SweetSue's Hempy Haven: Powered By Timber

[Tennessee Tim]

Sweet Sue , as you know I been " gone" a year or so and just returning to your circle of growth. Not surprised to see how busy you've been! I was in the lawn/turf,landscape and nursery business a long time as well as being a market grower since(small time). One of the things that I learned doing that work in the turf management area was that you can grow grass on a billiard ball, given enough water, fertilizer and sunshine! The use of perlite and such as dominate substrates in many styles of grow, perfectly illustrates that (of course perlite supports the roots while allowing oxygen spaces as well, great stuff!) I love reading about the various methods people employ to get to the same place (hopefully)! Your plants look healthy! Good job with your method! Who named it Hempy? I prefer a natural and organic method, but have played with everything at one time or another with some kind of plants. But if you get it right, you can grow beautiful plants many different ways! I might just start thinking about a variation of hempy using my own organic materials, worm compost/ garden compost teas, supplemented with OMRI approved products like Sea Com plant PGR seaweed concentrate! Anyway, thanks,as usual for keeping a friendly, welcome mat out for characters that may have some damaged brain cells! We appreciate that!

 

[NorCaliwood]

Sorry,,, did I miss a Birthing Day yesterday... My bad and Happy B-Day Miss Sue...........

 

[TorturedSoul]

Do they look like this

I got no idea. What part of "20:120 vision in my good eye" do people have so much trouble understanding, lol? Near as I can figure - and informal tests at the side of the road with my buddy - it means that, if you have 20:20 vision and can just barely read a sign that's 120 feet away, I've got to approach to twenty feet to read it. Think the poorer eye is 20:150.

That's why I hate the thought of opposite sex flowers so much! You know how I figured out I had them last year? I showed my friend the grow and he asked, "Why do you have seeds on the floor?"

I probably wouldn't hate life so much if I could see it. Then again, maybe I'd hate it exponentially more, IDFK.

The description I gave previously is as good as I can tell you. And that... was probably as much guesswork as anything else. Like the weblines - I know they produce those because I walk through 10,000 of the #%!^ing things crossing a room I haven't been in lately, not because I can see them.

Do you live near Sue? I can throw some into an envelope and mail them to her next time I get an extra stamp.

You got any pictures of a whitish blur? Because that'd be them. . . .

 

[rikvasen]

Honest word.

The main thing to remember, when skinning a dead cat, lol, is to make sure it's fully and completely dead. Otherwise, the cat might decide to do a little "skinning," too.

BtW, rabbits are much easier - no knife required! Like ears, they are (ya just give a good yank...) .

I actually laughed so hard at this that I had to take a screenshot just for the sake of laughing at it again. I just have that kind of humor... Also, I need new coffee. Looks like the floor took mine.

 

[rikvasen]

She said "Thank you TS." The hug was mine. She doesn't hug strangers

I MISSED THE BIRYHDAY! SHIT! Happy birthday though!!!

 

[TorturedSoul]

I actually laughed so hard at this that I had to take a screenshot just for the sake of laughing at it again. I just have that kind of humor... Also, I need new coffee. Looks like the floor took mine.

Yeah, the part about skinning dead cats - and making sure they're dead first... that was all a joke. I wouldn't kill a cat unless it was already in the process of dying and in great, overwhelming pain, e.g., just got its rear half ran over by a car. Or rabid. And I wouldn't skin a dead one, either.

The part about not needing any tools other than the pair God put at the end of your arms to skin a rabbit, though, that wasn't a joke. Neither was the comment about how easily ears come off. A reasonably fit ten-year old could remove both a person's ears in just a few seconds. Remember that if you ever find yourself getting attacked by one, lol.

 

[TorturedSoul]

Grab one of the worms and see if it has 3 sets of legs near the head and 5 sets of prolegs on the abdomen. If so then what you have are Indianmeal moths. Do they look like this @TorturedSoul ?

indianmeal_moth01.jpg

• beez0404
• Aug 20, 2018
• 2

We do have a serious moth problem in my neighborhood. Bad enough that several neighbors have mentioned it. No one has mentioned worms/larvae though - but that could stem from a terminal sense of embarrassment, I suppose.

