Bandit on a Safari and I'm Hunting Unicorns

[Zen_seeker]

When I was a child I had a fever and my hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I got that feeling once again I can't explain.

One of my favourite.

 

[Stoneyluv]

One of my favourite.

so much incredible music made just before i was born... probably the reason i was born to begin with!!! haha my mom doesn't speak of it much but she was a very spirited young girl!!!!

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Bandit you make me so jelly with your co2 count!!!! i guess living in the city does have a perk... my furnace has been running in the mornings but still nowhere even close to that... i can't even reach 700... i haven't turned my lights past 70% because i'm already over 1k μmol/s . on the flip side it's kind of nice to have that as my current bottleneck versus other environment issues. it's been so cool having the 69pro controller to monitor and control my vpd better than i ever have before.

so can continue the ex-hermie outside?(because of weather/nosy neighbors/light timings or something else i never even thought of) or will you bring her back inside after quarantine?

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that truck looks awesome, looks big.. is that your first truck series to your collection? i didn't get to see many truck races this season but that was one of them!

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so how does the new purpl gear work, you can reuse that special cap but the dishes are one off?
shame on them for advertising like that... like the purple bubble wrap wasn't unique enough for them??? shame shame know their name!!!

way to find em cheaper from the source.. so do i understand correctly, it cost you about $3 a test + maybe shipping for 100pcs? or do i remember you paying more cause it was only a ten pack? just curios man, not trying to set you for bizz hahaha!!!

you try one out yet?

 

[Bandit420]

One of my favourite.

A little side project I've been working on is curating a Pink Floyd playlist. Something from nearly every album if not the whole album and right now I think it's at around 8-10 hours of music.
The Comfortably Numb part is one of my faves and very long.
Starts off with the demo "The Doctor" version of CN, then slips into the studio recording and finally a live and extended set from the '80-'81 Is There Anybody Out There Tour. It all fades into each other like it was meant to be. Like 15-20 minutes of CN. I melt like chocolate when I'm high and listening to that.

so much incredible music made just before i was born... probably the reason i was born to begin with!!! haha my mom doesn't speak of it much but she was a very spirited young girl!!!!

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Bandit you make me so jelly with your co2 count!!!! i guess living in the city does have a perk... my furnace has been running in the mornings but still nowhere even close to that... i can't even reach 700... i haven't turned my lights past 70% because i'm already over 1k μmol/s . on the flip side it's kind of nice to have that as my current bottleneck versus other environment issues. it's been so cool having the 69pro controller to monitor and control my vpd better than i ever have before.

so can continue the ex-hermie outside?(because of weather/nosy neighbors/light timings or something else i never even thought of) or will you bring her back inside after quarantine?

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that truck looks awesome, looks big.. is that your first truck series to your collection? i didn't get to see many truck races this season but that was one of them!

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so how does the new purpl gear work, you can reuse that special cap but the dishes are one off?
shame on them for advertising like that... like the purple bubble wrap wasn't unique enough for them??? shame shame know their name!!!

way to find em cheaper from the source.. so do i understand correctly, it cost you about $3 a test + maybe shipping for 100pcs? or do i remember you paying more cause it was only a ten pack? just curios man, not trying to set you for bizz hahaha!!!

you try one out yet?

Love that old music!
I've recently found myself rediscovering Lynyard Skynyard.
Like we all know the music and what not. Most can probably sing some word for word having never owned an album.
But what got me was a documentary on prime right now called Freebird which was made back in 1996.
I was four when the plane crashed and I know there's the remade version of the band but what grabbed me was the force in which they were when they were on a stage playing live. Just never paid much mind to it and now I'm all blown away by it. So yeah man...51 years old and I finally bought my first LS album and I made sure to buy a live album.

The 71 truck is my 3rd truck diecast and they're all 1:24

Also have Zane Smith's COTA win with fire damage after the burnout



And Stewart Freisan's Texas win truck. I have this mostly for reference to the sheet metal of his hanging on the walls at work. I have the front part of the rear driver side quarter panel but I lost the auction on the back part and ended up with Jessica Friesan's rear quarter panel to match the wheel well over a sink at work



You can see why the bidding got a little nuts on that rear part. A moonshine sponsor in a NASCAR series is just so on brand



I tell ya man this Purpl thing is an adventure. It's all so cagey right now.
I won't know everything until I cross over into the extract portal but before I do that and activate my one week free trial, I want everything in order. All samples ready to test and everything ready to go on that end. Nothing I have now is worthy of crossing over right now. There's still hash to make, distillate, and rosin and I want it to come from the best I have to offer.
I've smoked or squished the best in house so what's in the stash is just B grade and I'm not gonna waste dishes or free trial time on that.

