hoping for happiness for you bud, i know the northeast winters themselves can put people in a funk with the lack of sunlight and whatnot, probably not helpful if theres other stuff going on. here to help lift your spirits if we can 
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Ya know, for it poking fun at their lyrics, on some songs its spot on and I can’t deny it. Almost wish they would now make a song using those lyrics. 
Some lyrics are nonsensical… Some tell a story. The entire Gamehenge set is a storyline, so there’s meaning to each tune.
It doesn’t hurt that I have had the pleasure, multiple times, of smoking a joint or a few, with “The Dude of Life”, and a few beers with Tom Marshall, both of whom are credited with co-writing much of the lyrics with Trey. Ya kinda get more background on the tunes then, obscure references and meanings, etc. There’s lots of central jersey lore in their songs believe it or not… There’s an Art Park near Princeton that has “The Rhombus”, an art piece, in it, which is a main part of the Gamehenge set. For a while it was a secret, and a nation wide scavenger hunt. We knew where it was from talking with Tom Marshall long before it was made public, now its kinda like a pilgramage of sorts for old-school phish-heads…
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After being spoiled by the lyrics of Robert Hunter, its just so hard to hear
“The tires are the things on your car
That make contact with the road
The car is the thing on the road
That takes you back to your abode”
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Contact. LOL. A “happy” tune…
Even some of my more favorites, like Stash, make no sense…
"I’m pulling the pavement from under my nails
I brush past a garden, dependent on whales
The sloping companion I cast down the ash
Yanked on my tunic and dangled my stash
Zipping through the forest with the curdling fleas
To grow with them spindles, the mutant I seize
I capture the dread beast who falls to his knees
And cries to his cohorts, asleep in the trees
Smegma, dogmatagram, fishmarket stew
Police in a corner, gunnin’ for you
Appletoast, bedheated, furblanket rat
Laugh when they shoot you, say
“Please don’t do that”
Control for smilers can’t be bought
The solar garlic starts to rot
Was it for this my life I sought?
Maybe so and maybe not (Maybe so and maybe not) "
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And I’ll rattle @Slick1 's cage a little… Also the lyrics of Neal Peart of RUSH. So, while I enjoy nonsensical lyrics, I also appreciate well written ones.
Always loved this play on words, especially line 2. Its my HS yearbook quote as well…
“You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that’s clear
I will choose freewill”
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Have you done an artistic photo shoot with any of them?
I hate Rush but at least you’re getting closer to music 
Neal Peart is the man though.
No. I haven’t… Whats your obsession with artistic photo shoots lately? You itchin to get naked and freaky in front of a camera again? Told ya before, that’s not my style. I won’t actively participate in a photo session with a woman kicking your balls, no matter how much you tell me you like it.
We can’t agree on Taylor Ham, we can’t agree on Phish or Rush, but there’s at least one thing we can agree on. Neal Peart was THE MAN… Sad day when he passed. “The Maestro” is no more 
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I just heard Mike Gordon is quite the shutterbug is all 
Alright, I been slackin with the updates and I apologize. I kinda get in a funk from thanksgiving till new years, lose motivation and become a bit of a recluse.
So a little soul bearing here… My pops last meal was Thanksgiving dinner at my house 14 years ago now. He passed a week later. Sooooo… Thanksgiving is a trigger of sorts. Starts me thinking, remniscing, remembering. And yes, I am a bit bitter about it, lost my mom when I was 27. Lost my pops when I was 34. Just getting to that age where you have meaningful conversations with your parents, where you connect on a deeper level. And I lost one, and then the other 7 years later.
For the past 5 years I have found some peace and solitude by removing myself from the equation, and getting to either Cozumel, or to Utila, both my island retreats, for several weeks to several months each winter. I worked on both thanksgiving and christmas day last year and didn’t miss either TBH. I was on the bottom of the ocean of course… This winter, thats not in the cards (dogs bionic leg cost $$), and the northeast IS very grey and gloomy all winter. No bueno for me… No bueno at all…
So, if I am absent, or snarky, or not myself, I apologize in advance. I try to keep the snarky comments to myself, but then I’m just quiet and reclusive. Its better for most that way.
