SubJewels

[Jewels]

Juan Mo Time

 

[Mim Towls]

sweet

 

[Jewels]

Welcome to my journal.
I put it in this niche as to not clutter up the valuable content in the grow journal section.

Loads of new members here.
I am going to start at the beginning and pretend I don't know anybody.

I find it easier to keep the keyboard flowing if I speak to you as if you have never grown before.

As before, I am going to pull off three outdoor crops, in Canada, this winter.
If you are familiar with the protocol, disregard what you will and get a good chuckle at the rest.

Lets get weird !

 

[Frimpong]

Welcome to my journal.
I put it in this niche as to not clutter up the valuable content in the grow journal section.

Loads of new members here.
I am going to start at the beginning and pretend I don't know anybody.

I find it easier to keep the keyboard flowing if I speak to you as if you have never grown before.

As before, I am going to pull off three outdoor crops, in Canada, this winter.
If you are familiar with the protocol, disregard what you will and get a good chuckle at the rest.
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Lets get weird !

Another Winter of amazement. I'm always down for some weird

 

[Gentlemancorpse]

Here for it

 

[GthaEnigma]

Hell yes, I'll be in my usual seat.

 

[Psychobilly]

Welcome to my journal.
I put it in this niche as to not clutter up the valuable content in the grow journal section.

Loads of new members here.
I am going to start at the beginning and pretend I don't know anybody.

I find it easier to keep the keyboard flowing if I speak to you as if you have never grown before.

As before, I am going to pull off three outdoor crops, in Canada, this winter.
If you are familiar with the protocol, disregard what you will and get a good chuckle at the rest.
View attachment 179221
Lets get weird !

That Mongolian band with the Throat Singing, I have to ask you.... There's a band I'm REALLY into, which is a Psychobilly Band from Whales, and the vocalist in that band, has a style that I can't help but hear the similarities in it..

If you don't mind, what do you think of the vocals in these, and do you too see the similarity I'm seeing ? :





Not sure if you've heard these before, but his vocals REALLY remind me of what a Throat Singer does.

 

[Jewels]

which is a Psychobilly Band from Wh

Wait up, this is a thing?
So, there is like - more of you ?

 

[Jewels]

How Do Woodwind Instruments Work?

How Do Woodwind Instruments Work?

newt.phys.unsw.edu.au

"
Woodwind instruments have a long, thin column of air. The lowest note is played with all the tone holes closed, when the column is longest. The column is shortened by opening up holes successively, starting from the open end. At the other end there is something that controls air flow: an air jet for the flute family and cane reeds for other woodwinds.

The air column determines the pitch​

A sound wave can travel down the tube, reflect at one end and come back. It can then reflect at the other end and start over again. For a note in the lowest register of the flute, the round trip constitutes one cycle of the vibration. (In the lowest register of clarinets, two round trips are required: see Flutes vs clarinets). The longer the tube, the longer the time taken for the round trip, and so the lower the frequency."


I like to think of a voice as an instrument. The sound of that instrument is determined by its shape and displacement.
The noise they are making, it's just how you hold your mouth right?

The songs you linked, to me, sound like Tom Waits.
Snasal
Pushing extra wind through an enlarged sinus. An enlarged pathway creates a deeper note.

I think that throat singing is coming from lower down, more from the diaphragm.

The body becomes the instrument, and when you manipulate the pathway you are changing the resonance and pitch.

Singing like that, through the nose and throat may add a standing wave or a harmonic pitch.

The interesting singers are the ones that can hit dual pitches
Like Johnny Cash, for example. He sings flat, yet he hits the notes.
Janis Joplin and Chris Cornell also come to mind.

 

[Jewels]

Walter Brattain
United Press International 1980

'The lone regret I have about the transistor is its use for rock 'n' roll music.'

Ozzy been doing it electronically, forever.

and Sloan

 

[Psychobilly]

Wait up, this is a thing?
So, there is like - more of you ?

