Dudes probably trying to wrap up all that yard work, the freeze is coming fast for us northeasterners
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Much appreciated ya checkin in! Yup, between a few nice orders that needed printing, and trying to wrap up the outside water with the freezes coming and finally being able to get the leaves off the yard, been a busy week!
This week was THE week, I had ice on stuff monday morning, wed / thurs it was in the 70s. Today its back to ice and frost. Pond and hottub have been winterized and irrigation lines blown out. Hoses wrapped and put away, and snowblower got a tuneup and moved to the garage.
I gotta get an update posted today sometime. Lots to update on from the garden 
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Man youâre ahead of me by miles, still just thinking about changing the oil in the snowblower.
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I just decided, today is the day. Inspired by @Nagel420 plus I get my booster shot this afternoon so chances are I wonât wanna do shit the rest of the weekend.
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Iâm too friggen old to shovel anymore. I make sure that little monster is ready to go when my hands arenât getting frostbite working on it. Fresh oil, fresh gas, check belts, lubricate all zerk fittings.
I gotta get a booster⌠And a flu shot too. Got the flu like 5 years ago, first time ever, that shit brought me to my knees. Never again if I can avoid it!
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The beauty of having a toddler is an increased chance to get all your immunizations. Kids at the doctor practically every month for some kind of checkup so the wife and I are just like âhey, you know, while weâre here why donât you just juice us up with whatever you gotâ got our flu shots like 2 months ago 
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Let me know when morphine day is!
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Cape Cod Winter Prep:
Finished the emergency generator tune up yesterday, water lines blown out, fresh gas for the leaf blower, dug the snow shovels out and have a tub of sidewalk salt ready to deploy.
But⌠my hot tub stays open for business all winter long, damn the electricity bills! Donât know how to survive here without it, and Iâve never figured out how to get all the water out of the lines anyhoo.
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Man winter on the cape must be so nice and quiet no?
Mine normally does. But the top is SO badly deteriorated, I decided winterize it, put the funds I woulda spent on electric towards a new top, and will buy a new top for it in the spring. Maybe even put in a new control system then too (its an OLD Jacuzzi Ventana series, the âelectronics circuit boardâ doesnât have a chip, its analog switches and dials.) $500 will get me a new cover, another $500 would replace the control system (which would make it even more energy efficient with new control software).
Iâll miss it this winter⌠Have had a hottub for my winters since 2004, unless I was on an islandâŚ
Worked for 10 years for a pond company, one thing I have learned is how water acts. Regularly had to winterize on avg 100 water features myself yearly, from fountains to waterfalls and ponds. Luckily most hot tubs do have a spicket at their lowest point that you can use to drain them. Ponds and waterfalls, use a shop vac, hose on the exhaust side and let it push all the water out of the hoses. Finding cracked water lines in the spring is not fun!
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Hi @LegsMahoney, itâs not nearly as quiet here on the Cape in the winter as it used to be. Every year we have more full-timers commuting to Boston and back every day. I wake up to the sounds of this army marching North around 0400 to try and beat the traffic. Two hours up and two hours home. What a life!
@Nagel420, my beloved hot tub is about the same vintage as yours and I keep babying it along year after year.
Weâre on our 4th tub cover, second pump and third set of impellers. I pretty much do my own work now since paying the local knucklehaid âtechniciansâ to come and scratch their noggins when I had a problem.
All worth it tho, sitting in 106 degree steamy splendor as the snowflakes fall: Priceless!
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@Nagel420 Have you gotten your name on Johnnyâs list for his Frankenstein giveaway? Time is short! You better jump if not! LOL
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Only been down to the cape a handful of time to chase stripers on the fly but itâs beautiful, I can definitely see with that one road in one road out situation how it could be a nightmare when itâs busy. I gotta get back down there. Shame that itâs so busy in the off season too. Something about a quiet beach town blanketed in snow sounds super relaxing
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I give up. Funny. @Nagel420 Peace my friend
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hey bud, have a happy thanksgiving!!
I gotta find time for pics and an update⌠Did some re-arranging for space, pulled some plants, planted more, and ready to pull some others. Thats it in brief. LOL⌠Better update when my phone is charged and I can snap some pics 
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Update time? 
