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

[Morglie]

Grinning ear-to-ear over here.

I need some space to plant autos. That was the plan for the tiny closet. I'll look over the schedules and see when I can get the next round started, but it might not be for another two months.

I'm not willing to wait that long. I'll find somewhere that'll accomodate two 5 gallon pots under CFLs for a month, and plant a month before projected harvest of Carn 4.1 and DC.

This dance to fill the space keeps getting complicated by my desire to keep planting. Lol!

I find myself with the same problem. I'm swapping rooms in a month. I was planning on my flower room being a veg space through summer for a couple of plants. Instead I have two plants in there flowering and 8 plants/clones in a pop-up greenhouse and another 3 cuttings bagged up. It's an obsession.

It's nice to see you be able to spend time with Riffleman. I agree, a local meet up with other growers would be awesome.

 

[DrDoob]

Great looking pics Sue. I'm really starting to like this forum. It just seems like a very positive place which is rarer and rarer these days, especially on the internet. I ordered little 8" pots to experiment with hempy a bit, but of course they ran out of stock and only sent me one. It did seem nice so I ordered a couple more 10". I also got a huge bag of perlite, and a 10lb block of coco and some grow rocks. Seems some people like livin la vida coco and some don't, so far it just seems like a huge hassle to me, but I think that's mostly cause I ordered a compressed block instead of a bag.

My clones from outside seem like they are doing very well so far and no bugs that I have seen yet. I think today is day 9, so I'm hoping to see roots when I check later.

Having these tents set up and empty has been more then I can stand so I planted a couple seeds in rapid rooters on Thursday, in my aero cloner. Because they basically sprouted right away, within 24 hours at least, I put them in the veg tent yesterday. It's exciting. Even though I have several plants outdoor and even harvested and smoked off an auto plant already, now that I have actual plants/sprouts in a tent under lights I feel like I am now actually getting started again.

I have been smoking on the auto VIP dwarf plant I harvested. I was worried about it not being very strong since it's my first experience with auto (they didn't exist 25 years ago when I last grew). But as I'm sure anyone with experience with autos already knew, my worries were unfounded. It's pretty decent stuff, and of course being fresh, organic, and mine it tastes great. I harvested a little bit of it early, most of it on time, and the rest a week late, to experience the different levels of high. The plant was exactly as advertised. 60 days from sprout to harvest, very small, decently potent and had a little more then an ounce on it. It's about as awesome a reintroduction to growing as I could ever expect!

Anyway once again thank's for your positivity and your inspiration. In reading your posts, I see your family (in real life and here) is very lucky to have you caring for their wellbeing.

 

[SweetSue]

Why thank you DrDoob.

I'm always more affectionate on Sunday's anyway. Having a new/old friend go so far out of his way to meet me and share a joint or two ramped up my appreciation levels into overdrive. Lol!

I consider this community like family, and I seem to be on a mission to meet as many members as I can before I die, and since I don't plan to do that for a few more decades, I stand a chance of meeting quite a few.

Best community I've come across. We thoroughly enjoy hearing all the minutiae about the grows, so thank you for sharing your building joy with us. I'm excited for you, and so tickled that you got that first harvest in the bag. Nothing like that first buzz from something you grew yourself.

My first reaction was "How come stuff like this is unavailable to us? That wasn't all that difficult to grow!" Then I fell into the obsession, and here we are today.

And..... it was hempy H2O day, which meant getting up close and personal with all my plants. The girls in veg are beginning to make me nervous about available space. Lol!

Carnival 4.2 is beginning to send out more familiar foliage.

The size of her leaves suggests another tree in the making. I'll need to be creative about keeping it lower this time. You know, I could get used to growing plants this vibrant. Starting to look at my soil and consider how much longer I have to go on it. Just after cooking a new batch, of course.

 

[Lady G2HM]

You can freeze clones? did my brain read correctly?

 

[SweetSue]

You can freeze clones? did my brain read correctly?

No G2HM, no freezing of clones. I'm not sure where you read that, but I can assure you, clones need gentle care.

 

[Lady G2HM]

No G2HM, no freezing of clones. I'm not sure where you read that, but I can assure you, clones need gentle care.

My brain misread, sorry. Just catching up on the lovely garden. How about that Nasonex, just horrible stuff. I don't take it anymore like years ago. But it's the first thing they try to push on me. Good Sunday Morning to you Ss.

 

[DrDoob]

Woohoo! I feel like doing a little dance. I just checked my clones and three out of six have lots of nice roots forming, including a tiny one that was 3 weeks into flowering when I took the cutting.

 

[Tead]

The girls in veg are beginning to make me nervous about available space

So many issues!

 

[SweetSue]

My brain misread, sorry. Just catching up on the lovely garden. How about that Nasonex, just horrible stuff. I don't take it anymore like years ago. But it's the first thing they try to push on me. Good Sunday Morning to you Ss.

It happens to the best of us. Lol! My daughter is challenged with dyslexia. We've had many a chuckle over what her brain chooses to see.

I hope your Sunday is progressing nicely as mine has dear. I didn't get much sleep last night, knowing Rifleman was on the road, but I caught up with a little nap, and now I'm contemplating a walk to Starbuck's for a coffee.

Woohoo! I feel like doing a little dance. I just checked my clones and three out of six have lots of nice roots forming, including a tiny one that was 3 weeks into flowering when I took the cutting.

There, I did one for you. Well done DrDoob. I love that moment when I open a bag to find roots shooting out all over. How long did the clone taken in flowering take to root? That's when I took Carnival 4.2. Took her 29 days to grow enough roots to pot up. She's 52 days old now, and just beginning to shoot out normal leaves.

From the size of the initial leaves she's gonna be bigger than Carn 4.1, who was taken at 15 days into flower.

