Radogast's Hi-Brix Basement Grow - New Location - New Soil - New Experiences

[Radogast]

Beautiful.
For me, it was paper tape, cards, and toggle switches on minis.
I worked with a fax machine that sounds alot like your printer. Messy. Massive.

First program: print sequential prime numbers - Middle School 1971
Paper tape program storage - High School 1973
Punch Cards, Printers, Tape Drives, replaceable disks, mainframes(w/toggle switches), modems, wire-wrap, cabling - Work 1978
Personal Computer: IBM DOS 1.1 - Home 1982
FAX machine and PC repair - Work 1984

 

[TheRedDragon]

First program: print sequential prime numbers - Middle School 1971
Paper tape program storage - High School 1973
Punch Cards, Printers, Tape Drives, replaceable disks, mainframes(w/toggle switches), modems, wire-wrap, cabling - Work 1978
Personal Computer: IBM DOS 1.1 - Home 1982
FAX machine and PC repair - Work 1984

Wrote my first program at 10. It was a picture of a fighter jet. That was in '85. And I thought I was one of the pioneers. lol Great story Rad.

 

[Radogast]

Wrote my first program at 10. It was a picture of a fighter jet. That was in '85. And I thought I was one of the pioneers. lol Great story Rad.

1971 was VERY early to be teaching kids computers. It was a undergraduate term project for UC Berkeley students to teach disadvantaged inner city kids. A very fast selection process. They asked the Jr. High Principal for 4 students who could learn programming. He offered it to the top ranked members in the chess club.

Nerds flock together

p.s. One of the (text only) games on their PDP-10 computer, asked the Honarable Hamurabi how much grain to plant and how much grain to store. The other was Adventure - "officially" written as Collosal Cave and Zork in the late 70s. I was offered a programmer job at Bank of America upon high school graduation. Although, I wrote 2 graphics games in the 1980s (for fun,) I avoided writting programs for a living until sometime in the 90s. I hate writing user interfaces. Most of my career was writing programs to monitor machines

 

[Doc Bud]

1971 was VERY early to be teaching kids computers. It was a undergraduate term project for UC Berkeley students to teach disadvantaged inner city kids. A very fast selection process. They asked the Jr. High Principal for 4 students who could learn programming. He offered it to the top ranked members in the chess club.

Nerds flock together

p.s. One of the (text only) games on their PDP-10 computer, asked the Honarable Hamurabi how much grain to plant and how much grain to store. The other was Adventure - "officially" written as Collosal Cave and Zork in the late 70s. I was offered a programmer job at Bank of America upon high school graduation. Although, I wrote 2 graphics games in the 1980s (for fun,) I avoided writting programs for a living until sometime in the 90s. I hate writing user interfaces. Most of my career was writing programs to monitor machines

Chess club! Awesome!

I went to a private school till Junior High.....played on the varsity chess team in 5th grade. This particular private school was in a league with several others and we actually had interscholastic competitions. To this day I play 10-12 games a day.....rushed and between patients mostly.

It's the best game in the world! I find that I play really well with certain strains, and not so great with others.

 

[Radogast]

Chess club! Awesome!

I went to a private school till Junior High.....played on the varsity chess team in 5th grade. This particular private school was in a league with several others and we actually had interscholastic competitions. To this day I play 10-12 games a day.....rushed and between patients mostly.

It's the best game in the world! I find that I play really well with certain strains, and not so great with others.

My sister's husband is a ranked player in the State of Oregon. I lost most of my patience for chess once I had sex in High School. If we had played with time clocks, I might have kept playing. The strategy in my High School Chess club was to move real slowly when you felt you were losing - basically run out the clock until time to go home. At Chess club meeting #3, I was playing cards with other players while waiting for the losers as they pretended to contemplate their moves. To my way of thinking, that was disgraceful and I quit.

I don't really have the killer instinct needed to win individual competitions anyway. As a younger man, I would dive deep playing volleyball but lose my focus at one-on-one basketball. My wife and I do a few games where we leave the chess board out and make 1-3 moves a day as we are walking past.

 

[Radogast]

Totally OFF-TOPIC


Today after breakfast, the young man bought me doughnuts (I asked for 2.) After the first bite,

I had to brew coffee. These were the best doughnuts I have tasted in 30 years (since I left California for AZ and the East Coast.)

 

[Beavis]

What a great story Radogast, thanks for sharing!

