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Culled the Kalishakra backup....dude 
Maine 4-Season Greenhouse Grow
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Blew your gardens are looking massive. Looks like the next few months are going to be fun for ya. It's just getting started. Wow.
I only use the 62% large size - add to cans/1/2 gal masons after dry trim, I never have to worry. Flowers are perfect for as long as I have them.
Manual control = beer?
I only use the 62% large size - add to cans/1/2 gal masons after dry trim, I never have to worry. Flowers are perfect for as long as I have them.
Manual control = beer?
Slowpuffer
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Well, that's 8 more than I knew about !! How it going ??
Slowpuffer
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I work for weed !!
Dibbs on the trim station with a chair. Just sayin
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I install one 8 gm Boveda in each qt jar, but only after burping slowly, from about 69-70, down to 63-64. They do a good job keeping them around 62%. So at 8 gm per qt., that's 160gm for 5 gl. bucket. I have used plastic bins for curing, but growing inside, I never have that much at one time.Oh yes....we use them in all sorts of applications. The best price I've found for them is HD and they deliver for free on orders over $45. I usually order buckets and gammas same time. The plan is to use them for the deep cure. I saw some fancy (expensive!) bucket with an electronic RH sensor and phone app (probably) and thought...that looks like a 5g bucket with a gamma lid on its side...which I figured makes sense with 2x big Boosts in there...except mine will cost about $12 all in....
I admit that when you set them outside, I thought they were to small, but you were right. Perfect !! hope ya don't find any more males. Let the bud porn begin !!
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I am starting to consider my options...
Likewise, but I have barely spent any time pruning/maintaining them besides watering...which is good because the 2x rentals and the other chores have been keeping me busy...and I still have time to swim and hang out with the kids. Nobody's tombstone says "I wish I spent more time at the office".
Nope, all are confirmed females at this point....which puts me 1x under legal limit
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Loving this weather....another flannel and slippers morning @ 58F and looking like lots more mornings in the 50's this week....in August no less. This time last year we were burning up and the humidity was crazy...fingers crossed it keeps cool and drier into harvest season.
This is a good surprise this summer.
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GH2/3 update...I'm busy this week so doing update today...everything getting big and green...moved the Cali Dream into the center of GH2 and snapped off a lower branch...sounded like a tree snapping! I am definitely happier with her moved with plenty of overhead space...and I only have about a foot left for the Bhutanese so we'll see if I have to bend her or if she will just linger near the ceiling. If she gets top heavy that will work in my favor...I am thinking I can wrap them in fencing secured to the cross braces of the high tunnel. Watering every other day at this point.
Snapped branch from the Cali Dream...
There was no tying this up
Snapped branch from the Cali Dream...
There was no tying this up
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So we had 17 days in July and 26 booked for August in the Cabin. People, in general, dig it. Guest remark today was "It's very dark and quiet!" Coming from light pollution into a place with none, plus no appliances or other noises or light, it messes with their senses....hopefully in a good way People are also digging the outdoor facilities (shower, outhouse, kitchen). I inwardly grimace when I hear "glamping", but I get the reason they use it. I like to think of it more as "simple living"...especially after a fiasco last Thursday....
Cottage guests message "no water!" ... it was a partially blown fuse from the wicked thunderstorm...water tank/switch was randomly turning on and off (and sometimes no water pressure... It was a $12 fuse to fix next day). They said they might have "to look for alternate accommodations that had consistent water"....inward I had a huge eye roll wondering what these people would do if...gasp...they actually lost water for a week...a month? ...but I was also smiling because the guests in the Cabin just remarked how cool it was to be in the storm (even with a leaky chimney)
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People are also digging the outdoor facilities (shower, outhouse, kitchen). I inwardly grimace when I hear "glamping", but I get the reason they use it. I like to think of it more as "simple living"...especially after a fiasco last Thursday....Cottage guests message "no water!" ... it was a partially blown fuse from the wicked thunderstorm...water tank/switch was randomly turning on and off (and sometimes no water pressure... It was a $12 fuse to fix next day). They said they might have "to look for alternate accommodations that had consistent water"....inward I had a huge eye roll wondering what these people would do if...gasp...they actually lost water for a week...a month? ...but I was also smiling because the guests in the Cabin just remarked how cool it was to be in the storm (even with a leaky chimney)
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limpfingerz207
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Lookin great! I love your garden and your updates.
