Deep Stoner Thoughts

[MrBungle]

I was doing some self reflection while looking in the mirror...



That was when I noticed that my vision of myself was continuous without any black outs (from a blink), but if I look at a computer screen I notice the minute blackout of a blink... I guess this would be the inside view, but f you were trying to catch yourself blinking externally via mirror.. that would be difficult as well...



I guess we could look at it from a personal perspective as well... where certain personality traits that we possess, can be viewed externally by a mirror or by someone else, that could be difficult to see in our own self....

 

[Weezard]

No problem for binocular folks.

Jus' blink 'em alternately and stitch it together in your head.
I li'l sativa helps.

 

[moose eater]

Like turning around really fast to try and catch your shadow moving without you. You know it's going on, but you just can't prove it yet...

 

[Weezard]

Like when my second grade teacher noticed blood on my ear and asked what happened to it.
I said as I walked away, "I bit it"
Took her about 3 beats to ask, "What!? How can you bite your own ear?"
Over my shoulder I snapped, " I stood on a chair."

 

[ozzieAI]

Like when my second grade teacher noticed blood on my ear and asked what happened to it.
I said as I walked away, "I bit it"
Took her about 3 beats to ask, "What!? How can you bite your own ear?"
Over my shoulder I snapped, " I stood on a chair."

i looked confused, smiled, giggled and then smiled again....

 

[Bud Green]

Started harvesting some nice, early finishers the other day...
As I was cutting the trees into manageable branches with hooks so I can hang 'em, I also do a pre-trim....All the fans and large bud leaves come off..
As I was sitting there with the Fiskar scissors I realized:

Unless you have trimmed weed before, you have no earthly idea how dang many leaves there are on a bush!

 

[St. Phatty]

I think Uber or Lyft should offer all passengers a gram of bud.

In the race to survive I would think some complementary Herb might make some companies more popular than others. Help with Revenues and all that !

 

[TrillOG]

Do you seperate frosted leaves from the mix or do you just lump them all and use the whole lot for a secondary product(hash, wax, shatter, RSO, etc..)?

Started harvesting some nice, early finishers the other day...
As I was cutting the trees into manageable branches with hooks so I can hang 'em, I also do a pre-trim....All the fans and large bud leaves come off..
As I was sitting there with the Fiskar scissors I realized:

Unless you have trimmed weed before, you have no earthly idea how dang many leaves there are on a bush!

 

[St. Phatty]

Do you seperate frosted leaves from the mix or do you just lump them all and use the whole lot for a secondary product(hash, wax, shatter, RSO, etc..)?

If you live near a Homeless encampment, just lay the bag of trim down quietly near them.

Let them spend their time sorting through it.

 

[TrillOG]

Multiple trims work for me like hooked on phonics.. frostless doesnt get the same respect as frosted..

 

[moose eater]

Here all fans with no sugar go into the 'burn bin', while any sugar trim goes into hash tumbling, sitting in 1-gallon zips until their properly dried ('springy dry, but not crumbly dry').

When I'm being more anal than not, I separate the trichs/trim from each strain, and tumble them separately, keeping separate 'blocks' of hash that are specific to each strain. When I'm out of energy these days, which is all-to-common, I just tumble them one after the other, letting the trichs mingle, then mix them together to get better combined, even representation, and then press them.

Tumbling, even with an automated tumbler with #100 screen, still leaves plenty of value in the sugar trim for either making butter or making oil, or a bit of both. Though making oil creates a whole 'nother level of 'mess' to clean up, so haven't done it in MANY years.

Stocked up on butter for now, too, so these days, after the hash/trichs is/are tumbled, it typically goes into the burn bin.

I can recall being on the ferry maybe 30 or so years ago, in SE Alaska, and talking with a grower out of Santa Cruz who wasn't into the uses of trim, and said he had garbage bags full of it, mostly filling his garage, and I saw the percentages of reclaimed trichs I get from 100 grams of my trim, dancing in my head, with my reclamation running anywhere from 5% to 13% return in glands over the years, dependent on the condition of my tumbler's screen, the strain involved, etc.

But I was younger, more positive, and with much greater energy and motivation back then, too.

 

[Bud Green]

I was outside doing some trimming today and I thought this:

Wouldn't it be nice if one of the really great seed breeders took a really great strain (or several of them)
and somehow bred them so that the petiole of all the leaves were perforated...

When harvest time came, all you would do is hang the bucked off branches until they reached the dryness level you prefer,
and then you would take those branches and shake them vigorously and all the fans and other leaves would just fall off at the perforations....

Wouldn't that be nice...

..

