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!
Before prohibition most cannabis was almost equal in THC and CBD. This is how nature designed the plant, and in this balance the body has its most natural response to cannabis. We manipulated the gene pool for profit. People wanted to feel good and THC does just that. More THC meant more money for the grower. It got a little out of hand.
For most physical ailments a balanced ratio is the best starting point. Then you can play with ratios to get the effect you want. More pain, add more THC, but add more CBD at the same time. Keep the ratios as close to the balance you seek. It works like that with all disease. The standard in canna meds is to offer the patient a CBD-rich formulation with as much THC as the patient can tolerate.
CBD not only tempers the euphoric effects of THC, it extends the effective therapeutic window. That means you won't feel as high, but you'll feel the positive effects longer when you have the cannabinoids in proper ratio.
It's all new to most, if not all of us. So good to have you learning with us. It pleases me that my passion helped start your journey.
Hi Sue - interested in the outcomes of this shift. I'm wondering if you'll notice a shift in the quality of the meds, moving out of soil to the bottled nutes. Are the nutes you use with your hempys organic?
Good luck for the inspection - and even more so for the harvest!
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Sorry Amy, I got waylaid for a number of days there. Sometimes it get gets to be busier in my world. As you know, the inspection went off without a hitch, and the harvests have been one after another.
Ain't life grand?
No, the nutrients I'm using are not organic. I thought that would bother me, but it doesn't. I'm happy to be growing the best plants of my short career.
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.
You'll recover and be stronger than ever Rad. The kit is pretty foolproof, as my grow demonstrates.
The cloner mishap was unfortunate. Might you be persuaded to dispense with equipment and try TOAST's produce bag method? Just about every one of us who've tried it swear by it.
I hated to see you lose the sativa pheno of the CBD CC. Maybe you'll have the canna gods smile on you again.
Update Day 17: Critical + CBD (auto)
needless to say, i'm stoked
But the thing that amazes me the most the last few days ... is that she has a lovely aroma already. The DIY grow box is in my bedroom (for easy maintenance access) and sometimes I leave the curtain open when I'm going to be out for a while, to give her some fresher air. A couple of times I thought I must have imagined the smell, or thought I'd left the vaporiser on... then yesterday, when I smelt it again, I thought 'dang it - just stick your nose down there and check'. Lo & behold! A lovely smell coming off her already! I'm looking forward to th aromatherapy in my room as she matures.
Thanks everyone here who advised me about watering - I haven't watered her for ages and she's happier every day
I never understood why anyone would think cannabis doesn't smell in veg. Manipulate them a little and they smell the entire apartment up.
Your little darling is keeping you good company in the bedroom. That's so sweet.
I know how wonderful it is to have plants in the bedroom.
I was considering moving the tents into the living room though, so I could sleep without the sound of the fan, but then I sleep soundly, so why bother. Lol!
OK - here's my DIY 'Tiny Closet'!
if anyone asks, its a vanishing cabinet
if you look inside that little opening and look up, you see this: the top is repurposed pegboard (just a little ventilation!), those metal spikes poking through are the curtain hooks...
now, looking down
and from the front, with both curtains open and the special green glasses over the lens...
This was totally inspired by SweetSue's first grow journal.
Your tiny closet rocks girl!
Well done. Makes you proud every time you gaze upon it, doesn't it? Taking charge of your health your way, and doing it with style.
Amy Gardener said:
The measuring stick isn't square but I know the ones you mean. The one you see folds down 4 times into a quarter of it's length. I bought it cause my father used to have one and I loved it as a child - then when I started doing woodwork a few years ago I just had to get one in his honour!
Ramblings... anyway...
Where are the other CBD happy growers? How are your CBD rich beauties coming along?
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I have one of those rulers around here somewhere. It was Dale's bought in memory of his grandfather.
I'm one of those happy CBD growers, here to show off my darling.
I sent my CBD Critical Cure in soil home with Jgrowlove, since I overran the grow with plants and had no room to grow her out. I'm transitioning away from soil into hempy, and this is my first CBD Critical Cure in perlite. All of my soul specimens were trained to fill the real estate by staking and bending. What I wanted for this girl was a pot that was broader across the top to allow me to continue training in the way I'd had such success with.
Yesterday was her day to be transplanted.
This pot was shorter than the one shed grown into, so I had to tear her roots apart to get her in here. You'd never know it happened to look at her today.
She'll have at least another month in this pot, I believe. I have no doubt she'll make use of every inch.
All ready to take center stage.
They are CBDutch!
Here's how they looked when moved outside. You will have to look at post #117 to see the pics, I couldn't get the pics to load.
Dutch 1 was 47" tall and Dutch 2 was 44" tall. That was July 21, 2017. They were not looking too great and had outgrown the tent. They are now 135 days old and both are over 72" tall.
HG & FP's Summer 2017 Grow - Freedom - CB Dutch Treat - Durban Poison
Peace.
Sweet!
Will there be enough time to flower them out before cold decends?
Not a bad idea, that. Ha! This explains why I haven't been able to get rid of those stored 2x4s. 
She looks like she's ready to strut her stuff.
