Maine 4-Season Greenhouse Grow

[Van Stank]

I used to joke with my Marines that the day I gave any Marine a 5.0 in proficiency or conduct, that it was time for me to go. No such thing as a perfect Marine LOL....Too many grading criteria to get ranked perfect in them all. I did have to alter my grading scale so I wasn't screwing over my guys because others were apparently grading a curve. So I started giving them two grades...LOL...mine and the ones used toward promotion. I rarely gave anyone over a 4.6 in my scale. Then I used to blow their minds and hand them my report card for them to fill out as a leader. Know yourself and seek self improvement....

 

[Blew Hiller]

I used to joke with my Marines that the day I gave any Marine a 5.0 in proficiency or conduct, that it was time for me to go. No such thing as a perfect Marine LOL....Too many grading criteria to get ranked perfect in them all. I did have to alter my grading scale so I wasn't screwing over my guys because others were apparently grading a curve. So I started giving them two grades...LOL...mine and the ones used toward promotion. I rarely gave anyone over a 4.6 in my scale. Then I used to blow their minds and hand them my report card for them to fill out as a leader. Know yourself and seek self improvement....

Perfection is a hard goal, because it is unattainable and striving for it can be self-defeating and disheartening. But pointing one's compass in the general direction of perfection usually results in excellence...

 

[Van Stank]

Perfection's definition is debatable.....but for me what isn't is effort. That is only answered by the person being able to look in the mirror and ask themselves if they gave that action their absolute most or at a minimum the absolute most of what was available at that time. If I improve my effort, everything else follows suit. Being honest with one's self is very hard...well for me it is..... again, but that stems from wanting to continually get better.

 

[Pjs420]

it Never ceases to amaze me how a like the majority of us are on this site.... my wife’s constantly on my case for being a perfectionist and not being able to leave work at work... “i could have/should have done this”.... time is money if you ask me and our clocks don’t stop ticking!

.do the absolute minimum necessary in order to get by

Lately I’ve felt that humans/society have become lazy because we lack the need/desire to survive.... life is easy.... and as a result people lack pride, will power and determination... unless they feel they’re getting paid what they think their worth

 

[Blew Hiller]

time is money

No doubt there....we trade it away for an agreed rate of pieces of paper (or digits in a bank account) and that allows us to "live"...the sad part, to me, is how the vast majority of the workforce don't even like their jobs. So that means most people, by necessity, make the calculated choice to be unhappy...for a significant portion of their daily lives. Some in that group justify the trade by looking towards retirement...assuming they make it to that age. I know a guy making big $ and just had his second heart attack at the same job...and he's unwilling to give it up...and he's just 50. His reasoning is that he has kids in private school...yet he ignores the fact that they could be kids without a dad. I'm guessing those under this guy at work would look at him (in his nice clothes and office) and think he is a successful, probably worth aspiring to....I look at him as a perfect example of a corporate indentured slave. Every day he wakes up wondering if that is the day his job kills him....strictly for the $.

 

[Bode]

The two saddest things in the world are - Dying on a job you don't even like, and a woman pushing a man to choose between divorce and suicide. Long lasting scenarios. I've been with both without cannabis. With cannabis, all that fell away.
However, I'd rather think about all this new snow melting away, and seeing the crocus again. Thinking about cannabis seedlings emerging from soil. Thinking about how warm the spring sun feels when gardening. Thinking how nice it will be to see some cannabis ladies ripe for harvest. Hell Yeah, I'll choose the cannabis life every time!!

 

[Blew Hiller]

The two saddest things in the world are - Dying on a job you don't even like, and a woman pushing a man to choose between divorce and suicide. Long lasting scenarios. I've been with both without cannabis. With cannabis, all that fell away.
However, I'd rather think about all this new snow melting away, and seeing the crocus again. Thinking about cannabis seedlings emerging from soil. Thinking about how warm the spring sun feels when gardening. Thinking how nice it will be to see some cannabis ladies ripe for harvest. Hell Yeah, I'll choose the cannabis life every time!!

Amen....no one has "I Wish I Spent More Time at Work" on their tombstone, even if they did like their job,

Spring is here, just temporarily hidden beneath the layer of snow....I felt bad for all the birds that were flying around on Sunday with their frantic spring planning....I shared their frustration since we were 2x windows short of finishing the Cabin, but we ran out of time and had to pack it in for the storm. It will rain and melt this weekend. Patience comes naturally to some...not me

 

[Blew Hiller]

8" of snow (and some rain tossed in) slowed us down, but we finally got all the windows in....looking sweeeeeeeet

 

[Pennywise]

Looking pretty sweet, you're getting there.

