Weasel Forges Ahead

[Tead]

hehe....
Everyone else is all about the variegated bud.... but Tead's all over the grill.
Oh yea.... I promised not to distract grow threads somewhere the other day... sorry.

 

[MiOutdoorsman]

What a crazy looking bud! That's a hell of a pile of salmon. I'm envious of your lifestyle weasel! I've been on vacation in the upper peninsula and I really enjoyed the time around the big woods. The hustle and bustle of metropolitan areas are a downer. Anyway, how is your chocolope doing? I'm going to pop one after I sex my plants. I should have at least one male to cull out and open up a slot

 

[GrizzWald]

Yeah it's all about the salmon.. man that looks tasty... You've never made port? Im willing to put my house on it but Never will is my bet.. exrta points if you can answer why process is stoping halfway through wine, so some sugar still left, then fortifer, brandy, some sulpher or something, two years vat.. seems easy enough :19

 

[Amy Gardner]

If that bud makes it all the way, it could be NOTY. Very cool!

the trichs on it look awesome

I loved that pic with the glass and the food and the fire... nice place to sit and be for long periods of time.

I have never regretted leaving the city and coming back to bush living. Well I’m in a house, so it’s got all the comforts (rustic but it does for us ). I loved the inner city when I was there but can’t really handle it when I go back now... unless I have plenty weed and very dark glasses

I tell ya, I’m vegetarian and that grill of salmon made me wanna eat it all!!

Nice garden Cracker! Hope you get the GT under control... it’s gonna be entertaining watching you try

 

[Amy Gardner]

And just to pre-empt... I’m veg, but I have no problem with hunting for food! I actually think it’s kinda cool

 

[Kriaze]

Hi mate I cheated and caught up on the last couple of pages of your journal. What's with the semi albino bud, is that light damage or have you been up to some funky Frankenstein forages into the unknown? Either way it looks cracking

 

[Tead]

Oh look... Kriaze!
Nice to see ya round... paths haven't crossed recently.

 

[Weaselcracker]

After ten days of gorging on salmon I’m happy to get it all packaged up and be distracted by plants for a minute My life has definitely revolved around the salmon lately. As it should this time of year. Much more than it has around variegated nuggets. Thank you guys for the votes of confidence. I’ll see what comes of it. Maybe those nugs will just turn brown and sickly looking when they dry. I might quick dry one and see just out of curiosity.

Glad you guys appreciate my barbarian lifestyle. This place is really not the easiest one to live in sometimes as the weather is usually atrocious. But wind and rain washes away most of the people too, so that’s good IMO. Most of the time the place is wet cold and dark, and the elements can beat a person down if you let them. Not everyone loves living with bears and bats either. Sometimes it’s paradise. Sometimes it’s some sort of drab purgatory.
There’s food gathering here year round though which is something I love. In very early spring the very first delicacy is the young nettle shoots, steamed and served with sour cream or butter. Yum! Then it’s seaweed (especially nori in spring, and and dulce and kelp later). Shore plants like sea asparagus and goose tongue, oolichan (candlefish), herring roe on kelp, chinook salmon, crab, and halibut, also salmonberries. Early/mid summer is wild strawberries, red huckleberries, blueberries, cloudberries, wild cherries, early mushrooms such as oyster mushrooms and morels, spruce tips, scallops, oysters and clams, then coho salmon, trout, more halibut, sometimes tuna, more deer hunting, and the wild plums. Also the domestic gardens that kick in with vegetables, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, and apples, and all the standard crops. Late summer is wild blackberries, currants, salal berries, and crabapples, and all the domestic garden harvests. Also the salmon start schooling in the inlets and coming up the rivers, and that’s a huge event too. Fall is the time to harvest various mushrooms - a major occasion around here, including the magic ones - which traditionally peak around Halloween and are accordingly much guzzled around that time. Also more cranberries- which are amazing and last basically till spring cause they resist freezing and can be found anytime it’s not too snowy. Fall is when the food processing and canning workload becomes pretty serious. Also the deer hunting takes on a more serious tone too, as it’s really do or die in the freezer-filling dept.
Winter is a good time to eat clams and oysters and various other shellfish like mussels, cockles, and other types of shore food. Also a good time to catch the winter salmon species like steelhead and winter chinook, and find random berries that cling to the vine- especially cranberries. The deer get harder to find along with everything else. It’s dark and wet. Nettles come along anytime after New Years now. It used to be April at the earliest but things have gotten warmer...

And we start all over again.

Do I even need to mention that our resources are currently being raped and pillaged to the bitter end? Probably not...

