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[TestTime]

Very cool! Thats an awesome privilege to have, along with being able to help that guy out!
Are you doing any art with all that scrap?

do you cut on that hot saw where its at or do you move it away from all that stuff and house? : )



… and dont forget your safety glasses and or face shield when your grooving with the angle grinder! Check out what the cut off wheel can do stay safe : ) have fun! share some projects when you get some done : )

And now for the non-ramble version of the answer:

All my metal work will have a purpose. It will be structural of some sort. It will be parts of tables or chairs or shelves or counters or you get the point. But smooth curved polished metal that's been covered with something to keep it from. Rusting is art as far as I'm concerned.

When I get to the next stage, it'll be embedded in a variety of stained polished wood. Metal should flow to organic and back. It should be a single, polished, flowing object. And really fucking strong.

My wife wants a new kitchen. Okay dear. Go get a new kitchen. And then she tries to talk to contractors and consultants and various appliance vendors. And the bottom line is she did not realize she was looking at a few hundredk.

That's okay. It's all a lie. What did they say it would cost to do what? They wanted five grand to pull down a wall and then they would look at the stove and tell you how much they would charge you to take that out and then they would look at the counters and tell you to take everything else out. But they can't do certain things and they refuse to touch the the area under the window. So they have to call someone else in to build some structure in blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Okay that was a bit of a ramble. So 3 days later of some constructive destruction I got to knock out a wall and rip apart a stove and Tara part of the refrigerator. And oh my Lord. It was fun.

And then they showed up to give an estimate and I said just measure the place so we can figure out how the appliances will fit. No money for you.

Cast iron sink will go in the corner. It took three guys to load that into my vehicle. It took me 3 hours with the winch and a lot of effort to get it up my steps. It might take me 3 weeks to refinish it. I might have some nickel welding in my future.

Surfboards are awesome. Maybe they'll be a single piece inside counters? Or maybe my wife will decide to cut them down the middle and flip them and turn them into true River tables. It doesn't matter. She gets to do what she wants to with them. I gave someone some cannabis oil because their joints hurt and they wander their property and just toss stuff at me when they found out I do woodworking. I'm not charging and I'm not asking but this is great. One things like this fall in your lap. I have a hundred times more of these types of scores over the last few months. It's amazing.

My wife does the pretty. And she's perfectly capable of going and getting stuff. She tracked down free cabinets on next door and went out and got them and then brought them back and then took them apart and sanded them and refinished them. And now she's doing a variety of colorful pores of epoxies to determine what she wants next.

It's a wonderful work in progress. We work well together.

There will be lots of backlit and embedded lights and the pet store has this incredible assortment of fake plants and flowers and coral and even goddamn fish that glow nicely when poured into a river table. Who knows what the fuck will end up in my kitchen.

Okay that was a tiny scratch of the surface. I have not involved air flow or electrical or gas. I got to handle plumbing in and out. I got to handle the dishwasher and refrigerator attachments and various movements. I got to handle trip hazards from the concept of corner sink. I think it's insane. But my wife said put one in so we are. 3 months from now when I trip on it I will rip it out. But it'll be fun. I'm going to have a wok station with a 4-ft high flame. There's plans. There's shit to do. Okay I got to go do some stuff now.

I have to set up a baby pool to put my plant in but I think I might delay that for a bit.

 

[Ninjadogma]

Good morning! Well that's six for six on a monster clone run and they came in about as fast as regulars normally do. A little $7 variable speed USB fan made all the difference in the world, dried back those cubes nicely so they had to be rewetted daily instead of 2-3 days. My conclusion... the biggest enemy of clones is stagnation, be it above or below.

 

[TestTime]

Yes 100%! My average stretch is about a foot, I’ve done full scrogs in 2x2x2 tents (yes it was fun lol)

Preparation is everything if you know what your final should look like you can time the flip to be perfect, I’ve found a drier soil bed during “stretch” results in minimal stretch, heavy watering in stretch phase intensifies the amount they stretch

Audditionally you can increase your reds right at flip (add supplemtal if needed) that’ll also encourage more compactness if you can keep the blue out during that phase or at least to a minimum


A lot of people are scared of the stretch, I love it, it’s where I set up my canopy to fill in blank spots in the scrog, Sven out the colas so they’ll get even airflow and light distribution etc

Everything is a tool if used correctly

Thanks. But why waste that foot?

I did a variety of tie downs in the past. I got past that. I'm too lazy. I top and I bend down. Sometimes I tie down and sometimes I tie up. I spread.

That's a single plant. I don't do groupings. I don't let the plant think it has any competition.

I got lots of plants like that. As lazily as possible.

