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badandwicked
Bluelighter
Ignored a massive light leak for about a week and now pretty sure I have hermies 
Only myself to blame.
Only myself to blame.
Mailmonkey
Bluelighter
owwwwwwwwwww
how long they got
how long they got
badandwicked
Bluelighter
Not sure MM, I didn't make a note of any dates, but its weeks The whole grow's been a shower of shit to be honest, I started & had them vegging under the stairs with a single domestic CFL for months so they stretched to buggery with very little foliage (just checked, they germinated on 20th January which says it all lol) then finally when I moved I potted them on into small crappy pots in ancient compost with no pearlite and they've clawed really badly, plus no oscillating fan at any stage, so they're really poor looking, then I went 12/12 and ignored them, and one of the colas grew into the light and burnt - I'd be ashamed to show you the whole plants lol. When its lights on I'll take a pic & maybe you'll be so kind as to give me your opinion on timescales & sex. I'm not sure if I'm looking at swollen calyxes or seeds, some balls have white hairs, some don't. In my defense this was never meant to be a good grow, more a case of something's better than nothing until I could get set up again properly.
The whole grow's been a shower of shit to be honest, I started & had them vegging under the stairs with a single domestic CFL for months so they stretched to buggery with very little foliage (just checked, they germinated on 20th January which says it all lol) then finally when I moved I potted them on into small crappy pots in ancient compost with no pearlite and they've clawed really badly, plus no oscillating fan at any stage, so they're really poor looking, then I went 12/12 and ignored them, and one of the colas grew into the light and burnt - I'd be ashamed to show you the whole plants lol. When its lights on I'll take a pic & maybe you'll be so kind as to give me your opinion on timescales & sex. I'm not sure if I'm looking at swollen calyxes or seeds, some balls have white hairs, some don't. In my defense this was never meant to be a good grow, more a case of something's better than nothing until I could get set up again properly.
CopperChloride
Bluelighter
Absolutely superb!
Reminds me, I think I ought to water my peyotes at some point this month - that's about the extend of my gardening
I finally made my own composter!
made up my own design to fit & maximise the space it was going into, & did everything myself, 'cept for the angle grinding on the metal to make the posts the correct size.
the metal posts were from my dad's old fishroom on his boat before it got decomissioned I think. really sturdy, but tough to cut down. great for slatting for a compost heap though.
just need to buy a coupla more planks to cut down to make the rest of the front panels
it created a fuckton of extra litreage compared with the old black upright bins which used to be there. can't remember exactly how many litres each section can hold but they each measure 80x120 x about 100 ... 1000lts? ..
totally knackered from planting all day now. back is killing me and hands are like sandpaper.
no booze or powders to play with , so I'm gonna try to knock myself out with melatonin and sleep my sober evening away instead. I hate being sober.
made up my own design to fit & maximise the space it was going into, & did everything myself, 'cept for the angle grinding on the metal to make the posts the correct size.
the metal posts were from my dad's old fishroom on his boat before it got decomissioned I think. really sturdy, but tough to cut down. great for slatting for a compost heap though.
just need to buy a coupla more planks to cut down to make the rest of the front panels
it created a fuckton of extra litreage compared with the old black upright bins which used to be there. can't remember exactly how many litres each section can hold but they each measure 80x120 x about 100 ... 1000lts? ..
totally knackered from planting all day now. back is killing me and hands are like sandpaper.
no booze or powders to play with
, so I'm gonna try to knock myself out with melatonin and sleep my sober evening away instead. I hate being sober.
Mailmonkey
Bluelighter
fuck me tahts a good composter marmz... 
I've got a massive wooden crate I add old veg matter too all year, never clear, next year its sunk a bit, top it up, its not a composter justa sinking bin....
wellll impressed, a bloke with a plot near ours has made a similar composter to yours marmz, but don't look as fuckin solid, thats great.
I've got a massive wooden crate I add old veg matter too all year, never clear, next year its sunk a bit, top it up, its not a composter justa sinking bin....
wellll impressed, a bloke with a plot near ours has made a similar composter to yours marmz, but don't look as fuckin solid, thats great.
knock
Bluelighter
looks amazing! Professional set up there marmalade. Impressed! But where's my shag?
badandwicked
Bluelighter
Amazing Marmalade! so do you have a big garden to make all that compost? More pics when you get a chance please!
