You aren’t wrong! There’s a huge gap in all of the skilled labor trades, because the schools stopped teaching kids about hard work years ago. They push kids to go to college and rack up debt because they’re feeding them into a perpetual cycle of desk jobs and misery. The boom in the tech industry is most likely to blame, although nowadays the skilled labor shortage has driven wages up to the point where some of the trades pay better than doctors and lawyers. All without the need to go to college for eight years and burden yourself with a mountain of debt. Hard work is good for the body as much as it is for the mind, and it’s way more rewarding at the end of the day to visibly see an accomplishment vs sitting in a cubicle staring at a screen all day. I learned early on how to work on vehicles and was a mechanic for 15 years, I now manage a warehouse and handle all incoming and outgoing deliveries by myself. It’s a physical job but I don’t mind it one bit because I get paid to exercise. I picked up tile work for a while too and added that skill to my set. I can handle carpentry to a degree but due to a crippling fear of heights I never perused it as a trade. Yeah the younger generations are in trouble but it’s not entirely their fault. The real culprit is society and the education system. More kids need exposure to trade schools and vocational schools and way less screen time. Although I feel a little bit of hypocrisy typing this from a smartphone.
I credit my parents, and the science teacher i built that deck for. Definitely do not credit the public education system. This teacher actually retired from teaching and started selling boats after my grade came through. Our year with him was his final straw with having his style of teaching children being strangled into non existence by state education "standards".
He had a hands on, action first, note taking and tests later attitude to teaching children, ya know, how it should be. Guy was a 4th grade science teacher, and re-met him at a home depot right after moving back down here. Good friend and beer buddy now even though hes like an hour away. Weird how things play out sometimes, but so is the world we live in.
He does know i play around with cannabis, and i think he trusts me enough with it to be curious enough to ask a lot of questions hes been wanting to ask for a long time. (seems like it anyway) I have this hunch he's gonna inquire with me about edibles come fall lol. (ex cigg smoker, heavily against smoking or vaping anything health wise). Hes def been "curious but unwilling" like many in older generations.
Some very nice looking female preflowers. My pics suck compared to this, but i have a hazey looking mystery sativa outside making very plump, round, frosty preflowers just like this.
I cant find my more recent picture, but heres an old one of em anyway lol.
An old friend In kC just sent me a shot of his peaceblaster at 52 days Into flower. Homemade just add water super soil
Un-topped, un-trained
Says this pheno smells like potting soil and skunk spray.
Has a bit of the LED sensitivity, but not as much as the other ones have.
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Interestingly enough, he says he had it in the far back left corner furthest from the LED, and still had more light burn symptoms early on then his other plants. He almost didnt clone it lol. He just put a couple clones outside today. Very busy guy, dont know when pics will turn up of those lol.
Ive become kinda obsessed with understanding why the old lineages dont like LED light. They can usually take more natural and HPS light then most modern strains. Theyll eat it up.
that post brought back some good memories as that piece was with me from 1977 to 2013 and I miss it
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it's loooooovin it lol. It's got that "im happy gimme more" leaf reach going on. Not that "it's to hot i need more air" leaf reach going on lol. Deep emerald green. I have it on a tiny plynth like 10"off the panel now, its green got even happier when i did.
