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cronicr



Registered: 08/07/11
Posts: 61,436
Loc: Van Isle
Last seen: 2 years, 7 days
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A Thanks To RR 20
#21129811 - 01/16/15 03:33 PM (9 years, 13 days ago) |
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RR has stepped away for the moment as he deals with his personnel life and will more then likely not return. i wanted to post this as a thank you for everything he has done for our wonderful hobby and this site which is a lot more then just how to grow mushrooms, he also guided me and many others on how to teach people and with that his knowledge will always be passed down. and on that note feel free to post your own thank you's or favorite RR moments as i will sticky this for awhile. much love cronicr
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  It doesn't matter what i think of you...all that matters is clean spawn I'm tired do me a favor
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RogerRabbit
Bans for Pleasure



Registered: 03/26/03
Posts: 42,214
Loc: Seattle
Last seen: 11 months, 2 days
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Thanks for the nice comments. I started to make a thread to say goodbye but saw this one. People need to realize I'm not moving on because of my new business-I'm moving on because of the abject failure of my most important mission in life.
Those of you who have followed this site for a few years know my wife Vivian has been fighting cancer for over ten years. She appears in a few of the clips on Let's Grow Mushrooms, which I got out and watched yesterday just to have a chance to see her smiling face again.
My baby, the love of my life and my very reason for living died in my arms over the holidays.
I suffered through 4 failed marriages before I found her. I always knew that with Vivian I had true love and that it wasn't conditional on being in a good mood, or having a good financial year, or always saying the right thing, etc. She was the only person I ever had who loved me no-matter-what and made sure I knew it. Now she's gone after 15 wonderful years, and I'm all alone up here in the middle of nowhere.
I started growing medicinal mushrooms instead of psychedelic when we met because I was sure I could save her. John Holliday of Aloha Medicinals graciously provided her with products not yet on market but which had shown promise in jump-starting the immune system. She got a medical marijuana card in 2000 and a designated provider certificate for me so I could grow medical pot. I've developed a high CBD strain that achieves nearly 20% CBD because it's rumored to impeded tumor growth.
Unfortunately, none of it worked and the only person I've ever truly loved in this world is gone. My heart is broken and I've spent most of the last three weeks curled up in a fetal position on the floor bawling my eyes out.
How can I continue to answer questions about mushroom growing when the most important reason for growing them in the first place turned out to be a devastating failure?
Our local newspaper did a front-page story on her. If anyone can get it, please post it here. If not, I'll try to scan it and get it posted in a few weeks. It's on the front page of the Jan 14, 2015 issue of the Ferry County View. It gives information that I've never released before about her life in Russia and the sacrifices her family went through to get to America.
Take care, RR
-------------------- Download Let's Grow Mushrooms semper in excretia sumus solim profundum variat "I've never had a failed experiment. I've only discovered 10,000 methods which do not work." Thomas Edison
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shroom_sensai


Registered: 12/13/10
Posts: 1,049
Last seen: 2 years, 20 days
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you taught me that powdered rattle snake venom is a real thing, and actually has a use in mycology. you grew mushrooms out of bras and bibles. be well mr. rabbit.
-------------------- My Adventures Cultivating Mescaline Bearing Cacti “Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.” – Terence McKenna
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Pastywhyte
Say hello to my little friend



Registered: 09/15/12
Posts: 37,808
Loc: Canada
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Re: A Thanks To RR [Re: MudaFuka] 5
#21130900 - 01/16/15 07:38 PM (9 years, 13 days ago) |
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End of an era. Too much to be said but thanks for your time and I wish you well
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TheEaglesGift
The Nagual


Registered: 04/10/11
Posts: 10,554
Loc: Ixtlan, Mexico
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Re: A Thanks To RR [Re: cronicr] 4
#21129844 - 01/16/15 03:40 PM (9 years, 13 days ago) |
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Thanks to Roger Rabbit for everything he has contributed to this site. I'm indebted.
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Munchauzen


Registered: 06/22/11
Posts: 14,342
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Re: A Thanks To RR [Re: cronicr] 4
#21129876 - 01/16/15 03:50 PM (9 years, 13 days ago) |
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I'm an RR fanboy for life 
Thanks so much for the videos and best of luck in all your future endeavors.
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wowimflabbergasted
supercalifragilistic



Registered: 07/16/12
Posts: 18,918
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Wow, sad news. Miss ya RR.
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Srirachi
Mold Hand



Registered: 10/18/05
Posts: 11,411
Loc: Fare Thee Well.
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Re: A Thanks To RR [Re: cronicr] 4
#21130975 - 01/16/15 08:05 PM (9 years, 13 days ago) |
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Some of the things I've appreciated about RR-
His crusade to improve and elevate the quality of the information at the Shroomery and the OMC in general. Frankly when I started coming here years ago, the lack of understanding was stunning. We had discussions on crossing shrooms by dropping 2 different "strains" on agar going on by people who would argue that no cell can have 2 sets of DNA. Look back at the MC posts from the early 2000s for gems like the oven tek.
A lot of others were on this crusade as well, but RR is arguably the most noteworthy in this area.
His refusal to send "Let's Grow Mushrooms" out for overseas production, in spite of its effect on his profits and marketing. I'm not a fan of Walmart and I sure as hell am not a fan of the economic slavery Chinese people endure so we can have disposable televisions. Very few people put their conscience above their finances but RR did and that tells me all I need to know about his character. I'm as grateful for the statement that makes as I am for his contributions to the OMC. You're a true Patriot, RR.
His selfless use of his time on this forum. RR has been far more than a moderator and vendor to this place. Thread after thread after thread of help for anyone willing to listen after asking a question. His taking the time to prove what he was saying was legit.
Redboy!
Thanks for your foundational work for growers everywhere RR.
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Bugler Boy
Cultivar


