MrHowardMarks' experienced grower journal.

[MrHowardMarks]

The best solution for cleaning glass is water and a couple drops of dish soap.

If you've been spraying neem oil, you need something that will break down the oil.

Just Bounty paper towels and a little soapy water, wet the towel and scub everything down... Then wipe it dry with a second paper towel.

Don't use too much soap... Like three drops per gallon.


Windex leaves a film on glass, it's supposed to keep dust from sticking to it, but it's a residue that you can see a week after you've cleaned using windex.

I was a window cleaner for a few years, the professionals you see hanging of scaffolding cleaning high rise buildings use soap and water, and a squeege. Just mop the soapy water on, and scrape it off with a squeege.

Plus I clean shit for a living, literally.

 

[Nacho420]

So lets see...
You have been a window cleaner, dry waller, marijuana expert, and now a teacher.

Sounds like a jack of all trades, lol

 

[SlikWiLL13]

Plus I clean shit for a living, literally.

WOW! a turd polisher...mama must be proud!

jk...respectkiss-ass

 

[bdrsouthsidesunnyshit]

wow u are a jack of all trades aren't you

 

[MrHowardMarks]

Yeah, I suppose so...

I thought it was just being called a man

No, my father, and his father and so on have always been craftsmen, it's a family thing sorta.

Except for in my family men die young, my father was the oldest of my bloodline at 52 years old, his father (my grandpa) lived to 37, my great grandfather live to 45... Gotta pass along the traits of a hardworking individual, cause daddy won't be around to help forever.


-I always wanted to be an architect, studied through high school, and got accepted into the most prestigious architecture school in the country like 6 years running... Went there a few years talked with a bunch of people in the field and realized that wasn't what I wanted to do, I wanted to be in the construction aspect as well as the design... And every architect I talked with said they work for a massive firm, have zero input on the design, and sit behind a computer all day, and their family life sucks because they have to work lots of overtime to meet deadlines... Fuck that.


I found that there are still places near me where I can go and build my house without all the government involvement, no building codes, basically no laws. It's witin an hour from the city, so as soon as I have enough money, that's my plan.

I have the knowledge to build a house from the ground up, and plan to do so, the pioneers of this country built structures that are still standing today, while most modern homes won't stand 50 years...

I'm building with solid timber and stone, like the pioneers did.

And yes, I guess you could say I'm a handyman, maintence worker, a custodian, a janitor (if you wanna be a dick about it)

I got this job for the health benefits package, excellent benefits working for the county. To get my teeth taken care of, and get my check ups... All that is done, got my wisdom teeth pulled, fillings put in, so I'm looking for employment, I might go back to my old job, a bicycle technician... It's a fun job.

-Wanna hear more of my life story

Sorry, I'm fucking bored.

----The plant's a shooting off like crazy, I'll be switching the lights over in a few days...

 

[SlikWiLL13]

im with ya on the building your own shit in unincorperated areas(what your talking about right?), and the jack of all thing. i do everything but electric in a house(me and sparky dont get along!).

 

[MrHowardMarks]

Yeah, I don't fuck with service entrances, or the panel, but I can run electricity as long as it's not hooked up... I'm afraid of the service entrance, that's how you can die.

Also, I don't know much about HVAC, I can do the ductwork, but the actual AC condensors and furnace installation I've never done, so I don't know. I have a buddy who does HVAC for a living, he tells me it's not that hard, so I guess I could easily figure it out.

I learned how to do electric from my buddy who's a master electrician, I'll call him to hook up the panel, or do service entries.

But yeah, I'm moving to the country, cutting my own timberframes, quarrieing my on stone, and building a house off the land, except windows and doors... And some insullation materials... Timberframe design.

 

[SlikWiLL13]

quarrying your own stone!?! you just earned official bad motherfucker status in my book! you were already close but that sews it up. yeah, i left out hvac, i dont really know about that either. but when i build i want either geotherman heat or one of those funaces you can burn ANYTHING in. im gettin scared these days, we rely too heavily on things pumped through pipes and power lines, truly fragile delivery systems if you really look at them. the outages on the east coast are prime example.

 

[MrHowardMarks]

Basically my design will run on geothermal heat, the main living area will essentially be a basement, stone foundation 24 inch thickness, submerged 8 feet underground.

On to of the foundation wall will sit the timberframe roof, with a ceiling clearence on the back of 10 feet, the front 15 feet. Simple lean-to roof from timbers.

I'll drill for a well, and electric is at the street...

There is tons of stone along blast sections of the highway, and in creekbeds, that's where the stone will come from, and the property that I'm hopefully going to find will have some nice mature trees, I'm going to scout out some property with some nice hardwoods... There's a lot of ash, oak, and walnut around here. Hopefully I can find some propert with some mature black walnuts, then I could sell some of them, they go for a shitload of money...

 

[MrHowardMarks]

Of course I'll replant the logged areas with new oak, or walnut trees...

 

[Thundercat]

Very sweet mr.howard! Thats exactly how I would like to live. I grew up out in the woods, in a home that my father had built. I loved living out there. So much more peacful, and free. I like the design ideas you've shared. Sounds cool.

 

[MrHowardMarks]

 

[bdrsouthsidesunnyshit]

yea bro sounds sweet as hell, i grew up on a ranch workin cattle and doing the whole cowboy way of life so i know what oyu mean much more peaceful and calm out in mother nature!

 

[heftamga]

a very nice journal +rep

 

[MrHowardMarks]

Thanks man

Tonight I'm going to get the bubble buckets up and running, I have @lenty of clones that are rooted...

I think I'm only going to give them a couple days of veg before I put them into flower...

Reason being, the clones I planted 3 weeks ago are monsters, and the ones that went in a week or so ago are growing pretty fast, plus I'm getting really ansy.

A lot of work has gone into this grow so far, and a decent amount of cash. It's about time for it to start paying off.

 

[SlikWiLL13]

its about to get exciting!!

 

[MrHowardMarks]

Yeah, finally, in two weeks they'll be pics of buds forming

 

[SlikWiLL13]

the perpetual-ness of my perpetual grow is just now starting to run smoothly, im really happy about how things are going. im about to put 2 incredibly bushy chicas into flower, got one almost halfway done, and 2 currently healthy clones rooting. things are rolling aver my way too!

 

[MrHowardMarks]

Yeah, I guess my grow is perpetual, seeing as I'm taking clones for the next round...

I figure all perpetual really means is having a veg room, and keeping mothers.

I don't start stuff flowering at different times, all at once, I don't want to have to mix up different feeding regiments for plants at different stages. I think harvesting every 50 days is perpetual enough, every 2 weeks is just waaaay to much hassle...

 

[bdrsouthsidesunnyshit]

yea every fifty days seems best cause it seems you would have enough for smokin till the nexst round was done n repeat n stay stoned sounds good to me!