The dishes don't seem at all very special or proprietary to me other than they're lab grade and were made and sterilized in a clean room so that's why they cost so much.
I bought the ten pack + plate for $75. The plate is used over and over but IDK about the dishes. I can see for lab test sakes use one and done but I'm damn sure gonna see if I can drop a used dish in the sonic iso bath and reuse them



It was pretty ez finding these just searching by the dimensions with key word glass bottom

29 mm Glass bottom dish with 20 mm micro-well #0 cover glass | Cellvis

<p>29 mm glass bottom dish, dish size 29mm, well size 20mm, #0 glass(0.085-0.115mm). Designed for high resolution imaging such as confocal microscopy.</p>

www.cellvis.com

Some info about it:
To measure potency, the Purpl PRO utilizes near-infrared spectroscopy, which involves shining light on a sample and analyzing the light that is returned. In this part of the light spectrum (just beyond the red light human eyes can see), molecules react to specific regions of the light to generate a “molecular fingerprint” that can be correlated with concentration. In its development, the Purpl PRO was calibrated against HPLC measurements from multiple state-certified testing laboratories.

So I think how these dishes will work is the sample goes in the dish. The dish locks onto the Xplate. The kit goes into the bench to scan and I get back a potency reading on the app.
I need to charge the device and link up to it then I'll take some screenshots of the new app and the extract portal

 

[steamroller]

Love that old music!
I've recently found myself rediscovering Lynyard Skynyard.
Like we all know the music and what not. Most can probably sing some word for word having never owned an album.
But what got me was a documentary on prime right now called Freebird which was made back in 1996.
I was four when the plane crashed and I know there's the remade version of the band but what grabbed me was the force in which they were when they were on a stage playing live. Just never paid much mind to it and now I'm all blown away by it. So yeah man...51 years old and I finally bought my first LS album and I made sure to buy a live album.

 

[Bandit420]

Bandit you make me so jelly with your co2 count!!!! i guess living in the city does have a perk... my furnace has been running in the mornings but still nowhere even close to that... i can't even reach 700... i haven't turned my lights past 70% because i'm already over 1k μmol/s . on the flip side it's kind of nice to have that as my current bottleneck versus other environment issues. it's been so cool having the 69pro controller to monitor and control my vpd better than i ever have before.

so can continue the ex-hermie outside?(because of weather/nosy neighbors/light timings or something else i never even thought of) or will you bring her back inside after quarantine?

Sorry I spaced out and forgot to reply to this part...
My CO2 swings from 450 to 1600.
Ambient outdoors is usually around that low 450 mark. 10 years ago it was only around 300. Climate change is real!
Indoors...my home is small, open floor plan, natural gas appliances, hot water heater closet is near the kitchen and there's a vent in the HWH closet door, 2 dogs, 2 cats, 2 humans, and 1600 sq ft.
Between the house layout, Co2 gens living inside it, and other factors like the power of the new ACI inline exhaust, I can create negative pressure in the grow room.
When that happens, my room is doing an air exchange pulling air from the back and front open doors of the home, thru the house, into the grow room, and out the exhaust. When that happens, most of that air being pulled thru is laden with CO2 and washes over the plants on it's way out the exhaust.
It's rare I get to run my room like this but when I can it's like Tetris and all the blocks are falling into place.

The hermie will stay outside. She's some of the only green out there and I know bugs were quick to jump on. Saw a baby Praying Mantis on her yesterday.
I got a little spot for her and the others. Neighbors on one side in the two home lot are either gone, moved out and the other neighbor over there is a facebook or tiktok addict and doesn't look away from her phone or even know how to say hi. I think she might be a wannabe influencer or something. I've seen her doing awkward staged dance routines on her deck lol. A plant could fall on her and she probably wouldn't know what it was.
And behind me are the apartments. All but one overlooking me is vacant right now. So there's a window to grow outdoors!!
But I wouldn't really call it a grow. The plants out there are lab rats for the most part.
Two will be subjected to pesticide testing and anything that makes it to harvest will give me practice in washing buds.
After that it will be squished, likely right away with no cure or anything special done for what I might get.
Not too worried about frost or cold. We're still high 80s in the day and mid to high 60s at night

I can smell the Bengay in that video

 

[Zen_seeker]

I was thinking about it last night. I never really liked a band enough to get all their albums. A few exceptions like Floyd but mostly I just liked the songs I’d like and didn’t matter who it was. Listening to the radio in the car was actually enjoyable until the 2000’s. Luckily tapes and CD players could be used.

Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Supertramp
April wine
Triumph
Boston
Bread
Bob Seger
Kiss
David Bowie
Police
Wham
Journey
Steppenwolf (Only a few)
AC/DC
Van Halen
Def Leppard
Guns & Roses

Just too many to list.

The songs had meaning at the time and now act as place holders for past memories. Places, events and a lot of good loving. (Bad Company comes on you know you gotta get down. ) There’s a reason mix tapes got made!

