Wow, itās an attractive moth with deadly larva. Thanks for that photo. Does the moth also do damage or just the larva? Iām assuming the bt spray takes care of the larva but I imagine you have to continually spray to maintain control like I do with my cabbage moths in my vegetable garden. So that brings me to the question, can you smoke bt? Iāve been told you canāt smoke spinosad, isnāt bt similar to the spinosad?
Hold on let me sit on my davenport and log into Quantum Computing Services real quick and pull up Backrub. Iāll put on my Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo headphones so I can hear better to learn more about Taylor Ham!
I think I have the answer Alex! That would be a sofa, AOL, Google, and Sony! What are the original names that no one ever uses because they would be wrong now, regardless of the fact that at one time that was the name!
Alex Trebek (from the grave) - Correct! We also would have accepted āWhat would be a super pretentious way to refer to every day items that are clearly named differentlyā!
Taylor Ham hasnāt been the name since 1906. This isnāt a case where it changed in your lifetime 
Youāre literally arguing that something that has been called one thing by the company and functionally literate adults for half a century before you were even born is named something else. If it changed when you were in your 20s I get it. Do you still call the south the Confederacy too? 
You mean like the company and world did when they changed the name to Pork Roll? I do like it more well done though.
I donāt think the adults do much damage, but Iām not sure. They donāt have a proboscis, they have kind of a split mouth, but they might still drink nectar (or they might just reproduce and die without eating). The cry proteins produced by bacillus thuringensis are what make bt work, and theyāre safe to eat, they do allow Bt to be applied to tobacco and there are Bt tobacco varieties but Iām not sure how widely theyāre grown. If youāre squeamish about it you can stop application later in the flowering cycle
Well Mao is pregnant. Anyone want some kittens 
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Yeah you gonna mail them? 
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Iām probably just gonna take them to the local shelter once sheās had and weened them. Theyāre a no kill shelter so theyāll be fine.
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I thought it was a pretty good deal It will be a nice ceiling fan For the top of the tent. Window unit for a 150$
Being safe to eat and being safe to smoke are, I guess, two different things. The fact that the tobacco industry has gotten the approval of the government doesnāt make me feel any better. The chemical Arsenal that the US government allows is constantly being changed. Iāve had many conversations with folks at Cornell University who say that concern over these things is overblown and exaggerated. Iāve been told that Glyphosate (Round Up) is totally safe, you could almost drink it. I was also told that neonicotinoid insecticides were the best, least problematic pesticides weāve ever had. I remember many Cornell folks making fun of the organic community. This was all 20 years ago and I know that attitude has no doubt changed. Everyone knows our pollinators are declining and many point to systemic neonics like imidacloprid as at least partly responsible. I guess my point is if I shouldnāt smoke spinosad, I probably wonāt want to smoke bt either. I donāt expect the cannabis industry has the same influence as the tobacco industry. But- I donāt have bud worms so I canāt judge anyone for trying to save their crop. I canāt imagine the contaminates Iāve smoked and eaten in my over 50 years of cannabis use. Some of those kilos from Mexico and Columbia were awful moldy. And were they using the DDT that the chemical companies probably sold them after it was banned in the US. And Richard Nixonās paraquat spraying of Mexican weedā¦
In my vegetable garden, most of the beds have row covers. I guess Iāll have to think about potential insect pests and diseases that could be moving north, as the climate here gets wetter and warmer over time.
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My Mephisto order just arrivedā¦
Yay, new freebies!
(This order, freebies were 3 Bears OG x Mango Smile!)
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As far as I know, even the spinosad ban is speculative and due to a lack of evidence more than evidence of harms. I will say that to my knowledge, Bt applied to the surface of the plant wonāt be absorbed into tissue, which is the proposed concern in spinosad application. Itās also not very stable in sunlight, it should be completely degraded within a few days, and even less stable exposed to heat. Not to mention that if youāre smoking cannabis, you should probably be more concerned with the known cancer risk of combustion products than the assumed risk of a low-concentration protein. Itās water soluble, so if youāre still concerned about it, rinse it off.
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Or donāt use it! No pest pressure, no need to apply a pesticide! I donāt particularly care either way about organic farming and the organic approved pesticides employed in it, suit your style.
Iām heading out to the lake. The big cats are hitting hard and the boat hasnāt been skipping the waves often enough to suit me.
Wish me luck and Iāll catch yāall tomorrow.
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lol just as long as no hooks are involved in ācatching us tomorrowāā¦ 
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Clearly you donāt get north much. Ask for a Pork Roll and Cheese up here. Just ask. Theyāll laugh and send you packing southā¦
Blackened has blackened seasoning. Mmmm Mmmmm YUMMY!
Oh then blackened could be good.
Thatās like laughing at someone because they can read. It hurts my head to think of it happening, let alone it being a point of pride to be illiterate Look at Mr Fancy Learninā over here yall!
Hey youāre good with electronics stuff right? When you come down here maybe you could inform some of my electronic purchases at Sound of Music? Some people would call them Best Buy because thatās whatās on the sign and itās what theyāre called now (and for a long time) but we laugh those people away!
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Shits and giggles asked a friend who has restaurant and Taylor is a choice of ham. They donāt have pork rollā¦ But - You search on sysco site - Pork Roll and bam - Taylor Ham
This is the box. I donāt know how to provide more evidence than the box the company uses, the Taylor company who invented the stuff.
Now if youāll excuse me I have to go to Funcoland for some video gamesā¦
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I know, Iām middle of the road, a chef and someone who thought of it always as Taylor Ham, But Iām from New Paltz NY
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LOL, this is all good to me. I try to avoid any meat that has the words loaf or roll in them.
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