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[Unca Walt]

HEY!! Looks like Floriduh may be the very first state to make gold and silver legal tender.

Individual US States push for gold and silver legalization

BATON ROUGE, La. (May 15, 2024) – Today, the Louisiana House unanimously passed a bill that would make gold and silver legal tender in the state. Sen. Mark Abraham filed Senate Bill 232 (SB232) on March 1. Under the proposed law, “any gold or silver coin, specie or bullion issued by any state...

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[Putembk]

Klinger was my favorite MASH character

I liked them all. Bet I watched each episode a half a dozen times over the years.

 

[oldmaninbc]

What was your mom's favorite pie to bake? Apple? Did it have the lattices on it? I like all pie

Mom made different fruit pies and sometimes a cream pie. She spent a number of years perfecting her pie making skills. If she wanted a lattice crust topping she could do it. Generally she made a traditional 2 crust pie.
I can still imagine eating mom's pies and pushing the fork into the crust and the crust and fragments flying everywhere.
If only I could make such a flaky crust.
Maybe I'm too flaky, could be.

One day I'm going to eat pie with every meal, everyday.

In my later teen years I use to go to a Chinese restaurant and the owner, she made a coconut cream pie that I remember to this day. It was perfect and tasted so damn good.

I like pie too, a lot!!!

hope all is well with you DB

 

[Putembk]

Topping vs Fim topping....


There are several different high-stress training techniques that you can do on your cannabis plant in order to achieve a higher yield. Two of the more popular techniques are topping and FIMing. What’s the difference? In this article I’ll break it down for you.

First, know that a cannabis plant flowers in the same pattern as a lot of other plants do. The flowers on the main stem (aka main cola) see the most light at the top and therefore bud development is the biggest and densest. The side stems typically have smaller buds and are often less dense. The goal with any plant training (such as topping and FIMing) is to trick the plant into developing multiple main stems that all have equal-sized colas and dense buds. It’s highly recommended that both of these techniques be done in the vegetative stage only and preferable early in the vegetative stage. The plant should have grown at least it’s 4th node before topping or FIMing.

Now let’s talk about topping. Topping is when you cut off or pinch off the top of the plant just above one of the plant’s nodes. Remove the entire little bush of new top growth completely and leave behind only the stem below plus the growth tips. The result is that each growth tip will grow into a new stem that will grow diagonally; one stem becomes two. Eventually, these stems will really thicken up. You can even repeat this process higher up on the same plant to turn two colas into four.

Next is FIMing. FIM stands for, “fuck I missed.” Yes, that’s actually what it stands for. Funny right? Where did the term FIM originate from? Apparently, a grower once tried to top a plant by hand and accidentally left behind about 10% of that new growth that he was supposed to remove completely. In other words, he pinched it off slightly higher than he should have. What he discovered is that this high-stress training technique is actually less stressful to the plant than traditional topping. What he also realized is that it resulted in four colas from one. This accident turned out to be a success! One thing to note, it’s both easy and recommended that when FIMing, you pinch off rather than cut the new growth with a blade. Pinching freehand can have all sorts of interesting offshoot results.

Both Topping and FIMing can be very beneficial for creating more colas. Although, I’d like to point out that neither of these techniques are my favorite method for generating several large colas on a single plant. My favorite method is low-stress training which is simply bending the branches on the plant down so other branches can grow towards the light and create an even canopy. We’ll cover low-stress training in another article. Do you top or FIM your cannabis plants? Let me know your training technique by leaving a comment below.




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[bigsur51]

it could be done and it may have happened more than once

 

[oldmaninbc]

Oh my word, I was able to sing along with the song, remembering many of the words.

 

[SubGirl]

Topping to me means removing the middle meristem after about the fifth node, which will force the lateral branches out faster and further. Fimming is cutting the flower as it forms and removing about 60% of the greenery. If done properly for flowers will develop from where one was fimmed… The key here is, if done properly. I don’t do this, but from what I’ve read, I should.

I have pretty good luck with fimming. Usually doubles up my flowers on the top. I do both depending on the plant

 

[oldmaninbc]

Im one trapped in a man's body

I'm with GW on this one. I need more info.

 

[oldmaninbc]

I have pretty good luck with fimming. Usually doubles up my flowers on the top. I do both depending on the plant

Over 50 years of growing and I have never fimmed. With my shaky hands and poor eyesight I'd probably snip the whole thing and maybe my fingers.

hello and a very good day to you Sub

 

[Travis Kelcee]

hey there joker man the electrician , gots a question:

do I really need a washer on this?..


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Is that a real pic of your setup?

I'm not electrician but that looks like an electrical fire waiting to happen.

I'll wait until Joker weighs in.

 

[bigsur51]

never topped or fimmed outdoors

I wanted to see the natural growth of the plants

not that there’s anything wrong with it cause I’ve done it a lot on indoor grows

 

[bigsur51]

Is that a real pic of your setup?

