Bandit on a Safari and I'm Hunting Unicorns

[Bandit420]

ahhhh yeah!!! i really like the birdsnest or tractor tire on it man!!! the angled mouthpiece is really nice too!!!

so i see it's showing off new glass day!!!! i wanna play!!!

https://imgur.com/a/G3Y3tAD

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i'm in luv!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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man i'll help you out with the fantasy... i know everything about it and have lived fantasy games for years before. i've won more fantasy football leagues than anybody i know. i've been a commissioner of nfl and nascar leagues and have been hosting nascar games back when it was real fantasy!!! not like this sht it is now where everybody gets a trophy kind of fantasy. once it started gaining traction all the people that suck at it changed the rules to make it easy.

we can win the league if ya want... i'll help ya!!!!!

i have a feeling we get the reward points just for signing in to our fantasy team once a week. even if we suck i don't think it matters for fan rewards. thats a nice bonus each week man!!!

That's a really nice upgrade on your dab rig!! Looks like the recycler works flawlessly too!

I think I'm figuring it out some on the fantasy.
The driver in the garage is lost on me but I haven't really looked into it at all.
I'm wondering if picking a winner is worth 500 fan reward points. Because here's what I got for Byron winning



The only reason I can think of why I got that 500 was because Byron was both my #1 driver and on my team picked for Daytona.
If that keeps up for the whole ten weeks of fantasy needed to max out on all fantasy reward points then that means 5 chances every race to pick a winner and get 500 points for doing it on top of check in and streak points.

Well it looks like Brisky's season is gonna be a sumbitch again like two years ago.
There was chatter after qualifying that car was illegal and sure enough

LMAO. I did this
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That's the light I have for this project....



It's a really good light in a very small package.
It did this in my aero only set to 5



I'm gonna try to get it to cover about a 3'x3' footprint to start my veggies

he who dies with the most toys, WINS!!!!!

Hehehe...The new freeze dryer I'm gonna try to pick up this weekend has inspired me to do a deep cleaning and decluttering of my carport.
Weather is being an asshole about it being so cold but I'm clearing space for a 55"x28" grow tent I'll build out into an extraction lab, getting everything together in one space .
So yeah...toys. And now I need a toy box




My heater thermostat was been way off lately. Ran the room up to 98 and my plants got a little heat damage.
Really wish this weather would quit being such a dick so I could turn off the heater.
It can be so nice for like a week then two days of fucking Santa Claus weather bullshit.
I swear...one more low 20s day I'm gonna go burn a couch and start a dumpster fire to warm shit up around here.





I'm thinking of turning on the big light and spreading the plants out then flipping them while still in airpots. I wanna flip in the next day or two.
When sex shows then I'll upcan. Just trying to cut down on labor and soil when it comes to culling males. Been busy AF and don't wanna watse time and energy on upcanning males only to dump them later and salvage the soil.

Been a struggle for the most part after the aero malfunction. Good days and bad days slowing it all down but I think better days are coming after the upcan.
Have no idea what I have as far as strains go. I have them separated and grouped by color so like I know all blue plants are the same strain but IDK what blue is. If I had to guess, I have a hybrid mix with several indicas and there's five different strains.

 

[Stoneyluv]

That's a really nice upgrade on your dab rig!! Looks like the recycler works flawlessly too!

it's nicer than i thought it would be. the quality is nice man!! i'd buy another from them for sure!!!

I think I'm figuring it out some on the fantasy.
The driver in the garage is lost on me but I haven't really looked into it at all.
I'm wondering if picking a winner is worth 500 fan reward points. Because here's what I got for Byron winning

The only reason I can think of why I got that 500 was because Byron was both my #1 driver and on my team picked for Daytona.
If that keeps up for the whole ten weeks of fantasy needed to max out on all fantasy reward points then that means 5 chances every race to pick a winner and get 500 points for doing it on top of check in and streak points.

yep you got it man!! i have the same similar points you have, looks like we get the smaller points for just logging onto our fantasy team each week and making a line up. and then if we happen to have the race winner on our team we get the big chunk of points!!

so i assume as the season goes on each driver will have a starting value depending on how good they are. we will probably have a max amount of pretend money we can spend for the entire team. we must have six drivers on our team at all times ( i assume if it's like other fantasy) five of the six drivers are active and the sixth man is on the bench.

at any time during the race we can switch out that garage driver for one that is active on our team. i assume there is a cut off time like maybe 50 laps to go or something you can't change anymore... i just assume because that rule would make sense. i don't really know for sure. i'm gonna pay attention to it more this week and see what it is, or i could ust read the rules... nah!!!! hahaha

so you want your benched driver to be an anchor, a solid rock that always seems t do good and can save your week.