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Alrighty⌠Time for a major update⌠I been slacking with the updates lately, just been busy and not had phone charged when I was down stairs, but I found time this morning⌠So, without further adieuâŚ
The 3x3 tent was taken down and moved. As the crow flies, just 6â away from where it was, but with the basement walls, its literally two rooms away now. The autos that were in it were cut and hung to dry in my curing tent, and I gotta say, I am VERY pleased with that project⌠In my quest to isolate pollen, I have a 2x2 and now the 3x3 in my furnace room for breeding purposes, and for male jails. Possibly add another 2x2 in there. This opened up a 3x3 area in the area I am now calling âOops I did it againâ. Ya see, 10 years ago that room was a grow room here, using metal halides from my reef tank days and some homemade ebb and flood tables. When I stopped growing, it became storage. This year I decided to get back in and got a 3x4. Yeah, I knew that wouldnât be enough LOL. Only thing is I am keeping the 3x4 in that area for photos this way I keep some distance from the males.
So, lets start with the two blueberry jack herer autos. One variegated, one not. Color was awesome on both of them, and they are several weeks overdue for their chop here. Tomorrow is their final day⌠They were pollenated with the black cream auto pollen, should be an interesting cross Iâm calling âBlack and Blue Jackâ. Definitely some mature seeds in there, Iâve seen several peeking out at me
The right side wall. the BJH autos in bottom right, then thereâs cherry brandy and space wiz autos, pissed off the space wiz with a nute overdose 
but sheâs recovering. Then thereâs some vegging photos, WW from seedsman, and GDP from ILGM, plus rooted clones along the front. The two little guys in the green tray are âunknownsâ. I coulda labeled em when I pulled em out to see what seed development looked like, but I didnât and tossed a few on a tray. Kinda like a mystery grow of sorts
Finally got around to potting something up in the mini octopots, and I gotta say, so far I am LOVING them. The roots have made it down and thru and into the reservoir, and these are some of the healthiest plants with least work here for sure. These 4 I am playing with as bonsai moms, left to right is white widow, GDP (just trimmed and LSTâd), GDP and Alaskan Purple who seems to be a little more tempermental of the small pots. (The pic makes the left plant look much lighter it is (really, its a brighter light to the left, that white widow is far from light green lol) I have two more of these mini octopots I plan to run some autos in side x side with regular soil, be curious on the difference 
At $15 for two, its not a bad deal!
Few more rooted cuttings (Spirit Train F2 which I had hoped would continue the gnarly leaf pattern it had when young, which it hasnât), and in the tray? Oh thats just my testers of my crosses. So far germ rates are good, and in the next few days I expect all I planted to have popped. Using the @JohnnyPotseed worm casting method, then into a starter soil / cups before a final transplant.
Looking into âThe Grow Labâ, photo tent is on the right, and in front of you is a bunch of moms for cuttings. You can see the bonsai moms in the back. See why I wanna perfect the art of bonsai here? The tall lanky plants are alaskan purple, blueberry and pineapple express II from seedsman, theyâve been neglected a little, but they have hundreds of potential cuttings all over them. The lusher green lady in the front left is a Spirit Train F2 from Sebring. Earlier in this thread I have pics of her all gnarly and twisted, looking freakish for sure. Sadly she grew out of that stage it seemsâŚ
Inside the photo tent. Most of these ladies are almost ready, a week to three at most I am guessing, most in the next two weeks. The Alaskan Purples in the back right have a severe iron deficiency, they were NOT happy with 1g fabric pots, but I was experimenting and pushing limits, and they still will make nice buds. The color in the center is a BC Pinewarp, and bottom right is the Tropicana Poison F2. Back left 2 are Lucky CharmsâŚ
In a little home-made 2x4 tent I have these six ladies going. 5 of them are fem black cream autos, and 1 is a blueberry herer x black cream. This is another game for me 
I labeled them all the same, and wanna see if that 1 blueberry herer cross will be that different that its obviousâŚ
A 2x2 Male Jail with Cherry Brandy Males
The 3x3 with some Blueberry clones growing outâŚ
So. just a little busy here⌠LOL Gonna start putting together some flips this week, printed 150 or so, gotta send some out, but plenty of beans to come!!
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Youâre a - GOD - lol
I can see why the delay for update! 
I enjoyed reading and looking at photos.
The bonsai moms are cute in there big pots .
And those tall plants are very impressive ( as is everything else )
Very little neglect -
Hats off to you, Nagel sir ,
Nagels Nursery
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Very nice @Nagel420!!
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@Cormoran love your opinions!
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