The chickens landed yesterday, 4 of them. They have to stay in the small coop & run for 3 days to imprint on them that it's home and where to go at dusk and if scared, so I feel sorry for them. The cats & dog have taken great interest but im hoping the novelty will wear off soon.
Somethings mightily pissed the nesting crows off, they're circling and screaming their heads off and stressing the hens right out. Or maybe the young are doing test flights? If only i had an air rifle...
The chickens landed yesterday, 4 of them. They have to stay in the small coop & run for 3 days to imprint on them that it's home and where to go at dusk and if scared, so I feel sorry for them. The cats & dog have taken great interest but im hoping the novelty will wear off soon.
Somethings mightily pissed the nesting crows off, they're circling and screaming their heads off and stressing the hens right out. Or maybe the young are doing test flights? If only i had an air rifle...
Well impressed with you composter Marmz, you're a talented lady and i love how you make do instead og just going out and buying stuff.
I'm so bloody excited for you - it's like my fav BLer's just had quad babies
Sure things will settle down, you know what animal / bird politics and territory rights are like, a new regime will fall into place soon enough I'm sure. Nature finds her way...mostly.
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Nowt much to report from felix&kate's garden, eating a lot of salad stuff already - think my lesson of the year so far is - I've planted too much![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
Considering getting the hedge cutters out today to fuck over the brambles that are starting to take over my secret path to my special contemplative rowan tree 
I'm so bloody excited for you - it's like my fav BLer's just had quad babies
Sure things will settle down, you know what animal / bird politics and territory rights are like, a new regime will fall into place soon enough I'm sure. Nature finds her way...mostly.
PICS PLEASE %)
Nowt much to report from felix&kate's garden, eating a lot of salad stuff already - think my lesson of the year so far is - I've planted too much
Considering getting the hedge cutters out today to fuck over the brambles that are starting to take over my secret path to my special contemplative rowan tree
knock
Bluelighter
But brambles are scrummy, Kate! How lovely to munch on them while meditating up your tree.
True. However they would take over the house, all the garden, my flower and veg patches, the cats, our cars, the garage, my bra and knickers, the trees and head on down the road to the fucking beach - from there on in taking over the world.
someone has to stop the takeover.
I do plan to make bramble jelly with ones i can tame.
badandwicked
Bluelighter
Ah thanks kate You've got to get some, so far, so easy! But we'll see how I go, its early days but i can't imagine anything going wrong except a fox/dog/rats. I'm told if you practise good hygiene you won't get a vermin problem.
They're very relaxing to watch, and amusing. They sorted out the pecking order pretty quickly and it's obvious where they all stand. The white one is at the top, and the gold and black at the bottom.
Apparently the redder their combs the nearerer they are to laying, the red one has the reddest and was just acting oddly, running up and down the ramp into the house and just sort of 'fretting'. So maybe my first ever truly fresh egg in the not too distant future, i'm told they taste very different to supermarket ones.
But i also hear when they first start laying the eggs can have no shells, wonky shells, no yolks, double yolks, odd shaped eggs, soft shells 
Oh and an honourable mention Kate for your al fresco dip(s) - I wouldn't go in till after August and down south at that
Just heard major squawking - maybe the arrival of an egg!
You've got to get some, so far, so easy! But we'll see how I go, its early days but i can't imagine anything going wrong except a fox/dog/rats. I'm told if you practise good hygiene you won't get a vermin problem.They're very relaxing to watch, and amusing. They sorted out the pecking order pretty quickly and it's obvious where they all stand. The white one is at the top, and the gold and black at the bottom.
Apparently the redder their combs the nearerer they are to laying, the red one has the reddest and was just acting oddly, running up and down the ramp into the house and just sort of 'fretting'. So maybe my first ever truly fresh egg in the not too distant future, i'm told they taste very different to supermarket ones.
But i also hear when they first start laying the eggs can have no shells, wonky shells, no yolks, double yolks, odd shaped eggs, soft shells NSFW:
Oh and an honourable mention Kate for your al fresco dip(s) - I wouldn't go in till after August and down south at that
Just heard major squawking - maybe the arrival of an egg!
