Stoney's Luv Shack

[Stoneyluv]

testing image resizer and junk... just a test.

 

[Bandit420]

testing image resizer and junk... just a test.

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All looks well on my end! Playing around with some things so it's kinda like when my wife rearranges the spice cabinet. I know it's all still there, just have to look on another shelf or behind something else

You got me going down memory lane with the prize vault. Most of that stuff was just a shopping list I had on amazon along with a few other things here ready to ship. Seeds were illegal to send back then so the biggest request was always the set of bubble bags. pH pen was well liked and I had shit like a year sub to High Times somebody picked once. 4oz Jars of Great White were also a hit.
The thing was to keep value at around $30 for each item. It gave some good value but also low enough to deter cheaters. You start giving away shit like lights and people will cheat.
Make it very noob friendly and even tilt it toward them so prizes that help noobs are always a hit.
We also ran it way different with self entered pics and other entries. The THCFarmer model is made for sponsored growers to basically circle jerk each other into prizes and promote a sponsor and persuade the community into using that product. Self entered allowed people to pick their own entry and all you have to do is add some sort of rule like a handwritten date stamp or something. 10 post minimum to enter and let it rip. Bud porn galore.
I would also mix it up and one of my faves were the essay contests. I felt like they built good culture and promoted respect between growers.
It needs traffic though and IDK if the update will help but the site needs to come up on common google searches like "marijuana forum" "grow marijuana" etc, something like that in the header so the site is an option on the list of grow forums. Once there then the traffic comes and gets more people to enter contests.
Right now it's missing so if it was named BudBuilders Marijuana Growing it might come up there. I think you have the bots and everything to aid the searches but they just need to know to direct marijuana and cannabis searches here.
Don't mean to step on toes or anything and tell you how to raise this baby but you got me thinking about those old times.
It is uncanny how similar bubbleheads was to this site. Both spinoffs from a major forum after a falling out. Innocents catching stray bans. The people who started the spinoff hand it over to others committed to it.
Only then, Instagram was moving in on forums and taking all the eyes looking for bud porn.
Then forums were just mostly info but now info is available thru AI and people are even using AI to reply so the niche of the grow forum gets smaller and smaller and less human. The AI reliant growers on reddit concern me man.
Back then I think my biggest headaches were contest cheaters and commercial growers with fragile egos and tons of small dick energy lol. Good times though

 

[Skinnypuppy80]

It needs traffic though and IDK if the update will help but the site needs to come up on common google searches like "marijuana forum" "grow marijuana" etc, something like that in the header so the site is an option on the list of grow forums. Once there then the traffic comes and gets more people to enter contests.
Right now it's missing so if it was named BudBuilders Marijuana Growing it might come up there. I think you have the bots and everything to aid the searches but they just need to know to direct marijuana and cannabis searches here.

Yeah, this site is pretty much really low key. Like the only way to find it is if someone tells you about it from another site. From what I gather, that was the initial intention. But if that direction has changed, Bandit420 's idea wouldn't hurt. I personally liked how low key it was, but it seems to have dropped down to a whisper from a ghost. That said, I don't see myself going elsewhere anytime soon. The community and knowledge here is still a valuable asset to aid me into furthering distancing myself from being a noob(still a noob lol.)

 

[Skinnypuppy80]

I'm assuming all went well! I'm at the end of my grow so I just peek in on the things I watch. U did say u thought it'd be pretty straightforward and easy! Now hurry up and start that fallponics already!! I need other shit to watch!

 

[Stoneyluv]

All looks well on my end! Playing around with some things so it's kinda like when my wife rearranges the spice cabinet. I know it's all still there, just have to look on another shelf or behind something else

