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bajafox
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A few weeks ago I cut a Jack Herer a bit too late and only vegged it for about a month, this morning I cut down another Jack Herer maybe a couple days early but it was vegged for 2 months. The buds are noticably thicker and denser than the last one. Both were "bagseed" from a small Jack Herer nugget I picked up from my dispensary.
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Dezracer
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That's why some of us have our cards...After High School I hardly ever got high, had nothing against it but hardly ever did it and never really thought about it. The wifey didn't want it around because it was illegal so I didn't give it a second thought, plus I quit smoking when her and I got together so it didn't make sense to me to smoke weed.
Now that I'm all screwed up from racing dirtbikes, skateboarding competitevely as a youngster and racing BMX for a bit, I can't get sleep more than a couple hours each night because I wake up in pain. Marijuana helps a TON with that and it got me off meds I was taking for depression. Just decided to stop taking the meds at one point to see how it would go and never went back on them. I've since stopped seeing the shrink too so it saves me money at the same time, no more deductibles for visits and Rx every month saves me over $100/month. Plus the Rx narcos I was taking for pain and junk all the time were almost another $100/month.
Now that I'm all screwed up from racing dirtbikes, skateboarding competitevely as a youngster and racing BMX for a bit, I can't get sleep more than a couple hours each night because I wake up in pain. Marijuana helps a TON with that and it got me off meds I was taking for depression. Just decided to stop taking the meds at one point to see how it would go and never went back on them. I've since stopped seeing the shrink too so it saves me money at the same time, no more deductibles for visits and Rx every month saves me over $100/month. Plus the Rx narcos I was taking for pain and junk all the time were almost another $100/month.
Dezracer
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Dezracer, are you in SoCal by any chance? Are you on RDC by any chance too?
I used to frequent RDC but not in quite a while. Couldn't afford to use or maintain my truck anymore with the economy so I stopped lurking there, just bummed me out. I don't even remember my login info
Yes I live in socal
Outdoorindica
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Dez my dad has that degenerative disk disease. Messed up shit, causes a lot of pain.
bajafox
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Countryfarmer
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You know, when I started back smoking this last time (about four years ago) I was able to go off of my anti-depression meds and haven't needed them since. I have suffered from periodic depression my entire life, once even being institutionalized briefly for this disease. Lo' and behold, I start smoking weed again and no longer need that expensive medication and the even more expensive psychiatrist.
Amazing isn't it? But no, no, no .... weed has no redeeming, medicinal value. What a crock of shit!
Dezracer
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I agree completely. I still don't smoke, I use a vape or eat the edibles I make. I don't even own a pipe or bong, lol.
Countryfarmer
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After three decades of on and off smoking I have never once used a vaporizer. I have no idea what it is even like to use one.
Dezracer
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It's all good...Eventually things will turn back around and my son and I will most likely race either the truck or we'll sell it and build a new car, class 5 or something. That's down the road though since he's still too young to really help or be a codriver. I miss racing a lot but family comes first, racing will always be there when I decide it's time to go back. I just won't be racing bikes next time around is all.
Dezracer
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They're awesome...that's all you need to know,lol
Seriously though, I think the tasty strains taste better in the vape. My wife has finally broke down and decided she was tired of watching me enjoy the fruits of my labor alone. She tried a couple small bites of one of my cookies, like 1/3 maybe the other night and said she slept better than she has in a few years. Now she said she wants me to let her know next time I use the vape if she's here so she can try it.
AND, she asked me last night if she can take some edibles to a ladies only party this weekend at one of our friends house to share with the class. I told her I don't care as long as she stays the night.
Countryfarmer
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Yeh, finally got my wife to try an edible that I made (the old standby, brownies) and of course I mucked them up. Hopefully I didn't put her off too much to not try them again. For sleep alone I think she would appreciate the effect, because she is almost as bad of an insomniac as I am.
DST
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Had a BBQ (Braai) for my birthday. Invited friends from home, we all smoked a ton and ate cookies, my wife freaked out along with a couple of other light smokers.....she swears she won't touch them again, and still to this day asks if that white dove that flew into our living room and ended up in our kitchen was real!....it was real, I watched my mate throw it out the window and fly off to meet it's partner...quite incredible really.
