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you know the drill…

darol has had some “viability issues” with his current crop of clones, and so has been set back about a month. so i’m planning on going back to bellingham, AGAIN, around the end of the month, to get clones. i have four clones from space queen that are still looking like they’re growing, and i THINK i have seen new leaf growth on at least two of them, which is a very good sign. i need to start thinking about adding ventilation in the nursery, because, as the weather gets warmer, ventilation is DEFINITELY going to be an issue.

i just completed seven shows in five days with the fremont philharmonic, at the moisture festival. this is my 23rd year of performing with the moisture festival, which has been going on for… twenty-three years… 😉 — i’ve been performing in the moisture festival for as long as i had been alive, in 1983, the year ezra was born… 😖 — if you’re going to go to the moisture festival, this year, you had better hurry, because about half of the shows have been so sold out that not even volunteers or artists could get seats, and it’s only got one more week. snakes alive! is playing what passes for the “late night saturday” show these days, which is 17:30 (and gets out at 21:00, because we’re old now… 😒)

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nursupd 2

somehow i managed to keep three of the four clones alive since the last update, but only just barely… there’s one that basically died, and i put it aside with the intent of composting it, eventually, and there are two which looked like they were going to pull through, but then they didn’t grow at all for two months, and i thought they weren’t going to make it, when the first one started doing better (which was, for all intents and purposes, “dead”), so i stopped paying attention to the two that i thought weren’t going to make it, and re-potted the one that i thought might pull through after all, and after a couple weeks it went from being, for all intents and purposes, dead, to being the plant that i thought had the best chance of the three… and then the other two miraculously pulled through, and now, three months later, all three are looking like they’re going to survive.

i actually took four clones from the big one, today: two are going to my next door neighbour, who has been getting starts from a “professional” grower for who knows how long, now (since before i moved in, six years ago), but who has gone out of business, this year, because “it is legal, now”.

250924 -- a ten-foot-tall cannabis plant
250924 — a ten-foot-tall cannabis plant – point of reference: that is a six-foot-tall fence…
i am planning on going up to bellingham on friday, where i hope to meet up with darol and bring home some starts of his strain, because the next door neighbour was so impressed with “the christmas tree” that he grew, last year… which, basically, he put back in a shadowed part of his back yard and ignored last summer, and it produced a crop anyway. this year he wants to try putting them on his deck, where there’s more sunlight, so any starts i bring home from bellingham will go to the neighbours, as well.

i’m still in awe that it is ACTUALLY LEGAL… 🎉 at the state level… 😒

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miscellaneous updatish which turned into a nursery update…

i got some rockwool cubes in which to start clones. they don’t work. 👎 the clones i put in rockwool hadn’t developed ANY new roots in almost a month, but, because of the fact that i had kept them covered, and sprayed them with water, they were still alive. so i took all four of them, re-treated them with rooting powder, and transplanted them into soil, two weeks ago. i’ve still kept them covered, and spray them with water, and they’re all still alive, as far as i can tell. and, at least, in soil, they SHOULD develop roots that make themselves evident after a month or so.

i finally finished harvesting the fall crop, which turned out to be three, 1-quart jars stuffed full of fat, sticky buds of the space queen strain. 🤤 the stuffed 1-gallon ziplock bag i gave to ezra was from the summer crop, was different, random strains from bellingham, and a couple different ones from my next-door neighbour. i got four 1-quart jars stuffed full of space-queen buds from the summer harvest. 🤤

i moved one plant into the nursery, from the light booth, a couple of days ago. this is the “mother” of the four clones that were in rockwool, and are now in soil. it’s a clone of the really vigorous space queen plant i grew from seed, over the summer… from last year’s seed, if i recall correctly… 😉

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this is different…

i took four clones, three days ago, and have kept them covered and sprayed them twice a day, and they’re ALREADY looking FAR better than the last clones did… to the point where i may have actually created four clones, instead of three, or two… or one…

rather as i suspected, but i didn’t expect them to be as vigorous as they obviously are… despite the fact that they’re clones i originally took from the most vigorous plant that i grew from seed, over the summer, and (probably) BECAUSE OF the fact that i’m actually doing it RIGHT this time…

who knew?

also, my next-door neighbour gave me a pint jar of buds that came from the 12-foot plant that i got from darol in april… PLEASE! I DO NOT NEED ANY MORE WEED!!! 🤣🤣🤣

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nursupd

251101 space queen buds
251101 space queen buds
i harvested the two space queen clones in the nursery yesterday. the buds are fat and beautiful. i keep on expecting to raise huge buds, and i haven’t gotten there yet, but i’m getting better at it, and these buds are DEFINITELY nothing at which to sneeze. 😉

and i got five quart mason jars JUST of space queen buds from the previous batch. the rest — a mix of random, who knows what predominantly sativa strain, and darol’s heavily sativa strain from bellingham — is probably going to go to ezra, as an xmas present…

