of my “outside” plants, i now have two harvested plants — the two space queen plants, which were started from seed in april — plus two plants that will most likely be harvested tomorrow, one plant that is currently being manicured and will probably be harvested within the next couple of weeks, and four plants from darol, which still have a month, more or less, to go before they’re ready for harvest. i also have two plants in the nursery which just started flowering in the past week, and three baby clones in the light booth (the fourth one didn’t make it). the plants in the nursery and the light booth are all clones of the most vigourous of the space queen plants which are the first two harvested plants. this is the primary reason i want to keep this strain going: space queen is one of my favourite strains, and it hit-or-miss whether any of the local dispensaries carry it… plus, then i would have to pay for it, whereas growing it at home means free weed!
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the electrical SNAFU in the shed is still there, and i still don’t know what i’m going to do about it.
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in other news, recently i received a text message from my mother-in-law, asking if i knew of a way to produce fire from your fingertips. back when i was a stage magician (in other words, 50+ years ago), i learned about this stage effect where you point at a lit candle and a 3-to-4-foot-long tongue of flame leaps out of your fingertips. this is produced by a special powder called “dragons’ breath” (technically, it is “lycopodium powder” which is the dried spores of “clubmoss“) which, at the time, was ONLY available from magic shops, places that specialised in stage effects, and specialised chemical supply places… of course, NOW you can buy it wholesale from amazon… 😮 it is delivered from “MiniScience”, which is one of the aforementioned “specialised chemical supply places”, but they advertise on amazon, and if you know what to look for, it’s there… i told my mother-in-law about it, but she wasn’t interested, because she was looking for “safe” fire from your fingertips. 🙄 my take on her desires are that it’s either “safe” or it’s “fire-from-your-fingertips”, but it probably is NOT both. so, naturally, i bought some, and soon i will have a little foofer that blows dragons’ breath… and, i will be one step closer to re-creating the character of Tim The Magician, from Monty Python and The Holy Grail. 😈
along the same lines, i have been playing around with needle-felting cat fur, and my hat, because, while i ABSOLUTELY LOVE my hat, it has never been EXACTLY what i wanted, because it is one colour, and i wanted there to be lighter coloured patches and spots… and, what do you know, timmy’s fur is IDEAL for needle-felting, and he’s already got a WHOLE BUNCH of it that has already fallen out, or been brushed off. i’ve designated a special box for wads of cat fur, for future needle-felting projects. 😉
