REAL impressive thread bro. Love the setup.
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My 9k Adventure
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FoothillsFarmer
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"You must spread..." looks beautiful bro... I'm glad it saved you all of the pain that comes along with trimmin
mountain kind
Member
I love my trim pro original. Lets me take my set down in 20 hours.
freedominphilly
Active member
Interesting update.
Interesting update.
Some pretty cool and weird things have happened since I last updated the thread. First, let me say what's up to all my peeps.
cellardweller - Yeah bro, money in the bank, indeed. I'm glad I got it.
accessndx - I'm sure you'll like the trimbox, even for your personal. Take a cola, roll it over the top a few times and hang it. Done and Done.
Tonatiuh - Sup bro. I am very happy with what it did with the popcorn, however, I don't think I'll run the nicer, bigger buds through it. As the popcorn has been drying, it's taken on kind of a "commersh-ie" kinda look. I don't mind that with the small pieces, but I don't want my nice buds looking like that, plus it would probably end up hurting my pocketbook when my friend sees them, if you know what I mean.
Kush09 - Cool man, thanks! Glad I've been able to hold your attention for this long
johnipedestran - Yeah F.A.M., I was actually considering that option before I bought it. I have a few friends out here on the street that might be interested in renting it from me. I was thinking $250 a day is a very fair price for what it does for the popcorn. By all means though, bring over that trashbag, we'll go to town on it!
LiLWaynE - What's up homie. Stop embarrassing me, I'm not the man, YOU'RE THE MAN. I'm glad you're still hanging out, my friend.
swampdank - It's about time muhfuggah! Now let me go find where you're hiding
MeltingPOT - Hey buddy, thanks for stopping in. If I end up staying in this spot, the setup will get much nicer. I'm on the fence about staying here however, more on that in a second.
FoothillsFarmer - Me too!!!
mountain kind - Yeah bud, I remember talking to you in chat about it while I was waiting for mine to come. If you have the money and a lot of herb to trim, it's worth the money.
So check this shit out. Some people have been telling me that my electric bills have been pretty cheap and that I'm lucky to have such low bills. My partner, who some of you have gathered by now is a quite handful, has been a little paranoid about it. Thursday night I decided to go look at the meter to see how fast that dial was spinning (we still have one of those analog ones). Back when we first started, I looked at it when all the lights were on and it was spinning like MAD. Well, when I went out there Thursday, with all the lights on, the dial was DEAD STILL. Not even moving a little bit. With 11.6k burning and fans blowing, my meter was not recording A THING. I thought it was weird, cool, interesting, but a definite potential problem that had to be dealt with just as soon as possible.
So I called my partner and told him. He immediately begins FREAKING OUT. I didn't try to calm him down or anything, I just got off the phone and let him deal with it on his own. His mind goes off on the most insane tangents when he gets on this paranoia thing and there is just no talking or reasoning with him.
I went over the next morning and he had not slept all night. He hadn't eaten. He was a fucking mess. All over a faulty meter. The man was totally convinced that by the coming Tuesday (4 days), the shit was absolutely going to hit the fan and he was gonna go to jail if we didn't get the plants and equipment out of there. That is no exaggeration.
So now I'm thinking I have to take down this whole fucking room with 1-2 weeks still left to go before harvest. That's a really huge cut since I had already had to yank 50 herms. Plus, I SMOKE THIS WEED. I didn't want to have to smoke premature pot for the next 2 and half months because this nutjob was overreacting. I was convinced we definitely had more than 4 days and that we could even finish the crop.
He was acting as though the electric company had more authority to come into your house to turn off the main breaker switch to change THEIR faulty meter, than Law Enforcement would if they had an airtight search warrant.
So.
Later that day in the afternoon, he drove over to look at the meter. At this time, we have 2.6k running and a few fans blowing.
The meter was spinning again. Haha, what!?!
So we meet up that night, and sure enough, he has calmed down and is much more rational. Plus, he feels better that the meter is just intermittantly faulty and not completely broken. He now feels we have more than 4 days before we go to jail for the rest of our lives.
All the lights are on and I'm taking care of ladies and he and I are just shooting the shit. I say, "Yo man, you should go check the meter and see if it's still spinning."
