Alafornia's 1st Time Multistrain Medical Grow

Hey Mr. A and Ms. T. Love coming over to this journal. Such happy plants. Being new to 420 around the time you started this journal, it's hard to believe that your ladies are so big so fast. You have provided great entertainment each day. Thanks.

One suggestion, I am using clear medical tape where needed. The kind with perforations, easy tearing. It's great as the plants grows. Easy on and off.

Thanks. So glad you have had so time of peace. Blessings
 
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Night pics and update.

Group pics



None of the clones have good roots yet. I moved them all to the back of the tent and placed them on a warmer. Maybe that will help get them going.



Nikita is filling in and her growth seems to have accelerated.



MH1 looks healthier.



Blueberry is filling in nicely.
 
My bad, but that's another great song.

The other song is in that movie. I like them both.

Hey Mr. A and Ms. T. Love coming over to this journal. Such happy plants. Being new to 420 around the time you started this journal, it's hard to believe that your ladies are so big so fast. You have provided great entertainment each day. Thanks.

One suggestion, I am using clear medical tape where needed. The kind with perforations, easy tearing. It's great as the plants grows. Easy on and off.

Thanks. So glad you have had so time of peace. Blessings

Thanks, Newfun. Medical tape is a good idea.

These plants have grown fast. Not quite two months from plopping them in some water to soak (6/22/19) and the next day putting them in soil. I started the post that became this journal on the 22nd but didn't finish until the 23rd. lol. I am glad to have been able to share, grateful to have received timely help. The whole process has been therapeutic for me. I am happy to have found friends here. It's a pleasant surprise that 1. people have interest in what I'm doing and 2. they seem to genuinely care not just about the plants but about us. This is such a wonderful place to be.
 
Good morning!

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Blueberry is an odd little girl.

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Just a quick update on the medical side of things in relation to cannabis:

School is starting soon and every year there's a cookout leading up to that. For the second year my son and I went to that. Last year he would maybe dream of talking to someone but wouldn't dare. This year, with a slight nudge, he left me and went to speak with a couple of people on his own. He even went to say "hi"/speak with his friend while his friend was speaking with someone else. None of that may seem like a big deal but it is for him. The cannabis and a lot of hard work by several people has gone into this. A speaker/coach at the little before-school-starts shindig spoke, mainly to athletes, about alcohol and drugs and mentioned "marijuana" specifically. I found myself cringing slightly and hoping for a day when that speaker would differentiate with the kids between medical and recreational use, but I digress a bit. He does get positive points for working in a quote from Nick Saban. I had to resist the urge to shout "Roll Tide". Haha! 11 days until kickoff. 4 days until the first game of the season. Talk about digression!

A few members of his school "team" met today and discussed plans and logistics for starting the year off right. We've been very open with his use of cannabis and all agreed it has helped him and they could notice a difference since he began taking it. We even discussed the staff working with him to help him be more comfortable with it and perhaps get him interested in the horticulture part of it as we'd all like him to be able to grow his own medicine some day and want him comfortable with taking it now. They may not be able to discuss cultivating cannabis per se but general growing is a go. We are fortunate to have such a supportive school staff.

I have to take him to the dentist later today and then I'll try to spray the girls with neem/safer soap and BT then water with BT again. We're going for a twice a week schedule with that as it works great with my schedule. I bought 1 gal garden sprayers to use, which should be much better than spray bottles. Also ordered some more BT.

The new tent, light, and filters (and other odds and ends) are on their way. Our infestation convinced me to keep the present carbon filter in place and just add a second to the bloom tent. I'll move the intake fan there and add a second passive intake filter to the veg tent, which will still house the environmental equipment and then the filtered air will go to the bloom tent. We aren't set up yet to heat/cool the entire garage. That will be unavoidable at some point and will reduce the need for in-tent equipment. I'm waiting on the worm castings to be able to mix more soil. I am going to be an even busier than normal man soon.

Hope you are having a good day. If not, make the best of it. Peace.
 
he would maybe dream of talking to someone but wouldn't dare. This year, with a slight nudge, he left me and went to speak with a couple of people on his own. He even went to say "hi"/speak with his friend while his friend was speaking with someone else. None of that may seem like a big deal but it is for him.
This made me smile, Al. So proud of your boy. I know that is a big step forward. Give him a high five from me. :high-five:
 
Great job on the plant's Al you should be proud. Inspiring story about your son I'm really glad the cannabis is helping him a huge step forward for you guys.
 
Thank you, everyone. His communication had been improving already thanks to a lot of hard work and CBD. THC did help some more. Self regulation has improved. Social interaction has improved.

He did OK at the dentist. Typical teenager - didn't want me in there with him. Made me feel...strange - both sad that he didn't want me there and thrilled that he is exerting independence, which is a normal part of growing up. That's the real punch in the gut there, I guess, and yet so happy about it. Parenting is always like this, it's just different when your kid is "different". And yet that has been my stated goal since I had a goal to state for him: I want him to grow up to be independent and capable of completely caring for himself. This today and his independence at the school shindig are steps in the right direction. Hopefully small things like this will build confidence. We are even talking about an upcoming root canal with him awake. I would not have fathomed that a year ago.
 
All of this, @Alafornia every last word of it, @Tangled Is absolutely amazing! Warms my heart to hear your boys not just walking, but taking strides in progression. This is great news!! :thumb:

Makes me want to :yahoo:

There is a light, it may have been dim in the past, but it sounds to me as if the light at the end of the tunnel is getting much brighter. It may never be bright enough to lit the entire hallway, but it’s all we need! :circle-of-love: One step At a time! :love:

Ohh, and your plants look great too, but that’s not whats important in this particular moment.:thumb:
 
Getting ready and then after the sprays (neem +safer soap followed by BT) and watering with BT. Lights out except the overhead until they dry. Pretty sure I stink right now. Lol

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I do want to say it’s not all roses. We had a terribly rough week when he had the tooth pain. His behavior was as bad as it’s ever been toward others. It almost made me lose faith. I don’t mean to make excuses, and I don’t allow him to make an excuse for it, but the tooth was a mitigating circumstance. He knows the rules and he knew I was displeased. Things are just beginning to start resembling some reasonable facsimile of some edge of normal.
I give cannabis credit for 1. It not being worse (along with some luck) and 2. Not lasting as long.
While we’d like to avoid the really bad stuff altogether I will take reducing the length and severity any day. Cannabis helps with that. It hasn’t cured him. It hasn’t made everything without difficulty. It has made it better. And I hope with the continued efforts of a number of people and with continued tweaking of the medications we can get there. This is a process. A long tortuous process.
Sorry again for feeling the need to state the reality because I don’t want to give misleading impressions, but I’ll state again that despite everything stated above we still consider cannabis our miracle plant.
 
Found a moth carcass among the plants and just after getting everyone back inside and turning one light on low saw my muncher: a damn cricket. Sprayed and soaked it with neem+safer soap. He crawled through it. God I hope that little $@;&;$ dies.
 
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