Autos v. Photos - A 5x5 No Rules Fight for Yield: A Jon & NickHardy Gig

[Jon]

Phuket at times recently has been like living in an English county town. So I stay home and skip the grief as much as possible.

Watching the F1 on Saturday night.

A tray of wet/first trimmed weed and a Heineken Zero.

Livin’ the dream!

Heineken Zero? Is that zero calories or zero alcohol? If calories, okay, we get that. If zero alcohol…well, there HAS to be a backstory there! No human being would drink that swill without the appropriate backstory.

 

[Jon]

Heineken Zero? Is that zero calories or zero alcohol? If calories, okay, we get that. If zero alcohol…well, there HAS to be a backstory there! No human being would drink that swill without the appropriate backstory.

As many English and Irish friends as you have I’m surprised you would even post such a travesty. That’s a far cry from a pint of warm Guinness with a dartboard and fights breaking out.

(Sorry, had to hit you two times on that I was so LMAO at the time you posted)

 

[NickHardy]

Heineken Zero? Is that zero calories or zero alcohol? If calories, okay, we get that. If zero alcohol…well, there HAS to be a backstory there! No human being would drink that swill without the appropriate backstory.

They sell San Miguel Zero here - zero calories, 3% Abv

This is 0.0% alcohol. I don’t drink in Thailand any more unless Christmas or whatever. If I fancy it. But its been nuclear hot the last 4 days so I’ve been having one of these, actually just about 4 swigs, after that it gets too warm and ai can taste it - which yeah no thanks!

Its a cold can of suds on a hot day kinda thing. Not a habit Sugar free lemon soda is my usual, but ai’m not teetotal. Just alcohol these days screws with appetite so prefer eating.

 

[CaptainLucky]

@CaptainLucky - Sounds like there’s a backstory there? Or do you only go to church on Christmas and Easter too?

I don’t believe in any religion or church so I don’t go. But I used to drink every weekend and I didn’t like myself or anyone else. I love myself today and I can love others. I drink on New Year’s because it’s another year I’m alive and not incarcerated. I drink on St. Pat’s day to celebrate my Irish heritage. LIG today. CL

 

[KeithLemon]

I think it's great you can drink only a couple times a year as for me if I have one, I will be drinking every day again. It has been 25 years sense I have had a drink, and it is not to hard going without anymore. Thanks to my higher power.

 

[CaptainLucky]

I think it's great you can drink only a couple times a year as for me if I have one, I will be drinking every day again. It has been 25 years sense I have had a drink, and it is not to hard going without anymore. Thanks to my higher power.

Tbh if it makes you feel any better when I do drink it tastes horrible. It’s just like being that little kid who drank for the first time. It makes me wonder how I used to love drinking that cold beer after a long work week. CL

 

[KeithLemon]

I do drink N/A beer and love the taste of beer. Now there is some really good craft N/A brew out there. I have some dark beer that taste just like Geniss stout real heavy beer I am good for 1 or 2 of them. Heineken N/A sucks IMO it tastes like water. But with all the micro-breweries out there it is not too hard to find a good beer. It took many years before I tried N/A brew but now it's not a problem.

 

[Jon]

They sell San Miguel Zero here - zero calories, 3% Abv

This is 0.0% alcohol. I don’t drink in Thailand any more unless Christmas or whatever. If I fancy it. But its been nuclear hot the last 4 days so I’ve been having one of these, actually just about 4 swigs, after that it gets too warm and ai can taste it - which yeah no thanks!

Its a cold can of suds on a hot day kinda thing. Not a habit Sugar free lemon soda is my usual, but ai’m not teetotal. Just alcohol these days screws with appetite so prefer eating.

Ah! See, now that makes total sense. I was only joking but thanks for that clarification. Lol.

 

[Jon]

I don’t believe in any religion or church so I don’t go. But I used to drink every weekend and I didn’t like myself or anyone else. I love myself today and I can love others. I drink on New Year’s because it’s another year I’m alive and not incarcerated. I drink on St. Pat’s day to celebrate my Irish heritage. LIG today. CL

I ask because I feel it always adds to the fabric of the journal and relationships when some of us occasionally choose to share little snippets of the “non-growing” us with the rest. As you just did. Thanks @CaptainLucky, appreciate that my man.

 

[NickHardy]

I’m watching a movie with a big ass spider eating a catering sized jar of nutella with Adam Sandler. Its trippy as fuck. Oh its in space too. Sandler and the Spider on a Spaceship

The devils lettuce strikes again.

Spaceman on Netflix. V cool.

 

[Jon]

I’m watching a movie with a big ass spider eating a catering sized jar of nutella with Adam Sandler. Its trippy as fuck. Oh its in space too. Sandler and the Spider on a Spaceship

The devils lettuce strikes again.

Spaceman on Netflix. V cool.

Is it called Spaceman? Poor Adam Sandler. From the genius of Big Daddy and the golf movie to outer space with spiders. How the mighty have fallen. And how does a spider eat a jar of Nutella? Oh, you meant you. Haha!!

 

[NickHardy]

Is it called Spaceman? Poor Adam Sandler. From the genius of Big Daddy and the golf movie to outer space with spiders. How the mighty have fallen. And how does a spider eat a jar of Nutella? Oh, you meant you. Haha!!