He goes and checks and comes back in. The fucker has STOPPED SPININING again!!! WTF? So let me get this right? Our electric meter stops working at night when all of our 11.6kW of lights are burning, and resumes normal operation during the day, when minimal electricity is being used, and also when the meter reader would be around to check it? How fucking crazy is that.
So just to see, the next day in the afternoon, I went to take care of the moms and vegg plants, and I checked the meter. Hahaha, the fucker was spinning away just as it should be. And last night when I went to take care of shit, the meter had stopped again.
We think that when all the lights are on and that dial starts spinning real fast, it spins so fast that the gears that the dial turns to move the dials to record the used electricity jam up and get locked up, until the lights go off and the dial isn't trying to spin so fast and the gears go back and stay on track. If you can understand that ramble.
Pretty weird stuff. But my partner is really driving me nuts with his shit. He's a newb at doing illegal things. Again, he's 60 years old, led a straight life his whole life, and now he's jumped head first into a life of crime.
I'm not so sure I want to deal with it anymore. Every 3-6 weeks I have to deal with some issue he's having about the operation.
So anyway. Friday afternoon I chilled with a buddy of mine up in Brooklyn for the first time. It was a real cool sesh, I met his brother and his bro's room mate, all of them really great people. We puffed down some bubble hash I brought up and introduced them all to hot hits. We talked about growing weed and making hash and ate pizza and had just a real chill time. And he gave me a gift. A really really really nice gift. I took a picture of it when I got home:
If you can't make it out, in the bags are cuttings, and in the cup is an actual rooted plant. In the bags the cuttings include:
The White
Massachusetts Super Skunk
Uk Cheese
Kyle Kushman's Strawberry Cough
Uptown Haze #A
Uptown Haze #B
Donkey Dick
and
Toxic Lemon
The rooted plant in the cup is Dabney Blueberry.
Wow, I feel so lucky to have these. From the moment I read about Dabney, I fell in love and just had to have her. Now I do. And she's rooted!!!
So whether or not I decide to stay with the partner and do another run here in the Adventure, things are gonna get really exciting in FIPs life really soon.
Plus I got a PM yesterday from a kind F.A.M.I.L.Y. member that he can send me out a cutting of that awesome Mango Haze this week.
Wow, great hazes in my garden. I would have never thunk it.
Thank you so much guys!!!
So, for those of you who don't like reading or don't have the attention span for it, here are some pics for ya and everyone else.
They're getting close, but still a little way's off. A little longer than I would have liked, but I'm still happy. They aren't too, too bad for my first run of them. A little dialing in on some of them would make em much nicer for sure, but I'm not complaining.
54 days in:
64 days in...Probably almost another week or more to go for these first two phenos:
(kinda looks like mite spots, but it's just a nute def.)
And not too too much longer before this one gets pulled, 64 days as well:
So that's it for now. Update soon. Thanks for checking my shit out. Have a great one!
Interesting update.
Some pretty cool and weird things have happened since I last updated the thread. First, let me say what's up to all my peeps.
cellardweller - Yeah bro, money in the bank, indeed. I'm glad I got it.
accessndx - I'm sure you'll like the trimbox, even for your personal. Take a cola, roll it over the top a few times and hang it. Done and Done.
Tonatiuh - Sup bro. I am very happy with what it did with the popcorn, however, I don't think I'll run the nicer, bigger buds through it. As the popcorn has been drying, it's taken on kind of a "commersh-ie" kinda look. I don't mind that with the small pieces, but I don't want my nice buds looking like that, plus it would probably end up hurting my pocketbook when my friend sees them, if you know what I mean.
Kush09 - Cool man, thanks! Glad I've been able to hold your attention for this long
johnipedestran - Yeah F.A.M., I was actually considering that option before I bought it. I have a few friends out here on the street that might be interested in renting it from me. I was thinking $250 a day is a very fair price for what it does for the popcorn. By all means though, bring over that trashbag, we'll go to town on it!
