Happy Days Are Here Again

 Guilty, guilty, guilty. guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty.

Damn that felt good only, IIRC, 55 more to go,

I can only hope when this is all over he spends the rest of his life in a orange jumpsuit picking up trash beside the road so folks like me can drive by and mock the asshat. I don't care if fuel is $7 USD a gallon I'd fire up the motorhome and drive to NYC just to see it. 

At A Loss

 We Planned a trip to UK starting a couple of days ago but Ms Bubba developed a lower back problem that made the flight over impossible and the ability to do anything once there also difficult. Because of timing, middle of the month start for the UK trip and camp hosting starting on the first of the month, the trip killed two months of growing time plus the last crop's harvest was the middle of April.  If I'd known the trip was a no-go I could have grown one more crop before leaving for Oregon. Bottom line this has been the longest time I've spent at home without a grow to tend too post retirement and I'm lost.

Having grown up on a dirt farm I know what it is like to farm and it is nothing to romanticize, hard never ending work for little reward but my little garden of Cannabis is oddly centering and rewarding. I miss the day to day routine and even though Cannabis is a weed the amount of knowledge to get the best out of each plant is a challenge. I wouldn't want to run a commercial grow, it would be too much like the dirt farm but my little legal grow (6 plants per adult) of less than twelve plants at a time has enough routine and challenge to make retirement enjoyable, a reason to hop out of bed each day and deal with the Cannabis gods. 

Unless commitments change there will not be another crop start before mid December '24. That's the bad news, the good is there is enough left over product to last at current consumption rate till the first 2025 harvest without visits to the local dispensary.    

Source Turbo Takeback

 I take back what I posted yesterday about Source Turbo. They stepped up to the plate and new base unit is on its way. I'll ship the defective unit back in the same box. 

Good on Source Turbo!

BVV Alcohol Recovery vs. Source Turbo

 Rumor is Source Turbo is failing. My experience so far with Source Turbo Company trying to get a warranty issue taken care of makes the rumor believable. If you have the room for it BVV makes a nice kit for just a couple dollars more BVV Alcohol Recovery KIt . 

I just ran my first batch thru, other than a little learning curve, it went well. The unit does take up a little real estate but is much quieter and holds 2gal of Alcohol tincture to process v. 350ml. It also needs about 35 to 40 lbs of ice to process ~2000ml of tincture down to FECO.

It is bigger, I had to move the recovery process from my office out to the shop. If you have room the space needed is not a biggie and you could always go vertical vs. all one level.

I hope Source Turbo can get their act together, it is a nice little unit that when working, works well. I expect if it is fixed I will keep it as a back up and to do small batches.