BUT if we only get the small points for starting and big points for winning, it only makes sense for us to swing for the fences each week and don't worry about fantasy points, we're more into it for the reward points.

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what is that powerball bonus you got?

Well it looks like Brisky's season is gonna be a sumbitch again like two years ago.
There was chatter after qualifying that car was illegal and sure enough

yeah, if you ain't cheatin you ain't tryng!!! i guess it's the best time to get it out of the way and get it over with!!! larson's gonna get caught too this year, just a matter of when!!

at least Smalls cheated good, go right for the spoiler!!!!!

I'm thinking of turning on the big light and spreading the plants out then flipping them while still in airpots. I wanna flip in the next day or two.
When sex shows then I'll upcan. Just trying to cut down on labor and soil when it comes to culling males. Been busy AF and don't wanna watse time and energy on upcanning males only to dump them later and salvage the soil.

Been a struggle for the most part after the aero malfunction. Good days and bad days slowing it all down but I think better days are coming after the upcan.
Have no idea what I have as far as strains go. I have them separated and grouped by color so like I know all blue plants are the same strain but IDK what blue is. If I had to guess, I have a hybrid mix with several indicas and there's five different strains

i bet the airpots could handle it well man, we've grown some pretty big plants from a small container in the past with them. the roots aren't gonna grow that much once they show sex anyway so the rootball may stay tight and just the feeder roots fill into the new soil. i see no harm in it!!!

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and bro you ain't the only one sick of this weather bullshit!! it's fuckin snowing here again right now! so sick of these annoying snows that require all the same money and effort as as a big snow and we're getting them every week!! PIMA!!! it's not even dark yet here and already down to 20°!!

C'mon spring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bandit420]

it's nicer than i thought it would be. the quality is nice man!! i'd buy another from them for sure!!!



yep you got it man!! i have the same similar points you have, looks like we get the smaller points for just logging onto our fantasy team each week and making a line up. and then if we happen to have the race winner on our team we get the big chunk of points!!

so i assume as the season goes on each driver will have a starting value depending on how good they are. we will probably have a max amount of pretend money we can spend for the entire team. we must have six drivers on our team at all times ( i assume if it's like other fantasy) five of the six drivers are active and the sixth man is on the bench.

at any time during the race we can switch out that garage driver for one that is active on our team. i assume there is a cut off time like maybe 50 laps to go or something you can't change anymore... i just assume because that rule would make sense. i don't really know for sure. i'm gonna pay attention to it more this week and see what it is, or i could ust read the rules... nah!!!! hahaha

so you want your benched driver to be an anchor, a solid rock that always seems t do good and can save your week.

BUT if we only get the small points for starting and big points for winning, it only makes sense for us to swing for the fences each week and don't worry about fantasy points, we're more into it for the reward points.

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what is that powerball bonus you got?

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yeah, if you ain't cheatin you ain't tryng!!! i guess it's the best time to get it out of the way and get it over with!!! larson's gonna get caught too this year, just a matter of when!!

at least Smalls cheated good, go right for the spoiler!!!!!



i bet the airpots could handle it well man, we've grown some pretty big plants from a small container in the past with them. the roots aren't gonna grow that much once they show sex anyway so the rootball may stay tight and just the feeder roots fill into the new soil. i see no harm in it!!!

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and bro you ain't the only one sick of this weather bullshit!! it's fuckin snowing here again right now! so sick of these annoying snows that require all the same money and effort as as a big snow and we're getting them every week!! PIMA!!! it's not even dark yet here and already down to 20°!!

C'mon spring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got it man, thanks!
Since I rarely get to watch live I'll kinda back burner the garage driver. This week I have Chastain in that spot lol.
I guess those matchup picks are just fantasy bonus things. I got all but one of those last week correct.
Yeah so that's exactly what I was thinking with the fantasy in playing it for reward points and going for a winner every week.
With some of these tracks, loading up on HMS and JGR drivers seems like an ez win given the choice of 5 drivers. There's gonna be a stretch here where either Larson or Hamlin are gonna get theirs so I might have those two at least every week after COTA.

The powerball is new this year. It pops up every Wednesday on your rewards dashboard where the trivia is usually at. You click it and it opens and new window to click and play then it records your points. The first week it only gave me 10 but yesterday is gave me 60 points.