LiLWaynE - What's up homie. Stop embarrassing me, I'm not the man, YOU'RE THE MAN. I'm glad you're still hanging out, my friend.
swampdank - It's about time muhfuggah! Now let me go find where you're hiding
MeltingPOT - Hey buddy, thanks for stopping in. If I end up staying in this spot, the setup will get much nicer. I'm on the fence about staying here however, more on that in a second.
FoothillsFarmer - Me too!!!
mountain kind - Yeah bud, I remember talking to you in chat about it while I was waiting for mine to come. If you have the money and a lot of herb to trim, it's worth the money.
So check this shit out. Some people have been telling me that my electric bills have been pretty cheap and that I'm lucky to have such low bills. My partner, who some of you have gathered by now is a quite handful, has been a little paranoid about it. Thursday night I decided to go look at the meter to see how fast that dial was spinning (we still have one of those analog ones). Back when we first started, I looked at it when all the lights were on and it was spinning like MAD. Well, when I went out there Thursday, with all the lights on, the dial was DEAD STILL. Not even moving a little bit. With 11.6k burning and fans blowing, my meter was not recording A THING. I thought it was weird, cool, interesting, but a definite potential problem that had to be dealt with just as soon as possible.
So I called my partner and told him. He immediately begins FREAKING OUT. I didn't try to calm him down or anything, I just got off the phone and let him deal with it on his own. His mind goes off on the most insane tangents when he gets on this paranoia thing and there is just no talking or reasoning with him.
I went over the next morning and he had not slept all night. He hadn't eaten. He was a fucking mess. All over a faulty meter. The man was totally convinced that by the coming Tuesday (4 days), the shit was absolutely going to hit the fan and he was gonna go to jail if we didn't get the plants and equipment out of there. That is no exaggeration.
So now I'm thinking I have to take down this whole fucking room with 1-2 weeks still left to go before harvest. That's a really huge cut since I had already had to yank 50 herms. Plus, I SMOKE THIS WEED. I didn't want to have to smoke premature pot for the next 2 and half months because this nutjob was overreacting. I was convinced we definitely had more than 4 days and that we could even finish the crop.
He was acting as though the electric company had more authority to come into your house to turn off the main breaker switch to change THEIR faulty meter, than Law Enforcement would if they had an airtight search warrant.
So.
Later that day in the afternoon, he drove over to look at the meter. At this time, we have 2.6k running and a few fans blowing.
The meter was spinning again. Haha, what!?!
So we meet up that night, and sure enough, he has calmed down and is much more rational. Plus, he feels better that the meter is just intermittantly faulty and not completely broken. He now feels we have more than 4 days before we go to jail for the rest of our lives.
All the lights are on and I'm taking care of ladies and he and I are just shooting the shit. I say, "Yo man, you should go check the meter and see if it's still spinning."
He goes and checks and comes back in. The fucker has STOPPED SPININING again!!! WTF? So let me get this right? Our electric meter stops working at night when all of our 11.6kW of lights are burning, and resumes normal operation during the day, when minimal electricity is being used, and also when the meter reader would be around to check it? How fucking crazy is that.
So just to see, the next day in the afternoon, I went to take care of the moms and vegg plants, and I checked the meter. Hahaha, the fucker was spinning away just as it should be. And last night when I went to take care of shit, the meter had stopped again.
We think that when all the lights are on and that dial starts spinning real fast, it spins so fast that the gears that the dial turns to move the dials to record the used electricity jam up and get locked up, until the lights go off and the dial isn't trying to spin so fast and the gears go back and stay on track. If you can understand that ramble.
Pretty weird stuff. But my partner is really driving me nuts with his shit. He's a newb at doing illegal things. Again, he's 60 years old, led a straight life his whole life, and now he's jumped head first into a life of crime.
I'm not so sure I want to deal with it anymore. Every 3-6 weeks I have to deal with some issue he's having about the operation.
