Open Show & Tell , Outdoors 2014

ruby fruit

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I travelled with my wife 300miles to get our dog cremated and brought home with us ...so heartwrenching carrying her out of the car and touching that familiar nose of hers through the blanket...
Im sure your loved one @TWS will be playing with all of our dogs over the rainbow bridge when the time comes.sympathys....
 

FLkeys1

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Thanks Flkeys. FMily said he would go with me too but it just makes it harder for me when someone else is there and sympathetic.. I would be more of a mess.. I can't stay with her while it happens. Im a big baby. I want to be with her but it hurts.
I understand, my partner was there when we took LB in and he stayed and cried the entire time. I am not blaming him but it did make it very hard for me to keep it together and the point she was gone, I lost it. I never ever judge anyone on how they do this.. It is hard to do but if your pet is in pain it is not fare to them to keep them alive and in pain.. I have had cats before that I had to do this with and it never gets easier..
 

S'Manta

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Thinking of you, TWS.

On a brighter note, I thought I was done with POG's rough trim but I found another branch.

PUrkle, I'm taking the top half of the branch's and rough trimming the best parts of Purkie, first.

I've got Netflix lined up to watch, The Boys From Brazil and Good Will Hunting. Two oldies but goodies.

:-)
 

Smidge34

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One of the greatest joys in life is being owned by a dog. I just get it in my head right off the bat that 10-12 years is likely the max this creature will be in my life and I'm so lucky to have that. I try to remember that my sadness at their deaths will just be my own selfishness and that while smart, dogs generally have no thoughts of their own impending deaths. They don't feel sorry for themselves because they are going to die. I find peace in that and immediately start a new chapter with a new pup.

I've buried a LOT of dogs in my 45 years and I used to say never again, but each new pup finds a place in my heart and actually helps me get past the last one and I just smile when I think of all the them. I couldn't imagine another dog when my last one died. Now I can't imagine NOT getting her.
 

FLkeys1

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So just before sunrise while the wind was calm I gathered pollen from two males and crossed the following.

Jilly bean Male:
Back crossed with Jilly Bean female
Mulanje x Jillybean female

Blue Dream Male:
Back crossed with Blue dream female
Mulanje x Mozambique female

Pic. Is close up of blue dream flower.. For a week or two in to flower the amount of trichomes is crazy.. Other pic. Is female Jilly Bean..
TGIF
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Smidge34

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Cool job on the crossing! I realize my crosses this season (Caramel Candy Kush male crossed with two female CCK phenos and then with a Jackberry F4 female) amounted to little more than "pollen chucking", what with me picking a male through visual observation, rather than actual breeding. Anyway, I hope the JBF4 and CCK are stable enough strains to give me a "hybrid" with all the vigor, but am afraid I've just made an F2 of some kind, opening up the entire Pandora's Box of possible phenos from both parents' gene pool. Anybody?
 

FLkeys1

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In my research I kept seeing to get a Good stable strain you should back cross.. Not sure if it is true?? Also read you need to use many male females from the same parent and keep back crossing them.. Geez, I have time on my hands but not enough for 40 plus plants..this is a lot of work.. It's all worth it when you get a super frosty early blue dream plant.. As well as a friend who told me last night he tried my bubba kush flower and can't remember falling asleep and did not wake up once all night.. (:(:(:
 

nuggs

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just read up on the last few pages. Sorry for your lost TWS and for your pussy cat too Keys. I'm still morning over Hodgegrown and all this death is hard to deal with. Especially with it being that time of year when we got to chop down our girls! I get attached to them too. time of the season. Thanksgiving is on the near! I'll be praying for everyone of my friends here and there and giving thanks for what time has allowed me. Thanks all..!
 

Smidge34

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In my research I kept seeing to get a Good stable strain you should back cross.. Not sure if it is true?? Also read you need to use many male females from the same parent and keep back crossing them.. Geez, I have time on my hands but not enough for 40 plus plants..this is a lot of work.. It's all worth it when you get a super frosty early blue dream plant.. As well as a friend who told me last night he tried my bubba kush flower and can't remember falling asleep and did not wake up once all night.. (:(:(:
Yeah I've read everything out there on breeding and genetics. I just hope that the guys at Dynasty and Sannies stabilized those two strains to the point that I have a true F1 hybrid. I've not ran them enough to be sure of their overall stability, but they appear to be. Not a lot of variation in the individual parents, that I saw.
 

tyson53

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TWS...I am sorry for your loss...I have been through it a few times and it never gets easy....but Babes will be at Peace and no more pain...the good thing is..we will all be together on the next part of our journey...the ever lasting togetherness...

RIP Babes..may you be waiting at the bridge for your master when its time you meet again....sleep safe
 

FresnoFarmer

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dang man. Kinda depressed I have to chop these gorgeous plants. I took a whole entire Bahia down today. Very sativa-ish. Smells hazy/hashy w/ sweet undertones. Should be a helluva train though with the foxtail buds and all. I have converted to strickly dry trimming. Much easier and better quality buds IMO. Helps the buds slow dry improving the flavor and smoothness.also the leaves protect the buds from light. During the drying process. I have a shoplight in the office where I hang buds and I noticed on my light deep crop the first set of buds had a brownish tinge during curing. Look like stress and tasted not so good either. The next budswere good because we didn't use the office during drying process.

On a brighter note!! The weather this week was amazing.
 
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