SweetSue's Perpetual 2.0 - The Transition To Doc Bud's HBB Kit

[Buckshot317]

I guess I've been lucky. I don't clone much, maybe 50 times in 20 years. I don't even own a dome, I just cut and stick in dirt. Usually small 6" limbs or shoots. At least 80% take root. I don't have rooting hormones either. I kinda like to grow from seed better

 

[SweetSue]

Good morning everyone

I'm feeling blessed beyond belief today. I've come into a test batch of seeds from electro gypsy's new venture Tribute Medicinal Gardens. Six brand new strains to play with, all feminized seeds.

I'll have soil available in two days and there's a slot I noticed that would hold another hempy pot. Now to research and make my initial choices. I've seen pictures of all of them and that Avalanche looks like a good place to begin exploring. It looks like an oil producer's dream.

It's obvious I'm starting today's playtime in full-out joyful mode. Feels like I'm caught up on my sleep too. On to another day filled with joyful expression. Isn't this great fun? It's update day too. The day keeps getting ready.

 

[Amadeus Forzin]

 

[SweetSue]

Oh yeah..... *sigh* Now I'm ready to start the day. Malawi is the choice today, although I may toggle between it and the Panama Haze.

What I'm discovering is the drastic difference between smoking or vaping and the more satisfying capsule regimen. Maybe I'll take a day off from smoking and use capsules today. I'm really missing that clear and open buzz. Decisions, decisions.

 

[MagicJim]

Oh yeah..... *sigh* Now I'm ready to start the day. Malawi is the choice today, although I may toggle between it and the Panama Haze.

What I'm discovering is the drastic difference between smoking or vaping and the more satisfying capsule regimen. Maybe I'll take a day off from smoking and use capsules today. I'm really missing that clear and open buzz. Decisions, decisions.

I went back to an old stand by this morning. White Widow. I guess I have forgotten about her effect while I was basking in the Blue Dream and Chemdawg cloud that I was in for a while.

I shouldn't forgot those strains that I first grew. I grew them for a reason and that was for the high and of course I wanted a mild smoke. I have little ability to smell so if the herb is mild I'm good. Fortunately I do have some taste left and I have to admit my WW cured well.

I guess that I decided to dribble on here was just for sake of appreciation of variety. That's all. Oh....here she was on harvest day back early in 2016.

 

[SweetSue]

She's beautiful Jim. I remember her. Hmmmm..... Let me take a hit of Hash Hound's Widow Cheese in her memory...........

 

[SweetSue]

Weekly Update: The tiny closet - Friday, June 23, 2017

Devil's Carnival (Day 22) No way is this one an auto. Not with leaves like that. Last Saturday was Brix foliars wit the addition of Way Ahead. She finally got a drink of plain water yesterday. I talked to Neiko about her color and he suggested doubling up her nutrient load in the drenches, making me thankful I hadn't given her the Energy already. That's the drench she should have gotten. I must have been distracted. Yeah.....we'll call it that.

At long last we have some undergrowth beginning to peek out.

She's a good inch or more a day now. I keep moving the lights up.

There we go....

CBD Critical Cure 2.1.1 (Day 78) This girl's ready to be flipped. She's chomping at the bit, but her time is slotted after a space opens in Tent #1 to make room for Carnival 4.

All that training Pigeons taught me has leveled her off beautifully. I'm interested in seeing how this girl stretches.

No roots yet on the latest cutting. The bag doesn't get opened up until tomorrow.

Be right back.

 

[SweetSue]

Weekly Update: Veg Shelf - Friday, June 23, 2017

Carnival 3.1 (Day 48) Both she and her neighbor got the Brix foliars with Way Ahead last Saturday and watered with plain water on Monday, then again yesterday after nearly being fried by the lights. That'll dry them out quickly.

Shes about as unruly as they come, and in an attempt to take her she's going to sit under chicken wire until Sunday morning. She's getting some color into her, which I'm glad to see. I sprinkled a little epsoms onto the soil of both kit girls under these lights. I had to do something for the poor dears.

CBD Critical Cure 2.2.1 (Day 48) Brix and WA foliar on Saturday, and watered twice this week with Carnival 3.1. She's showing recovery tendencies.

Still can't believe I put them through that.

Ultra Dawg (Day 49) Today was the scheduled feeding of hempy H2O, plain water with twice the normal CaliMagic (until I see recovery that convinces me to lighten up on the CaliMagic) She's going to forgive me and bloom nicely.

New growth was mostly protected by the big fans which got burnt to a crisp.

So I removed most of them to give her time to grow new ones before I flip her.

Carnival 4.1 (Day 28) She's the only hempy on Grow Better nutes. They don't require pH adjustment unless it falls below 3. It typically comes in around 4 and that hasn't had any detrimental effects on her at all.

She's looking really sweet. I'm hoping the sativa expression is what I'm looking for. This genetic line is cleaner then Carn 3.

