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Sittin in my shed....

Cuddles

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I did one in the seeds mafia competition last year and it was like medicinal candy, very resinous 👍
This was at day 44
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looks really great. It´s much larger than I had expected too. How many times did you top it and how long after planting?
Did you actually notice the coffee scent it´s said to have? If it doesn´t smell too much of weed it could be a decent choice for a balcony grow :)
 

mr.brunch

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looks really great. It´s much larger than I had expected too. How many times did you top it and how long after planting?
Did you actually notice the coffee scent it´s said to have? If it doesn´t smell too much of weed it could be a decent choice for a balcony grow :)
She was topped twice, at the third node then again at the next.. vegged in total for about 6.5 weeks…. Only grew one which smelled very fruity and medicinal so I can’t say about the coffee smell (only one I’ve had smelled of that was seedsman bubba kush)
Stank to high heaven so not a stealth strain
 

mr.brunch

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So far today it’s been cold this morning, then sunny and warm, then it rained and now it’s hailstones…. My little gorilla haze are taking a beating 😱
 

mr.brunch

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Our apple tree has finally given us a useful amount of fruit 🥳
First couple of years it was a couple of apples only, then it got badly damaged in stormy weather so had to be cut right back.
Now it’s twice my height and giving some lovely fruit
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Mrs B made a very good apple strudel today, just had some covered in custard…. Bloody lovely I must say, even better when you’ve grown the fruit 👍👍
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mr.brunch

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Got the damn flu or some kind of virus anyway.
Little miss b came home from school Friday with a sore throat and it developed from there, she’s been pretty sick over the weekend then last night I was aching all over and couldn’t sleep, hot then freezing cold, muscles all doing the stretchy flu thing … I was up at 4:30 as no point staying in bed.
Tonight I have had some painkillers and half a 5mg diazepam, and after a joint I’m hoping I’ll sleep 💤
 

mr.brunch

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what, no earthquakes or volcanoes ?....yet, lol. :oops:
Luckily not… it seems the weather has settled down again, quite warm now for the time of year… seems set fair for the rest of the week so hopefully I’ll get some garden work done tomorrow if I’m feeling better.
Little miss is back to school tomorrow so I’ll be able to get some bits done 👍

Nearly dark here, only 7:50pm … autumn is on the march… my favourite season
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armedoldhippy

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i guess i shouldn't joke about earthquakes OR volcanoes any more. places here that normally don't have earthquakes ARE having them, and volcanoes are acting up everywhere, it seems like. might as well brace ourselves for the plague of locusts next...maybe another potato famine...or... :unsure:
 

Cuddles

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i guess i shouldn't joke about earthquakes OR volcanoes any more. places here that normally don't have earthquakes ARE having them, and volcanoes are acting up everywhere, it seems like. might as well brace ourselves for the plague of locusts next...maybe another potato famine...or... :unsure:
or a corn /popcorn famine for one season. People can snack on other junk food whilst watching a movie :biggrin:
or better yet a junk food famine-this woud be great. Just imagine what it could do for peoples health! :p
 

GMT

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wasn´there a helicopter crash somewhere ? and something happened to a supermaret guy and his family - I can´t remember the story in detail. There was also this yacht which sunk more recently.
Oh yeah, there was. The we have the floods story going on in Italy, so flood is covered. Then you always the political scandal, which we've got with Starmers £100k of "gifts", what comes next, famines are normally a summer thing. Would say terrorist attack, but I'm counting two assassination attempts on the next USA president as covering that, hopefully. I think it's financial crisis next on the news merry-go-round. After a few decades of watching, the world starts to look like a scripted soap opera.
 

mr.brunch

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wasn´there a helicopter crash somewhere ? and something happened to a supermarket guy and his family - I can´t remember the story in detail. There was also this yacht which sunk more recently.
The yacht thing is a little suspicious 🤨 just about got away with massive fraud then dies on the same day his business partner dies in an unrelated accident….. yeah….
 

armedoldhippy

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or a corn /popcorn famine for one season.
i was just joking about another potato famine. then, yesterday, i noticed that my potato vines leaves had all fallen off, signalling harvest time. i dug and dug, and found...THREE (3) taters. :oops: the very biggest one might have been an inch and a half in diameter, the next one maybe an inch, and the smallest one was -maybe- an inch long, and no bigger around than a pencil...:cry:
 

mr.brunch

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i was just joking about another potato famine. then, yesterday, i noticed that my potato vines leaves had all fallen off, signalling harvest time. i dug and dug, and found...THREE (3) taters. :oops: the very biggest one might have been an inch and a half in diameter, the next one maybe an inch, and the smallest one was -maybe- an inch long, and no bigger around than a pencil...:cry:
Not a good outcome… I had to stop growing potatoes in the ground here because of wireworms and slugs… destroyed my crops each time.

Once the tomatoes are all done I have loads of good wood for burning 🔥 this year, and lots of rose and fir tree cutbacks
I always look forward to the end of year burn up 🤩
 

armedoldhippy

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I have loads of good wood for burning 🔥
my part-time job has me dealing with reclaimed/recycled lumber out of barns, torn down homes etc. i've burned more good oak/hickory in the last few months than i care to think about. :( but no more! i'm bringing home damn near a truck bed full every day or so now. much of this wood is over 50 yrs old, some a century. but it's been under roof and is killer stuff. come on, old man winter! show me what you got! :peek::whistling::biglaugh:
 

Cuddles

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i was just joking about another potato famine. then, yesterday, i noticed that my potato vines leaves had all fallen off, signalling harvest time. i dug and dug, and found...THREE (3) taters. :oops: the very biggest one might have been an inch and a half in diameter, the next one maybe an inch, and the smallest one was -maybe- an inch long, and no bigger around than a pencil...:cry:
I´m sorry to hear this, that must be really depressing :( Did they not get enough water or sunshine (or whatever) this year?

when I read your little potaoe famine quip I suddenly remembered this stand up show called `Laughs in the park´ . I had downloaded it years ago and it´s on my external harddrive.

One of the stand up comedians did a funny set about the irish famine (due to lack of potatoes) way,way back in time.
I thought I could post a link to cheer you up a bit BUT
I looked for it on youtube but didn´t even know his name,lol. But I remember that I recognized him from an episode of Father Ted.
So I checked my video files and his name is is Tommy Tiernan.
Perhaps there is a snippet of it on youtube after all. ???

I don´t know if it´s possible to upload the video file on this forum. It´s 850 MD after all. :(
 

Cuddles

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The yacht thing is a little suspicious 🤨 just about got away with massive fraud then dies on the same day his business partner dies in an unrelated accident….. yeah….
Who was he again? I can´t recall what he did for a living. I thought it was a union guy. I´m not sure why I thought that though lol
 
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