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Happy to see yas pursuing your education Bro.....Growin`s supplemental at best unless yas commit to doin it full time as you`ve seen what it entails ta do it consistently...
Real Estate portfolio`s can come from many opportunities once yas have liquid assets and the ability to negotiate terms with prospective buyers/sellers.......so....
Anyways......You know the program....How yas accomplish said goals depends solely on your path to Nirvana....
Peace....Freds...
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Real Estate portfolio`s can come from many opportunities once yas have liquid assets and the ability to negotiate terms with prospective buyers/sellers.......so....
Anyways......You know the program....How yas accomplish said goals depends solely on your path to Nirvana....
Peace....Freds...
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It's been kinda rough over here on bobblefarms lately... I haven't really been on top of things with these mites, and so they keep popping back up. I went back up north earlier in the week before meeting up with Ichabod, and found that 14 of my USD's were dead from dehydration. The temperature jumped in the past week for a few days.. I had a space heater plugged in and it wasn't on a temp controller b/c it's the middle of winter... 
So now I have 3 levels of USD, and only 1 on the floor. Sweet, huh? easily 1-2lbs lost. Luckily growing has taught me a bit of patience... which is hard to believe, I know... and I'm just looking at the big picture of growing in a house where I don't live, and driving a reliable vehicle that gets me back to where I sleep well at night... Life is good. If you haven't had bugs and other disasters, you haven't been growing long enough. All that being said, I'm not going to Thailand anytime soon. Not until I have blumats at least... Which are going to be ordered real soon. I don't want another disaster like I just had. I have people to prove wrong here...
When you make that decision to go down the rabbit hole... Just be sure you know what you're getting yourself into. I won't be around much next week. I have some time to invest.
Straw DD crop at 4.5 weeks...
this has to be the most healthy plant in the room...
So yeah... Like I was saying, I'm learning to take the good with the bad. I'm a successful cannabis farmer. Here I am at week 10. Harvest time.
Sour Bubble (x SSSDH?) over the summer she foxtailed b/c of the heat, but now that the temp is down, she has solid SB nugs. The thing is she still stretched a lot, which isn't typical of SB, so IDK...
This was my first harvest using the bonsai hero electric trimmers. They are an excellent addition to the trimming tool kit, but they are not a stand alone trimmer. I use shears to cut the stems off the plant, I give the branch a close trim with the bonsai hero, and then I go back over it with micro-tip scissors to clean up anything I missed. I don't get overzealous with the bonsai hero, because it will take off bud tips and foxtails. I did manage to trim my finger several times, and I just got pinched, not cut at all.
Grape Skunk
Menage a trois
ChemD
Next week I get to take down the sativas...
They're really purdy.
So now I have 3 levels of USD, and only 1 on the floor. Sweet, huh? easily 1-2lbs lost. Luckily growing has taught me a bit of patience... which is hard to believe, I know... and I'm just looking at the big picture of growing in a house where I don't live, and driving a reliable vehicle that gets me back to where I sleep well at night... Life is good. If you haven't had bugs and other disasters, you haven't been growing long enough. All that being said, I'm not going to Thailand anytime soon. Not until I have blumats at least... Which are going to be ordered real soon. I don't want another disaster like I just had. I have people to prove wrong here... When you make that decision to go down the rabbit hole... Just be sure you know what you're getting yourself into. I won't be around much next week. I have some time to invest.
Straw DD crop at 4.5 weeks...
this has to be the most healthy plant in the room...
So yeah... Like I was saying, I'm learning to take the good with the bad. I'm a successful cannabis farmer. Here I am at week 10. Harvest time.
Sour Bubble (x SSSDH?) over the summer she foxtailed b/c of the heat, but now that the temp is down, she has solid SB nugs. The thing is she still stretched a lot, which isn't typical of SB, so IDK...
This was my first harvest using the bonsai hero electric trimmers. They are an excellent addition to the trimming tool kit, but they are not a stand alone trimmer. I use shears to cut the stems off the plant, I give the branch a close trim with the bonsai hero, and then I go back over it with micro-tip scissors to clean up anything I missed. I don't get overzealous with the bonsai hero, because it will take off bud tips and foxtails. I did manage to trim my finger several times, and I just got pinched, not cut at all.
Grape Skunk
Menage a trois
ChemD
Next week I get to take down the sativas...
They're really purdy.