 

[Bandit420]

I was thinking about it last night. I never really liked a band enough to get all their albums. A few exceptions like Floyd but mostly I just liked the songs I’d like and didn’t matter who it was. Listening to the radio in the car was actually enjoyable until the 2000’s. Luckily tapes and CD players could be used.

Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Supertramp
April wine
Triumph
Boston
Bread
Bob Seger
Kiss
David Bowie
Police
Wham
Journey
Steppenwolf (Only a few)
AC/DC
Van Halen
Def Leppard
Guns & Roses

Just too many to list.

The songs had meaning at the time and now act as place holders for past memories. Places, events and a lot of good loving. (Bad Company comes on you know you gotta get down. ) There’s a reason mix tapes got made!

That's quite the list Buddy!
And here I thought all you folks north of the border only listened to Anne Murray



Been one of those weeks in the garden.
An issue that has been getting worse by the day is drainage and my pots getting bottom water logged yet the top drying out. The saucers are not letting the pots drain correctly pretty much negating why I'd even use a fast draining soil to begin with. So as they grow it's a repeat of both over and under watering because they're not draining properly.

On top of that, as I'm inspecting the early fade that should not be happening and feeling the pots dry at the top but like they have bricks in the bottom, I see what I see every fucking time a plant starts to fall a little ill...spider mites.

So I called my buddy's hydroshop who'd just relocated even closer to me making it way more convenient and told him I'm coming in for a second tray and pyrethrum bombs. He said he has what I'm looking for and then some. Ok I'm on may way!

This is where the day gets way better.
Got the tray + it's discounted to half off due to a crack in the rim. Perfect.
Grabbed two bombs and I'm feeling good, ready to end some drainage issues and kill some mites.

He says to me. Wanna see what we have in genetics?
Yeah sure why not?
Dude pulls out three binders with seed menus in them.
My guy is now running a seed bank! He's distributing for Ethos and Equilibrium as well as a local and two others, one into autos and another into heirlooms from the 90s.

So here's how the day ended

Double barrel remedy




3x3 trays saying fuck off to those saucers and my plants after being bombed and rearranged. I had one tray already but was so happy to score that second matching tray today.
Sure enough too...first watering in the trays the soil drained fast AF and accumulated in the channels to vac out and now the pots are evenly watered and drained correctly.



So Texas has THCa and it's often better than legal state cannabis. Now we have in person walk in seed banks if you know where to look.
Is it actually better to be in a prohibition state than a rec legal state in 2024? Kinda feels like it.
I came home with a pack of Ethos Wrank R2 (Strawberry OG Cookies x End Game 3 X Strawberry OG Cookies x End Game 3)
along with some swag like papers and stickers





Well fuck me.

 

[Stoneyluv]

i couldn't help but think of this when i saw Zen's post...

what's with the bugs after our plants man?!?! i think that bug bomb worked good for me, i believe it is still working too because every few days i see a dead cricket in there that wanders in. but wow man those are 6oz sprays? holy fuck batman thats packin it in there!!! you didn't use them both did you?

hot honey cheese!!! i'm starting to think hot honey is the new pumpkin spice... and i'm fine with that! maybe i need to try some in my coffee!!

 

[Bandit420]

i couldn't help but think of this when i saw Zen's post...

what's with the bugs after our plants man?!?! i think that bug bomb worked good for me, i believe it is still working too because every few days i see a dead cricket in there that wanders in. but wow man those are 6oz sprays? holy fuck batman thats packin it in there!!! you didn't use them both did you?

hot honey cheese!!! i'm starting to think hot honey is the new pumpkin spice... and i'm fine with that! maybe i need to try some in my coffee!!

Too funny man because I was thinking that exact thing!!! Especially when I got to Van Halen I whispered to myself "Not Van Hagar"

Fuck man who knows with these bugs and why they flare up in certain times. Election year. Hawk Tuah girl. Cybertrucks. Just as good of reason as any I suppose.
One thing I do know...Every time I get plants with uptake issues, weakened, or overly stressed by something, it's a sure money bet bugs will infest. Like they can smell a plant in distress and for them it's a ringing dinner bell.
I tell ya though man...Having taken just about every gut punch this grow possible, I think I'd rather deal with hermies than mites.

Yeah best thing about those 6oz bombs is they weren't marked up like amazon and I got each for only $11. I popped one open yesterday and will release the second in 5 days.
I need to read up a refresher but I'm pretty sure red spider mite generational cycles are every 5 days.
I think I caught my infestation somewhere between day 5 and 8, about to go full bloom on me.
Early we don't see them. But that second generation usually reveals the infestation. At that point, every 5 days, every female mite is laying up to 70 eggs. It can spiral out of control in less than two weeks.

