Tales From The Krip!

Think ....:volcano-smiley:....long.......:smokin2:......and hard.......RoorRip........:bongrip:...........but you'll probably grow all three. :lot-o-toke:

You sound just like me. Gotta have it all. :laughtwo:
 
My carbon filters come apart. I replace the carbon. The one I have is 10 years old or more. Has wing nuts instead of rivets. I have another inline cartridge style that has long boxes of carbon. I can unfold the same needs to fill them. buying the carbon online I made sure it was Virginia coconut small chips. They work very well. Not cheap but certainly cheaper than buying a new filter. If your filter has rivets then you can drill them out and use bolts and wing nuts the same size as the hole to bind the filter together. In order to allow for compaction I use a few pieces of very elastic CLOSED cell foam and put them at the top of the carbon when filling. The foam expands as the contents settle and you effectively make sure a channel is not created that would allow air to bypass the carbon. Gotta be closed cell foam, not the kind you can blow through.
 
I was VERY close to doing all three, but then remembered, I also have two new bag seed I recently sprouted and four clones of the Blue OG. I'll likely not keep the bag seeds, but if the OG turns out good, I'm going to want to keep one of those clones as a mom, too.

And, I do keep my moms as bonsais, which helps on the space issue, but it's kind of a waste of moms to have all these strains and only be able to flower two plants at a time. So, I figure I'll play with two of the new ones until I'm getting tired of those strains, and then pop a new one.

Ever since my first grow, I stopped naming my plants as seedlings, believing it was bad luck based on all the expensive seeds I killed. However, after six years of growing now, I'm starting to think it MIGHT have been my "noobness" drowning them with love (and too much water! :) ), so, I'm going to try breaking the curse and naming the plants now, as seeds.

It's my great pleasure to introduce you to my new baby girls! These are like the ultrasound pics....

The Cherry Bomb:

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The "Other" One:

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Posing for their first group photos - how cute!

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OK...for the names...you probably already have "Mon Cheri" figured out. Anyone want to take a guess at "Jolly Jane"???

(pausing to see if anyone has the answer)

Anyone???

(pausing again)

OK...since no one jumped up with the answer, let me tell you all a sweet bedtime story! ;)

A woman that kills her husband is known as a "Black Widow". And, there was a infamous serial killer nurse (who wore white!) named, Jane Toppan, a.k.a. "Jolly Jane".

Oooooohhhh...White?....Jane?...serial killer?...this is starting to make sense! :winkyface:

Let's take a look at her story:

Born Honora Kelley, Jane Toppan was a Boston-born nurse who was arrested in 1901 after an overwhelming number of patients mysteriously died under her care. In 1885, she began experimenting on her patients with morphine and atropine, curious to see the effects on their nervous system. She administered shots and served lethal cocktails, carefully observing them giving their last breath. In 1895, she set off on a killing spree poisoning her landlords. After killing widower Alden Davis and his two daughters, a toxicology exam revealed traces of poison. Other bodies were exhumed, all containing large doses of morphine and atropine.

Nicknamed “The Poisonous Nursemaid,” Jane Toppan provided details for 31 murders, but it is believed she poisoned as many as 70 people. She was sent to trial but was found not guilty and declared insane. Jane was sentenced to life in the Taunton Insane Hospital. As to her motifs, she simply declared she wanted to kill more people than anyone before her. Unlike any other serial killer in history, she did not kill for vengeance, jealousy, or financial gain, but for the satisfaction of holding her victims in her arms while slowly passing away.
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I'm only hoping MY Jolly Jane can live up to her namesake! :rofl:

P.S. If you haven't guessed...Jolly Jane IS the White Widow! :riskybusiness:
 
I guessed it about the time you hinted "white!" :laughtwo: That was fun. You make the experience of your jourmpnal fun.

Ahhhh..... Thanks. My eyes are watering. I think that may be my cue to get offline and go to bed. Bonne nuit Mr. Krip. :Love:
 
Hey Mr. Krip!!! I just saw your journal pop up and realize I wasn't subscribed :) I'm definitely in :)
 
Great story! Even more interesting because statistically, females are almost never mass-murderers.. Talk about killer weed!
 
Just started soaking the seeds 10 hours ago and Jolly Jane is a sinker! :yahoo:

Mon Cheri is still floating, but with a little more time, hopefully she'll show us her underwater skills. ;)
 
I've had workmen here all week renovating the kitchen and, since it appears they custom built the wrong size cabinets, I have a hunch it won't be done anytime soon.

Snuck in for a quick pic while I could but probably won't be able to post a full update until the weekend.

