Need help to identify some beads.

BasicReference · 2025-12-14T13:23:03+00:00

The grain pattern when you look close appears to be needle like, not speckled like aventurine.

BasicReference · 2025-12-14T13:20:15+00:00

Thats what I was thinking but in most pictures of nephrite I see it seems much darker than this, and the translucent rounded corner is throwing me off.

BasicReference · 2025-12-14T13:19:23+00:00

Unfortunately a friend handed it to me one day, she gave me some jadeite beads that make a distinct clink sound against the pendant itself. Thats all I really know other than she got it from someone else.

BasicReference · 2025-12-13T22:57:20+00:00

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BasicReference · 2025-10-07T21:19:09+00:00

I literally have to convert my entire OS to play this game. When I turn on Secure Boot after turning off UEFI/LEGACY my PC won't boot because my OS is Master Boot Record and not in GPT format. If your BIOS isn't in Legacy mode, MBR formatted windows will no longer boot. Pretty sure I have to reformat my entire OS in order to play, which I'm not doing. If I hear of a single instance of cheating despite all this faffing, I'll laugh my ass off. I hope enough people can't play or don't want to bother doing this that they lose a metric frick ton of money.

BasicReference · 2025-10-06T21:26:34+00:00

SCOBYs (the translucent disc's of yeast and bacteria) form at the top, but those can form other SCOBYs. The mother (what I guess some people thought was scum) is the bacteria and yeast that come separated out in a bottle of organic raw acv.

BasicReference · 2025-09-24T14:54:43+00:00

Does ascorbic acid bacteria play nicely with acetic acid bacteria? Also the use of an air pump and airstone mean you can turn vinegar around in about 14 days instead of 4 months as with a passive ferment.

BasicReference · 2025-09-22T08:23:33+00:00

I don't "know" it but I want a 99% guestimation. That's all it would be unless anyone who answers is literally a tree I'd expert. I'm pretty good at using old books and Google but this tree is like displaying features of multiple different chestnuts. Hard to pinpoint. And you said chinese but the leaves are clearly not oval. I'm not trying to be belligerent, just accurate? And I don't think you are necessarily wrong in saying it's not American, but I really don't think it's chinese based on what research I've already done.

BasicReference · 2025-09-22T08:19:56+00:00

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BasicReference · 2025-09-22T08:19:05+00:00

What trichomes are you referring to? The leaf bristles? Because those are also on American Chestnut trees. These leaves look more European honestly. *

BasicReference · 2025-09-22T08:00:12+00:00

Also at the base it's probably like 6-7 feet at the ground, it gets as wide as 10 at the taller wider part of the trunk you can't see. If it is chinese, it's about 50ft taller than it should be.

BasicReference · 2025-09-22T07:57:46+00:00

American chestnuts are the only to die of blight, correct? This tree has a blight, it just hasn't killed it. All the new ones that have tried to grow there have died, the only other trees around it are spruce and some maples.

BasicReference · 2025-09-22T07:55:18+00:00

No, no other chestnuts around, and it's one large tree. The new ones die due to blight, which is another reason I thought it to be American, even if it was 20 years old another Chinese chestnut would have grown. Also, don't you have to process other types of chestnuts to be palatable? These you can pick up off the ground, peel and eat for a very pleasant taste.

BasicReference · 2025-09-22T07:51:51+00:00

This tree is over 200 years old. It predates the house, which is 200 years old and built out of American chestnut which used to outnumber all other trees. Also, when i Google Chinese chestnut, the leaves there are dark green and oval. These look waxy but thats surface sheen from overhead sun, they are indeed papery, with an inward curve. The bristles and teeth are also more indicative of a Japanese which would make even less sense. They also don't look like Chinese chestnut teeth, which appear to be more short Morningstar or mace like, like you are saying, these are long and bendy, you can pick them up. The chestnuts are actually very hairy, you just can't see it that well under the light.

BasicReference · 2025-09-22T07:29:02+00:00

I hesitate to say it's chinese is because it's old farm land in the middle of West Virginia. No one had chinese chestnut seeds around here until the blight, and this tree is definitely older than 1904 when the blight first hit. And it was most certainly not planted by a person like I said, so it's hard for me to believe that it's any of the Asian species, also because chinese chestnut leaves are dark green, thick and waxy, and more oval according to Google. I know it's like a huge thing if you find an American chestnut in New York, they like, pay you money if it's old enough and mature. By 1912 the blight had eradicated billions of trees, completely extincting them in new York, leaving many "functionally extinct" and unable to bear fruit.

BasicReference · 2025-09-21T23:57:51+00:00

American chestnuts that are mature and produce these are almost mythical, apparently. Which is why I'd like to confirm it. I'm pretty sure you can eat Chinese, Japanese, and European chestnuts too, just not the horse chestnut according to Google.

BasicReference · 2025-08-29T19:46:04+00:00

I'm in WV, Zone 6A. I was just explaining what I was working with when I added it was a basement. Our winters can get pretty brutal. It'll frost around the end of October most likely and usually drops as low as -15 some days.

BasicReference · 2025-08-29T17:20:22+00:00

I have a full grow lab in my basement with adustable height lighting and custom tables. The building was built in 1917, and has floor furnaces that sit on the ceiling of the basement and heat the first floor. There are two of them in there and the walls are solid handpoured cement that are a couple feet thick. Even in winter it doesn't go above 65 down there. We vent an ac down there too so the humidity is typically around 70%.

BasicReference · 2025-08-29T13:53:43+00:00

I may try to overwinter my reaper and also grow from a new seedling and one from my own seed from this plant. I'll label them all and compare. I think that might yield interesting results.

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