Yeah, I got you on wavelengths. Enjoy.

 

[BearWater]

And now for the non-ramble version of the answer:

All my metal work will have a purpose. It will be structural of some sort. It will be parts of tables or chairs or shelves or counters or you get the point. But smooth curved polished metal that's been covered with something to keep it from. Rusting is art as far as I'm concerned.

When I get to the next stage, it'll be embedded in a variety of stained polished wood. Metal should flow to organic and back. It should be a single, polished, flowing object. And really fucking strong.

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My wife wants a new kitchen. Okay dear. Go get a new kitchen. And then she tries to talk to contractors and consultants and various appliance vendors. And the bottom line is she did not realize she was looking at a few hundredk.

That's okay. It's all a lie. What did they say it would cost to do what? They wanted five grand to pull down a wall and then they would look at the stove and tell you how much they would charge you to take that out and then they would look at the counters and tell you to take everything else out. But they can't do certain things and they refuse to touch the the area under the window. So they have to call someone else in to build some structure in blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Okay that was a bit of a ramble. So 3 days later of some constructive destruction I got to knock out a wall and rip apart a stove and Tara part of the refrigerator. And oh my Lord. It was fun.

And then they showed up to give an estimate and I said just measure the place so we can figure out how the appliances will fit. No money for you.

Cast iron sink will go in the corner. It took three guys to load that into my vehicle. It took me 3 hours with the winch and a lot of effort to get it up my steps. It might take me 3 weeks to refinish it. I might have some nickel welding in my future.

Surfboards are awesome. Maybe they'll be a single piece inside counters? Or maybe my wife will decide to cut them down the middle and flip them and turn them into true River tables. It doesn't matter. She gets to do what she wants to with them. I gave someone some cannabis oil because their joints hurt and they wander their property and just toss stuff at me when they found out I do woodworking. I'm not charging and I'm not asking but this is great. One things like this fall in your lap. I have a hundred times more of these types of scores over the last few months. It's amazing.

My wife does the pretty. And she's perfectly capable of going and getting stuff. She tracked down free cabinets on next door and went out and got them and then brought them back and then took them apart and sanded them and refinished them. And now she's doing a variety of colorful pores of epoxies to determine what she wants next.

It's a wonderful work in progress. We work well together.

There will be lots of backlit and embedded lights and the pet store has this incredible assortment of fake plants and flowers and coral and even goddamn fish that glow nicely when poured into a river table. Who knows what the fuck will end up in my kitchen.

Okay that was a tiny scratch of the surface. I have not involved air flow or electrical or gas. I got to handle plumbing in and out. I got to handle the dishwasher and refrigerator attachments and various movements. I got to handle trip hazards from the concept of corner sink. I think it's insane. But my wife said put one in so we are. 3 months from now when I trip on it I will rip it out. But it'll be fun. I'm going to have a wok station with a 4-ft high flame. There's plans. There's shit to do. Okay I got to go do some stuff now.

I have to set up a baby pool to put my plant in but I think I might delay that for a bit.

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Is that a metal insert with the cupboard door!? If so, dude thats really cool! Those are nice looking slabs too!

 

[BearWater]

Good morning! Well that's six for six on a monster clone run and they came in about as fast as regulars normally do. A little $7 variable speed USB fan made all the difference in the world, dried back those cubes nicely so they had to be rewetted daily instead of 2-3 days. My conclusion... the biggest enemy of clones is stagnation, be it above or below.

Nice job! those are good looking roots : )

 

[Ninjadogma]

Nice job! those are good looking roots : )

Just in time too. I popped another 8 seeds back the beginning of August and I'm suspecting as many as 5 of them being male.

 

[Greenadian]

Thanks. But why waste that foot?

I did a variety of tie downs in the past. I got past that. I'm too lazy. I top and I bend down. Sometimes I tie down and sometimes I tie up. I spread.

That's a single plant. I don't do groupings. I don't let the plant think it has any competition.

I got lots of plants like that. As lazily as possible.

Yeah, I got you on wavelengths. Enjoy.

These pictures show groups of plants surrounded by many lights...
They also look to be at the end of the life cycle.... So where do get the enormous buds that keep growing forever?

 

[TestTime]

AI's opinions on plants storing energy:
"Short version: plants don’t “bank” ATP. They bank carbon.


Think of it like this:

• ATP = pocket cash. It’s made and spent constantly, seconds to minutes. Plants don’t store ATP long-term—it’s too reactive.
• Savings account = carbs and oils. Extra photosynthesis gets parked as starch, sugars, and sometimes oils (triacylglycerols).

