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[barletta]

Fave outdoor shots

SuperSpice

SuperShit

Mo...

 

[barletta]

Fave indoor pix

SuperSpice

SSH #5 (47days from flip!)

SSH #1 (iffy...)

1 Mo...

 

[barletta]

And the fave non weed pix. I had a shot of the dogs, but I don't need that one up front here. If LEO wants, it, let em work for it (and drool on buds :^)

Here's to the next 100!
[barletta lights that blunt of iffy...]

 

[barletta]

Hahaha! You didn't think you'd get pix without some random text, comin in here, did ya?

Pif.

Here is a lil story bout 'pif'. If you have been on the forums for a while in the various 'strain description' sections of the various canna-boards, you have heard of 'pif'. I have had pif many times, and I ABSOLUTELY love her. She is a legend in the ny/nj/ct/pa area. Here is why.

Pif is a KILLER haze that is available in (mostly) small quantities. Generally $20 bags that are ~1g. It is most available in Dominican neighborhoods. I was going to a 'spot' near (google earth) Colombia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan (spanish harlem) for 6-7 yrs getting these bags. I started going 'uptown' to get bud in ~94. David Dinkins was mayor of NY, and it was a very professional setup to get weed and coke at the same spot. I never messed with coke. I used to get bags of 'schwag' for ~60/oz to resell @ 20-30/'eighth'. When i got the weight, I would always get bags of kind bud for myself. They were sold as 'dro'. AMAZING haze/garbage/compost/turned soil/meat/funk smell to the buds. BEST SMELLING WEED THAT I'VE EVER SMELLED, HANDS DOWN. And I got it in 20's on the block... The weed was never available in bulk, and once I got a connection, it was still 500 an oz. The most headie kindbuds ('vermont' headies, 'Jack', WW, blueberry) were not prevalent, but could be had (in different circles)for 3-325. So at the spot where weed was cheapest (the schwag zips would go @130), 'DRO(pif)' was still 500.

Guliani cracked down on the 'business', and it became a 'hustle' ~98/99/00 sometime. ~ the same time, the weed started to be called 'pif'. I never even cared. I just called it 'garbage', cause the smell MOST reminded me of a ripe, vegetable garden in a landfill. It was DEFFO some kind of haze. Well, I stopped getting served ~2001/02 after 9/11 and I cut my hair, and shaved... friends of mine were getting it on and off until ~'06 The cut is the same today as it was the first time I smoked it, and asked myself if it was laced. (It's not, lol).

Now, I was young, and 99% of what I smoked was dirt weed. I rarely saw KB's, and never had more than 3-7g at a time. When you are young, you sometimes buy pretty buds that are early, or kif'd, or just smoke shitty. But pif was consistently FLAME. DELICIOUS weed that took me to outer space. So is it possible that the 'setting' has so much to do with the pif legend? Are 30+yo guys like me turning it into 'lumbo' because it was the first WHOA weed we got?

Here is why I ask. I have had some of my outdoor buds go out to younger folks who know about pif, but know what frosty indica looks like, purple buds, etc... But they DEFFO know pif, as my old 'spot' is ~4mi in a straight line from where they sleep (and the Hudson river is ~1.5mi). The reviews that I have gotten on the Spice, 'piney' Shit, MW, and Aurora B are that it's every bit as good as pif. Do I believe it? No, pif is my 'smoking grail'. But is it my MEMORY that makes it so? Really, I was asked if my (no one knew it was 'mine'..) weed was laced, whether I get from the Dominicanos, etc... People who know good weed, but have no idea how it happens...

The weed that I have that is closest to what I remember of pif (been ~10 mo since I smoked some, and ~2 yrs since I HAD some) is SSH. It is a hazier cut, but finishes in 12wks. It HAS the pif smell, but the SSH also has some 'extra'. The lemon/skunk/cheese are not in the pif. Like a heavy but dry at the same time haze.

Has anyone out there who has had 'block pif' or 'uptown pif' or anything else that they call it in the city (you KNOW the weed) run NH/MH/SSH in #'s to look? It is THE SAME as it was in 94. It MUST be a commercial cut that belongs (whatever) to whomever is running it in the #'s that it's THE weed to have in a 20million person metro area.

PS THANK YOU SHANTI. I only decided to get into this lil bit bout pif, cause I had an older head RAVE about the Spice. He was going on about 'lumbo', and I was drawing parallels to my 'pif'. Big, Biker dude, I'm SURE knows his trees...