Do you have a more normal-sized image I could look at?

I checked the wikipedia article on indianmeal moths. Don't look exactly like the ones around here, but close - and they mate in the same orientation (look like one bug with a head on each end). The article states that these larvae can chew(?) through thin plastic and cardboard containers! That would explain how something like this can survive - and freaking thrive - even when you don't leave food out. It's also... Well, it's a good thing that me and suicide are completely incompatible concepts, I guess, because I only thought I was feeling down before. I don't have "heavy duty milspec" food containers. What I do have... is about two dollars in change. I guess, whatever it takes to make this problem go away, two bucks won't touch it, huh? No work this week, but there might be some ceilings to paint next week I hear. I was kind of planning to get the water turned back on, but... IDK. Anyone know it's safe to use swimming pool water to wash clothes or will the chlorine bleach them out? Neighbor is on vacation, so I could accidentally drop a bucket in his above-ground one.

I shouldn't be this poor this time of year. Wish I could still scamper up ladders; been asked by three people if I could paint the outside of their houses.

Ever feel... discouraged?

 

[SweetSue]

I MISSED THE BIRYHDAY! SHIT! Happy birthday though!!!

Thank you rik. I’ll pass on the greetings when she stops later for wake ‘n bake.

 

[SweetSue]

Anyway, thanks,as usual for keeping a friendly, welcome mat out for characters that may have some damaged brain cells! We appreciate that!

Haha! I think we might all fit into that category of “damaged brain cell” Tim.

Good morning and welcome to my fast-moving joyful journal where I get to gush with unfettered glee over my charges.

To be honest, I’m not certain who came up with the hempy name, but there are numerous threads around the internet teaching the method and exploring options and tweaks.

It’s an almost foolproof way to grow exquisite plants with minimal effort. Plants like these little ones:

Tent #1

• SweetSue
• Aug 21, 2018

There are 5 plants in there. Or like these medium to large statured beauties:

Tent #2

• SweetSue
• Aug 21, 2018

Front left to right: Candy Cane, Red Diesel, Carnival

or something huge like this girl.

Zamaldelica x Panama

• SweetSue
• Aug 21, 2018

I went looking a bit to see if I could quickly catch the name of the originator, and got lost over at on their hempy basics thread and learned a couple new tricks. Lol! So thank you for asking Tim.

I’d love to see someone make hempy work with organic mixes. To support a micro herd you’ll need a substrate conducive to their survival. Adding coco to the mix achieves this, so theoretically it’s possible. I wanted to try Doc’s kit with hempy, and someday I may, but for now I passed on those supplies to someone who could use it now.

Let me back up and see what TS was up to while the rest of the world slept.

 

[SweetSue]

How cute! When I type in r-o-l-l-i-t-u-p to direct you to the thread it pops up .



Must be time for my own wake ‘n bake. I’ll be right back. Lol!

 

[SweetSue]

Sorry,,, did I miss a Birthing Day yesterday... My bad and Happy B-Day Miss Sue...........

It wasn’t my birthday @Norcaliwood , ‘‘twas my baby girl’s 38th. I’m a Saggitarian woman out to fill the cosmos with more joy. My birthday celebration encounpasses the entire month of December.

 

[SweetSue]

A reasonably fit ten-year old could remove both a person's ears in just a few seconds. Remember that if you ever find yourself getting attacked by one, lol.

 

[Mr. Krip]

FYI...I believe the originator of the Hempy Bucket was a grower actually named (or his alias was) "Hempy"

 

[SweetSue]

We do have a serious moth problem in my neighborhood. Bad enough that several neighbors have mentioned it. No one has mentioned worms/larvae though - but that could stem from a terminal sense of embarrassment, I suppose.

Do you have a more normal-sized image I could look at?

I checked the wikipedia article on indianmeal moths. Don't look exactly like the ones around here, but close - and they mate in the same orientation (look like one bug with a head on each end). The article states that these larvae can chew(?) through thin plastic and cardboard containers! That would explain how something like this can survive - and freaking thrive - even when you don't leave food out. It's also... Well, it's a good thing that me and suicide are completely incompatible concepts, I guess, because I only thought I was feeling down before. I don't have "heavy duty milspec" food containers. What I do have... is about two dollars in change. I guess, whatever it takes to make this problem go away, two bucks won't touch it, huh? No work this week, but there might be some ceilings to paint next week I hear. I was kind of planning to get the water turned back on, but... IDK. Anyone know it's safe to use swimming pool water to wash clothes or will the chlorine bleach them out? Neighbor is on vacation, so I could accidentally drop a bucket in his above-ground one.

