2010 grow ...

[joshuahazen]

hi ,
well things are beginning to pick up a little in the patch , the clearing ive done has really opened things up and improved the light heaps , should be bigger plants , fatter buds and less mould , fingers crossed ,,
anyhow nothing special to look at now really , ill grab another pic from a view the same as this week in another 10 day;s to 2 weeks and we can see what difference the clearing i have done has made ,, should be heaps ..
onward and upward .

Right on, looks like a great start. glad to hear things are looking up. Happy New Year. I got a good feeling about this year.

 

[Donald Mallard]

thanks josh and happy new year to you also man , fingers crossed for a better year for sure , thinking positive ..
ive done a massive amount of work out there , youll see soon when i get a picture ,, im a little worried how big they will get now , showing signs of being large plants ..
im not a fan of them , they are a problem to handle here .. ill do what i can to keep the size down .
yep the sativas are loving the monsoon, without doubt they are the only variety that would .

 

[Donald Mallard]

heres a few shots to give an idea of how wet it is ...
hasnt been much heavy rain the past 2 days , but have a look how much is flowing down this slope still ...

 

[Donald Mallard]

In the clouds amongst the granite boulders ... wished id had a bigger lense , those rocks are huge ...

 

[Donald Mallard]

im a big fan of rocks , how could you not be with specimens like this to view ..

 

[Donald Mallard]

wasnt really great lighting for this shot , but had to take it ,, a garden on top of a large rock , quite a variety of ferns , plants and mosses all just growing on top of there ,, really cool i think ... hope you can see it ok ..

 

[Donald Mallard]

another little fall ..

 

[Kangativa]

wasnt really great lighting for this shot , but had to take it ,, a garden on top of a large rock , quite a variety of ferns , plants and mosses all just growing on top of there ,, really cool i think ... hope you can see it ok ..

Ahhhhh molasses grass Mate am I glad I dont have that to keep under control anymore !!!

Great pics.....I love the big rocks as well, got some nice cliffs at the back of here, but not like those big granite boulders, they are the best

 

[Donald Mallard]

yea that stuff is loaded with resin , sticky stuff ,, looks great in the winter though ...
just tucking into some thai food here .. did you try sticky rice and papaya salad?? spicey stuff ..
got some funny fried sardine looking things too with sesame seeds , tasty ,, gota be healty for one ,, im sweating like nothing here ,, hehehehe

 

[pepel29]

Hy Donald .Happy new year .
Your garden looking real good .Beautiful place .Great pictures from this paradice.All the best and good luck my friend and many sunny days .

 

[Kangativa]

yea that stuff is loaded with resin , sticky stuff ,, looks great in the winter though ...
just tucking into some thai food here .. did you try sticky rice and papaya salad?? spicey stuff ..
got some funny fried sardine looking things too with sesame seeds , tasty ,, gota be healty for one ,, im sweating like nothing here ,, hehehehe

Yummy I like spicey food, got my chilli's in the garden

Sticky rice......lived on the stuff, Grilled Bonito, Fried cabbage and sticky rice.......every day

Lol no mate its ok, I tend to go brown rice these days. But I do like Thai it runs a good second on my best food list after Japanese and i dont mean Sushi or Sashimi although I wont say no to them

 

[moonunit]

Hi don m8, lovely shots, especialy love the boulders, reminds me of the mountains. Had an old rock climbing buddy that rented a property with a massive field of thousands of great granite boulders. We did some bouldering back then i must say lol. Will see if i can rustle up some pics of the fields.
Used to get alot of jasper (red rock) up there too, love rocks i must say lol, must be a primal thing in us lol.
Dang the dinner sounds good , i just started harvesting my habanaros and birds eyes chillis, thus far, dammm hot lol, the habs are dangerously hot lol( i have to grow them locked in child or idiot proof cages to prevent nasty accidents lol), but i love it. I crave chilli and must admit i am a chilli addict lol. I even managed to grow some dam hot jalapenos, usualy they arent to hot but really came through this year.
Im not sure if im up to the challenge of the bhut's though, growing wouldnt be to much hassle down in this climate, just could i handle the heat lol, i know i will try though lol.
The bishop hat chilli i have is nice aswell, tastes just like a habanero, but with mild heat, great for ppl who cant handle it to hot, but want to try that fantastic chinense flavor.
Dam i have to go and cook something with loads o chilli in it now, all this chilli talk has got me a chilli craving lol.
much respect
moonunit

 

[Donald Mallard]

yea i dont mind japanese food ,, but i really love the spicey thai and loas food , some of its a bit weird , you would have seen it ,, ill get some pics ,, hehe

hey moon , yea i think it must be a primal deal with the rocks , im always looking for caves , i guess to make a home , hehe
could spend days wandering round those rocks ...

got some habenaros in , red and orange i think. love the taste of them and t he thai bird chillies
, and picked the first bhut jolakia today ,, i wont eat it though , when i have a few ill make a dish using half the usual and keep the milk , yoghurt and every other combatant against heat beside me , hehehe
doesnt take much for me to turn into a chilli addict , yet again , lol ...
ohh didnt finish the papaya salad yet ,, darn thats some hot shit ...