Hope the smoke turns out well on your bud Bajafox, thanks for the pics.
DST
Hope the smoke turns out well on your bud Bajafox, thanks for the pics.
DST
Dezracer
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There is a heated debate in another thread about magnetic vs digital ballast that I don't want to get involved in but it made me get out a meter and check everything I'm using in my grow op.
I found that the 400 magnetic I was using draws 485 watts and the 600 digital I'm using draws 650-655 watts. It never got steady like the magnetinc one did but kept moving around a bit between those two numbers.
Made me curious about everything else so I checked it all and one nice surprise was that the H.O. t5 fixtures I'm using are rated at 96 watts each but they aren't actually drawing that. Only 151 watts for both of them together. I had the meter plugged into the receptacle and the timer plugged into the meter with both fixtures running off the timer.
Fans both draw exactly what they claim even though one is on a dimmer. For some reason, the dimmer is reducing the fan speed but not reducing the draw. I bet I'd be better off running the fan straight and using the speed selector knob on the fan. Only 3 speeds to choose from but I bet it'd draw less power since it seems the dimmer is working off of resistance or a controlled short.
I found that the 400 magnetic I was using draws 485 watts and the 600 digital I'm using draws 650-655 watts. It never got steady like the magnetinc one did but kept moving around a bit between those two numbers.
Made me curious about everything else so I checked it all and one nice surprise was that the H.O. t5 fixtures I'm using are rated at 96 watts each but they aren't actually drawing that. Only 151 watts for both of them together. I had the meter plugged into the receptacle and the timer plugged into the meter with both fixtures running off the timer.
Fans both draw exactly what they claim even though one is on a dimmer. For some reason, the dimmer is reducing the fan speed but not reducing the draw. I bet I'd be better off running the fan straight and using the speed selector knob on the fan. Only 3 speeds to choose from but I bet it'd draw less power since it seems the dimmer is working off of resistance or a controlled short.
bajafox
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Thank you DST
Dezracer, I posted quite a bit in that thread and regardless of the results, I couldn't have survived the heatwave we recently had if I could not set my digital ballast from 600w super lumens to 360w so that I can fight the high temperatures. That option to me was priceless last week. My tent has been running at 600w SL with temps in the high 70's all day now that the weather is back to normal
Dezracer, I posted quite a bit in that thread and regardless of the results, I couldn't have survived the heatwave we recently had if I could not set my digital ballast from 600w super lumens to 360w so that I can fight the high temperatures. That option to me was priceless last week. My tent has been running at 600w SL with temps in the high 70's all day now that the weather is back to normal
Dezracer
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I wish I had a 600 magnetic to fire up and check so I could see exactly what kind of savings I'm getting from the digital. All I can do is assume that if the HTG 400 is drwaing 485, the HTG 600 would draw 685 but I can't say for sure if that's correct.
If it is though, based on what I get charged per KwH ($.27), it saves me $9.40/month. My per KwH charge is only that high because with what we use in the household almost puts us in the tier that is that high without the grow op.
Actually I just looked at our most recent bill and we got charged $.31/KwH for 59 of the KwHs we used. Must have been the AC since it's been so hot.
If it is though, based on what I get charged per KwH ($.27), it saves me $9.40/month. My per KwH charge is only that high because with what we use in the household almost puts us in the tier that is that high without the grow op.
Actually I just looked at our most recent bill and we got charged $.31/KwH for 59 of the KwHs we used. Must have been the AC since it's been so hot.
bajafox
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One thing I know for sure from when I ran the 600w magnetic versus my digital is the heat difference. I don't care what anyone in that thread says, I've ran my set up exactly the same way with both magnetic and digital ballast using the same bulb. The magnetic produced way more heat than my digital and it lacked the option to choose my watts. Right now I have the option to run it at 360/400/600/600SL.
As far as the cost to run it I am yet to run a comparison
As far as the cost to run it I am yet to run a comparison