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No frost in LA, but I'm thinking I might grow indoors this winter instead of dealing with the rains. If I can get a tent set up somewhere inside. Rest of the year, it's just bugs and fungus to worry about. But it seems like you have to be out there everyday looking for the next curveball from...

Those fuckers that make the giant web nests in pecan trees? My grand dad used to set them on fire. I wonder if Bt would do the job.

"Fire ants in my compost piles. Its war!" If you have multiple colonies, try digging up a shovel full of dirt from Mound A and dropping it on Mound B, and then put a shovel full of dirt from Mound B on Mound A. I saw that on TV in Austin years ago, recommended by hippie organic gardeners. I...

How hot is it in Fresno? It was pretty cool here in LA County until about two days ago when it started hitting mid-90s in the afternoon.

Happy to report that I have now grown out two strains sold by SSC from their "Platinum Collection." I got a couple of their feminized Cheese seeds as freebies a while ago. I got clumsy and dropped one sprouted seedling down the kitchen sink drain, but the other grew into a nice plant that...

Wanted to update what I posted about the Cheese I got from Single Seed Center. I grew one plant last summer through early winter outdoors in LA County. I was not crazy about the potency of the flowers, but I cloned the plant and am now growing a couple clones outside again. Couple days ago I...

Went out this morning and it appeared that misting the plants with hydrogen peroxide had done gotten rid of most of the PM. I sprayed what was still visible and I'll try to do that every day and hope that it will keep the PM under control.

Ditto. I was going to post that. I got my hands on a clone in Santa Cruz a couple years back and it was a great performer. Good yield and asskicking buzz. I only grew one plant but if I could get it again, I would not hesitate.

I'm in LA County, about 20 miles from ocean, and my damn indicas keep getting PM even though I spray them with mancozeb. For a while I was in Monterey County and another grower told me I should stick to sativas there because of the humidity. Well I can understand that because Monterey is...

Mick Ronson on guitar

One good Jailbreak deserves another.

RIP Mac Rebennack, "Dr. John"

It wasn't much of a guitar, just a cheap six-string acoustic my girlfriend gave to me after she upgraded to a Gibson. But I'll bet if I had a nickel for every time some drunk teenager has hurled on a guitar, I'd be at least as rich as Donald Trump. Even more for drum sets, I'm thinking.

Dude, you are really overthinking it. Sativas and indicas don't clash in your brain. It's not like drinking a bottle of MD 2020 and then chugging beers and finishing off with a "cocktail" of three different liquors you stole from your parent's booze cabinet. I have tried that, and the results...

I had the same experience with a bunch of fire ants living in a tree stump in Mississippi except they bit the hell out of me. And then I went out the next day and they did it again. That is one of the oldest memories I have. I think I wised up after the second time.

Really? So are those granules like vermicompost?

Last couple weeks I've seen the return of the ants here in LA County. I'm talking about the ants that march along in visible lines to and from whatever food source they are seeking. It looks like a video of a busy freeway shot from a helicopter. The little bastards don't seem to be interested...

I noticed a weed that I believe is called sow thistle seems to draw ladybugs, but that’s because it also attracts some kind of aphid. Right now I’ve got a big population of mealybug destroyers living in a couple gardenia bushes that are infested with scales. I was going to spray the bushes...

My Echinopsis just bloomed. I’ve had it for more than five years.