251101 space queen buds
251101 space queen buds

FLASHBACK to when ezra was around 3 years old… walking unsteadily, learning to talk… katharyn was living next to whatcom falls park, and we went up the street to bloedel-donovan park with ezra, for a picnic lunch. when we got there, they had just aerated the lawn, and there were little plugs of turf all over the place. when ezra alighted from his stroller, he went around picking up plugs of turf, and bringing them back to us, saying “dopes? dopes?” 🤣

but, seriously, it gives me a way to get rid of the MASSIVE QUANTITIES of weed i have hanging around the house. 🙄 it’s what i get for growing NINE plants this summer… from now on, i’ll raise as many clones as i can, but i will be a lot more ruthless about culling the weak ones, early on. i’ve got one clone left in the light booth, but i’ll get a lot more clones from that, when the time comes, and, honestly, at this point, i don’t really NEED MORE weed. 😉

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the end

i harvested the last four plants, broke apart the root balls, added them to the compost pile, and took down the canopy this afternoon. i had to make space for the plants in the garage, because the shed/nursery is already full of five harvested plants, two flowering plants, and two clones.

next time i’m going to try putting the clones in a covered space and spraying them, because that’s recommended, and i haven’t been doing it… which is probably why i only have two existing clones out of the four that i started. 😒 but, really, that’s okay, because i don’t really NEED more than two plants, anyway. 😉

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back yard post

i finished manicuring the remaining outdoor plants. they still have a week or so to go before they get the chop, but now, all the remaining juice goes into the buds, and nothing else. i have two plants that have been hanging for a week, three that have been hanging for five days, and four that haven’t yet been harvested, plus two plants under flowering lights in the nursery — which, if everything goes the way it’s looking now, will produce more finished bud than my four outdoor plants! 👍👍 — and two or three clones in the light booth: two for sure, and one that still hasn’t decided whether or not it’s going to take.

and, it turns out that there is very likely a much less complicated and more immediate solution to the shed re-wiring problem! i still want to re-wire the shed, but it turns out that i really DON’T NEED a GFI outlet where the shed gets plugged into the house, AND GFI outlets get “tricky” with age. because of the fact that i KNOW the previous owner was a cheap-ass motherfucker, there’s no telling where the original GFI outlet came from… which means that, armed with a screwdriver and a replacement outlet, I can switch off the circuit that contains that damn GFI outlet, switch out the outlet with a new, non-GFI outlet, and PROBABLY solve my immediate problem.

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& c, & c…

so, naturally, last night we had the first real hard rain — which makes me REALLY glad i put up the canopy last week! seriously… phew! — and so i decided not to wait until “tomorrow” (which is now today) to harvest the two that i had finished manicuring yesterday, so, at 22:00 i was out, with my headlamp, harvesting plants and moving the rest of them around, under the canopy, so that they were less likely to get wet if the corners failed… and getting thoroughly wet in the process of clearing water from the edges of the canopy so that the canopy would be less LIKELY to fail…

and then, today, i finished manicuring the remaining plant that did NOT come from bellingham, and decided that it was ready to harvest, so i harvested it, which now means that 5 of the 9 outside plants are in the bag. the remaining 4 plants are ones that came from bellingham — they are the plants you can actually see in the photo, the two paper markers in the photo are the two space queen plants that i harvested last week… it strikes me a little strange that the plants that i started from seed are already harvested, and the plants that were starts at the same time that i was starting the others from seed, are now the plants that i figure could use another month, more-or-less, before they’re even ready for harvest.

250924 -- a ten-foot-tall cannabis plant
250924 — a ten-foot-tall cannabis plant
actually, it’s not that strange: the space queen seeds were one of the most vigorous plants i have EVER seen — i have an 11″x17″ fan leaf from one of the space queen plants, laminated on my wall — and so it’s not surprising that they’re eager to flower, as well… 🤷

also, there’s the start which i got from darol, that i gave to tracy, my next-door neighbour, who planted it outside and, basically, ignored it… and it grew, and grew, and grew, AND GREW, AND GREW!! 😲 that is a six-foot security fence, and the plant TOWERS over it! i don’t know what he’s planning on doing with it, especially now that the rains have started, but it is, literally, the cannabis plant that ate chicago!! 🤣👹

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nursery update &c…

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!

😉

the electrical SNAFU in the shed is still there, and i still don’t know what i’m going to do about it.