The pool livens up this week! Got ourselves a good old fashioned knife fight at the top with the Blaney and Busch picks!
Like I want Blaney in the wall early but he's also on my fantasy team! So is Busch though too. I'm thinking...Busch FTW, Blaney and Elliott into the wall or get blown motors. I'm cool with either hahahaha!!! Bell and Logano can also have some bad days come Sunday and I'll be very happy.

I gotta say too man...That fucking Kyle Busch is growing on me. From being chased by the fire truck while running in reverse at Texas, to "I suck just as bad as you" with Stenhouse, and now "I was the fastest car on the way to the wreck" was classic. Almost every week he makes me laugh and it's getting harder to hate on him. I think losing might've humbled the man.
Logano though, not so much. Trying to blame that whole wreck on Stenhouse when they both were at fault was just classic dooshy Logano.

 

[doublej]

That's a really nice upgrade on your dab rig!! Looks like the recycler works flawlessly too!

I think I'm figuring it out some on the fantasy.
The driver in the garage is lost on me but I haven't really looked into it at all.
I'm wondering if picking a winner is worth 500 fan reward points. Because here's what I got for Byron winning

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The only reason I can think of why I got that 500 was because Byron was both my #1 driver and on my team picked for Daytona.
If that keeps up for the whole ten weeks of fantasy needed to max out on all fantasy reward points then that means 5 chances every race to pick a winner and get 500 points for doing it on top of check in and streak points.

Well it looks like Brisky's season is gonna be a sumbitch again like two years ago.
There was chatter after qualifying that car was illegal and sure enough

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That's the light I have for this project....

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It's a really good light in a very small package.
It did this in my aero only set to 5

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I'm gonna try to get it to cover about a 3'x3' footprint to start my veggies



Hehehe...The new freeze dryer I'm gonna try to pick up this weekend has inspired me to do a deep cleaning and decluttering of my carport.
Weather is being an asshole about it being so cold but I'm clearing space for a 55"x28" grow tent I'll build out into an extraction lab, getting everything together in one space .
So yeah...toys. And now I need a toy box




My heater thermostat was been way off lately. Ran the room up to 98 and my plants got a little heat damage.
Really wish this weather would quit being such a dick so I could turn off the heater.
It can be so nice for like a week then two days of fucking Santa Claus weather bullshit.
I swear...one more low 20s day I'm gonna go burn a couch and start a dumpster fire to warm shit up around here.

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I'm thinking of turning on the big light and spreading the plants out then flipping them while still in airpots. I wanna flip in the next day or two.
When sex shows then I'll upcan. Just trying to cut down on labor and soil when it comes to culling males. Been busy AF and don't wanna watse time and energy on upcanning males only to dump them later and salvage the soil.

Been a struggle for the most part after the aero malfunction. Good days and bad days slowing it all down but I think better days are coming after the upcan.
Have no idea what I have as far as strains go. I have them separated and grouped by color so like I know all blue plants are the same strain but IDK what blue is. If I had to guess, I have a hybrid mix with several indicas and there's five different strains.

I saw that light somewhere, figured it might be a good one to have.

Spider Farm fucked up. Story, I bought there fan kit, of Amazon. The next day they come out with a controller for there power stripes and shit.
Looked at kits for weeks, all of em.
Decided on SF....emailed them give em the WTF..20 bucks back "IF" i lefted a "positive " review.
Asked for a 20$ code for that light i screenshot and posted here.
I told em I'd buy the other sf1000 for just under a hundy.
This is when im pretty sure I'm dealing with a bot. Everything email wise has been in the early hours of the morning. 1-3 am. Email to me yesterday pretty much same.
I sent @SPIDER FARMER the screenshot of the Acinfinity light I bought.
Lmao last night aci had sent the tracking# and I let SF know that as well.

Didn't take long to find disco card for ACI comparable price better pice
Anyway dog killed my cat...
Bullshit, all my work has stopped.

This fking world man....I tell ya. I've been tested for some fucked reason.
Any fking way
As is well.

 

[SiamSam]

I saw that light somewhere, figured it might be a good one to have.

Spider Farm fucked up. Story, I bought there fan kit, of Amazon. The next day they come out with a controller for there power stripes and shit.
Looked at kits for weeks, all of em.
Decided on SF....emailed them give em the WTF..20 bucks back "IF" i lefted a "positive " review.
Asked for a 20$ code for that light i screenshot and posted here.
I told em I'd buy the other sf1000 for just under a hundy.
This is when im pretty sure I'm dealing with a bot. Everything email wise has been in the early hours of the morning. 1-3 am. Email to me yesterday pretty much same.
I sent @ SPIDER FARMER the screenshot of the Acinfinity light I bought.
Lmao last night aci had sent the tracking# and I let SF know that as well.