 

[Bode]

Beautiful job! Man, I could live there, no problem! Cheers

 

[Blew Hiller]

Busy, busy, busy on the farm. Moved the tent out of the Cottage and the remaining 2x plants in the insulated Box in the GH. We had guests booked for Easter (and in-laws coming this weekend) so I needed to get the Cottage into Summer mode...

Just did a final trim on the OG Kush and runt Berry Bomb auto with my curved hydrofarm pruners...they are nice!

Hope you all are well.

 

[Pennywise]

Good trimmers are a life saver!

 

[bobrown14]

So I am getting ready to mix up some soil for the summer and I was looking at my inventory...I am out of glacial rock dust and then had a thought....we have a huge granite cutting place that gives the rock dust (leftover from cutting) away for free...

I used to work at a stone shop doing design and running install crews.

Granite dust is perfect. Paramagnetic is THE best and there will be some of that mixed in depending on the source of the granite. They also likely cut some marble. That's a great source of Ca as well so best of both worlds.

The only possible issue - the workers contaminate the dust with shit they feel like throwing in the waste water collection system. Usually its not an issue but they use some pretty heavy duty glues to make stone with. You could ask about it. Don't expect a really great reply tho. I prolly wouldn't ask. Just look and see if there's a lot of epoxy laying around on the floors. Usually its not used until after all the cuts are made. "Usually"

Can add to compost bins problem solved.


We aways had lots of old-timers coming to the shop and getting the granite dust for their gardens.


Black granite is the basalt and why the basalt dust is darker colored.

It's all good.

They using local granite - post the name of the area they are working in. I'm a stone guy - so can figure out the type of granite/stone they are cutting.

Granite is sorta a generic name for a lot of different types of stone.

Usually quarries in the US are making special stone for large buildings/sky scrapers. Architectural Stone is what its called.

there is no moving the GH and high tunnel...shouldn't begin to really stink until Sept

On the hoop house - most of em down here (we get a lot of humidity) have industrial size fans one on each end and a door.

Tell guests its your neighbors grow and he don't like strangers (city folks) nosing about.


Awesome job on the cabin Blew. Mighty fine actually.

Be a nice place for the seasonal trimmer help to stay in. Comes with beer right? Used to be hookers and blow but I'm too old for that shit anymore. lol Thanks for the invite, already packin.

 

[bobrown14]

So here's my question...when you read other reviews, do you frown on 4-stars or do you think 5-star reviewers are clueless?

I generally give less than a 5-star review if there are more than 1 basic thing I think could have (and would have) been done better by me. If I could cook it better, clean it better, present it better, etc. When I see excellence in (some but not necessarily all) areas I reward it....I hope to encourage and inspire them to continue the good work.

I'm just wondering if the next generation has other ideas....

We just stayed in a Tiny Home in Lake Placid, NY. I didn't read any of the previous reviews cause I wanted to have a legit non-biased view going in.

Our stay was pretty perfect. Everything was there in clean perfect order.
We had nice weather, white out snow conditions complete with electricity outage @ 20F and windy AF. We still managed a fire in the fire ring outside.

I left 5 stars. Coulda been a few things better - very minor not enough for me to leave out a star for a muddy driveway when we have a 4x4 pickup. The thing that wasn't 5 star was neighbor but they left us alone. Which I was glad for.
We even asked for an extra day and got it (the windy night with electrical outage).

We left the place the way we found it. Wondering if we got 5 stars?

 

[bobrown14]

My gripe is with the one guy who says all the same things in his review (as the other 63/65 5-star reviews) and gives it a 4-star. Odds are he is a douche in life....and the majority opinion rules....but it still rubs me.

And my condolences to you for having to spend all those months in hotels....because you are right...most of them are bare minimum.

I spend several years staying in shit hotels and traveling for work. One day I said this is it, I'm done with hotels - still am - started staying be B&Bs close to if not walking distance to a local brew pub where I could get a decent meal and a decent beer. The only thing better than that is all in 1- B&B WITH decent beer and good food.

We have rented out our cottage a lot in the past. I never cared about the review. The VIEW is 5star so anyone dont like it 5star, your life prolly sucks. lol.