So anyway. Friday afternoon I chilled with a buddy of mine up in Brooklyn for the first time. It was a real cool sesh, I met his brother and his bro's room mate, all of them really great people. We puffed down some bubble hash I brought up and introduced them all to hot hits. We talked about growing weed and making hash and ate pizza and had just a real chill time. And he gave me a gift. A really really really nice gift. I took a picture of it when I got home:
If you can't make it out, in the bags are cuttings, and in the cup is an actual rooted plant. In the bags the cuttings include:
The White
Massachusetts Super Skunk
Uk Cheese
Kyle Kushman's Strawberry Cough
Uptown Haze #A
Uptown Haze #B
Donkey Dick
and
Toxic Lemon
The rooted plant in the cup is Dabney Blueberry.
Wow, I feel so lucky to have these. From the moment I read about Dabney, I fell in love and just had to have her. Now I do. And she's rooted!!!
So whether or not I decide to stay with the partner and do another run here in the Adventure, things are gonna get really exciting in FIPs life really soon.
Plus I got a PM yesterday from a kind F.A.M.I.L.Y. member that he can send me out a cutting of that awesome Mango Haze this week.
Wow, great hazes in my garden. I would have never thunk it.
Thank you so much guys!!!
So, for those of you who don't like reading or don't have the attention span for it, here are some pics for ya and everyone else.
They're getting close, but still a little way's off. A little longer than I would have liked, but I'm still happy. They aren't too, too bad for my first run of them. A little dialing in on some of them would make em much nicer for sure, but I'm not complaining.
54 days in:
64 days in...Probably almost another week or more to go for these first two phenos:
(kinda looks like mite spots, but it's just a nute def.)
And not too too much longer before this one gets pulled, 64 days as well:
So that's it for now. Update soon. Thanks for checking my shit out. Have a great one!
FoothillsFarmer
Member
lookin dank brother... I swear I come to this thread so I can laugh about your partner... I keep picturing this Andy Griffith type that you've corrupted... He'll be rollin 24's when yer done with him... LMAO! anyway, glad to know that everything is workin out... CONGRATS ON THE GIFTS!!! You can't ask for much more than that, except for maybe a wheelbarrow full of Benjis... Stay Up, Grow Safe and Holla at cha boy!
~FF~
~FF~
C
cellardweller
nice gifts! seems everyone out here on the left side is runnin similar strains..
check yer pm's..and get that meter in check too!
~cd
check yer pm's..and get that meter in check too!
~cd
as I said before this is just fucking like Breaking Bad.....
you gotta watch that show
i was a kiddin bou the trim pro---i would never let my girls go through a machine. i really liked your line about the fact that you have to smoke the pot you grow.
peace
jip
you gotta watch that show
i was a kiddin bou the trim pro---i would never let my girls go through a machine. i really liked your line about the fact that you have to smoke the pot you grow.
peace
jip
C
cellardweller
oh no shit johhny! great comparison..
im not 100% sure, but if the meter spins too fast for its own good, it stops.
to keep the plate from spinning off its supports.
meters do go bad, but usually once they crap out, they dont work again.
tell your partner, if the power company has to change your meter, they do it from the outside.(assuming your meter is outside)
they dont shut off any breakers.
id try to schedule it when the 12k isnt on tho.
that would be a HUGE flash for the PC when they yank the meter.
do u run your lights off peak hours? (overnight)?
to keep the plate from spinning off its supports.
meters do go bad, but usually once they crap out, they dont work again.
tell your partner, if the power company has to change your meter, they do it from the outside.(assuming your meter is outside)
they dont shut off any breakers.
id try to schedule it when the 12k isnt on tho.
that would be a HUGE flash for the PC when they yank the meter.
do u run your lights off peak hours? (overnight)?
Fip,
Let me get this straight, so your basically getting free electricity at night because of a faulty box???
would the power company consider this power theft? I wonder how long it would take for them to figure this out? hmmm...
i dont need to see you go down for something so silly, so if thats the case, ya need to check that shit out ASAP!!!...
fill me in man, id like to learn a thing or two...
peace,
LW
Let me get this straight, so your basically getting free electricity at night because of a faulty box???
would the power company consider this power theft? I wonder how long it would take for them to figure this out? hmmm...
i dont need to see you go down for something so silly, so if thats the case, ya need to check that shit out ASAP!!!...
fill me in man, id like to learn a thing or two...
