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Weasel Forges Ahead
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alltatup
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Hey Weasel, I see that here you are, being a boy!!! Honestly, do y'all ever think about anything else than the size of your bud????? Sometimes, it really ain't about the size: it's about the sticky icky!!! But try to convince y'all of that!!!
So I've got my third grow going: I germinated 5 Ace Purple Haze x Malawi seeds. They all popped up. I have no more light leaks. I started a grow journal on here. Branching out. Sativa branching...
So I've got my third grow going: I germinated 5 Ace Purple Haze x Malawi seeds. They all popped up. I have no more light leaks. I started a grow journal on here. Branching out. Sativa branching...
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thanks Grizz- yeah things are ok. Feeling a little overworked- been working away from home a lot and it can be a bit soul destroying after a while- or at least this particular job is. Starting to feel a mite depressed about it actually- might be quitting time. Partly it's the guy I'm working for now- mafia kingpin type- seems to think I should be happy to pay in blood to make his dreams happen. Hey Altatup. Very nice to see you here. I stumbled upon your journal already, as you know. I sense some drama ahead- dealing with four plants that have 'haze' in their name, in a small space. Drama is good. Especially for onlookers.
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Life had been super hectic lately and I'm back to working far away from home and dropping into the grow once or twice a week to do damage control late into the night before I run off again. Looks like it will be a while before I get a break. Unless I quit this particular job- which is getting more and more tempting. The situation is made worse by constant blizzards with never ending heavy snow constantly blowing straight sideways, and deep snow on the ground. That's what I get for moving to Antarctica I guess.
Anyway... I made it back last night for a few hours. Chopped my way into some water barrels and hauled in 60 gallons of water and ice chunks. My electric pump and its length of hose were both frozen solid and I was in too big a hurry to extract it from its iceberg and go thaw it out. Just hauled by hand and warmed up enough water on the woodstove to feed the victims.
The grow devils must have heard me muttering about the lack of problems lately. The flowering Pineapple Chunk was dried to a crisp when I arrived. When I first went in there it was lights off so I was using the green led headlamp and in that dim light it looked to me like the PC was as good as dead. I was kind of happy knowing that gave me more room in flowering. I watered her anyway.
Here she is about four hours after that- perked up a lot. All the biggest fan leaves are dead. Pistils are all dead. I'm the end I wasn't sure if she's worth saving but I fed here and left her to see how she looks next week. I may turn her into hash material next week. I suspect she won't be quite bad enough to justify doing that.
It's destiny that she should look like crap. She was looking too good to be a proper Pineapple Chunk for me anyway.
I have absolutely no idea what happened. I swear I watered all the plants completely to runoff, five days earlier. Then about six hours after that I fed them as usual- with lots more runoff. I've been doing the same routine a long time. There were only five large plants in there and it doesn't seem possible to miss one. It's a complete mystery how she could have dried out.
The devils also killed the larger of my two floor fans. So that gives me a little more room for now. Thanks devils.
I got a new carbon filter and fan last week. But I won't have time to install it in the foreseeable future and I haven't quite worked out how I'm going to fit it in there, as it's much huger than my existing filter. I considered putting it on the floor but I know that makes no sense. I may have an idea now though- if I rearrange some shelving and electrical stuff.
So that's a rainy day project.
Not much else to report. I didn't have time for all the contortions it takes to take a hundred photos under those lights in the hopes I might get one good one. The HPS's really ruin the photo colours - especially if I'm close to them.
The CBD Therapy smells very nice. I can't remember like what now except it was nice. I seem to remember SweetSue saying that CBD strains don't generally smell good. I don't know if that makes sense. Maybe I imagined her saying that.
Mama Thai in the back left corner needs harvesting. Panama is getting very close. I'm not sure how I'm going to wrangle the time for harvests but I always manage somehow.
I dragged a Critical Cheese out of veg and put her into a flowering screen so she appears in this second photo.
