Yeah I’m sure GLG is not the issue. I’ve popped thousands (edit: a couple hundred) of beans, and yes, sometimes the environment isn’t right or I’m unfocused (as a hobbyist) and I’ll have a bad streak with seeds. My suspicion is that these seeds were made years ago, and they may not have been stored the best. They should pop, and they are for most people. They might be a little less vigorous and need careful environmental controls, and I was a little off. But they don’t have the vigor of Bodhi or Exotic beans, I can be sure of that.
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Too bad I can’t send my electric guy out there! He’s cool and very good. Upgraded my service to 200 amps and put 50 amps in my garage like 7 years ago.
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I know what you mean. My old (small) seed collection got destroyed in a move and since then started slowly rebuilding my stash.
Fast forward to joining og at the end of last year, and between generous folks here and being aware of new releases,i am staring down the barrel of a giant pile of amazing seeds.
2 types of pollen in the freezer, my first seeds almost being ready, 2 males in the veg room waiting to be flowered at some point and I’m going to want to grow those seeds out too. Not enough time.
Fortunately i am getting through some and have started looking for properties in Maine, the last free weed state. Where I’ll be able to really expand.
I spent all my teenage years up to 21 in Florida, It was pure luck that I managed not to run afoul of those horrible weed laws there. Sitting in my parents house in Ft Myers, stoned on brick weed and the occasional “ crippy” that a highschool kid could find watching weed nerd episodes……
The good old days.
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420 adventure starts now 
take care and be safe
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Everything you were saying about making beans being your thing, and how your old man had his thing with the fishing… I hear you.
Gotta say, before this place I’m at, the idea of growing my own tomatoes seemed like something I might take up in my 60’s. But having the spot in the hills to grow in the California sunshine. I mean, it’s been something else… to put it mildly. I think part of what made it extra special was, almost on a daily occurrence, I would have the thought of like “pinch me… I’m living the dream”. I actually appreciated it.
There was a time that sounds long ago if I say the year, but feels like just a couple years ago… where I’d rented a Jeep on a solo business trip out to San Francisco… my first time… and so I played hookey and drove that Jeep through the hills in on the west side of valley. And I remember thinking, “I’d have to win the lottery to ever live here”. Well, I didn’t win no Powerball but I snuck in the back door while no one was looking, as usual, and snagged this amazing spot and got to hike those hills and grow cannabis in em (and tomatoes).
2025 seems like it’s all about the winds of change blowing through.
It ain’t the same thing for me… cause half of what I get out of the thing is being around the plants while the birds and the bees, and every other critter, is making a whole scene of things… but I’m glad I learned growing indoors too. Cause now that looks like it’ll the only way I continue this thing. Sure, I put lady bugs in the tent, but bees I don’t think would enjoy the scene so much there. I’m just saying, for me, it’ll be a bit like using a condom, and it’s 50/50 whether I’m still up for a party in that scenario.
To quote a famous movie, I’ll stop there, as I think that conveys the point and gives us all something to think about.
That instruction book :laugh:
I hear ya! Fuck dude, I got high and was packing my gear for the move and I’m thinking, “yeah, why do I read instruction manuals before doing anything?”.
Turns out it’s cause I took my TV apart as a kid and touched the tube after it’d been unplugged for like 15min… so there was still charge… remember it making arm feel buzzy in a bad way, mostly cause it was unexpected that something unplugged could still zap me.
Then I started realizing no one around me ever seemed to explain anything or know much about how the world worked. Then when I got into computers, literally no one around me could explain anything about how they worked to me and the people that could, I was actively prevented from spending time with because they had different values than my lower-middle class family.
So I read books and manuals.
And I gotta say, that’s one of the use cases I legitimately see unfolding with whatever they’re calling AI nowadays. These chat agents, specifically, are my wet dream from when I was a kid. First off, they told us we were gonna have that in the future… now, sure… the video that told me that showed it as a bunch of kids watching their own TVs and wearing headphones… but the whole point the video was conveying was that each kid would have their own dedicated teacher in the future that they could learn from in their own home! I mean… back then… the idea was blasphemy. How would that be accomplished exactly? It was science fiction.
Anyway, I’m not sure I need it to control my humidifier. I could be wrong.
The big wall of ignorance I stumbled into when moving from outdoors to indoors was the whole turning the lights up too high and not knowing they need the humidity in a certain zone. Then I read about VPD, and I got the humidifier and the ONLY way to trigger it by VPD was with the controller (there’s that upsell). I do find that having the humidier set based on the VPD sensor reading keeps my plants much happier and healthier than just setting it to 55% humidity, and uses less water.
