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[VitaMan]

Happy Caturday Stoners!

 

[Cobstopper]

Some of you have seen the Mephisto Wedding I grew. I stored it in Ball jars for close to a year. I needed the jars for my Dec harvest and moved them into a vac bag with a Boveda. I just opened the bag and as you can see the flowers are still very pliable. For the last year I have been curing in Grove bags for a month and into the vac bags without a Boveda. They hold their freshness in color and smell although the Wedding did lose some smell due to being in the jars for six months.

 

[Cobstopper]

The bud pic and video was taken today.

 

[Olderfart]

I've been thinking of trying to "befriend" some crows this spring. They are very smart birds.

I have seen videos where crows can recognize someone who is kind to them (read as, feed them) and will come to you when they see you. The longer you keep doing this, the more they will come to trust you.

From what I saw, it looks like the point will come where they figure out where you live and will start visiting you in anticipation of treats.

There has been some excellent research on crows recognizing people, they not only do it, they teach their kids to recognize "bad" peeps even though the youngsters never have a chance to see the bad behaviour. I can't recall the details of the work, but it was a serious multi year study on one of the US university campuses, and I think the learning demonstrated was passed on for at least two generations without further bad interactions with the individual who originally scared the crows.

Some of the research done on Indonesian crows demonstrates abilities that I find damn near unbelievable. They can plan complicated multiple step retrieval of foods by just looking at the problem, figuring it out, and only then undertaking the correct sequence of moves to get the grub, including for example immediate recognition and use of the only tool in the environment which would allow the food to be retrieved.

In one of the sequences the food was hung on a piece of string from the birds perch. The bird had never seen the puzzle or anything like it before. After casing the situation for several seconds, the bird hopped onto the perch, grabbed the string and lifted it, pinned it with its foot, and repeated this until the food was lifted all the way (it was a long string). Many of the other puzzles were even more difficult, and most were solved in one go. As birds go, the crow family is up there in the genius department.

 

[Cobstopper]

Forgot to say I store the bags of flower in the mini fridge. The Cobs are stored in a dark closet.

 

[Frankthetank]