peace,
LW
freedominphilly
Active member
FoothillsFarmer - Holla!! Yeah, a wheelbarrow full of Benjis would be nice...the MegaMillion is up over 125M I think..I should play...Ah, how nice it would be to grow in a closet again...
cellardweller - Yeah dude, stoked on those gifts. I think we'll just ride this meter thing out until the end of this harvest. It's only a couple more weeks and the meter is working...just not all the time...for now.
johnipedestran - I tried getting the torrent for that show, but the tracker seemed fucked, I couldn't connect to any peers..My girl and I are almost through Trailer Park Boys and we need something new.
swampdank - Yeah bro, like a dream come true, getting that blue. You will certainly hear what I think of her. She's gonna get a lot of love from me.
cocktail frank - That's what we're thinking, about the meter spinning too fast, only we think the speed is causing one of the teeth to catch and lock up with one of the other gears...but if you know meters, I'd guess your hypothesis is correct. And I told him about the meter guy not necessarily having to come into the house. But when he gets in this mode, it's like trying to get a stubborn donkey to move...nothing you can say to him will mean anything...he goes to the absolute worst case scenario in his head and that becomes his mantra..
LiLWaynE - Yeah man, it would seem you have it straight. Free, at night, when all my lights are running. But charged as normal during the day. I can't see how we could really get into any trouble for it, as the meter is clearly not tampered with. It's the electric company's faulty equipment. Has nothing to do with us, ya know? As far how long it would take for them to figure it out - here's how I see it. So long as the meter spins during the day when the meter reader comes by, it looks to him like it's working. The number of kilowatt hours continue to change from month to month. During the day, to the meter reader, it would seem everything is normal. You know, until it stopped working altogether and the meter reader notices it isnt moving and notifies his office.
cellardweller - Yeah dude, stoked on those gifts. I think we'll just ride this meter thing out until the end of this harvest. It's only a couple more weeks and the meter is working...just not all the time...for now.
johnipedestran - I tried getting the torrent for that show, but the tracker seemed fucked, I couldn't connect to any peers..My girl and I are almost through Trailer Park Boys and we need something new.
swampdank - Yeah bro, like a dream come true, getting that blue. You will certainly hear what I think of her. She's gonna get a lot of love from me.
cocktail frank - That's what we're thinking, about the meter spinning too fast, only we think the speed is causing one of the teeth to catch and lock up with one of the other gears...but if you know meters, I'd guess your hypothesis is correct. And I told him about the meter guy not necessarily having to come into the house. But when he gets in this mode, it's like trying to get a stubborn donkey to move...nothing you can say to him will mean anything...he goes to the absolute worst case scenario in his head and that becomes his mantra..
LiLWaynE - Yeah man, it would seem you have it straight. Free, at night, when all my lights are running. But charged as normal during the day. I can't see how we could really get into any trouble for it, as the meter is clearly not tampered with. It's the electric company's faulty equipment. Has nothing to do with us, ya know? As far how long it would take for them to figure it out - here's how I see it. So long as the meter spins during the day when the meter reader comes by, it looks to him like it's working. The number of kilowatt hours continue to change from month to month. During the day, to the meter reader, it would seem everything is normal. You know, until it stopped working altogether and the meter reader notices it isnt moving and notifies his office.
awesome gifts yo.very nice selection....dude thats crazy about ur meter yo.if its the rotary bubble type meter,its just a big plug fam.if you can get a new one from them somehow all you have to do is turn the power off to the whole house,pull it and it will unplug and plug the new one in,turn back on power to the house....i use to know some peeps that had two of them and would unplug the real one everyfriday at like 7 at night (after elec. compnay hrs) and put in the spare for the weekend,plug in the real one sunday late at night, and they would get a free week of electricity a month LMAO,they didnt even grow or nothin yo just savin some dollas every month.lol...
well F.A.M. honestly ur partner dont sound like hes cut out for this shit yo.id drop him as soon as the crop is finished if it was me.set ur own shit up yo...hes too panicky on something that can be fixxed,sounds like if the shit ever really hit the fan hed sing like a fuckin bird....idk ur relationship with this kat,and i aint tryin to disrespect anyone you have love for yo.family,friends is all fine,but when doin what we do there aint no use for anyone around you that you have to second guess bro.including family or friends.
