How about a 420 update for y'all? Why not, it's not just
any old Wednesday is it?
Came home from the Dodger game last night (we lost
) to find this in the
Shoebox of Light®:
No green so not quite day one, which is fine because it's always fun to get 420 babies, like this
morning!
Trainwreck from
@Weed Seeds Express on the left, Purple Urkle on the right. In case anyone who uses the paper towel method (
@Jon) is wondering if that's faster than planting when the seed splits, we can call this 72 hours from split to sprout. Probably less because sometimes I work and sometimes I sleep.
Since we have sprouts, it was time to get them planted and into the sun. Here is how I do it.
Put the dirt in the clear cup (this is still ProMix HP at this stage):
Take off the peat cover completely:
Put your sprout in the cup:
Pack the dirt around the peat:
And water down the edges of the cup by tilting it while you water:
This keeps the sprout stem dry, which might prevent damping off. Here I'm just using the leftover distilled water from when they were in the Shoebox, but next watering will be with plain tap.
That's it! I did the same with the Purple Urkle and then forgot to get a pic of both. Tomorrow then!
Last for the day, the Sour G STS on flip day 14:
Anyone seeing boy parts in among the pistils?
That's it for me today. I hope your day is full of 420 sales and 420 smiles.
Quotes:
So if the site requires an age verification/restriction then those aren't allowed? I honestly need to go reread the
guidelines again.
I think it's a somewhat recent change as it relates to age-restricted youtube videos. Can't embed them directly but you can always say "search for this youtube video called 'how to grow amazing cannabis flowers in a cup of plain water using nothing but crystals and the phases of the moon'"!
I’m a converted CBD skeptic. When I first joined 420, I’d heard CBD was helpful for anxiety (which I have.) I was resistant to giving it a real try. I was too used to smoking = high, so I did not dig it. After a year or so, I finally gave it a real chance. Since then, there have been several times I was having panicky feelings or greened out, and smoking some Candida felt like it very quickly saved me.
A most excellent conversion!
As far as pain is concerned, I know CBD helps with inflammation, so I’d guess it depends on what kind of pain you have. Plus, as Baked said, different people have different effects. Amy always said it takes about a month of daily ingestion to really build up to the full benefit of cbd. That’s my CBD blurb!
A most excellent blurb! The anti-inflammatory effects of CBD come when taken internally and takes (I remembered it as) at least 2 weeks to have an effect. The anti-anxiety effects come from smoking and happen within minutes!
That's the goal here
I top all my autos. Normally around day 21-28, around 5-6 nodes, after they show sex but before flowering starts. Can't say that I've ever seen it cause them to flower early. If anything I think it delays flower a bit.
farside...so many ways to work with autos once you have the environment dialed in.
Quick pop in to say happy 420 Shed, and to all here....... thanks for all you do.
Thanks oops! Nice to see you around these parts.
Thank you both for your views. I think I will have to feel my way through this process and ask for advice along the way. I feel I do want to try topping and training as I have done so successfully with photos. I'll call on ya when I think it might be ready for a topping if I may
I love all the great guidance you've gotten here!
Hi
@Carmen Ray - last thing to consider from me: one way you might try thinking about autos with respect to ANY aspect about them (except maybe not to up pot more than once if at all) is to think of an auto as EXACTLY THE SAME THING as a photo. The ONLY difference (obviously besides the light thing) is that you are sending it to flower after 25-35 days of veg. So one way is to just treat it as a photo that due to whatever reason you know ahead of time you have to flip after a month no matter what. If you had a photo you knew you were going to flip at day 30 would you top it? Would you train it? It is no different with autos in any way whatsoever. just my take on it.
Great way to think about it. Well done Jon!
Happy 420! Great discussion on topping an auto. That got me to thinking (I know……dangerous), which do you think would produce better results: topping or LST of an auto? I’ve done LST (following Shed’s tutorial) with great results. I’m wondering for those people who have done both what their results were.
Drop a pic here BigD...I love LST!
Re CBD, I think of it like a multivitamin. You may not feel its effects but it's still doing good things to your body. For the first time in over a decade, I didn't experience any depression this past winter and I can only attribute it to the CBD capsules I take 3x a day. The capsules are homemade using @Weed Seeds Express Alpine Star CBD, which claims to have 20% CBD.
That's kinda how I treat it. I'm just taking it as an ECS (endocannabinoid system) booster.
It's too bad those damn thrips annihilated her
That was a crying shame.
On the plus side, it looks like you're starting to get a handle on them!
Happy 420 all!
One last thing:
I've said it before and I'll say it again. What makes this journal a pleasure for me is not just that it's a place to put my updates and concepts about growing and making meds, but the willingness of folks who subscribe to jump in to help another member looking for a way to improve what they're doing.
for you all.