Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover: Stop And See Some High Brix Plants

[Slapalottapuss]

 

[Slapalottapuss]

Little Disc Golf with the fam this afternoon. The boy is putting, the girl is being sassy with mom way in the background

 

[Slapalottapuss]

Little bit of my day

 

[Preston9mm]

Little bit of my day

Looking great on all fronts brochacho!

 

[Sparkey224]

Like P9 said looking great over there bro

 

[Graytail]

Nice bones on that home!

 

[Slapalottapuss]

Thanks. That roof framing is old. The left side is the original part of the house circa early 1700s. It ended at the right side of the center chimney. The roof framing to the right has sagged pretty bad. We sistered 6 rafters and our new lath on. The lath is structural in these old places. This is getting standing seam copper. We are taking the chimneys apart and rebuilding them with pointed stone. Capping them with domed copper.

 

[Graytail]

Ack. More work than a reroof!

I was admiring the very old lath roof and the stone, the stone! Copper, you say? Mph.

It looks a lot more satisfying than a new stick-built. Probably kinda thankless, but ... nice work.

 

[Slapalottapuss]

Yeppers. We have a lot of 1700s stone houses around here. The chimneys will be pointed stone work.
We’re removing the old slate and will put standing seam copper in but will use old period correct techniques that are all folding and bending, no sealants or butyl required.
These old houses are amazing. No nails in the roof framing. It’s all joined with tenons and wooden spikes. Been standing for a long time. Not many new stick framed homes will last that long. Plus these have more character imo. My dad lives in one that was initially deeded by William Penn in 1710
Rarely do we get anything straightforward and easy.

 

[Slapalottapuss]

For got to say that I have a machine that makes the standing seam panels. It’s roll form machine. Got it 2 years ago or so. Takes a 20” wide coil and makes a 17” wide panel.

 

[Graytail]

These old houses are amazing. No nails in the roof framing. It’s all joined with tenons and wooden spikes. Been standing for a long time. Not many new stick framed homes will last that long

Heheh, that's gotta be a big help!

I'm always amazed at the old wood, staring at the rough surface finish and the simple age of it. It wasn't farmed - no one planted it - it just grew there like any tree until a guy cut it and shaped it 100+ years ago.

You can't even find that kind of lumber anymore. When I was a kid, I worked on a crew, lowering and cutting down a barn using hydraulic hand jacks. We'd cut off a few feet of studs at the bottom, set some timbers and a jack, lift the entire side of the barn, cut off the rest of the studs and lower it 6 inches - repeat on the other side - all day back and forth, inching the thing down until we got to the hay mow, which we cut out. Those haymow timbers were solid 100+ yr old oak. They didn't cut worth a damn! A true 2 inches x at least 12, maybe 14. Chewed up chainsaw chains like they were putty! No lie, they'd throw sparks! Like rock.

Can't even get decent pine anymore.

 

[Slapalottapuss]

Oh yeah. That old wood is like iron. Contractor I know bought an old barn and burned up his saw mill trying to resaw the Timbers

Some plant shots.
My PHH clones all rooted.
CapJunky clones rooted also.

 

[Slapalottapuss]

53 days since flip. Looking at 15-20 more. The big Chillz may go 12 weeks
Been hammering the Trop with excessive UVB and A, IR and Far red for 90 minutes a day now. The upper leaves are showing the stress, the more exposed areas are getting heavier trichome coverage. Had to change out carbon filters on both tents. Put new 6” exhaust in the tent and outside it the fan on both tents. Exhaust is being drawn through a filter then passes through a second. Have the tents under negative pressure 24/7 now. Mild during lights out but still negative. At lights on they run 100%.

 

[Slapalottapuss]

0000s of words.
My schedules and style may be unorthodox but one can not obtain different results by following any rules. Find the box, stand on it while you build your own. It’s simple to follow the dots. But why? Mistakes make us better, mistakes make us learn. There is no single way to do this but there will always be someone that will do whatever they can to do it better.
Be your own drummer

 

[Preston9mm]

My schedules and style may be unorthodox but one can not obtain different results by following any rules. Find the box, stand on it while you build your own. It’s simple to follow the dots. But why? Mistakes make us better, mistakes make us learn. There is no single way to do this but there will always be someone that will do whatever they can to do it better.
Be your own drummer

Hard factz!

Hope you're doing well brochacho!

 

[Slapalottapuss]

I’m good.

 

[Slapalottapuss]

Was bowed up busy this week. Got the little veg tent ready. Will soak some black sugar seeds tomorrow

 

[Slapalottapuss]

Soaking some seeds

 

[Preston9mm]

Soaking some seeds

Got mine in the water late last night. gonna be a fun run brother.

 

[Slapalottapuss]

some lights out pics after day 56 of 12/12. Will give them water weak tea and final from here on out. Been beating the Trop up with uvb IR and Far red. I’ll post some side by side pics when they’re finished. Looks like 9-10 weeks will be the sweet spot