😒

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. 😉

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the nursery

so, i have 9 outdoor plants, including two space queen seedlings from april, that have been flowering since june 21st, and two space queen clones which have been vegetating since june 21st — which is a little too long, but i only realised that yesterday… 😐

so, i put the new nursery into full effect today: i moved the light-proof booth out of the nursery, put the two clones under flowering lights, and (at the same time) created four NEW clones, which are now in the light-proof booth, under vegetative lights.

and, since the weather-guessers were significantly WRONG yesterday (they guessed that there wouldn’t be any precipitation at all, in reality, there was a thunder-storm that lasted most of the night), i also moved four outdoor plants (which were complaining about the rain) into the nursery, so now i have two DIFFERENT crops under flowering lights. fortunately, the light-cycle for flowering is the same for everyone: 12 hours of light, and 12 hours of complete darkness.

the schedule for flowering is a little different for indoor plants compared to outdoor plants: exclusively outdoor plants take about 6 months from seedling to harvest, whereas exclusively indoor plants take 4 to 5 months… which means that there is, by necessity, going to be some wrangling and confusion while i move from outdoor growing to indoor growing. but, as i mentioned to moe, yesterday, the difference will be doing more work on the outdoor plants, for a relatively short period of time, followed by doing no work at all for half the year, whereas indoor plants take less work, but it’s stretched out throughout the year, producing more consistent crops, more regularly.

250906 cannabis flowers
250906 cannabis flowers
250906 cannabis flowers
250906 cannabis flowers
250906 cannabis flowers
250906 cannabis flowers
250906 cannabis consumer
250906 cannabis consumer

this is to help me remember what the schedule is, more than anything else. the reason why i let the two clones go as long as i did was because i wasn’t sure how long they should be under vegetative lights. hopefully i’ll do better the next time around. 😉

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sslluuuuuurrmm! 🍶

the lights have been hung, and are functional. when i actually start using them (which will be when the clones start to flower), i will buy a new timer, just for them.

i REALLY need to correctly re-wire the whole thing. it is currently the end of a really long extension cord that is plugged into an outdoor GFI next to the deck. it really needs to be on its own circut, and i need to add another 4 outlets OUTSIDE the grow-room NURSERY, for plugging in weed-whacker batteries and suchlike.

i started collecting things on my list of stuff to take to OCF. it took a lot less time than i thought it would to get most of the stuff on the list.

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slurm… 🍶

(include building a leg for the remainder of the shelves using recycled wood from the demolition project, in preparation to re-cover them with something more durable than pressboard.)

this is done, and re-covering the shelves is done, and moving the stuff that used to be on the old shelves back onto the new shelves is also done… and moving all of the tools back into their proper places, and loading up all the construction debris in preparation for taking it to the dump, has also been accomplished. 😎 i still have to hang the lights in the main part of the room (the light is already hung in the light-proof booth), but that requires two people. it would be getting done today, with the help of moe, except…

except that moe has decided that today is the day she has to drive to salem, oregon and trade in her old (it’s a 2019) car for a new, bigger, hybrid. 🙄 she left this morning at around 08:00 and should be home… sometime later today… but it’s already 15:00 and she’s still in salem, which means that “sometime later today” could, in reality, mean sometime in the early hours of tomorrow will be around 20:00 (FindMy and iMessage to the rescue!!! 🤓)

three clones haven’t died yet, but it’s only been five days. they’re all ACTING like they are rooting, but i won’t actually know until they start sprouting new growth, and they haven’t done that yet.

and, speaking of going to oregon, OCF is a little more than a week away, and i have done absolutely ZERO preparation for it, which strikes me as a little odd.

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steps completed!

step one: clear out the back end of the shed, and demolish the pressboard shelves.

step two: build a wall, approximately four and a half feet from the back end wall of the shed (materials already purchased). (include building a leg for the remainder of the shelves using recycled wood from the demolition project, in preparation to re-cover them (later, different project) with something more durable than pressboard.) — LATER!

step three: add a, preferably, left-hand, outswing door.

step four: add a ceiling. (materials already purchased)

step five: add insulation on the walls and ceiling, preparing for step six in the process. then add reflective mylar sheeting over the insulation.

step six: add existing grow lights.

hanging the lights has yet to be done — hanging the lights requires two people: one on the inside, and one on the outside — and the doorknob has yet to be installed, but the door closes, in spite of the fact that it swelled up with moisture during the past few days of rain, thanks to my next-door neighbour, tracy, who showed me a nifty trick that involved removing shims and hammering the frame, so that i don’t have to take the door off its hinges and plane or sand it.

250624 - Fyodor Karamazov and didjeridu
250624 – Fyodor Karamazov and didjeridu
i’ve moved the light-booth in, and created three clones, yesterday, which are already starting to perk up after being cloned. the plan is to have vegetative lights in the light-proof booth, and flowering lights in the main room, where there’s more room.

in other news, my friend tim furst (who is also known as Fyodor Karamazov, one of the original Flying Karamazov Brothers) gifted me an authentic, hand-made, aboriginal didjeridu, from Kuranda, Queensland, Australia, made in 1986. he said, and i quote: “I’d like to put it in the hands of someone who will play it.”

i am honoured to be the recipient of such a gift, and i will, in fact, play THE HELL out of it! 😉👍👍

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step five!

step one: clear out the back end of the shed, and demolish the pressboard shelves.

step two: build a wall, approximately four and a half feet from the back end wall of the shed (materials already purchased). (include building a leg for the remainder of the shelves using recycled wood from the demolition project, in preparation to re-cover them (later, different project) with something more durable than pressboard.) — LATER!

step three: add a, preferably, left-hand, outswing door.

step four: add a ceiling. (materials already purchased)

step five: add insulation on the walls and ceiling, preparing for step six in the process. then add reflective mylar sheeting over the insulation.

the insulation is complete, and i had less than 2 feet of leftover, which is good. the only steps left are the mylar and the lights! 👍👍

which is a good thing, because i’m going to start needing a place with vegetative light to start my clones, in four days! 😱

step six: add existing grow lights.

