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ELORA
Stretch Training
Canopy Maintenance


It was time to manage the canopy on Elora and reveal her true beastliness. Yes, of course we train through the stretch. Let's just do this with picture/commentary.

1. This is Elora's improved canopy from as far overhead as I can possibly get, employing my gymnast skills. It is pretty comprehensive, and good lord is this ever a canopy. It is now at a very sweet, even level. You could level a paper plate on top.

2. This picture is the same canopy from the side, hopefully displaying her true flatness. She's almost 2-dimensional. :rofl:

3. This photo shows my extremely high-tech method for evening out the canopy. Don't be intimidated, it's only technology. I am currently in talks with Elon Musk about patenting this and taking me public. I'm way cheaper than Twitter.

4. This last picture is a rare selfie, or as much of one as I dare show. I'd show you my face, I'm not shy, but if I do that I'll just start getting tons of hit on me messages from the female growers, and I can't have that. I posted this so that you guys can see the size/height of this plant as compared to me sitting in my chair. It's not a dating site for god's sake.

I don't think anything (or much at all) further should be necessary with Elora. I should just be able to leave her be now.

Heh.
 
And this thread has now officially become anything goes apparently.....well okay then. I stopped trying to control it a while back. Way to take it up a notch or seven, @farside05, I was wondering when it was going to get serious.

:rofl::laugh::rofl::laugh::woohoo:
Sorry for dragging your thread down to my level.

Ms J. the EMT asks, "did it require paramedics?" I do note that your hand was the only thing raised on this day. :rofl:

Unfortunately in that situation, I had already laid the tracks, I backed the train up by myself but not without leaving an inch and a half incision. You think I was going to the ER to explain that one either? I manned up and pretended I was ok, although I walked pretty gingerly for a few days.

I've also burned all the hair off my chest when a recently let fart ignited. It was evidently trapped in my London Fog long coat, and I tried to light my cigarette. And I've nearly drown via garden hose after filling up my water bed. It's a wonder I made it out of my 20's (54 now).
 
Sorry for dragging your thread down to my level.



Unfortunately in that situation, I had already laid the tracks, I backed the train up by myself but not without leaving an inch and a half incision. You think I was going to the ER to explain that one either? I manned up and pretended I was ok, although I walked pretty gingerly for a few days.

I've also burned all the hair off my chest when a recently let fart ignited. It was evidently trapped in my London Fog long coat, and I tried to light my cigarette. And I've nearly drown via garden hose after filling up my water bed. It's a wonder I made it out of my 20's (54 now).
Please don't apologize, I meant it. I love this shit.

And.....oh.....you were serious......that really......happened.....

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I couldn't find a good OUCH emoji.
 
And.....oh.....you were serious......that really......happened.....

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Yeah, can't make that kind of stuff up unless you're smoking weed....wait, bad analogy. I don't think anyone wants to see the scar for proof.
 
Yeah, can't make that kind of stuff up unless you're smoking weed....wait, bad analogy. I don't think anyone wants to see the scar for proof.
No, I'm sure everyone believes you. Lmao!
 
Another PSA For Warm Weather AC Unit Growers

I thought I'd highlight yet one more thing to be aware of when using AC units to cool your tent. I have talked earlier somewhere about how the environmental control in my garage (or any indoor space for the most part in really warm climates when connected to an outer big door like a garage door) is a living thing. The factors in play can be any or all part(s) of how open the garage door is, whether the AC unit is on high or low, the relative outdoor RH that day, how opened the door to the inside of the house is, how open the doors to your tent are or not, etc...All of these factors get tuned as a unit.

That's background to explain my situation shown in this picture, which I suspect I'm not alone in. Thus this post, in the hopes it helps someone somewhere (there's gotta be one person for god's sake, lol).

This is the right hand wall of my tent, which faces the street and the outside. It's close-ish to the garage door as you can see. Generally in the day I don't have to kick in the AC unit until around 2 pm, which is when the sun is on this side of the house and it begins to hit the tent starting low and gradually moving up. Obviously this affects the conditions inside the tent, and the AC unit mitigates them. 2 pm is when the temperature at the height of the canopy's highest spot hits 85 degrees. I don't let the leaf temps ever get higher than that, and even that is pushing it for me. I have to leave the garage door open enough from 2 to 8 as well, due to the fact that I'm tuning the environment at the same time for two very different tent situations in the same space. So from 2 to 6, when the lights go out in this tent, the AC unit runs.

At 6 pm (lights out) there are still a few hours when the sun hits the tent as shown and until around 8 it is still necessary to leave the garage door open. But now the light is out, and so now I have turned off the AC unit. No need for it overnight. It stays around the mid-70s and around 50% RH in there overnight without the unit. The amount of sun still hitting low on the tent is not an issue in the slightest regarding the environment at this point.

