So you think Stafford will give LA anywhere close to a full season next year?
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Haha, uh… In a word? No. Dude’s always hurt, since, like, his rookie year. I think he was even dealing with injuries at Georgia. And even if he does make it through a full season, we’ve got a LOT more problems. Our O-line sucks, we have zero pass rush outside of Aaron Donald, no WR’s besides Kupp (who’s only had one fully healthy year since we drafted him) and just no depth at any position at all.
I knew that whole “Fuck them draft picks” thing was gonna catch up to us eventually, but I didn’t think it’d happen this soon and all at once. And we haven’t really been hitting on the draft picks we have had (picking Tutu Atwell in the second round two drafts-ago when Creed Humphrey was available has been especially painful haha). Plus, McVay’s whole,”Uh, I dunno, maybe I’ll retire, maybe I won’t,” thing every offseason is starting to get old. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I fucking love the dude, but still… Commit or get out.
Plus, like, watching Goff in Detroit this season, I do start to wonder, like,”Is McVay kind of the problem…? Did we really need need to give up a shitload of picks for Stafford? Why couldn’t Sean make it work with Goff?”
I’m just stoked we have a couple day-two draft picks this year haha. I love watching the draft, just because I’m a HUGE college football fan, but it does get old being like,”Pssshhhh, okay, the Rams aren’t picking until Saturday…” haha.
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lol, yeah, I got a good rain jacket and got used to it pretty quick. But, I’d prefer the more Florida style rain, every afternoon for about 30 minutes and then clears up and is sunny again. Did you ever find a job in Portland?
I mean I do, I sprayed/coated all my moms again with wettable sulfur this past week. I do it pretty regularly, alternating between my regular IPM spray, then foliar feed spray, then back to sulfur. It does leave sulfur residue on your leaves, but that doesn’t matter as long as you’re not in flower. Sulfur cheap as dirt too.
I’ve been using Rootwise from BAS, but I can’t honestly tell if it does anything.
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Haha! Yeah, of course! Shit, who do you think I am? Jeff Lebowski?
I worked at a place that got restaurant of the year the first year I worked there, then moved on to some of the other high-end places. It might rain all the time there, but Portland has a shitload of kick-ass restaurants. That’s really where I learned, like,”Oh, fuck, good food is soooooooo fuuuuuuuuckinnnn’ goooooood…” haha.
Even when I was homeless, it wasn’t because I wasn’t working. I actually had two jobs for the majority of that time. I just didn’t feel like paying rent and bills and stuff haha. Sometimes all that shit starts to feel a little overwhelming… And there’s a lot of shelters in Portland; why not take advantage of them? Haha.
And you rinse it off before you do the other IPM-type foliar? Or you just leave it on?
My girl HATES the smell of neem, I don’t really understand why. I like it. But I’m already anticipating her reaction to friggin’ sulfur. “You thought neem was bad?!? Check THIS out!” haha.
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Maybe, haha! J/k … I love that scene though. Portland does have some good food, I’m always hearing of some new place to try. I’ve been eating a lot of Mediterranean food recently, but there’s so many good spots here, it’s hard to keep up.
There’s a ton of shelters here, that’s true. They’re mostly overfilled now, lots of people in tents and RVs, some by choice I think. I don’t feel like paying bills either, but gotta keep the lights on to grow weed!! haha.
I’d rinse for sure, there’s weird interactions with oils and sulfur, it’ll mess up your leaves.
She’s gonna love it! Smells kinda like a fart that you can’t escape from. Try to not get it on your clothes and hands and stuff, cause even after you wash, it’ll stick around… it’s micronized and tough to get out of things. I halfway hate and halfway like the smell of neem, it’s got weird quality to it… I’m usually mixing with essential oils too, so it usually smells pretty good mixed with all those.
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Mhm, that whole movie. But I meant,”I’m the other Jeffrey Lebowski. I’m The Dude, man, so that’s what you call me.” I wish I was the wealthy Lebowski, living in Pasadena with the trophy wife on an allowance… haha. But I’m probably closer to The Dude haha.
Get used to it. I always laugh at these right-wingers being like,”California! California! Homeless crisis!” and blahblahblah. CA is a microcosm of the US: when wages stay stagnant for fifty years and the price of everything goes up, what the fuck do you think is gonna happen? Get ready for a homeless shelter near you! Haha…
If you don’t like it, vote for politicians who’ll do something about it in a meaningful way. Lip service doesn’t count. Neither does complaining about “California!”
Not talking about you, Iamyou haha. I’m just saying… haha. These dumb motherfuckers…
So yeah, I’ll probably start foliaring with that sulfur next grow haha…
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that’s a unicorn I’m still searching for. If you find one let me know.
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I visited a mountain in italy that had sulfur smoke coming out everywhere! Kinda cool but nasty as f too haha. A giant fart mountain!
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Yeah, like I said, I grew up in Tampa, across the bay from a massive sulfur mine. I know that smell very well, used to smell it all the time on my way to school in the morning.
