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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: Mackload] * 2
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Mackload said:
At risk of jinxing myself, I think I might be getting a little better at this. Less contam at every stage. :rockon:

Still a bit of a shitshow, but hey,feeling that little improvement is nice :prettyflyforawhiteguy:


:nice:


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: Kloakk] * 5
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Over 39 years I’ve been on just about every antidepressant and a few antipsychotics which are applicable tangentially to depression. I can tell you each of the side effects they caused and the challenges of each. I did the genetic pharmacology test which indicates what I already knew from experience - for various reasons I’m less likely for any of them to work.

That said, they did get me through some very dark moments. Just not valid over time.

Ketamine, or shrooms, along with a good therapist who is psychedelicly savvy is the best solution I have found. My life is profoundly different. 180 degrees.

There is no way that the historic me would be handling what I’m facing now.

And like said elsewhere, the answer is highly personalized. Broad statements about each med or in general just aren’t true as applied to any single person.


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: 1NFIN8] * 7
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I'm glad you are finally finding something that works for you 1NFIN8!
  Gotta start them young if you want someone who is able to do all the work for you later.


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: JW123] * 15
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Ok, feel free to skip this post, it will probably bum you out...

I think I finally see a tiny light at the end of the very long and dark tunnel I've been in... Signed a contract today to sell one of the houses I inherited. I'm nearly $30k out of pocket trying to cover all the estate costs for the past 2 years, and I still have $15k in credit card debt right now. To call it stressful would be a gross understatement. All this on top of both my parents dying in the span of a month.

Time to vent a little...

I'll be honest - I've nearly given up on life 1000x over the past 26 months. At one point I thought I was going to have to sell my house to survive. And I have stopped myself from driving over to where my retard half brother lives with a bat since his stupidity totally cock-blocked me from being able to do ANYTHING with the estate for almost a year and a half. He's too fucking stupid to understand the difference between a benefactor and an executor. By the time he signed over executorship to me, I was so far in the hole that a little jail time for beating him senseless seemed like a small price to pay for some satisfaction. No guarantee that won't happen in the future - he made my mother cry on her last Mother's day on this earth. He's actually lucky to have survived that day, if I had accosted him then he would be dead. I present this info not as an excuse for acting like a fuckhead lately, but these are the reasons why.

I love this community, all y'all weird mafackas have made life more interesting. It makes me happy to know I can dump all this emotional shit and get some perspective and positivity. Thank you all for attending my TED talk.


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: KlarnEvil9] * 2
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Hope you can start catching your breath


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: KlarnEvil9] * 2
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Best wishes to you for relief and peace, Klarn. That’s enough stress and mourning to crush anyone’s spirit. Glad you’re here, dude. Peace to you!


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: Kloakk] * 3
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Kloakk said:
RoscoeReturns said:
Yes big snow blower until we get our tractor. We usually get one really big snow a year, 60-100cm, and enough smaller snows that I blow the drive a dozen or so times each Winter. It takes about two hours to complete. I’m getting too old for this shit.





Nice, sounds like we have about the same winter then. Can't get a tractor though, can't afford it for one, but we have asphalt and block paving bricks that would be fucked by a tractor with tire chains, guess I didn't really think that one through :lol:


Can't you borrow your neighbor's sleigh and reindeer? :grin:


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: Mackload] * 4
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Mackload said:
Kloakk said:
RoscoeReturns said:
Yes big snow blower until we get our tractor. We usually get one really big snow a year, 60-100cm, and enough smaller snows that I blow the drive a dozen or so times each Winter. It takes about two hours to complete. I’m getting too old for this shit.





Nice, sounds like we have about the same winter then. Can't get a tractor though, can't afford it for one, but we have asphalt and block paving bricks that would be fucked by a tractor with tire chains, guess I didn't really think that one through :lol:


Can't you borrow your neighbor's sleigh and reindeer? :grin:


When my puppy grows up I’m gonna have him pull me around. Already got the toboggan.


