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A Turkey In The Hay 🦃

Beachwalker said:
I have no idea how to catch an emu and his owner wasn't sure either, he was afraid that if he did get it lassoed that he'd struggle and break his neck, so maybe it's just as well we didn't catch him

He said that he's been home, stood there for a very long time and just stared at the horse and then ran off again. He is just not going to be around that horse I guess, so good luck to him out here cuz we got coyotes, bears, bobcats and lynx and even though the government denies it people have seen timberwolves too
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He’ll be back. Looking for food and safety. Probably. Maybe. 🤔
 
BlueCollarBob said:
I don't know. Looks like the emu is having fun. Being smart, I wonder if it recognized that beagle only has so much rope?
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I'm rooting for the bird freeing the beagle and gaining a traveling companion.
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Update: 5/8

I got some accidental runoff today & and when I checked it it was slightly over a thousand PPM (I forgot to check the pH) a little high for my liking at this point so everybody got a feeding of just plain pH'ed water today

In general everything's healthy, I've got to get those two shorties raised up on something, have to press some hash today too, besides that it's onward through the fog!IMG_20250508_054946~2.jpg
 
RICKY THE EMU IS HOME AND SAFE!

few minutes ago I ran into the mailman who told me there was an emu at the firelane just up the street

I called the neighbor who's emu it is and met him there and three of us just slowly walked down the street with the emu in the middle of the road

Screenshot_20250508-140701.jpgHappened to be a police car passing by and he blocked the traffic behind us, it was a scene man 🤣😂🤣

Anyway we think he was really hungry after 3 days of running around and wanted to go home cuz he slowly walked in the yard and walked right into his pen

Neighbor said he paid $1,000 for that emu, wow!
 
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Zen_seeker said:
He’ll be back. Looking for food and safety. Probably. Maybe. 🤔
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You called it! He couldn't wait to get home, although he did spook and run off into the woods a couple times, but we had three people and we kind of just cut him off and steared him back into the middle of the road, when he got in front of his house he started bobbing his head up and down really quickly, really excited, he knew he was home.

We had to walk him a good quarter mile down the middle of the road and it was at his pace too so it took a while, we left our cars all over the road, and we had a police escort behind us, it was something! Just when you think you've seen it all... 🤣😂🤣
 
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You called it! He couldn't wait to get home, although he did spook and run off into the woods a couple times, but we had three people and we kind of just cut him off and steared him back into the middle of the road, when he got in front of his house he started bobbing his head up and down really quickly, really excited, he knew he was home.

We had to walk him a good quarter mile down the middle of the road and it was at his pace too so it took a while, we left our cars all over the road, and we had a police escort behind us, it was something! Just when you think you've seen it all... 🤣😂🤣
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Happy it all worked out. Once the horse gets to know he’s at his new home he’ll do that if he gets loose. Although some are just asshats. Bite or kick just because. Dad had one that loved oranges so much he’d start to drool as soon as he could smell it. He’d rub his head against you to persuade you to give it to him. 🤣
 
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So with any luck I just lit my last fire of the year on this cool rainy morning, it will burn till early Sunday morning when we have a warm up coming, and hopefully that'll be it.

This is my fourth year heating with wood, I had always hoped that I'd have a little place somewhere in the country but at least at times never thought it would happen, cuz as some of you may know it can be difficult escaping the city

These are three 18x5' rows of wood in the garage, this plus what I have stacked outside will be what I use to heat for a fifth year, God willing
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Beachwalker said:
So with any luck I just lit my last fire of the year on this cool rainy morning, it will burn till early Sunday morning when we have a warm up coming, and hopefully that'll be it.

This is my fourth year heating with wood, I had always hoped that I'd have a little place somewhere in the country but at least at times never thought it would happen, cuz as some of you may know it can be difficult escaping the city

These are three 18x5' rows of wood in the garage, this plus what I have stacked outside will be what I use to heat for a fifth year, God willing
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I will not die in this frigging city! One day we will move to the country as planned. 🙏
 
That time of the night again, the hashish & cappuccino hour ⏳

Boy these two Kush plants are really stinking it up, and they're barely in bloom

I'm going to have to hang the filter for this run, no doubt

At first light I'm going to have to do a big feeding, trying to remember which one still has to be flushed 🤔

Pretty good herd of deer this spring, I counted 9 or 10 and quite a few little ones the size of vizslas running around too!IMG_20250510_190034~2.jpg
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Mr. Stretchy on front right's a little droopy still, both on the right just got watered at 450ppm, down from 600 which was a little more than I needed

Tonight I'll turn the light up to 600 watts for the rest of the run

Speaking of lights, I have a question; I'm not sure if anybody's ever seen this, I haven't, but I've got to figure out how to ask it first because it sounds crazy 🤪

Speaking of crazy, mid 30s last night🥶 still got the fire going from last weekIMG_20250512_072632.jpgIMG_20250512_072617.jpg
 
So early in the flowering of my first run I noticed my lights hadn't turned on at the proper time, so I replaced the timer

Replacing the timer did not fix the problem and the light failed to strike the next evening

Next in line I assumed the ballast had gone bad, so I bought another 250, 400, 600 watt unit

Replacing the ballast did not fix the problem, some evenings it would turn on at 9:00, other evenings I would have to unplug it from the timer and plug it back in and then it would usually strike; I did not understand why this was happening?

