the most recent payment gateway to be tried is square. i checked authorize.net, but they want a $25 a month fee above and beyond the credit card processing fee, and sometimes i don’t make $25 in a month. square seems to be a viable alternative which comes highly recommended by at least one business-owner that i know personally (despite the fact that my web developer says “this one is one of the worse gateways” – he also accuses me of “refusing” to use paypal, however, which just goes to show how much he really knows) and i actually signed up for a square account a few years ago, when i bought a credit card reader for my phone… which i never used because i never needed to. apart from the fact that i have to go through all 323 products that i sell, one at a time, and mark them “sync with Square” (i’m still not certain what it even means, yet, but i’m sure i will find out soon enough…) i’m hoping that this will be the end of my credit-card-processor search for a while, because i’m done with it.
harvested one plant today. i was manicuring it, yesterday and today, and i found a small patch of mold on one of the buds, so i snipped it off, finished manicuring it, and gave it the chop. the other plant still has a couple weeks to a month before it’ll be ready, but, because of the mold on the other plant, i’ve got to be even more aware than i am normally, if i don’t want a moldy mess instead of nice fat buds…
![221003 moldy bud](https://hybridelephant.com/przxqgl/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-10-03-10.56.57-1024x768.jpg)
![221003 close up of the mold](https://hybridelephant.com/przxqgl/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-10-03-10.57.29-1024x768.jpg)
however, currently, i have a fine crop of nice fat buds, so i’m hoping to keep it that way. 😉
![221002 selfie with buds](https://hybridelephant.com/przxqgl/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-10-02-14.18.03-1024x769.jpg)
![221002 buds before manicure](https://hybridelephant.com/przxqgl/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-10-02-14.19.49-768x1024.jpg)
![221002 buds before manicure](https://hybridelephant.com/przxqgl/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-10-02-14.20.08-768x1024.jpg)
![221002 buds before manicure](https://hybridelephant.com/przxqgl/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-10-02-14.20.35-768x1024.jpg)
![221003 buds after manicure and chop](https://hybridelephant.com/przxqgl/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-10-03-16.58.09-768x1024.jpg)