 

[Donald Mallard]

mm cant find the pic i wanted yet ,,
but im sure youve all heard of there love of eating bugs of all kinds , at first i was just stunned and no way was i going to eat them ,, but my hesitation turned to interest ,, followed by testing , once id had enough chang beer , lol ,
loved the grasshoppers ,, very tasty ,, and the water cockroach or whatever smells deliteful . some others looked like they were worth trying ,, ill get to them ..
heres some chicken feet salad and some raw prawn salad .. really nice , tasty ,, spicey , sour mmmmm

 

[bushweed]

Beautiful pics of the rocks and mountains mate, a lot of blackfella energy in your area - probably men's business I'd say - that's why you're thriving there mate. Looks like those streams coming down the mountain are from internal springs. When you look after plants in mountainous terrain, there's always beautiful things to see and experience, except you're often too shagged to appreciate them then it's off the eat some cockroaches and grasshoppers. Thai wife too

 

[joshuahazen]

thanks josh and happy new year to you also man , fingers crossed for a better year for sure , thinking positive ..
ive done a massive amount of work out there , youll see soon when i get a picture ,, im a little worried how big they will get now , showing signs of being large plants ..
im not a fan of them , they are a problem to handle here .. ill do what i can to keep the size down .
yep the sativas are loving the monsoon, without doubt they are the only variety that would .

Right on thanks.



You know a great trick for managing huge plants, before they get huge.... if you can get get those ready made rolls of 2 foot picket fence, you can pack em in, and then cut them into 8 foot lengths, and then line them up next to where your plant is growing, put one side right next to the plant and the other side going out in the direction you want the plant grow. Then you just tie the top down to the top of one side of the fence with a loop of strong twine, being careful to leave a nice sized loop of twine so the stem has room to expand. As the top grows 10 -12 inches you keep tieing it down again, so that it runs along the top of the fence, then the branches grow straight up each one makes like its own top running along the fence, and then the main cola, comes off the far edge of the fence and grows up and gets huge, it works great in high wind areas etc, and provides massive support, and allows plants to get huge without topping or pruning.

Just a thought...

Beautiful pics man, what an amazing landscape. That one rock looks like the head of a giant troll.

 

[Donald Mallard]

hey bushy ,, yep i reckin the black fellas thrived up here also , great country , everything to offer within a small area , sad to know we ruined such an amazing relationship with the land .
i cuss often w hen i look around where i live at what the white man has done ,, same down your way ,, its like the more beautiful a place , the more inclined the white fella is to wreck it , im certainly ashamed of my race for that behaviour .

ive always wished i could just have a glimpse of what it was like before , the way things are going , there wont be anywhere left i can get that glimpse before too long ...

 

[Kangativa]

hey bushy ,, yep i reckin the black fellas thrived up here also , great country , everything to offer within a small area , sad to know we ruined such an amazing relationship with the land .
i cuss often w hen i look around where i live at what the white man has done ,, same down your way ,, its like the more beautiful a place , the more inclined the white fella is to wreck it , im certainly ashamed of my race for that behaviour .

ive always wished i could just have a glimpse of what it was like before , the way things are going , there wont be anywhere left i can get that glimpse before too long ...

Ohhhh Imagine all those point breaks they would have had to themselves and nobody out.......enough to make a grown man cry

 

[Smokin Moose]

Talking about the old ways in Oz. My paternal grandparents were missionaries in the Central Australian desert in the very early years of last century. They often talked of how things had changed, and not for the better.
Here is a pic of my grand dad at the Hermannsburg Mission. I have hundreds of scanned images from him taken from the original lantern slides. He was an avid photographer!
An interesting note is that Albert Namatjira was my grandparent's camel boy before he left the mission to start painting.

You will notice the bandannas around their private parts - my Gran was taking the pic lol

And a couple of extra pics.

And a little bit of early cannabis history in Australia - my Gran told me that the Afghan camel men who had been brought out with their camels in the early years, also brought cannabis seeds with them. She often saw them tending these funny looking plants and then smoking the flowers, which made them "silly in the head". Gran never knew what it was they were smoking until one year she came to visit and saw my plants out back "Hey, I know that plant!". That was when I told her it was cannabis lol

 

[bushweed]

Thanks for those pics Moosey, amazing shots! Not much fat on those gents