Radogast 2016 - The Neverending Growing

drcannabi said:
Holy Moly Rad!

That AK-47 is going to be unbelievable. Nice job! What seed bank is that genetic from?
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She is skinnier than she looks. Genetics are being sold/resold by :420: sponsor Amsterdam Marijuana Seeds
Buy Marijuana and Cannabis seeds online - straight from Amsterdam

They expanded their offerings quite a bit since 2014. The strains they added in early 2015 seem much better than the first strains I purchased in 2014. AK47 XTRM and Borderliner were in the "Cup Winner Combo pack (regular)" - one of those newer offerings. The Northern Lights XTRM in the same pack had nice colas, but I never succesfully raised a clone.
 
Absolutely stunning girls Rad :circle-of-love:

Looks like they are filling out a lot more this time round, gorgeous healthy leaves on them too. I know exactly what you mean by they are skinnier than they look, i look at my photos every day before going in the tent and then walk in disappointed because they dont look as fat as the pics i took yesterday :rofl:
 
Rifleman said:
Hey Rad, check your inbox and give me a shout back please.
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Thanks Rifleman.... retiring, moving to a new state, shutting down the grow, selling a house, and buying a new house in the next 2 months or so. It's a bit overwhelming for me and the family... shouted back.
I may be slow to respond these days. :420: grow journals are my relief valve, but I still have to cut back on the time here.

I did a neem spray at lights out in the basement tonight, but left my cell phone camera upstairs. Normally it would be simple to fetch it, but Thursday I put on my corporate clothes and went into the big city for 2 massive meetings and a chat with my boss. I ended up walking about 3 miles in cowboy boots after being barefoot most of the last 6 months. My legs still are burning. so ... no pictures, but compared to the last few grows they are looking very good.

Depending on final timing, the wife and I may have to smoke like mad after harvest. I won't be transporting bud across state lines of non-medical states.
 
Going to be sad to see you shut down the grow Rad, would just like to say thanks for everything, I greatly appreciate all the time you have spent keeping me company, being a friend and helping so many people across the boards ;)
Sounds like you have a lot ahead of you, i hope it all goes smoothly for you and the family :Namaste:
 
FeralA9X said:
Going to be sad to see you shut down the grow Rad, would just like to say thanks for everything, I greatly appreciate all the time you have spent keeping me company, being a friend and helping so many people across the boards ;)
Sounds like you have a lot ahead of you, i hope it all goes smoothly for you and the family :Namaste:
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It was hard to feed the clones to the worms, but somehow having prospective clients view a house with active 8x8' and 8x4' rooms full of cannabis seems like a bad choice. Realtors say homes show better without all the seller's personal treasures on display. :)

I may allow realtor led walk throughs with my 'cold cellar' (flowering room) locked and turned off. Still debating that idea.
 
FeralA9X said:
the key to the room could "mysteriously disappear" for the walk throughs :) hehe
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I actually bought my first house, a duplex with an unregistered subdivide of the ground floor unit, without seeing the 1 bedroom unregistered sub-divide. It worked out fine. There was paint splattered on the hardwood floors, but it was a bedroom for 1 and 3 yr old girls, so the esthetics were not that important :)

They can survive without a key to the cold cellar :)
 
Heirloom said:
We will keep the fires lit for you Rad. Change brings angst, but it also frequently brings opportunity as well.

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I've been so emotionally tumbled in the last two weeks. For 3 days we were set on Illinois, friends, opportunities, low cost housing - then we found out about the Illinois state budget. State colleges unfunded for most of a year, state lottery not paying winners, state workers having their health care payments made, daycare services for the poor shut down, etc. , etc. - all because a semi-billionaire who purchased the governor's job and wants to play hardball. So now we are looking at Oregon. Higher housing costs but may be possible. At least we can have a state legal medical grow.


but on to the update. ..
 
Massachusetts Medical Grow: The Final Flowering

I am a medical marijuana grower. It has been 6 days since my last photo update.
I smoked marijuana once in those 6 days because we got a couple of new pieces with birthday money.
It snowed over 4" twice in those 6 days. New England Spring Sucks!


Tequila Sunrise (a 9" colorful party bubbler) and Mai Tai (a 10" long Maverick Glass bubbling hammer with a mini-steamroller barrel)

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8 days under flowering light. WW Ava in the back left may be a boy, I'll check again later this week.

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Week 6 Snowcap and Borderliner in back. Week 4 AK47 and Week2 free seed in front.

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Six days of difference :cheertwo: AK47 (Bonnie) main cola - Week 3/Week 4. Snowcap (Stacy) foxtailing in the back.

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Man that AK47 gives me good vibes. Eastern Oregon has some very affordable land. Throw a mobile on it and go off the grid. Portland is insane for property. There are some very affordable and nice communities in Washington between Vancouver and Seattle but Seattle is outrageous. WA also is a medical state. Oregon has fantastic marijuana laws. Every household can grow 4 plants legally. Same worth Colorado. Keep an open mind and you'll find the right place.
 
drcannabi said:
Man that AK47 gives me good vibes. Eastern Oregon has some very affordable land. Throw a mobile on it and go off the grid. Portland is insane for property. There are some very affordable and nice communities in Washington between Vancouver and Seattle but Seattle is outrageous. WA also is a medical state. Oregon has fantastic marijuana laws. Every household can grow 4 plants legally. Same worth Colorado. Keep an open mind and you'll find the right place.
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Thanks for the encouragement.

I'm still bummed about trashing my clones and flowering out the existing genetics. Some of them were 5th generation clones. It feels a bit like losing pet hamsters: not that important in the scheme of life - but still sad.