So the first bomb is to kill everything alive. Then within that next 5 day window the second bomb kills off anything that has hatched after the first bomb. And that should do it.
After the bombings then it's cleaning them up by spray bottle misting with Jungle Rain and then finally water misting to clean up the ladies and wash off any bug carcasses and bug poop.

Just wait until you see hot honey pumpkin spice buddy. You know it's gonna happen!!

I was sold at "rotting meat at an old gas station"

 

[Stoneyluv]

Too funny man because I was thinking that exact thing!!! Especially when I got to Van Halen I whispered to myself "Not Van Hagar"

Fuck man who knows with these bugs and why they flare up in certain times. Election year. Hawk Tuah girl. Cybertrucks. Just as good of reason as any I suppose.
One thing I do know...Every time I get plants with uptake issues, weakened, or overly stressed by something, it's a sure money bet bugs will infest. Like they can smell a plant in distress and for them it's a ringing dinner bell.
I tell ya though man...Having taken just about every gut punch this grow possible, I think I'd rather deal with hermies than mites.

Yeah best thing about those 6oz bombs is they weren't marked up like amazon and I got each for only $11. I popped one open yesterday and will release the second in 5 days.
I need to read up a refresher but I'm pretty sure red spider mite generational cycles are every 5 days.
I think I caught my infestation somewhere between day 5 and 8, about to go full bloom on me.
Early we don't see them. But that second generation usually reveals the infestation. At that point, every 5 days, every female mite is laying up to 70 eggs. It can spiral out of control in less than two weeks.

So the first bomb is to kill everything alive. Then within that next 5 day window the second bomb kills off anything that has hatched after the first bomb. And that should do it.
After the bombings then it's cleaning them up by spray bottle misting with Jungle Rain and then finally water misting to clean up the ladies and wash off any bug carcasses and bug poop.

Just wait until you see hot honey pumpkin spice buddy. You know it's gonna happen!!

I was sold at "rotting meat at an old gas station"

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the eggs are what got me the worst man, i could even see them.. even saw the first of the mites being born before they're officially mites. the days wer all over the place and is what kept messing with me. i've read it can take some up to two weeks!!!

and part of my problem is/was is that i never catch em in time like that, by time i always see them they are chewing on the leaves and i see the spots. by that time every leaf has a dozen or more and a hundred eggs.

hope ya end it quick and swift!!!!
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ethos? i have their candy store growing right now and they are making my tail wag for sure!!!!!!

 

[Zen_seeker]

i couldn't help but think of this when i saw Zen's post...

No mullets here…just hockey haircuts.

Should I have said Camera Obscura, Foo Fighters, Crash Test Dummies, The Watchmen, or maybe John Denver when I’m in the mood? 50 cent or Eminem along with others. Buddy is into Metallica but I’m not heavily into it.

As I said, I listen to a lot. Some folk music is cool too. A lot from the movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” Was cool.

Dixie, prolonged bag pipes, and other select few country songs I’ll turn off. Just annoying after a while.

But I probably still have an old Jean jacket hanging around somewhere. Only half of the Canadian tuxedo ya know. Pretty sure the formal footwear was construction boots, Kodiak iirc?

 

[Bandit420]

the eggs are what got me the worst man, i could even see them.. even saw the first of the mites being born before they're officially mites. the days wer all over the place and is what kept messing with me. i've read it can take some up to two weeks!!!

and part of my problem is/was is that i never catch em in time like that, by time i always see them they are chewing on the leaves and i see the spots. by that time every leaf has a dozen or more and a hundred eggs.

hope ya end it quick and swift!!!!
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ethos? i have their candy store growing right now and they are making my tail wag for sure!!!!!!

Ok so I'm fresh off a refresher course in mites 101 thanks to Jorge's Encyclopedia. Sometimes it's just nice to go old school and open up a book.
Interesting you mention eggs and that's what I'm going after now. Kill the fucking babies before they're born.

Have you ID'ed your mites? It's very possible to deal with two or more species at the same time.
Once upon a time it was black and red for me but now it's just red. I think predators took out the black.

So to ID...Next infestation take a leaf off that you know has mites on it.
Shake the leaf over a piece of white paper and mites will fall onto the paper. They'll meander about slowly making it ez to scope them. Most common are red, black, brown, and two spotted.
If you ID more than one species, squish them and rub the dead mites on the paper. If it smears green, it's the enemy. If it smears black or brown, it's a predator mite and you want them on your plants.

Pyrethrins at .5% in an aerosol bomb is my go-to but it's only an on the plant remedy. It wins the battle but does not win the war. It's very safe, organic, and if you have UV, the UV will break down the pyrethrin making it inert and harmless to anything after the bombing and killing off of live mites.