I shouldn't be this poor this time of year. Wish I could still scamper up ladders; been asked by three people if I could paint the outside of their houses.

Ever feel... discouraged?

I’m gonna give you a clue TS, and you’re probably not gonna hear it. Back a bit you mentioned how you’d probably “hate life less if.....” As long as you continue to hold any grudge against life you won’t be able to let any greater good into yours. You’re blocking the pathway with fear and frustration.

I realize you believe life is showing you reality that makes you frustrated and discouraged, and there’s the trick, your challenge. What you focus on becomes your reality. To change the reality you start by changing your thoughts about how you feel about the reality you’re looking at. If you ever tip the scales in favor of wonder your life will tip that way too. Cosmic law, but no one’s gonna force you to go there.

The diatomaceous earth will rip their tender exoskeletons apart. All you need do is sprinkle it around where they’re breeding, which appears to be over your head. Can R help you with this? You have a breeding ground, likely enhanced by the dampness of your abode. Find it and dust it - dust, not dump - and see what that does.

And TS, you know I’m ok with your choice to see the ugly in life. I stopped feeling sorry for you long ago. Our friendship doesn’t depend on your towing the joyful line.

 

[SweetSue]

FYI...I believe the originator of the Hempy Bucket was a grower actually named (or his alias was) "Hempy"

I laughed at the dictionary definition: a Scottish word for a young, mischievous child. If this isn’t the perfect medium for me I don’t know what is.

 

[MrGreene]

I think it's about time for my favorite page.

 

[TorturedSoul]

FYI...I believe the originator of the Hempy Bucket was a grower actually named (or his alias was) "Hempy"

He just popularized it. AfaIK, the reservoir thing has been around since the late '80s or early '90s. And passive hydroponics has been a thing for centuries.

Nothing wrong with bringing a thing to more of the masses, though. Well, you know, a useful thing. That girl I knew in high school who brought crabs to the party didn't make a lot of friends. <COUGH> Not lasting ones, at least .

 

[MrGreene]

TS....... Was her name Joy

 

[TorturedSoul]

Back a bit you mentioned how you’d probably “hate life less if.....” As long as you continue to hold any grudge against life you won’t be able to let any greater good into yours. You’re blocking the pathway with fear and frustration.

It's a figure of speech, darlin'. I don't hate life. Quite a few life-forms, yeah - but only members of my own species. And some birds (all the ones that make noise and shit, actually). And the ceiling worms, of course.

I realize you believe life is showing you reality that makes you frustrated and discouraged, and there’s the trick, your challenge. What you focus on becomes your reality. To change the reality you start by changing your thoughts about how you feel about the reality you’re looking at. If you ever tip the scales in favor of wonder your life will tip that way too. Cosmic law, but no one’s gonna force you to go there.

Ironically... No, never mind. You just wouldn't get it. But I will state that I did just fine until people started telling me how positive I ought to be.

Can R help you with this?

He's a big guy and all, but I can't see him flipping my house upside down. Plus he's "disabled" (when it comes to anything that smells like work).

You have a breeding ground, likely enhanced by the dampness of your abode. Find it and dust it - dust, not dump - and see what that does.

Would love to lower the local water table about nine feet, then fill in the pit and patch the basement floor. Dampness/mold is just a fact of life.

I never see them unless I look up or one happens to fall. Had one land on my forehead about 3:00. Not sleeping has its benefits.

And TS, you know I’m ok with your choice to see the ugly in life.

That's good, because I might be blind - but I'm not that blind.

I stopped feeling sorry for you long ago.

That's also good. If someone even thinks about feeling sorry for me I get powerfully pissed off.

Our friendship doesn’t depend on your towing the joyful line.

Good, again. I don't drink the kool-aid.

 

[SweetSue]

God TS... I love talking to you.