Would love to have a tour someday if you'd allow
Would love to have a tour someday if you'd allow
Slowpuffer
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I don't have any outside grow this yr., but my veg garden is loving it !!
Great shot of the cabin. Wish I could get down for a trip. The GH looks lovely 
Highya BH,
Sounds like you're having a great year with the cabins. How nice! You're also having a great year with your cannabis ladies! That white bhutanese is so big. They're all looking superb!
On the Cali branch break - last year I had a branch break like that one. It didn't break all the way off, and the rest of the top was wanting to fall over because of the weakened stem. So I took some small cloths line rope and lashed the broken branch back in place (wrapping up the stem for about 18 inches) and saved the branch and plant. Worked great. They're resilient!
I'm still hoping the moisture season won't be like last year! Can't hurt to hope!! Cheers
Sounds like you're having a great year with the cabins. How nice! You're also having a great year with your cannabis ladies! That white bhutanese is so big. They're all looking superb!
On the Cali branch break - last year I had a branch break like that one. It didn't break all the way off, and the rest of the top was wanting to fall over because of the weakened stem. So I took some small cloths line rope and lashed the broken branch back in place (wrapping up the stem for about 18 inches) and saved the branch and plant. Worked great. They're resilient!
I'm still hoping the moisture season won't be like last year! Can't hurt to hope!! Cheers
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I figured she was huge anyway and wasn't too bothered....I just tore it off and kept going
Slowpuffer
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A good place to be !! Congrats on the business !! Glad it's working for you !I am starting to consider my options...
Likewise, but I have barely spent any time pruning/maintaining them besides watering...which is good because the 2x rentals and the other chores have been keeping me busy...and I still have time to swim and hang out with the kids. Nobody's tombstone says "I wish I spent more time at the office".
Nope, all are confirmed females at this point....which puts me 1x under legal limit
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Very interesting article ... Since no links, I'll cut and paste (credit NBC News)
How legalizing hemp accidentally helped marijuana suspects
Aug. 18, 2019, 4:47 AM EDT
Late on a Friday night in April 2018, Donte Chazz Williams drove from his home in southeast Houston to his girlfriend’s just outside the city. A block from her house, he coasted through a stop sign, drawing the attention of a Fort Bend County sheriff’s deputy. The deputy pulled him over and said he smelled pot. Williams said he had a bit of it in the car, and, sure enough, the deputy found a small bag in the center console, according to police reports, Williams and his lawyer. The deputy arrested Williams and booked him into the local jail for possession of 2 grams of marijuana. Williams, who was 22, posted bail the next day, but the misdemeanor drug case dragged on for more than a year as he and his lawyer negotiated his enrollment in a drug-education program. He didn’t complete the class, so when he was called before a judge two weeks ago, he worried he’d be sent back to jail. Instead, prosecutors dropped the case, saying they could no longer prove that the pot was indeed pot. “That’s crazy,” Williams recalled thinking. “It actually blew my mind.” Williams thanked his lawyer. But he could also credit state and federal lawmakers, who, in a rush to expand America’s production of industrial hemp, unwittingly made it harder for law enforcement to prosecute people for possessing marijuana.
Texas prosecutors dropped pot charges against Donte Chazz Williams when they couldn't get the evidence tested.Courtesy of Donte Chazz WilliamsWith the passage of new hemp-legalization laws over the past eight months, crime labs across the country have suddenly found themselves unable to prove that a leafy green plant taken from someone’s car is marijuana, rather than hemp. Marijuana looks and smells like hemp but has more THC, the chemical that makes people high.Without the technology to determine a plant’s THC level, labs can’t provide scientific evidence for use in court. Without that help, prosecutors have to send evidence to expensive private labs that can do the tests or postpone cases until local labs develop their own tests, a process that could take months. Rather than deal with prohibitive costs or lengthy delays, prosecutors in several states, including Texas, Florida and Ohio, are dropping low-level pot cases altogether or declining to bring new ones. Police in those states are now unsure whether their age-old pretext for searching cars ─ the smell of pot ─ is still valid. Some have been told not to make any arrests for marijuana possession, although they can issue tickets and confiscate the suspected drugs for testing later. There is no way to determine how many cases have been imperiled by the new laws, but they number in the hundreds, perhaps thousands, law enforcement officials say.
