The Hexapus's Garden

Oh yeah that reminds me- I forgot to do an update here for the solo cup herd :lot-o-toke:
Been busy I guess...


These photos are from a couple days ago. Maybe three days ago? I don't know- I can only ever remember back a few hours, then it's all a blur for me, lost in the mists of 'the before time'... Anyway- they're fatter now, than they were when I took these photos, to be sure.





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Lemon skunk





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Ace Mix 1





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Ace mix 2. I'll try to get some better photos of her next time. Funny little thing.






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White Widow. The tallest girl at 21" from the surface. She's really not very photogenic. In real life she actually doesn't look as burnt and trashed as she does in photos. Having said that- I've tried to grow this White Widow strain a few times now and it has been nothing but a complete pain in the ass every time I've tried. So if she wants to make a fuss, be all psycho and flaunt her 'crazy hair' look at me all the time, she can go right ahead.
You don't have a piece of me, baby.





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Last three pics are the Critical Cheese. Cheesy is probably the healthiest girl of the bunch and has no real issues. She knows she's beautiful.
 
Weaselcracker said:
Damn- I'm always getting behind in my own journal....I'll try to catch up later.





As for the Donald Duck thing- that just came out of the blue and I just ran with it. I'm not sure what PotChimp is on about, or exactly what I'm on about either. Just winging it.... I don't follow the news. Is Donald Duck running for US president maybe?
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I wish Donald Duck was running for POTUS, be better than any of our current choices!

Spring is here down in the Dirty South, had to cut the grass yesterday and turn on the A/C units. Hoping it's just around the corner for you as well.

Happy Easter Weaselcracker!

:Namaste:
 
Gary Trudeau for President!!!
 
One thing about living on the west edge of NA is that, by the time I get my day done, nearly everyone on 420 is gone to bed, except SweetSue and Lexort, and then there are a few crazy early risers like Tead and Pigeons. Anyway- happy Easter folks, and thanks for all the kind compliments. I feel lucky to have some decent plants growing right now- and luck is definitely a huge part of this operation. It's hard to take much credit, especially when I'm not there, lol. But thanks all the same.
Sorry I haven't been replying to every post on here, as I mean to. 'Real life', that mysterious nether-realm which we go to when we aren't here on 420, has been demanding, in terms of workload, and lately I haven't had the usual work/life stalls that allow me to hang out here guilt-free.
Noob4x4Grow - I would call that thing a baby gate too. I'm guessing Stage has a dog, not a baby.
I have to agree with Kriaze that I don't feel any utopia is on the horizon. It is encouraging to see all the changes in the direction of legalization. And I shouldn't belittle the 'progress' that has been made in the direction of keeping us all out of prison. But it was control freaks and their 'laws' that have caused all the trouble to begin with. Increased 'legalization' is just a term for decreased illegalization, or at least a change to different forms of illegalization. At best it seems like I can expect to be ignoring and breaking new and different laws in future. I don't see the concept of 'freedom', as held by governments, being the same concept of freedom I have. Any sort of 'government regulated freedom' seems like an oxymoron to me. Which is why I ignore these people as much as possible.
I suppose, to the extent that I even give a crap what the government says, it would be nice to hear something like-
'Hey guys- we have decided that cannabis is a medicinal plant that belongs to the earth, and to everyone on it -so go ahead and do whatever you want it's actually none of our business have a great day and sorry about the little misunderstanding and here's a check for $32.79 as compensation for your suffering'. Except I don't care about the $32.79 and would probably never get around to cashing the check.
As for any sort of general 'utopia' In the bigger sense- I can't see it being possible anymore. We live in a society that has accepted greed for its god. Strangely, the more that this god takes from us, the more fervently society worships it. Unless something happens to make all the televisions suddenly disappear, it seems like we will continue to get more of the same.
I honestly think we have had our chance to do this the easy way, and aren't about to turn course and start figuring it out now that the train is rolling so fast. In order to have utopia as humans we would have to be living within some basic laws of nature and common sense- basic concepts like 'Share what you have with all the other creatures and they will share with you. Don't eat all the food at once if you're going to run out tomorrow. Don't shit where you eat' etc.
It's hard to always make the connection- but without things like healthy forests, clean water, and healthy oceans, we can't continue to produce televisions and cars, and homes and food. The path we have gone down, in becoming so separated from the natural world that sustains us, means that we are going to be living in an increasingly ugly and desperate reality. And desperate realities don't bring out the best in people, they just cause things to tighten up more and move us farther away from any sort of peaceful utopian ideals.
I admire the people who have the skills and the patience to work in society to create change. But my philosophy is somewhat more along the lines of something you might see in SweetSue's signature. I just gravitate towards creating that utopia in my own reality, and in my back yard, and work from there.
Oops a bit of a rant, but what do you expect? Have a great day folks ❤️
 
They sell those as dog gates and baby gates. You can tell the ones meant for dogs because they have little painted bones on them. No joke.

I feel a lot like you Weasel. Make many small changes locally and the area around that will take care of itself as long as the other stoners get off the couch and do their part. If they don't all the ranting and raving you would try to do beyond locally will make no difference anyway. Touch people's lives on an individual basis and like a virus the knowledge will spread. But we are also lucky because this 420mag community is worldwide so people all
Around the world can seize upon an idea posted here on the forum. If I could just get every stoner around the world to try a Shiggityflip when smiling the end of a bud, the world will be a better place.
 
I tried to come up with a retort. But, I couldn't. I want to hold out hope that people can change.
I believe it was the great Rocky Balboa that once said:

"During this fight, I've seen a lot of changing, in the way you feel about me, and in the way I feel about you. In here, there were two guys killing each other, but I guess that's better than twenty million. I guess what I'm trying to say, is that if I can change, and you can change, everybody can change!"