I graduated from high school in 1986 so your post brought back many memories. I remember getting cable TV as a kid, Atari & Pong, curly fax paper, using the net for the first time in 1992 ish and smoking for the first time in 1985 as a sophomore in high school at lunch at the Dairy Queen. We had a hookup....2 (joints) for $5 or 3 for $6. The dude would put two papers together and roll a pinner so really you were smoking a lot of paper and a sprinkling of Mexican swag. But we were too dumb to know any better and thought we were the shit! Innocence is bliss! LOL

I remember taking a Pascal programming class in high school in 1985 ish and taking typing Lessons as a class on one of the old IBM Selectric typewriters before PC's hit like the Radio Shack TRS80.

Wow...time flies.

 

[KingstonRabbi]

My first time (programming) was middle school 1978 on a PET computer with tape drive and screen about the size of my phone. First program used peeks and pokes to try to create a fart sound. Sounded more like a razzberry, and not much like that either.

Same year went on field trip to IBM. They showed us their latest mini-computer, only half the size of a Buick.

 

[Radogast]

Cannabis garden update


Not much to do today, (watered cilantro, GE to Amherst Sour Diesel) so I took photos.


Small pots in veg

Back - - Hawaiian Skunk - Ace Lilly
Middle- AK47 (top cut) - Ace mix
Front- - - - - AK47 clone #1

The AK47s are in competition for which one to keep.
Hawaiian Skunk is unsexed. Next cutting becomes a clone and I will try to sex the clone.
Tangerine Widow is in back - still under 2" tall.



Borderliner clone (left.) Bubba's Gift (right.) I'm waiting for that one branch to get a little longer before I bend it down to the canopy level.

3 girls in the 'golden' flower room.

AK47. Day 35 since the flip

Borderliner and Amherst Sour Diesel. Day 13? since the flip. Buds are starting to set.

 

[HiddenGrow]

Wow what a journal. I can't wait to see how that AK47 finishes up for you. What a cola! Definitely a two handed weapon.

 

[Doc Bud]

My sister's husband is a ranked player in the State of Oregon. I lost most of my patience for chess once I had sex in High School. If we had played with time clocks, I might have kept playing. The strategy in my High School Chess club was to move real slowly when you felt you were losing - basically run out the clock until time to go home. At Chess club meeting #3, I was playing cards with other players while waiting for the losers as they pretended to contemplate their moves. To my way of thinking, that was disgraceful and I quit.

I don't really have the killer instinct needed to win individual competitions anyway. As a younger man, I would dive deep playing volleyball but lose my focus at one-on-one basketball. My wife and I do a few games where we leave the chess board out and make 1-3 moves a day as we are walking past.

Your wife plays chess? KEEPER! LOL.

My wife is awesome....31 years of marriage. She cooks, cleans, mucks horse stalls, smokes weed like a Rasta, hikes, swims, dances......but no chess. If she also played chess she'd be out of my league with everything else she does.

 

[ginganinja30]

I have a couple of those too, they're great. I use them for all kinds of stuff, even measuring 2-cycle oil to mix with gas for the outdoor toys. I never mix enough to use the entire container so these are a must-have!

I'll look out for some ☺

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[ginganinja30]

Planting Day


Last night I finished up the electricals. This morning I half-cleared the room and planted.

The master outlet (ceiling) has the gfci that protects 3 outlets

For now, I plugged in the temperature controller that runs the exhaust fan.

The wiring for the other outlets are simpler

The other ceiling outlet is running the veg light and the air circulating fan.

I installed a third outlet for the shelves at the end of the room. I imagine this will power the cloner, stereo, tea bubbler, etc.
I also imagine I will clean off the shelves some day

On to the planting ...


First step: Wash two previously used 7-gallon and two previously used 10-gallon pots.

Second step: Realize I am planting in 1 gallon pots today. So I loaded soil in the large pots around the small pots.

4 pots ready to go. Both 7-gallon and 10-gallon pots are loaded with 6 gallons of soil packed around a 1 gallon pot shape.

At the last minute I remembered I needed to stealth screen the windows. (Window screen and panda film stapled on the inside)

Back to planting ...


Soaking the pots from the bottom in 1/4 transplant.

Photos while soaking the final pot. (note exhaust fan in brick wall.)

Photos while soaking the final pot. (note unused wood window screens and doors behind the circulation fan.)

Planted pots ready to grow. (note bucket with RO water feed - the valve leaks )

The first 4 plants in the new grow location, all feminized. Sprinkled with ROOTS!. planted direct into the soil.