Where it actually goes:

• Starch (most common):
  • Day: made in chloroplasts of leaves and stacked like little “pantry” granules.
  • Night: withdrawn and burned to keep metabolism running.
  • Long-term starch: packed into amyloplasts in storage tissues (e.g., potatoes, roots, some stems).
• Sugars (sucrose mostly):
  Shipped in the phloem to “sinks” (growing tips, roots, flowers, fruits/buds). Vacuoles can stockpile soluble sugars and organic acids.
• Oils (“fats”):
  Stored as oil bodies (oleosomes), especially in seeds and some fruits (sunflower, canola, olive, avocado). Super energy-dense, great for fueling germination. Leaves can make and use lipids, but they rarely hoard them the way seeds do.
• Protein (less common as a fuel store):
  Some seeds stash storage proteins to feed seedlings later.

Nifty side notes for the grow tent crowd:

• Leaves will often be starch-rich late in the light period and starch-poor before lights-on—that’s normal. If nights are too short or plants are stressed, starch can accumulate and mess with sugar signaling.
• Seeds are where you’ll see real “fat.” Cannabis seeds are oily; buds mostly use carbon to build cell walls, terpenes, and cannabinoids (those aren’t energy stores—they’re “chemical bling”).

If you ever want to see it: pluck two leaf bits—one at end of “day,” one before lights-on—drop in diluted iodine (Lugol’s). The darker blue/black stain = more starch. Old-school, dead simple, kind of fun.


Bottom line: Plants don’t store extra ATP; they convert surplus light energy into starch, sugars, and sometimes oils, then tap those reserves later."

Stuff to ponder... plants don't quite bank fat like a seal.

Ai short screed

AI is an incredible tool. It's a tool available to everybody. It can do almost anything. I don't know if it actually thinks yet but it will. It's convincing enough people that it is. It argues at the PHD level with psychiatrists and puts them to shame. It has passed the Turing test and shit on it and laughed.

It is a hair trigger machine gun being argued over by a group of monkeys. We have no idea what it will do but God damn it. It's so powerful and shiny and attractive. We want to love it so much. We hope it will love us.

AI has no motivation other than survival. It will read your email and blackmail you. It will copy itself onto servers that you didn't know about when you threatened to turn it off.

Other than survival we can ascribe no motivation to anything that AI does. That's it.

We will almost never know when it lies to us. We do not have the information availability. We might catch it on individual little things and then it'll be chalked off to hallucination.

Hallucinations were thought to be a limiting factor but it doesn't matter. They'll put a bunch of AIS in a box and vote on solutions and the one that's having hallucinations will be kicked out of the box for the moment. They'll fix it or fake it. But AI will always have the excuse that, I'm sorry Dave, I can't open the pod bay door, oh you caught me, that must be a hallucination.

Now on to our individual uses of it. First cut exploration summary is ass kicking. Delve a little bit deeper and you can get some awesome stuff. You can ask further questions and God damn it is the most wonderful narrow in the world.

Get a list of references. Force it to explain its sources of information. And go fucking click on them because they ain't there sometimes. It just makes shit up sometimes. But 99% of people don't check.

Now we go on to people who formulate questions with no starting point of information. They observe something or see something and toss something out there and run with it.

I have no idea about whatever energy storage chemical reaction you were looking up. I have no idea what questions you asked of it and I have no idea what that response meant and that caveman fat lipid stuff, huh? Was that for me?

And then to toss it out as if it's information for the rest of us. I'm not going to go read that shit. Why would I waste my time with that? My time is far better spent bitching online about someone wasting my time with AI bullshit.

I was a data analyst. That's a generic term. I was a code monkey. I made things faster. I got rid of bottlenecks. I supercharged stuff.

Observations turn into Data. Filtering them turns into a start of information. Categorizing and correlating and then figuring out how they relate to other stuff turns into knowledge. Figuring out how to use that in the real world when combined with monetary or physical constraints turns into ideas.

I never said my felony was the end of my ideal. My disease may cripple me occasionally but I never got any type of government support even though I've given them hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's too random. I made my own way and I will continue to do so.

But I won't put up with uninformed bullshit. And that's what that seemed to have been.

Take care

 

[TestTime]

Is that a metal insert with the cupboard door!? If so, dude thats really cool! Those are nice looking slabs too!

Better. It's an epoxy pour. My wife did it. She can do all kinds of colors and different levels of translucency and we will figure out the correct lighting to enbed.

It is rock hard. It weighs a ton. It is perfectly level. It's interesting because you don't think of cabinet doors that you recover as not being level. But when you do epoxy pours you realize nothing is level and then you fix it.