“This is a nationwide issue,” said Duffie Stone, president of the National District Attorneys Association and a prosecutor in South Carolina, where pending marijuana cases are piling up as crime labs scramble to obtain equipment to conduct the new testing. ”This problem will exist in just about every state you talk to.”
With the spread of efforts to decriminalize marijuana, these unintended consequences have made life easier for America’s pot smokers, particularly in states that haven’t passed laws making it legal to possess small amounts of weed. Some observers have described the hemp laws as de facto decriminalization, although lawmakers insist that’s not the case.
The confusion over hemp stems from the 2018 Farm Bill, passed by Congress in December, which made hemp a legal crop to be used in the production of textiles, fabrics, paper, food and health care goods made with cannabidiol, a nonintoxicating extract known as CBD. In order to distinguish hemp from marijuana, which remains illegal under federal law, Congress defined hemp as having less than 0.3 percent of THC. The Farm Bill left it to states to pass their own laws on cultivating hemp; 47 states have done so, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Most of those states adopted the 0.3 percent standard. Crime labs were not prepared for the impact.
Before hemp was legalized, all the labs usually had to do on pot cases was conduct a relatively cheap and quick series of tests that showed whether something came from a cannabis plant. They had ways of testing for the presence of THC, but didn’t typically need them. Now, many will have to purchase new testing equipment, hire more staff, train staff on new testing methods and get the methods approved for use in court. Some say they are weeks away; others say they won’t be able to conduct the tests on a routine basis until next year. Some labs also expect their caseloads to increase significantly. And that’s just for plant-based marijuana cases, not edibles or vaping oils. Lab officials in Texas have estimated that the total cost there could run beyond $10 million. Private labs are charging $200 to $600 per test. In Tennessee, the state Bureau of Investigation has asked prosecutors to be selective in the pot cases they choose to pursue, and to not submit evidence from misdemeanor pot cases until labs develop new testing procedures, said David Rausch, the bureau’s director. In Ohio, Attorney General Dave Yost announced a $50,000 fund to cover the costs for police sending evidence to private labs. Several counties in Georgia said they have stopped pursuing misdemeanor marijuana charges. In Florida, prosecutors in at least four judicial circuits have told police they won’t file marijuana cases without a lab test. “If you want to have a hemp industry, there’s no way to get around this issue,” said Phil Archer, the state attorney in Florida’s 18th Judicial Circuit. He said he has not filed any marijuana cases since Florida’s hemp law went into effect July 1. “I would say a majority of circuits are handling it in same way.” Mitch Stone, president of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, said he has used the new testing requirement to successfully challenge searches and arrests, and has gotten little pushback. “State attorneys don’t want to be dragged into court by defense lawyers to defend a case where they can’t prove that their decisions were lawful,” Stone said. Peter Stout, president of the Houston Forensic Science Center in Texas, said his agency has hundreds of felony-level marijuana cases waiting for testing that may not be available for several months. Until then, the local prosecutor, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg, said she would not accept criminal charges for possession of less than 4 ounces of marijuana ─ but would consider pursuing more serious cases. “Everyone is struggling here,” Stout said.