For Medical patients - Oregon allows up to 6 mature plants and 18 immature plants and a generous amount of dried herb.
This works well for me, as I have been running 3-5 plants in flower and 10-12 plants in cloners and veg under the interim Massachusetts Medical rules.

I have family and friends in Oregon along the I5 corridor.

Parts of Eastern Oregon are a physical and social desert.
 
Radogast said:
Thanks for the encouragement.

I'm still bummed about trashing my clones and flowering out the existing genetics. Some of them were 5th generation clones. It feels a bit like losing pet hamsters: not that important in the scheme of life - but still sad.


For Medical patients - Oregon allows up to 6 mature plants and 18 immature plants and a generous amount of dried herb.
This works well for me, as I have been running 3-5 plants in flower and 10-12 plants in cloners and veg under the interim Massachusetts Medical rules.

I have family and friends in Oregon along the I5 corridor.

Parts of Eastern Oregon are a physical and social desert.
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You've got that right Rad! I wasn't sure if you were a loaner or member of society hehehe. I could never live in eastern Oregon or Washington for that matter. Not sure what your budget is, but there are some fine properties North of Vancouver WA in the 350,000 to 450,000 realm. These are within 20 minutes of Portland. The further north you go the cheaper it gets. There are some very nice pieces of land that are just beautiful in the PNW. Not sure where your family is but I would consider WA before OR just for the cost factor.

The 4 plants per household in OR are without a medical recommendation. In WA you have to have a medical recommendation to cultivate. In Oregon you don't even have to sign up with Big Brother to grow 4 plants. :thumb:
 
I used to live in Olympia, WA. 2000-2005. Centralia and Chehalis are nice small towns south of Oly. If you ever head through on I5, you MUST stop at La Tarasca, in Centralia if you are a Mexican food lover. Tenino and Onalaska are nice little out of the way communities.

Further south Longview has the reactor cooling towers, never a nice thing to live next to.

Further south, skipping over the Portland metro area (ick), I can vouch that everything south of Albany from as far east as Bend and west to the sea and all the way down to the CA border is stunningly beautiful and very fertile. If it were me I would look along the I5 corridor, but several miles off it, anywhere south of Eugene. Roseburg and Grants Pass, Medford, Ashland, Klamath Falls and the out smaller communities.

I've spent so much time on those roads I could draw it from memory for google maps.

:peace:
 
Heirloom said:
I used to live in Olympia, WA. 2000-2005. Centralia and Chehalis are nice small towns south of Oly. If you ever head through on I5, you MUST stop at La Tarasca, in Centralia if you are a Mexican food lover. Tenino and Onalaska are nice little out of the way communities.

Further south Longview has the reactor cooling towers, never a nice thing to live next to.

Further south, skipping over the Portland metro area (ick), I can vouch that everything south of Albany from as far east as Bend and west to the sea and all the way down to the CA border is stunningly beautiful and very fertile. If it were me I would look along the I5 corridor, but several miles off it, anywhere south of Eugene. Roseburg and Grants Pass, Medford, Ashland, Klamath Falls and the out smaller communities.

I've spent so much time on those roads I could draw it from memory for google maps.

:peace:
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Being forced to retire to avoid going broke on alimony payments, I am faced with being unable to qualify for a home loan.

If we could pick up a livable 3 bedroom house for 85K within 30 minutes drive of restaurants, a hospital, a community college, live music. (Eugene) or heck within 15 minutes drive to Klamath Falls, I'd be happy.

At this point it looks like I might be forced into the 150 degree annual weather swings of Wenatchee tri-cities or the high deserts of Pueblo, Colorado.

There are still a couple of angles left, but I'm running out of options pretty fast here.

Trying to stay legal and grow 4+ oz a month for medical use (because we can't afford to buy that much) seriously limits our options.

Trying not to get whiny here...
 
Not whiny at all Rad!

If you wouldn't mind living on the coast Ocean Park Wa, you could get a killer 3 bedroom mobile on your own piece of land with cash to spare. No big cities but there are great restaurants within 20 miles. A lot of people retire their but the Wa coast is not for everyone. Check it out, we have a family double wide we bought for 50 grand.
 
drcannabi said:
Not whiny at all Rad!

If you wouldn't mind living on the coast Ocean Park Wa, you could get a killer 3 bedroom mobile on your own piece of land with cash to spare. No big cities but there are great restaurants within 20 miles. A lot of people retire their but the Wa coast is not for everyone. Check it out, we have a family double wide we bought for 50 grand.
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My wife grew up in tornado and flood country.. She is really trying hard to come to grips with the number of disaster magnets they sell as homes in Oregon. Online today, we saw an affordable log cabin on 37 acres tucked up against Olympic National Forest. Looks like a double wide inside but made of lincoln logs. About an hours drive from Bremerton college.

Our situation is a mess due to a girl entering her senior year in High School and a boy wanting to attend a 2 year college to get some inexpensive credits before university. If we get too far away from restaurants and stop lights the girl may become too attached to quiet living with the old folks and never leave the house - not good for us or her :)

Astoria, Or was one of my happy stops along the 101 as a kid. I doubt it qualifies as the big town within a 30 minute drive to get the girl to leave home :rofl: Whats the closest larger town? Chehalis?
 
Heirloom said:
We will keep the fires lit for you Rad. Change brings angst, but it also frequently brings opportunity as well.

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I second this entire statement. As frustrating as it now appears, you'll look back on this moment in time five years down the road and see it as the best thing that could have happened. Life has a way of working out that way for those of us with a more positive tilt.

I'm sorry you have all this disruption in your lives Rad. :hugs: When you get moved and set back up you will be coming back? Your journals will be sorely missed while you're shifting gears. Don't be a stranger while you're not growing. :battingeyelashes: :Love:
 
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