Sun on my back; Dirt on my hands…

[ledo]

I have had issues trying that with males and females. They dont like to reveg and root at the same time. I have better luck with flowering cuts when I top them as I put them in the aero. It stops the flowering hormone in the growth tips I believe. Nice!

^ Exactly correct - You’re supposed to pull off the flowers but I’m just too lazy and enjoy the experience - that said rooting & initiating reveg at same time is efficient when it works - 90% + what goes in there eventually roots out ime, it’s very rare I’m taking cuts off vegetative plants so I’m good with that success %, I still am very surprised to see that male root out - the proof it worked will be when he starts growing in the soil - it’s not often plants surprise me anymore but I’m very appreciative & humbled when they do

 

[LostTribe]

^ Exactly correct - You’re supposed to pull off the flowers but I’m just too lazy and enjoy the experience - that said rooting & initiating reveg at same time is efficient when it works - 90% + what goes in there eventually roots out ime, it’s very rare I’m taking cuts off vegetative plants so I’m good with that success %, I still am very surprised to see that male root out - the proof it worked will be when he starts growing in the soil - it’s not often plants surprise me anymore but I’m very appreciative & humbled when they do

I never pull off flowers just cut the top part of the stem off of a large enough cutting.

 

[ledo]

Fire !

 

[ledo]

 

[ledo]

Just got off phone with Quarry, 7 tons of stone coming which hopefully will wrap up this series of projects (14 tons sand & 7 tons rock, good little period of working out BF it gets cold out - truth is shoveling & moving it is the easy part), Couple few hundred lbs rolls of turf getting delivered this week too, once that’s all done I can then focus on regular fall work - man am I behind - but do have a new 450SF GH & tons of other projects that have been on a list for years nearing completion….

I let 5-7lbs of harvested plants cook for nearly a month in the GH and a couple plants start to rot away outside (outside for me really is seed making & experiment focused, for now), it’s always the seeds or where leafs die back it starts; that and flies laying them orange worm fuckers too, or at least I think it’s flies….

Sure could use a good hard frost to knock shit back, Durlumbo could go another 4-6 weeks + if allowed to…

 

[ledo]

Waiting on deliveries & it’s wet out, perfect time for roasting - I’ve been doing 700g green bean batches lately which fills up nicely my “Kilogram” coffee storage containers - I can do @10lbs in under 90 minutes vs what used to take me all day with the old hot top, which was a wonderful machine for over a decade for us, I cleaned her up so nicely she looks like new, but the Aillo is our Roaster nowadays, what a beauty - makes this process easy, enjoyable & the results are just fabulous, there isn’t a store @ within 150 miles that can compete with us - but our business is friends & family only & always free - - so how could they !

You see coffee makes everything better !

Delivery 1 all good, two more to go

7 tons #2 Round - lol as the guy is writing up my receipt it’s like a light bulb goes off, he looks up - do I smell roasting coffee - I’m like yes you do! - there’s a large commercial Roaster @ here he used to make deliveries to so knew the smell

For you @Rgd

 

[ledo]

Busy morning so far, 10lbs roasting just finished my wife gets a panicked call from delivery drivers #2 asking if we’ve got a fork lift & if we’re a business - lol; great just the anxiety I needed….. yeah right, I’ll take this shit in stride, like I didn’t have a plan….

lol, I guess each one really does weigh 300lbs, at least I’ve got a plan for now, working these alone is gonna be somethin fun….

Now where the FK is driver #3

 

[ledo]

Good day of work, ordered just the proper amount of stone to have 3, maybe 4 extra barrows for areas outside my project zone, just looked at the slip net was actually just under 15,000 lbs, guy always overfills - glad he did in this case I need all that’s left

These turf rolls are huge

 

[Jenn]

It's Miller time!

 

[ledo]

Some garden potato & broccoli soup, fresh homemade bread in the Dutch oven, bit seared pepperoni on top

So good on a cold rainy day

 

[ledo]

What a plant - Ghost chilies anyone…..

 

[ledo]

Load #3 free large stones from back entrance area of our neighborhood, pretty sure my youngest is tired of walking back in the woods & watching me dig up stone but nobody else @ to watch her so…

That big one had to weigh close to what I do - lucky I didn’t get a hernia, yet - Ha! I still gotta put all these loads in place -

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I haven’t changed water in this for like 5 months - Holy shit did it need it ! Soaked filters in vinegar too & man did they need it also

 

[ledo]

What a perfect working day - got up to 80f & for @ here that’s fantastic this time of year

 

[ledo]

Lots done this past month, nearly did a million steps in past 30 days, like Forrest G @ here - ha

Blueberries are beautiful

Old compost pit - potatoes pit now

 

[ledo]

My wife’s been in Africa for too long on work trip now, I’ve been pulling triple duty a week now, few more days light at end of tunnel is shining - ha !

Where’s my invite wtf !?

 

[ledo]

Speaking of Wtf….

Lots confusion out there this fall

 

[oldmaninbc]

Lots done this past month, nearly did a million steps in past 30 days, like Forrest G @ here - ha

Blueberries are beautiful

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You have put a tremendous amount of effort into your yard and it looks fantastic.

 

[ledo]

You have put a tremendous amount of effort into your yard and it looks fantastic.

Thank you; it’s cool looking at real grass vs the turf side by side, turf products sure are a hell of a lot nicer these days than only a couple decades ago - RE the lawn I fertilize once or sometimes 2x’s a year, just the nice bags of Scott’s weed & feed; I think the key is mowing often & using a push mower, that & not letting the dogs shit sit forever burning up the yard

 

[Lester Beans]

Thank you; it’s cool looking at real grass vs the turf side by side, turf products sure are a hell of a lot nicer these days than only a couple decades ago - RE the lawn I fertilize once or sometimes 2x’s a year, just the nice bags of Scott’s weed & feed; I think the key is mowing often & using a push mower, that & not letting the dogs shit sit forever burning up the yard

Your grass would fit in on the golf course I operate. It's beautiful, well done. Weed and feed, add water is all you need. Keep the dew off as I know you are in NY and we have the dew lol.

Your projects all look awesome and I admire your abilities!

 

[ledo]

Thanks brother; Where’s the course you manage more specifically if you don’t mind?

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Planting some Garlic today, trying different spacing arrangements. Large potent cloves like always, I only plant from 6 clove bulbs these days & a handful of 4 cloves bulbs, after a decade + of selecting on these it’s amazing what you can achieve, incredible potent flavor but huge cloves thus much easier to work with…

Just under 5lbs of cloves

Sometimes you’ve just gotta make your perfect tool for the deed, actually often