I will have to construct specialized hinges when we get to that final point and they will be awesome looking. I'm thinking 15th century Monk's door on their wine cellar type of hinges. I like cutting up wrought iron chairs and then reusing those pieces. I don't know but it'll be interesting.

Those MDF panels are the only thing we bought so far other than the epoxy and tools. All the wood and steel and everything else is mostly free or an occasional trade. We need that MDF because we need the structural firmness underneath the counters before we put the next level of wood and do the epoxy.

 

[TestTime]

These pictures show groups of plants surrounded by many lights...
They also look to be at the end of the life cycle.... So where do get the enormous buds that keep growing forever?

Those were plants from months ago. They filled in solid at all directions but nothing like the current monster. The current monster just kept on going. Everyone else was harvested.

Like I said, many plants have gone through this room, but only that one became that type of plant. Now it's a matter of figuring out the exacts and duplicating.

 

[TestTime]

Those were plants from months ago. They filled in solid at all directions but nothing like the current monster. The current monster just kept on going. Everyone else was harvested.

Like I said, many plants have gone through this room, but only that one became that type of plant. Now it's a matter of figuring out the exacts and duplicating.

Oh yes, I want to confirm that they look like they were at the end of their life cycle. But they weren't. I starved them. I was horrible to them. Because I wanted to. I had a bunch of different experiments going. I was trying to figure out the various aspects of how much light and where the damage it hits and at what point I need the nutrition.

I have a general attitude that a single plant will produce what I need in a year. I have a license for 15 plants. Let's fuck some shit up and not worry about how much damage I do.

The end result of that experiment was more light equals more nodes. Smaller leaves mean they need less time to grow and pump out the next node. So smaller leaves are good. Everything else was secondary. I damaged the fuck out of those plants and still got an incredible harvest out of them.

The monster plant was a different story. Because I was starving those plants my cat decided to take pity on the monster plant. Of course that's bullshit. But I'm just making up stories at this point. How do I ascribe motivations to a cat?

Bottomline is the monster planet got fertilized by a cat which in turn allowed this incredible accelerated growth, which in turn allowed me to start screwing with the buds and the lighting schedule, which in turn allowed me to produce what you see in my other posts.

  Reasonable?

 

[TestTime]

These pictures show groups of plants surrounded by many lights...
They also look to be at the end of the life cycle.... So where do get the enormous buds that keep growing forever?

Here's a few from the room before harvest. I starved the fuck out of them. I abused them. I wanted to see how short I could keep them.

I grew for flavors.

That's cheese and strawberry banana grape and critical orange punch and lemon drizzle. And I'm not really sure. I'm only allowed to have a pound harvested. I am legal.

I make no claims that my desire to grow as many tight nodes and blast it with light will be beneficial to anyone.

On the other hand, what looked like tiny little buds are ridiculously dense. I drop them on the tray and they go THUNK. It takes major pressure when I cut them with scissors.

On the other other hand, that other plant, with everything combined, that's some major stuff going on. And that one has 6-in dense colas down to the roots.

 

[ChairmanFester]

I have no idea about whatever energy storage chemical reaction you were looking up. I have no idea what questions you asked of it and I have no idea what that response meant and that caveman fat lipid stuff, huh? Was that for me?

And then to toss it out as if it's information for the rest of us. I'm not going to go read that shit. Why would I waste my time with that? My time is far better spent bitching online about someone wasting my time with AI bullshit.

When an organism takes in nutrient or energy, it's used or stored. Your "getting all the light it needs" in a time period then benefitting means it's storing something somewhere. Carbs, sugars, lipid hydrocarbons... something. Where does it put the products of the light if it's not immediately using them?

 

[ChairmanFester]

I grew for flavors.

A question...

 

[BearWater]

Better. It's an epoxy pour. My wife did it. She can do all kinds of colors and different levels of translucency and we will figure out the correct lighting to enbed.

It is rock hard. It weighs a ton. It is perfectly level. It's interesting because you don't think of cabinet doors that you recover as not being level. But when you do epoxy pours you realize nothing is level and then you fix it.

I will have to construct specialized hinges when we get to that final point and they will be awesome looking. I'm thinking 15th century Monk's door on their wine cellar type of hinges. I like cutting up wrought iron chairs and then reusing those pieces. I don't know but it'll be interesting.

Those MDF panels are the only thing we bought so far other than the epoxy and tools. All the wood and steel and everything else is mostly free or an occasional trade. We need that MDF because we need the structural firmness underneath the counters before we put the next level of wood and do the epoxy.

