The Irish Growers Thread!

[Bilbo Baggins]

My lad has incorporated smoking weed as part of a lifestyle choice I guess. but I also see he is getting on with all the important stuff in life and being a great Dad and all. I look around me here in Scotland and see the problems we have with all the booze heads and piss hounds and wonder why what the boozers do that is socially acceptable, to be honest its the f****g booze that's the problem here. weed guys just float around, listen to their music don't cause any problems at all. I'd rather he just did what he wanted and was happy, I didn't bring him up just to spend his life trying to live up to MY expectations. And what is money at the end of the day, a guy can spend his whole life chasing more, more , more, and all he's got at the end of the day is a bit bigger house, and better car , and goes posher places on holiday, not worth selling your soul for that shit. Anyway Ive gone all philosophical, but its shit like this I think of when musing on the wrongs of the world. We all fought in the past for FREEDOM, us Irish and Scots and if you cant follow the lifestyle of your choice then what was the point. ha

 

[Bilbo Baggins]

you will have to explain if you can be bothered AE how to post a Youtube video on a forum, quite a good trick to use on occasion.

 

[ae86 grower]

you will have to explain if you can be bothered AE how to post a Youtube video on a forum, quite a good trick to use on occasion.

when you click reply or with quote, theres a small video strip, hover over it and it says insert video, click and then copy the link into the box click ok and the link pops in the reply, write in what you want and when you post the vid pops in there....

just passing it on, one of the others had to explain to me too...hahahahahaha...

 

[ae86 grower]

My has incorporated smoking weed as part of a lifestyle choice I guess. but I also see he is getting on with all the important stuff in life and being a great Dad and all. I look around me here in Scotland and see the problems we have with all the booze heads and piss hounds and wonder why what the boozers do that is socially acceptable, to be honest its the f****g booze that's the problem here. weed guys just float around, listen to their music don't cause any problems at all. I'd rather he just did what he wanted and was happy, I didn't bring him up just to spend his life trying to live up to MY expectations. And what is money at the end of the day, a guy can spend his whole life chasing more, more , more, and all he's got at the end of the day is a bit bigger house, and better car , and goes posher places on holiday, not worth selling your soul for that shit. Anyway Ive gone all philosophical, but its shit like this I think of when musing on the wrongs of the world. We all fought in the past for FREEDOM, us Irish and Scots and if you cant follow the lifestyle of your choice then what was the point. ha

hit the nail on the head dude, its after all its there lives, all we can do it point out and help where we can, and like you if the day comes and he wants to have a puff then i`d rather it be with me and his uncles so we can set him right on the myths and truths, much like you just the right philosophy for life...

 

[fr3d12]

My lad has incorporated smoking weed as part of a lifestyle choice I guess. but I also see he is getting on with all the important stuff in life and being a great Dad and all. I look around me here in Scotland and see the problems we have with all the booze heads and piss hounds and wonder why what the boozers do that is socially acceptable, to be honest its the f****g booze that's the problem here. weed guys just float around, listen to their music don't cause any problems at all. I'd rather he just did what he wanted and was happy, I didn't bring him up just to spend his life trying to live up to MY expectations. And what is money at the end of the day, a guy can spend his whole life chasing more, more , more, and all he's got at the end of the day is a bit bigger house, and better car , and goes posher places on holiday, not worth selling your soul for that shit. Anyway Ive gone all philosophical, but its shit like this I think of when musing on the wrongs of the world. We all fought in the past for FREEDOM, us Irish and Scots and if you cant follow the lifestyle of your choice then what was the point. ha

Alcohol is one of the greatest pleasures a person can have but when it starts to take over then you have problems.It cost me everything and the sad thing is I didn't see it until it was too late.I suppose I closed the door when the horse had already bolted and now without a drink for 14 months.Living life with regret is far from ideal but I'm living all the same.
I'm not anti-drink at all but it's the same here with the amount of antisocial activity it causes,compared to weed which causes zero,like Bilbo I don't smoke much,probably a half oz or less a month but coming back to growing and trying my best to grow top quality bud has given me a renewed focus and fresh perspective.
Onwards and upwards

 

[marley321]

well done on givin up the booze fr3d +rep for u jus for that,gave it up meself over 10 year ago,nearly lost everything meself over it but copped on in time[luckily]i can safely say now ill never drink alcahol again.theres more ta life than drinkin id hate for my kids ta see me drunk,a little tip man i dont see alcahol as a pleasure seen it destroy too many lives,i see alcahol as poison,if ya think like that it helps ya stay away from it......does for me anyway.....