Tldr & the answer to why this was happening:

I finally realized this was only happening in the bloom cycle after installing the HPS, it was the light bulb 💡 👈🏻🤬

HAS ANYONE EVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS?

I bought a two pack of an unknown brand of 600W HPS bulbs, so I switched to the second bulb last night, I won't know until this evening if they're both typical Chinese garbage or if the one in there now strikes, I'll update later
 
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Beachwalker said:
So early in the flowering of my first run I noticed my lights hadn't turned on at the proper time, so I replaced the timer

Replacing the timer did not fix the problem and the light failed to strike the next evening

Next in line I assumed the ballast had gone bad, so I bought another 250, 400, 600 watt unit

Replacing the ballast did not fix the problem, some evenings it would turn on at 9:00, other evenings I would have to unplug it from the timer and plug it back in and then it would usually strike; I did not understand why this was happening?

Tldr & the answer to why this was happening:

I finally realized this was only happening in the bloom cycle after installing the HPS, it was the light bulb 💡 👈🏻🤬

HAS ANYONE EVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS?

I bought a two pack of these 600W HPS bulbs, so I switched to the second bulb last night, I won't know until this evening if they're both typical Chinese garbage or if the one in there now strikes, I'll update later
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Yep, it was a thing when I ran them before, find a good brand and whoever cares it i bought it no matter what. To many cheep ones in that department.
 
doublej said:
Yep, it was a thing when I ran them before, find a good brand and whoever cares it i bought it no matter what. To many cheep ones in that department.I
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I checked and they're ipower which somehow I know is not a great brand

I used to buy Vivosun but they don't seem to be manufacturing bulbs anymore

Not too many choices in HID bulbs now that everyone's gone led
 
Beachwalker said:
I checked and they're ipower which somehow I know is not a great brand

I used to buy Vivosun but they don't seem to be manufacturing bulbs anymore

Not too many choices in HID bulbs now that everyone's gone led
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Super hps brand..Eye hodixl or something is what i ran and still would
 
doublej said:
Nice....idk anything about the brand. Lots good numbers, only one way to find out uh?
Everything cost a bunch now a daze.
They look prutty good from here!!!✌️😋
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They only make grow lights so idk, but they've got to be better than i-power

I'll see if the second i-power bulb works tonight and go from there
 
Have you ever replaced the capacitor?
IME little experience they are the fire it up part.. And cheapest part to start on.
No clue if you use newer digital ballast. I remember the old school multivolt ballast.
A good bulb could be $100 IMO. Hortilux was going to be my recommendation also.
 
steamroller said:
Have you ever replaced the capacitor?
IME little experience they are the fire it up part.. And cheapest part to start on.
No clue if you use newer digital ballast. I remember the old school multivolt ballast.
A good bulb could be $100 IMO. Hortilux was going to be my recommendation also.
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No I just bought another (digital) ballast, it only does it when the high pressure sodium bulb is installed so seems to me it's got to be the bulb.

The other bulb is in now so I'll see what happens in less than 6 hours
 
They arrived here in NY about 2 weeks ago, but not on the regular yet.
We have had a couple that went to where we had feeders last year like they knew.
Wondering if it is possible they are returning to us and have been " here " before.
They are so cool.
We get humming bird moths eventually when the flowers are all blooming nice mid summer.
 
steamroller said:
They arrived here in NY about 2 weeks ago, but not on the regular yet.
We have had a couple that went to where we had feeders last year like they knew.
Wondering if it is possible they are returning to us and have been " here " before.
They are so cool.
We get humming bird moths eventually when the flowers are all blooming nice mid summer.
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saw one about a week ago but didn't see any others until today, was a whole bunch of them out there at one point. I never heard of hummingbird moths, I'll have to look that one up
 
Beachwalker said:
saw one about a week ago but didn't see any others until today, was a whole bunch of them out there at one point. I never heard of hummingbird moths, I'll have to look that one up
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From a distance it is easy to think they are bumble bees or the like.
They are very cool and like the same flowers hummingbirds do.
They look like shrimp with wings to me and are the coolest thing in summer to me.
Used to see walking sticks also but not in years now.
 
