Another weekend comes to a close over here…not that it makes it any different than any other day! Except that I usually have the whole place to myself!
Damn butterflies are laying eggs again, and boy do they like the one DJ Short 90’s BB that’s outside unprotected! I must have pulled 10 green budworms out of it today. And there’s another 3’ away that only had one. Thank God the majority of them are inside the SOG greenhouse!
My 3D printer guy here swung by to drop off my latest orders…
I got tired of trying to align my seeds correctly in the micrometer for cracking, never seems easy! So when I found the file for a free download of these seed-crackers I knew I had to try 'em. There’s a little ‘divot’ in the base that holds the seed and another in the tip of the screw-down pin. If I hadn’t just put in 50+ beans I’d be cracking now! (Note; he said to rub the screw threads on a candle to make them turn smoother).
I like that this guy works with an NGO he created in Brazil to help schools/kids/planet by making 3D-printing line out of PET drinking bottles off the beaches! He’s doing it here too and every 100 pucks I buy takes something like 8 bottles off the beach! Cool part is, the whole reason the bottles are such a problem is they figure they take 1,000 years to break down (and that probably just means into ‘little pieces’ we can’t see!). - In turn, that means these should NEVER break down! I’ve bought a few different styles of the bender clips now, but the good ones broke down in sunlight in about 5 days! Found a free file online and passed it to my guy so again, being made out of PET plastic, these ‘should’ last a lot longer. I just had him make 10 for testing but said I want more and in different sizes to suit different plant strains. He said ‘no problem’!
He also showed me pics of some 3D-printed joiners he’s made for making geodesic domes (with both PVC struts and bamboo struts. Said it’s less than $100 in materials for a 3.5 meter dome! I told him with the current butterfly season underway, I’d be temped to put up a bunch of them and cover 'em with that high-tech insect cloth I scored from the going-out-of-business grow op. He’s gonna send me pictures and if he’s open to it I’ll see if he’ll pass on the file for the dome-hubs he’s made in case anyone want to try 'em @Bobgrows @Mr.Sparkle . He said it’s very easy to uP scale them to any size, said the ones made with 1" PVC are strong enough to stand on top of!
The Chocolate Sapote are doing well, Transplanted another batch from Solo’s to 1 gallon airpots today, in all my Sunday spare-time!
Plucked about 6-7 seedlings that couldn’t handle our LS mix (I guess???). But that made room for the new ones I took down to replace them. No heads poppin’ up yet among the new 53 beans in plugs (it’s probably only been 18-20 hours! 
@Jimdoors (I think???)
Here’s the (DP x Pangi) x (DP x Appie) male uP the driveway. I’ll bring one of the females up when he’s ready to burst in a few days…I already dusted the Powie Pineapple female with the only other male left in the driveway. @BobbyBudz
And the only Peshawar female (well, except for all the new ones in Solo’s from my buddy @Budderton Hey bud, I noticed the last 2 days about mid-day on, the Peshawar tips of all branches ‘wilt’ over, bending/drooping heavily. By late afternoon they are back looking fine. Same happened today. Checked moisture levels and no problem there…guessing it’s just the heat? Ever experience this?
The Bro-Science project is turning out better than I expected! These were clones from a couple revegged Original Haze I got from @Budderton , but that I think originally came from @BasementBeans ?
Here’s the least-populated upper greenhouse we’ve seen in a few years! Had a ton of males and a couple hermies. Then I was too scared of introducing any pest eggs to these while so close to flowering out, so haven’t filled the place up with plants from down below.
I’m liking the look of this particular (Thai x VN Black) x Goji OG! She’s only about 2 meters tall and in a 3-gallon square pot on driplines. @slain
and here she is back in January…
Then there’s the Goji OG f???'s. They’ve been pretty reliable plants all along but I haven’t been growing them that well! This time around they were part of the big group that got thrashed by the Hypoclorious acid spray AND then by the One & Done spray - double whammie! - and then I had to almost totally defoliate them of all fans. Wasn’t expecting much, but they have really surprised me the last 2-3 days with a hug spurt of thickening uP!
@Wizdom
The Meat Breath were another of those strains that either doesn’t like it here or just don’t like the way I grow? Out of 6-8 plants I think 2 came out close to what would be called ‘normal’ (and they are KILLER!) with all the rest being mutants with malformed leaves and branching. I’ve been concerned that as thick as these buds are getting, bud rot will likely set in soon with our conditions. So today I pried some of the rock-hard nugs away from the stem to check and sure enough - found some. 
Decided (first) to cut off the fans to be able to see any rot starting… and then a little bit of sugar leaves…in the end I saw the beginnings of more BR, so took the whole thing down to a large manicured bud! Chopped and in the drying tent! The percentage of ‘keepers/dumpers’ was pretty bad, but the keepers impressed me so much I’d love to try them again! These are right beside the Mac1 x Ashava Valley Cheese, also from Wizdom, which are becoming my favorite plants of the gro! They are also such thick nugg’ed buds that I’m checking them 3x/day now. Really wish we were not harvesting right now and I could stick them in the tent w/the dehu & AC for a week or two more! No room! 
Okay, that about wraps uP the weekend report from over here. I’m easing back into the RSO again after a 1-week “ingesting break”. I think I’ve pretty well determined that it’s NOT Alzheimer’s nor is it that the cancer has migrated to my brain! Just, as suspected, the RSO knocking the shit out of short-term memory. It was really quite a joy for the last 2-3 days when I was ‘almost’ normal again! Oh well, like most things, there’s a choice to be made! I’d rather be able to stick around and plant beans until (at least) the end of the year when the re-crim kicks in, even at the cost of not remembering I did! 
Gives me a target to aim for, whether I can hit it or not remains to be seen!
Hope you all have a great weekend! Thanks for dropping in!
He’s taken a look around OG and decided recently to join us…show him some OG love!
I’m happy to see it.