I want to hit them where they go dormant because I'm starting to think there's dormant eggs and maybe only come to life when hit with pheromones from a stressed plant.
And I think I'm onto something here because we share a common denominator....Lumber in our grow spaces.
In nature, mites lay eggs to go dormant for days, weeks, or months. They can winter over as well. They prefer tree bark, woody stalks and stems, lumber, etc.
We may have dormant eggs in the lumber and plywood in our rooms and it doesn't matter if it's painted or not but raw lumber is a nursery and incubator for mite eggs.
The treatment for this will mean doing it with no plants in the room and spraying the entire room down with Dormant Oil. Dormant oil kills the eggs.
I also have a popcorn ceiling that could be a nesting ground as well so I'll be applying dormant oil from floor to ceiling and also go spray down the trees on my property and get them out there too.

There's lots of options in dormant oil and nearly all are safe and organic

Amazon.com : dormant oil

Yeah looks like I'll be diving into both Ethos and Equilibrium genetics in 2025.
I've known my hydroshop guys for almost 20 years and we have cemented trust in info we share. If they're growing and selling these genetics I trust that 100%.
He has nearly the entire catalog in stock and he's only 3 miles away. A dang seed bank only 3 miles away!!! I'll be paying the same price as online but in person and supporting a local business and a good friend. I feel like this is a karma reward for my frustrated but level headed patience in GPS and the online seed buying scene in general.

E T H O S

ETHOS Genetics is a leader in the Cannabis genetics industry, consistently creating the highest quality and most predictable strains while continuing to innovate breeding and growing techniques and new varieties.

www.ethosgenetics.com

Equilibrium really has me interested with their heirlooms and African cuts

https://eqgenetics.com/

I'll also have access to the whole 420 FastBud catalog which are autos and two other start up breeders with one being a local working a cut acclimated to Central Texas weather.



I'm super thrilled with the recovery and bounce back going on here.
The midcanopy leaves acted like shields on a starship taking the hit and in the coming days will be removed. Their valor saved these plants and the sacrifice will not be forgotten.
But as they fall, all other leaves have leveled off, the raptor clawing has gone away, and the plants are back to taking up water and food.
Gonna reward them with a tea in coming days.
Poor drainage is fixed!




Mite damage on Trop Cherry. This was the worst of all the infestation. Flipping the leaf over I only saw 1-4 mites on each leaf I looked at but if I'm seeing 1-4 there's probably 100-400 I'm not seeing. That's why I had mere hours to stop the spread or lose a crop. No time to even make an Amazon order and wait a day or two for the pyrethrin. It had to be done ASAP



After bombing the main thing I wanna see is no pistils burned back. That didn't happen so I'm in the clear and moving forward.
A little wash down with a spray bottle to rid the plants of dead bugs and bug poop and UV to evaporate the pyrethrin will have these plant in a state like nothing happened.
No leaves will be harvested no matter how well I can clean them up.

No mullets here…just hockey haircuts.

Should I have said Camera Obscura, Foo Fighters, Crash Test Dummies, The Watchmen, or maybe John Denver when I’m in the mood? 50 cent or Eminem along with others. Buddy is into Metallica but I’m not heavily into it.

As I said, I listen to a lot. Some folk music is cool too. A lot from the movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” Was cool.

Dixie, prolonged bag pipes, and other select few country songs I’ll turn off. Just annoying after a while.

But I probably still have an old Jean jacket hanging around somewhere. Only half of the Canadian tuxedo ya know. Pretty sure the formal footwear was construction boots, Kodiak iirc?

I can't even begin to make a list. Between my wife and I, there's almost 3000 songs in our digital library



Nearly every genre is repped. Punk, rap, hip hop, reggae, dance, rock & roll, classical, new wave, alternative, country, show tunes, soundtracks, big band, swing, and more. Even some foreign shit I have no idea what they're saying but love the music.
I only have every album from just a handful of artists though...Pink Floyd, Primus, The Doors, Willie Nelson, and maybe one or two more I cant remember right now. I think my wife has every song ever made by Nine Inch Nails and Marylin Manson which I'll rock out to as well.



You know they day is gonna be awesome when you find this at the grocery store!

 

[steamroller]

Back when I had spider mites 3 years ago I read they could over winter as you mentioned.
Shocked as I was that cold did not kill them that is when I ordered my steam cleaner.
Heat in such an extreme is an egg killer for sure.
Possibly all the lady bugs arrived to help you/ themselves with your mites?

No racing is killing me week 1~!

 

[Bandit420]

Back when I had spider mites 3 years ago I read they could over winter as you mentioned.
Shocked as I was that cold did not kill them that is when I ordered my steam cleaner.
Heat in such an extreme is an egg killer for sure.
Possibly all the lady bugs arrived to help you/ themselves with your mites?

No racing is killing me week 1~!

Just depends on the species of mite but yeah all they need to do is bury into some loose tree bark and the eggs are protected. In some cases they may come back even stronger after a freeze because the freeze could kill off predators but not the unwanted mites.

