Amy Gardner Of Eden: Forest Adventures With Doc Bud’s HBB

Amy Gardner · Jan 2, 2019

Because i suspect that it’s 20 posts per page, to get us to a new page for the critical mass photodump, I’ll add this bit of context/background as well.

For those that don’t know, i live with a fairly debilitating physical condition. I hire-in help at times and do what I can when I can. Many days are better than others and my condition has improved on some levels and deteriorated on others. What’s involved wth the garden and my basic self care is about as much as I have the capacity for, most of the time.

Growing cannabis helps me on nearly every level - even if sometimes i push myself bit too much for the sake of my plants. It helps me because it gives me medicine that eases many of my symptoms plus, the joy of growing is something of revelation to me. It is honestly keeping me alive - the joy of growing these plants and getting to know them as they progress keeps me happy and helps me better accommodate the disappointments of no longer being able to surf, or build things, or work - following my previous creative and intellectual pursuits. Cannabis is helping me to change my expectations of what life is supposed to look like, to find joy inside every moment. Journaling my growing here on 420 has enabled a resurgence of my love of photography and inspired someone close to gift me a wonderful new camera.

So that’s just a little context so that folks understand me just a little and won’t be left wondering sometimes why i don’t just do things, or have to wait for a visitor or helper before I move a plant, or even water plants sometimes etc.

StoneyMemoirs · Jan 2, 2019

Look at those Beautiful plants! Cheers Amy, hope all's well in the Southern hemisphere

Amy Gardner · Jan 2, 2019

Getting-up-to-date

Update: Critical Mass

This one was the most vigorous by far early on, including the fact that some heavy winds in it’s first or second week of life literally broke the stem :eek:

Truly, it snapped almost clean through! I stood it up carefully and, also very carefully, ‘splinted’ it using the gnatnix and it rejoined perfectly and barely missed a beat :love:

It’s been topped once, at the 5th node, and I’m training the 2 stems sideways to make a wide low hedge of sorts. It’s something I’ve always wanted to try.

I want to flower this out in the raised bed which is 1200 x 1200mm and I will be putting CD-1 at the back - to get tall and lanky we hope - and Critical Mass will be in front, to the north of CD-1 so as the sun gets lower late in the summer and into autumn the CD-1 should be standing taller behind the Critical Mass and both should get plenty of light, that’s the plan :battingeyelashes:

Training in a 1 gal square pot posed some challenges but I think I’ve worked some good ways to do it (the bigger pot techniques turned out to work better than i expected) and it’s looking like its going to fit the space nicely.

I am using tie downs and a “bending and holding” technique that has worked well for me in shaping plants in the past. I first saw @Pigeons420 doing it and really liked how he seemed to be gently dancing with his plants as he did it. I’m pretty sure @Graytail does seomthing very similar to work his plants into the shapes he wants (he doesnt tie down at all I dont think though - Pigeons neither). I guess it’s a kind of supercropping but without the hard-cornering bend - curves not corners. Super-bending

So here’s the life of Critical Mass 1.0 to date, in pictures :popcorn:

Amy Gardner Of Eden: Forest Adventures With Doc Bud’s HBB

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