Wonder Pie

These babies were moving along so fast I decided to top both of them this morning. One of these I plan to let grow fairly wild except for topping, and when I move her outdoors she will get transplanted into a 10 gallon fabric pot; and the other I'd like to prune substantially and put her in a smaller, either 5 or 7 gallon pot. The temps were really hot last week and we had a couple of 100 degree days in the tent but the girls don't seem to be any worse for it. I went looking around for awhile in the Product Guide looking for some instructions as to whether you should feed with the grow powder every feeding or every OTHER feeding. I was confused because the Hybrid powder feed bag has a note on the bag itself clearly stating "feed every other watering"... but the Grow Powder had no such note. I eventually landed at the Greenhouse website FAQ with the following statement... <https://shop.greenhousefeeding.com/us/faq-en.html> "Green House Feeding will work perfectly in soil. When growing in soil, we recommend feeding the plants only every other watering (water – nutrient solution – water – nutrient solution) to avoid salt build up in the medium. We also recommend flushing the medium 2-3 times with pH-balanced water during the whole cycle depending on the flowering time." ============= Today is June 1 >> the one year anniversary of my retirement. I celebrated this day last year by going to the High Times NorCal Cannabis Cup up in Santa Rosa for the 2nd year in a row. I had fun documenting those trips in some of my diaries. Unknown when such events may happen again, but they will. Have faith. 👊 Instead, this year we are treated to a rage tweeting fool trying to put out fires with gasoline. The protests against our rampant state of police brutality here in the US have actually spread worldwide now, except honestly they're better at protesting in other countries. We're frankly getting what we deserve for electing an idiot, and it's bound to get worse before we can figure out how to end this. But this is the world we created. We will get thru this. Scathed for sure, but I'm still pretty confident there is something positive that will come after this. I use meditation. ============= June 6 >> <sigh> While meditation is useful as a personal tool to help stem the madness we are confronted with - it isn't something that helps you move fast, should you have that (ahem) need. It's clear that we actually need to move faster now - "Law Enforcement" murdered Eric Gardner many many years ago in an almost identical fashion to the current murder of George Floyd, and countless others. I'm a "senior citizen" in today's america - or what's left of it - I'll be 63 in August. Today I went out and got involved - unfortunately for the first time in my life I can admit - but it was worth the wait in some respects. I was impressed. As a protestor I'm over-equipped with my new eBike, in that I can probably escape attempted kettling and other known police tactics because of my bike. Today's march went from Hayward City Hall to the Police Department a couple miles away. We essentially blocked an intersection and held a vigil on bent knees for probably 9 minutes or about the amount of time it took to murder George Floyd. I think I waited too long in my life to do this - do it - you WILL feel better for it. I'm a retired California State professional transportation engineer. I've spent more than 30 years observing traffic in the State of California for various purposes. Everything from just basic counting cars to counting how many people were in those cars... to counting/observing/DIRECTING traffic in periods off distress like earthquakes, firestorms, hazardous material spills, whatever. One thing I consider myself an expert at at this point is judging motorist behavior, because you see a lot in that many decades. You'd be amazed at what kinda large loads are moving on our highway system after dark when you wouldn't be delayed by the movement of those objects/goods. Motorists consistently behave badly under certain circumstances. It is a fact of nature in my book. EXAMPLE ... overturned car blocks a multi-lane freeway... standard operating procedure at some point is to shut down the mainline - even if only for a couple minutes - to move debris around and establish something resembling normal temporarily. Now - if they can pull that off in only a few MINUTES - we might be OK. But what usually happens is somebody spills some diesel fuel or even something as simple as milk into a stream (which will kill many of the fish there). Anywho - why did I bring this all up? Ahem... as the professional traffic observer I claim myself to be... I'll say it again. I was impressed with the behavior of the traffic around the protest I was involved with today. I'd say 90% of the traffic that we interacted with was on our side - so to speak. Honking horns - driving SLOW - raising fists. There's something happening here folks. It's time we all got up off our butts and contributed to it.