Lol! I mean, I'm not sure I'd say more of me, but, I guess imagine a style of music, where Johnny Cash, Hank Wlliams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Wanda Jackson, Johnny Paycheck, MC5, The Stooges, Alice Cooper, Gwar, White Zombie, The Misfits, and some Doowop groups are like, all hanging out with Betty Page, Marilyn Monroe, George A. Romero, and Lucio Fulci, and they're watching screens playing equal parts of Night Of The Living Dead, Riot Footage, a Bar Fight, and The Doors playing, and their drinking Beer, and get inspired by the whole scenario to make a song.... lol. So they drive to a studio in a GTO Judge, and some Psychobilly Caddilacs, and record.

Like Punk, Metal, and Outlaw Country were listening to Rockabilly and its a mix of all of them.

Man I need to not be stoned trying to describe this lol.

How Do Woodwind Instruments Work?

How Do Woodwind Instruments Work?

newt.phys.unsw.edu.au

"
Woodwind instruments have a long, thin column of air. The lowest note is played with all the tone holes closed, when the column is longest. The column is shortened by opening up holes successively, starting from the open end. At the other end there is something that controls air flow: an air jet for the flute family and cane reeds for other woodwinds.

The air column determines the pitch​

A sound wave can travel down the tube, reflect at one end and come back. It can then reflect at the other end and start over again. For a note in the lowest register of the flute, the round trip constitutes one cycle of the vibration. (In the lowest register of clarinets, two round trips are required: see Flutes vs clarinets). The longer the tube, the longer the time taken for the round trip, and so the lower the frequency."



I like to think of a voice as an instrument. The sound of that instrument is determined by its shape and displacement.
The noise they are making, it's just how you hold your mouth right?

The songs you linked, to me, sound like Tom Waits.
Snasal
Pushing extra wind through an enlarged sinus. An enlarged pathway creates a deeper note.

I think that throat singing is coming from lower down, more from the diaphragm.

The body becomes the instrument, and when you manipulate the pathway you are changing the resonance and pitch.

Singing like that, through the nose and throat may add a standing wave or a harmonic pitch.

The interesting singers are the ones that can hit dual pitches
Like Johnny Cash, for example. He sings flat, yet he hits the notes.
Janis Joplin and Chris Cornell also come to mind.

Yeah Tom is another one I can think of with that similar style of vocal. I never thought of the diaphragm, part of this, looks like I have some youtube homework now lol.

 

[Jewels]

Started with aquariums. Learned about my local water, GH, KH, Ph , etc.
O.G. Jewels


Learn about plumbing and gravity. Started growing plants









Read about cation exchange capacity,
Learned to make soil

Did some aquaponic and some hydroponic before I ever dropped a weed seed.
Been working on this batch for about 17 years.
O.G. NPT


I play with the mix
every once in a while I strike a heavenly chord
Went back to the well today
Starting at the roots

 

[Jewels]

Rabbit manure compost as a peat substitute for compound growing media: Proportioning optimization according to physiochemical characteristics and seedling effects

A large amount of rabbit manure is produced with the development of the rabbit industry, which will cause environmental pollution without proper treatment. Rabbit manure compost may be suitable for seedling cultivation, considering its low moisture, low ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

To explore Peat alternatives
Gives a sprouting mix study.
Finds ,
%50 bunny
%25 vermiculite
%25 perlite
to be the most effective mix, in order to eliminate Peat.
I don't like seeing perlite around the yard, and vermiculite costs money.
I have an aversion to buying things at the store.
I have gotten my soil down to zero cost

There are many greenhouses in this neighborhood and I constantly scout them for spent coco blocks. Sometimes it is the tomato, sometimes it is cucumber. The Coco is 60/40 chunky or 40 /60 chunky.

I have a large yard, and a large family that supply me with ample compost material.
Been here about 16 years. House is on a river flat, as such, soil is sand and clay.
When we first moved in here the garden soil was so mucky that it would not fall off a spade.

