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raratt

raratt

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We were able to open up the windows this morning! The humidity actually dropped quite a bit. We're headed to 108 so they won't be open long.
Peaches are starting to get ripe because the word is out to all the birds. I think I am going to get one of the harvesting poles so I don't have to climb on the ladder. Can't check to see how ripe they are but they will ripen on the counter just fine. They aren't as big as usual because I couldn't get up there to cull them. I don't think I'm going to be selling them this year because of that. If anyone wants to stop by and pick a box full you are welcome to come over.
Mornin.
 
manfredo

manfredo

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raratt said:
We were able to open up the windows this morning! The humidity actually dropped quite a bit. We're headed to 108 so they won't be open long.
Peaches are starting to get ripe because the word is out to all the birds. I think I am going to get one of the harvesting poles so I don't have to climb on the ladder. Can't check to see how ripe they are but they will ripen on the counter just fine. They aren't as big as usual because I couldn't get up there to cull them. I don't think I'm going to be selling them this year because of that. If anyone wants to stop by and pick a box full you are welcome to come over.
Mornin.
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I hope your back is on the mend!

Free fresh peaches...I'm on my way :p Do you ever make peach jam, pies, or anything?

I saw peach trees for sale here this spring and was floored by the prices...they must have been something special!!

I live right next to an old apple orchard that was a thriving apple farm back in it's day, but the trees don't produce any more. The soil is stripped of lime...the owner had a study done a few years back, and it would have cost him thousands of dollars just for the lime, and he is in his 80's, so no apples. It's pretty though!
 
raratt

raratt

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manfredo said:
I hope your back is on the mend!

Free fresh peaches...I'm on my way :p Do you ever make peach jam, pies, or anything?

I saw peach trees for sale here this spring and was floored by the prices...they must have been something special!!

I live right next to an old apple orchard that was a thriving apple farm back in it's day, but the trees don't produce any more. The soil is stripped of lime...the owner had a study done a few years back, and it would have cost him thousands of dollars just for the lime, and he is in his 80's, so no apples. It's pretty though!
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I'm not much of a baker and the cohabitant doesn't like peaches so no. A friend of mine found this variety of peach tree for me, they weren't carried in the big box stores. It's a Redhaven, freestone. They are not commercially grown. All the peaches in the stores are picked green so they don't get bruised during handling. I need to go get some vanilla ice cream and I have some blackberries from my plants also. Berries and peaches on vanilla says summer to me.
 
laddyd

laddyd

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raratt said:
I'm not much of a baker and the cohabitant doesn't like peaches so no. A friend of mine found this variety of peach tree for me, they weren't carried in the big box stores. It's a Redhaven, freestone. They are not commercially grown. All the peaches in the stores are picked green so they don't get bruised during handling. I need to go get some vanilla ice cream and I have some blackberries from my plants also. Berries and peaches on vanilla says summer to me.
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Memories come flooding back. Picking blackberries after school along the pasture fences. When we had enough Grandmother would make some cobbler and yes vanilla ice cream was involved. And never wearing shoes, hopping quickly across hot tar roads, running through the grass and hide and seek after dark.
 
FirstCavApache64

FirstCavApache64

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manfredo said:
New legal weed store in town....with legal high prices.


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They are squeezing the illegal sticker stores out, thankfully!!
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$50 an eighth and $90 a quarter is just crazy. Prices have crashed out West with light DEP going for $300-$500 a pound but on the east coast they're asking $50 an eighth. I don't mind somebody making a fair profit for a good service but the gouging at the dispensary stores reminds me of the black market days heading into the summer weed drought.
 
FirstCavApache64

FirstCavApache64

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laddyd said:
Memories come flooding back. Picking blackberries after school along the pasture fences. When we had enough Grandmother would make some cobbler and yes vanilla ice cream was involved. And never wearing shoes, hopping quickly across hot tar roads, running through the grass and hide and seek after dark.
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Most of our property has blackberry bushes and wine berries all along the road and by the horse stables. It's a race to beat the bears and birds once they start ripening. I know they're getting close to being ready as I found a big pile of bear scat in the road this weekend full of seeds.
My wife does the collecting and I do security so she doesn't bump into the driveway pooper :bigjoint: . She makes cobbler, jam and muffins with both of the berries and I love the cobbler with a little Breyers natural vanilla ice cream.
 
manfredo

manfredo

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FirstCavApache64 said:
$50 an eighth and $90 a quarter is just crazy. Prices have crashed out West with light DEP going for $300-$500 a pound but on the east coast they're asking $50 an eighth. I don't mind somebody making a fair profit for a good service but the gouging at the dispensary stores reminds me of the black market days heading into the summer weed drought.
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I noticed they had some bud in 3 oz packs for $250....and then add on the 21% combined taxes and it's not terrible....about $100 an ounce, but yeah, smaller amounts are crazy...1 gram oil carts were $60-75 + taxes....Too rich for my blood.
 
FirstCavApache64

FirstCavApache64

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manfredo said:
I noticed they had some bud in 3 oz packs for $250....and then add on the 21% combined taxes and it's not terrible....about $100 an ounce, but yeah, smaller amounts are crazy...1 gram oil carts were $60-75 + taxes....Too rich for my blood.
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The ounce prices aren't terrible at 240 for a lot of the ones I saw. When DC went legal the illegal sticker shops were 350-500 an ounce for premium strains which helped me get motivated to start growing. It was very blah flower that was mostly outdoor too.
Until I can buy it for way cheaper than I can grow it, I'll be watering plants every day and looking for good genetics to run. Pretty sure I'll be growing until I just can't do it anymore physically. We've had legal weed in VA for two years now and still no recreational dispensary sales approved.
 
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