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[Jon]

Hi HG! I make it a point to check on the rooms at least twice a day, usually morning and night. This is just because one can never trust their automatic lighting, heat levels, and other emergencies not to show up when least expected. I take that time to take pictures for that day so I can do my mostly regular updates to this journal and I actually sit in each room for a little bit to try to get a better sense of what is happening with the plants. Since I can't hear them, I like to put a hand in front of each fan just to make sure that all 4 of them are still functional, and I try to rotate my plants and even change their locations in the room, at least as often as I water, and in come cases, like Veg Room #1, almost every day. I also try to physically lift enough of the planters in each room every day so that I know by weight where we are in the watering cycle and if that corresponds to what i am seeing on my days counter app. I am now highly attuned to any bugs in my grow rooms too, and each day i am assessing where we are at in this battle and how many days I can go between sprayings before the bugs make a comeback. I guess I could go with a more persistent insecticide, but I prefer the lighter garden safe stuff that has to be reapplied every 3-4 days.

Oftentimes while I am in there puttering away, I will see a camera shot that has to be taken or I will come up with a good idea for something to speak about in this journal. I keep a notepad and a pen on the grow table in veg 1 just for that purpose, so that I don't forget the point I wanted to make by the time I get downstairs or get another joint or two in me. I am constantly planning ahead by at least a month if not longer, accessing my inventory and seeing what needs to be ordered. I have been working on organizing my office area, and now I have a very good idea of everything I have in stock, and what I want/need to add to in the future, such as my plan to replace all of my final 5g cloth containers with corresponding "tall" 5g plastic containers. I can't tell which, but I am sure that the Prime delivery drivers either love me or hate me... they do get a lot of business from this house.

When it's not too hot up there, I enjoy sitting in my place of refuge in the attic, either sitting in my office area or actually in the grow rooms, sharing our air together. I definitely get a recharge from sitting in that oxygen rich environment and I am sure that if I had a cot up there, I would be found napping up there quite often. I have a desk lamp with a red light on it that my housemates can turn on remotely if they need to signal me, and many evenings while Ms. J. or Dad are watching tv, I am upstairs reading, playing on the computer or tinkering with the plants. I like it up there because with the stairs being the only entrance to my private area, no one can sneak up on me. For a deaf person, someone sneaking up behind them is the worst... it totally frustrates me, and that can't happen in my refuge in the attic.

For @Jon, the tarot cards stay in their silk wrap in the Craft section of my living room and all rituals happen under the moon in the backyard, such as the big one we had last weekend. Blessed Be!

And since you're probably not joking, please send some of your white magic my plant's way. Thanks.

 

[Emilya Green]

And since you're probably not joking, please send some of your white magic my plant's way. Thanks.

I give a daily blessing to all the gardens that I know of. Some of you even get a little extra.

 

[Emilya Green]

News Flash!
The Bloom Room has changed status and tonight I am declaring this, the first day of Bloom, after 7 days of transition. This was what I predicted, so we know in fact that these plants will bloom under 13/11 lighting. Stretch seems to have really slowed down and over the last 48 hours we have seen barely an inch of additional growth. Let's see what the second week brings us. They are presently at 23 and 22 inches. I think the red light is doing its magic.

 

[Emilya Green]

Veg Room #1 is chugging away and a lift of the cups tells me that maybe by tomorrow they will need to be watered again. I am not hurrying them and I am making them earn this next drink. They are presently 6 days above soil.

Veg Room #2 is still a mystery. My yellow sticky card is still empty of bugs... whatever it is attacking these plants, they are not flyers. So that only leaves the soil. Something is coming in with my reused soil. I think I have proven by keeping after it every 3 or 4 days, that I have been able to break the life cycle and go into bloom relatively bug free. I am going to look into how best to handle this. For now, I may try using some diatomaceous earth between waterings... I have a bucket of it laying around here somewhere. So today they all got sprayed again. All of the yellow leaves happened in just a day or so, so these bugs are fast and very evil and probably living in my soil bins. The problems really start happening after I bring in the most new soil, like at that last uppotting. I am going to solve this.

 

[Jon]

Oof. They really have a taste for your Green Cracks it looks like. Ouch. SNS (some number)? I have tons lying around I don't use if you need some. Btw - without seeing it but using spent soil from outside myself, I would have to agree with your assessment. Any pests I've had come from there. I mean, it only makes sense. But it does make it challenging to ID. On a more positive note, WOW, we're in flower at 13/11. So how far can we push that I wonder? 14/10?