Her new growth is explosive, to put it mildly.

So many issues!

You know it.

You tempted me with hempy, and look where it's taken me. I'd never have given this nutrient line the time of day, growing with Doc's kit. Now I'm questioning the need for soil.

 

[SweetSue]

My brain misread, sorry. Just catching up on the lovely garden. How about that Nasonex, just horrible stuff. I don't take it anymore like years ago. But it's the first thing they try to push on me. Good Sunday Morning to you Ss.

My daughter and I were discussing this earlier. This isn't the first time they've tried to push Nasonex on her. It's sold over the counter, which means they consider it safe enough to dose on your own, without the supervision of a medical professional. Considering the effect every product of this sort has had on her, we can't help but wonder how many are out there who don't realize their attitude shift was due to this horrid medication and its counterparts.

I want to believe that pharmaceuticals have their place in the healing arts, but the more I witness the destructive backwash of so many of them, and the way no one studies the combinations of drugs most patients are taking - what Dale used to call his "toxic dump" (yeah.....consider the implications of thinking of your medication in those terms every time you went to take them ), I'm not so sure anymore that we wouldn't be better off to scrap the industry and start afresh.

I'm so thankful you left this one far behind too.

 

[ShiggityFlip]

Sue these SIPs are rocking hard, maybe try some of those. Almost like a Living soil hempy!

 

[SweetSue]

Sue these SIPs are rocking hard, maybe try some of those. Almost like a Living soil hempy!

They bear a strong similarity to the SWICK I used Shiggity. They were the bomb! I've considered resurrecting them for the late veg into flowering stage. I've been watching your SIPs perform and thinking hard about it, or of giving a SIP a try for one of the plants I'm getting ready to transplant.

I'll have to take a closer look at them for the soil girls. You see my garden sliding further into hempy Heaven though? When I had Rifleman here today we were discussing the weight of 10 gallons of soil or a fully loaded 5 gallon bucket of hydro, when I turned, picked up the tree that is Carn 4.1 and handed her to him. You should have the look on his face when I let go of the pot and he was holding it on his own.

Hempy, with the nutrient line I'm using, is turning out to be a very attractive option in my world. Still haven't harvested one grown all the way through with the RX Green Solutions line, but the veg stage has me stunned. I'll withhold my decision until I compare harvests, but I can't see how it could disappoint me.

 

[DrDoob]

There, I did one for you. Well done DrDoob. I love that moment when I open a bag to find roots shooting out all over. How long did the clone taken in flowering take to root? That's when I took Carnival 4.2. Took her 29 days to grow enough roots to pot up. She's 52 days old now, and just beginning to shoot out normal leaves.

I thought it was 9 days but looking at my notes it was July 30th when I cut them, so six days. The one that was flowering was tiny too, not much more the. A tiny bud with two leaves popping out and a 1" stem.

She's the tiny one at he top I think:

I've been following along with your little weird looking carnival. Can't wait to see how she turns out.

 

[SweetSue]

You can freeze clones? did my brain read correctly?

Hahaha! I found the reference that confused you. When I take leaves from the plants I wash them, dry them real quick, and freeze them for future use. Most of my freezer is full of bags of frozen leaves. That was the fate of the clone cuttings I didn't use.

 

[Rifleman]

Grinning ear-to-ear over here.

Grinning...<snerk> are you sure you're not just high? And what a stash of beans, get to planting woman !

I had a blast this morning Sue. Looking forward to the next group gathering.

 

[Hash Hound]

Sue

here is an experiment I did with one of those "Hercules" root pots I gave you

I wanted to see what would happen if replanted pot and all

I think it did fairly well root wise for transplanting an auto (a big no no) at 6 weeks of a 12 week grow.

The plant turned out real weird though, and low yield. way more leafy bud than solid, but good potency.

I think a photo plant would do even better, hoping to try with a gypsy widow ::

im sure I knocked a lot of root off knocking the soil off

 

[AKgramma]

Sue

here is an experiment I did with one of those "Hercules" root pots I gave you

I wanted to see what would happen if replanted pot and all

I think it did fairly well root wise for transplanting an auto (a big no no) at 6 weeks of a 12 week grow.

The plant turned out real weird though, and low yield. way more leafy bud than solid, but good potency.

I think a photo plant would do even better, hoping to try with a gypsy widow ::

In my experience, you cannot 1) plant an auto in a shallow pot. A soon as the roots hit bottom, it blooms. Both Sue and I ended up with a 7 inch plant with one tiny cola. 2) mess with the roots. Plant the seed in a tall narrow trash receptacle at least 14" in depth and let her do her thing.

When I did it right, my Auto Berry grew right up to 48" and was one big cola! Seed to harvest was a lot faster than any photo or fem I've grown.

 

[SweetSue]

Grinning...<snerk> are you sure you're not just high? And what a stash of beans, get to planting woman !

I had a blast this morning Sue. Looking forward to the next group gathering.

Oh, I'm definately high Mr. McCain. Lol! I lit up that joint you left on the way out.

I had a blast too. We'll meet again, hopefully at the next gathering, which we intend to make a regular event, and hope to inspire other such gatherings.

 

[SweetSue]

Sue

here is an experiment I did with one of those "Hercules" root pots I gave you

I wanted to see what would happen if replanted pot and all

I think it did fairly well root wise for transplanting an auto (a big no no) at 6 weeks of a 12 week grow.

The plant turned out real weird though, and low yield. way more leafy bud than solid, but good potency.

I think a photo plant would do even better, hoping to try with a gypsy widow ::

im sure I knocked a lot of root off knocking the soil off

Neat! I can do that with my Dark Slide and make transplant that much easier.

Thank you Hash Hound.

 

[Dave Groomer]

Morning Sue. PM Sent.