It is starting to look and smell like some "sticky-icky-da-danky-dank" so I hope those buds swell up nice. Right now, they're not bad, but nothing impressive size-wise and I was hoping they'd be further along. Now I'm starting to think I may have to postpone another week before putting her on the OverDrive.

Here's bud shot for today:

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Happy Harvests!

K
 
OK...Mon Cheri is now sunk and Jolly Jane has a small taproot showing, so it looks like we should be able to get both to sprout. In a couple/few hours, I'll move Jolly Jane to a Rapid Rooter cube and by Monday or Tuesday, hopefully she'll be poking through.
 
Mon Cheri sprouted her taproot and now both seedlings are in Rapid Rooters waiting to show their faces.

However, I have a REAL problem and MAY need to terminate the current grow.

I had a flood in my kitchen a few months back and it's currently being remodeled, which is why I've had workmen here all week. Earlier this week, the contractor found black mold behind one of the cabinets and it's on a wall that butts up against the closet my veg cabinet is in.

They're sending out a mold remediation specialist, and I'm a little concerned he's going to want to see the "other side" of that kitchen wall.

Then, he's going to want to test some various rooms to see if they can detect spores in the air.

I certainly don't want any contractors (or anyone else, for that matter!) knowing I have a grow here since it would only make me a target.

I can probably move everything into the master bedroom, throw some pepper plants in the veg cabinet, and just tell him he can go anywhere EXCEPT the master bedroom, but it's certainly an intricate setup to grow peppers! :winkyface:

Not to mention, it's a VERY heavy cabinet that might need to be moved out of the closet for him to even inspect what's going on back there!

The worst part is, my whole kitchen is demolished with a contractor halfway through the job, so it's not like I can just put it off a month until I'm able to harvest.

Depending on what the mold remediation guy finds and what they want to do, I may need to move out of my house for a while and/or find somewhere I can finish the girls in flower or, and I hope it doesn't come to this, chop them early and toss them in the compost bin. :thedoubletake:

I'm open to all the :goodluck: wishes and suggestions I can get!
 
I did the same thing. I hit the "Like" more out of shock than anything. :straightface:

Dang! Not fair. Been there my friend. I'm definately sending :goodluck: wishes, and hoping you don't need to tear it all down. Geez....... Your best bet may be that move into the bedroom, at least until they inspect.

You have no idea what the timelines are though, or if you'll have to move out while they eradicate.

Life and it's little surprises, eh? :hugs::hugs::hugs:
 
Man. I see no way around it. You need to move the grow to the bed room. If he asks to go in, your girl friend(s) are sleeping, lol. Forget peppers. Can you simply pivot the cabinet then cover it with a sheet and maybe stack some random shit on it. Make it look like furniture...a wardrobe/armoire or something??

IDK man. Wish I could sit down in the space and let it talk to me, look at what you have to work with. But it sounds like the girls are going on a little trip.

Oh, and good luck.

:goodluck:
 
Girlfriend(s). :rofl: Just like a man. Hahaha!
 
Unfortunately, there's no way to pivot, although, I can probably cover with a sheet, but not much room on top.

Here's the closet it's in:

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The other side of the back wall of the closet is the corner of the kitchen with the mold.

Here's the size of the cabinet in the closet with BOTH closet doors removed:

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You can't imagine how hard it was to move into that closet with a good buddy helping me. I've already acknowledged that, when it's time, I'm going to have to basically disassemble it in the closet just so I can remove it!!!

That being said, now that I have the Mars 144, for the next grow I was planning on getting a new tent. One that's 6'7" tall for flower (probably one of the Gorilla models, from what I've looked at, so far), and considering getting rid of the custom cabinet and moving the current 5' flower tent into that closet to use for veg.

So, I may have to get rid of that cabinet earlier than planned, but no way I'll get it done before they come for the mold inspection.

I don't mind moving the veg girls into the Master bedroom temporarily. I'd just hate to have to chop that Blue OG before she's finished. She's really starting to look and smell great!

I just picked up a 100w (equivalent) LED flood light with a "clamp-lamp" that I now have shining from the bottom of the canopy up to try to help those lower buds finish quicker.

I was considering doing a staged harvest on the Blue OG since it looks like the tops will finish a week or two ahead of the lower buds. Now, I just want to get it all done and harvested ASAP!
 
BTW...this is what it looks like with the closet doors open.

If I turn off the electronics while he's here, unless he opens the cab and/or needs to get into the closet, he really won't know what's in it! :)

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There's no reason for him to even look in there. What if they have to see behind it? Can it be moved easily with the plants in there?

I like the cabinet. Where, may I ask, did you get it?
 
Is there carpet on the floor? If so, I'd slip some sliders under it to make moving it out easier.
 
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