Amy Gardner’s High Brix Dreams

Update: Blue Dream Day 21

This beautiful Blue is just powering! “Plants that sprint” is a phrase Doc used somewhere recently. Yep!

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Quick summary of the week before laying the rest of the pics on you: I’m pretty happy with the environmentals. Between the oscillating fan, the humidifier and the extraction fan it’s fairly stable. I know it’s well within tolerance, but I’d really like it to be just a little more humid so I might get a second little humidifier and then run the exhaust a bit more freely - this would get things closer to ideal by upping the RH just a little and give me a bit more airflow too. Overnight temps are still edging just below the comfort line to 18-19ºC but not too bad. It’s all fine, even if I dont tweak it any more - but of course I will. There’s a new fan coming - a tower fan for the in-tent oscillating function - and that will mean readjusting other things accordingly. If it works out it will take up very little space which is great. They’re quiet too. I’ll just need to work out how to block its lights come flower.

The pot is really drying out. Like I’ve said, my muscle strength varies so much that I cant get a handle on the weight really. It was super light 2 days ago and today it feels heavy to me - likely the aftermath of my post too hot bath collapse yesterday. So Duggan told me over on Doc’s thread to just watch out for the lower leaves starting to droop so that’s what I’ll do.

It’s completely dry soil on top, and an inch or 2 down, and totally dry when I check from the bottom too. Completely dry cant be far away. I’m expecting sometime later this week.

I really think its looking so healthy that my first drench can be the plain water drench. I expect Doc will confirm or deny that. I’ve tried to get pics of the petioles for a good look :) There are now some 7 bladed leaves - and teh new set that are pushing out seem super frilly so maybe there’s more blades coming. Still, 7 blades at this stage is a good sign that the soil is nicely charged.

On with the pics - the lowest branching is wonderful, so I tried to get heaps of shots of that!

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This is a very relaxing way to grow, thank you Doc. My mind is free to think about other grow related things, like mapping out what I might grow where outside this summer, and thinking about ways of bettering the environmentals in the indoor set up, and reading about terpenes and making medicines. All the while knowing that the plant I’m growing is just growing - totally taken care of. It’s 21 days in and Ive only dribbled a tiny trickle of water down the sides of the pot to encourage root branching, and that’s it. :ganjamon:

Thanks all for dropping by and admiring my beautiful Blue. May all your gardens be blessed :yummy:
 
Blue is beautiful! :high-five:
 
What a happy little Dreamer. :battingeyelashes: It’s hard not to take pictures of them, isn’t it? Lol!

Thank you for the link. It’s been a bit nuts. Ha! I’m getting close to getting all the extraneous stuff out, but that only means I can breathe for a day, so this really helped keep me in touch. :hugs:

I’m thrilled that the kit’s a good fit for you. I never doubted it. I was a severe outlier with that proven simple system in that it never set as well with me. Go figure, and all around me the rest of you shine in mineralized soil and manic microbes.

I couldn’t be happier. The universe apparently wanted me hempy. Lol! If we can adapt the kit to hempy I’d be all over it again.

Hey... kuddos in attaining environmental control. :high-five: That was likely my failing, since I was venting into the room itself. It led to unhappy events with soil I don’t have repeated with perlite. You, smart woman that you are, solved that. Wow! Well done! :hugs::hugs::hugs:

When I move Amy, Tead and I will be able to give me environmental control for the first time.

Gee.... made me cry.... huh! It’s odd how the reality of my new freedom hits me. Someday we’ll all have the chance to feel like that. Do it without the tears.

I’ve been packing all day. It gets emotional and you ended up being right there when I finished and all the energy started to pour out. Remember you invited me. Lol!

Here.... it’s been a few hours. :passitleft:

It feels comfy here. Did I ever share that with you? I feel like I’ve already been there. :circle-of-love:
 
SweetSue said:
Remember you invited me. Lol!
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And I always will (on both counts)
SweetSue said:
Here.... it’s been a few hours. :passitleft:

It feels comfy here. Did I ever share that with you? I feel like I’ve already been there. :circle-of-love:
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Thanks - that’s a good idea :passitleft:

You have been here ;)

Oh - and I am venting the tent into the room. Seems ok so far. Well see how flowering goes - I planted about a month later than planned sonit going to be getting warm at flowering time. The room is air conditioned with a mini split though so that should be manageable.

