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HempKat

Just A Simple Old Dirt Farmer
Veteran
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.
Well from what I've seen reported over the years since the conflict between Russia and Ukrane started whatt you are saying about the actual money never leaving the US is at least mostly true. Like I said, wesend them weapons and munitions and then the cash goes from Congress to the Weapons Manufacturers to replace what we sent from our stock piles. I have seen reports that we have sent some actual cash (mostly in the early days of the conflict) to help keep their government able to run (since millions fled the country to avoid the combat) however that amount of cash was a faily small part of the total. I don't know the exact percentage but I would guess around 5% or even less.
 

OleReynard

Well-known member
Saw this Thursday when it was -15 here a rainbow
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HempKat

Just A Simple Old Dirt Farmer
Veteran
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.
FWIW, based on my understanding of stress and how it effects plants, the stress a young plant experiences is unlikely to cause it to hermi unless the plant continues to experience stress in one form or another throughout it's growth until the point it hermies. In most cases a plant that hermies usually does so because of light stress caused by some form of light getting to the plant during the dark period of the flower cycle such as a hole in a tent where light from outside the tent is able to get into the tent during the lights out period. Some have even reported that they think the little red light on some devices like a humiidifier for example, that shows the device is running can do it. That seems a bit hard to believe since it's such a small amount of light but on the other hand it doesn't take much light to cause light stress.

Some plants on the other hand will hermi if the plant is forced to go well beyond the period when it should be harvested. Such as a plant meant to be harvested after 8 weeks but the grower keeps them going 10 or more weeks trying to achieve 50/50 cloudy/amber in the trichomes. This theory is based on the assumption that the flowers have remained unpollenated (sensimilla) since there should be no reason for the plant to hermi if the flowers have been pollinated and are producing seeds. The whole idea of a plant having the hermi response due to stress is that it is seen as a means of survival. The plant experiences stress in the late stages of it's life and sensing that it has yet to be pollinatted, it quickly produces it's own male flowers to pollinate the plant before it dies, This is believed to be an effort by the plant to keep it's genetics alive thru the seeds made from hermied male flowers pollinating the existing female flowers. Since plants have a limited life span if flowers are allowed to go past the normal harvest time (to ripen the trichomes), where the plant begins to die off naturally that dying off becomes a form of stress for the plant that triggers the hermi response.
 
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Putembk

One Toke Over The Line
Premium user
Oh Gawd!!!! A famous quote:

"I'd rather have a sister in a whorehouse than a brother in the MP's"

Not mine. O, no.
I was extremely lucky while serving my country. I was more concerned with intermural sports and doing the post radio show. When that gig was up, I was assigned to honor guard. I buried more soldiers than any Gook I ever knew.
 

Putembk

One Toke Over The Line
Premium user
Leggy bastads
I start mine with half full cups then backfill when they get some legs
I got the same cups but in black, you got the trays for those also?
Handy dandy

Nice seedlings. Dog
Yup…. That is a must or you’ll be supporting them. I have no people who let them fall over and die. There was nothing wrong with them. They just needed support. Plant them low and backfill.
 

bigsur51

On a mailtrain.
Premium user
Veteran
420club
I need your advice right after the new year on how to do this

no way

cause sure as shit as soon as I do , bitcoin will drop like a lead balloon and I will be to blame

I’ve seen it happen more than once

there are plenty of videos out there showing how easy it is to buy some bitcoin

that is my suggestion , do some research , figure it out , it ain’t rocket science , then make your move

word in the hood is dyodd

a lot of new buyers of Bitcoin open up an account at Coinbase and link the Coinbase account to their bank

then they electronically transfer funds from their bank account into the Coinbase account and then buy bitcoins

Coinbase even provides a yearly statement that one files with the IRS for tax purposes , if a person goes that route , all legal and everything

then there are those who figure out how to buy and sell bitcoin anonymously and bypass the IRS

sort of like bootleggers selling weed under the radar and not declaring any profits from the sales , the same strategy can be used with bitcoin

sort of like buying gold with cash , no receipts , no records , no taxes

good luck out there!..
 

Putembk

One Toke Over The Line
Premium user
no way

cause sure as shit as soon as I do , bitcoin will drop like a lead balloon and I will be to blame

I’ve seen it happen more than once

there are plenty of videos out there showing how easy it is to buy some bitcoin

that is my suggestion , do some research , figure it out , it ain’t rocket science , then make your move

word in the hood is dyodd

a lot of new buyers of Bitcoin open up an account at Coinbase and link the Coinbase account to their bank

then they electronically transfer funds from their bank account into the Coinbase account and then buy bitcoins

Coinbase even provides a yearly statement that one files with the IRS for tax purposes , if a person goes that route , all legal and everything

then there are those who figure out how to buy and sell bitcoin anonymously and bypass the IRS

sort of like bootleggers selling weed under the radar and not declaring any profits from the sales , the same strategy can be used with bitcoin

sort of like buying gold with cash , no receipts , no records , no taxes

good luck out there!..
I thought you weren’t going to give me advice…… You just did now I can blame you ha ha thank you.
 
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