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step five…?

step one: clear out the back end of the shed, and demolish the pressboard shelves.

step two: build a wall, approximately four and a half feet from the back end wall of the shed (materials already purchased). (include building a leg for the remainder of the shelves using recycled wood from the demolition project, in preparation to re-cover them (later, different project) with something more durable than pressboard.) — LATER!

step three: add a, preferably, left-hand, outswing door.

step four: add a ceiling. (materials already purchased)

step five: add insulation on the walls and ceiling, preparing for step six in the process. then add reflective mylar sheeting over the insulation.

i need two more rolls of insulation, because i bought what they had, which was R15 insulation, which comes in shorter rolls than the R13 insulation that i originally wanted… R15 insulation is better than R13, but because of the fact that it comes in shorter rolls, there wasn’t enough of it, so tomorrow i will buy more insulation… and a pair of shears to subdivide it, because the studs are not standard widths apart, and that’s about 85% of what is left, at this point… 😒

putting up insulation is REALLY hot work… 🥵

step six: add existing grow lights.

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steps 2 and 3 complete!

step one: clear out the back end of the shed, and demolish the pressboard shelves.

step two: build a wall, approximately four and a half feet from the back end wall of the shed (materials already purchased). (include building a leg for the remainder of the shelves using recycled wood from the demolition project, in preparation to re-cover them (later, different project) with something more durable than pressboard.) — LATER!

step three: add a, preferably, left-hand, outswing door.

step four: add a ceiling. (materials already purchased)

the wall is complete! the door is complete, and it WORKS (thanks to my next-door neighbour, tracy, who does this sort of thing because he finds it relaxing)!! the only things left, at this point, are installing the insulation and the mylar (materials have been bought and delivered), and hanging the lights (all of which i can do myself). eventually, at some point, we’re going to have to re-do the electrical service to the shed, because it is currently an extension cord, buried under the turf of the back yard, and plugged into a GFI on the back deck — goddamn ron zeising! 🤬 — and i had to move the outlet in the shed, because a big FUCKING extension cord is NOT the correct way to wire an outbuilding! 😒

step five: add insulation on the walls and ceiling, preparing for step six in the process. then add reflective mylar sheeting over the insulation.

step six: add existing grow lights.

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back to steps 2 and 3…

step one: clear out the back end of the shed, and demolish the pressboard shelves.

step two: build a wall, approximately four and a half feet from the back end wall of the shed (materials already purchased). include building a leg for the remainder of the shelves using recycled wood from the demolition project, in preparation to re-cover them (later, different project) with something more durable than pressboard.

step three: add a, preferably, left-hand, outswing door.

half of the wall is complete, and we have dry-fitted the door, which i had to cut down, because an 80-inch door is too tall… and we’re going to have to shim THE HELL out of the door, because the whole shed is so un-square that the door will not function without significant shimming. and it turns out that moe has a whole bunch of leftover doorknobs from the remodeling project at the clinic, so my un-square light room is going to get an official veterinary hospital doorknob. which is a lot better than the total lack of doorknob that i was going to go with. 😉

the rest of the wall is going to wait until the door is in place, so we will only have to cut and place once. i bought the insulation, and the mylar is ALLEGEDLY being delivered tomorrow, but i’ll believe it when i see it.

major thanks to my next door neighbour, tracy, who loaned me a circular saw that actually cuts straight and isn’t falling apart. 😉

step four: add a ceiling. (materials already purchased)

step five: add insulation on the walls and ceiling, preparing for step six in the process. then add reflective mylar sheeting over the insulation.

step six: add existing grow lights.

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step 4 complete, completely bypassing steps 2 and 3???

step one: clear out the back end of the shed, and demolish the pressboard shelves.

step two: build a wall, approximately four and a half feet from the back end wall of the shed (materials already purchased). include building a leg for the remainder of the shelves using recycled wood from the demolition project, in preparation to re-cover them (later, different project) with something more durable than pressboard.

step three: add a, preferably, left-hand, outswing door.

step four: add a ceiling. (materials already purchased)

the framing for the wall is complete, and i have added a ceiling (which was easier than waiting until the wall and the door are there), so this is already out of order, but it’s a lot easier that way. i just ordered 200 feet of agricultural mylar, and i’m going out to buy a door, and the insulation tomorrow.

and i discovered that the shed is not only not square, it is not parallelepiped-shaped, either. it was OBVIOUSLY originally built by someone who DOES! NOT! CARE!, which i find particularly annoying because it was, literally, HIS JOB to care about such things. 😒

step five: add insulation on the walls and ceiling, preparing for step six in the process. then add reflective mylar sheeting over the insulation.

step six: add existing grow lights.