 

[budsahoi]

Alright lads left the girls in the greenhouse overnight checked on them WE ARE BUG FREE!! spent ages checking them one the girls still looking sorry for its self but it looks better thanks everyone for the tips and concerns =) couple pics of them today

great. greenfly would have laid eggs so may be another invasion in about a week. Should be no problem to u now that u know how to get rid of em.

 

[Bilbo Baggins]

Alcohol is one of the greatest pleasures a person can have but when it starts to take over then you have problems.It cost me everything and the sad thing is I didn't see it until it was too late.I suppose I closed the door when the horse had already bolted and now without a drink for 14 months.Living life with regret is far from ideal but I'm living all the same.
I'm not anti-drink at all but it's the same here with the amount of antisocial activity it causes,compared to weed which causes zero,like Bilbo I don't smoke much,probably a half oz or less a month but coming back to growing and trying my best to grow top quality bud has given me a renewed focus and fresh perspective.
Onwards and upwards

great to hear you took control fd I'm not totally against alcohol but like everything else, even religion, folk can take things too far and instead of being a positive influence , anything, including weed, can be a negative aspect as well. But if booze was causing problems hats off to you man for taking control and improving things wd.

 

[splifchris]

I'll be off the drink for 6 monrhs on the 21st june... I quit on december 21st 2012... good day to quit something!!!

 

[budsahoi]

I was never much of a drinker but since i started smoking mj a hardly ever touch the stuff. I think mj should be subscribed to alcohol abusers

 

[ae86 grower]

itv4...isle of man tt superbikes ....your up...

 

[iamaaror]

Anyone who does the TT must have some fair big stones. The tolerances they are dealing with are so low and the conditions change from one side of the track to the other. It's amazing not more people come off their bikes going 160+ through corners lol.

 

[mdjenks]

#sorehandstoday.....hahahahhaa...

actually AE those are old pics from my very first grow in the cab after I built it a couple years back I just thought I would throw up some bud porn and to show all the auto growers that you can get a big yield from auto's. That BCN Auto took up my entire cab it liked 4 or 5 plants when it was in full bloom. added a couple of pics of how big that auto got.

the two pics the lady was about 3 weeks out from harvest. and i did have sore hands!

an after and before of the cab when i modified it

 

[mdjenks]

my unit in afghanistan.

 

[ae86 grower]

Anyone who does the TT must have some fair big stones. The tolerances they are dealing with are so low and the conditions change from one side of the track to the other. It's amazing not more people come off their bikes going 160+ through corners lol.

the speeds they get up to on road surface is awesome we must remember its not circut raceing so its bumpy and uneven in places, and when you factor in road camber swithching sides on the track at those speeds can even flip a bike, not to mention a draft from a gateway pushing on them...

so many facetts that make it amazeing sport to watch, i would never in a million years get up on a 600, or anything like it, i would be killed in no time off the thing... i`m more a 4 wheeled nutter, but i love to watch road raceing, from cookstown 100, northwest and the tt...

 

[ae86 grower]

my unit in afghanistan.

heli looks like it could do with a wash...

 

[fr3d12]

The chopper is chunky but not as much height as I would have thought.

 

[mdjenks]

the heli is an HH-60 pavehawk a suped of version of the blackhawk, I was in a combat search and rescue unit and it has a big boom sticking out the front so it can refuel in the air. You have to be careful of the rotors or they will take you head off, i always hated going under them when they were swirling around, you had to duck under to get in. Yeah it was very dirty we had been in country 6 months when that pic was takin I won't tell you which one is me except I have a weapon which all of us do lol!

the two guys kneeling down on the left are special forces and the rest of us were either pilots, co pilots, door gunners, flight engineers or grunts. the guys with the parachutes on are special forces and were getting ready to do a halo (high altitude low opening) jump to rescue some shot up army rangers.

 

[fr3d12]

I wouldn't like to be going under it either but I'm sure ducking down would be instinctive.
I've heard the comparison that Afghanistan is this generations Vietnam,would you agree MD?

 

[mdjenks]

If you have netflix there is a documentary called surviving the cut which has several episodes about army rangers, air force pararescue (my guys in the pic) marine force recon, combat divers, air force combat divers, snipers, and eod (explosive ordinance disposal) the guys on the movie the hurt locker they are all good to watch. i wish they would make one of the navy seals, delta force, seal team six, and the SAS.