midwest growers unite

[DeoXy]

Deo, Brah, I aint got nuttin doing ATM, been an OTR truck driver and fooled around back in 06-7 just enough to see that I was not home enough, and the wife just does not love the Gang. enough to help out when I was gone, so its all on hold. have a GOOD friend who got set up, recently, and in the last year this Mid-Iowa task force has popped 6-8 grow ops.1 had 3 houses.

My buddy that got set up was
slniging, and has for the better part of 20yrs.
Untill I find out HOW LEO is working I aint going to be starting over.

I have Family in S.Colorado, so when I can make the trip I do Ok when I get Home.

I am however in the prosscess of building an indoor Aquaponic Veggie Garden.
I bought some seeds today, that I should be starting this weekend.

I wiil probably be starting a thread over in the Gardening section soon.

Peace; Twisted

Cool pintos.. Good luck bro, if you need anything feel free to hollar at your midwest brothers.. and yea deff. be careful.. I run 1 600watter in a 8sqf tent so I'm like the little fish in my area.. but big busts happen all the time.. ppl around here get very greedy and careless and that's what ends up happening 99% of the time.. + IL is a shitty place to get caught w/ their mandatory min. sentencing depending on the case.

As much as I love growing and smoking I wouldn't hesitate for one sec to rip everything down with no trace.. sucks to lose fine genetics but your freedom is worth 100x more IMO.

 

[1TWISTEDTRUCKER]

I started that Aquaponic thread in the General Gardening section.
I am fighting with My comp. ATM trying to get some pics moved around.
I am a VERY LOW Tek Redneck,, indeed. lol.

Peace; 1TT

 

[dj.scotfree]

Whats up everyone! Looking great... far from "MIDZ" in the MIDWEST... Looking DANK! Nice to see some of the old faces and many new ones reppin' the Midwest hard! Love & miss u all! Gonna try to post some pics soon.. Peace. DJSF

 

[DeoXy]

This heat hitting the midwest is seriously turning me into a basement pasty LOL.. I think about having to go outside to do things and I question the importance of that task, it hit 103F today.. give me back the cold n snow(jk) .. but seriously tho hope everyone's doing good.. stay cool amigos!

 

[TerpeneDream]

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Nice! Is that a Steve Sizelove air-trap piece?

Here's mine...

 

[Bababooey]

Deoxy, the KQR looks very frosty and hairy. You have a smoke report?

Finally the heat's broken, how's everyone's outdoor doing? Survived the heat wave?

Terpene, what's an air trap bowl?

 

[TerpeneDream]

Well, looks like I should of read Maximos post a little better!

Bababooey - Air trap refers to the little silvery dots you see all over my pipe, and at the base of Maximos tube. They are in fact little traps of air (I think (assume), lol). Precision no doubt...

Maximo- That's cool you know him! I surely do hope he is recognized as one of the greats. This airtrap line is one of my favorite collections that I have ever seen. Beautiful, Detailed, Unique. I bought mine in Ohio, but have seen them as far as Co and maybe Florida (hazy memory there ).

Kinda cool how I came about mine..I was at the local headshop after hours one night when they were recieving a shipment of pipes. Thousands and thousands of pipes were there. I had the extremely cool privilege of helping the store pick out pieces from the distributors cases! This is the one is choose. Distributors price written in sharpen right on the bowl. I paid cost + tax, that's it. It's still my favorite piece...

 

[sturgeongeneral]

Here's the first of the reserva og
to come down

 

[farmdalefurr]

anyone hip to any good head shops in Chicago?

 

[RespectGreen]

supposedly one of the best is in Chicago I can not think of the name though, I know that Adam G said most of his work is on sale there, and a lot of other high end cool stuff

 

[ILL-IN-GROWER]

corner of belmont and clark, best head shops and a fun area to check out. walk north on clark, my favorite is 'secrets'. best selection and quality. If you can't find it there, you probably won't find it at the others. Such as: 'the smoke shop' is across the street. I think another was south on clark, 'pipes and stuff'. All in the same area, and some other kinky shit if you're into that

I haven't been for a few years, but I imagine it's all still buzzing like it always is

 

[d3cryption]

its a shop by north ave / damen. across from the pawn shop.

 

[Bababooey]

Secrets is nice but their Roor selection are all American made Roors, not the German kind. I guess they produce it under license from the German company. FYI.

 

[DeoXy]

Be prepared to haggle down on belmont n clark.. don't fall for their "20% off" B.S. sales pitch.. its more like we marked up all our glass 20% and just want to make u think ur getting a deal.. always try to wheel n deal in those shops for a better price... I've never paid full retail down there.. I go to these 2 shops down in wicker park when I'm looking to buy that have nice local blown glass for good prices.. there's also a few good shops out in the surrounding 'burbs also with better prices but not the biggest selection (sight n' sound and roxy's to name a couple).

~~~

@ Baba - I'll have a smoke report in about a week after my probation drop.. stuffs been curing for almost a month now

 

[Bababooey]

Also, a lot of these shops get their glass, or some of it at least, from gorilla glass . c o m.
It's a glass wholesaler, all chinese made stuff probably but for the most part the quality seems ok and the prices are a fraction of what the shops are. But you have to order at least a dozen items & 150 dollars worth; so i usually buy in bulk, maybe one or two more expensive items and then fill the remaining order with bowls, lighters, grinders what have you to make it a dozen. They have a big selection too, vapes, beeline, stash boxes, etc etc.

Can't believe that youre growing but not smoking, Deoxy, well once you're off paper you'll be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor...

 

[azmeds]

Not sure if it was mentioned, but check out MADE gallery down by UIC, they always have some great stuff.

 

[touringfunkband]

Not sure if it was mentioned, but check out MADE gallery down by UIC, they always have some great stuff.

Agreed! Heard Slop and Zach P were making an appearance there soon..

 

[farmdalefurr]

thanks for the suggestions everyone ! ! !

MADE did catch my eye. from the pics/info/reviews I found about them, it seems like a decent place

ill be in Chicago for a day or 2 catching the Yanks vs. Sox game next week

im really only lookin for grassroots hats. id order order them online but im OCD about hats and like to try em b4 I buy em

I snagged a nice grassroots hat a few weeks ago at a head shop near me. the green cali bear hat

only thing is, its a shitty shop. high glass prices and only has about 6 different hats at a time. they also wont even order you the one you want (if your looking for a specific design)

 

[ILL-IN-GROWER]

Secrets, roxys and another are all owned by the same guy. And yes, haggle is a must, and cash is king!

Bababooey, that site is pretty awesome. Any reviews on how they ship (stealthy? sturdy packaging? no need to get too detailed) and customer service? I've needed a few miscellaneous items for a while now and they seem to have them all at dirt cheap prices.

Thanks

 

[Bababooey]

From what I recall, they're pretty stealthy, plain brown box with 'fragile' stickers on them.
The return address is a person's name, not 'gorilla glass'.
The packaging is sturdy enough, lots of bubble wrap taped around each item and bubble filler in between. Now that I recall, he does charge you a bit for S+H, maybe upwards of 20-30? Maybe more if you buy a lot of big water pipes. But if it gets to you safe and unbroken that's the most important thing i suppose.