HOWEVER, (finally, the point!) - note that the sun is hitting the tent at a low angle at this point. It is basically shining directly into the back waffle-y part of the AC unit. Now I don't know for certain that these AC units would leak light through the unit, and out of the normal slot where the air comes out and into the tent. But I suspect it's possible, if not likely.

THIS IS NOT A CHANCE YOU WANT TO TAKE, TRUST ME.

So mitigating this risk is again extremely simple but way high tech. Let me know if anyone needs instructions and I'll post a step by step. Here's all I do at 6 pm each night once flower began to take care of the issue:


You can see the other light mitigating techniques I use on this side of the tent (everything is SO high tech, I gotta calm down) here as well for the big round port and the small cord port.

Don't let a little sunlight at the wrong time spoil all your hard work!
 
Hi Jon!

Does the cardboard impede airflow off the condenser?
Hi @GratefulBud - yes, it absolutely would. You can't do this when the unit is running or it will quickly overheat and shut down. I almost went 9 am to 9 pm on the 12/12 just for this reason, but I couldn't bring myself to wait until 9 am every morning to see the girls! Lol.
 
Couldn't you hang a shade or something to block the sunlight?
Hi Azi - yes, I have before and it works fine. Problem with that is that it has to hang on the garage door itself, which changes height of opening all day long and is my only entrance and exit to the garage.
 
These guys roam the neighborhood like they own it, generally in groups of four or five. I think there's only one clan of them, and you see them from a distance occasionally. They look like little dinosaurs from across the pond or something. I have never once seen one roaming around by him/her self, and definitely never this close.
Here in Missouri we call that, dinner. :rofl: :laugh::rofl:
 
Dang HOAs take all the fun out of things... especially for ham radio operators.
Yup. Asshole Nazi-politician wannabes. That's part of why the spent soil plant stays. Speaking of that goddamn pile of soil, it must be pretty damn fertile, cuz NOW look.,,,,,not AGAIN!!!!

The damn things are shooting up in my damn butt pile now at the base of the dead plant. Christ. Lmao.

Goddamnit not again.jpg
 
I need some volunteer plants! Growing outdoors is going to be a challenge right now... between the 4 puppies and mamma, the backyard is a destruction zone. I am going to see how my tomato and pepper plants do, but I am afraid that without some additional fencing, outdoor gardening is not going to work very well.
 
I need some volunteer plants! Growing outdoors is going to be a challenge right now... between the 4 puppies and mamma, the backyard is a destruction zone. I am going to see how my tomato and pepper plants do, but I am afraid that without some additional fencing, outdoor gardening is not going to work very well.
Volunteer plants? You mean like plants you can put outside that you don't care about and see what you can get from them? If that's the case, you and Mrs. J are welcome to come down and take all the cuttings you want from the spent soil pile......

:rofl:

EDIT: you could toss a handful of those old Green Crack seeds out there and see what happens.....?
 
Made the mistake of going to the actual Growers Choice website instead of a reseller to see if I could order directly from them. I assumed they would have a more extensive catalog of their stuff than any reseller. I was indeed correct. After seeing this Double XL WWC auto from them, I have to find out if the XL thing is real or not. So I just ordered these:

Items Ordered
Items Ordered
Product NameSKUPriceQtySubtotal incl. VAT
Double xl Banana Sherbet Amount of seeds3Double XL Banana Sherbet-3€20.00
  • Ordered1
€20.00
Double xl Forbidden Runtz Amount of seeds3Forbidden Runtz XL auto-3€22.50
  • Ordered1
€22.50
Subtotal incl. VAT€42.50
Shipping & Handling€12.00
Grand Total (Excl.Tax)€45.05
Netherlands (standard) (21%)€9.45
Tax€9.45
Grand Total (Incl.Tax)€54.50

Banana Sherbet is Strawberry Banana x Sunset Sherbet
Forbidden Runtz is Forbidden Fruit x Runtz

:woohoo:
 
Volunteer plants? You mean like plants you can put outside that you don't care about and see what you can get from them? If that's the case, you and Mrs. J are welcome to come down and take all the cuttings you want from the spent soil pile......

:rofl:

EDIT: you could toss a handful of those old Green Crack seeds out there and see what happens.....?
volunteers: plants that you didn't have to plant or even know that they are there... they just show up one day.
 
volunteers: plants that you didn't have to plant or even know that they are there... they just show up one day.
Ah! I get it now. Yes I seem to have my share of volunteer plants. Lol. The cutting offer still stands.
 
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