 

[St. Phatty]

I was outside doing some trimming today and I thought this:

Wouldn't it be nice if one of the really great seed breeders took a really great strain (or several of them)
and somehow bred them so that the petiole of all the leaves were perforated...
..

I would like to see them sold sort of like fish.

Buy a whole bud on the stem, pay by the gram.

Let the customer do the manicuring, they enjoy it the most.

sort of like how fish and chops are sold, under cellophane on a piece of white styrofoam, with a print-out that says how many grams.

that sucks environmentally so maybe a brown paper bag the right size.

But just one big bud on the stem.

All the bud fan leaves with trichomes that might normally be manicured and turned into a concentrate ?

heck a lot of smokers ENJOY rolling joints out of resiny bud leaves.

 

[MrBungle]

I'd guess it wouldn't take much to write a program that turns one of those robot kitchen assistant arms, into a garden tender with trim hand attachment.... that is sold separately of course

 

[Bud Green]

Or, if I could just hire this guy for a couple of hours every October..

..

 

[MrBungle]

Just make sure he doesn't start trimming your buds into animal shapes!! LOL.. You could just put a kief tumbler right under him, and go off to do your chores

 

[St. Phatty]

Finally backed up my hard drive.

I had about 1 TB of photographs and videos, from May 2018 to September 2019, that was un-backed up. Mostly animal pictures, and a whole bunch of out of focus bud shots.

One of the first times that I had a SEAMLESS back-up - no glitches.

Just drag & drop, with the one message about file names being too long.

I can't wish for you that your hard drive will never crash, but I can wish that your back-ups are slam-dunks.


What does a Solid State drive crash look like ?

One thing I've experienced since having an SSD as a boot & app drive, is Wordpad files going completely blank.

All the words disappear.

Definitely inconvenient.

I went back to the spinning kind of drive for file storage.

 

[moose eater]

This morning has piqued a repeated curiosity in some things I will probably never completely understand;

Alaska receives the same postage rates on flat-rate packages the rest of the USA receives. Why does a company with a unique bulb for an aging 4-wheeler want $24 in shipping & handling for a relatively small $22 headlight bulb? Who pays such outlandish rates, when said bulb will/can fit into a $5 to $7 flat-rate box?

and....

In looking at rural properties with larger tracts of acreage in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, on-line, with some of them dating back to the early 1900s, and admittedly requiring a lot of sifting wheat from chaff re. past maintenance, outdated/sub-code wiring or plumbing, none the less, this was cold country back in the older times. Why would ANY thinking being put plumbing in exterior walls (as opposed to interior walls), in KNOWN cold country, and especially in places that date back to the days before state-of-the-art insulation materials, and even before the introduction of double-wall construction and/or vapor barriers?

Sometimes I'm befuddled by our 'technologically advanced, thinking species,' and the decisions we've made...

Frankly, I often think the Druids had far greater common sense, giving credence to my thoughts re. de-evolution being the way of our walk as a society, culture, species, etc.

Plumbing in exterior walls in cold country??!! Madness!! Madness, I say!!

 

[St. Phatty]

Sometimes Cannabis growing reminds me of an Indy 500.

I had 2 Indica's on the deck near the swimming pool in 32 gallon pots.

1 of them got an early lead in terms of height, so she is Indica 1.

Then the short one caught up & totally lapped Indica 1, but is stuck with the name Indica 2. Totally lapped in terms of visible trichomes & bud mass.

The first one with mold that forced harvest was Indica 2. I cut off the main buds and expect her to keep "doing her thing" - packing on resin.

So Indica 2 is still in the lead, but Indica 1 is now catching up. Getting more resin, more visible trichomes, plus she is taller and now heavier.

So it's sort of like Indica 1 was 2 laps ahead but is now only 1 lap ahead.


Meanwhile on the back porch I have the smaller plants.

The runt that was totally at the back of the pack at the beginning of the season, and then got the 3 inches of Char, caught up and passed her 3 sisters. Possibly more resin and perhaps THC etc. than Indica 1 on the other deck.

But the other Indica on the back porch, is going straight Indica, no signs of Sativa nothing. She could do something at the last minute.


And as far as Sativa's, they're not exactly train wrecks - I wish they were Train Wreck.

The 8+ feet tall Sativa on the pool deck is getting some resin. She is by far the tallest.

But I don't have the temptation to smoke her. So she may end up being deer food.


As far as the Sativa's on the back deck, one of them the chickens have almost finished eating. The other back deck Sativa has about 2 days to do something, show more trich's that is.


So it's a little like the Indy 500 except in this race, you feed the slower cars to the animals

Indica 1 playing catch up.

 

[moose eater]

Do your chickens lay fewer eggs, or produce more slowly after eating Indicas, versus Sativas?