lusid's Cave of Blunder & Husky Hut
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lusidghost
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Was up late making some starshine.
Thundercat
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Hell yeah dude I hoped you’d like it. I really enjoy making pieces with a classic pipe-style/feel. Glass is a fun medium to try to translate the shapes.
lusidghost
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This is about as pretty as it gets.
PJ Diaz
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That piece turned out sweet. I like classic style pipes myself, although I smoke joints almost exclusively these days. I like to make pipes out of stone myself. Here's a pic of my most recent one (please excuse the thread jack, haha)..
lusidghost
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That's a cool color of stone. What is it?
Also thread jack all you want. The garden is perpetual.
PJ Diaz
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That's Minnesota pipe stone, the same stuff that the natives used for their peace pipes. It comes in chucks, then I cut it to a general shape with a coping saw, drill out a draw hole, then use rasps, files, and a pocket knife for the rest. Then sand down with wet/dry sandpaper, and polish with coconut oil. Takes a while, but the piece feels substantial in your hand. Doesn't break too easy either, definitely tougher than glass.
lusidghost
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That's cool. I follow a few stone pipe makers on IG, and it looks like something you can zen out on.
bk78
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PJ Diaz
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It is for sure. Back in the day, right as glass pipes were coming on the scene, I made my first stone pipes and tried to sell them at Dead shows. Unfortunately due to how long they take, I just couldn't compete with glass blowers who were cranking out pipes for $10 a piece, so I just ended up making them for myself and friends.
Nice! I try to make mine with the perfect sized draw hole, so that I don't need to use screens. It does make for tricky pipe cleaning sometimes however.
rkymtnman
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looks like a pork rind. lol
lusidghost
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I respect a nice handcrafted stone pipe, but I'm team glass all day. The only times I've broken a piece in the past 20 years was while obsessing over cleaning them and breaking one of the holes. Every time it happened I knew I was setting myself up for catastrophic failure. Now I just clean then with salt and alcohol. I also clean them regularly so that they don't cake up with centuries of sedimentary layering.
lusidghost
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I'd like to point out how great silicone tubing is. I used to use vinyl tubing, and it was a huge pain in the ass. Especially if it was cold outside. I would have to warm up the end and sometimes chew on it to get it to fit over the barb, which would slip off easily because I couldn't work it very far up the fitting. It also sucked to store because it was so rigid.
Now I just slide these puppies on and I'm done. Plus I can drain the system way easier because the hose is flexible. I just take the output tube that is looping back into a bucket and walk it to my yard. I used to have to setup a complex looping system with a draining hose and ball valves and T fittings and such. This is so much easier.
lusidghost
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I going to start chopping some of these this weekend.
lusidghost
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These new nets are a little too heavy for the second tier, so I'll probably replace the first tier nets with them once I harvest the plants.
lusidghost
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I'm pretty convinced that defoliation slows down the stretch. The only time I've dealt with a big leap was a couple of cycles ago when I didn't defoliate at all.
I hope they get a little taller, but I'm happy with the spacing. Plenty of air flow and light. I doubt there will be hardly any larf this time.
I hope they get a little taller, but I'm happy with the spacing. Plenty of air flow and light. I doubt there will be hardly any larf this time.
lusidghost
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I have a theory that it also burns up excessive nitrogen by building new leaves.
lusidghost
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Rather rooty.