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step two partially complete…

step one: clear out the back end of the shed, and demolish the pressboard shelves.

step two: build a wall, approximately four and a half feet from the back end wall of the shed (materials already purchased). include building a leg for the remainder of the shelves using recycled wood from the demolition project, in preparation to re-cover them (later, different project) with something more durable than pressboard.

the framing for the wall is mostly done: i still have to put in the studs, but everything else is firmed up, secure, and a good deal stronger than it was before… and i found out that, on one side of the shed, the studs are 23 inches apart, and on the opposite side of the shed, the studs are 20 inches apart, so the room i’m building is NOT square. 😒🙄😖

probably finish the wall and ceiling this weekend. possibly the door, as well.

step three: add a, preferably, left-hand, outswing door.

step four: add a ceiling. (materials already purchased)

step five: add insulation on the walls and ceiling, preparing for step six in the process. then add reflective mylar sheeting over the insulation.

step six: add existing grow lights.

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step one complete

step one: clear out the back end of the shed, and demolish the pressboard shelves.

step two: build a wall, approximately four and a half feet from the back end wall of the shed (materials already purchased). include building a leg for the remainder of the shelves using recycled wood from the demolition project, in preparation to re-cover them (later, different project) with something more durable than pressboard.

step three: add a, preferably, left-hand, outswing door.

step four: add a ceiling. (materials already purchased)

step five: add insulation on the walls and ceiling, preparing for step six in the process. then add reflective mylar sheeting over the insulation.

step six: add existing grow lights.

THE END RESULT: an insulated grow room that i can use year round… which is going to start with clones from the space queen seeds that i had left over from last year, because they are REALLY vigorous, and this is an excellent opportunity, which is going to end once the solstice happens, because the light changes, and the decreasing daylight will trigger flowering, and once that happens i won’t be able to clone them any longer. 😉

250604 very vigorous space queen
250604 very vigorous space queen
250604 very vigorous space queen

the former owner of this house put in brand new pressboard shelves in the shed, just prior to selling the house. the shelves SORT OF worked for the first few years, but they quickly developed major sagging, because they are pressboard. the plan, eventually, is to build more shelves out of stronger, less likely to sag, materials — seriously, i would have thought that a general contractor, as ron zeising was reputed to be, would have known that pressboard is definitely NOT the material to use for shelves, but oh well, whatever… i already know that ron zeising put absolutely no critical effort into the projects that he did, so what did i expect? 😒🙄

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bluh… 😒

i woke up in an AWFUL mood, partially, at least, because i had a REALLY disturbing dream about two friends, who are moving AGAIN in real life… and, apart from the general feeling of dread i get whenever I have had to move, rubbing off, i don’t remember why it was so disturbing. i got up, and went through the motions, taking care of practical stuff (like laundry, dishes, doctor’s appointment, etc.), while wishing i could die, or at least sleep for longer, without having disturbing dreams.

over the weekend, i went to bellingham, to get some starts from darol… who is SEVENTY FOUR now… 😲 he said that, when it became legal, he lost his customer base, and hasn’t actually SOLD any cannabis for about six years. 😲 he still grows his own, though, and he has a healthy crop that is still under vegetative lights, from which he gave me a few.

250415 under lights
250415 under lights

three “medium sized” “starts” (which are big enough that i might put them outside right away, if the weather stays nice), one “small” start, which is STILL bigger than the “starts” i have gotten elsewhere, plus two from seed, which are the ones with the paper markers, because they’re still small enough that i can’t see them without a clue…

darol also gave me some “surprising, but not surprising” news about my older-younger sister and her, apparently now “used-to-be” husband, which strikes me as REALLY typical and even expected, but still, not something that i would have entirely thought possible for someone who USED TO BE a friend of mine (admittedly, a long time ago). and everybody’s dying — 😒 — while i seem to be chugging along like nobody’s business, despite the fact that i think i’ve got long COVID (thus the doctor’s appointment). 😒

then, this afternoon, i went out, ostensibly to wash my car in preparation for SACBO, for which i just registered, and went for a drive, ostensibly to dry my car because i’m too lazy to pay for a drier, and sat through FOURTY-FIVE MINUTES of traffic to go the QUARTER MILE between snoqualmie ridge and the freeway, because of a new traffic light on a street that doesn’t even exist yet, but which had an empty cop car with its lights going sitting next to it… (😒), and, despite everything, the mood of the morning appears to have passed.

and, when i got home, i had a UPS package containing a wireless charger and two cube-taps which i needed to further refine my office space. 😉

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250409 space queen from seeds
250409 space queen from seeds

i started them today. these are seeds from last year, but if they’re anything like last year’s crop, they should be pretty good. i’m also going up to bellingham, on sunday, where i hope to see darol and get some of his starts, which are, by definition, excellent. 😎👍

it’s a good thing it’s legal, considering the political/social dumpster-fire-in-a-flood-in-a-tornado that is currently happening. i wonder when it’s going to change?