Mailmonkey
Bluelighter
Lovely chooks b and w
I'm going down allotment to collect snails.
I'v eaten about 8 dozen lidl snails at a couple of quid a dozen over the last 3 weeks .
and as marmalade told me, its a waste of money....me and missis spend a lot of time collecting snails and chucking them over the back of the allotments.
Just read up about purging them, just leave them in a covered bucket for 3-4 days with carrots to eat, when their poo starts turning orangey, they are purged, then starve them for 3 days....
then they ready for cooking
piece of piss.
I've offered my son and his friends a quid for two dozen decent sized snails, they all going mad with buckets digging snails out of the gaps in walls and from the long grass. I'm gonna have to make a template though cos I don't want the kids taking the piss and bringing me undersized snails. Phat phookers only please.
I'm going down allotment to collect snails.
I'v eaten about 8 dozen lidl snails at a couple of quid a dozen over the last 3 weeks .
and as marmalade told me, its a waste of money....me and missis spend a lot of time collecting snails and chucking them over the back of the allotments.
Just read up about purging them, just leave them in a covered bucket for 3-4 days with carrots to eat, when their poo starts turning orangey, they are purged, then starve them for 3 days....
then they ready for cooking
piece of piss.
I've offered my son and his friends a quid for two dozen decent sized snails, they all going mad with buckets digging snails out of the gaps in walls and from the long grass. I'm gonna have to make a template though cos I don't want the kids taking the piss and bringing me undersized snails. Phat phookers only please.
badandwicked
Bluelighter
Thanks MM
Interesting about the snails, and why the hell not? Maybe snail farmer could be your next career if there's a demand I have a strange aversion to certain textured foods like octopus so I'm afraid molluscs are one step too far for me. Let us know how you get on.
Interesting about the snails, and why the hell not? Maybe snail farmer could be your next career if there's a demand
I have a strange aversion to certain textured foods like octopus so I'm afraid molluscs are one step too far for me. Let us know how you get on.
Mailmonkey
Bluelighter
Interesting about the snails, and why the hell not? Maybe snail farmer could be your next career if there's a demand
lol, been reading up on brreeeding the,.m.
looks easy enough.
not sure the demands there thougbut there are lot of yoghurt weaving type "farmers" markets down this way.
badandwicked
Bluelighter
French restaurants & gastro pubs must serve them. And maybe Lidl have introduced more of the public to them. Or ship em to the frenchies. Ride that snail wave, I say.
Mailmonkey
Bluelighter
when i used ot go to the market in madrid,here was alwasys a cafe set up that sold massive cauldrons of caracoles, in a spicey tomatoey sauce, with a hunk of bread....cheap fodder....
could sell to the birkenstock wearing yoghurt weaving 4x4 driving plastic hippies at markets, and unsold snails ain't cost me owt anyway....
get more per snail cooking them up meself.
"farmers" markets round this way sell trays of fucking noodles for 7 quid or so, some of these peeps are fucking minted
could sell to the birkenstock wearing yoghurt weaving 4x4 driving plastic hippies at markets, and unsold snails ain't cost me owt anyway....
get more per snail cooking them up meself.
"farmers" markets round this way sell trays of fucking noodles for 7 quid or so, some of these peeps are fucking minted
YellowPolkaDotHalo
Ex-Bluelighter
I put slug pellets down the other day around me lupins and beans. Then someone kindly informed me that inexperienced baby birds eat the poisoned slugs and die.
Is that true do you think? I'm not going to google a green page i'll feel even worse..
I felt like the black bird was having a go at me today.
Is that true do you think? I'm not going to google a green page i'll feel even worse..
I felt like the black bird was having a go at me today.
badandwicked
Bluelighter
That makes a lot of sense, MM. Minimal overheads, except the pitch. When ever I watch that River Cottage guy or even the Apprentice people love fresh hot food at markets. believe it or not I have a similar concept, but not snails. never the snails All money making plans have to start somewhere, you never know. Definitely worth consideration. And a research trip back to Spain
All money making plans have to start somewhere, you never know. Definitely worth consideration. And a research trip back to Spain