So… I guess an update is in order… Been a little, and been trying to do some things to keep busy and keep my mind occupied otherwise…
First, as the 3x3 tent was moved, I have mostly finished setting up vent / humidity control systems, cleaned tent, and prepared it to run a few plants for just flower. Potted up a half dozen blueberry clones, from 2 / 3g pots to the 5g pots.Some fresh soil around the rootballs should give em a nice boost for flowering, and in 2 weeks I will flip them to 12/12 after they’ve had the chance to adjust to the new pots / soil.
Next up we have the 2x4 homemade tent. There are 5 black cream, 1 black cream x blueberry herer and 1 x NL x BC autos in here. All my very first testers. The NL cross is marked, so I know her. The blueberry herer was just marked with a BC tag like the 5 BC’s in here as a little game / test for me. Want to see if I can pick out the one outcross from the 5 backcrosses. So far, I think I can, but it’s early yet. We’ll see as time goes on if I am right 
The 2x2 Male Jail has just 3 Cherry Brandy’s chilling. The odd part with my Cherry Brandy Autos is the males flowered as expected, but the two assumed females STILL have no signs of buds, making me wonder if there was some kind of mixup. I know I am anal about tracking here, so these have been labeled from the day they hit the JP2000 worm castings, not sure why the Tycho Monolith, and the Spacewiz are more than halfway thru budding, and the Cherry Brandy shows no signs of it yet.
Speaking of which, the Tycho Monoliths are coming along nicely. Males flowered, I collected pollen and they are long gone now. Two females left, ones on the shorter side, and the other is a bit larger and bushier. A bit of purple coming in on the sugar and fan leaves of the smaller one, but buds on both look yummy. The SpaceWiz is similar, having collected pollen from the boys before moving them on to the netherworld, one female was pollenated, the other wasn’t. The pollenated SpaceWiz is smaller, and the bigger SpaceWiz I had an oops moment and overfertilized her weeks ago, burning many fan leaves. She’s trudging along still, and it sucks cause she’s much larger than her seeded sister, but she’ll still make some smoke.
My bonsai mom experiments with the octo-pups is going well. Lots of roots down into the reservoir, the plants are drinking lots. White Widow is having some pH issues, but changing the reservoir out seems to have helped. Still dialing in her nutes, she’s a hungry lady. The two GDP bonsai moms are trucking along. They were identical a week ago, and I did a heavy trim / defoliation on one, and left the other. You really can see the new growth in the side by side, and I will be defoliating the other this week. The last octo-pup mom is an Alaskan Purple clone being grown out. So far this strain has proven to be the most difficult for me to really dial in. As you can see, she’s more branchy, but her leaves are clawing like overwater / nitrogen overdose, neither of which is happening here. Older leaves are green and not clawed (and were at one time), but new growth seems to be BIG and clawed… And the ones I put in flower seem to have a pretty heavy iron deficiency, considering the rest of that tent was planted in the same mix and the rest aren’t iron deficient, its an interesting note for the strain.
We also have this little tray of goodness. Not quite the hundreds that @JohnnyPotseed would be showing, but its more sprouts at one time than I have had in a while! The black cream bx seems to be strong, 9/10 have popped and are growing nicely. The tropicana poison x black cream seemed sensitive, and I lost a few to damping off, same with the northern lights x black cream, though they had a lower mortality rate than the tropicana poison cross. That might just be they were too moist in their cups as well… I’ll keep the next bunch a bit drier and we’ll see.
