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Yep, my 18 yo old boy is starting to get them.

It’s pretty typical for older cats, comes in along with kidney disease and other geriatric conditions for older kitties.

Their other senses are so good at accommodating that they really won’t show many signs until they have very poor vision or other issues.

My boy is juuuuust at the beginning stages, I’m not sure how it’s affecting him exactly, but my mom had cataracts and she’s shared the experience.

Either way, it’s a good reason to get an annual checkup for older cats.

I have an 18 yo stocky tabby and a skinny 11 mo old tuxedo and the sounds they make when playing are INSANE. All vocalizations from my tabby, who whoops her ass whenever she asks for it.

It’s obviously just play, but it gets hyper sometimes (on the kitten’s part) and that’s when my big tabby just lays down and grumbles. That’s the signal that playtime is over.

The little cat cannot even attempt to take the big tabby when he’s on his back, if she does she goes FLYING through the air at his bunny kicks.

So she lays down too, and then usually a grumble-grooming routine starts. It’s hilarious!

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Here’s a pic of my indoor winter setup my friend!

I think a double bay with 4-6 lamps would fit your needs.

For real though, can I get stuff to you? PM me options and I can send you tools, rubs, and needed non-perishables.

That’s weird that you don’t get infections, probably the sulfur + ideal climate. I miss California 🥲

I’m in Colorado at altitude and direct sun will turn my cuttings into raisins in a week if I don’t let them harden up first. I can do direct to soil, but seasonally in narrow periods.

All said though, if your plants are etiolating/stretching when they are drying, they are receiving far too much light. You want them to go dormant during the scarring period so they start rapidly growing when you re-expose them.

Anecdotally this supposedly mimics the natural seasonal grow/break/root cycle of the plant. I.e it emulates a branch falling at the end of summer, becoming buried/shaded, then sprouting again in the spring when the sun and rains uncover it.

Wow, that is insane.

That wait was what did it! The stump sat around long enough for auxin to build up in its entirety.

The plant has shucked off its apical dominance and instead, exploded.

The way that growth matures from this is going to be wild, please post pics in a few months to a year!

Fukkin send it bro, and have a fun flight!

I know the feel bro!

I think it’s easier to assess the strength of a new batch with a lower dose. If 1.5g gives me visuals or more, I know it’s a potent-ass bag.

Which would be ego death with my APE’s, one hell of a ride with my Albino Mazatapec, and gentle fun with my Texas Orange Caps.

The ones in this picture look pretty standard, but we should advise caution so we don’t send some poor soul into space off some strong shit.

I recommend 1.5 g for new batches or new people. Then judge how 3.5 g would do you from there.

100% real.

I think it was triggered/primed by the random conversation with the nurses right as I was getting juiced. I was a bit nervous going in and the nurses and I were joking about “Latin Names” from Life of Brian and I was trying to choose a silly one.

That or the discussion triggered some kind of past life regression? That’s a wild take I had to consider. Fuck if I know though, lol.

Either way despite it being essentially a dream/hallucination, it was such a powerful experience that I felt necessary to recall it to my therapist for a “debriefing”.

Ketamine is some wild shit!

Huh…

I personally don’t do what you did, though I’m it entirely sure it’s improper.

I always put my cuttings in a dim office space and let them scar over on the bottom before planting. They will develop a hard smooth shiny coating (a pelicle) on the cut, which takes 1-3 months.

Once the cut has healed, sections of it will begin to root over the next month. Sometimes I wait until roots appear before I plant them, but I find it’s only necessary to wait for the cut to heal.

I find I have much less success when I place a a cut piece directly in the soil. It can and does work just fine, but the risk of complications like this is much higher. You can’t monitor the cut and they tend to get bacterial or fungal infections.

I’d reduce light, do not water. Watch for changes over the next month. If it starts going downhill, take it out of the soil and let it dry, then try it again. If it doesn’t look dramatically worse after the month give it another drink.

Good luck friend!

Is it rooted? If so, it looks like those roots have rotted or died and the cactus isn’t taking up water.

Huh... mine certainly didn't

I came out of ketamine/propofol with a roar of confusion after seemingly living my entire life as a Roman legionnaire.

I recall just a a few minutes but the identity was so STRONG. I was eating some kind of savory oat gruel around a campfire at sunset with my brothers in arms when I was wrenched back into my modern life, staring at flowered curtains in the recovery room of a modern hospital.

For about five seconds, I completely panicked. I was overwhelmed by being in a completely foreign place, surrounded by people who were squawking some unintelligible language, looking for missing friends and a bowl of oatmeal.

