Tead's Indoor-ish, Winter, Hempy, OGK, SOG

You're encouraged to get carried away and not imposing one bit... but if you think I'm makin you crafish pie you got another thing comin baby! I find culinary success in easy things. Opening cans... cutting some sausage... turn on the stove... I have a chance of not screwing it up. Crawfish, filling, and pastry.... oh no... time to head down to Palace Cafe and finish with some Bananas Foster.

The purists tell us that canned beans are a sin. I've never been shy of a touch of sinning.
 
The purists tell us that canned beans are a sin. I've never been shy of a touch of sinning.
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I went to a Native American sweat lodge where they used canned corn as an offering. No sinning there.
 
Tead said:
OH! I think I forgot to mention it here.
Heading to Boston later this month (21st-27th). Staying at the beach just north of the city in a Revere airb&b.

Any tips for exploring Bean Town?
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Food - "Legal Seafood" is good. Seafood in general is good. Lobster is better, and much cheaper, if you drive just across the bridge into Maine and stop at Warren's.

Mexican food in Boston pretty much sucks. Chinatown has 2-3 good Dim Sum restaurants. I prefer "Empire Garden." They are set inside an old movie theater on Washington street. NIce italian deserts in North End, Boston. (I recommend Lobster Tail pastry at Mike's) I never ate in Revere, but it is an easy ride on the T to get from Revere to Boston.

Massachusetts does not understand the Blues. Even when the music is good, the audience doesn't get into it - picture whitey mcwhite folks with two left feet that listen to autotune and Taylor Swift. Smoken Joe's Blues and Barbecue did well, but they shut down last year. They do well with classical music, opera and ballet.

Boston Beau Tease has really good Burlesque shows but I don't see anything on their schedule until mid-October. Lots of small theatical performances - the quality is better than most community theater, but if the play sucks, good actors can't save it. The travelling broadway shows are below average - they never seem to have the first string cast stop in Boston. Broadway shows are better in Ohio and Chicago. They have a permanent Blue Man group show. The comedy sceen used to be smoking hot. Remnants remain. The kinky night clubs have moved to Providence, RI or up to Maine.

Salem Mass has dozens of Witch shops, pirate museums, wax museums, graveyard tours, witch trial reenactments, shipping museum, and a good ferry ride to and from Boston. Red's Sandwich shop has cheap, good enough eats - closes at 3PM Mon-Sat, 1PM sundays.

Boston has Old Ironsides, still afloat and part of the Navy, open for tours (in Cambridge near Bunker Hill.) Boston has a good aquarium and harbor boat rides of all sizes and speeds. About 5 really good museums in Boston and Cambridge. Boston Common is a good strolling park. Swan boats, wading pond (Edgar Allen Poe waded in Frog Pond and rode the swan boats as a kid.) Historic attractions: Granary graveyard tour, old north church tour, Paul Revere house tour, etc. There are private buses that go between the historic attractions if you want to do that kind of hop on - hop off tour. They love to talk about revolutionary history in Massachusetts.

Microbrew beer in Boston is usually decent, but not spectacular. The local rums are good.


- - - That's off the top of my head. If you have a special interest (need a luthier? Want to go kayaking?) I may or may not be able to help.
 
Well, that was very thorough.
 
Thorough and insightful. Thanks Rad! I'm looking forward to digging thru a museum or two. I see MIT has a museum and that bad boy is high on the list.... Mecca for the random nerds after all.

So, I'm starting to think that Pineapple Chunk is not a great fit for me. It's just not thriving as well growing in the sauna. Leaves form, look fine for a while, then boat badly. I suspect the core cause is heat and humidity.... neither of which I can control any further.
Meh! Oh well. Had to try.
I'll let her and her clone run out, but I'm not expecting to see anything amazing from them.
 
Damn. I walked about 1 1/2 mile thru the french quarter this morning right after they did the morning street washing. They appeared to be a touch late this morning and the sun was well up. The cooking of that soup that occurs is just evil. I could have wrung my shirt out.

Changed my location from "Crawfish country" to "Under the humidity dome". Seemed appropriate.
 
... and after an entire summer of it, I'm just fed up with it actually. Almost drives one to wish for a big storm and all the associated cool air.

Big Easy was damn near empty
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Strange days.
I was heading down Esplanade daily for work after the storm. It was a few weeks before I even saw another moving vehicle during the trip... and I was on a bicycle going slow avoiding all the street debris (so many roofing nails!). Not one lumen of light pollution at night tho.... as the dryer winter air moved in, the stars were amazing... I was even able to see the milky way disk.
Strange, very smelly days indeed.
 
It's got to be hard to do while in flower
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To answer you question directly, I try to stay with strains that can withstand the humidity, and I grow in a freakin wind tunnel. A dehumidifier is another very good option, but I only have enough power to run the AC or dehumidifier... during the summer the AC wins that choice.

Now the ramble....

Humidity levels that float in the 90's with a matching temperature number is a real challenge to many phases of growing.
Let me paint some background rules that apply to both veg and bloom. I never spray in the humid months unless I have to for insect reasons. If I am forced to spray, I try to evaporate it with fan action as quick as possible. Any spillage of water on leaves is quickly sopped up with a soft cloth. Any standing water is removed immediately.

Cloning can be problematic unless you keep a handle on it. My ambient levels are often high enough to clone without a dome... tho I generally use the little solo cup domes that probably don't really retain much moisture, but do keep the the wind from knocking them around.

Veg isn't too bad. The humidity causes a lot of 3 fingered leaves. Funny when the winter rolls around and the leaves start popping out with more. The wind can knock small plants around a lot, but I nullify those issues with support sticks or just moving them out from the direct line of fire from the fan. The wind does cause some funny twisting that one could perceive as an over-N issue... so I try to not panic when I see it.

Bloom is pretty easy... just avoid spritzing them and watch for issues in any new strains. In my bloom room I have the AC blowing on high and one additional fan.

There are some hempy specific issues too down in the bucket... but they're heat related. I feed them more often than many hempy growers mostly just to flush out the res with a new mix washing out potential rot issues. Light leaks to the medium are deadly... the slightest bit will cause significant rot. I aim my AC at the pot to try to keep it a touch cooler.


It's a challenge. Always has been. I mitigate the issues, but can never really avoid them. Constant vigilance baby!
 
Feeding this morning....

I actually consider these numbers quite good.
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So... I find myself second guessing myself.
The Afgann is a new strain to me so I'm not quite sure what to make of her. She's got some twist to some leaves.
While I see some twisted leaves in the OGKs frequently, the cause is really my fans. I blow these babies around a lot. Box fan blowing on them 24/7. The OGKs get dark, rubbery looking leaves and the veins darken right up when I get near their limits... I know the look well and use the coloring as a guide during growth. The Afgan has curved leaves and some crinkles... but the color looks awesome to me... but I really only know the OGK's color.
You see my problem. I know what the OGks are supposed to look like, but the Afgann might be different.... and they got twist going, so I'm worried.
Shots of the Afgann
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Since I was in the garden... I got them all.
Here's a Deep Cheese girl. I'm 100% on the popping seeds in perlite front.
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The Pineapple Chunk... not liking something about my world.... dunno but she's chugging along.
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Critical+2.0 coming up
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and a little OGK clone thinking about roots
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