AMS Borderliner XTRM Borderliner XTRM Feminized Marijuana seeds

AMS AK47 XTRM AK47 XTRM Feminized Marijuana seeds - the ultimate AK47

HSO Bubba's gift (from Herbies) Herbies Mobile

HSO Amherst Sour Diesel (from Herbie's) Herbies Mobile

It's great to have seeds back in the ground.

I need to hook up with my 420 friendly electrician and make a grow space plan. Don't want to be burning my house down.

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[Radogast]

I need to hook up with my 420 friendly electrician and make a grow space plan. Don't want to be burning my house down.

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I strongly support not burning your house down

I added a second circuit much later in the grow (after I started adding space heaters.)

My rule of thumb is up to 90% of maximum wattage. This is a maximum 1500 watts for a standard 15 AMP circuit and a maximum of 2000 watts for the 20 AMP circuits I installed. If everything is turned on at once, my maximums are 1350 Watts for flower lights plus exhaust fan on one 20 amp circuit and 1800 W for everything else on the other 20 AMP circuit. Actual usage patterns (based on timers) for the 'everything else circuit' are 350 W, 1100W, and 1600W.

There is a piece of mind in using dedicated circuits that you won't find if you share a circuit with a toaster or blow drier.

 

[ginganinja30]

I strongly support not burning your house down

I added a second circuit much later in the grow (after I started adding space heaters.)

My rule of thumb is up to 90% of maximum wattage. This is a maximum 1500 watts for a standard 15 AMP circuit and a maximum of 2000 watts for the 20 AMP circuits I installed. If everything is turned on at once, my maximums are 1350 Watts for flower lights plus exhaust fan on one 20 amp circuit and 1800 W for everything else on the other 20 AMP circuit. Actual usage patterns (based on timers) for the 'everything else circuit' are 350 W, 1100W, and 1600W.

There is a piece of mind in using dedicated circuits that you won't find if you share a circuit with a toaster or blow drier.

Thanks Radogast, I promise not to disappoint you .
That's really useful info that will help me so much. ...



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[Tead]

Wow... we're all really diggin up some nerd history.
Luvin the PET peeks and pokes.... remember them well. Mostly used it for graphics action instead of sound.
Then there were the cassette tape based memory. I sure burned up a ton of those.
My wife and I were just chatting about the old Hamurabi (many other names) game yesterday.
Zork.....
I remember the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy game. Fun.
Minis, mainframes, Pets, C-64s, TRS-80s, first round of PCs, DOS, Win1.0 (just a DOS shell), punching holes in single sided floppys.
Yup... the memories flow.

 

[Radogast]

What a great story Radogast, thanks for sharing!

I graduated from high school in 1986 so your post brought back many memories. I remember getting cable TV as a kid, Atari & Pong, curly fax paper, using the net for the first time in 1992 ish and smoking for the first time in 1985 as a sophomore in high school at lunch at the Dairy Queen. We had a hookup....2 (joints) for $5 or 3 for $6. The dude would put two papers together and roll a pinner so really you were smoking a lot of paper and a sprinkling of Mexican swag. But we were too dumb to know any better and thought we were the shit! Innocence is bliss! LOL

I remember taking a Pascal programming class in high school in 1985 ish and taking typing Lessons as a class on one of the old IBM Selectric typewriters before PC's hit like the Radio Shack TRS80.

Wow...time flies.

I loved the 'over-center' typing actition of the selectric typewriter keyboard. You knew when the key was depressed because the spring would suck the keys down after you pressed far enough. They used the selectric style keyboard on the IBM 3278/3279 CRTs (Cathode Ray Tubes - because TVwas too pedestrian ) which are the first computer terminals that I worked with. I loved the feel.

When IBM came out with the PC, they used an el cheapo flat plastic-y keyboard, then they started using the same el cheapo keyboards on their computer terminals. Then people started coming down with carpal tunnel syndrome- coincidence?



My parents didn't get a color TV until after I moved out of the house. I didn't own a color TV until after I bought my first house - somewhere around 1988 - Cable TV came a decade later for me - and is now replaced by Fiber internet/Netflix/Hulu.

I also didn't drink alcohol or smoke a joint until after I moved out of the house. I was such a goody two shoes little kid

My first time (programming) was middle school 1978 on a PET computer with tape drive and screen about the size of my phone. First program used peeks and pokes to try to create a fart sound. Sounded more like a razzberry, and not much like that either.

Same year went on field trip to IBM. They showed us their latest mini-computer, only half the size of a Buick.