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newmoorhg

today i switched the lights from vegetative to flowering.

last
next-to-last
germinate

i shut down the grow-tent and moved them under the flowering lights, and gave them supports so that they’ll grow up instead of out.

i still have to decide whether or not i’m going to clone them, or just shut down the grow-tent until next year… but i’ve also got to decide if i’m going to construct a dedicated grow room, or divide up the existing shed, or what, so the likelihood that i will just shut down the grow-tent is fairly high.

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ghroomwen

240813 space queen
240813 space queen
240813 space queen
240813 space queen

germinated 240618, things are proceeding nicely and, according to the packaging, they should be ready to flower… personally, i think i’m going to give them a couple more weeks before switching the lights. at this point there’s little to lose, and a lot more to gain to let them grow a couple more weeks, and, as they’re already under lights, it’s a trivial matter to switch them when I decide is best, and not natural processes. 😉

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2024 cannabis — second try

my previous attempt at starting from seed was a horrible disaster, which resulted in my coddling four, then three, then two pitiful plants from relatively healthy, to severely stressed, to slowly and painfully dying over the course of about a month. i’m not sure what i did, or did not do, that brought about this sad course of action — there are a number of things that i did which could have caused some stress, and a couple of things that i didn’t do which might have contributed to the problem, but i don’t know. 😢

however, i actually bought more space queen seeds, and this time they’re doing A LOT better…

240620 space queen after two weeks
240620 space queen after two weeks
240620 space queen after two weeks
240620 space queen after two weeks
240620 space queen after two weeks
240620 space queen after two weeks

according to the label, indoor plants are expected to flower in 65 days. i hope so. 😉

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TODAY!

TODAY the federal government moved cannabis from schedule I (illegal for all purposes) to schedule III (legal by prescription) in the Controlled Substance Act, for the first time since the CSA was passed in 1970.

The Biden Administration announced today that the DEA will move marijuana cannabis to Schedule III. Here’s a breakdown of what that means.

it’s not going to be legal, except under prescription (for the moment), but now that it has some recognised medical uses, there will be a lot more research done with cannabis, and it will be easier for researchers to obtain quality samples… and it will make it A LOT easier for cannabis-related businesses to get their business done without having to worry about breaking some federal law.

but, now that it’s headed towards legalisation, it’s time for the media to start calling it by its “official, scientific” name, and not by its “street” name, which is why i edited the article. i encourage everybody to do so, and inform the authors that it has been done. if we’re going to be dealing with a legal substance, it should NOT be referred to by the name (to quote peter tosh) of “a girl from cuba”. 😒

it’s not a total win, but, at this point, but considering everything, i’m going to count this as a win. 👍👍

time to celebrate with a fatty of homegrown goodness! 😉 Continue reading TODAY! →

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2024 cannabis update #2

240424 plant #1
240424 plant #1
240424 plant #2
240424 plant #2
240424 plant #3
240424 plant #3
240424 plant #4
240424 plant #4

i’ve been wondering about #2 for about a week… it appears like it’s growing, but it also appears like it’s dying, so i’m not really sure. i keep watering it, and it keeps growing, so there’s still hope. the other three are all doing really well. i’m hoping that this year’s crop will make up for last year’s. 😉

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also…

i started four “femenised” Space Queen seeds germinating on 240401. all four of them germinated (no surprise, they were bought from a company that specialises in femenised cannabis seed), so i planted them today.

we’ll see if it works out better than it did last year. 😉

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the change

i harvested the third of my three plants on wednesday. today i cleared out the grow tent, moved the clones to the shed (as compared to the grow tent), took the grow tent apart and got the critical parts ready for cleaning, which i’m sure they’re going to need, considering that the previous crop got pretty moldy, and the more current crop was developing a case of spider mites, which APPEAR to have been thwarted by liberal application of diatomateous earth. i am considering insulating the shed, which really wouldn’t be that difficult, and it would give my current clones a better chance at survival… although, at this point, they seem to be doing pretty well, in spite of the diatomateous earth.

231027 the change
231027 the change
it’s amazing to me how much space the grow tent tool up… which gets my mind to thinking of a way to put it on its side, on top of one of the shelves… possibly use it for starts, or something…

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harvest season?

because of the weirdness surrounding the three cannabis plants i’ve been growing this year, i harvested two of them — the two that “re-vegetated” and spent time in the grow tent — because 1) they were as ready as i expect they’re going to be, and 2) the two that lived in the tent turned out to be mutant plants the likes of which i have never seen before…

230930 mutant plant
230930 mutant plant

these “leaves” were coming directly out of the stem of the plant. there was no bud structure, and no leaf stem… really bizarre, and really common on this plant.