Soil stations are about 8 feet, front to back.
5 stalls, (separated only in my mind), 24 inches deep that span about 20 feet.

I open the coco sacks, and crush them with my feet. I let them bake dry on the concrete pad.
This raw coco is then used as litter for the rabbits
Soiled litter is deposited in the DONE pile.

Done pile is somewhat serviceable potting soil, and consists of the finished product of the preceding stacks.

Material works its way from largest to smallest, right to left.
First stack is raw deal
Xmas trees, elm branch, egg cartons, deadbirds, spoiled milk, beer, sodapop - anything goes.
Ended up trenching a three foot deep grave in there, couple weeks back, for a straw bale that the wasps had colonized.

Next station is food scrap, green and brown bedding, lawn clipping and leaves .
Straw and Hay, ( yes, there is a difference ) takes at least two winters to graduate to the next pile.
Technically, this is not compost.
Compost is exothermic and requires oxygen.
I dont have ample green material or circulation to compost.
Being aerobic, this is closer to Jadam.
Takes longer, yet due of our unique climate, I still get beneficial action during the winter.
Mechanical action.
Lots of Chinooks around here. Funny thing about water is it contracts as it gets colder, until it freezes.
Then it expands
Sodapop in the freezer explosions
Heading into October I saturate that pile good and wet.
Ice crystals are effective at crushing cell walls.
I get a thrill, when the wind starts blowing in the middle of winter, because I know I will be able to turn the top foot of the pile, when the snow melts.

Anywho, back to the present. Today.
I need to prepare, and store, a couple hundred gallons of potting mix, before everything freezes up for the season. Unfortunately, my 'done' media has become too thick- with the never ending additions of bunny dung. I see the soil stick to the shovel, as I turn it.
Saturated, and in great numbers the dung loses its drainage properties and becomes sludgy. Takes a year or two, but those Calcine marbles do start to break down physically. This robs them of their drainage attributes.

Need some drainage
Need aeration
Running low on clean coco. I am saving what I have left to fill the litter boxes.
I cannot simply rob Peter to pay Paul. If I run out of coco, I will be buying litter.
Additionally , not only am I lazy, but it is also next to impossible to safely crush brick with the little guy around.
need some action
need some options
Hit some Sour Taffie and opened my mind to non-monetary solutions

Musical interlude


I got two feet and a heart-beat
Nature will provide
Wagons-Ho !

Would you believe how hard it is to find pine cones around here? Conifers don't do well on the Prairie. The only needle bearing trees I could find on Parkland are surviving on the irrigation for the lawn. The city mowers pick up all of the pine cones, leaving few for Jewels.

Another interesting feature about this biome is we don't get a lot of moisture. Cars dont rust much and a fallen tree can linger for years. Hell, even an upright dead tree can linger for years.



Found a few leads, felled by beaver. Gave me good hardwood bark and coarse chips.


Coarse chips !

I can't imagine how hard those little guffers must leverage their jaw to cleave that greenwood off of there. Finding stuff bigger than bic lighters.

Chips were a lil green
Not really looking for something that holds water.
Got lucky and found a stump, feasted upon by ants.


They took what they needed, and left the cellulose for me


Fine like tobacco, and sturdy


About 7 km over two trips, we picked up a good 100lbs of turface and two bags of fluff

 

[Jewels]

Found some artifacts on the journey. Inferring by the estimated circumference it looks like a 4-6 G Crock.



Macro elements are there. Just need to breathe some life into this load.
The two most robust sources of elementary life on my yard is leaf mould and pond mung.



Enter the frey !

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That is my redundant triple filter. Everything you need to make one is in the video.
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Let that percolate through a cracked bucket


Fold into potting soil


You can see the last three stalls in the above photo.
Everything on the left is Garden ready.
Section to the right of that, with the D handle, is fine grade and complete. It will be transferred to the left, and will need only litter pans and aeration to become serviceable potting mix.

On the extreme right hand of the above photo you can see a 2x2 side walk block on top of the middle cell.
I have a rabbit fur blanket and a spread of Timothy cooking under there.