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B. Self Reliant
I've been keepin' my ears open for reports on how those trimmers work. Glad to hear they're working for you. Is there any way to estimate how much time you shaved off your clipping time since getting them?
easily saved me 2/3 of the time. To actually clear the bud off is the hard part, and you have to squeeze the fiskars a lot and so your hand gets tired after a while... and then, idk about you, but when I get tired, I get sloppy.. Also, I'm allergic to the wet plant material. If my hands and arms rub on the leaves, I break out in a rash. The bonsai hero does most of the trimming, at least well enough that you can clearly make out the bud, and keeps my hand out of the foliage. If you don't live in medville, you can probably leave it as is... but I have to clean my buds up really well to get a fair price. Any sort of leaf with a visible stem needs to be gone, and sugar leaves taken down to the bud... It's pretty ridiculous imo, b/c the leaves really don't weigh shit and they protect the bud until it's ready for consumption... at which point you just snap them off... but w/e.. Nobody wants to eat the shake I guess, and I'm still getting better than wholesale prices.
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B. Self Reliant
That's incredible! Sounds well worth it. I'm pretty obsessive about trimming up my final product too, so I hear you about wanting to wave time without sacrificing quality.
That Menage a trois stem 
Yeah dude. The stems on that grape skunk is ridiculous, looks like a flowered mother plant.
That little bitch heater killed some of your girls? I guess those little buggers are stronger than I thought, they're like 12-1500w right?
The rabbit hole is drawing me in, real estate portfolio must be built!!!
That little bitch heater killed some of your girls? I guess those little buggers are stronger than I thought, they're like 12-1500w right?
The rabbit hole is drawing me in, real estate portfolio must be built!!!
Yeah, they were all mother plants, being why the stems are so thick.
They would have been massive if they hadn't had russet mites sucking the life out of them when I flipped... I didn't realize I hadn't killed them until I had already flipped. The heater didn't fry my girls, but it was warmer than anticipated so they needed more water... and I wasn't there to catch it and make the adjustment. Blumats...
I'm not telling you to stay out of the rabbit hole... Cause I don't regret taking the dive... Just know it's more work than you could anticipate. You're gonna have to make it a full time job until everything is in place and running itself... and I'm still trying to get to the point of having everything run itself. I'm not doing so bad... but I'm not pulling down 8lb crops yet either.
My veg is looking better and better every week... So it'll all fall into place soon enough. Only 5 more weeks till I have a fresh start in one of the 8x8's.
GhettoGospel
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what yield did you finish with? Only way is up!
answer #1: not enough.
answer #2: out of which pod? I'm taking down 2, ran 1200w in each... I'm mid harvest, haven't even taken down all the plants... the first buds are just starting to get dry...
So i started off with some cleaning.. Because a dirty grow harbors bugs...
I got the reservoir room straightened out...
and that's when things went south... b/c my reservoirs aren't full... and with the pressure booster, there's no reason for that... So in the morning, I noticed a fucking stream of water coming from my crawlspace... Fucking awesome. A few weeks back, the well pump froze, and apparently so did some pipes. I thought I capped one pipe, to find another was leaking in the wall... So I moved the stacked washer/dryer unit and tear the paneling off the wall to find the busted pipe... Eventually get that capped. Turned the water back on, to find that there was still some cracks in the pipes under the house, so I had to fix it better... it was wet and cold and I didn't accomplish everything I set out to do... But the water is fixed. The RO flows like it's coming out of the refrigerator. I knew my power bill was outrageously high @ $450...Even with the space heaters.
I did get some more cleaning done while i was waiting for the cpcv cement to cure... and I put hygrometers and sensors in... Which just drove me nuts. This is the hygrometer for the octagon with the StrawDD. The top temp is the octagon, the bottom temp is the lung room. This room fluctuates 4-6*F from the lung room, up or down.
Then this is the square room with the USD. This room fluctuates 12-15*F from the lung room, up or down.
So, I put the space heaters on timers so they only come on during lights off... but I can't quite figure out why the octagon is staying so much closer to the temperature of the lung room. It has to be the airflow. The octagon has a fan on the ceiling, and the 8 tubes blowing air around the plants. The Square room has a fan blowing air in on the bottom, and a fan sucking air out the top of the same wall. Later this week when I go pump the rest of the water out of the crawl space... I'll relocate the exhaust fan and see what happens... I have to be able to improve those temperatures... b/c if I can do that, then I only need to condition the lung room to 70-75*F year round....
