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HillBilly Jeff's 2014 Adventure - Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!

HillBilly Jeff said:
 

Just throwing this up here to plan out my list for next year.  Looking at some changes to my grow next year.
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Bodeen said:
Just throwing this up here to plan out my list for next year.  Looking at some changes to my grow next year.
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Just throwing this up here to plan out my list for next year.  Looking at some changes to my grow next year.
 
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Jeff your plants are doing so well they'll  probably have peppers on them by the time you plant out...and I'm not joking
 
I haven't started anything yet, ...my last frost date around this neck....of the city is about May 17th.
I've started plants many times in the past in Nov/Dec and had 2.5' tall plants in 3 gal containers in April... indoors....many of them....it's a pain to water them at that stage.
 
I'm finding out with the peppers and tomatoes its better to get a late start out of the gate and a strong finish out of the house around early May to harden them off. Any early root restrictions can set them back. I'm hoping to only to pot up twice before bringing the plants outdoors...which will harden off in 1 gal containers. Who knows though, if we finally get a warm Spring in April I might just be kicking myself in the arse for the late start....either way I'm playing it safe this time around.
I see you've had some usage with the Hot Papaya....nice idea with the tarter sauce. I don't fish but hit the fish markets here often. The price of Walleye and the Yellow Canadian Lake Perch has gone up quite a bit...but that will never stop me from picking some up when the taste buds are tingling for it !
Best of luck with the rest of your indoor grow.
 
Almost finished with my end table for man cave to match coffee table.  Needs bottom shelf and varnish.
 
 
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Jeff your plants are doing so well they'll  probably have peppers on them by the time you plant out...and I'm not joking
 
I haven't started anything yet, ...my last frost date around this neck....of the city is about May 17th.
I've started plants many times in the past in Nov/Dec and had 2.5' tall plants in 3 gal containers in April... indoors....many of them....it's a pain to water them at that stage.
 
I'm finding out with the peppers and tomatoes its better to get a late start out of the gate and a strong finish out of the house around early May to harden them off. Any early root restrictions can set them back. I'm hoping to only to pot up twice before bringing the plants outdoors...which will harden off in 1 gal containers. Who knows though, if we finally get a warm Spring in April I might just be kicking myself in the arse for the late start....either way I'm playing it safe this time around.
I see you've had some usage with the Hot Papaya....nice idea with the tarter sauce. I don't fish but hit the fish markets here often. The price of Walleye and the Yellow Canadian Lake Perch has gone up quite a bit...but that will never stop me from picking some up when the taste buds are tingling for it !
Best of luck with the rest of your indoor grow.
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Thank you.  I usually don't start until January with my plants and usually mid January if memory serves me correctly.  I started a manzano and two MoA back in September because I had a major itch once the seeds came in.  
 
I figured starting some hab strains just after Christmas wasn't too awfully early and with Jaques not wanting to come up, I am thinking its good that I am not up against it for germination.  We're due for an early frost fall some time soon.
 
With the Chinense taking their time germing I should be okay on those.  Peppers in my list on page 23 that haven't been planted will hit the dirt middle of next month, perhaps sooner if the itch hits.  I pot up into 3 1/2 inch pots and for the last 4-5 years that is as far as I go.  I have no room for that many gallon pots.  I have had some pretty tall plants the last few seasons, but they all still fit on my shelves.  Perhaps in the future, if I take over the big bay window in the living room I could build a shelving unit to hold gallon pots and not have to worry about heat or light once they hit that stage.  
 
I wonder how much earlier could I get my plants outside if I had a small greenhouse put up.  Not a professional one, just the clear plastic and a doorway with some shelves in it.  Would have to watch to make sure they didn't get too hot during the day, but how much warmth would it hold through the night.  I'm a hour south of Lake Michigan, so could I get my plants all out in that by mid April?  I believe my heater is off in the grow room by then, but it would be nice to kill the lights as well.
 
I believe you when you say I will have pods before I plant out.....I know...I've seen me do it!!! 
 
Love the friend or foe list. Got that saved to the favorites. I'll have to replan a little of my garden based on that. Who would have thought that cabbage and broccoli are foes.
 
Table for the man cave is coming along nicely. I was just doing some repotting of plants last night on top of my old Rockwell table saw thinking that I needed to start a wood working project again sometime. Maybe new coffee tables are in order. :D
 
Let's see some pics of the man cave since so we can live vicariously through you. My kids have commandeered most of the finished basement, all I got is the grow room, workshop and a small office, so no man cave until I kick them out.
 
I can post a few that I have.  I believe the coffee table I already posted.  
 
Largest snake shed I ever found.
 
 
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Shelf with some of the old pop bottles I collected as a kid...mostly from my own digs.
 
 
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Some of my old beer can collection....this needs a shelf as they just got stashed up there.  The Miller Lite quart was my first legal beer purchase.
 
 
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Something a friend did for me from a pic from Canada
 
 
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My rock section.  A couple albums are just up there as filler until I get a few more bought.  I plan on more albums going up.
 
 
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My Nascar/Sports Section
 
 
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Some more beer cans I found along a dirt road by my house as a kid.  I tried to just interlace some of these things throughout the cave.
 