So that's it, that's all.
That's how I make the dirt, eh?
Just throw everything at it and give it some time.
Cut it with four or five parts of fluff, and you are good to go.

Basically just keep turning it over until your shovel looks like this

 

[Jewels]

Mimmer, I dug your premier reply.
I have no idea what's going down , either.

Dont fret
There will be grass
Finest grass in the glen

9/10
One certainly got right down to businesses. Really set the standard for the rest of them slouches.
Got 18 clutches deployed, these are the most aggressive.
I did close the gate
All are ashore, that be going to shore.
Germination nearly complete, I'll be seeing some greens in the next couple days.

 

[JL2G]

Mimmer, I dug your premier reply.
I have no idea what's going down , either.

Dont fret
There will be grass
Finest grass in the glen
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9/10
One certainly got right down to businesses. Really set the standard for the rest of them slouches.
Got 18 clutches deployed, these are the most aggressive.
I did close the gate
All are ashore, that be going to shore.
Germination nearly complete, I'll be seeing some greens in the next couple days.

Love following what yer up to. Always some interesting info with a good dose of humor, and badassery thrown in.

 

[Psychobilly]

Same. Bro got swagger LOL.

I keep fish a lot too, because I like having Catfish around me. Their tank water is great for adding to a soil I'm trying to build up.

 

[DemonTrich]

Juan Mo Time

One of my all time favorite dj's!

 

[Jewels]

They been playing shy all summer.
Finally handfeeding again.
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Modern digital cameras rectify the contrast even better than the human eye.
I love watching them wander through the shafts of sunlight. They blaze like golden tickets.
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This Morning glory stepped up through the Daisies, climbed the leg of the table, continued through the Swiss chard, quick squeeze on the MJ and then proceeded into the Lilac.

Last year we got one Blossom before the killing frost. The race is on.

Season Auto totals

3 full herms
1 true male
1 true female, green
1 98% female purp


Cool that I blended to make an F1 Auto, bummer I cant trust any of them.
I am gonna fruit those 2 (good'ish) girls for bud.
The purp is carrying a few seeds that I expect to be
-purp'd
-fem'd
- herm'd

Ah well, two out of three ain't bad.

Palette cleanser to get the meatloaf taste out
What is the statute of limitations on these UK alloys ?
There it was, completely wasted.
Clearly some ordinances were disregarded.

I don't usually name them until they are in the clear. I must be feeling cocky.

Deebs, F2 MK Ultra x Dank Sinatra
Did I full pack hunt and selected between 7 males.
Let me tell you, I was more than delighted to see his offspring all germinating well. Let's hope he can keep that cowboy lump up.


Reload, Jewels Sour Taffie
THT, 12·12 seed,
(Blood x Sour Tangie)×( LA Affie


Using shorthand, I don't know how this technically relates to the first time I made it.
Yes, parents again came out of the same pack, but I don't know if that necessarily even makes them cousins.
They use the same ingredients, but they were made a couple of years after - using new seed.
At any rate, I made them again.
Getting low on my original stock, and I am saving enough of the first batch for OG f2's or (loose) bx's.
I say loose, because I do not keep clones. If I am in-crossing it is with a new P1.

I don't know much about Black Cherry Soda, @Mim Towls, however I can tell you one thing,,,
It is a freek'n myth !

First one failed to launch.
I said the gate was closed, but I got pissy and soaked the other one. I say other, because it was a two pack
What will become of us ?
I am gripe'n because I stepped way out of my lane, and planted a bunch of store-bought fem beans.
Why is my junk popping over 95%?, when this fancy graphic, foil'd crap is barely giving me half ?
May as well continue the gratuitous deuce dropping with Philosopher Seed.
Love their genetics, hate their seeds.

 

[Jewels]

Wicked good luck !


LA Affie crosses %100 germ

Anything Dank SinatraF4 hit is 23:25

I have been really looking forward to this one. It is part of my LA Confidential knock-off series.