From all the traveling I've done. I guess the first and last thing is clean. Is it clean and is it easy for me to clean? If it's easy to clean, makes for a relatively stress free exit. I find that to be important.

That was the ONLY somewhat gripe for me at the Tiny Home - they didn't have a decent broom. With polished cement floors, the central vac was a sorta overkill. I'd have rather had a decent broom. I'm somewhat biased tho. We dont have carpets at home - all hardwood and tile so a broom is pretty handy. Vacuum not so much. I'm sure most folks have carpet so a central vac, even tho over kill is a plus.

I'm a perfectionist with growing cannabis. Not everything tho - I find happiness comes a little easier when I'm not stressing over the little shit. I left that at my last job that sadly almost killed me. After I got home from a week in the ICU - I realized if I didn't do something different I wasn't gonna make 60 let alone retirement.

Wife handed me some cannabis seeds I had saved up. The rest is history.

My health thing was the chances of making my 5 year anniversary alive were zero percent. No one has ever lived to 5 years post incident with what I had (blew a hole in my aorta).

SMA dissection its a thing that kills everyone. The docs never told me.
I'm still alive - avoid all stress if possible its been 6 years.

Maybe there's something to the saying;

"What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger."

Somehow attempting to grow the best weed I can, isn't that stressful and actually makes me (and all my friends) happy.

 

[Blew Hiller]

They using local granite - post the name of the area they are working in.

I drove by the other day and saw the pile....it looks like a dump truck (or two) load...so they have, literally, tons of it. I have the name of the guy who will let me grab it and I am suspecting he'll be straightforward with what's in it...my guess is very little...the company is FreshwaterStone(.com) and they are family respected in the area...don't think they do anything but granite though...

Be a nice place for the seasonal trimmer

Agreed...the trick it to get someone to pay extra for that right ....I have some ideas brewing for the 420 family though....

 

[Blew Hiller]

I left 5 stars. Coulda been a few things better - very minor not enough for me to leave out a star

We always follow top with a "thanks for being our guest...if there is anything you would suggest to improve the experience. please let us know"...it's a trick I learned from someone else which allows the guest to vent to you privately and not feel the need to include in the review. I actually had some dumbass say "great place, a little hard to find but maybe that would have been easier in the daytime"....smh. Same dumbass showed up with 2x kids he failed to include in the reservation, and we charge for extra people....

 

[Blew Hiller]

I guess the first and last thing is clean. Is it clean and is it easy for me to clean?

I am fanatic about clean and guests often mention it...we actually designed the place to be easy to clean with a lot of built in stuff that doesn't allow dust to hide. We leave a broom/pan in the bathroom to let guests sweep the hard floors because the whole farm is dirt and gravel.

 

[bobrown14]

I drove by the other day and saw the pile....


Agreed...the trick it to get someone to pay extra for that right ....I have some ideas brewing for the 420 family though....

Wait, trimming for vacation & pay? Can I bring my own? BYO an all I think its a thing in the high falutin places up north. lol

Granite dust is local. Likely from our original continent (Pangaea) - very very old granite. Already been worked on by bacteria a few billion years. It's our home above the water line.

That granite is very common in Canada and into USA. Trick it to excavate/cut, move, cut some more and install.

Google "Grey Pearl Granite"

We have a few sky scrapers in Philly made with that granite.

They prolly have a water filtration system that takes out the dust from the cuttings and either discards or re-cycles the water (most likely).
So they have to take time ($$) to change out filters. Thats what you see there in the piles.

I bet lots of soluble nutrients or VERY VERY close to being soluble. We use that granite dust in our soil mix at the cottage. We burn it in a wood fire first and collect the wood ash and the rock dust that forms from the high temps of the fire. Thats our nutrient input and vermi-compost.

 

[bobrown14]

We always follow top with a "thanks for being our guest...if there is anything you would suggest to improve the experience. please let us know"...it's a trick I learned from someone else which allows the guest to vent to you privately and not feel the need to include in the review. I actually had some dumbass say "great place, a little hard to find but maybe that would have been easier in the daytime"....smh. Same dumbass showed up with 2x kids he failed to include in the reservation, and we charge for extra people....

Wait - he cant see in the dark? lol Hey I wouldn't wanna check into my cottage in the dark. Too many people died doing that shit.

I'm city folk but I got good common sense. Keep me a live in the hood.

Rule #1 - going to the woods? gotta get up REAL early. lol