Some law enforcement officials have pushed forward with marijuana cases, through paraphernalia charges or other workarounds. That’s the path endorsed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican who accused prosecutors of misinterpreting the new hemp law. In a letter to the state’s district attorneys last month, Abbott said they didn’t need testing in every marijuana case, and could instead charge someone with failure to possess a certificate saying they were licensed to transport hemp. The prosecutors, however, were not satisfied. In Fort Bend County, District Attorney Brian Middleton maintained that prosecutors indeed needed testing for all cases, even for violations of the hemp-certificate provision. Middleton also said he had decided to dismiss some pending marijuana cases to avoid lengthy delays. “Under the circumstances, we concluded that it was unfair and unethical to further prolong these particular cases,” Middleton said in a statement. He could have been talking about Donte Chazz Williams. By the time the Texas hemp law went into effect on June 10, Williams’ case was more than a year old, delayed by routine matters: postponed court dates, a slow evidence-collection process, and Williams’ attempts to get into a program that allowed defendants to have their charges dropped in exchange for taking a drug education class. During that time, Williams said, he lost his job as a forklift driver and was unable to pay the class fees. He considered blowing off an Aug. 6 court date because he feared he’d be sent back to jail. He assumed he’d eventually get sentenced to several months of probation. Williams knew nothing of the hemp law confusion until he showed up at the courthouse and his lawyer, Vik Vij, handed him a copy of prosecutors’ motion to dismiss the charges. “Required lab testing unavailable at this time,” a prosecutor scrawled on the margin. (Although the new hemp law didn’t indicate whether it was retroactive, prosecutors in Fort Bend and in other parts of Texas are treating it as if it is.) Prosecutors could refile the case once the testing becomes available, a Middleton spokesman said. But Williams said he was happy to have another chance. “I feel lucky, for real,” he said. “Now I don’t have to do anything but go find myself a job.”
How legalizing hemp accidentally helped marijuana suspects
Aug. 18, 2019, 4:47 AM EDT
Late on a Friday night in April 2018, Donte Chazz Williams drove from his home in southeast Houston to his girlfriend’s just outside the city. A block from her house, he coasted through a stop sign, drawing the attention of a Fort Bend County sheriff’s deputy. The deputy pulled him over and said he smelled pot. Williams said he had a bit of it in the car, and, sure enough, the deputy found a small bag in the center console, according to police reports, Williams and his lawyer. The deputy arrested Williams and booked him into the local jail for possession of 2 grams of marijuana. Williams, who was 22, posted bail the next day, but the misdemeanor drug case dragged on for more than a year as he and his lawyer negotiated his enrollment in a drug-education program. He didn’t complete the class, so when he was called before a judge two weeks ago, he worried he’d be sent back to jail. Instead, prosecutors dropped the case, saying they could no longer prove that the pot was indeed pot. “That’s crazy,” Williams recalled thinking. “It actually blew my mind.” Williams thanked his lawyer. But he could also credit state and federal lawmakers, who, in a rush to expand America’s production of industrial hemp, unwittingly made it harder for law enforcement to prosecute people for possessing marijuana.
Texas prosecutors dropped pot charges against Donte Chazz Williams when they couldn't get the evidence tested.Courtesy of Donte Chazz WilliamsWith the passage of new hemp-legalization laws over the past eight months, crime labs across the country have suddenly found themselves unable to prove that a leafy green plant taken from someone’s car is marijuana, rather than hemp. Marijuana looks and smells like hemp but has more THC, the chemical that makes people high.Without the technology to determine a plant’s THC level, labs can’t provide scientific evidence for use in court. Without that help, prosecutors have to send evidence to expensive private labs that can do the tests or postpone cases until local labs develop their own tests, a process that could take months. Rather than deal with prohibitive costs or lengthy delays, prosecutors in several states, including Texas, Florida and Ohio, are dropping low-level pot cases altogether or declining to bring new ones. Police in those states are now unsure whether their age-old pretext for searching cars ─ the smell of pot ─ is still valid. Some have been told not to make any arrests for marijuana possession, although they can issue tickets and confiscate the suspected drugs for testing later. There is no way to determine how many cases have been imperiled by the new laws, but they number in the hundreds, perhaps thousands, law enforcement officials say.
“This is a nationwide issue,” said Duffie Stone, president of the National District Attorneys Association and a prosecutor in South Carolina, where pending marijuana cases are piling up as crime labs scramble to obtain equipment to conduct the new testing. ”This problem will exist in just about every state you talk to.”
With the spread of efforts to decriminalize marijuana, these unintended consequences have made life easier for America’s pot smokers, particularly in states that haven’t passed laws making it legal to possess small amounts of weed. Some observers have described the hemp laws as de facto decriminalization, although lawmakers insist that’s not the case.
The confusion over hemp stems from the 2018 Farm Bill, passed by Congress in December, which made hemp a legal crop to be used in the production of textiles, fabrics, paper, food and health care goods made with cannabidiol, a nonintoxicating extract known as CBD. In order to distinguish hemp from marijuana, which remains illegal under federal law, Congress defined hemp as having less than 0.3 percent of THC. The Farm Bill left it to states to pass their own laws on cultivating hemp; 47 states have done so, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Most of those states adopted the 0.3 percent standard. Crime labs were not prepared for the impact.