Registered: 09/19/11
Posts: 998
Loc: In your head
Last seen: 2 years, 8 months
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triple   cronicer
I remember posting a "Where's Roger" thread when i stepped back into the shroomery scene on the regular. My heart sunk a little when I found out he stepped away from mycology. Miss seeing his name next to the 'last post' on 1/2 or more of the threads on the first page. I always tell myself he'll be back.
I believe he was the #1 contributor to information pertaining to mushroom cultivation on this site. Invaluable info and a main reason I am where I am today in my own endeavors
Soon his name is gonna be a legend --------- If you see this Roger, good luck in the rest of your life and whatever you choose to grow I'm sure you'll find a way to master it. I want to try some of your buds! You'll forever be missed in my eyes, wish you were still around so I could 
Personal thanks, Bugler Boy
-------------------- The mushroom speaks: '"I am old, older than thought in your species, which is itself fifty times older than your history. Though I have been on earth for ages I am from the stars. My home is no one planet, for many worlds scattered through the shining disc of the galaxy have conditions which allow my spores an opportunity for life... How the hypercommunication mode operates is a secret which will not be lightly given to man. But the means should be obvious: it is the occurrence of psilocybin and psilocin in the biosynthetic pathways of my living body that opens for me and my symbiots the vision screens to many worlds"
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Grizzskull
Stranger

Registered: 07/13/13
Posts: 35
Loc: Canada
Last seen: 7 years, 24 days
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The Man, the Rabbit, the Legend...Never forget
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Inocuole
Scalpel of Evil's Bane



Registered: 11/21/11
Posts: 24,863
Loc: ★
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While I am 100% sure that there is nothing that can make things more tolerable for you in this extremely difficult time, please remember that nothing you've ever done was a failure, nor was it wasted. The number of people who have benefited from you just being yourself and doing what you think is right outweighs the number of people I've ever interacted with in my life.
You've left a strong legacy and it pains me that in this moment of darkness, you feel that it was all for nothing.
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Pistolsdrummer
Stranger

Registered: 08/25/14
Posts: 23
Loc: Maryland
Last seen: 8 years, 4 months
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I've been reading this site among others for about a year and RR's word was respected everywhere I looked. That led me to buy "Let's Grow Mushrooms" which along with help from this site led to my first successful flush this week. Thanks RR, best wishes.
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Inocuole
Scalpel of Evil's Bane



Registered: 11/21/11
Posts: 24,863
Loc: ★
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Quote:
Pistolsdrummer said: I've been reading this site among others for about a year and RR's word was respected everywhere I looked. That led me to buy "Let's Grow Mushrooms" which along with help from this site led to my first successful flush this week. Thanks RR, best wishes.

Guy comes in, first post, first grow, full flush of APE. (I still can't get a flush like that)
Says, "I just browsed the site and watched RR's videos"

This is why you are the man, RR.
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Fungus Mountain
Poke-N-Squirt



Registered: 10/16/14
Posts: 1,188
Loc: Front row @ the Freakshow
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Re: A Thanks To RR [Re: cronicr] 2
#21129882 - 01/16/15 03:52 PM (9 years, 13 days ago) |
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Seems I got to the party late, and never had the chance to get introduced. Never the less, RR's little mountain is only a hop, skip and a jump away from my little mountain, so maybe someday our paths will cross. Until then, may all your weeds be wildflowers, and may all your fences have gates.
Thanks for everything you've contributed to this site, most of us wouldn't be successful without the people like you!
-------------------- “Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” ― George Orwell, 1984 "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." ― Albert Einstein
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Grey
⇜ ✯ ⇝



Registered: 11/06/14
Posts: 6,223
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Your contributions to this science will resonate for years to come. Thanks for the knowledge, and I wish you and yours the best!
(glitter-shits )
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AMU Q&A If you don't have a plan of your own, you'll become a part of somebody else's.
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PinPornProducer
Buy the ticket, take the ride



Registered: 08/23/14
Posts: 9,981
Loc: Rocky Point R.I
Last seen: 6 years, 22 days
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 His dvd's taught me very much, thanks RR
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Guardian187
Neophyte


Registered: 11/29/14
Posts: 716
Loc: Center of the Universe
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Thank you so much for being such a powerful and respected influence on mycology. And for making it accessible to noobs like me! Best wishes to you and your family!
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PirateSwazey



Registered: 12/12/12
Posts: 2,993
Loc: Here, Now
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Was actually browsing through some of your photos earlier today wondering where ya been.
Hope life is treating you well & we'll see you on the other side! Big thanks for everything Marc!
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d0urd3n
Just call me "D"


Registered: 09/15/10
Posts: 5,237
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Thanks for all you've done RR. Good luck with your new business. I hope to one day see a Let's Grow Cannabis series. You're videos and posts have been great, I will miss them.
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MudaFuka
Poppin bottles



Registered: 12/14/13
Posts: 18,648
Loc: Canada
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Thanks RR. Lets grow mushrooms gave me a good general understanding of what needs to be done to grow mushrooms successfully.
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