ANYONE who has had these buds from the NYC metro is welcome to chime in...

And a lil Jay-Z. This track will play on my MP3 and car stereo AT LEAST 100 times this summer

Dear summer, I know you gon’ miss me
For we been together like Nike Airs and crisp tees
S dots with polo fleeces
Purple label shit with the logo secret
Gimme couple years, shit I might just sneak in
A couple words and like peaches and herb
We’ll be reunited and it feels so hood
Have the whole world saying "How you still so good ?"
Well I do this in my slumber summer
I ain’t none of these half-assed newcomers, you know how I do summer
I drop heat, when you bring the sun up
The combo make niggaz act up, I pick the gun up
Niggaz back up ; they know I’m not no fronter
I don’t talk shit, I just flip it +Un+ ya
Sorry Lance, I’m just trying to advance my quotes
I ain’t making you the butt of my jokes
But let’s not stray from what I came to say
To my beloved, think we need some time away
They say if you love it, you should let it out its cage
And fuck it, if it comes back you know it’s there to stay
It’s tugging, at my heart, but this time apart is needed
From the public, who should’ve gave me the pulitz’
Instead gave me they ass to kiss
But you know me, thugging ’til the casket dips
But still shine light down on all my peers
I know they weird... some queer, I still want them to share
And all the success I received, I know you can’t believe
I still love ’em but they don’t love me
They like the drunk uncle in your family
You know they lame, you feel ashamed, but you love ’em the same
It’s like when niggaz make subliminal records
If it ain’t directed directly at me, I don’t respect it
You don’t really want it with Hov, for the record
I put a couple careers on hold, you could be next kid
Keep entering the danger zone
You gon’ make that boy Hov put your name in a song
If you that hungry for fame, motherfucker c’mon
Say when, take ten paces and spin
But on another note, ’bout to take another vaca’
On another boat, goddamn a motherfucker rode
His way out the hood, and I pray that I stay out for good
But any day you know a nigga could
Try and play like he Suge, then I gotta play like Dutch Schultz
You pass the dutchie, I blast you, trust me
Niggaz can’t fuck with me
I’m in a good mood, you lucky, I got a good groove
And I ain’t trying to fuck my thing up
But I will lay down a couple green bucks, get you cleaned up
Now I’m Pulp Fiction, Colt four-fifth and
Young niggaz that blast for me (blasphemy), no religion

I’m done for now, so one for now
Possibly forever, we had fun together
But like all good things, we must come to an end
Please show the same love to my friends
Dear summer

 

[Jamie]

"outdoor super shit" excuse me while I chuckle like a schoolboy ... still loving that spice

 

[Jamie]

I think you should take this pic to your local tattoo palour.. if only to see the guys face when you show him and say "how about it?"

 

[herbmister]

nice pix B...........

 

[SativaFan]

I think that one pic defines "rootbound"Ya think?

SativaFan

 

[barletta]

Thanks, guys.

SF - I don't believe in 'rootbound' - at least as it applies to weed, pepper and tomato plants in organically rich/active soil over a 4 month period. To me, when people say rootbound, I generally think that they are referring to a situation where the roots circle inside of pots, and the plant's health suffers as a result. Or they are referring to a rootmass somehow dying off because it got too large - and is somehow adversely affecting the health of the plant. I only say that I don't 'believe' in it, cause I have yet to see it. That rootmass is from a pepper plant kept in a 1(4l for you euro's ) gallon from ~early June, and that pic is from ~mid Oct. The plants showed no signs of defeciency or any other stresses their whole lives (until they froze pretty good). I believe the discoloration is from the plant drawing ground water/mud because I don't think I gave em any water for ~2+ weeks before.

I have run MJ plants past 16 weeks 12/12 in the same container, and they behaved the same way. I couldn't kill off the pakalolo #4 after 16+ weeks, and the last ~4 going very dry with only water and molasses. I have kept moms in those veg boxes in 2l pots for 2+ mo, and when I transplant, they just have a fat ass white root base.

If you have a happy microlife, and the roots can go through wet/dry cycles (medium drains and rootzone stays above ~50 deg), than all small containers do is restrict the overall size, and require more frequent feedings/waterings. I just haven't seen 'restricted rootspace' negatively impact my plants, while I have seen LOTS of other stuff fukk with em.

I got a dutch of iffy, neighbor just dropped off homemade chicken soup, and Clyde Frasier and Mike Breen are calling the Knicks game.