I used 'extended ascii' pokes for my first game which was a ripoff of an Apple snake game where you had to feed the constantly moving snake a bunch of dots covering the screen. As the snake ate it got longer, so the trick was to maneuver the growing snake around the sceen without running into the snake body or a foreign object. Once the screen was cleared of dots, a door would open up at the top of the screen and the player could finish the level and move on to the next level. I created about 20 levels.

I had to write a game. When I won the PC as a prize, all it had was DOS 1.1 and a single 2-sided floppy drive. No other software. So I wrote the game in BASIC (part of the DOS operating system.) Originally written for the monochrome display, it also worked (as character graphics)on the IBM color display. When IBM introduced 3270 PC, and Color IBM XT with an adapter card to connect to a mainframe as a PC, they used the IBM color display range to do extended ascii graphics in color. So with two pokes followed by 2 peeks I could determine which of the 3 machines my program was running on and start the game.

About 4 years later, after moving to another company, I saw a co-worker playing a compiled version of my snake game code on one of the consoles. He said he got it from an IBM support engineer. - made me feel proud. I fixed the speed problems in the compiled version


All in the past now, but the mind has to wander around a bit waiting for these plants to grow

Wow... we're all really diggin up some nerd history.
Luvin the PET peeks and pokes.... remember them well. Mostly used it for graphics action instead of sound.
Then there were the cassette tape based memory. I sure burned up a ton of those.
My wife and I were just chatting about the old Hamurabi (many other names) game yesterday.
Zork.....
I remember the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy game. Fun.
Minis, mainframes, Pets, C-64s, TRS-80s, first round of PCs, DOS, Win1.0 (just a DOS shell), punching holes in single sided floppys.
Yup... the memories flow.

I never even heard of a Commodore PET until just now (thankyou google and wikipedia)

Commodore 64 and Apple II (IIc and IIe) were the dominant local machines. At one point, a dear friend and his wife had 2 Apple II, 4 Apple IIc, at least 2 Apple 2e, 4 Macs, and a Lisa plugged in and ready to use around the perimeter of his garage. That was a party house among my friends Catle Wolfenstein was the favorite party game because everyone could watch over your shoulder Bridge, poker, dancing, etc were inside. Most parties observed CASBA (Clean Air Smoke Break Agreement,) where all the games stopped about once an hour so folks could go outside and light up. For the dancers, yelling CASBAH! generally meant forming a conga line and heading outside through the game rooms

 

[bobrown14]

Rant on brother!! I've only been to Walmart once for a lantern and a jacknife. It was terrible.

Edit.. it ended with the only thing I've shoplifted in my adult life..free jacknife after 20 mins at the counter.
I used to steal Top tobacco when they kept it on the shelf of CVS.

Ahem... catching up here... GR that's soo funny bro. I got caught shoplifting Top tobacco at the ACME next to my house when I was like 8 years old. I think we were going to chew it like the old timers in town on the street corner. Prolly good we got caught.. can't imagine what would of happened if we were successful and actually ate the stuff. Brrrrrrp

Hey Rad don't know if you got yourself another sprayer but when I bought my first one and I'm still using it... I went straight to the top o the heap and got a "Chapin 20000 Poly Lawn and Garden Sprayer". I usually only fill it half way. That's good nuf for flower/VEG and house plants.. sometimes even go outside and spread the joy in the garden, but my neighbors think I'm spraying chemicals. Whatever...

You can get a brass nib for it too ... I have that but never felt the need to upgrade! I use mine a fair amount too... still on my first one.

Your garden is looking super ... love all that green!

 

[Radogast]

Today was a selection and elimination day



Borderliner had a clone off - I kept the clone that was planted, firmly rooted, and growing new leaves.

(popstick stick labels look like tombstones on elimination day )




I removed the top 3 nodes from Hawaiian Skunk. After roots show, the top clone will be planted, and sexed in the flower room.

AK47 had a clone off - I kept the AK47 at the bottom of the above photo.

The older, thinner AK47 in the broken 1/2 gallon pot was sent to the worm bin. The roots were not established in the top 2", which was over 1/3 the depth of the pot.

No more squat 1/2 gallon pots.

 

[Radogast]

The AK47 aroma is dominating the flower room. (Tthe other 2 girls in there are younger - just setting their flowers.)

AK47 smells like what the strain is know for - fruity, sweet, non-lemon citrus, mango ... no hint of musk, or diesel.
She smells like edible fruit.

In previous grows, this aroma has been subtle and elusive.
This grow, in DocBud's kit, it smells like I am is peeling a ripe fruit at arms length - quite pleasant. Not overwhelmingly strong.