I'm not electrician but that looks like an electrical fire waiting to happen.

I'll wait until Joker weighs in.

gotcha!..

 

[Travis Kelcee]

gotcha!..

I'm hoping you know not to touch or go near that when the genny is running?

 

[oldmaninbc]

Topping vs Fim topping....


There are several different high-stress training techniques that you can do on your cannabis plant in order to achieve a higher yield. Two of the more popular techniques are topping and FIMing. What’s the difference? In this article I’ll break it down for you.

First, know that a cannabis plant flowers in the same pattern as a lot of other plants do. The flowers on the main stem (aka main cola) see the most light at the top and therefore bud development is the biggest and densest. The side stems typically have smaller buds and are often less dense. The goal with any plant training (such as topping and FIMing) is to trick the plant into developing multiple main stems that all have equal-sized colas and dense buds. It’s highly recommended that both of these techniques be done in the vegetative stage only and preferable early in the vegetative stage. The plant should have grown at least it’s 4th node before topping or FIMing.

Now let’s talk about topping. Topping is when you cut off or pinch off the top of the plant just above one of the plant’s nodes. Remove the entire little bush of new top growth completely and leave behind only the stem below plus the growth tips. The result is that each growth tip will grow into a new stem that will grow diagonally; one stem becomes two. Eventually, these stems will really thicken up. You can even repeat this process higher up on the same plant to turn two colas into four.

Next is FIMing. FIM stands for, “fuck I missed.” Yes, that’s actually what it stands for. Funny right? Where did the term FIM originate from? Apparently, a grower once tried to top a plant by hand and accidentally left behind about 10% of that new growth that he was supposed to remove completely. In other words, he pinched it off slightly higher than he should have. What he discovered is that this high-stress training technique is actually less stressful to the plant than traditional topping. What he also realized is that it resulted in four colas from one. This accident turned out to be a success! One thing to note, it’s both easy and recommended that when FIMing, you pinch off rather than cut the new growth with a blade. Pinching freehand can have all sorts of interesting offshoot results.

Both Topping and FIMing can be very beneficial for creating more colas. Although, I’d like to point out that neither of these techniques are my favorite method for generating several large colas on a single plant. My favorite method is low-stress training which is simply bending the branches on the plant down so other branches can grow towards the light and create an even canopy. We’ll cover low-stress training in another article. Do you top or FIM your cannabis plants? Let me know your training technique by leaving a comment below.




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I have a limited growing height in my 60" tent. I don't like my tent but have had it since 2010 and will not buy a taller one because I'm too thrifty.
I like to top taller growing plants but like you Pute I prefer LST. I usually end up putting more plants in the tent than I should, so topping helps with that. However this time I killed most of my sprouts by dropping them on the floor. I've tried twice to start other seeds and for some reason nothing has sprouted. So, I have 3 good plants and one that has been traumatized a couple of times. I'm reluctant to grow it because when I grew a similar abused seedling last fall it turned hermi. Many on here said they didn't think the abused seedling was responsible for the hermi. After doing some reading I'm not sure what to think.
Sorry, got sidetracted.

I've tried and asked a few different folks on here about a quarterly called Sensillmila Tips(1980) , the fellow who put out the publication, had a different approach to increasing yield. I can't recall for sure but I think he cut alternate branches off the plant and topped it when it reached the desired height. It was a productive method. I'd like to give it a go.

For esthetics, I like naturally grown plants free from human intervention.

 

[SubGirl]

I mean I like cargo shorts and have a mullet does that mean I am a lesbo trapped in a mans body!?!

I think it might. What kind of shoes do you wear?

 

[oldmaninbc]

well ,I need to be careful on howeth I answereth this

We are all waiting with bated breath.

 

[Putembk]

never topped or fimmed outdoors

I wanted to see the natural growth of the plants

not that there’s anything wrong with it cause I’ve done it a lot on indoor grows

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Yup no need to top don't have to worry about light burn or the top of the tent....

 

[Putembk]

Here is my Romulan Skunk. She is a beast for a tent. Gonna pull her tonight and give her 48 hrs of dark before I chop and hang. She has been showing naners and seeds .....

 

[SubGirl]

When I top it causes the plant to split into two....a fem top will split the plant into 4 tops. IMO. I usually only fem top.

That’s what I do. They don’t always make 4 but usually do

 

[Goldhedge]

Okay I misunderstood, it sounded like you said we were sending the actual cash to Ukraine so they could then use it to buy weapons from us. Besides the issue of time with doing it that way it would also allow them to decide to buy stuff from countries other then the USA snd there is no way the Military Industrial Complex here in America would allow that to happen.

I'm thinking the money never leaves the US...

It's a money laundering operation that funnels it right back to US defense contractors and a pocket or two-hundred of politicians.

If it ever got to Ukraine it would disappear into a corrupt black hole in seconds.