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

[SweetSue]

Weekly Update: Early Flowering Tent - Friday, August 11, 2017

CBD Critical Cure 2.2.1 (Day 98, flip + 16) She had her last DeStress foliar last Sunday. Bright and early tomorrow will be Brix. Two days ago she got a TransWater drench, at which time I forgot to do her Recharge topdressing. I'll get that before the next drench.

Her next drench will be her first CAT.

Thin Mint GSC (Day 67, flip + 29) A tall and statuesque beauty. I seem to be growing more and more of these tall lovelies. Give me more than two ounces each and I won't complain.

Dont you just love spikey pistils with attitude?

The canopy held steady. I'm pleased with this pair. I think it's time to get someone else in here. As soon as Candy Cane 4 recovers from the FIM I'll get her flipped.

On to the tiny closet. Are we having fun?

 

[SweetSue]

Weekly Update: The Tiny Closet - Friday, August 11, 2017

Carnival 4.1 on the left (Day 77), Devil's Carnival on the right (Day 71). It's been 16 days since flip.

I'm getting really good light penetration down into the interior of Carnival 4.1.

We have blossoms.

Blossoms on Devil's Carnival are starting to take off in ernest. She lost the last of her big-ass lower fans this morning. I see a strong sativa influence.

Pretty good light penetration on this side of the closet as well.

No complaints from me.

 

[Amy Gardner]

Wow sue! They're really beautiful. Are you still using just CFL is in your tiny closet?

(it's the middle of the night here, I can't sleep. Nice way to pass the time catching your update.)

 

[Mag7]

Hey Sue, what's your preferred way to wash your harvest?

 

[Amy Gardner]

Hi Mag7, hope you don't mind me cutting in!

If this works... (link didn't work) Sue outlines her 3 step wash in a few places, including in post #556 of this thread.

I couldn't work out how to link to that using my phone...

 

[Amy Gardner]

There's also the excellent thread by Doc Bud (and many others now) on Bud washing. You might've seen that already but thought I'd mention it just in case. Sue plays with some slightly warm temperatures with her wash (in the first bucket I think?), but Doc Bud reckons just room temp all round is good.

(...and I hope sue hasn't minded me cutting in on a question for her - others have done it for me .)

 

[SweetSue]

Weekly Update: Veg Shelf - Friday, August 11, 2017

Blue Dream S1 (Day 10) Another week and she'll be ready to transplant. The solo cup hempy has worked well.

Waiting on an Industrial Plant seed to germinate. Trying perlite this time. She got planted yesterday. The dome is sealed to keep humidity levels up.

Malawi (Day 28) on Wednesday she recieved her first Energy drench. Looks like she has some action planned. I started a little LST yesterday.

CBD Critical Cure 2.5 (Day 15) Potted up last Saturday, she hasn't had a drink since the TransWater drench that accompanied the planting. She is so beautifully delicate she makes me smile every time I spot her.

Devil's Carnival 1.1 (Day 16) Every bit as beautiful as her mother. I'll give serious attention to controlling vertical growth. I'd like this one to bloom below 50". Lol!

Thin Mint GSC 1.1 (Day 29) What can I say? She's absolutely beautiful. Exquisite structure and this lovely leaves......

The FIMs weren't so much to get more growth up here as they were a way to slow down top growth and let internal growth get ahead of the game.

Pits working well for that.

Candy Cane 3 (Day 29) She's just about ready to flip. Give her a little time to recover from the FIMs and she'll be in the tent by next weekend, by my estimation.

Such sturdy trunks on this strain.

Dark Slide (Day 38) A hearty and happy plant. She took the trimming without a hitch, as did the rest TBH.

Ultra Dawg 1.1 (Day 39) She's exploded, and I mean exploded in growth over the last couple days.

I nearly killed this one, remember? Look at her resurrect into something spectacular.

Jamaican Bag Seed (Day 34) She had a drink of plain water and a Destress foliar last Sunday, and underwent the FIM training on Wednesday. She wants to be a tall girl, I can see the signs. There's more root space in her immediate future.