Yes that fish is most definitely smoked Tead. The only grill was the rack in the smoker. This is what we call candy- a sweet brine, and multiple maple syrup and brown sugar/whatnot glazes. It’s eventually cooked to perfection by the heat of the smoker. Perfection meaning very moist and almost a little raw in the middle still - as salmon always should be cooked.

The pic wasn’t really meant to portray a large amount of fish. Reality is that I gave away and ate over half of my salmon from the trip before I even made it to that pic. Then at least half to 3/4 of the stuff that ever made it to the freezer will also be given away by Christmas. With any luck though we will do many more fishing trips before summer’s over, and freeze, smoke, can and give away lots more. Trading and gifting is an active part of the culture here. The same reason I grow much more weed than I can smoke. That may change and I may get tired of paying the power bill, when everyone can buy it at the corner store. Time will tell.

Hmmm yeah well I might take your bet Grizz. Think I’ll live two more years? Who knows. My girlfriend once suggested building a box and burying some of my wine underground just to save it from us. I’m thinking to build some sort of wooden vault I can screw well shut

Thanks Amy for the preemption. Just in time. I was thinking to pm you but figured you already know your own way around. Ha ha. I’d hate to lose you cause of the meat or anything else - like mild chest pounding, etc. I figure most Aussie girls have seen worse.

MI the Chocolope is alive. Thankfully! It’s just a three inch high sproutling at the moment.I overwatered it somewhat before I went away- because I didn’t know how the weather would be and thought I might get stuck somewhere and be gone for ten days or something. So it wasn’t too happy about that - but it looks like it will pull through.

Kriaze! lovely to see you back around. Cheat all you want dude. Ya gonna stay awhile？ That bud is from a mutant variegated Chocolate Mint. Easiest to google plant variegation, just in case you don’t know what I mean by that.

Just finished harvesting the readier looking of the Y Griegas and taking a break to smoke and post this overly long post. Back to work...

 

[GrizzWald]

Portugal my friend.... You can only make, what we call in Australia (not sure what rest of World call it) Tawny fortified or fortifide wine.... Im not putting a Hex on ya. And now saying that feels like I am. What have you started. Man my heads fragile and now it's hurting

 

[Weaselcracker]

I have to move to Portugal? I see the problem now. Will have to make up some other name then. Tawny doesn’t really sound macho enough. Pounds chest....

 

[Kriaze]

I wonder if you're going to lose THC/CBD content seeing as they're supposed to grow less vigorously according to Google and what the net says, I wonder if that includes trichome production too, or validity of them they could be weak as piss. Only here a short while and seeing crazy shit again love it.

 

[Weaselcracker]

The variegation isn’t really a good thing and I’m surprised they’ve even made it this far looking as half decent as they do. I’m especially surprised that the buds form reasonably normally instead of just dying off in the pale parts.

Here are a few pics of the Y Griega clone I harvested today. Just under 10 weeks flowering which is less than I usually harvest anything at- but I felt inclined to chop her anyway. A nice plant- very sticky and fruity smelling. I caught her on the early side but still definitely ready. I’ll leave the other one an extra week just to see the difference.
Really nice bud structure on this one- like dense little pom-poms that trim easily.

YG

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YG

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YG

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YG

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[Kriaze]

Bud porn you rock, thank you lol

 

[Mr. Krip]

Love this!!!

 

[Tead]

Pretty porn!

Glad you guys appreciate my barbarian lifestyle....

Oh look... a love song from Weas... and I think it's better than one of my crawfish tales. Very nice baby. Thanks!

Much of us dream. Some of us have been exposed to the lifestyle before and know better... but it's still fun to dream! Some of us try to sample a touch now and then... but never really could (damn... where's that gen? Oprah's almost on!).

Tead misses the wild world. My exposure is mostly reduced to views. Not much campin in da swamplands. Got a nice view from you this morning.
I do get to spend most my days outdoors... that's sure not sayin much... but at least. I'm so acclimated to heat I keep the AC around 78f and think nothing of spending an hour feeding girls in the 110f shed.

 

[MiOutdoorsman]

Hunting and gathering is how we are meant to live. I sometimes wonder if the food pyramid the gov pushed on society here is what's killing everyone. I recently had someone close to me lose their fight with the big C. He was only 42 and before he got ill he was in tip top shape. Lived a fairly clean lifestyle. But only consuming store bought food and drinking city water makes me wonder if that played a part in his dimise. One a different note, the plant you harvested looked really nice

 

[Amy Gardner]

I figure most Aussie girls have seen worse.

you definitely got that right!