Beachwalker said:
Passing a window last night in the wee hours I happened to see a red fox running up the middle of the road -only second one I've seen since I've been here
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Okay I got to say it cuz it's been bothering me, it looked like a fox to me but there's a chance it could have been a coyote

Regardless, we've got bigger problems now 😳Screenshot_20250516-184706~2.jpg
 
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Okay I got to say it cuz it's been bothering me, it looked like a fox to me but there's a chance it could have been a coyote

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Black bear were rare in my area when I was young. It was pretty exciting to see one. Now, they're thick and a nuisance. I have to keep the garbage locked up or they come through and create a trail of trash dragging it through the woods. I pretty much like all animals, but prefer black bear being further from home, lol.

We have red foxes, but they're less common. We have more gray foxes around here. They used to be really thick when I was a kid. There was a butcher shop that used to dump bones back in a hollow. There were some run-ins with rabid foxes. Neighbors killed one trying to get into a pen with their coon dogs. There were a few stories like that. Chop the fox's head off and send it in for testing.
 
BlueCollarBob said:
Black bear were rare in my area when I was young. It was pretty exciting to see one. Now, they're thick and a nuisance. I have to keep the garbage locked up or they come through and create a trail of trash dragging it through the woods. I pretty much like all animals, but prefer black bear being further from home, lol.

We have red foxes, but they're less common. We have more gray foxes around here. They used to be really thick when I was a kid. There was a butcher shop that used to dump bones back in a hollow. There were some run-ins with rabid foxes. Neighbors killed one trying to get into a pen with their coon dogs. There were a few stories like that. Chop the fox's head off and send it in for testing.
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That's the same road I hit the deer on but I have no idea what part of the road that picture was from

I read that all these solar farms that they're putting in in these rural areas are driving them into the more settled areas, don't know if that's true but it sounds reasonable

We had a confirmed rabid raccoon next town over recently 😕
 
After the spring of 23, the year locals call 'The Summer With No Tomatoes' when I had more than one fire in June (I said June) this doesn't surprise me

I'll be going out when this coffee kicks in to split kindling and to bring up a week's worth of firewood (a week!)

Rain with Highs in the low 50s all week, and nighttime Low's in the upper 30s 🥶

At some point tonight or tomorrow morning I'll light the fire and keep a small fire burning in a back corner all week

this will take the 60% humidity out of the house helping my arthritis, and should give me comfortable temperatures in the mid-70s all week

I'll give this coffee about 5 minutes or a couple more hits out of this hash pipe and if it doesn't kick in then I'm going to go brew another one cuz I want to get this done this morning

Ordered another cord of wood yesterday so I can expand my firewood sculpture! 🤣
 
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Okay so it's not exactly a 'sculpture'🗿
I might get away with calling it a firewood 'feature'🙄 ...but it's just a stack

Anyway I got to hang that carbon filter my God my house stinks! 🤭🦨

I know it's not the Greenpoint cuz I grew four last run and they didn't smell at all, it's got to be those two Platinum kush

Man do they stink! especially just before and during lights out, I can smell them right now at the far end of the house
 
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Think I figured out who dug under the concrete slab by my garage side door

I've seen it at night but never in the day

I didn't fill the hole in because I didn't want to bury anything in there or if it had babies in there

I don't mess with things outside I let them pretty much do their thing

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I'm seeing more yellowing than I'm comfortable with at this point in flower

I'm thinking it's a magnesium deficiency, it's bottom leaves, any opinions welcomed

Feeding Masterblend @600ppm last runoff was 6.6 in promix

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Beachwalker said:
I'm seeing more yellowing than I'm comfortable with at this point in flower

I'm thinking it's a magnesium deficiency, it's bottom leaves, any opinions welcomed

Feeding Masterblend @600ppm last runoff was 6.6 in promix

@Aqua Man
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Do you add Epsom salts through veg? I start with 1tsp/gal as soon I start feeding my plants and continue through to 3rd week in flower when I switch to cal/mag at 5ml/gal
 
Pipecarver said:
Do you add Epsom salts through veg? I start with 1tsp/gal as soon I start feeding my plants and continue through to 3rd week in flower when I switch to cal/mag at 5ml/gal
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I should have added they have been in flower one month today, could it be normal fade?

Master blend is 3 part: 2.4 g Master blend, 1.2 g magnesium (epsom salts) and 2.4 g calcium nitrate per gallon

That mix gives me 750ppm which I cut to 600-650

so they're always getting some magnesium, one was top dressed with Epsom salt when I noticed this about a month ago, but now I see it on several plants
 
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