That container was ~50%coco, 45% castings, and lil bit of that chickenshit/feathermeal/crabmeal AP fert (espoma bio tone) that I like. They got fed mostly the same fert regimen as my indoor plants did over the summer (lil topdressin, lil bottles, lotsa pee, molasses and kelp). Those pepper plants KILLED the pepper plants in my garden (in the ground, fed same thing, ~2hrs less sun per day)

 

[SativaFan]

B my man B !!!!

I hear ya about rootbound,,,,and yes it makes a difference in what specific plant species we're talking about and what exactly we mean by "rootbound".

IMO, that pepper plant is rootbound..That said, it doesn't necessarily mean the plant is suffering. As long as you feed it, it'll continue to stay healthy but growth will be limited by the container size.

Why do you do that? Didn't watering it all the time get to be old?

I don't like my plants getting where I have to water them every day or every other day. Pain in the ass.

SativaFan

 

[barletta]

Here's the peppers May 15

~June 25

They averaged ~6-8 big sexy peppers each. 1 is straight coco, and got fed the same thing with more straight water than the others, but still all 'fugazee organic'. That has a ring to it...

 

[barletta]

SF, I started those to test my mix. I was JUST starting to get away from fox farm soil, and I wanted to test some peppers before I put the weedplants in the coco/castings/crabshell mix. I also wanted plants in small (weedplant sized) pots on my deck for 'cover' plants. I was playing with plants on my deck for the first 2/3 of the summer anyway, so throwing some water and molasses in these was no biggie. Plus, we get a decent amount of rain, and I was going ~a wk at a time between messing with them by Sept. Between them and my veggie garden, I spent ~5 min daily playin around. I was amazed at the quality and quantity of those peppers vs. the ones in the ground. The in the ground peppers were tough to turn colors on the vine, and grew 2-3 peppers per plant all summer (about what the '3' did each in that big green pot with 'garden' soil + perlite). The 1gallon container plants had killer peppers all summer.

I would like to make a gravity-fed, drain to waste hydro setup with PVC pipe on the railing of my deck. I've seen a setup in one of those 'maximum yeild/grower's edge' mags where A dood grew on his SMALL balcony railing like that.

6" PVC
Filled with coco/perlite/vermiculite

Screwed down to the railing, one side higher than the other. Plants in net pots, net pots in cut outs in the pvc. Tomatoes grow down, peppers grow up.

I'ma have a BIG veggie garden this year.

 

[barletta]

This will be the first plant to change in my neighborhood. It's a forsythia (Sp?) that gets lots of sun. To me, the stems look light, so I'll guess 2-3wks till flowers. She's gettin her stretch on, lol.

The 10 G/Sk f2's and 10 SSH f2's. The SSH f2 that has the arrow I fukked with, but it MAY make it. 20 beans down, 20 popped, 20 sprouts, and 19 healthy so far.

The pakalollies.

 

[barletta]

More Pakalollies. Fukkin weird bud structure. They are SLIGHTLY denser/tighter under the CMH vs the HPS. This plant shows a slight difference, and it is more noticeable with them than with any I've grown up to this point.

 

[barletta]

Some iffy 46 days. Big pots = Leave alone. This plant may double up on the one I ran in the green pot. I gave her the last real bit of nitrogen yesterday - organic bukkit (pee/molasses/LK/soiled hand rinsings) with a splash of AO bloom. Just molasses and kelp/LK from here out.

 

[shamazar]

Barletta, you are a crazy Yankee !

Hope to see your outdoor biz, it is always inspiriting. That gives us power and mana to continue like you.

Keep your very positive attitude, that s great

 

[barletta]

Wow, thank you, shama

I hope the outdoor comes in as planned I may be coming to visit some of my Euro buddies on a train around Europe next winter

Unless you are not in N.America/Europe. Then maybe I'll visit 2010/2011

 

[shamazar]

I am in europe man ! Swiss

Here, the girls are as good as our chocolate

 

[barletta]

If I pull 40+lb, I'll be coming to visit, and we can go yodeling

From the pix on google earth, the Alps/Pyrenees are some of the most beautiful places on earth, while still bieng accessible.

If I pull this 40+ that I'm planning on, I'm driving all the hell around N.America with the mutts, droppin em off at Mom's, and takin a month or 2 in Europa.

Then back to diggin

 

[herbmister]

yo B giv us a shout when your in merry ol england

how about a pint, a fight, and a kebab hehehe