 

[Jon]

Veg Room #1 is chugging away and a lift of the cups tells me that maybe by tomorrow they will need to be watered again. I am not hurrying them and I am making them earn this next drink. They are presently 6 days above soil.

Veg Room #2 is still a mystery. My yellow sticky card is still empty of bugs... whatever it is attacking these plants, they are not flyers. So that only leaves the soil. Something is coming in with my reused soil. I think I have proven by keeping after it every 3 or 4 days, that I have been able to break the life cycle and go into bloom relatively bug free. I am going to look into how best to handle this. For now, I may try using some diatomaceous earth between waterings... I have a bucket of it laying around here somewhere. So today they all got sprayed again. All of the yellow leaves happened in just a day or so, so these bugs are fast and very evil and probably living in my soil bins. The problems really start happening after I bring in the most new soil, like at that last uppotting. I am going to solve this.

Hey @Emilya, if it makes you feel any better, here's what I just removed from my grow room.....I kid you not.

 

[Jon]

Veg Room #1 is chugging away and a lift of the cups tells me that maybe by tomorrow they will need to be watered again. I am not hurrying them and I am making them earn this next drink. They are presently 6 days above soil.

Veg Room #2 is still a mystery. My yellow sticky card is still empty of bugs... whatever it is attacking these plants, they are not flyers. So that only leaves the soil. Something is coming in with my reused soil. I think I have proven by keeping after it every 3 or 4 days, that I have been able to break the life cycle and go into bloom relatively bug free. I am going to look into how best to handle this. For now, I may try using some diatomaceous earth between waterings... I have a bucket of it laying around here somewhere. So today they all got sprayed again. All of the yellow leaves happened in just a day or so, so these bugs are fast and very evil and probably living in my soil bins. The problems really start happening after I bring in the most new soil, like at that last uppotting. I am going to solve this.

Sorry, one more comment - I would be remiss if I didn't mention that this 13/11 experiment you're doing is SUPER BALLSY. I don't know if people are realizing the chance you took here - like, your entire harvest. Might sound like hyperbole but it isn't. What if it didn't work and you hit a reveg or something? What if the whole room went hermie? You had no idea what was going to happen. So for what it's worth, this grower admires your adventurous spirit and the extent to which you're willing to go. GARDEN LIKE A BOSS.

 

[Emilya Green]

Oof. They really have a taste for your Green Cracks it looks like. Ouch. SNS (some number)? I have tons lying around I don't use if you need some. Btw - without seeing it but using spent soil from outside myself, I would have to agree with your assessment. Any pests I've had come from there. I mean, it only makes sense. But it does make it challenging to ID. On a more positive note, WOW, we're in flower at 13/11. So how far can we push that I wonder? 14/10?

SNS PC would probably do it. Its strong peppermint is supposed to dry out larvae and such, but it is a bit on the pricy side At day 21 I am going to set the lights to 13.5/10.5 and at week 6 I am going to go full 14/10. If I was a bit braver, I would try 15/9 there at the end, but maybe after seeing this once I will try it.

 

[Jon]

SNS PC would probably do it. Its strong peppermint is supposed to dry out larvae and such, but it is a bit on the pricy side At day 21 I am going to set the lights to 13.5/10.5 and at week 6 I am going to go full 14/10. If I was a bit braver, I would try 15/9 there at the end, but maybe after seeing this once I will try it.

Um...if you were braver? You mean crazier! Thanks so much for being the self-appointed guinea pig for us on this. Like I said, you got stones girl.

 

[Emilya Green]

Sorry, one more comment - I would be remiss if I didn't mention that this 13/11 experiment you're doing is SUPER BALLSY. I don't know if people are realizing the chance you took here - like, your entire harvest. Might sound like hyperbole but it isn't. What if it didn't work and you hit a reveg or something? What if the whole room went hermie? You had no idea what was going to happen. So for what it's worth, this grower admires your adventurous spirit and the extent to which you're willing to go. GARDEN LIKE A BOSS.

Thank you Jon! I agree, I am risking it all here, and why? For you all. And, I don't even wear a white lab coat to justify my insanity! Not only that, but I am showing a way to practically eliminate stretch while others are randomly searching for unique varieties that don't stretch. I may not be breaking new ground with these experiments but I sure as I am sitting here, I am proving the theories to be true. You would think there would be talk all over the interwebs about what I am doing here, but no, I am only a girl, and one without a lab coat. I can be ignored. Lets wait for some guy to do the same experiments, and then we can pay attention.

