You are so right Rad.
I'd forgotten that I took her at day 11 of flower. Lol! That explains the strange leaf structure. She'll catch up in dramatic fashion, just the way Dave Groomer always gets to happen with his clones. He has it worked to take the cutting at day 15, and then he has them all ready to go into flower with the mother's harvest.
I'm still learning the ropes of cloning and all the scheduling concerns.
Growing perpetual is an interesting challenge. It takes a few laps around the track to settle into what works in your grow areas, with your lights, and your nutriemts, and your cloning time, your training style, and your watering routines. Change one of those things, (veg lights, cloning time,etc.) and the flow of plants changes.
I enjoy the challenge of trying to get the plants flowing correctly well, tweaking the system, and then adapting to the changes. 18 months ago, I started in a 3x6' veg and 3x6' flower after growing in an 8x8' veg and a 4x8' flower. I felt I could maintain production and improve consistency in the smaller environment, by using Doc Buds nutrients. While this is mostly true, the smaller veg area led to me downsizing from 10 gal to 7 gal fabric pots, and the new need to store and cook large amounts of soil caught me by surprise.
Things were just settling in when a combination of cloner failure, an undetected veg light failure throwing my veg plants into flower, and an inattentive grower put a big kink in the assembly line. Adapting and refining keep me interested, so I don't have to keep chasing the newest seeds, the newest lights and the newest potting techniques to stay interested in growing. - But lots of folks thrive off trying the newest, oddest strains. I saw someone recently post a photo of a strain that sounded like Old Pig Blueberry Cinderella and Ihad to say, as nice as the plant looked, I'm glad I'm not chasing around after the newest batch of $150 seeds.
That said, I'm not immune to trying new things: I recently tried out some COB LEDs, I am planning to grow a Carnival in hempy (the family loves that strain - thank you), and if ever get an excess of soil, I probably slide an autoflower into the perpetual stream.
Pulling up a chair for the learning! I may be a little late, but CBD has become my new passion. There is a store that sells CBD products and we have seen such a huge difference in anxiety levels in my son and his fiancé. The owner of the store stated that the reason there is both THC and CBD in the plant is for the CBD to counteract the paranoia/anxiety that THC can cause. However, for years people having only been trying to increase the THC portion and in many strains that ratio is out of balance causing individuals to crave more bud/oil to get more CBD, but smoking more just causes the individual to be more out of whack and the cycle continues. When my son puts additional CBD in with what he is smoking then he craves less and consequently smokes less but gets more value. This was the nail in the coffin for me to decide to grow. I want to know what my family is putting in their bodies, eliminate as many chemicals as possible and be able to make our own CBD products. Sweet Sue - Reading your posts really make me excited for my journey to begin!
It's an intersting theory, but I doubt your store owner has his facts just right. CBD will moderate the effects of THC, which can tone down the high, and for some folks that reduction will remove anxiety.
but
the paranoia/anxiety seems to be generated more by some of the plant terpenes, terpenes found more often in Sativa strains, than the THC itself.
Good choice to grow your own strains to find what works best for him.
As an emergency measure in case of an anxiety attack from cannabis, hand him a peppercorn grinder and have him grind pepper and hold the pepper grinder under his nose and sniff. Repeat as needed. He doesn't have to use the pepper, definitely should not snort the pepper, but inhale the aromas. Peppercorn terpenes released by the grinding of pepper block the cannabis terpenes that cause anxiety and paranoia. It might take as long as 10 minutes, grinding and sniffing once a minute, for the first time - but, wierd as it sounds, this does seem to work for a lot of people.
p.s. when picking out a strain, you might check seedfinder website.
For strains with user comments they genrate a word cloud, a red and green pie chart looking thing, where words in various size indicate user feedback on the effects: One can click onto the chart/cloud to find strains with similar effects
For example (without the really useful word sizes) CBD Critical Cure (one I grew) shows:
Green: Head; Activate; Uplifting; Light headed; Exhilarating; Relaxing; Thought provoking; Meditativ; Aphrodisiac; Racy; Psychedelic;
Red: Body; Calming; Couch Lock; Energetic; Appetizing; Pain numbing
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Playing with the pie chart I found my way to Critical Plus Auto (Critical Mass x AK47- then autoflowered)
This implies that the Body Calming effects of CBD Critical Cure come more from the "critical" side of the family than the "CBD" side of the family. - - No guarantees with the internet, but it's food for thought.
Mornin Sue