Thin Mint GSC (Day 18) This one's starting to take off.

Alright, on to the tents.

 

[SweetSue]

Weekly update: The Tents - Friday, June 23, 2017

Tent #2

Candy Cane ( Day 41) Looking exciting now that she has obvious blossoms. The last specimen had those huge snowball-sized blossoms. Let's see what this one offers. The last one was in LOS.

She's showing promise. The daughter is missing her Candy Cane. I'll have to get another one started.

Carnival 4 (Day 87, flip + 29) She got watered today with the rest of the crew. Starting to smell delicious.

I pulled led all the leaves that were obviously devoid of any green. Any that had appreciable green got left on until she grows greener ones to pick up the slack.

Starting to sprout trichomes.

Tent # 1

I keep forgetting to turn the air on early enough to keep the temperatures in the tents from spiking. I'm trying guys. I'll catch it soon.

Carnival 3 (Day 112, flip+ 62) She really looks like some huge hulking thing in the corner, doesn't she? She got her Brix + WA last Saturday and a good drink of plain water yesterday.

Those colas are getting bigger by the moment, or so it appears.

She's foxtailing in all directions.

CBD Critical Cure 2.2 (Day 102, flip + 62) She's panting guys, but she's still giving off new pistils. Brix foliar + WA last Saturday with everyone else, and a sweet drink of water yesterday. I missed their scheduled drench the day before so she was pretty dry. I still stuck to the single gallon of water, intending to get another drench in before harvest.

Yeah........ This girl looks healthy and heavy. And she's still going. Lol!

We're getting close.

Whew! Made it. I love online seminars. Most of the ones I take are for medicinal cannabis, but I recently stumbled over one on "Manifesting Your Soulmate." It's a ten day run with 3.5 hours of listening per day, and I let myself miss the first day, so I've been catching up today. My mind is swimming in the new wave language of relationships. This is like a whole other universe, but one I find absolutely fascinating. They're teaching me to understand the male brain. I'm into day 3 of 10, so if I'm a little absent for the next week, this is my explanation. Lol! I go into full-out student mode and take copious notes, which can take forever when you can stop the tape and rewind. It sucked the entire day away and now I'm exhausted. Think I'll turn into a woman who sleeps, get up tomorrow morning and do it all again.

Gosh..... someday kids are gonna say "Stop the what and do what?"

Thank you for paying us a visit. I hope the girls and I made the stop worth it.


The Malawi was wonderful today. Tomorrow I'll dance with the Panama Haze. Then I'll be ready to give my impressions. Until the morning....

 

[Tead]

2 - Cut off the 12" stem and place it 3-4" deep in 1 gallon or more of well watered soil.

Hmmm....
In my little 2L world, when I cut 12" off a plant I call it "harvest" instead of "cloning".

teehee!

 

[Ditchweed242]

Looking good Sue. Great job.

Cheers.

 

[Tead]

Pot Chimp often shoves his cuttings into the pot of the mother, and they take too. I've yet to try cutting and planting immediately, but it certainly tempts me. Did you strip the "skin" and use rooting hormone?

I wonder if I could get this to work inside a bag?

Probably better to use a clear (opaque) solo cup. Just set it upside down over your little girl. Been there, done that.

 

[Tead]

I gotta write ya some words this morning.... but first....

Homer on a hempy!!! Awesome.


So let's chat a bit about your burned UD hempy.

Ultra Dawg (Day 49) Today was the scheduled feeding of hempy H2O, plain water with twice the normal CaliMagic (until I see recovery that convinces me to lighten up on the CaliMagic) She's going to forgive me and bloom nicely.

With your recent heat issue, we need to keep the Osmo heat/nutrient issues. As heat rises in an Osmo regime, nutrient levels rise as well. The Osmo is thermo-active.

They express it as 'longevity' on their website, but it relates directly to nutrient levels at various temps.

If you need to adjust nutrient levels up or down, you can do so somewhat by finding a warmer or cooler place in your garden.

I think you can actually see this effect in play here. Your new growth is lighter green than the older growth which experienced the overheat. Generally plants darken more as nute level rise.

 

[Tead]

Sorry... I had some more thoughts I wanted to chat about.

The small form factor pots I have going have some symptomatic behavior I'm unable to change... thus just don't worry about.

The roots really don't have enough room to grow the plants we want. To get anything near or over 1oz/plant one needs to grow a plant to a certain mass before blooming and that mass is really just too big for such a small pot. Defoliation in bloom can be dramatic. Bud production takes a hit. You get the idea... just not enough of a digestive system to feed all the activity above. One might address the issue with some additional nutrients (either liquid nutes or adding more osmo and working it in), but a lazy gardener just doesn't worry about it all.

Just wanted to mention that as your girls move thru bloom.

 

[MagicJim]

I gotta write ya some words this morning.... but first....