Carnival 4.2 (Day 57) She takes my breath away. She'll look like an entirely different plant in another week, you watch.

I've been doing my best to keep the canopy level and get the branches placed for more efficient growth.

Yeah..... This one's gonna be a monster like her big sister.

Canopy control.

future promise

Carnival 4.3 (Day 17) I spotted the first root today. She might be ready to plant in another three days. This one goes into soil.

CBD Critical Cure 2.6 (Day 11) No signs of roots. I refilled it with my expelled breath and put her back on the floor.

And that's the end of the nickle tour. I hope it generated some joy and enthusiasm. I know it did here. Lol! Thank you for stopping to admire and support. Where else can I enthuse like this to people who understand what they're looking at?

Continue having your joyful day. I'll be running into you here and there as the day progresses. Right now I think a walk is in order. Until later.

 

[SweetSue]

Wow sue! They're really beautiful. Are you still using just CFL is in your tiny closet?

(it's the middle of the night here, I can't sleep. Nice way to pass the time catching your update.)

I have a dear friend who owns a top-notch grow lighting company. He gifted me with all of my lights. The tiny closet has COBs, and I believe they're 3500 K. The closet was supposed to be for autos, and eventually I'll get it back to that.

Hey Sue, what's your preferred way to wash your harvest?

Hi Mag7, hope you don't mind me cutting in!

If this works... (link didn't work) Sue outlines her 3 step wash in a few places, including in post #556 of this thread.

I couldn't work out how to link to that using my phone...

Thank you Amy. Before you know it you'll be throwing links around with your eyes closed.

Actually, I've since changed my method to eliminate the lemon juice and baking soda. I now use a dilution of H2O2 in the first bucket and follow that with two clear washes. We had a discussion on the Low and Slo thread about this and I determined that for me the lemon juice and baking soda were a waste of money.

 

[SweetSue]

There's also the excellent thread by Doc Bud (and many others now) on Bud washing. You might've seen that already but thought I'd mention it just in case. Sue plays with some slightly warm temperatures with her wash (in the first bucket I think?), but Doc Bud reckons just room temp all round is good.

(...and I hope sue hasn't minded me cutting in on a question for her - others have done it for me .)

My threads are all about interaction Amy. Feel free to jump in anytime.

 

[Amy Gardner]

I have a dear friend who owns a top-notch grow lighting company. He gifted me with all of my lights. The tiny closet has COBs, and I believe they're 3500 K. The closet was supposed to be for autos, and eventually I'll get it back to that.



Thank you Amy. Before you know it you'll be throwing links around with your eyes closed.

Actually, I've since changed my method to eliminate the lemon juice and baking soda. I now use a dilution of H2O2 in the first bucket and follow that with two clear washes. We had a discussion on the Low and Slo thread about this and I determined that for me the lemon juice and baking soda were a waste of money.

Good to know. Money is tight here too! I'm building a tall box inspired by your tiny closet, for autos. Inspired by your grows mostly - but cruising other threads a bit too.

I want to ask some basic questions about my soil... but I'm a bit too wary to start my own journal yet. Could I ask a bit here?

I tried closing my eyes, it still didn't work ..

 

[TorturedSoul]

You know TS, I'm reading this and thinking how easy it was to keep clone cuttings in solo cups with perlite and wondering why I never thought to keep solo cup bonsai mothers? This gives me a way to hang onto genetics I already proved I like while I explore other lines.

I used a standard soil and perlite mix for mine, maybe a little heavy on the perlite (~33%?). I was rarely feeding them (very rarely) and they weren't getting watered all that often, either. I joked that they must have gotten hydrated from the shower's steam :rolleyes3 .

Those weren't planned things, lol. I started three extra seeds one time, didn't have room when they sprouted, and left them there "until there was room." Then I more or less forgot they were there for three or four months and thought, "Hmm... I wonder if they'll make it to their birthdays in those same little cups, under that dim light?" (Yes.)

We have a thread in that.

Bonsai Mothers

I remember that thread (err... now, I do ). When I saw it'd been a while since the last post, I thought to bump it. Alas, I saw that it was a closed thread.