 
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These deer heads have a connection to my dad, so they are up in the cave with my first ever deer.  My two biggest deer are upstairs.
 
 
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My turkey tails.
 
 
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Still need to build my bookcase, and the shelving system that goes behind the couch.  Need to get the couch as well. I also need to pick up my pool table as well.  I need to build my audio rack and buy some new speakers for the a/v section of the cave.
 
Wow, I'm impressed that you have stuff from when you were a kid, mine was all tossed when I moved to Tejas..all those baseball cards!
 
Good job Jeff, a true man cave!
 
Liked the friend or foe list. Never knew corn and maters were foes, I've used corn to shade the maters for years?
 
Love the man cave pics.
 
You have quite a collection from the 80's on the wall. Too funny. I can't tell you how long it has been since I owned a cassette player or record player. I do have quite a few of those songs on my android though.
 
Here is one for you, I just heard this the other day on satellite. My wife just rolled her eyes as I sang along.
Oh, and I knew when I asked for pics of the man cave, I would see guns and deer. Just call it intuition :party: . Go heavier on the guns next time though.
 
Those guns are just for show now.  My actual guns are elsewhere.  
 
RATT was my first ever concert...Bon Jovi opened for them lol.  That isn't all my cassette collection either.  I sold a lot of them on Ebay and I have another 200 or so stashed in a box.  These cassettes fit the theme best though.  The 45s were my Uncles and that music isn't to my taste for the most part.  They just look cool.
 
I have been researching tanning my own hides and I am thinking about doing some squirrel hides.  Not sure what I would make out of them as it would take a lot to have enough to do anything with, but I think four would be enough to go on top of my end table under a lamp.  That could look cool as well.
 
My favorite of the era was Motley, and my favorite mostly unknown of the era was Krokus.
 
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I still plan on playing some of these!!!
 
 
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Jeff H said:
From the very little I know about it, don't you just piss on the hides? <joking> Well, only sort of.
 
If you get into tanning hides and doing something with them, we have a thread for that here. www.thehotpepper.com/topic/15282-my-other-hobby-leather-craft/   :D
 
On the theme of the Ratt video you posted, home made holsters are always a welcome addition.
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On the subject of pissing on things...if only that double cassette deck could tell how much alcohol it has seen consumed during my 20s lol
 
HillBilly Jeff said:
Congo Yellow another chocolate bhut and peach x have popped up.  I am now at 48/72 up.  In my other small tray I have a Jaques finally trying to hook.  Hopefully it comes up and has no issues.
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Wishing you continues success with the germ rates!
 
I still have a stack of vinyl about 3' high and the turntable back from '79 still works! I've converted most to mp3, as well as all my CD's. Several years ago I bought a creative labs sound card that had an adapter to plug the turntable into. It also can with some really cool software to edit out hiss and pops from the vinyl. Now with XP going bye-bye I'll have to take the music server off the Internet :rolleyes: To show my age, first concert was Marshall Tucker and the Allman Bros.
 
Devv said:
Wishing you continues success with the germ rates!
 
I still have a stack of vinyl about 3' high and the turntable back from '79 still works! I've converted most to mp3, as well as all my CD's. Several years ago I bought a creative labs sound card that had an adapter to plug the turntable into. It also can with some really cool software to edit out hiss and pops from the vinyl. Now with XP going bye-bye I'll have to take the music server off the Internet :rolleyes: To show my age, first concert was Marshall Tucker and the Allman Bros.
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Vinyl was still around during my time, but mostly I bought cassettes.  My oldest brother had a lot of vinyl, but the middle brother had 8 tracks and vinyl.  Sabbath and Pink Floyd.  I used to fall asleep listening to We Sold Our Soul For Rock N Roll.  
 
I believe my first album I got was Fleetwood Mac when the song Tusk came out.  I had a few others as well.  My first two cassettes I bought was the debut album of Laura Branigan and Alabama Mountain Music.  Then I took a turn to Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance and hit the metal scene.
 
I think CD came out in the early 90s and a coworker had a deck in his car and it was quite expensive then.  I was thinking no way will I get those.  I have close to 500 cassettes and I am not buying them all over again.  I have about 100 CD that I got mostly from music clubs back in the day.  
 
Thankfully MP3 came out and now if I want to listen to anything, I just pull the video up on youtube.
 
And if you're thinking this has nothing to do with hot peppers, Michael Anthony, formerly of Van Halen, has his own line of hot sauce.
 
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Way to turn it around to something pepper related.
 
And Screaming for Vengeance was a great album.
 
I had all of my cassettes stored in the basement on the floor. After a decade of being on the cold damp concrete, they were pretty shot and sounded bad. I tossed them all about 5-7 years ago when the last tape player in the house quit working. Still have a handful of CDs from back in the day. Master of Puppets, Seasons in the Abyss and Somewhere in Time era music. Everything is MP3s these days, and just like you, anything I don't have is on Youtube.
 
Glad you're getting more hooks, not much else one can do on a day like this but stare at the plants...
 
Speaking of helmet surgery...I clipped the edge of one and its cotys broke through. The helmet now is around the stem and so tiny I'm afraid to kill the plant, it's a NagaBrain F3 and would hate to lose it...Any ideas?
 
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