Anyway... I made it back last night for a few hours. Chopped my way into some water barrels and hauled in 60 gallons of water and ice chunks. My electric pump and its length of hose were both frozen solid and I was in too big a hurry to extract it from its iceberg and go thaw it out. Just hauled by hand and warmed up enough water on the woodstove to feed the victims.
The grow devils must have heard me muttering about the lack of problems lately. The flowering Pineapple Chunk was dried to a crisp when I arrived. When I first went in there it was lights off so I was using the green led headlamp and in that dim light it looked to me like the PC was as good as dead. I was kind of happy knowing that gave me more room in flowering. I watered her anyway.
Here she is about four hours after that- perked up a lot. All the biggest fan leaves are dead. Pistils are all dead. I'm the end I wasn't sure if she's worth saving but I fed here and left her to see how she looks next week. I may turn her into hash material next week. I suspect she won't be quite bad enough to justify doing that.
It's destiny that she should look like crap. She was looking too good to be a proper Pineapple Chunk for me anyway.
I have absolutely no idea what happened. I swear I watered all the plants completely to runoff, five days earlier. Then about six hours after that I fed them as usual- with lots more runoff. I've been doing the same routine a long time. There were only five large plants in there and it doesn't seem possible to miss one. It's a complete mystery how she could have dried out.
The devils also killed the larger of my two floor fans. So that gives me a little more room for now. Thanks devils.
I got a new carbon filter and fan last week. But I won't have time to install it in the foreseeable future and I haven't quite worked out how I'm going to fit it in there, as it's much huger than my existing filter. I considered putting it on the floor but I know that makes no sense. I may have an idea now though- if I rearrange some shelving and electrical stuff.
So that's a rainy day project.
Not much else to report. I didn't have time for all the contortions it takes to take a hundred photos under those lights in the hopes I might get one good one. The HPS's really ruin the photo colours - especially if I'm close to them.
The CBD Therapy smells very nice. I can't remember like what now except it was nice. I seem to remember SweetSue saying that CBD strains don't generally smell good. I don't know if that makes sense. Maybe I imagined her saying that.
Mama Thai in the back left corner needs harvesting. Panama is getting very close. I'm not sure how I'm going to wrangle the time for harvests but I always manage somehow.
I dragged a Critical Cheese out of veg and put her into a flowering screen so she appears in this second photo.
Hahaha, we mirror one another's life mate (well in this instance).. I'm working away also,travelling over ten hours on the weekend to home and back again.. hurts after awhile.. problem for me is if I quit I wouldn't get a cent for the last five weeks. 3 more at most to go and it'll be done, can't come quick enough.. look after yourself mate, no point going there for money (depression/anger)
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Thanks man. Yeah I actually quit a couple weeks ago but he's begging me to stay. When it came time to discuss pay though he got weird and keeps talking about what I'm 'going to do for him' as if he wants to completely own my ass. I've been holding this show together for a couple years now and he just bought the place. If I quit I'm putting him in a very tough place because I actually know how to run all this crap. I thought the conversation would be an easy five minute thing but instead it was a weird two hour talk that went almost nowhere. The guys worth many millions and seems happy to spend it on himself. Instinct is telling me to gtfo. I'll know after tomorrow hopefully if he starts singing a tune I'd rather hear. I don't care about the money as much as I do about not having my ass owned.
Like you I'm owed for the last month- plus a lot of my own money I spent on the job while waiting for this guy to set up charge accounts and stuff.
Like you I'm owed for the last month- plus a lot of my own money I spent on the job while waiting for this guy to set up charge accounts and stuff.