 

[Jon]

Thank you Jon! I agree, I am risking it all here, and why? For you all. And, I don't even wear a white lab coat to justify my insanity! Not only that, but I am showing a way to practically eliminate stretch while others are randomly searching for unique varieties that don't stretch. I may not be breaking new ground with these experiments but I sure as I am sitting here, I am proving the theories to be true. You would think there would be talk all over the interwebs about what I am doing here, but no, I am only a girl, and one without a lab coat. I can be ignored. Lets wait for some guy to do the same experiments, and then we can pay attention.

ah.....penis envy.....

 

[Emilya Green]

ah.....penis envy.....

tis the price we pay for multiple orgasms. If guys only knew, the jealousy would go the other way. There is ALWAYS a catch.

 

[Jon]

tis the price we pay for multiple orgasms. If guys only knew, the jealousy would go the other way. There is ALWAYS a catch.

I dunno, they sound exhausting......btw, seriously, science has overcome this. We may not be able to get on a train and go over and over by the seconds or minutes, but we sure can go and go again and go again.....it's called Viagra. LOL!



Btw - wow, the perfect irony....it took someone with a penis to give you credit for something you claim you won't get credit for without one.

 

[StoneOtter]

Aaah, I had a nice day in your garden Em! Loving the work!
I hope opportunity crosses your path and good things happen from it!

 

[Emilya Green]

Thanks for the kind words @StoneOtter and right back at you and Mrs. Otter too!

Today will be a fairly busy day in the garden. Veg Room #1 needed watering on the 6th day from their first full watering. I gave them another full watering this morning.

The bug advance seems to have slowed down in Veg Room #2, and even though they were still on the verge of needing to be watered, I just gave them a small drink and shared a 3q watering pitcher all around. In that pitcher, I went with what I have laying around, and I gave it two good capfulls of @Sierra Natural Science SNS 203. I think its thrips, and I hope this starts wiping them out for good. We shall see.

The Bloom Room needs some attention and I will get after it around noontime when things start slowing down around here. They are in the 2nd day of bloom and showing it, 6 days from the last watering and needing it, and 15 days from the last feeding and needing it. One plant has started to complain. There have been no confirmed bug sightings.

 

[Jon]

Thanks for the kind words @StoneOtter and right back at you and Mrs. Otter too!

Today will be a fairly busy day in the garden. Veg Room #1 needed watering on the 6th day from their first full watering. I gave them another full watering this morning.

The bug advance seems to have slowed down in Veg Room #2, and even though they were still on the verge of needing to be watered, I just gave them a small drink and shared a 3q watering pitcher all around. In that pitcher, I went with what I have laying around, and I gave it two good capfulls of @Sierra Natural Science SNS 203. I think its thrips, and I hope this starts wiping them out for good. We shall see.

The Bloom Room needs some attention and I will get after it around noontime when things start slowing down around here. They are in the 2nd day of bloom and showing it, 6 days from the last watering and needing it, and 15 days from the last feeding and needing it. One plant has started to complain. There have been no confirmed bug sightings.

I have to ask. What's up with 15 days? Doesn't exactly seem like the best time to extend feeding cycles, if anything I would be shaving a day or two off now, when they are working the hardest they work in the whole grow. You know this. So what's up? A day of oversight perhaps?

Lol. Don't think I'm a pistol. Someone has to give you a hard time and keep you tethered.

 

[Emilya Green]

I forgot to mention stretch... today they measured in at 23 and 24 inches... still very minimal.

 

[Emilya Green]

I have to ask. What's up with 15 days? Doesn't exactly seem like the best time to extend feeding cycles, if anything I would be shaving a day or two off now, when they are working the hardest they work in the whole grow. You know this. So what's up? A day of oversight perhaps?

Lol. Don't think I'm a pistol. Someone has to give you a hard time and keep you tethered.

I have been giving them a last extended dry out while we're still growing roots. I see no overly hungry plants here.

 

[Jon]

I have been giving them a last extended dry out while we're still growing roots. I see no overly hungry plants here.

Ah. Reading the plants and responding appropriately. Not wasting nutes unnecessarily. No reason to feed when you aren't watering anyway. Got it. Thanks.

 

[BabyTrees]

Very excited to see how 13/11 does.
looking fantastic em!