Finally… The tent we all wanna see. The photo tent. There are random seeds in here (UGH) but they will all be either x UFS#18 pollen (most likely), or x BC pollen (possible). Not many, but enough that it’s not sinsemilla. Luckily its all personal, so I just gotta be dilligent about seed removal later. The Tropicana Poison F2 is pretty much ready to be cut, and “two more weeks” for most of the others, though UFS#18 is cloudy and could be chopped as the seeds are definitely ripe. In no rush, so let em go a few more weeks LOL. Just love the variety in here. Colors, textures, bud shape and formation. Crazy to think, essentially, these are all just slightly different cultivars of the same plant. Looking in this tent does make me smile 
And some of the buds in there…
I’d say that sums it up. I started writing this post 16 hours ago. And just finally managed to get pics added. Oooff! what a day… Tomorrow is another day…
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Hey bro. I am sorry to hear about your dad and mom. I can understand your being out of sorts after that. 
My WW was the same btw. She was a thirsty plant and as far as nutrients, she never showed any sign of over feeding.
Your grow looks great man. Those buds would make a man smile from ear to ear!
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Hey man, sorry to hear about your folks, I’m at the age you’re talking about and feeling all the things relative to my folks and my family you described, so I can relate in that way to how difficult losing them would be. Hoping you can cruise through to sunnier days and better mindsets fast bud. Doesn’t hurt to have a couple down months to reflect and reset. All the best dude. 
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I was just noticing that this morning… got up at 6:45, looked out the window and immediately tried to go back to bed. It didn’t work, but yeah, still just as dismal and grey. I feel like Eeyore…
It gets a little easier, but not really. No idea what kind of philosophy is supposed to help here, but obviously whatever it is, I don’t really believe it enough. I guess this is why I’ve spent most of my life self-medicating. Anyway, I hear you, snarky doesn’t even begin to cover it but sometimes it’s about all the connection you can bring yourself to have with another person. I wish I had something else to offer, but about all I can say is you either laugh or you cry… and since I can’t spend all day with my nose stuffed up, I’m gonna move on to the plants.
Apparently we’re going to be growing a lot of the same stuff for the next few months… wonder how that happened? 
My Blueberry clones are also getting up-potted from 1gal pots today, at least if all goes well, and I’m planning on starting some of the Black Cream S1 next weekend or maybe even earlier depending on how well the basement setup works… since, surprisingly enough, they’re the auto fems I have most of. Just a little quibble, unless you did some serious gymnastics with the F2s to get them to produce seeds before being planted, it’s technically an S1 rather than a backcross. A backcross would be if you saved pollen from the reversed one, and used it to pollinate the F2s. If you saved pollen and used it to pollinate the S1s you’re running now, that might also be considered a backcross depending on how liberal you are with the term and how genetically stable Black Cream is to begin with. It might also be an S2. 
I know, too early for all this word salad, call me OCD I guess…
Interesting to know on the WW and GDP, hopefully I remember you mentioned this when I start a crop of either. I managed to figure out that Gorilla Bubble is the same after another local mentioned that his GG4 are extra-hungry, might’ve saved me a few days of grief trying to LITFA.
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Holy Moly Boss, when you do an update it is EPIC! 
Thanks especially for the OctoPuppy side by side comparison. I am gearing up for a try at that method and eager to see your results.
BTW, did you ever run into the Hill family on Utila? I enjoyed a friendship with a crusty old Honduran named Ken Hill when we sailed together doing oceanographic research.
Felicidades Hermano. 
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That’s sh— is funny.
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One Love happy 420 . Fk a plus man.
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Chopped the 4 Alaskan Purples, the Tropicana Poison F2 photo and the UFS#18 with seeds (from left to right in the pic). The Trop Poison is a heavy bitch, once out of the net she couldn’t keep her main cola up unless it was propped against the black curtain. Thats a 12 oz red bull there too 
This is only half of the 3x4 photo tent. The Lucky Charms, BC Pinewarps, GDP and Spirit Train still got a little time to go…
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I can’t wait to have a purple ass plant someday 
Dude, I dunno if they come in purple…
This ones sorta purple:
Maybe this is the one?
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Dang, those plants are thicc
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Those plants are hurting for a squirtin’ (of carefully ph’d water and balanced nutrients).
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