Oh... and now I'm gonna order my blumats... 100 blumats coming up.
I got the reservoir room straightened out...
and that's when things went south... b/c my reservoirs aren't full... and with the pressure booster, there's no reason for that... So in the morning, I noticed a fucking stream of water coming from my crawlspace... Fucking awesome. A few weeks back, the well pump froze, and apparently so did some pipes. I thought I capped one pipe, to find another was leaking in the wall... So I moved the stacked washer/dryer unit and tear the paneling off the wall to find the busted pipe... Eventually get that capped. Turned the water back on, to find that there was still some cracks in the pipes under the house, so I had to fix it better... it was wet and cold and I didn't accomplish everything I set out to do... But the water is fixed. The RO flows like it's coming out of the refrigerator. I knew my power bill was outrageously high @ $450...Even with the space heaters.
I did get some more cleaning done while i was waiting for the cpcv cement to cure... and I put hygrometers and sensors in... Which just drove me nuts. This is the hygrometer for the octagon with the StrawDD. The top temp is the octagon, the bottom temp is the lung room. This room fluctuates 4-6*F from the lung room, up or down.
Then this is the square room with the USD. This room fluctuates 12-15*F from the lung room, up or down.
So, I put the space heaters on timers so they only come on during lights off... but I can't quite figure out why the octagon is staying so much closer to the temperature of the lung room. It has to be the airflow. The octagon has a fan on the ceiling, and the 8 tubes blowing air around the plants. The Square room has a fan blowing air in on the bottom, and a fan sucking air out the top of the same wall. Later this week when I go pump the rest of the water out of the crawl space... I'll relocate the exhaust fan and see what happens... I have to be able to improve those temperatures... b/c if I can do that, then I only need to condition the lung room to 70-75*F year round....
Oh... and now I'm gonna order my blumats... 100 blumats coming up.
I'd KILL for a $450 power bill, try doubling that!
Wish I was closer would be happy to come over and help you.
Grow on bro!
Wish I was closer would be happy to come over and help you.
Grow on bro!
My power bill was $425 last month with three 1000 watters in flower, 1 1000 watter running 24 in veg, and some fans a dehuey an ac unit and some other floros for clones. Oh yeh and the power for my house.
You should look into going pex for your plumbing. It does not require all the fittings as it is flexable. It is also more pliable in cold weather where pipes can freeze. And you crimp the fittings and you can run water after that, no waiting.
Let me know if you need help. Don't mess up the shoulder.
You should look into going pex for your plumbing. It does not require all the fittings as it is flexable. It is also more pliable in cold weather where pipes can freeze. And you crimp the fittings and you can run water after that, no waiting.
Let me know if you need help. Don't mess up the shoulder.
Bobble
Glad to see you're takin' the blumat plunge! I'm sure you've already figured something like this out, but I thought I'd share what I've done for my blumat rez..
I've got an 18 gallon tote on the floor, full of water. That's my sort of "main" rez. That constantly pumps water into a 5 gallon bucket, which sits on a shelf. That 5 gallon bucket is what the blumats are connected to. The 5 gallon bucket also has a drain hose (feeding back into the main rez) about 3" from the top - so ideally, the water level in the 5 gallon bucket always stays the same (all excess draining back to the main rez), and therefore your water pressure into the blumats stays the same..
(And, in the event of a pump failure, there will always be 5 gallons for the blumats to suckle on before the well goes dry - ideally, enough time that I'd notice it before it's entirely drained out)
Of course, for you, you'll probably want to increase the size of each rez by a multiple of 5.
Glad to see you're takin' the blumat plunge! I'm sure you've already figured something like this out, but I thought I'd share what I've done for my blumat rez..
I've got an 18 gallon tote on the floor, full of water. That's my sort of "main" rez. That constantly pumps water into a 5 gallon bucket, which sits on a shelf. That 5 gallon bucket is what the blumats are connected to. The 5 gallon bucket also has a drain hose (feeding back into the main rez) about 3" from the top - so ideally, the water level in the 5 gallon bucket always stays the same (all excess draining back to the main rez), and therefore your water pressure into the blumats stays the same..
(And, in the event of a pump failure, there will always be 5 gallons for the blumats to suckle on before the well goes dry - ideally, enough time that I'd notice it before it's entirely drained out)
Of course, for you, you'll probably want to increase the size of each rez by a multiple of 5.