No, seriously, you're right. But, I'm with you. I'm starting in the places I can control and moving outward. Maybe if more and more people do the same, change can happen. Although, with overpopulation being a major concern, I'm thinking Mother Nature will fix the problem eventually, creating a new world for those leftovers to screw up again.
 
:thumb: Enjoy and appreciate what we have left, live simply and find ways to be happy. Maybe convert that television set into a small grow box- only one channel after that- the cannabis channel.
 
Weaselcracker said:
:thumb: Enjoy and appreciate what we have left, live simply and find ways to be happy. Maybe convert that television set into a small grow box- only one channel after that- the cannabis channel.
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I like the show about calyxes.
 
Thanks for those links Nivek. :thumb: I learned a little. Haven't dipped into learning much about RSO. Should have kept up with Sue's journal from the start when I had the chance...
 
Weaselcracker said:
As for any sort of general 'utopia' In the bigger sense- I can't see it being possible anymore. We live in a society that has accepted greed for its god. Strangely, the more that this god takes from us, the more fervently society worships it. Unless something happens to make all the televisions suddenly disappear, it seems like we will continue to get more of the same.
I honestly think we have had our chance to do this the easy way, and aren't about to turn course and start figuring it out now that the train is rolling so fast. In order to have utopia as humans we would have to be living within some basic laws of nature and common sense- basic concepts like 'Share what you have with all the other creatures and they will share with you. Don't eat all the food at once if you're going to run out tomorrow. Don't shit where you eat' etc.
It's hard to always make the connection- but without things like healthy forests, clean water, and healthy oceans, we can't continue to produce televisions and cars, and homes and food. The path we have gone down, in becoming so separated from the natural world that sustains us, means that we are going to be living in an increasingly ugly and desperate reality. And desperate realities don't bring out the best in people, they just cause things to tighten up more and move us farther away from any sort of peaceful utopian ideals.
I admire the people who have the skills and the patience to work in society to create change. But my philosophy is somewhat more along the lines of something you might see in SweetSue's signature. I just gravitate towards creating that utopia in my own reality, and in my back yard, and work from there.
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Well said. It seems a tough concept for many to wrap their heads around. Sad.
I'm sorry the train has the momentum it currently contains... but I can do nothing about that momentum. I just hope that my ticket expires before the train wreck occurs at the end of the line.

Of course, then one thinks that maybe this is just the normal way of things. As we age, we get tired of the battles with the insanity we see in our world. Perhaps we're having the same thoughts and ideas that many generations have had before us. Perhaps the train will continue forever with different passengers always complaining about the same issues.

Hmmm.... I think my grinder needs a turn or two...
 
~Solo Cups~


... I took the following photos a couple days ago, when I got back to the sticky vortex of hard labor I call the Green Hole and found, at that time, a scene of drama and death at the feet of the Hexapus. Or would have, if she had feet. Her lap, I guess you would say, is where the victims died. Somehow a couple of the feeding tentacles got moved so two plants starved. Or one died and perhaps the other one is alive or possibly Undead. Normally after working with the prisoners I always spend a good .420 of a second carefully inspecting the Hexapus's six arms to make sure the feeding tubes are in place at the bases of the plants, before I rush off in a stoned frenzy to do the next thing I have to do. I know I did that last week when I left- but I must have bumped something and in spite of my loving care and attention to detail somehow a couple tubes got out of their cups. It's weird- it's almost like they just retracted or moved on their own after I put them in place, maybe it's the humidity or something. Whatever...


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Ace2 is the closest one in the photo. The photo is from a few hours after I first got back and watered her, and she has 'perked up' a bit, lol. She was very dried up but still had some juice and floppiness left in the her smaller leaves. To the left of her, a lemon skunk is dried to a crisp. So... One lemon skunk is dead and Ace2- her tube was also out, but somehow she wasn't 100% dead. Why not I wonder? a mystery of the universe!

Could it be that maybe when the tube 'fell' out of the cup- it didn't end up fully out, and still just dribbling life giving juice into the cup a little bit on one side ?
Or was Ace2 just so strong, and so internally juicy, that she could live six days without food and water?
Anyway- she's alive. She had a rough go of it this week. I'm a little worried for her. Photos show a disturbing trend.



I smoked a lot of Malawi tonight I should mention, but not so much that I can't think logically, and have been looking at the photos I took from a couple days ago, and am coming to the obvious conclusion that Ace2 has totally transformed from that nice chubby girl I thought I was getting to know. She seems way different now. Darker. Like 'risen from the dead' darker. She looks like some sort of winged zombie bud/bug creature. To me.

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Up to now she has been in a sort of larval state. But now, caged up and restrained from birth, then starved to death, she been reborn as a beautiful, but ravaged and demented, bud fairy/devil.
What does she want?




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What is she trying to say to me? To all of us?






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Look closely at her face... I'm not sure I like that glint in her eyes, or that 'friendly smile'.


It gets worse...
Let's just say- Ace2 has seen fit to start exhibiting some rather unladylike behavior.








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Yes...
Well....

I know trouble when I see it I so made sure to lock the door behind me and we will have to wait and see what scene of dirty shame awaits, next week.


Looks like something you would grow- hey Sue? Nudge nudge, wink wink.
 
I'm putting Malawi on my to do list ;)
 
A squirrel perhaps?

Yeah i think, re the utopia or lack thereof, we have to know that 'it' is all going exactly the way it is meant to go, and the cosmic balance is always righted. Ohm...ohm... A little activity to help tip the cosmic balance in the direction you prefer, makes the self feel better though.
 
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