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: RoscoeReturns] * 1
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That big boy is just a puppy? Jesus.

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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: shroomerhumor] * 2
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Klarn I hope things start looking up for you. My wife worked in estate planning for a while and there are some horror stories. Head up and keep yourself from behind bars.


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: BeefExtreme] * 10
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I had been putting off germinating a swab for a while, since I always suck at handling them.

I unwrapped the short swab, which is the only one I have of this species, flamed my tweezers in case I wanted to leave the whole thing in a plate at some point, picked up the swab with the tweezers, then wanted to adjust my grip. Grabbed a little further up the tweezers with my other hand, found it still too hot to touch, and dropped the damn swab onto my work surface. :facepalm: Then, after inoculating a few plates (with the side that didn't seem to touch the table) and putting the swab back away, I went to pick up the last plate to put it in the stack...and stuck my finger right into the agar since I hadn't lidded it.

:fuck:

I have a feeling some BRF pucks are in my future.


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: Phaethon]
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Well done hahaha. Seems like you would've had a better sterile technique without the tweezer in the first place but I get the idea. I wish you the best of luck with those plates. I'm sure they'll be salvageable.

How you liking prop 122?

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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: shroomerhumor] * 1
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Yeah, I have much less dexterity with tweezers than fingers, but the idea was to keep the entire swab (not just the tip) as axenic as possible, which requires a sterile tool. But of course I totally fucked that up. :lol: I actually have forceps which probably would have been much easier, just didn't think about them.

Honestly, Prop 122 hasn't really changed much for me other than providing some peace of mind, which is definitely worth something. I still grow psychedelics discreetly, just a tiny bit less so than before it was sanctioned here. Guessing you're in Colorado too, from the question and your avatar. What has it changed for you?


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: Phaethon]
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Ahh I see what you were trying to do now. You can tell that I'm a professional noob and haven't gotten to working with swabs yet. Forceps are a great idea especially if they're the locking kind!

I can be very paranoid so prop 122 has brought lots of peace to my mind. I don't have to worry about modifying pictures, using a vpn, or just being on my tip toes all the time online or in real life. Like you, I am a discreet grower. Colorado is awesome bro, I'm glad we both get to experience the beautiful mountains and prop 122. :cool:

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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: Mackload] * 5
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Mackload said:
Can't you borrow your neighbor's sleigh and reindeer? :grin:


I could, but my neighbor is this old fat guy who's always wearing the same clothes, he has these dwarf friends always helping out around his house and I've seen him creep up on kids offering them toys, seems sketchy as fuck man :uhoh:


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: KlarnEvil9] * 1
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You're a good guy Klarn, that sounds like a fucking lot to handle. My condolences.

Chances are, after a looong time has passed and this estate business is water under the bridge, you'll be glad you were the bigger person and didn't beat your brother.

Take it easy man. Hope to see you around more.


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: shroomerhumor] * 4
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shroomerhumor said:
That big boy is just a puppy? Jesus.


Yeah, only 23 weeks old. He’s not even half as big as he’s going to be. He’s 80lbs now.


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: Kloakk] * 2
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Kloakk said:
I could, but my neighbor is this old fat guy who's always wearing the same clothes, he has these dwarf friends always helping out around his house and I've seen him creep up on kids offering them toys, seems sketchy as fuck man :uhoh:


This kind of sounds like a creepy Gandalf.


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: Breadly710] * 2
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Breadly710 said:
This kind of sounds like a creepy Gandalf.


But probably considerably more jolly


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: andymc] * 1
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Breadly710 said:
Kloakk said:
I could, but my neighbor is this old fat guy who's always wearing the same clothes, he has these dwarf friends always helping out around his house and I've seen him creep up on kids offering them toys, seems sketchy as fuck man :uhoh:


This kind of sounds like a creepy Gandalf.


:rofl:

andymc said:
Breadly710 said:
This kind of sounds like a creepy Gandalf.


But probably considerably more jolly


He's jolly as fuck, but that just make it worse :uhoh:


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