I just saw one of your recent posts in Sue's "3.0" thread, noticed the link to your grow journal, and read the first post in it out of curiosity, mainly just to see what you're growing and its description.
Then I learned
why you are growing it. I am
VERY INTERESTED in your results! Both, to a lesser extent for myself, and for my mother; you just cannot help but keep remembering when your Mom asks you one day out of the blue after a doctor visit, "What does pre-dementia mean?" That was a couple years ago. I also know someone who is in her early 80s who, for all that she's 30+ years older than me, is a good friend - and her husband had a stroke a couple years back and might be declining in other ways now, too.
So interested that I wish I'd read about this strain's potential ability to help with neuro-related issues last Autumn when I was lucky enough to be voted Member of the Month and found myself with credit at a couple of seedbanks as a result.
I am going to
attempt to follow along, or at least to pop in now and then to read a bit.
Of course I wish you the best of luck with this grow (and with life in general)!
More and more often, we face (more and more) issues of this nature. I feel that the frequency of such issues has increased
well beyond the simple fact that, on average, we are living longer. I feel that the various pollutions we are living with, probably combined - for some people - with the choices in life, are significant contributing factors. And, that as a result of all of this... "We aint seen nothing, yet." These kinds of issues are going to become more and more significant to ALL of us as time goes on. And I
cannot trust the corporations to find a solution for this stuff. Why? GREED. I used to joke about chiropractors (having never gone to one), saying that they don't charge a person to
fix them, only to allow them to get by until the next bi-monthly contribution to their retirement funds. In other words, if the pharmaceutical companies (et cetera) could sell us a pill that would
actually heal us - and did so - then, sooner or later, they would run out of income. It is in their best interests to continue selling us band-aids for bullet wounds (so to speak).
I feel that the above will
never change as long as we allow the "medical industry" to be motivated by profit. One of the negatives of capitalism, I fear. (Don't get me wrong; I am very much in favor of capitalism. But it would have
issues even if our bastardized form of it wasn't in many ways more akin to some inbred cross of communism and socialism :rolleyes3 .)
That was an autoflower? Crazy it could come back from that kind of abuse!
I had a White Widow Auto (unknown breeder, seed was a gift) last year that had started flowering in earnest when I dropped the thing upside-down onto the floor, and broke it off immediately above the first set of leaves that appear after the cotyledons. I actually threw it away once, then ended up retrieving it the next day and sticking it back into the grow space. It went on to an eventual harvest. Was kind of small (due to a small container and somewhat dubious care), but... there ya go, lol.
*BTW, I should attempt to clone these ladies, even though IT can't be done, I'm gonna do it.
OF COURSE it can be done! I don't think that was ever seriously in question, lol. The question is... is doing so worth it? And that's something that each individual grower has to decide. Will the clones end up being smaller? Sure, after all, we are dealing with a finite lifespan with auto-flowering strains. However, ponder this: We've got threads here in which people grow cannabis plants in 18-ounce Solo cups. And I'm pretty sure that I've seen one about growing in those "micro-sized" Solo cups that can't have a greater capacity than a shot glass. So, again, the question of, "Is it worth it?" is one to which the answer will no doubt vary from grower to grower.
I was thinking earlier today (well,
yesterday, it turns out
)... I ended up mentioning air layering in passing in one of my posts recently. And doing so caused me to start wondering if this would be THE way to go, if one wishes to clone their auto-flowering plants. Instead of whacking off a cutting, spending time rooting it, and then growing it out, why not use the air layering process to cause that stem/branch to
grow roots while it is still attached to the "mother" plant? Then, when the grower observes that sufficient roots have formed, simply cut the - now fully capable of being considered an actual plant instead of just a cutting - plant off of the mother, and plant it in the container that the grower wishes to grow it in. One shouldn't have the issue of the lost time (during which he/she is attempting to get the cutting to grow roots and become a clone).
What do you think of my idea?
Thanks my friend 
j/k Which reminds me, I need a new light. Gotta bring more of that sunshine indoors. Thanks for reminding me, full spectrum all the way!
– I’m at 300w now, I’ll go to 600w at flower time. 