Heat is another where it just depends on species. Reds love the heat and thrive here at 105. Our infestation season is from July - November because it's so warm and helps them thrive.

IDK what the deal was with ladybugs swarming indoors but I think it was a war between them and Japanese Beetles in the front yard and some eggs were layed in the crack of a window frame. It was also the middle of Winter and perhaps a false Spring hatching.
Since then though, we've had two major freeze events which have changed the landscape outside. Monarch Butterflies and those beetles were near eliminated. The Monarchs are slowly coming back but not the beetles. Plus the plants and shrubs the beetles and ladybugs were fighting over were also killed in those ice and snow storms. We still have ladybugs and praying mantis naturally occurring but no where near the numbers they were at prior to the "100 year storms"

Time to dust off the Flo Sports subscription and watch late model and dirt racing. Dale Jr is racing next weekend and Chili Bowl is coming soon!

 

[Bandit420]

Co2 spike on the cardiogram. Purple line.
Opened the door at lights on and activated the exhaust to get negative pressure. All the CO2 laden air built up inside the home from the night's sleep gets sucked out thru the room, washing over the plants as it exits



Terp Tea brew the ladies will get the next watering

 

[stonemason]

Co2 spike on the cardiogram. Purple line.
Opened the door at lights on and activated the exhaust to get negative pressure. All the CO2 laden air built up inside the home from the night's sleep gets sucked out thru the room, washing over the plants as it exits

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Terp Tea brew the ladies will get the next watering

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I wonder how they keep all the microbes alive in those bags.they must have some way of makeing them go dormant. I have to keep my home bred microbes dry and in a breathable sack.mine only stay good about a year or so once activated in my piles and dryed out. The original collections i use as breeding stock are four or five years old though. saturating them in sugar freezes them up like hon solo in carbinite.they must be doing something along those lines to make this product shelf stable .Looks like good stuff lots of diversity do you airate it?

 

[Stoneyluv]

man you post a lot of good food on here but pickled cheese puffs i don't know bro!!! hahaha

great info on the mite eggs man, i have so much lumber.. all behind my panda film is all bare wood. i need to plan better on the next cleaning!

watched the texas game today, great win, the razorbacks looked like they had a strong team, good tackling. wasn't enough but the horns looked like they earned it for sure!!!

and then this..

https://imgur.com/a/PHyDEic

 

[Bandit420]

I wonder how they keep all the microbes alive in those bags.they must have some way of makeing them go dormant. I have to keep my home bred microbes dry and in a breathable sack.mine only stay good about a year or so once activated in my piles and dryed out. The original collections i use as breeding stock are four or five years old though. saturating them in sugar freezes them up like hon solo in carbinite.they must be doing something along those lines to make this product shelf stable .Looks like good stuff lots of diversity do you airate it?

IDK if the microbes in there are still viable but I have little faith in relying on that so I also use King Crab and or Great White inoculations.
The best way to tell would be to brew up a tea and put a few drops under a scope to see if there's anything alive but I don't have a microscope.

Yeah I brew or aerate for at least a day. I may also add some lobster compost to spice it up a bit more.

man you post a lot of good food on here but pickled cheese puffs i don't know bro!!! hahaha

great info on the mite eggs man, i have so much lumber.. all behind my panda film is all bare wood. i need to plan better on the next cleaning!

watched the texas game today, great win, the razorbacks looked like they had a strong team, good tackling. wasn't enough but the horns looked like they earned it for sure!!!

and then this..

https://imgur.com/a/PHyDEic

Oh those dill pickle cheetos are awesome!!! Like a dill ranch and cheese flavor.

That wasn't a game as much as it was a fist fight behind the bar after closing type of game.
Good win today against a tough as nails ball club who absolutely hates Texas. In fact they hate Texas more than they like themselves.
Never ez in Fayettenam.

WVU in a barn burner vs Baylor right now. Winner becomes bowl eligible

Is that Ganja going after your laces?
Who knew shoe laces tasted like earthworms?

Yeah the lumber thing has me looking at my room as a big egg nest right now

 

[stonemason]

IDK if the microbes in there are still viable but I have little faith in relying on that so I also use King Crab and or Great White inoculations.
The best way to tell would be to brew up a tea and put a few drops under a scope to see if there's anything alive but I don't have a microscope.

Yeah I brew or aerate for at least a day. I may also add some lobster compost to spice it up a bit more.



Oh those dill pickle cheetos are awesome!!! Like a dill ranch and cheese flavor.

That wasn't a game as much as it was a fist fight behind the bar after closing type of game.
Good win today against a tough as nails ball club who absolutely hates Texas. In fact they hate Texas more than they like themselves.
Never ez in Fayettenam.

WVU in a barn burner vs Baylor right now. Winner becomes bowl eligible

Is that Ganja going after your laces?
Who knew shoe laces tasted like earthworms?