And I’m not looking forward to foliaring my plants with it haha… But I guess if twice in two weeks is all it takes, I can handle it.
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I don’t like foliars either, but if it gets rid of pm, hay! It doesn’t smell much worse than an egg salad sandwich fart, lol!
You’re only doing it when the plants are small, in early veg… and only twice!
The worst part is straining out the sulfur chunks. They will clog the sprayer. Do that outside, unless you live next to a deli 
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Ha! Ya! Stink and fungus gnats are where my wife draws the line. I cover up the neem smell with essential oils, so she usually is like “ ohhh what is that peppermint smell?” If I let my LABS water sit too long it curdles in my sprayer and when I water our houseplants she gets pissed. I haven’t even started spraying sulfur yet.
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Haha, yeah, I do all of my foliars outside. I actually don’t understand how anybody could do them inside, simply because, like, what? You’re getting neem oil and shit all over your floors and walls? That seems like a pretty big hassle to deal with afterwards…
Unless you’re growing in a crawl space with a dirt floor 
haha…
Yeah, my girl doesn’t really dig the smell of the essential oils, either, so… haha. I’m fucked no matter what.
I think she’s just super-sensitive to anything that smells relatively strong, I don’t really know, but she for sure makes (joking) comments every time I start preparing everything. “Neeeeeeeem oilllllllllll! Noooooooo…” haha. It’s kind of a running joke over here.
She doesn’t seem to mind the smell of weed, though, so, uh, that’s good… haha.
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I’m the crazy fucker at the party who never sprays things on his plants unless an enemy is positively identified and a treatment is located. I mean uhh this may sound offensive…but have the random treatments ever staved off infection?
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Probably… isn’t that where the idiom, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, comes from?
Nah, you don’t! You’d be the asshole then, and what we really need is more anti-heros like The Dude
Haha, that’s the tricky part though. Voting and hoping that the person you choose won’t be corrupted in some way. There’s really no easy solution. I’m not bitching either really, about the problems here, or anywhere… California is just as awesome as Oregon, or North Carolina, but they all have their own problems going on too.
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Dude! Get a cheap tarp from Harbor Freight… I picked up a 5x7 tarp for a couple bucks, and I lay it on the floor to keep the mess contained
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Yep, I agree! Instead, I spend my time studying the infection cycles and then performing an action to prevent the infection cycle from beginning. Sterilization of infection vectors like plant material is essential. Nothing enters the grow unless it’s been cleaned. Vacuum, scrub and mop the floors. Germ theory of disease!
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Same here. I don’t do any IPM. Even getting new cuts in quarantine, I let any issues arise before I deal with them so I know what I’m dealing with. Every once and a while in summer the thrips start to rear their heads, probably from the reused soil, but Spinosad knocks them out real quick.
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My main preventative is sweeping and mopping the entire space 5 times a week.
That and making sure everyone who goes near the plants is not wearing shoes that have been worn outdoors, has clean clothes that haven’t been worn in public spaces or outdoor settings with live plants, and washes their hands and forearms.
I don’t allow any cross contamination between my indoor and outdoor grows. On the rare occasion that I take cuts from outdoor plants, the clones get washed on entry, and quarantined for 2-3 weeks with several spinosad treatments to knock out any mites or thrips that might have gone unnoticed to the naked eye, or survived the wash process as unhatched eggs.
Commercial clones are for outdoor only.
Good airflow in the tents, and running hepa filters on all the grow ventilation seems to have greatly reduced the chances of a mildew attack.
And speaking of germ theory of disease, these methods and constant cleaning have also kept me much healthier due to my compromised immune system.
Now I only get infections when I go to a hospital… lol / ewww…
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I’m actually starting to wonder if that isn’t maybe just the way to go. Like I’ve mentioned (too many times haha), I never had problems until I started having problems. So then I started doing the foliars and yeah, you’re right, they didn’t do shit. I still got pests.
I think that’s probably the most effective thing. Although I will say that I’ve been being really, really sloppy for this grow, mostly out of curiosity. I still scrub the fuck out of my hands and forearms when I water, still take off most of my clothes, but I haven’t been showering beforehand like I usually do. Been wearing my shoes into the grow room, too, which I never usually do.
I haven’t let anybody into the grow room this round, though. And I do think that that’s a big issue. I was always very hardcore about not letting any friends check out the plants when they came over, but then I was like,”Okayyyyy, I guess you can check them out…” and that’s EXACTLY when the pests started showing up.
I don’t think my friends are covered in aphids or PM or anything haha, I’m just saying… It’s something I noticed. So this’ll be interesting.
Too late for that, man… haha. I’m the asshole whether I’m broke or whether I’m living in a palatial estate in Pasadena. I think I’d prefer to be the wealthy asshole haha…
Maybe I’ll look into that, too. I always thought that it wasn’t organic, but since I’ve only had to start dealing with this shit a year ago, I never really read too much about it. It just sounds non-organic haha. “Spinosad…” That sounds poisonous haha.
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