That'll teach ya! Spoutin all those words about no problems.... I was just waitin for a shoe to drop.
alltatup
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Weasel, scuse me for buttin in, but your boss is bullshit. He kept you talking for 2 hours without getting concrete about pay, duties, etc? Sounds to me like one of those richies who think they can do whatever they want to the rest of the world. He's manipulating you, and it sounds like he doesn't mean to part with one more cent than he has to. Greedy bastard.
bobsacamano
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2 things....not that you asked
...i've not been around too too many people w/that amount of wealth...the super-rich, i guess? but the ones i have, without fail to a person, have been OBSESSED with how everyone else (the gubmint, their employees, their ex, their ex kids, their ex's kids, etc., etc.) is GONNA TAKE their money. it's really incredible. and i'm not trying to be funny bc it's really kind of sick and gross. it's like whatever parts of them usta be 'normal' (if they ever were, depending on how long they've been ultra rich) is gone and has been supplanted by some paranoid delusional self that focuses on MERELY THE POSSIBILITY of loss of money like the rest of us focus on having say enough to live on after we get too old to work...or our next meal, depending on circumstances. 2: i have always been sorry later when i didn't follow my gut in cases like these. somehow your gut knows. i don't know how and i am a scienceymcscience type so i freak out when say one sock of a pair "disappears" *in my house* (b/c, you know, matter/physical 'stuff' doesn't just go away, not on its own anyway.) but that gut business....i got no explanation for that. but it works. and that's good enough i guess.
in any case, i sure hope you get some relief ( legal, monetary, and emotional.)
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Thanks guys. Very good advice and I know it's true. Trying to extricate myself from this situation as cleanly as possible. He's not my boss yet.
Any of you guys ever deal with mafia? I'm serious by the way. Not going to go into more detail than that for obvious reasons. I thought on the plus side he might treat us as 'family' and not sweat the small shit, but its looking more and more like we'd be paying a lot for that dubious honour. The vibe around here is getting a little fucking ominous...
Any of you guys ever deal with mafia? I'm serious by the way. Not going to go into more detail than that for obvious reasons. I thought on the plus side he might treat us as 'family' and not sweat the small shit, but its looking more and more like we'd be paying a lot for that dubious honour. The vibe around here is getting a little fucking ominous...
alltatup
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No, no experience w/ goodfellas. You don't want to be treated like family!!! You might end up sleeping with the fishes!!!!!!
Follow your man's intuition.
Follow your man's intuition.
My experience with "the Mafia" is generally limited to complete asshats that claim to have mafia connections. Empty words from idiots that need to make themselves feel more important. Not the kinds of folks I prefer to deal with in any way.
mouser
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hmmmm...I work for a Scarpato 
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This guy isn't a pretender he's high level. Runs a small empire.
I'll have to wing it. I like fishes. A lot. But I wouldn't want to have to live with them. Thanks.
I'd better change the subject lol.
I'll have to wing it. I like fishes. A lot. But I wouldn't want to have to live with them. Thanks.
I'd better change the subject lol.
Skybound
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Not a lot of experience with the mob, but plenty of years in the game and years in the pen. Generally speaking, remaining honest and honorable will never lead you wrong. Some people have a hard time dealing with the truth, but you're not pretending to be someone you're not. You're just a guy working his skills at a job. If he's playing it like you're now in his crew and need to pay your dues, being honest and polite may crush his ego a bit, but he can't hold you because (I hope) you weren't dumb enough to allow yourself to get into debt with him, and all greedy fucks always look at their bottom line. If you owe nothing, he'll do little more than fuss about it.
If you do owe, work it off, get it right and part company once the books are square or forever be in servitude.
If you do owe, work it off, get it right and part company once the books are square or forever be in servitude.
alltatup
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Well said, Skybound: lots of wisdom and insight into human nature there. The way I read what you wrote: if you stay honest & out of debt, he can't tangle you in his web. What struck me about what Weasel said is that the guy kept him bullshitting for a couple of hours without getting down to business. Sounds like a narcissist to me. And prolly a sociopath if he thinks he can manipulate others into doing whatever he wants them to do for the love of money.
Jeez, maybe we should write a novel about this...
Jeez, maybe we should write a novel about this...
kelticBlue
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this - 10 times this. you stay yourself makes it hard for people who do not show honest and honorable qualities to deal with your honest-ness, makes you hard to fool. if that makes any sense...