Didn't take long to find disco card for ACI comparable price better pice
Anyway dog killed my cat...
Bullshit, all my work has stopped.

This fking world man....I tell ya. I've been tested for some fucked reason.
Any fking way
As is well.

methinks you aren't the only one being tested.Many folks on thin ice

 

[Bandit420]

I saw that light somewhere, figured it might be a good one to have.

Spider Farm fucked up. Story, I bought there fan kit, of Amazon. The next day they come out with a controller for there power stripes and shit.
Looked at kits for weeks, all of em.
Decided on SF....emailed them give em the WTF..20 bucks back "IF" i lefted a "positive " review.
Asked for a 20$ code for that light i screenshot and posted here.
I told em I'd buy the other sf1000 for just under a hundy.
This is when im pretty sure I'm dealing with a bot. Everything email wise has been in the early hours of the morning. 1-3 am. Email to me yesterday pretty much same.
I sent @SPIDER FARMER the screenshot of the Acinfinity light I bought.
Lmao last night aci had sent the tracking# and I let SF know that as well.

Didn't take long to find disco card for ACI comparable price better pice
Anyway dog killed my cat...
Bullshit, all my work has stopped.

This fking world man....I tell ya. I've been tested for some fucked reason.
Any fking way
As is well.

Awe man sorry to read about your cat. Been some time now but one of my past dogs also killed my wife's cat. Good cat too. Good mouser. Good cats are hard to come by and it's a real kick to morale losing one. Here's to better days brother.
And yeah I hear ya man. Sucks when I run out of fucks to give before noon. Good pot helps a ton.

Yeah spider farmer is just weird man. One of those brands that seems to come with awkward and shady baggage.
I have one of their tents on the way just because it was like 60% off and the only size that fit my needs but I'm not using it to grow and I bought it from amazon.
When it comes to lights it's a brand on my do not consider list. Sure some models can grow weed but yeah...baggage

If I was to tier a handful of light brands out there I'd say SF, Viperspectra, and Vivosun are bottom shelf C or lower choices.

Mars Hydro and AC Infinity are middle shelf with some B+ A- grow lights.

HLG, CLW, Gavita, Illuminar, Growers Choice, Phlizon, Fluence and a handful of others are all gonna be top shelf with some having features other lights don't offer.

i bet the airpots could handle it well man, we've grown some pretty big plants from a small container in the past with them. the roots aren't gonna grow that much once they show sex anyway so the rootball may stay tight and just the feeder roots fill into the new soil. i see no harm in it!!!

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and bro you ain't the only one sick of this weather bullshit!! it's fuckin snowing here again right now! so sick of these annoying snows that require all the same money and effort as as a big snow and we're getting them every week!! PIMA!!! it's not even dark yet here and already down to 20°!!

C'mon spring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looks like I'll be back in the 70s by Monday and can't wait!
The good thing about the cold snap is it resets the button on my weed control killing all the early sprouts and giving me a new window to put down gluten. I'd just also like to get to work on redoing my carport space.
But yeah...we were colder than Alaska yesterday

Prepping to flip on Sunday. Been kinda waiting for them to kick it in gear and now they are.
Flipping in airpots will have me watering daily or at least every other day. Runts maybe an xtra day.
Sunday eve lights will go out after being on for 11:40 then come back on Tuesday morning. See if that long dark into flip might get males showing right away.

Good response to the Spectramax coming on and being opened up yesterday.
Lights are up high and at 50% and tables are at max height for now

 

[Observer]

If you're willing to pay, Dayton and Air King make some very righteous fans.
Both of mine are 2009s and still going like new. The AK is a wall mount in my room minus the grills and the Dayton is what I rely on up in the crawlspace.
But in 2025...very spendy options. A Dayton floor fan can run up to around $300 and an AK wall mount around $60+. However you do get fans that can last a generation or longer.

It's a changing world we live in today. These clearance prices are just


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I guess people have finally realized mylar doesn't do shit now? Looks like it's on the way out along with mag ballasts

Same for reflectors with this one only going for $5 and change. It's like HID is about as dead as dead gets on the retail market

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This one boggles my mind but is more about trends and fads then it is production because I'd put these CMH up against half the LED out there and know they could do just as well with about the same heat output and better spectrum

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Moral of this story is all the gear I've been hoarding and storing for years is near worthless today.
Like 3-4 mag ballasts, reflectors, lamps, and old analog electronics were just hauled off and sent to recycle today. Cleared out my shed and carport.
Kept all the sheets of hammered aluminum since one day I will build that solar oven with them.