Homer on a hempy!!! Awesome.


So let's chat a bit about your burned UD hempy.



With your recent heat issue, we need to keep the Osmo heat/nutrient issues. As heat rises in an Osmo regime, nutrient levels rise as well. The Osmo is thermo-active.

They express it as 'longevity' on their website, but it relates directly to nutrient levels at various temps.

If you need to adjust nutrient levels up or down, you can do so somewhat by finding a warmer or cooler place in your garden.

I think you can actually see this effect in play here. Your new growth is lighter green than the older growth which experienced the overheat. Generally plants darken more as nute level rise.

I didn't know this but I've only used Osmo on house plants.

 

[Tead]

I didn't know this but I've only used Osmo on house plants.

Probably not nearly as important in a soil grow, but that importance jumps up a good bit when you're feeding a hydro with Osmo.

 

[SweetSue]

Hmmm....
In my little 2L world, when I cut 12" off a plant I call it "harvest" instead of "cloning".

teehee!

Almost made me lose the sip of water Tead.

Thanks you for the invaluable input. Now that I'm keeping a better eye on the light placement things seem to have settled down, but all these tidbits of hempy know-how will come in handy in the future, I'm certain of it.

How long do you typically veg before you flip?

 

[SweetSue]

Looking good Sue. Great job.

Cheers.

Thank you Ditch. You've been a faithful friend, and I'm sorry to admit I've gotten myself stretched so thin I've been neglecting everyone else's grows, yours included. I'll stop by later.

Good morning everyone

The heat has broken, at least for today, so I'm gonna grab a banana from the tent for fuel and head out along the river to enjoy the sweet breezes. Before I run out I wanted to encourage joyful expression at every turn today. Share a few hugs while you're at it, and hold a couple of them longer than the 20 seconds it takes to cause the oxytocin drop. I'll catch up with all of you later. I only have one day's worth of seminar today, so it shouldn't take up my entire day. It was nice yesterday, having such an interesting distraction while it rained all day, but that was a bit of overkill.

Later

 

[Tead]

Almost made me lose the sip of water Tead.

Thanks you for the invaluable input. Now that I'm keeping a better eye on the light placement things seem to have settled down, but all these tidbits of hempy know-how will come in handy in the future, I'm certain of it.

How long do you typically veg before you flip?

I often try to deliver words tailored to happenings other's gardens with an eye towards what they might be seeing or doing next.

How long.... hmmmm.... interesting idea. You track this sort of thing with days? Not so much the Tead. Sorry. I do many things by feel in my world. They move into bloom based on appearance and growth tho garden population and openings or crowding play into it all as well. If I were still keeping a log, I could answer your question... but we all know Tead leans to the lazy side of things. Plus, I got a shitload of strains going and many of them vary pretty wildly. Generally the height I'm looking for is somewhere around the 2L pot height. Of course, various sculpting techniques that I sometimes employ play into that as well.
Having said all those words, I might use a 45-60day timeline for planning purposes in my world. Some of the plants exceed those numbers for various reasons, but things usually don't run thru my garden much quicker. At least I feel those are about the right numbers.... hard to really verify without a log.

 

[SweetSue]

I often try to deliver words tailored to happenings other's gardens with an eye towards what they might be seeing or doing next.

How long.... hmmmm.... interesting idea. You track this sort of thing with days? Not so much the Tead. Sorry. I do many things by feel in my world. They move into bloom based on appearance and growth tho garden population and openings or crowding play into it all as well. If I were still keeping a log, I could answer your question... but we all know Tead leans to the lazy side of things. Plus, I got a shitload of strains going and many of them vary pretty wildly. Generally the height I'm looking for is somewhere around the 2L pot height. Of course, various sculpting techniques that I sometimes employ play into that as well.
Having said all those words, I might use a 45-60day timeline for planning purposes in my world. Some of the plants exceed those numbers for various reasons, but things usually don't run thru my garden much quicker. At least I feel those are about the right numbers.... hard to really verify without a log.

Thanks Tead. That pretty much mirrors my timelines. I have to keep track of things for kit purposes, but I go a little overboard on record-keeping. I console my angst over that obsession with the idea that I'm still learning the ropes, but yesterday I was looking through records for the daughter, to determine when she started her capsule regimen and it occurred to me that I could probably stop tracking things so closely. I write it all on a calander anyway. It might be time in my training to become less record-oriented and more instinctive.

It's nice that the hempies all get watered on the same day. Next step is decide if osmo and the expensive bottles are comparable. Hmmm..... to do so would require me to test a single strain in the medium using each nute source....... I can do that tomorrow. I'll be planting the first of the Tribute Medicinal Gardens seeds. I want one in soil, but I could run two hempies at the same time.

You've changed the way I garden in the most dramatic way Tead. With this planting I believe the hempies may outnumber tthe expensive soil.