230930 mutant plant
230930 mutant plant
230930 mutant plant
230930 mutant plant

are these male buds, or female buds? i think they’re female, because, in spite of the seed-pods, there don’t appear to be any seeds… but…? who knows? 🤷

230930 yummy bud!
230930 yummy bud!

in spite of all the weirdness, i have some AMAZING buds, plus i’ve got one more plant that is still about a month away from harvest, which is looking REALLY good, AND there are two clones, one of which took off about three weeks ago and is now almost two feet tall, and the other which just took off a couple days ago, which is actually the older of the two, but it has been sitting, not dying and not taking off, for about two months.

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i wish there was a “miscellaneous symbols and pictographs” entry that was a cannabis leaf, but i guess i’m out of luck…

so, before i moved them out of the tent, my two inside plants looked like this, so i wasn’t too worried about what sex they were…

2023-08-2 plants in the grow tent
2023-08-2 plants in the grow tent

but, as you may recall, when i moved them out of the tent, i encountered SIGNIFICANT mold on the underside of the plant that is on the left, in the picture above. i propped it up, and trimmed off almost all of the mold — i am still fighting mold on this one plant, as of yesterday… i think i’ve gotten it all, and then another patch of it crops up… 😒 and i’ve also propped up the outdoor plant, as well, but that is only because it is spreading out wider than the space that i’ve got all three of them growing in, now, and not because it really NEEDS propping up. 😉

now that i’ve got my lights a little more under control, i think i can see why some people who grow LOTS of weed like “re-vegetating”, because it appears to create MASSIVE buds

2023-09-08 and they've got another month to go!
2023-09-08 and they’ve got another month to go!
2023-09-08 and they've got another month to go!
2023-09-08 and they’ve got another month to go!

but re-vegetating also produces THE WEIRDEST mutations i have ever seen:

2023-09-08 weird mutant plantoids!
2023-09-08 weird mutant plantoids!
2023-09-08 weird mutant plantoids!
2023-09-08 weird mutant plantoids!
2023-09-08 weird mutant plantoids!
2023-09-08 weird mutant plantoids!

it still astounds me that it is legal! 🤯

2023-09-08 three adult plants
2023-09-08 three adult plants

another weird thing that has happened to me is that my medical cannabis authorisation needs renewing , as it does every year — as if, one day, i’m suddenly NOT going to have a brain injury… 🙄 — and so i texted dr. peterson, like i have for 6 years in a row at this time… but this time he didn’t respond. he retired a couple of years ago, but he kept issuing cannabis authorisations because he liked the money or something, probably… and he’s gotten more flaky as the years have gone by, but usually he responds… but not this time. so i called Marley 420, which is the medical dispensary i frequent, and asked them for a recommendation, and they pointed me towards a place in covington, but it turns out that they don’t do authorisations for people who have bipolar in their medical charts, and they recommended this guy in vancouver, washington. but i figured there had to be someone closer than that, plus i’ve had some rather unpleasant experiences with long-distance telehealth

a doctor in georgia, dr. olajumoke akinyele, who was responsible for my buproprion prescription, initially: she prescribed too much and i went through a week of, essentially, “overdosing” on a drug that made me nervous, twitchy, anxious, restless, short-tempered, unpleasant-to-be-around, caused massive tinnitus, etc., etc., before she got around to changing the dose, and when i asked her about psilocybin, she didn’t know what i was talking about and said that it would be too much like taking cocaine or heroin. 😒

so i asked my counselor, kate, if she had any recommendations. she said to contact dr. j, who didn’t do cannabis authorisations, but recommended i go to Green Leaf Health Care (😉) and, it turns out, that the doctor at green leaf, dr. mcdonald, is the guy who gave me my first medical authorisation, back in 2013. 🤣

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ooh! 😟

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i’ve been thinking about moving the outdoor plant indoors, because the weather is turning. so, i took the plants from the tent out of the tent so that i could switch the light to a vegetative light, and put the clones in the tent… but when i moved the plants out of the tent, one of them almost immediately fell over, revealing a WHOLE BUNCH of moldy undergrowth! 😧 so, it’s actually a GOOD THING i decided to switch the plants around, because, otherwise, i wouldn’t have noticed until it was too late!

so i switched the lights, put the clones in the tent, hooked up the second flowering light, located some poles, propped up the plant that had fallen over, cleaned up and trimmed off a WHOLE BUNCH of moldy undergrowth, and put the three plants under flowering lights…

they went outside on 230529, two of the plants went inside on 230807, and the third one today… somewhat less actual sunlight than last year, but my recollection is that i started them later, this year, as well.

oh well, what matters is the end product, and i believe that, now that i have eliminated the mold, it should work out fine.

