What did you accomplish today?
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cannabineer
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With the good news of the last days, I decided to make a celebratory meal. Walmart had a lovely rib steak. I made some gravy (experimental lot #3 in my bid to reverse-engineer KFC) to go with Annie’s excellent recipe for mashed potatoes.
The wind is howling here today, so the gas grill kept blowing out. I instrumented the steak and baked it at 350 until the two probes read 121 and 122 degrees.
A quick reverse sear in my wicked cool new steel pan (West Japan Tool) and an inspection cut later: nailed it.
Cheese sauce for the steak (Annie’s recipe) is oh so good.
Completing the tableau: a wine aged thirty. This is one of the few that Robert Parker rated a 100. This one is still showing a lot of that “southern French summer forest” character that informs the greatest wines of the Rhône Valley . (I remember that smell from a summer in the Alpes-Maritimes.)
This is my dancing-in-the-streets moment, and I thought I’d share it with my fellow RIU miscreants.
Today’s weather matches my sense of guarded hope.
The wind is howling here today, so the gas grill kept blowing out. I instrumented the steak and baked it at 350 until the two probes read 121 and 122 degrees.
A quick reverse sear in my wicked cool new steel pan (West Japan Tool) and an inspection cut later: nailed it.
Cheese sauce for the steak (Annie’s recipe) is oh so good.
Completing the tableau: a wine aged thirty. This is one of the few that Robert Parker rated a 100. This one is still showing a lot of that “southern French summer forest” character that informs the greatest wines of the Rhône Valley . (I remember that smell from a summer in the Alpes-Maritimes.)
This is my dancing-in-the-streets moment, and I thought I’d share it with my fellow RIU miscreants.
Today’s weather matches my sense of guarded hope.
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raratt
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I'm grilling burgers...lol. It's nice having the patio on the back of the house where the north wind can't get to it. The cover helps a bit also. It was snowing down to Paradise, but it isn't sticking.
raratt
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@Grandpapy is the ground white up there?
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Here it is blowing hard enough that I’m keeping a weather eye on the fence, which tends to blow out sections because all that old wood is pretty spongy.
So far so good; we’re at peak wind if you trust Weather Underground.
raratt
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windfinder.com/#7/38.6641/-120.4211
Grandpapy
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They were calling for 4", had two dustings, now gone. temp. 35.
shrxhky420
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Vanity at home depot didn't work out but we did order one. Should have it next week.
SH420
SH420
whitebb2727
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Building my real estate business. We are doing good. How about you and yours?So good to see you! What have you been up to? I hope you and yours are all doing well.
Good to see y'all.
I possibly couldve went pro. After I broke my collarbone and messed my shoulder up its hard to throw any kind of ball. I even have to throw from my side instead of a normal throw. If I throw normal and put too much power in it I cant lift my arm for a few days after.
We are good, thanks! I'm spending my retirement rescuing dogs, it's fun. I'm not getting much done right now but I'm looking forward to getting through to the other side of this mess. Don't be a stranger!
farmingfisherman
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Glad you are still here, and good for you in setting boundaries with visiting.
Star Dog
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I made a few adjustments to my cloner, I've got round bubble stones and they move out of place easily, also every time I nudge the lid I moves it of square.
1st I cut the bottoms out of a couple of mesh pots for stands to sit the stones on and keep them in place, it works just fine a result!.
I'll end up with a more suitable stone but it's not a priority atm.
I've got some sticky velcro so I added a couple velcro tabs to each side the lid so I can lift it with it moving out of place and fix it down so it doesn't move when I catch it.
I then trimmed the excess plastic of the lid, it's not 100% finished as I can't really take the lid off completely.
I fed and tidied up some lower foliage on my flower clones and struck a clone from a vegging plant just to try out my cloner with something other than than a clone that's been in a fridge for 8 weeks, it odd the clones look like they should root but I'm having trouble with the stems turning to mush?
I've added H2o2 to hopefully with the mush problem but I'm only 50/50 about it?
1st I cut the bottoms out of a couple of mesh pots for stands to sit the stones on and keep them in place, it works just fine a result!.
I'll end up with a more suitable stone but it's not a priority atm.
I've got some sticky velcro so I added a couple velcro tabs to each side the lid so I can lift it with it moving out of place and fix it down so it doesn't move when I catch it.
I then trimmed the excess plastic of the lid, it's not 100% finished as I can't really take the lid off completely.
I fed and tidied up some lower foliage on my flower clones and struck a clone from a vegging plant just to try out my cloner with something other than than a clone that's been in a fridge for 8 weeks, it odd the clones look like they should root but I'm having trouble with the stems turning to mush?
I've added H2o2 to hopefully with the mush problem but I'm only 50/50 about it?
I find pool shock (Calcium Hypochlorite) to be more effective
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Have you tried hypochlorite?
1.0 gram 71% calcium hypochlorite in a liter of distilled water. This is your stock solution.
5 ml of this per gallon in your cloner should put an end to your mushy stem rot.
I also recommend you sterilize your pruning tool in alcohol- 95% ethyl, or unicorn horn (the 91% isopropyl alcohol that still is not on shelves here) in order to avoid transferring pathogens to each cut.
Do not add nutrients to the res. I suggest using the powder or liquid dip rooting agent. Look for NAA (naphthalene-2-acetic acid) as a major ingredient because IBA (indole-3-butyric acid) gets gnawed fast by the hypochlorite.
~edit~ in USA pool shock comes in two forms, appx. 68% and 71%. The higher-number one seems to work better than the numbers suggest.
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Star Dog
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Do you mean for the stem going mushy, have you had this before?
It's my 1st venture with refrigerated clones I was a bit hap hazard I'm going to try again with some major changes, acclimatisation, light levels, length of time and temps maybe 8 weeks was pushing it?
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
The two major factors affecting clone success are temperature and pathogen control. The hypochlorite makes a bacterial problem unlikely/go away. Temps are rather more up to you.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Bleach is sodium hypochlorite solution plus sodium chloride. Sodium can possibly cause lockout. The calcium product is based on a nutrient ion instead of an obstacle ion.
