Radagast Grow blog attempt 2020
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Alpine
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GCR is one of my favorite strains. Let us know if flue curing it is worth the effort vs air curing i.e. if it turns out sweeter (or more acidic) than when air cured.
pier
pier
ChinaVoodoo
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I'm very curious, too.
Years back, when I first tested flue-curing burley, I just used a couple of leaves--right out of the flue-cure chamber--to roll a cigar. Two puffs pretty much told me that it was not smokable tobacco. Aging it made me older, but left the leaf just as horrible. Since Goose Creek Red is said to be a Dark Virginia, I have no idea what to expect from flue-curing it. For some unknown reason, that variety, which clearly appears to be an Orinoco-type, flue-cure friendly leaf, was categorized as something other than flue-cure.
Bob
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Hahahaha!
Totally off the subject of tobacco (nice plants by the way), but is that a heat pump exchange unit in the background behind the plants next to the house?
ChinaVoodoo
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Looks like an AC unit to me.
It is my old pal, the air conditioner.
They have those in Canada? You guys don't get much over 80 for more than a few weeks do you? Not trying to be a smart ass just genuinely curious. Arkansas is the first place I've ever lived with AC, definetly need it here. Every place else I always just suffered through a few weeks of hot weather with a fan in the window (of course looking back now I wonder why).
I thought it was a heat pump unit that they use for both heating and cooling. Those are popular down here since they are energy efficient. When it gets cold and and we get an ice storm or wet snow they turn into a block of ice thogh. I was just thinking there is no way that would work well in a colder climate like Canada. But now you are telling it just a regular old air conditioner so my mind is blown
ChinaVoodoo
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Sled dogs can't handle anything above 70°. This is the real issue.
It all makes sense now
It's really just for the sled dogs.
But actually it's been in the 30s here since the end of May, just getting a break in the heat now. I know there's an imaginary line somewhere near the border where cold weather starts and ends but sometimes our igloos don't melt until late spring. That is when the AC kicks in.
But actually it's been in the 30s here since the end of May, just getting a break in the heat now. I know there's an imaginary line somewhere near the border where cold weather starts and ends but sometimes our igloos don't melt until late spring. That is when the AC kicks in.
..And no heat pumps don't work hard enough for the cold months here, usually a big gas furnace in the basement is the norm. Where I am, between summer and winter we actually span 60° and all the weather that comes with it. ~ 30° to -30° (C), and it can change in a big hurry.
I usually don't make a fuss about spelling, but you misspelled "big ass furnace." That might lead to misunderstanding.
Bob
Ok, 30C Isn't bad in the day time if the humidity isn't real high but is a little warm in the evening when your trying to sleep. I could see it feeling warmer if you are acclimated to the cool weather. I lived in northern Colorado for eight years and wasn't adverse to taking my shirt off and sunbathing when it got above 45 F in the spring. Now when it's 45 F out I'm pretty sure I'm on the verge of freezing to death - Southern problems
ChinaVoodoo
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I don't own sled dogs so I don't need AC. For getting around, if I don't feel like snowshoeing, or skiing, I call the Uber dog team. Sometimes I can take the sled on the river.
We replaced two furnaces in the new house with a three zone boiler system. Max 175,000 btu/hr
We replaced two furnaces in the new house with a three zone boiler system. Max 175,000 btu/hr
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