I hope y'all have room for another yank! I have been hanging out at another forum that is being dragged into a black hole by prohibitionists... and, I've got to say, this place is a breath of fresh air! Seems like you all are smoking the real, real good stuff, lol! But, I didn't realize I'd have to learn English all over again, though, is there a translation forum here?
For example, I thought I was geezer, because I just turned 70, but now I'm a git??? Is that a good thing? And, what's a mon? Are you people Rasta? And, your chips look just like French fries?!?!?
Anyway, I spent most of my life building wooden things of one sort or another, houses, furniture, fences, toothpicks, until my back finally gave out... and most of my memory, too, shows you what a lifetime of smoking pot can do, lol!
I planted my 1st seed in 1970, and grew outdoors til about 10 years ago, when rippers and cops made that a challenge I felt like no longer dealing with. Bummed me out so much, I even stopped partaking.
Not Ms H, though... she's a true pothead, and she was always bugging one of our sons for "just a little bud,"lol! He got tired of that, and a few years ago, on my birthday, he dumped off a 1000W light, ballast, fan, and some clones. After I figured out that the stuff wasn't something I needed to take to the dump, I set it up in the crawlspace, under our house. It's now my home away from home!
I started out in perlite hempies, but our well water was not the kind that works with that... only took me a year to figure that out, lol! Went to dirty hempies, then AirPots, then 5g buckets, then 5g SIPs, then got tired of humping those around, and now everything is in a soiless mix in a 1-2g fabric bags... things I can pick up, for now!
Nutes are mostly organic fishy kind of things, along with fermented plant extracts and homemade worm castings. I'm trying to make more out of what's growing in and around the yard, and surrounding woods.
Lights are all 400W or less. I still run some of the old 400W CMHs, along with some 315W LEC/CMH/CDM, and have recently thrown in some of those screw-in leds with the diffusers removed. After trying them, I'm giving some serious thought to building some COBs... I'm trying to procrastinate long enough for the prices to come down a little more, but they'd better hurry up, lol!
I guess I should stop before this turns into a book, or something for the History Channel, besides, I'm late for a nap, I think, lol!
Anywho, glad to be here, and it will be great to get to know you all, and to steal as many of your growing ideas as I can! Then, I'll try to get a journal up, if I can figure out how!
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