That YG looks beautiful - looks an sounds like something I’d like

Thanks for the seasonal trip through your food hunter-gathering ... what a ride

I once, during a conversation about ‘why be vego’, talked about not feeling ok about eating something if I couldn’t catch it and kill it myself. Ok so that’s not the only reason I’m veg, but it’s in there. So one guy there, great guy - beautiful joiner & builder, really took that to heart. His partner, a good girlfriend since teenage years, has been a little miffed with me ever since because he took to raising his own meat! . I think the cured beef was popular but she’s not a fan of the chicken apparently... bit gamey for her she told me although she hadn’t told him that - didn’t want to rain in his parade. I still admire him for doing that.

I really need to get my next grow going and stop dropping tales in everyone else’s journals! I think I’m engaged in the longest light build ever undertaken - it’s nearly done!

 

[nivek]

We all still hunt and gather,, what the heck??? took me fifteen minutes to find the cat treats in Walmart the other day. a little bit of a struggle but we bagged that baby some good let me tell ya

CCheers friend,, miss some chatting, indeed. yer garden is so prime,, nice workin it friend

AAll good here,, getting so many requests for pain cream, tinctures and oils that I simply must expand my grow space,, perhaps an additional four by four room,, think I can swing that,, two bigger full size plants.

DDoes that sound right?

Pls,, just off the top of yer head,, what might you light that space with

Peace and the best karma sent friend,,

Oh,, my gt cross is Givin it,, no question,, finished stretching all over,, looks like a figure eight now,, starting to aquire an odour,, groovy

Now I need a good cbd plant to grow,, open to suggestions weaseley

Cheers fer now

 

[Weaselcracker]

Yeah we all do our time hunting and gathering one way or another I guess. Funny, for all the healthy lifestyle this place has for me, when I fly down to the city it looks like it’s other way around. In the midst of the chaos (chaos to me anyway) everyone looks buff and tanned and in glowing health and like most everyone has attained wealth and happiness. Not as friendly though. Talk to most people in the street and they think you’re crazy. Get on the plane to come up here and everyone’s kind of weatherbeaten looking, out of fashion or dressed in rags, asses hanging out, but chill and friendly.

Nivek do you mean that you plan to grow two plants in a 4x4? Yeah you can do that. I’d probably grow four most of the time. Sometimes six if I get a few extra different strains going that i want to squeeze in. These bigger sativas - yeah you’d only fit a couple comfortably. But I’m fitting four on the right side of my grow at the moment -uncomfortably.

As for lighting I’m probably the last person on this thread to ask. I use 600 watt HPS’s. One of those doesn’t quite cover a 4x4 space. Mine each cover a growing area of around 4’x 3.5’ - I feel like with 20% more light I’d see stickier buds. I’m pushing the limits of what I can expect with what I’m working with. Get a good reflector that probably helps a ton. I’m curious about CMH lighting but so far not convinced that it’s as good in flowering as HPS. Maybe others here can recommend a good LED?

The only high CBD plant I’ve grown was CBD Therapy. It was a relaxing smoke with a teeny detectable indica high and mini indica side effects that go with it. I have a Purple Orange CBD I’ve been meaning to sprout for a couple years.

A couple random pics. Left side pics are me holding one of the non-variegated branches of CM3, with CM2, Carnival and Y Griega in behind.

Left side

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Left side

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CM2 is the one with trashed leaves. I think it’s probably nute burn.


I’ve been supercropping and bending the branches of the taller GTx back 90° in towards the middle. She hates this and I’ve managed to kill off several branches this way.

Right side

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~Carnival~

Carnival

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Carnival

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Carnival

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Carnival

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Carnival

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Carnival

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Carnival

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Carnival

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This has been a lovely, vigorous and easy plant to grow and the bud looks very promising. A strong fruity jasmine smell that reminds me of something I grew before. I think Delhi Friend is the strain I’m thinking of that smelled like this? In some ways the Carnival is pretty similar looking to the Y Griega. She doesn’t really stand out in an unusual way- but just a 10 in the category of straightforward health and beauty. I’m looking forward to trying this one.


Back in the animal dept again for a minute, I almost got a good photo today. I tucked the fan leaf and stem trimmings from the Carnival into the compost pile and this evening one of the yard deer dragged it back out and was eating it. Then the fawn twins got in there and were munching it. There was a scuffle among a couple of the bigger deer and everyone wandered off before I could get an on-topic 420 photo of them. I’ve been having a lot of fun with those two babies this year. Standing about 14” high they’re not much bigger than large cats at the moment. ‘They’re soooo cuuuute’
Oh wait I found a pic where one of them still has a pot leaf in its mouth. It’s hidden by the grass a bit you have to look really hard...

Lawnmunchers

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[GrizzWald]

too cute man....
Catch 22... We've never lived longer.. have we been happier? Its easy to complain, Diss, point the finger at the so called problem, its our basic survival tactic.. hard to thank the medical pharma community for allowing us to pay them for longer