Thanks Don. Yeah... let's keep the chat to plants this week.
My Sour D's are doing lovely. Everything went into 12/12 last night. It will be different to see these plants grow. I've never grown such lanky things. I guess the hope is for golf ball nugs strung out on a line. The chernobyl is looking notably more hybrid with the fatter leaves and shorter node spacing. It also seems less N hungry which I think I remember being a sativa trait. I'm keeping the night temps higher these days so not as much of a day/night swing. All I'm doing is shutting off the extraction fan overnight. I am sure they don't have much fresh air overnight, but I think it outweighs the colder temps and lower humidity. With fan on humidity stays below 10%... with it off humidity is round 40%. Once buds start getting big I'll keep the fan on so no mold possibilities.
As for mountain talk D there are a few terms I had never heard before that we use all the time up here. 'Mountain people' are who we are now. Or 'Mountain Folk'. And while we do live up the hill, there is no real term 'up the hill' that don't make sense. You'd say 'On the Mountain'. 'Down the hill' is probably the most common term used up here. Everyone knows it by acronym too. DTH. I think my favorite term is 'Flat-landers'. Our mountain is a bunch of resort towns strung together. So around half the houses up here are vacant most of the year. During summer all the folks with money enough for a vacation house come up and invade us on nice weekends. I'll take it as they keep our economy afloat... but it is something. Invasion of the Flatlanders Lol. They drive fucking slow, don't know where they are going, make everywhere in town crowded, and basically screw everything up. But geez they have a good time doing it. Ignorance is bliss.
TC, you will be welcome just about anytime mate. You are nearly part of the family my friend. This RIU thing is no small part of my life. Some of the peeps who post here are my best friends whom I can barely wait to see and hug again. And the others I just haven't met in the first place to see again. I wish all of you could be hanging round the corner from the hospital and I could pop in and take a break with you all.
You guys have offered me and the wife so much support over the past few monthes and even before with the other babies, there's no way I could shut anyone out if they wanted to be a tiny part of my kids life. I might even make his middle name Bobotrank. (JUST KIDDING!)
And also about the trip. Me and the wife talk about doing something like that with our kid when they are around 5 or something. Home school them while driving round the country. We've also talked about being co-drivers in our own rig. That would be after the kid goes to college/ gets kicked out for being 18.
There's so many awesome places, and so many cool people. And we all live in one country... I can't tell you how great that is having travelled a little. All the same language, same money, no problems going from state to state. USA sure is an amazing fucking place.
And as for things to see, there is a laundry list of stuff in california. Bodie is fucking cool... biggest ghost town there is. Bristlecone pines have been alive for over 3,000 years or something. Mt. Whitney can be hiked (tallest point in lower 4
. Mono Lake, Mammoth Lakes, Yosemite, Kings Canyon. Dude... Hearst Castle is something to behold. Sure it was built by an evil genius with some ill gotten money... but it's still a fucking wonder. Monterey Bay is amazing. The Golden Gate Bridge. Malibu. Venice Beach. Death Valley. Joshua Tree. It just goes on and on and on. I think you should see Kelso Dunes. Singing sand bro... craziest thing I've ever heard/ felt.