You got me going down memory lane with the prize vault. Most of that stuff was just a shopping list I had on amazon along with a few other things here ready to ship. Seeds were illegal to send back then so the biggest request was always the set of bubble bags. pH pen was well liked and I had shit like a year sub to High Times somebody picked once. 4oz Jars of Great White were also a hit.
The thing was to keep value at around $30 for each item. It gave some good value but also low enough to deter cheaters. You start giving away shit like lights and people will cheat.
Make it very noob friendly and even tilt it toward them so prizes that help noobs are always a hit.
We also ran it way different with self entered pics and other entries. The THCFarmer model is made for sponsored growers to basically circle jerk each other into prizes and promote a sponsor and persuade the community into using that product. Self entered allowed people to pick their own entry and all you have to do is add some sort of rule like a handwritten date stamp or something. 10 post minimum to enter and let it rip. Bud porn galore.
I would also mix it up and one of my faves were the essay contests. I felt like they built good culture and promoted respect between growers.
It needs traffic though and IDK if the update will help but the site needs to come up on common google searches like "marijuana forum" "grow marijuana" etc, something like that in the header so the site is an option on the list of grow forums. Once there then the traffic comes and gets more people to enter contests.
Right now it's missing so if it was named BudBuilders Marijuana Growing it might come up there. I think you have the bots and everything to aid the searches but they just need to know to direct marijuana and cannabis searches here.
Don't mean to step on toes or anything and tell you how to raise this baby but you got me thinking about those old times.
It is uncanny how similar bubbleheads was to this site. Both spinoffs from a major forum after a falling out. Innocents catching stray bans. The people who started the spinoff hand it over to others committed to it.
Only then, Instagram was moving in on forums and taking all the eyes looking for bud porn.
Then forums were just mostly info but now info is available thru AI and people are even using AI to reply so the niche of the grow forum gets smaller and smaller and less human. The AI reliant growers on reddit concern me man.
Back then I think my biggest headaches were contest cheaters and commercial growers with fragile egos and tons of small dick energy lol. Good times though

haha i don't mind when the spices get moved as long as the labels are facing out!! hahaha
i've been messing with it a lot today.. i've seen things i've never seen before!! hahahaha nah it's been cool, just fumbling around trying this and that..

i've thought about different kinds of contests and things, Steam suggests that i host them maybe every other month. but you're 100% man, it's not the participation thats down it's the amount of members.
i'm really not sure what to do just yet for contests but i guess i need to figure something out. back then we had a lot of activity and members to keep things moving faster and staff has said for a long time that we need more people not better contests. this was back when fundraisers were happening and ideas on how to keep them going when they were losing traction. the answer... more traffic!!!

it will push me into areas i never ventured before but from what i understand there is a lot i could do to get our content more visible. i know if you google stoneyluv this place shows up!!!! hahaha
i also never go to other sites to see whats working for them...

Yeah, this site is pretty much really low key. Like the only way to find it is if someone tells you about it from another site. From what I gather, that was the initial intention. But if that direction has changed, Bandit420 's idea wouldn't hurt. I personally liked how low key it was, but it seems to have dropped down to a whisper from a ghost. That said, I don't see myself going elsewhere anytime soon. The community and knowledge here is still a valuable asset to aid me into furthering distancing myself from being a noob(still a noob lol.)

this site was built to make money. it was a model to charge money to give grow advice. it never panned out and all the gurus wanting this have left. it sucks that Moe built this place and then didn't want anything to do with it anymore. who knows where it takes us.. for now its a fun hobby!!!

as far as the exposure i think there are a few things i can simple modify and turn on to get our site map out to the world and even our selected content and our best threads. there are also forms for SEO's and







so i kinda need to learn how to deal with all this and figure out how to make us more visible. downside is with more people comes more drama i just hope a couple good ones are peppered in with the ciaos.

i could use help with some of this if anybody happens to know anything about it.

I'm assuming all went well! I'm at the end of my grow so I just peek in on the things I watch. U did say u thought it'd be pretty straightforward and easy! Now hurry up and start that fallponics already!! I need other shit to watch!

man i've been so lazy with updating the hydro thread... the table looks ugly with all the burn.. i've just been milking them out the best i can, the ppms have been so ridiculously low... anything over 400ppms sends my ph way down and then the doser sends a lot of ph up in it.. so i have just been keeping the ppms low and limping them by so it doesn't end up being a total waste..

some pics..





can't wait to get this new setup in!!!!!!!!!! i just hope it solves my issues!!!!



i'm pumped though!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Stoneyluv]

ahhh yeah... this is when the good stuff happens!!!!!

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rootin for the 88 today!!!! go kyle larson!!!!!!