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230811 Goddess Kring
230811 Goddess Kring
cannabis update: all three plants, once again, are exhibiting strong female tendencies. i’m going to keep the two that are in the tent, in the tent, just to make sure. then, when the weather turns, and i move the outdoor plant inside, i’ll switch the light in the tent, move the clones in there, and move the flowering lights out into the shed, where the big plants can finish up. macque sez he’s going to come and get the rest of the cirque stuff out of the shed, so that will mean that i have even more space. there are now two clones: one came from the top of the outdoor plant, and it’s apparently doing fairly well, although it hasn’t grown very much. the other came from my neighbour, about a week ago. it is “train wreck”, but, at this point, i still don’t know whether or not it’s going to live. we’ve also talked about setting up an indoor grow, this fall, to replenish any shortfalls i may experience prior to then, which is fine with me. i’ve actually grown indoors a lot more than i’ve grown outdoors, so there’s that…

230811 salamandir and Goddess Kring
230811 salamandir and Goddess Kring
um… lemme see… .25g 🍄 230727, 230731, 230804, 230807, 230812, and 230814, snakez alive performances 230805 (gemma daggatt houseboat gig), and tomorrow, 230818 (PPM/sunset supper), plus regular busking at the market, on wednesdays, ganesha the car shown at the “Jet Blast Bash” 230805-06, briar sea scare parade 230809, 230811 at the Fircrest Residental Habilitation Facility in shoreline, and this weekend, 230819-20 at Fresh Paint in everett. at the briar sea scare parade, and at fircrest, i had the privilege of showing my car with Goddess Kring, aka Shannon Kringen, who is a local folk hero who performed strange art pieces on public access TV when i worked at micro$lop.

circus class cancelled today because of heat. i think i have successfully weaned myself off of twitter (which is now called “𝕏”, but it’s still at “twitter dot com”)…

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sigh… 🙄

230729 re-vegetation
230729 re-vegetation
two of my three outdoor plants are “re-vegetating”… what this means, apparently, is that the plants were triggered to start flowering much earlier than they should have been, and when i moved them outdoors last month, they decided that, instead of continuing with the production of buds, they had to go back to vegetative growth, which causes the little bud-lets to develop into sort-of fan leaves… but they’re smooth, instead of serrated, and they only have one finger, instead of the characteristic five or seven fingers…
230729 re-vegetation
230729 re-vegetation

this is frustrating, because outdoor plants shouldn’t re-vegetate, and, if i allow them to continue, then they won’t be flowering by the middle of next month, like they should, which means that there won’t be any buds this fall. 😢

so, i bought a light-proof grow tent, to force them back into flowering…

230807 light-proof grow tent
230807 light-proof grow tent
i don’t really understand why all three of my plants aren’t re-vegetating. they were all started at the same time, and they all moved outdoors at the same time, which should mean that they all got the same “trigger”, but only two of them were affected… and, when it comes time to move them inside, it will be that much easier, because two of them are already inside, with a 12-hour light cycle.

i wouldn’t worry about the grow tent, but i cloned one of the plants, and it’s currently inside, under a 24-hour vegetative light, and if i didn’t have the grow tent then i would have to kill the clone, or the mature plants would continue to be confused — and confused plants are more likely to become hermaphroditic, and we DON’T want that.

although, if it DOES happen, getting a bunch of feminised seeds instead of buds, would not be ENTIRELY awful…

there’s still a chance that i’m going to have to kill the clone, but it’s a lot less likely now that i have a grow-tent, because, when the other plant has to move inside, i can just switch the lights, and move the clone into the tent to keep it from getting confused.

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cannabis update

the three plants are doing well. i trimmed the bottoms of all of them A LOT more than i did last year. so far i haven’t seen any effects, but it’s still relatively early. also, i cut off the top of one of them (the GMO), and, since i have some rooting powder, i decided, what the hell, and so i cloned it… and (for a change), the clone is thriving! 👍 i topped the plant on 230719, and the clone actually grew since then! i figure, the closer to harvest i get, i’ll move the clone inside, under vegetative lights, and start on a new crop. 😉

i STILL can’t believe it is legal… 🤣

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i got 3 starts, yesterday: 1 GMO, 1 White Urkel, and 1 Runtz.

repotted them today. i got 5 new grow bags, but i only needed one, because i have 2 left over from last year. i bought 25 gallon bags, but they’re WAY too big, so i folded one in half (horizontally) and it’s still bigger than i need, but it’s what i’ve got. it will be interesting to see how the wider root structure affects the quality.

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up. date.

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
221003 moldy bud
221003 close up of the mold
221003 close up of the mold

however, currently, i have a fine crop of nice fat buds, so i’m hoping to keep it that way. 😉

221002 selfie with buds
221002 selfie with buds
221002 buds before manicure
221002 buds before manicure
221002 buds before manicure
221002 buds before manicure
221002 buds before manicure
221002 buds before manicure
221003 buds after manicure and chop
221003 buds after manicure and chop
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blirk

i wasn’t doing anything else, so i spent the day decarboxylating the trimmings from my harvest, in october (more technical information), so now the whole house smells like weed, and i am REALLY high…

so, naturally, while i was waiting for my timer to go off, i made a pretty good rhythm track for the music i talked about a while back, and now it sounds like this:

i still can’t quite get my mind around the fact that it’s 100% legal… astounding!