I think the kit will be unhappy if the foliars get skipped a lot - and you always mentioned having trouble with those. So I don’t know, but maybe that was part of it too. Even when I grew in LOS the foliars were a big part of things. Thankfully it’s something I quite enjoy doing and subsequently I have numerous options for spraying things with fine mist ;)

I still see you with an outdoor plant or 2 at some stage. I wonder if that vision is part of the NOLA picture.

I hope you’re pacing yourself through this transition. It’s about the most stressful event that can occur (next to the death of a loved one apparently). So stress there doesn’t mean bad necessarily, just emotionally and spiritually demanding on a grand scale. And that can take more energy that you usually need. Hope there’s some downtime in there somewhere for you (even if your ‘downtime’ is likely very different to mine! :battingeyelashes:)

Thanks for coming by :hugs:
 
Amy Gardner said:
And I always will (on both counts)


Thanks - that’s a good idea :passitleft:

You have been here ;)

Oh - and I am venting the tent into the room. Seems ok so far. Well see how flowering goes - I planted about a month later than planned sonit going to be getting warm at flowering time. The room is air conditioned with a mini split though so that should be manageable.

I think the kit will be unhappy if the foliars get skipped a lot - and you always mentioned having trouble with those. So I don’t know, but maybe that was part of it too. Even when I grew in LOS the foliars were a big part of things. Thankfully it’s something I quite enjoy doing and subsequently I have numerous options for spraying things with fine mist ;)

I still see you with an outdoor plant or 2 at some stage. I wonder if that vision is part of the NOLA picture.

I hope you’re pacing yourself through this transition. It’s about the most stressful event that can occur (next to the death of a loved one apparently). So stress there doesn’t mean bad necessarily, just emotionally and spiritually demanding on a grand scale. And that can take more energy that you usually need. Hope there’s some downtime in there somewhere for you (even if your ‘downtime’ is likely very different to mine! :battingeyelashes:)

Thanks for coming by :hugs:
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I’m pacing myself, working only with inspiration and taking breaks when it starts to feel like work. I’ve managed to laugh frequently and heartily. It’s been progressing pretty methodically.

Next up, building a sturdy box for the artwork. :battingeyelashes:
 
Amy, I've considered your answer and I'd have to agree that my neglect of the foliars may have played a part, but then I've seen other plants grown by other cultivators that neglected those foliars too and still came out looking like something I only dreamed of growing.

Considering my success with other methods I've decided it's likely this was something I'm just not supposed to be succeeding at yet. I can't tell you how it breaks my heart a little to have voluntarily walked away from something that so many succeed brilliantly at, and I still harbor dreams of wandering back, should opportunity present.

For now it seems I'm meant for other things, a walking testimony that just because it can work for many doesn't mean it'll work for all. It stings a bit, until I open the tents and start admiring the flowering girls. Lol! I'll be happy sitting on the fence, opening the gate for new inductees to microbes, minerals, and magic. There are many ways to skin a canna cat.
 
top of the evening ms.Amy lovely looking bluesy you have going and the branches are stacking like nobody's business... I'm sorry to hear bout your down spells and other peculiarities that life puts in our way....

I realised tonight while reading the last 2 pages that I don't actually have the foggiest idea of your situ or predicament in life and what's led you to where you are today and for that I apologies as well...
I'll be going back to where I first met you in your original journey ms.Amy cause I want to as its a support thing.........:green_heart:
 
SweetSue said:
other plants grown by other cultivators that neglected those foliars too and still came out looking like something I only dreamed of growing.
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This is true - and puts my partial theory to rest somewhat!
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my success with other methods
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Cannot be denied!!
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stings a bit, until I open the tents and start admiring the flowering girls. Lol!
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Right! Your hempy mojo is supercharged :)
SweetSue said:
There are many ways to skin a canna cat.
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Perhaps it’s just your mission to demonstrate them all!! Hydro room?:rofl:
 
Hello dear Smeegol!