..........i need sleep
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When I get some time it's reps for all you guys for your great advice. All totally in line with my gut feelings. I probably shouldn't take this tangent too far in this grow journal, but thanks for the chance to talk and vent about this right now.
To be honest I'm stressed right the hell out, and my guts are screaming at me to get the fuck out of this situation. Didn't sleep a minute last night and I'm still wired.
Today buddy offered to double our pay, laid a few dozen other bribes on us, and we said we would consider it. Regretted saying that as soon as we were around the corner. Even though it's pretty much what we were asking for yesterday - before that weird talk threw us for a loop and we started seeing the light. Not sure how 'considering it' even came out of our mouths today when we meant to say the opposite.
Thinking about staying in this weirdass situation makes us both feel sick to the stomach with stress. Thinking about getting out feels like coming up for fresh air.
This thing already has the feeling of being tangled in a web and we haven't even signed anything yet. Very very very weird.
Skybound thanks and I wish I had your skills now even though I probably don't envy what you had to go through to get them. Definitely out of our depth in this situation. Even though I'm sure it's just basic underworld business 101. Yes - we will have to be totally honest with buddy and just have the difficult conversation. Can't do any better than that. It clearly ain't going to get any easier than it is now. And it's not feeling easy now. Strangely enough.
It's weird man. The guy is warping things and working his way into our lives and making it seem like we owe him.
In fact no- I/we don't owe him anything at all. Other than that's it's very inconvenient for him to lose us. Actually at this point he owes us a month's wages plus expenses. Which we'd both be totally happy to walk away from. The guy has a really creepy energy. Very difficult to explain. I guess what it comes down to is he's a master of heavy manipulation, and we're just clueless idiots really.
I'd really like to stay clueless. Not too proud to admit it.
To be honest I'm stressed right the hell out, and my guts are screaming at me to get the fuck out of this situation. Didn't sleep a minute last night and I'm still wired.
Today buddy offered to double our pay, laid a few dozen other bribes on us, and we said we would consider it. Regretted saying that as soon as we were around the corner. Even though it's pretty much what we were asking for yesterday - before that weird talk threw us for a loop and we started seeing the light. Not sure how 'considering it' even came out of our mouths today when we meant to say the opposite.
Thinking about staying in this weirdass situation makes us both feel sick to the stomach with stress. Thinking about getting out feels like coming up for fresh air.
This thing already has the feeling of being tangled in a web and we haven't even signed anything yet. Very very very weird.
Skybound thanks and I wish I had your skills now even though I probably don't envy what you had to go through to get them. Definitely out of our depth in this situation. Even though I'm sure it's just basic underworld business 101. Yes - we will have to be totally honest with buddy and just have the difficult conversation. Can't do any better than that. It clearly ain't going to get any easier than it is now. And it's not feeling easy now. Strangely enough.
It's weird man. The guy is warping things and working his way into our lives and making it seem like we owe him.
In fact no- I/we don't owe him anything at all. Other than that's it's very inconvenient for him to lose us. Actually at this point he owes us a month's wages plus expenses. Which we'd both be totally happy to walk away from. The guy has a really creepy energy. Very difficult to explain. I guess what it comes down to is he's a master of heavy manipulation, and we're just clueless idiots really.
I'd really like to stay clueless. Not too proud to admit it.
bobsacamano
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shit man. wish the eff i could PM you. so i'm just gonna say you hang in there, weasel. it's gonna work out. it might be a little hairy (or even better,hopefully, just hairy feeling) but i feel like if you follow skybound's advice it'll serve you well whatever twists and turns that conversation may try to take...also good on the clueless. clueless is good. in fact, strive to appear clueless *AF*.
JuanCarlos
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Man, how did I manage to miss this? I rarely venture out of my subscribed threads, today I am glad I did. Weas we were a little rocky there for a bit, I am glad to see you still kicking around. Always loved your journals, definitely one of my favorites. As for the job, if you can financially step away, get out of there man, the world will bring you something better I am sure. You don't want to get caught up in that, trust the gut.