Canadian Growers Thread - Canucks Represent!
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Psychobilly
🧀Muenster
No, I'm a Michigander, though few people here would notice a difference between Ontario and Michigan in terms of climate. I lived in Quebec for a year though, and have been to Canada a bunch of times. I've never even been to Ohio LOL, but Canada was usually fun.
No less frosty than his crosses LOL. Shit if you'd zoomed in a little you could easily have said it was trichomes
Frimpong
🔥Freak Genetics🔥
HilariousHell no!!!
Psychobilly
🧀Muenster
Hell no!!!
Is this because I drove over the front end of a Canadian Mercedes ? It was ONE time!
Don't let them fool you; Canada was a First Nation (Native) word that simply meant "The Village" and they thought it was the country....
Frimpong
🔥Freak Genetics🔥
So cool , honestly I hope the rest of the winter is kind to you guys up there. The older I get the more I hate it and I'm south of you.
You probably go into cardiac arrest looking at that photo, thinking it shows bone-numbing cold.
I just think "Water is still liquid? Snow is sticky? Hell yeah, nice warm day for a paddle in the canoe."
(seriously, I look at that and my first thought is "beautiful")
So how many Americans know what a "Texas Gate" is?
A year on the tundra, as seen through a game cam. I guess grizzly bears don't like paparazzi. 
source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/wildlife-camera-nwt-tundra-1.6702318
source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/wildlife-camera-nwt-tundra-1.6702318
I wouldn't have known either if I hadn't binge watched Yellowstone while I was down with Covid lol
Jewels
Tilts at Tables
Couple of additions to the Gate debate.
Although now mostly obsolete; back in the day, a guy could always check the four corners, 50-100 feet away : for hubcaps.
Get deep enough in the prairie, and there are still Gates decorated with found hubcaps.
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though as a kid, he'd dig around them with a friend to see what kind of treasures fell out of a neighbour's flatbed truck. The "couch cushion of the ranch" often had treasures like lost keys or coins.
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Another thing that is shed at a Texas gate, is grain.
Grain attracts rodents.
If you are determined to find a rattlesnake, check the sagebrush under a Texas gate.
I don't let my kids poke around under those things. You are more likely to find a snake bite then a coin.
One more fun fact.
Once animals are accustomed to Texas Gates, they can be fooled,,,,
If you paint eight parallel lines across a threshold, animals will not cross it.
Saw that first at the Calgary Zoo
Although now mostly obsolete; back in the day, a guy could always check the four corners, 50-100 feet away : for hubcaps.
Get deep enough in the prairie, and there are still Gates decorated with found hubcaps.
"
though as a kid, he'd dig around them with a friend to see what kind of treasures fell out of a neighbour's flatbed truck. The "couch cushion of the ranch" often had treasures like lost keys or coins.
"
Another thing that is shed at a Texas gate, is grain.
Grain attracts rodents.
If you are determined to find a rattlesnake, check the sagebrush under a Texas gate.
I don't let my kids poke around under those things. You are more likely to find a snake bite then a coin.
One more fun fact.
Once animals are accustomed to Texas Gates, they can be fooled,,,,
If you paint eight parallel lines across a threshold, animals will not cross it.
Saw that first at the Calgary Zoo
Hugh Jass
Canna-Mycologist
A year on the tundra, as seen through a game cam. I guess grizzly bears don't like paparazzi.
source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/wildlife-camera-nwt-tundra-1.6702318
Lazy bastard could've straightened it back up at 1:41, but noooooooooooooooooo.
Did you click on the article? There's a pic of the angle iron that the cam was mounted on, just folded over.
That is all very cool information.
It makes perfect sense that stuff would be falling off and flying out of vehicles at cattle guards but I'd never thought about it before. Same with the snakes under there.
Rattlers introduce a whole new situation that we don't have up here. I remember running around and climbing in the river valley in Lethbridge and my uncle who lived there getting all excited. He was convinced I was going to come face to face with a rattler as I climbed up the riverbank. I did consider the snakes, but there were fish to catch and I was young and dumb, so I didn't consider too hard.
Jewels
Tilts at Tables
I wonder why ?
Climate and terrain aren't entirely dissimilar.
The snakes were here before the settlers so rattlers are not entirely subsidized by grain farming.
Still,,Diet?
Another oddity. There are no squirrels in this town. There are squirrels in Lethbridge, there are squirrels in the Cypress hills. There are no squirrels here.
Or Chipmunks.
Not sure if you folks are brushed up on your Hutterien humour,,,
They say you go south far enough and the only thing you will find are Gophers and Hoffers
I think we are just that much colder that the rattlers don't make it. Too vulnerable to other predators when they are cold and slow?
As for hutterite humour, about all I know is the old "need new genes/screw through a hole in the bedsheet" story.
As for Hutterite non-humour, I recently learned they own two thirds of the farmland in Alberta, which I found a bit unsettling.
OldG
Elite Hobbyist
I live in Southwestern Ontario. The grass is green outside. Im waiting for the shit to freeze.....so i can pick it up. 2 dogs X 3 shits a day...like freeze ...so i can blaze the fattest cannon of the strongest smoke i have...to be on a tropical beach whilst i fill a bag with 15 pounds of shit.
A 20 pound bag is helpful.
And regardless of all weather...and all stuff stupid.. I live in a country where my medical doctor said...hey G lets get you a pot prescription. I had a follow up for BP this week....got sorted out ...do you smoke....well not tobacco but man i smoke a few doobs a day...but you hooked me up with the pot doc...i grow my own now.
That is great man...
No...I smoke A LOT.... Its better than opiods though right G ...
so maybe Canada is a twilight zone...or i am already dead...
A 20 pound bag is helpful.
And regardless of all weather...and all stuff stupid.. I live in a country where my medical doctor said...hey G lets get you a pot prescription. I had a follow up for BP this week....got sorted out ...do you smoke....well not tobacco but man i smoke a few doobs a day...but you hooked me up with the pot doc...i grow my own now.
That is great man...
No...I smoke A LOT.... Its better than opiods though right G ...
so maybe Canada is a twilight zone...or i am already dead...
Psychobilly
🧀Muenster
Southwest Ontario can be fun; I remember finding a game store there that sold Magic: The Gathering cards on a trip through there. Grass is green here too from all the snow melting after Christmas.
If the wind blows from the west and you smell Cheese and Gasoline you're welcome
Hugh Jass
Canna-Mycologist
No, just saw it... and Holy Fuck!