oxygenated water with some thrive alive and sugar in it with the airstone in the water with the seeds pressurizing the moisture into the seeds shell.
I've stopped having then pressure thing going, and now just use oxygenated water with sugar and thrive alive to soak overnight in after a 15 minute to 45 minute soak in the peroxide.
Let me see... ???
tough luck with the AC. household? how long does it stay off?
get battery backup, window shaker idea is good with the battery backup..
nice rocks! really. from the desert?
you mentioned your pets in the first post, thought the dove was one of them, first animal you posted.
tough stuff with the dog, GL. maybe a little RSO? OTOH, I have two cats that look very much like yours.. silly little bitches, Siberian Mountain Cats...
nice rocks.
you don't give up, I like that..
and you do have a cuple bucks in 'stuff' and related labor to accomplish all that, nice work..
BBCheese was the best I've ever grown and in the top 3 for potency, yield #1.. regs.. if they still did regs I'd go back.
and mentioning seeds, nice catalog you have there..
LEDs, I'm going to retry the one I have. any good LED info I should have??/
Last thing.. you really go at it, wish I had the room an lived ina legal state, although don't think I'd get a card anyway.. at least I could talk face to face with others with out worrying its LEO or will get back to them.. I'll be in the low desert for xmas, buy you a ... whatever.. good thread.. tks.
Seriously though, I about cried when it all went south. I knew it would be a 6 month climb back. But the room is rocking. I'll get the posts up to date within the next week. A lot is going on.
The AC... That thing. I had an 8000 btu window unit stuck through the wall blowing on the buckets, had a tunnel built around the buckets keeping the cold around the buckets. It had been off for a full day when i saw it. It was 120 degrees that day. i reached down and touched the ON button, it was stuck ON, but the unit was off. It came on the second I touched the button. that pissed me off too.
The rest of the room needed that extra cooling and between the ac and thrips, they go crazy in the heat, the whole thing was over.
Right now I have a 8000 btu portable in the flower room, soon I'll give it back to its owner and flip on the 12,000 btu ac in the wall. Be better then.
The veg is hot during the day, cause we're still around 100 degrees, but at night when the lights are on the cooler night air cools thing down.
After Halloween it always cools off, so I'll be good next week.
I appreciate the comments on the rocks. I can find great rocks just on a casual walk almost anywhere in the desert. Washes are good, I found a nice big chunk of fire agate in a wash down the road. Not supposed to be any around here, well not in 50 miles, but there is. The piece i found is not gem quality but a nice specimen though.
A NYCD x MoD cross scuffed, soaked in a peroxide solution for 45 minutes, soaked in a light nute/thrive alive, oxygenated water overnight.
remember Mod? he made a cross of Kali Mist and Destroyer, called it Mist of Destruction or MoD. I crossed that with a New York City Diesel f2 I got from annaC.
Loudest smelling strain I ever had was a NYCD from those f2s from annaC Open thejar and the whole house stunk instantly. wicked.
Love the pets there though the dog situation is kinda sad. How do you oxygenate water? I am gonna pop some seeds and will use the thrive stuff with some molasses in the soak.
Love the pets there though the dog situation is kinda sad. How do you oxygenate water? I am gonna pop some seeds and will use the thrive stuff with some molasses in the soak.
i just put an airstone in a jug of water and let them run a while. one method has the air tube going through the cap on the bottle and running while the seeds are in it , oxygen and pressure, I think i posted a pic, or i need to.
but later, off to work now