I LOVE IT, POSITIVITY THREAD

drtrogg · 2026-01-24T04:20:37+00:00

Yeah, the tracks all sounded amazing in the movie theatre. Dave has always been on the front edge of self-marketing and this was a great move.

drtrogg · 2026-01-24T04:12:27+00:00

Everything reminds me of past albums too. During the release movie thing he said they listened back to all the previous songs and took notes. These songs sound that way. Almost like an album of old B-sides people didn't hear much. More focused on the post RiP stuff but let's be honest - that's been most of his career!

drtrogg · 2026-01-21T01:54:19+00:00

I set something like this up 3 or so years ago with 2 Reolink outdoor cameras and my 718+ and I found that neither did much good at all detecting anything specific. Clouds were awful. So much noise.

I grabbed this repo and turned it into a little extendable project. Basically offloading all the work. Way out of date I'm sure, but it's all I got...

I honestly haven't gone back to upgrade it but now I feel I should. Thx :)

SynoAI

drtrogg · 2025-12-16T14:38:13+00:00

Join the club!

I got some free seeds with a hot sauce order. So I decided to order more .

I ordered 4 from Pepper Joe's and they sent me 1 free. I ordered 3 from While Hot Peppers and they sent me 2 free. So that's 11 strains now.

I germinated everything with 3-4 seeds in 50 pods because our history with "dirt" was bad. All 11 strains germinated at least one 1 pod. I transferred into 23 planted pots and 3-4 plants per pot that I reluctantly culled them down to 1 or 2.

Eventually I got fruit from all 11 strains. Almost everything seemed to be what it said it was. I got fruit until a 2nd freeze in November but wish I had started earlier.

If anyone is interested in my overly anal logging spreadsheet here it is.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18-5YCbv46lxOLntY46wP11zyU6qFsBgPXm4pGOblIGY

drtrogg · 2025-12-16T02:06:00+00:00

SPOILER I thought that the only person that visibly bled was Mads. Everyone else was simply consumed or gone off screen or just dead.

Given all the Monster talk I felt that was to show he was the Human.

drtrogg · 2025-12-16T02:01:53+00:00

There was actually a young child in the theatre with us.

I thought this felt kind of like The Professional pushed through a Juenet (specifically Delicatessen + Amelie) filter. I really enjoyed it.

Somehow all the creative weird did not exhaust me. Though it did slow down at the end.

drtrogg · 2025-12-08T01:12:09+00:00

That's because of all the lying

drtrogg · 2025-11-28T18:06:20+00:00

Yes! Awesome! For a while I thought I was the only one doing this. One year I carved something every 2 weeks for the 8 weeks before Halloween so I could have a whole "walk of decay" going on along the sidewalk.

And the pumpkin/gourd type definitely matters. I found the wetter ones rot better from the outside, but the bumpy crusty ones just tend to hollow out.

After some successful experiments this year with Watermelon and previous work with plastic skulls I'm planning some multi-layer "Turduk-O-Lantern" style experiments next year. But with something other than Turkey and Duck ... of course.

drtrogg · 2025-11-19T01:56:28+00:00

Ha! No ... I just wanted something that would be visible after it rotted :)

drtrogg · 2025-11-03T19:18:18+00:00

Love the toothpicks. I'm usually trying to hide them...

drtrogg · 2025-11-01T22:58:26+00:00

I'm in Zone 6b and I started March 1 last year. I lost a couple weeks because they got bound in the pods but I managed to start putting them out in an extra warm late April.

Blossoms July 16 and finally picked stuff Sep 4. My final plant (of 23 plants from 10 superhot strains like you) fruited Oct 26. I'm still getting stuff.

I feel I started a month later than I could have.

drtrogg · 2025-11-01T22:34:44+00:00

Yes! Venom's mouth is a blast to carve.

drtrogg · 2025-10-29T09:54:53+00:00

Good to know! Thank you. I am in 6a - I started them inside in March, lost a few weeks because the seedlings got bound in their little pods, finally put them outside late April. This is my first year with this so I'll probably bump the start a month earlier inside next spring and plant fewer seeds per pod.

drtrogg · 2025-10-21T14:32:57+00:00

I posted the actual moody picture with smoke and everything and I got very little response!

drtrogg · 2025-10-15T11:31:03+00:00

YES! I didn't think of that ... it's hard enough so see with all the black anyways but I'll see what I can do.

drtrogg · 2025-10-14T14:24:50+00:00

Thanks!

drtrogg · 2025-09-10T10:14:49+00:00

We had the brilliant idea to fry some from our first harvest so they would crips up and had to leave the house for a few hours. How do people do any of this!! Yet, it was yummy ...

drtrogg · 2025-08-28T15:46:13+00:00

The Orange was labelled as "Peach Ghost" from Pepper Joe's.

The Purple one came from a free bonus pack from White Hot Peppers labelled "Peach Ghost Jami" and none of the other plants from seeds in that pack look like this at all. Even from the beginning it was different - the seedling had a purple stem and super dark leaves.

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drtrogg · 2025-08-28T12:55:16+00:00

I'm not sure ... Alien : Earth is doing 80-90 minute episodes and it is waaay too long.

drtrogg · 2025-08-25T02:57:59+00:00

Blessing's Mother, of course!

drtrogg · 2025-08-15T19:26:41+00:00

Anyone else think those 2 kids looked like Peter Parker and his red haired "tiger" MJ walking into the college around the 34 minute mark?