Yeah the lumber thing has me looking at my room as a big egg nest right now

I bet there are still a bunch alive.if they figured out how to get them in there they proubly figured out how to keep them alive. I just wonder how they do it . microscope would be so cool. Definitely gona grab one sometime.

 

[steamroller]

Are microbes the same as bacteria?
Bacteria does not just die off.
It passes as slow or slower than you grow/generate it originally.
It [ bacteria] also can hibernate for indefinite amounts of time.

 

[stonemason]

Are microbes the same as bacteria?
Bacteria does not just die off.
It passes as slow or slower than you grow/generate it originally.
It [ bacteria] also can hibernate for indefinite amounts of time.

Ya looks like its got bacteria and fungus.when I say microbes I meen both.makes me wonder sometimes what's out there that's to small for us to even see.

 

[Bandit420]

I bet there are still a bunch alive.if they figured out how to get them in there they proubly figured out how to keep them alive. I just wonder how they do it . microscope would be so cool. Definitely gona grab one sometime.

The thing I wonder about is how well they survive being bagged, shipped, stored in warehouses etc.
Some microbes like archaea can live in volcanic lava and the arctic so you know that's good but others may not be as durable.
Trichoderma is naturally occurring and is available by simply having coco or compost in your soil mix.

Most binders I see being used for spores is a fine powder clay. Some will use talc but most use that clay.
IDK how they breed or produce the spores but once they have them it's mixed with the clay otherwise I suppose it would come like a mushroom spore print on paper or spores in a liquid filled syringe or bottle like Orca and King Crab.

Are microbes the same as bacteria?
Bacteria does not just die off.
It passes as slow or slower than you grow/generate it originally.
It [ bacteria] also can hibernate for indefinite amounts of time.

Ya looks like its got bacteria and fungus.when I say microbes I meen both.makes me wonder sometimes what's out there that's to small for us to even see.

Same here. I use "microherds" in a general umbrella term to describe every microbe, fungus, bacteria under the sun

 

[Bandit420]

Pinkies out it's tea time!

I went with a mild blend of terp tea, lobster compost, yucca extract, Roots Trinity, and King Crab.
I added the dry ingredients to a humtea brew ball and dropped the ball in a 7 gallon bucket with a submersible pump to roll the water over and an airstone. Then over time I added in the liquid ingredients

https://imgur.com/a/u4apbrb

https://imgur.com/a/hYubzfn

https://imgur.com/a/2JFBjdW

Gathered some supplies from work to come up with my plant wash kit




Trop Cherry got an Oklahoma car wash. lights turned down 50% until she dries off and all fans are running

https://imgur.com/a/EmaGFFG

Longest pistils I've seen in a very long time on the Lavander Aura X. About 2-3x longer than normal. Haven't seen this since I grew a Chinese landrace. It's not the room either. Her outdoor sister has the same super long shag carpet pistil sets

 

[deebles]

A little side project I've been working on is curating a Pink Floyd playlist. Something from nearly every album if not the whole album and right now I think it's at around 8-10 hours of music.
The Comfortably Numb part is one of my faves and very long.
Starts off with the demo "The Doctor" version of CN, then slips into the studio recording and finally a live and extended set from the '80-'81 Is There Anybody Out There Tour. It all fades into each other like it was meant to be. Like 15-20 minutes of CN. I melt like chocolate when I'm high and listening to that.



Love that old music!
I've recently found myself rediscovering Lynyard Skynyard.
Like we all know the music and what not. Most can probably sing some word for word having never owned an album.
But what got me was a documentary on prime right now called Freebird which was made back in 1996.
I was four when the plane crashed and I know there's the remade version of the band but what grabbed me was the force in which they were when they were on a stage playing live. Just never paid much mind to it and now I'm all blown away by it. So yeah man...51 years old and I finally bought my first LS album and I made sure to buy a live album.

The 71 truck is my 3rd truck diecast and they're all 1:24

Also have Zane Smith's COTA win with fire damage after the burnout

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And Stewart Freisan's Texas win truck. I have this mostly for reference to the sheet metal of his hanging on the walls at work. I have the front part of the rear driver side quarter panel but I lost the auction on the back part and ended up with Jessica Friesan's rear quarter panel to match the wheel well over a sink at work

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You can see why the bidding got a little nuts on that rear part. A moonshine sponsor in a NASCAR series is just so on brand

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I tell ya man this Purpl thing is an adventure. It's all so cagey right now.
I won't know everything until I cross over into the extract portal but before I do that and activate my one week free trial, I want everything in order. All samples ready to test and everything ready to go on that end. Nothing I have now is worthy of crossing over right now. There's still hash to make, distillate, and rosin and I want it to come from the best I have to offer.
I've smoked or squished the best in house so what's in the stash is just B grade and I'm not gonna waste dishes or free trial time on that.