i think you will do better by urself yo.it easy as pie,and noone to argue with or blame when things arent right but myself.
good luck yo,sorry to ramble in here just my 2 pennies yo,peace-T-
well F.A.M. honestly ur partner dont sound like hes cut out for this shit yo.id drop him as soon as the crop is finished if it was me.set ur own shit up yo...hes too panicky on something that can be fixxed,sounds like if the shit ever really hit the fan hed sing like a fuckin bird....idk ur relationship with this kat,and i aint tryin to disrespect anyone you have love for yo.family,friends is all fine,but when doin what we do there aint no use for anyone around you that you have to second guess bro.including family or friends.
i think you will do better by urself yo.it easy as pie,and noone to argue with or blame when things arent right but myself.
good luck yo,sorry to ramble in here just my 2 pennies yo,peace-T-
freedominphilly
Active member
Tonatiuh - Hey, sup F.A.M. No disrespect taken at all with giving me your opinion on the partner. He MUST know it's coming. And he totally knows that this herb thing is a business relationship and whatever happens, has nothing to do with our friendship.
We'll still be friends after this and shit, if he wants, he can run the 4k he's got in his basement on his own...after I wipe my prints off the equipment :wink:
Crazy shit about your friends popping that meter off and putting the bad (good) one in, haha!
PS - your 2 pennies is worth a lot around here!
We'll still be friends after this and shit, if he wants, he can run the 4k he's got in his basement on his own...after I wipe my prints off the equipment :wink:
Crazy shit about your friends popping that meter off and putting the bad (good) one in, haha!
PS - your 2 pennies is worth a lot around here!
D
dirtdog
i think you're gonna really dig the white. i just finished my first run w/ her and she is my favorite for the moment.
U
unta
Wow thats some story there FiP. I'm sorry to keep hearing about the partner issues. Finish up with him and move on because you obviously know what you're doing
hey i had a similar problem with the electric company. when i first moved here, our meter was faulty and didnt take a single reading. they never charged us for any electricity that we got for free, we got about two months free running our 1400 watts on 12/12.
they installed a smart meter and my bill went up to 160 a month, of which 40 is gas, but if its the electical companies faulty equipment you should be safe. as long as you are not stealing electricity.
they installed a smart meter and my bill went up to 160 a month, of which 40 is gas, but if its the electical companies faulty equipment you should be safe. as long as you are not stealing electricity.
Wow man, crazy ass story.. Sounds to me you know what you want to do. That being break off from your partner and just grow a smaller crop yourself.. I couldnt blame you one bit either. But shit, those plants are lookin nice as hell.. And congrats on the gifts man.. Take it easy
I will finally speak.
I've been watching too long.
Everything looks amazing bro. Lovely environment you've given them and it shows! I cannot WAIT to see what you can do with those strains. The Uptown's especially.
I can't believe the flavor on that Sour Queen. You did it proper, that is for sure. And that melty mass? I can still taste it my dude. LMAO, the roommate had no idea what was going down and NEVER hit hash like that, or knew it was possible. When he walked in it reminded me of Fear and Loathing. "With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he'll never know." LOL. LMAO.
It's good to know there are growers putting it down properly. Taking care that shit is tight even on a larger level. It is the way it should be.
Enjoy them cuts man and holla if you ever need any damn thang....
Thanks for the bubble tips! I'm going to be "stirring soup" all weekend!
I've been watching too long.
Everything looks amazing bro. Lovely environment you've given them and it shows! I cannot WAIT to see what you can do with those strains. The Uptown's especially.
I can't believe the flavor on that Sour Queen. You did it proper, that is for sure. And that melty mass? I can still taste it my dude. LMAO, the roommate had no idea what was going down and NEVER hit hash like that, or knew it was possible. When he walked in it reminded me of Fear and Loathing. "With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he'll never know." LOL. LMAO.
It's good to know there are growers putting it down properly. Taking care that shit is tight even on a larger level. It is the way it should be.
Enjoy them cuts man and holla if you ever need any damn thang....
Thanks for the bubble tips! I'm going to be "stirring soup" all weekend!