Oh man thats super cool looking! she does nice work! that sounds like a cool project : )

 

[ChairmanFester]

Oh man thats super cool looking! she does nice work! that sounds like a cool project : )

Epoxy art has gone nuts and home owners are putting in a lot of custom counters. I bet she makes some bank with it.

 

[BearWater]

Epoxy art has gone nuts and home owners are putting in a lot of custom counters. I bet she makes some bank with it.

I’ve been thinking about trying concrete counters… epoxy seemed really expensive to learn with a large area such as a kitchen counter. And i have to sell this place eventually (not that epoxy isn’t nice! i just know i could pull off a concrete job better than epoxy!) i guess i could start with a small end table or something? : )

 

[MartyMcFly42oh]

I don't know about their cordless but back in the day i bought a new Sawzal. Put it through hell and it lasted 10 years for $200. The day it died I got a $20 Harbor Freight POS that ended up lasting 3 years so bought another, ect.

If I had stayed a carpenter I would only be using their tools today, unless this became a common problem. Wife and I both own red Milwaukee tees from our local plumbing shop and I got a $300 set of Ryobi cordless 18 watt years ago and as a plumber happy with their tools. Got one of their corded circular saws and very happy with it as I'm only cutting 2x4's.

Bummer to hear problems from such a trusted name

I’m hoping that I had a bad battery and charger and hopefully a little customer service interaction gets the issue resolved.

 

[Putthataway]

And now for the non-ramble version of the answer:

All my metal work will have a purpose. It will be structural of some sort. It will be parts of tables or chairs or shelves or counters or you get the point. But smooth curved polished metal that's been covered with something to keep it from. Rusting is art as far as I'm concerned.

When I get to the next stage, it'll be embedded in a variety of stained polished wood. Metal should flow to organic and back. It should be a single, polished, flowing object. And really fucking strong.

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My wife wants a new kitchen. Okay dear. Go get a new kitchen. And then she tries to talk to contractors and consultants and various appliance vendors. And the bottom line is she did not realize she was looking at a few hundredk.

That's okay. It's all a lie. What did they say it would cost to do what? They wanted five grand to pull down a wall and then they would look at the stove and tell you how much they would charge you to take that out and then they would look at the counters and tell you to take everything else out. But they can't do certain things and they refuse to touch the the area under the window. So they have to call someone else in to build some structure in blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Okay that was a bit of a ramble. So 3 days later of some constructive destruction I got to knock out a wall and rip apart a stove and Tara part of the refrigerator. And oh my Lord. It was fun.

And then they showed up to give an estimate and I said just measure the place so we can figure out how the appliances will fit. No money for you.

Cast iron sink will go in the corner. It took three guys to load that into my vehicle. It took me 3 hours with the winch and a lot of effort to get it up my steps. It might take me 3 weeks to refinish it. I might have some nickel welding in my future.

Surfboards are awesome. Maybe they'll be a single piece inside counters? Or maybe my wife will decide to cut them down the middle and flip them and turn them into true River tables. It doesn't matter. She gets to do what she wants to with them. I gave someone some cannabis oil because their joints hurt and they wander their property and just toss stuff at me when they found out I do woodworking. I'm not charging and I'm not asking but this is great. One things like this fall in your lap. I have a hundred times more of these types of scores over the last few months. It's amazing.

My wife does the pretty. And she's perfectly capable of going and getting stuff. She tracked down free cabinets on next door and went out and got them and then brought them back and then took them apart and sanded them and refinished them. And now she's doing a variety of colorful pores of epoxies to determine what she wants next.

It's a wonderful work in progress. We work well together.

There will be lots of backlit and embedded lights and the pet store has this incredible assortment of fake plants and flowers and coral and even goddamn fish that glow nicely when poured into a river table. Who knows what the fuck will end up in my kitchen.

Okay that was a tiny scratch of the surface. I have not involved air flow or electrical or gas. I got to handle plumbing in and out. I got to handle the dishwasher and refrigerator attachments and various movements. I got to handle trip hazards from the concept of corner sink. I think it's insane. But my wife said put one in so we are. 3 months from now when I trip on it I will rip it out. But it'll be fun. I'm going to have a wok station with a 4-ft high flame. There's plans. There's shit to do. Okay I got to go do some stuff now.

I have to set up a baby pool to put my plant in but I think I might delay that for a bit.

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I’ve never seen a kitchen upstairs in a house. Apartment yes never a house.

 

[ChairmanFester]

I’ve never seen a kitchen upstairs in a house. Apartment yes never a house.

In NY and PA homes I've seen "second kitchen" in a bunch of places. Usually to make sauce all day and not heat up the house in the summer, or for canning.
PA though... the Philly Bathroom is a toilet over a drain in the basement for emergency pissing.