I also have a few inline fans I didn't send to scrap so if interested, just inquire.
Also some power snips. Feels good to declutter all my grow shit though. I probably coulda built an indoor growers museum with all the shit I've purged in recent days.

New business:
Had my first visit with the doctor yesterday. Doing well and will stay on the meds until Spring when I go and get another scan done.
Have to go ahead and make the big change in my diet going mostly vegan. I'd say I'm at about 75% vegetarian.
No dairy anymore except for yogurt so will be using milk substitutes for things like cereal. Skinless chicken 1x a week, fish 3x a week and the rest vegan. No sugar or processed foods anymore.
I can cheat every now and then but need to stay on that diet and see where it goes.
Tried "oatmilk" today. It sucks. Will be okay in cereal but that's it.
Also tried some plant based cheese. Might be an aquired taste IDK. One was weird while the other was grilled cheese sandwich capable.
I can still BBQ but will do smoked turkey or salmon while freshining up on my grillin' skills on things like veggies and chicken.
As of Monday I'm officially going on the Mediterranean Diet.

The health issues have me way behind on the new Spring garden as Spring rolls in with warm temps.
I've ordered my seeds from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange who specialize in genetics suitable for growing in the South.
Trying to grow a crop to fill the heart healthy recipes as well lower grocery costs so here's what's coming....

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I also wanna add eggplants, maybe beets and potatoes too and will likely grow everything in earthboxes.





CoM Stonington is out and Roots Greenfields is in.
I'm not seeing the price I want on the Stonington anymore and the Roots is only $30/bag and pretty much the same ingredients but less of it so more compost teas and other liquid goodies will be needed which I already have. Saved almost $100 on my bulk order of soils with that.

Aero had some sort of malfunction with the timer or the pump for a day or two. Damn near killed all my plants.
It's been about 4 days or so since the fail.
Was at a fork in the road as far as what to do and decided I'd do it and give them a week. If they recover, go forward. If they fail, start over.
So here's where that's at

How it began....

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And where it's headed.

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Proud to say I will not be starting over and never doubt the mojo of compost tea




And in unrelated news...sometimes, I'm just so damn proud of my city. We really know how to welcome nazi fascist fucks with open arms

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all i need is 250b and i can just buy my Presidential Seat.





i was not alive at the time but didnt we have a global war over "nazism"?
that some egomanical evil mother fucker rallied?

and this shit is coming back?

 

[doublej]

Awe man sorry to read about your cat. Been some time now but one of my past dogs also killed my wife's cat. Good cat too. Good mouser. Good cats are hard to come by and it's a real kick to morale losing one. Here's to better days brother.
And yeah I hear ya man. Sucks when I run out of fucks to give before noon. Good pot helps a ton.

Yeah spider farmer is just weird man. One of those brands that seems to come with awkward and shady baggage.
I have one of their tents on the way just because it was like 60% off and the only size that fit my needs but I'm not using it to grow and I bought it from amazon.
When it comes to lights it's a brand on my do not consider list. Sure some models can grow weed but yeah...baggage

If I was to tier a handful of light brands out there I'd say SF, Viperspectra, and Vivosun are bottom shelf C or lower choices.

Mars Hydro and AC Infinity are middle shelf with some B+ A- grow lights.

HLG, CLW, Gavita, Illuminar, Growers Choice, Phlizon, Fluence and a handful of others are all gonna be top shelf with some having features other lights don't offer.



Looks like I'll be back in the 70s by Monday and can't wait!
The good thing about the cold snap is it resets the button on my weed control killing all the early sprouts and giving me a new window to put down gluten. I'd just also like to get to work on redoing my carport space.
But yeah...we were colder than Alaska yesterday

Prepping to flip on Sunday. Been kinda waiting for them to kick it in gear and now they are.
Flipping in airpots will have me watering daily or at least every other day. Runts maybe an xtra day.
Sunday eve lights will go out after being on for 11:40 then come back on Tuesday morning. See if that long dark into flip might get males showing right away.

Good response to the Spectramax coming on and being opened up yesterday.
Lights are up high and at 50% and tables are at max height for now

Put the ole boy to rest under my big red cedars, he can overlook the creek.
Anyway put little time in on my project this morning.
Well thats the thing, wonky shit from BS specialists. Only reason I dealing with SF simply cuz id already made a purchase.
That pic you put up of that aci will work.

Hide-out is good to see brother!!

Hope to be light up couple weeks