Its one of his serious movies. Not played for laughs. Very cool sets and visual work. Sorta of a love story to humanity.

But yeah a talking spider the size of a 7 year old kid eating from some off brand Nutella jar features prominently.

Trippy as fuck, really enjoyed it for the most part.

 

[CaptainLucky]

Its one of his serious movies. Not played for laughs. Very cool sets and visual work. Sorta of a love story to humanity.

But yeah a talking spider the size of a 7 year old kid eating from some off brand Nutella jar features prominently.

Trippy as fuck, really enjoyed it for the most part.

I watched a funny as hell movie on what I thought was a micro dose of s. I almost fell out of bed laughing. It was called Flypaper. You ever seen it? If not you gotta check it out. CL

 

[Jon]

Ok, hate to break up the levity with, you know, weed pictures and all, but….

Here’s a couple colas off the organic Gorilla Cookies in the small pot. I have nine main colas like these on this plant. Very curious to see how big they get in a 2.5 gallon organic soil pot. Nine colas is probably a bit too many for such a small pot for them to get immense, lol, but we’re gonna see what the GC has got. I’m pretty damn happy seeing these.

 

[Jon]

This is what I can photograph of the Cherry Pie. If anyone saw the first one I grew, it had 1700 colas that were so jammed together, despite defalrfing like cray, that I had a little mold and a lot of flarf. I decided since this is a fill in organic in a 3, to take the opposite approach. And look what this plant does when you don’t dilute it to so many colas! Very cool.

 

[con]

This is what I can photograph of the Cherry Pie. If anyone saw the first one I grew, it had 1700 colas that were so jammed together, despite defalrfing like cray, that I had a little mold and a lot of flarf. I decided since this is a fill in organic in a 3, to take the opposite approach. And look what this plant does when you don’t dilute it to so many colas! Very cool.

They both are looking good wanna trade???? Lol!

 

[Carmen Ray]

I'm done with Class A powders, psychos and top shelf booze too
Just wanna chill out these days with some craft beer and a mellow smoke

Love a craft beer and a mellow smoke too

Phuket at times recently has been like living in an English county town.

Is that because ex pats?

a really good California, Chilean, or Australian Cabernet,

Have you ever tried South African Cabernets?

I do drink N/A beer and love the taste of beer. Now there is some really good craft N/A brew out there. I have some dark beer that taste just like Geniss stout real heavy beer I am good for 1 or 2 of them. Heineken N/A sucks IMO it tastes like water. But with all the micro-breweries out there it is not too hard to find a good beer. It took many years before I tried N/A brew but now it's not a problem.

N/A craft beers are still in their infancy here but I agree that the Heineken tastes like water.

Both lots of plants look great, green and growing

 

[Azimuth]

@NickHardy , OK I have to ask.

How do you pronounce the place that you live (Phuket Island), 'cause when I see it my mind goes to "F*ck it Island."

 

[Absorber]

@NickHardy , OK I have to ask.

How do you pronounce the place that you live (Phuket Island), 'cause when I see it my mind goes to "F*ck it."

The other way isn't much better Pooket

 

[NickHardy]

Yeah what Absorber says

I used to live looking out over a beach, a small bay about 2-3km across. Just off centre in the middle of the bay is Poo Island aka Crab Island. So Poo Island off Pookhet Not sure of its the same hieroglyph thing or not. Think its chicken something. Tin mining was the thing here, you go to a Thai restaurant and it has chopsticks then they are for Chinese people. Thailand started using cutlery hundreds of years ago. Knife and spoon generally because of tin and European traders visiting.

Loved that place. My last home as single man. Not great for growing though. Tried chillies on the balcony but April- September the wind comes straight in off the sea brings lots of rain and salt.

Life has given me an uneven canopy - feel like its not even my fault this time. The 5000k where it is seems to broadly follow the taller girls.

So I added more lights which is something I can change. I decided swapping lights around too much hassle. Dimmer now ships tomorrow and a fancy controller, can vary the spectrum remotely with oresets and stuff. Designed to run 200 lights I think.

Looks cool. Pretty useless for my purposes though had I had it then it may have made this dimmer controller failure a moot point. It would basically skip it i think.

But the real story here is I defoliated and I defoliated deep and hard. Because whilst I can’t put more light up top (actually I can tomorrow when I add in the 200w flood light) I may as well maximise the side light that I do have. So I’ve stripped them bare. Its nit without risks at the end of week three. Its a bit late for me. But i’m going to have to trust in the tops to look after themselves and go to work lower down. I guess its another 8-9 days for the controller.

Whilst I can’t put more light up top, oh wait I just said I am tomorrow, I also put more light up top today. Went with the Chinese made UVC lights. 11w each. I noticed they are 232nm which is absolutely great for killing stuff. The other didn’t look like such a great spectrum.

These are designed for purifying aquarium water in a sealed box.

I gave them 20 seconds on just after lights out. I need to try and figure out the joules but in a study on tomatoes they gave them 16 seconds a night. Need to figure out what 20 seconds of mine works out.

They look cool.

Apart from sorting out the main light and watching I don’t see what else I can do. I really missed the light these last two formative weeks, hope I can catch some up.

Last picture captured through the hatch whilst looking away.

Nick