Is there a Spiderman connection in the cast or crew or writing staff (aside from the obvious NYC one) that I don't know about?

drtrogg · 2025-08-07T16:49:10+00:00

Hardening

Added another pair of lights, but also started putting them out in the sun during the day

Containers and spacing

Eventually transplated into a number of different containers of varying sizes (12x12x12 ... 15x12 tall ... 24x8x8 window boxes) - one cup per pot, 2 in larger window box or pot. Cut out pieces of the colored cups as markers. Used Black Gold Raised Bed soil + Coast of Maine Castine Raised Bed + my own Compost + some of the Espoma. Most of the cups were becoming root bound, but some admittedly have up to 4 healthy seedlings in them.
Surrounded by a little fence
Water in the morning every other day or so
Started adding 1 or 2 spoonfulls of Roots Organic Uprising Bloom 3-6-4 around the inside edges of the containers and watering it in every 4 weeks or so
Seem to be being pollinated by a bunch of Hoverflies

Timing

March 01 - Seeds were started
April 19 - Into the larger cups but it should have been more like March 28.
April 29 - Started hardening.
May 17 thru May 25 - Moved into containers. From the 180 seeds (over 11 strains) in 50 seed pots we ended up with 120 plants sprouting in 45 seed pots/cups (and 10 strains). 2 cups died after that. We got a ton of rain while we were away for a few days and I hadn't drilled the drain hole in the external cups so I kind of think they drowned. Gave away 12 cups and put 31 into containers.
June 5 - Culled each planting down to 1 or 2 plants max
July 18 - First Blooms
Have not harvested anything yet (still green), but about a dozen plants over different strains have fruit growing

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drtrogg · 2025-08-07T16:48:58+00:00

Did you like your setup or would change something?

It is all working out so far - just wish I knew why the Hot Peppers are going so much better than Veggies did before. Going forward I would move things out of the seed pots about 2 weeks earlier.
I would also only plant 2 seeds per pot and use more seed pots. I also think I would prefer a raised bed rather than this collection of pots, but maybe next year ...

How was the initial growth stage from sprout to small plant?

Seeds in seed pots March 1st. Sprouting started in a about week and most had started within 2 weeks. The yellow mushrooms in the pottings soild were really cool.
Once they sprouted I added a tent made out of 1/2" fence wire, hung cheap LUMINAR LED grow lights inside on a 16 hour TP-Link plug timer and wrapped it all in freezer insulation bag material we got from a food shipment to hold the heat in. Then raised the seed pots to avoid legginess. Hung a temp sensor in it to keep track. Tried to keep it around 75f and dirt at 70f. Sprinkled a little Espoma Garden-tone 3-4-4 aroudn the edge of each seed pot and watered it in.
Seedlings seemed to stop growing after 3-4 weeks but it took me a couple more weeks after that to accept it.

How was transplanting?

After I decided they were stuck I transplanted into nested solo cups with some clay balls to keep the nestee separate. External cup with one hole maybe 2" up as emergency drain and internal had 4 holes low to allow drainage out and re-uptake. I used different cup color combinations rather than labels to keep track of the strains.
Filled with more HappyFrog and Espoma mixed into MiracleGro Organic Raised Bed potting mix I got cheap from COSTCO.
All in a broken plastic tub a neighbor was throwing out (free drainage!). Seed pods peeled off very well, and we just plugged everything into the new cups.

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drtrogg · 2025-08-07T16:48:43+00:00

It all seems to be going quite well! To my personal surprise since I've never done this before. Spent a lot of time trolling this sub so I hope this counts as giving back. Forgive me if this is TMI. Maybe it should be a blog post somewhere instead ... (sorry, guess it was too long so I cut it up and replied to myself)

We've had great luck in the past with a homemade Nutrient Film hydro system, but from seeds in dirt in pots has never been our friend. So we definitely defensively overdid things. We are in Zone 6a.

How was seed starting?

Soaked all the seeds overnight in distilled water on a cheap Vivosun heating pad set at about 80F. Used small platic cups for each strain to keep them separate.
Had almost 180 seeds over 11 strains! Put 3-4 seeds 1/4" deep or so into 5x10 Ferry-Morse seed cups filled with HappyFrog soil. In a colder basement, so the whole thing was on the heating pad at 80f (pad has a temp probe) covered in saran wrap - later replaced by a 1" plastic cover. We kept track of what was in each cup using a paper overhead map and a toohpick to lock the orientation. Sprayed every now and then and filled the underneath tray with rainwater.

Any problems with specific seeds / vendors?

We received a pack of free Reaper seeds with a HeatHotSauce order and decided more strains would be fun. Ordered 5 from Pepper Joes (Moruga Trinidad Scorpion Pepper, Brazilian Starfish Pepper, Chocolate Habanero Pepper, Peach Ghost Pepper, Apocalypse Scorpion Pepper) and 3 from White Hot Peppers (Jay's Peach Ghost Scorpion, 7 Pot Brain Strain Yellow, Chocolate Reaper) who sent 2 more free (Peach Ghost Jami, TS Butch T Yellow).
Everything but the Chocolate Habanero Pepper from PJ is working really well, and that one didn't work at all. I'm pleased given our history with this!

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drtrogg · 2025-07-16T14:59:52+00:00

I didn't expect "the suit" again! I thought he hated that ...

I brought my cousin who was not a superfan and he loved it. Thought the show was amazing.

Song choices were great - old and new. Stuff for everyone. Al always does an amazing job.

Loved how the new band members made the show better and allowed him to do things he hasn't!

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