Fourth and finally, some tools of the trade.
7/25/2012
PH - Mothers = 7.0, Clones = 6.1
PPM - Mothers = 600 (straight well water), Clones = 960
It's funny how things change so quickly in life. A few weeks ago my Grandpa was doing OK. He's been fighting cancer for about a decade now. It looks like he is about to lose his fight and pass on. Today it's been decided to take him off life support. In a few short weeks he went from up and about and doing stuff. Today this. I'm devastated. I love my Grandpa dearly. He is the one I mentioned in someone elses (jandre or icemud???) thread. The one I would go to Idaho every summer and work with him, fish....
I have to go to Montana. I hope to get there before he passes, but it's not looking good. My kids go back to their Mom's this Saturday so the soonest I can leave is Sat. night. I will probably be gone for bare minimum 2 weeks. After he passes it is my duty to deal with having his remains transported to the crematorium, then take my Mom and Aunt to spread his ashes along with Bettie's (his second wife, not my Grandma). After that I will be doing the estate thing, packing heirlooms and valuables and driving his 40+ foot RV with trailer back here to So. Cal. This will be the first major death in my close family. I have a very heavy heart.....
*sniff*
Before I leave there is a lot of business to attend to. Thankfully, before I knew of today's events, I had already begun work on a major upgrade. I installed a larger res for the mothers. 25 gallons in the res and 10 in the chambers, for a total of 35 gallons of constantly recirculating and aerating love. This will make the PH and PPM much more stable for longer periods. This is good because I no longer have a bucket taking up veg space and the bulk of the water body is away from light and heat.
I don't have anyone I have total confidence in to leave total care to. Ugh.
I will be cloning on Saturday. I started starving the Moms today. Hopefully I will only be gone 2 weeks, or maybe I can skip back here for a couple days and check in on things and move clones up to a bubbler. IDK. Hopefully my Uncle will be able to do exactly what I tell him to do. He's a good guy and follows direction well, but sometimes.... IDK about him.
I gotta wrap this up. I am tired. Need rest so I can get through this.
Crap. No cannabis for weeks. At all. No buds. No forum. No toke. No nothing.
Anyways. Here are a few pics of today's changes. I'm not totally done with it. I will be running dual water pumps for failure protection. Each chamber will be fed by two pumps.
Catch you all later. I might check in a little here and there, but updates are on hold until I return.
Grace, you have the keys to my place. You and some friends are welcome to crash here. No wild parties though. I don't want to come home to 10 pages of edited posts! But you can help yourself to my Meds!
+rep to ya
