Hey, been following you a while and figure you might be able to help, my partner has some succulents shes growing, and one in particular, an ogre ear, is looking a little sick, is very limp shriveled and turning red wondering if you have any advice cos it means a lot to her. Can provide pictures if needed
Some of my followers may, but here’s my deep dark secret; I SUCK AT SUCCULENTS.
The only one I’ve grown successfully is aloe vera. I kill all other succulents.
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You don’t sell it, you give it as a gift, and people give you money for the “fuel” you used to deliver it.
My uncle E has been making shine for thirty years and has never sold a drop. He just gives it away.
It is Understood, of course, that if he gifts you a jar, you now owe him a favor, which can be repaid to the tune of $30 of goods or services per quart jar. You may repay at your leisure, but it is Expected. If you reengage on the obligation, you do not get more. He has an excellent memory.
Oh god, how do you do the triple distilled coffee thingy, I feel I need this in my life
ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT.
SIT DOWN CHILDREN AND LEARN HOW TO BREW FUCKING ROCKET FUEL. This is going to be long as hell so I’ll put the goods after the cut.
Note that this evolved from doing my best to figure out how to approximate Funranium Lab’s Black Blood of the Earth brew. I’d read the glowing reviews online, but being naturally cheap, couldn’t quite bring myself to drop the $$$.
And then my eyes wandered to my shelf of virgin labware equipment and I went “Hey…I bet I can just make my own.”
Based on Herr Direktor’s notes on the Funranium labs website, I tinkered and fooled about and eventually came up with my own brew that, if not Black Blood of the Earth, will punch you in the face and leave you smelling colors.
Let’s do this.
To do this properly, you’re going to need the following.
This set, which includes a buchner (filtration) flask, a seoh buchner funnel, a rubber adapter, a vacuum pump, and tubing to connect it to the flask. You can throw the filter paper out you don’t need it. This set’ll run you $50, which is about as cheap as you can find these elements together or separately
Warning you right now though, the plastic vacuum pump is junk. It’ll last a month or so at least, but when it breaks get a nice metal one instead. Like this. (Another $25, but mine has been working now for 2 years).
You will also need at least one 1L Erlenmeyer flask and a stopper. That’s another $13.
Now you’re gonna need coffee. Regular folgers works fine, but obviously the better the coffee the better this is going to taste. CoffeeAM is this coffee snob’s go-to place. They have 5lb bags for very reasonable prices and roast your order special just before sending it out. Use the coupon code facebook5off to get a $5 discount on any order over $25. 5lbs of good coffee will run you about $30-$50 on that site.
You’ll also need some coffee filters.
OKAY NOW LET’S BREW.
I use a 2.67 ratio of water to coffee. This seems to be a good balance between flavor and punch you in the face. In a 1L flask, this works out to 1.5 cups of coffee grounds to 4 cups of water. This will fill a 1L flask. Grind the coffee fine (if you have whole bean) and dump it into the flask. A funnel (just a regular one) will be helpful here.
Now add your 4 cups of water. Do not heat. Stir. The coffee will release CO2 and foam; stir again in about 5 minutes to keep the flask from overflowing. Then cap. Let sit for 24 hours in the fridge.
Then, put together the filtering flask and line the seoh buchner funnel with a coffee filter. Stir up the coffee-sludge again and dump into the funnel (you might have to do this in a couple batches)
Then draw a vacuum. I like to get at least to 20 inches Hg. This will force every last drop of caffeinated goodness from the coffee grounds. The grounds should be nearly dry when you’ve finished.
BUT WAIT YOU’RE NOT DONE.
Now, you can either distill the resulting liquid down to 1/3 the original volume, which takes a $200 distillation kit, OR you can do the following (which gives a better flavor anyway).
Take your cold-brewed coffee. Measure it. Add just enough cold water to get it back to 4 cups. (It shouldn’t be much).
Now rinse the flask out and dump a fresh 1.5 cups of coffee grounds into it. Dump in liquid. Wait 24 hours. Extract the double-brewed coffee as before.
Then do it again.
Once you’ve triple-brewed the coffee, bottle and done. It’ll keep for up to a month in the fridge. Since it was cold brewed, it will be far less bitter than regular coffee, as heat extracts the acids that make coffee bitter and go stale. However, since caffeine is simply soluble in water whatever the temperature, it will dissolve.
I’ve done the math. A cup of regular drip coffee has about 95 mg. of caffeine per cup. That works out to about 11 mg. per ounce.
Event Horizon (so called because it is so black that not even light can escape) has about 220 mg. per ounce.
An ounce is about as much as a shot glass holds, btw.
A guinea pig co worker once downed an eight-ounce cup of Event Horizon after I gave him a bottle (which I’d expressly forbidden him to do, but he was a veterinary student and coming up on finals.)
He didn’t sleep for 2 days and said he thought his heart was going to hammer through his rib cage.
Do not do this. The most I’ve ever consumed at once was 4 ounces, and I swear to God that I could feel individual air molecules.
I didn't see the post in question, but ignore the dickwads, you've got a right to your own opinion and if people are so butthurt over it, maybe they should take their heads out of their asses to numb the ache. Keep posting what you're posting and if people have a problem with it they can send it to me, because they'll soon learn that words can hurt once I ram a dictionary into their urethra.
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I’ve just been waiting for the anime to finish before I read the manga and see all the issues with the anime, Also reading a 1.2million word fanfic called yet again with a little extra help, tis good If you ignore the whole XD so randum style of it
wait. when you say 'ignore the whole "XD"', do you actually mean that in a fanfic, someone put in emoticons??? like ':s ^_^ ;~; XD'
how do u read a story like that and not feel like you're reading something a 6 year old wrote and take it seriously. omg. unless i read that wrong. it's nearly 1am and i'm literally falling asleep on my laptop, apologies
