Radogast 2016 - The Neverending Growing

SweetSue said:
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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I won't be leaving. This place is my happy place. :reading420magazine:

I was worried about time not growing because we can't exactly transport a 3 month supply across country without being labelled drug dealers.

My wife was worried about me not growing because I might get grumpy when I don't have a green place to sit :)


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Tonight I sprayed the Flowering Room (the only room.)

White Widow Ava is a boy. I pulled him from the room. Tomorrow he sleeps with the worms :rofl:
 
Radogast said:
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?
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Well bud, Astoria is actually a 30 minute drive from Ocean Park lol. It's a small small world. Look it up on the www. We love it there. At least you'd know 1 person lol.
 
Radogast said:
I won't be leaving. This place is my happy place. :reading420magazine:

I was worried about time not growing because we can't exactly transport a 3 month supply across country without being labelled drug dealers.

My wife was worried about me not growing because I might get grumpy when I don't have a green place to sit :)


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totally get it...

Radogast said:
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...
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totally get it... too
 
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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Hey there Rad - first off your garden looks spectacular... hard to believe you're planning to tear down. its all good brother, ya gotta do whatcha gots to do to live right. Right on for DOING something about it.

I've been all around the good ol' USA - gotta say where I'm at now or Oregon are my favorite places. I've been to Oregon a bunch of times - all the folks there are SUPER friendly. Weather is a lot like Philly sans the high heat and humidity - same amount of rainfall. Don't believe what folks say about it raining every day <-- BS .. that's western Washington State!! Still liked Washington too tho just too much rain! You don't have to live in down town in Portland... heck out by the ocean is fantastic and not crowded and you will feel right at home near the ocean... smoked oysters and smoked salmon sold on the side of the road... wow then there's the beauty of nature that is there in spades. The only downside is volcanism.

Go visit Oregon... your mind will be made up - lots of green there!

Again Rad - your garden is looking mighty fine - best ever! Tell your wife she's going to be in for a bunch of treats. Don't stress the move. That will work itself out, yeah it will have to right?
 
Radogast said:
I won't be leaving. This place is my happy place. :reading420magazine:

I was worried about time not growing because we can't exactly transport a 3 month supply across country without being labelled drug dealers.

My wife was worried about me not growing because I might get grumpy when I don't have a green place to sit :)


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Tonight I sprayed the Flowering Room (the only room.)

White Widow Ava is a boy. I pulled him from the room. Tomorrow he sleeps with the worms :rofl:
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Any way to convert the harvest into concentrated oil and put it in capsules?
 
Radogast said:
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?
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Hey Rad, just noticed I never answered your question. The largest city would be Longview, WA - 90 Minutes HWY 4. Portland, OR can take about 110 Minutes taking the Astoria bridge and going east on HWY 30. I understand not wanting your girl to live with you forever. That's a real risk in those small coastal towns!
 
Saw an ad for a gorgeous house in a sleepy little town in the midwest. Conveniences within a quick walk (butcher, high school, bank, tatooo parlor) and 30 minutes away from everything else (hospitals, colleges, night life, casinos). If the DEA announces descheduling of marijuana this summer, I'm gonna try buying that house.

(Yeah, I know. It might just be click bait, but the price is reasonable for the area.)

There are signs and omens. A river name times 3 that already had special significance. Flowers tossed in the stream stuck upright in a bouquet. There is a lightness and quietness spreading where before lay gloom and tendrils of desperation.

Also, my cream sauce tonight didn't curdle :rofl:
 
I love it! I too follow omens. More likely my gut. This sounds like it was made for you my friend. I'll be putting two hands together for you. A prayer every now and then is good karma. I hope you get it Rad!
 
drcannabi said:
I love it! I too follow omens. More likely my gut. This sounds like it was made for you my friend. I'll be putting two hands together for you. A prayer every now and then is good karma. I hope you get it Rad!
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Thanks for prayers. My gut is often smarter than my brain.


Sorry about the long time between photos. Having all my girls in flower makes the grow seem to slow way down. The cycle of life is disconnected.

No checking clones for roots. No fretting over seedlings. No training the young girls. No predicting when to take the next steps and 'what if '-ing the results I will see.

Once they are in flower, the girls feel like they are out of my hands except to water, foliar spray, and look at trichomes now and then.
 
Kinda bittersweet, isn't it? I'm probably going to find myself in the same situation sometime this year, if my moving heaven and earth works as planned. I swear, after I relocate and get back up running again I'm not moving for another decade at least. :laughtwo:

This is a big year for change. I like that you pay attention to omens. I watch for them and reflections of what I send out as methods to determine if I need to veer off to another path. So far, mine have all been positive indicators that change is coming and it's going to be so swift I'll feel like my head is spinning. I'm glad to see yours have also been positive. :circle-of-love:
 
Heirloom said:
Almost like letting go of the bicycle and watching your kid ride off.
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I was thiking more like driving them to college, helping them get setup in their new place, and watching them wave as you drive away.
You call for a few minutes a day, talk to them and water them, but it's just not the same.

When you see them again they are aching over their sexual frustration and complaining that you hung them out to dry in a new place. :rofl:


Smokeater said:
Sorry Rad, I forgot to sub in to your board. I've been reading it thru a bookmark, But now I'm subbed.
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Nothing to apologize for. It's not like I can tell the difference :)

Ifeel bad someties when I knw these wonderful growers are doing wonderful things, and these new growers are experimenting with new ideas, and I don't follow their grows because I don't want to put in more hours a day at 420 - but that's the online world :hmmm:
 
Radogast said:
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. ..
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I currently live in Floriduh and can tell you that I will be relocating to Oregon, most likely, though I have lived in and love Colorado I just don't think that I can deal with the winters anymore. As far as living in a legally and social repressive/regressive state as I do I can offer my opinion and that is don't, don't move to such a place as it comes with a cost on your soul that far exceeds the difference in the cost of living.
My best to whatever or wherever you may be in the future.
:Namaste:
 
Caramelicious Latrice Royale


Latrice Royale grew 4-6" last night. All of the girls in the flowering room are now flowering.

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Giving that light a high five :)
 
Obi Wan said:
Giving that light a high five :)
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I moved the light up :)


CAR Latrice Royale after evening foliar spray

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The Flowering Room is packed tight with 8 girls (for the last time before we move.)

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The older girls, 7 weeks and 5 weeks in flower. Borderliner Iman (right- 7 weeks) has the biggest, frostiest buds

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Snowcap Stacy (7 weeks) has the second largest buds.

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AK47 Bonnie , 5 weeks old has the tallest cola forming (more impressive when my hand isn't in the way :)

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Cleaning the 'spare' glass we won't use until after the move.

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(I have no idea how that wood pipe got in there - as in I don't even remember buying it.)

Fortuitously, we had enough cleaning supplies under the sink :)

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Just a quick clean to reduce the resin and smells before packing.

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You know what really makes it feel like we are moving? Walking by the refrigerator when all the magnets are packed away.
 
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