The dishes don't seem at all very special or proprietary to me other than they're lab grade and were made and sterilized in a clean room so that's why they cost so much.
I bought the ten pack + plate for $75. The plate is used over and over but IDK about the dishes. I can see for lab test sakes use one and done but I'm damn sure gonna see if I can drop a used dish in the sonic iso bath and reuse them

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It was pretty ez finding these just searching by the dimensions with key word glass bottom

29 mm Glass bottom dish with 20 mm micro-well #0 cover glass | Cellvis

<p>29 mm glass bottom dish, dish size 29mm, well size 20mm, #0 glass(0.085-0.115mm). Designed for high resolution imaging such as confocal microscopy.</p>

www.cellvis.com

Some info about it:
To measure potency, the Purpl PRO utilizes near-infrared spectroscopy, which involves shining light on a sample and analyzing the light that is returned. In this part of the light spectrum (just beyond the red light human eyes can see), molecules react to specific regions of the light to generate a “molecular fingerprint” that can be correlated with concentration. In its development, the Purpl PRO was calibrated against HPLC measurements from multiple state-certified testing laboratories.

So I think how these dishes will work is the sample goes in the dish. The dish locks onto the Xplate. The kit goes into the bench to scan and I get back a potency reading on the app.
I need to charge the device and link up to it then I'll take some screenshots of the new app and the extract portal

Man if you're a PF or Roger Waters fan, one of my all time favorite albums is PROS AND CONS OF HITCH HIKING from Waters, 1984 I think. Clapton on guitar. Typical Waters w his whispers into screams, sometimes the volume needs to be on 10, sometimes 1.
It takes me back 25 yrs to a time in my life when I was listening to it a lot so it probably is more special to me, but well worth a couple listens if u haven't. A thoughtful album w a cool and somewhat relatable story.
Had to chime in w that...carry on boys.

 

[steamroller]

Man if you're a PF or Roger Waters fan, one of my all time favorite albums is PROS AND CONS OF HITCH HIKING from Waters, 1984 I think. Clapton on guitar. Typical Waters w his whispers into screams, sometimes the volume needs to be on 10, sometimes 1.
It takes me back 25 yrs to a time in my life when I was listening to it a lot so it probably is more special to me, but well worth a couple listens if u haven't. A thoughtful album w a cool and somewhat relatable story.
Had to chime in w that...carry on boys.

^ This so much^
If you ride to work with me you listen to pros and cons of hitchiking~!
The album is incredible.
I am lyrics guy.
Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
The Wall
Pros and cons
All have a story line as scary as it may be but so wild to follow.

 

[Bandit420]

Man if you're a PF or Roger Waters fan, one of my all time favorite albums is PROS AND CONS OF HITCH HIKING from Waters, 1984 I think. Clapton on guitar. Typical Waters w his whispers into screams, sometimes the volume needs to be on 10, sometimes 1.
It takes me back 25 yrs to a time in my life when I was listening to it a lot so it probably is more special to me, but well worth a couple listens if u haven't. A thoughtful album w a cool and somewhat relatable story.
Had to chime in w that...carry on boys.

Added to the library!



I really haven't gotten too much in to Roger's or David's work outside the breakup other than Roger Waters The Wall live in 2013 and I have it on prime video and David Gilmour's reincarnation of Pink Floyd. Nothing in regards to solo work that I can think of.
Thanks for the rec and with the new home sound system it's gonna be fun to hear for the first time

 

[MDK]

Added to the library!

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I really haven't gotten too much in to Roger's or David's work outside the breakup other than Roger Waters The Wall live in 2013 and I have it on prime video and David Gilmour's reincarnation of Pink Floyd. Nothing in regards to solo work that I can think of.
Thanks for the rec and with the new home sound system it's gonna be fun to hear for the first time

That pros and cons of hitchhiking is a real nice album...amused to death is another album I think he did....good as well. His recent album wasn't even too bad. Jeff Beck did alot of guitar work on amused to death so it really helps fill in the void that no gilmour left Roger with in my opinion

 

[Bandit420]

That pros and cons of hitchhiking is a real nice album...amused to death is another album I think he did....good as well. His recent album wasn't even too bad. Jeff Beck did alot of guitar work on amused to death so it really helps fill in the void that no gilmour left Roger with in my opinion

Love me some Jeff Beck.
I'm bringing my bt speaker to work with me in a few to listen to the Roger Water album for the first time

 

[Bandit420]

Anything else? Bad pH? Got summin to say? How 'bout you hermie? Nuthin'? Spider Mites??? Suns out guns out come at me Bro! Clogged up drainage, what you got??
You fuckers thought you could derail this train? Y'all are fucking tourists in my world. Time to build donkey dicks and skyscrapers!

 

[Zen_seeker]

Keep forgetting you have the Golden Girls in space. Cracks me up.

Looking good boss