I love what you said about just using timers… cause that’s exactly what I was all about. When I grew on the east coast indoors, briefly, there wasn’t LEDs and there wasn’t companies selling kits… it was timers and HPS and much more humid in the environment. There was also a state trooper that moved in as a neighbor, so that’s why it was brief 
You’re going to appreciate this. Why I said VIVOSUN’s app felt more intuitive is because it’s based around the concept of setting the old electric outlet timers 
Anyway, you don’t need AI and you don’t even need to read the manual they sent for your fan! Plug it into an electric outlet and use your timer on it. There is a button on the back that sets the intensity of the fan and one that enables the head to move back and forth. The controller is where they upsell you, to set a timer schedule and have it talk to your refrigerator, or whatever.
Good convo about the sunset/sunrise, everybody. Someone also had a comment elsewhere I thought was insightful, “the best reason to run sunrise/sunset is to smooth out the spikes on your temp and humidity which usually occur when lights come on and off”. Then, of course, I found a whole thread here on OG, so I won’t belabor the point, but it does seem to matter to some people… I still haven’t seen a formal study.
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I grew up the tomatoes my parents grew in the backyard, so I have a bit of a tomato obsession. Except the freaking raccoons eat them here, and my parents now live in the country and grows enough tomatoes for the whole family. Yum!
Nothing like a fresh sun grown tomato!
Before you know it, you’ll be back there great outdoors! It seems like the world has so much more to worry about than plants in our yards, and they can’t use ai to hunt them out. 
I was just happy to call the Nintendo help line lol
Something real interesting is coming up here. AI will definitely outpace the best teachers for individual instruction very soon… but our economy is largely based on public schools as a place to store children while parents work. So are people going to give up this lifestyle, or are schools going to become very different than they are now?
But I see your original point now. Companies are slapping the AI tag on just about anything.
Damn I just gotta live.
Gotta go walk the brutal poodle.
Good karma blessings
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Aphid infestation. Lost one Tardis seedling.
Thai x Afghan Sat seems to be a collector for aphids. Removed it. Nuked tent w Cap Jack. Other ideas? Got to go to work. Argh!!
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Aphids are big dumb stupid bugs. They need to climb up the stem, most basic thing ive done is blasting the plant with water and then wrapped double sided tape to the stem so they get stuck climbing up or down.
Horticulture oil is generally what they use on ornamentals
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I’ve never really had to deal with aphids personally, but I have dealt with spider mites and gnats and other pests
I’ve heard really good things about Johnny potseeds one and done if you are able to get the ingredients and mix some up, but I’m sure others have Ideas that have actually dealt with them personally. Here’s a link
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You can also spot treat with 70% alcohol. Not sure how seedlings handle it but ive wiped down vegging plants before. Kills most types of bugs. Ill mist them with alcohol and then paper towel off the leaves replacing the towel as needed
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Bottom leaves on Thai afghan covered in aphids on bottom.
On the bright side, when removing them from Going Back to Cali, I got the most lovely piff stem rub. sunny Valley going back to Cali seems like a good deal on piff regulars
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If its captain jacks deadbug with spinosad, double check the label that it is still recommended because spinosad isn’t effective on aphids because of how they feed and their body types
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This one has worked well for me for aphids and spider mites, indoors.
Worked pretty well with the outdoor PM issues I had last year… saved all but one plant.
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Thanks for all the tips, guys. Started with soap spray treatments. Don’t see any inside the tent, but we’ll see. Also pulled one Going Back to Cali. But realized I also have a Lavender Limeade.
Also killed 7 male Wolf Packs as they started to flower on my spring run. Purple Satellite is jammin good fun!
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Suffoil-X is my go-to for aphids and mites.
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Nice those should be some very nice smoke, it reminds me I just emailed Dave from AKBB last week about a few things, might grab some haze crosses myself besides he works with just about anything and everything
So once I finish this order from him between last month and this month I grabbed beans direct from Doc D, GLG, JBC, DCSE, FDM, direct from AKBB, and probably gonna talk to Hazeman in a few days about a pack or two I want from him direct as well.
Good thing I’m running more plants than I have in several years lol
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Quite a month brotha @Weednerd.Anthony !!
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Variety is the spice of life! @DietPeps
Sometimes I feel like people end up growing a breeder they really like for a good while and may overlook other people’s work with different genetics a bit.
So these days, I’m trying to cast a wide net both to find keepers for smoke and for my own chucking projects
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Ain’t that the truth!!
I never had that problem but I know what you are talking about. I get caught up more on types of herb. Like now I think getting obsessed with sativas.
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