Well having you here supporting my growing efforts and general cannalove is all the support I need!
:circle-of-love::rollit::yummy:

But as you ask, I have some kind of neuro-immune condition and possibly some kind of connective tissue thing. Been mild most of my life, I mostly tried to ignore it (plus always told, ‘nothin wrong with you, get ya head together!’). Few things happened in life and it rose up to take me down for a bit. I’m way better than I was 2 years ago, but am still unable to be up and about for much more than an hour or so each day (in small bursts). It has been diagnosed as ME (I’ve posted aboutvthat in my lounge thread a little bit - gee I haven’t been there for a while!), but there are likely numerous ‘conditions’ involved - like the tissue disorder, which is currently being investigated.
I am someone who used to surf a few times a week, play table tennis everyday (nothing more fun than a good n ripped game of TT!), do my own carpentry and read & write philosophy. Big change to my life this last couple of years. It’s a pathway like all life’s journeys, and as painful and terrifying as it’s been at times, it also led me to growing and to spending much time here in the Mag. So, more than silver linings - new and delicious pathways! Even if I must tread them from my bed for the most part right now.

Thanks for checking in, I do appreciate the interest and care :love:

And speaking of such things, how is your back going after the work you had done on it?
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MagicJim said:
She's in good hands me thinks.
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Hi all

Last night before I went to bed (it’s currently Tuesday evening here, I’m way ahead of all you Statesiders remember ;) ), I thought the plant maybe looked - something. I’ve been watching it knowing the first proper watering was getting close. SO that ‘something’ I saw last night was definitely because it was arriving at super dry in the pot. This morning it looked like this:

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So - after some deliberations about whether it should be the first proper drench or a pure water dunk, I did a plain water dunk and will start the drench schedule next time the pot is dry. Thinks picked up in a couple of hours:
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I thought maybe i’d Let it go too long, but Graytail said “nailed it” (over at DOc’s where the deliberation about the drench or pure water happened). And the very top didn’t droop so I think it got it before it got to wilting.

It’s not been a particularly upright plant so far though. Kind of that triangular structure - no ‘praying’ looks likely at this stage. I remember van had a plant that just wouldn’t ‘pray’, don’t think that was the Blue Dream though.

The dunking was pretty wild - it literally wanted to float! I wasn’t set up to photograph but I wish I had been. I couldn’t even push it to teh bottom of the bucket at first. Then it took quite a while before the pot would sit on the botom on it’s own without floating up. Got there eventually, and oonce to was saturated and drained (this was and that :) ) I tried to get a really good feel of how heavy it was. I’ll keep trying to gauge things by the weight as much as I can, then let the visuals tell me.

:Namaste:
 
Yeah pretty cool how they float like that! In case you didn't already figure it out, if you are pushing them down, make sure to push from the stem and/or the top of the soil or it may slip up out of the pot if you push down on the pot only and release some of the soil in the water. Also don't forget to pour a couple cups down the top too.

I know you're not a mod but you always have a pulse on what's going on with the tech side of the mag. I don't do email notifications, I don't see how anyone could stand that many emails, I go to my watched threads page and those that are bold have new posts, when I click on it I am usually brought to where I left off BUT if there has been a big photo update I usually wind up somewhere midway of tHat photo update regardless of if I have commented and/or liked later posts. It's a minor inconvenience, no biggy, just wondering if the mods are aware of this. Thanks!

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Amy Gardner said:
I remember van had a plant that just wouldn’t ‘pray’, don’t think that was the Blue Dream though.
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The Jack Herer Auto. Wouldn't pray and it bugged him, but he loves the smell and the smoke!
 
Morglie said:
Normally if I press mine down into the water when I dunk them, they'll float right out of the pots.
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Right! Thansk for the heads up on that :) I can see how that could happen... ‘specially once the rootball starts to get packed.
weenmeoff said:
push from the stem and/or the top of the soil or it may slip up out of the pot
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Good tip thanks :thumb:

Yeh ween I’ve noticed that too. I think it’s been an issue only recently so maybe they changed something. I know they’re working on some things to do wth the notifications, but that’s all I know - no details. I’ll wait a while until something is reported in the form news about that and see if it’s still a prob then.

Sometimes I think image heavy pages take a while, and you don’t ‘land’ at your ‘location’ until the load had finished. If I scroll at all during the page load, it’s seems to lose whatever ‘location it was aiming for and just leave leave me where i scrolled to. If I’m uber patient and wait - it will land right. That said once or twice recently it’s actually dropped me on the wrong page - what makes me think there could be tweaking going on in the background (likenwhen those little downtime moments happen here n there)

Say ween - what’re the dimensions of your grow tent?
 
I'll try being patient then, ha!
I have two 4x4's and 1 2.5x3.5. Only the one 4x4 is in use right now because I just harvested on Sunday but in a couple weeks both should be up. Once winter comes, I move in the house from the garage and will only have the 1.

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