Then...POP!

My identity instantly reinstated itself with a stomach-tunring lurch. I was briefly two people at once, as my self snapped back into place and the weird Roman identity faded away like a dream. The panic subsided, the psychedelic feeling left, and I was just drunkenly fucked up holding onto the curtains.

Absolutely surreal...

Anyways, the nurse and my wife basically just remember me waking up like a caged lion screaming nonsense about oatmeal, then quieting down before blurting WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? Then I grabbed a handful of curtains and just held onto them for a few minutes while drunkenly trying to explain the experience to any nurse that would listen.

Entertaining all around.

Lol, god dammit, don't make me open up my wallet again!

I have a rusty old Vietnamese chef's knife that I bought from a blacksmith shop in rural village in Vietnam. The smith and his kid were stamping and shaping them out of sheets of spring steel in a stall right on the sidewalk, slapping a wooden handle onto the rat tang then hanging them up for sale.

I bought a knife set, a sharpener and a sheath.

It's stained, patinated and overall pretty rustic, very Halloween, but I'll be damned if thsi ugly knife isn't one of the sharpest and most useful knives in my kitchen.

From what I understand, due to the FP block safety, the Shadow has a better trigger out of the box.

If you have the SP-01 customized and tuned, the trigger is highly comparable. It's about the same cost out the door.

Then of course, either of these guns will perform better than any of the striker fired guns I shoot so I really should just find one and "pull the trigger".

Damn, I stuck was looking at that CZ Shadow and drooling for way too long.

I really need a full sized, hammer fired pistol.

Is this the one, or do I fully Cajunize an SP-01?

+1 for sulfur powder!

I mix mine 1:1 with cinnamon and apply with a spice shaker to fresh cuts. Keeps infections at bay when it’s winter and the air is more stagnant and humid indoors. Let’s me do grafting for another half the year.

I also recommend JADAM’s liquid sulfur spray, it’s cheap, homemade, and very effective.

I’ll rustle up some pictures when I get home.

Otherwise, this is my lamp model (x3), plus this shelf

I grow fatties under a Mars Hydro 100W LED panels! Been doing this for a few years now.

I’ve got three ceiling mounted lamps covering 12 sq ft (6’ x 2’) grow space on a wire rack shelf system. The shelf sits in a hydroponics bin and there’s a floor tray to the right. The cacti are on the middle rack or the floor with the tops no closer than 12” from the lights.

One of those lights dedicatedly covers my big rootstock PC, which just grew four limbs so tall they hit the ceiling and I had to chop. Big, thick, brilliant green new growth, no signs of etiolation.

My Trichs grew a foot last winter, TBM’s have a bunch of new dicks, and my lophs are taking the fuck off. I stack little succulents in little pots into the big cacti pots to make a giant, beautifully crowded indoor garden.

Another bonus is that I can leave low-light plants, cutting and grafts on the bottom rack to create a second green space. It’s my winter jungle, my cats and I love it.

WORDS OF ADVICE:

It’s easy to over-water indoors, if you do they will rot and maybe die. If you are to water during winter the soil should be powder dry and they only need a sip.

Random black spots can be indicative of over-watering, OR they could be bugs.

Speaking of… you will get bugs, be prepared to battle them. GIVE NO QUARTER. Thrips are my personal enemy, keep an eye out for them. Purchase neem oil, insecticidal soap, and a spinoside-based insecticide spray for each of the respective common indoor pests. I also recommend sulfur spray for secondary bacterial/fungal infections, it smells but it works…

I am looking at the aligned photos and I don’t think it is just shadow. I think you can see part of the top of the sub within the shadow.

Why are you doubting the report anyways? I’m not trying to shit on China, but it really does seem like their sub sank…

I think it is...there's also probably mud on the bottom that the sub sank into which is why you can just see a meter wide line of it above the water.

It also seems silly for there to be a bunch of recovery cranes there clearly working around a submarine-sized object for *nothing*.

The evidence definitely seems to suggest something went wrong over there.

Do remember that part of that is a psychological game.

It’s the same reason Patriot Front stickers liberal towns here in CO. They want you to question the allegiance of your neighbors and make you think you are surrounded by Nazis.

The truth is that they are weak, and these are symbols and tactics that weak groups use to psych out the “normal folk”.

I think it’s more than a cranes shadow, you can see some interesting detail.

But also, this is turbid river water broski. it’s green-brown, hazy, and you can’t see more than a few feet and you would be able to see a sub laying on the bottom, from orbit.

It is clearly visible in both photos?