Before hemp was legalized, all the labs usually had to do on pot cases was conduct a relatively cheap and quick series of tests that showed whether something came from a cannabis plant. They had ways of testing for the presence of THC, but didn’t typically need them. Now, many will have to purchase new testing equipment, hire more staff, train staff on new testing methods and get the methods approved for use in court. Some say they are weeks away; others say they won’t be able to conduct the tests on a routine basis until next year. Some labs also expect their caseloads to increase significantly. And that’s just for plant-based marijuana cases, not edibles or vaping oils. Lab officials in Texas have estimated that the total cost there could run beyond $10 million. Private labs are charging $200 to $600 per test. In Tennessee, the state Bureau of Investigation has asked prosecutors to be selective in the pot cases they choose to pursue, and to not submit evidence from misdemeanor pot cases until labs develop new testing procedures, said David Rausch, the bureau’s director. In Ohio, Attorney General Dave Yost announced a $50,000 fund to cover the costs for police sending evidence to private labs. Several counties in Georgia said they have stopped pursuing misdemeanor marijuana charges. In Florida, prosecutors in at least four judicial circuits have told police they won’t file marijuana cases without a lab test. “If you want to have a hemp industry, there’s no way to get around this issue,” said Phil Archer, the state attorney in Florida’s 18th Judicial Circuit. He said he has not filed any marijuana cases since Florida’s hemp law went into effect July 1. “I would say a majority of circuits are handling it in same way.” Mitch Stone, president of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, said he has used the new testing requirement to successfully challenge searches and arrests, and has gotten little pushback. “State attorneys don’t want to be dragged into court by defense lawyers to defend a case where they can’t prove that their decisions were lawful,” Stone said. Peter Stout, president of the Houston Forensic Science Center in Texas, said his agency has hundreds of felony-level marijuana cases waiting for testing that may not be available for several months. Until then, the local prosecutor, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg, said she would not accept criminal charges for possession of less than 4 ounces of marijuana ─ but would consider pursuing more serious cases. “Everyone is struggling here,” Stout said.
Some law enforcement officials have pushed forward with marijuana cases, through paraphernalia charges or other workarounds. That’s the path endorsed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican who accused prosecutors of misinterpreting the new hemp law. In a letter to the state’s district attorneys last month, Abbott said they didn’t need testing in every marijuana case, and could instead charge someone with failure to possess a certificate saying they were licensed to transport hemp. The prosecutors, however, were not satisfied. In Fort Bend County, District Attorney Brian Middleton maintained that prosecutors indeed needed testing for all cases, even for violations of the hemp-certificate provision. Middleton also said he had decided to dismiss some pending marijuana cases to avoid lengthy delays. “Under the circumstances, we concluded that it was unfair and unethical to further prolong these particular cases,” Middleton said in a statement. He could have been talking about Donte Chazz Williams. By the time the Texas hemp law went into effect on June 10, Williams’ case was more than a year old, delayed by routine matters: postponed court dates, a slow evidence-collection process, and Williams’ attempts to get into a program that allowed defendants to have their charges dropped in exchange for taking a drug education class. During that time, Williams said, he lost his job as a forklift driver and was unable to pay the class fees. He considered blowing off an Aug. 6 court date because he feared he’d be sent back to jail. He assumed he’d eventually get sentenced to several months of probation. Williams knew nothing of the hemp law confusion until he showed up at the courthouse and his lawyer, Vik Vij, handed him a copy of prosecutors’ motion to dismiss the charges. “Required lab testing unavailable at this time,” a prosecutor scrawled on the margin. (Although the new hemp law didn’t indicate whether it was retroactive, prosecutors in Fort Bend and in other parts of Texas are treating it as if it is.) Prosecutors could refile the case once the testing becomes available, a Middleton spokesman said. But Williams said he was happy to have another chance. “I feel lucky, for real,” he said. “Now I don’t have to do anything but go find myself a job.”
Note to self...... label everything hemp