I read something of that sort years ago on a pepper website. Pepper plants make great bonsais - you can quickly get one to look like a 70-year old (miniature) tree with a little training and pruning, and they'll live for a long time.

Hmm... I'm used to the occasional(?) helicopter. This long, slow, <WHOOSH!> is new. World's slowest jet get lost? Maybe it's an unscheduled tornado (but we're not in Kansas!?!). IDK...

Actually, that pepper website might have been where I picked up the "'repotting' back into its original pot" idea.

Ultra Dawg (Day 98, flip + 30) When I go to bed at night the smell of this girl permeates my bedroom. It started just last night, and it's not as noticable this morning, though still pronounced.

What does that one smell like?

BtW, I've experienced similar - woke up thinking, "Sure am glad that scent faded a bit." Then learned otherwise when a friend drove up and came through the door "complimenting" me on how my driveway smelled :icon_roll . Luckily, I lived in the country at the time and the nearest neighbor was ¼-mile away. I live in town now <SIGH>.

BtW, what does the UD line smell like? Recognizably cannabis? Or possibly something that could be confused with flowery incense?

I thought I smelled skunk the other night when I couldn't sleep and went for a walk. Then I walked a little more, and learned that I'd not been smelling skunk - I had been smelling A skunk. We were both wary of each other and (thankfully) kept our distance. I'm assuming it was a different animal than the time I felt a cat brush up against my ankle, leaned down and petted it, then looked and saw that it wasn't a cat. It's funny how a person can go from half asleep to wide awake in the blink of an eye...

Remember the giant bottle picture I sent you? I wonder if cannabis would survive in such an environment? I fear its needs - and growth characteristics - would prevent it from working. Be interesting to have one live in a sealed environment for 40+ years, though.

 

[Mag7]

Thanks everyone, I'm driving right now and I will catch up as soon as I can. You're all the best!

 

[kelticBlue]

Holy smoke! lots of really great fotos today


This one looks like it is thinkin' re veg at the top little bit of healthy growth making it fly like a helicopter top. I like!

 

[Mag7]

Yup, that post #556 is the lemon juice post. I've been reading and want to try the H202 wash as well but the search is a difficult one lol. I am wanting 5% correct and then what the dilution?

 

[Amy Gardner]

Ok - so the bud washing thread lays out Doc Bud's original method which includes those details - all on the first page.

Now... if only I could give you a link here .

Need to read some guidelines! .

 

[Amy Gardner]

Try this - hopefully I've successfully brought in the method from the originator of the technique (I've just been reading through this myself...)

....when you smoke your first washed harvest, you'll understand.

For those who are new to this, here's my method:

4 buckets total. (5 gallon buckets are perfect)

Bucket 1: 3 parts RO water to 1 part 3% H202.
Bucket 2: 5 gallons of RO with 1 cup baking soda, 1 cup Lemon Juice
Buckets 3 and 4: RO only.

Cut down plants, pull off fan leaves by hand, remove any necrotic leaves. Leave sugar leaves and anything with frosting on the plant.

Fully submerge in bucket 1 (H2O2) for 30 seconds. Submerge for a full minute if you had ANY sign of PM or bud rot. Let water drip from buds and then.....

Fully submerge in buckets 2 through 4 for 30 seconds each...lightly agitating the whole time.

Allow produce to drip dry. You can blow a fan on it if you like, just make sure it's blowing clean air.

Hang and dry per usual.

Final manicure of buds is best done after they dry. It goes very fast and you're left with washed, highly resinous trim....makes superb joints. I'm also educating my customers to select untrimmed buds, which are actually better than the manicured ones because they still have sugar leaves attached. The trichomes in the leaves have more THC than those in the buds.....so it's good to get the whole spectrum in there.

I give instructions for this in my journals, as I do it every single week, on every single harvest. Once you try it, you'll never go back.

This works so well for a couple reasons:

1. takes off dirt, foliar sprays, bugs, fiberglass dust, etc.
2. fully hydrates the leaves, allowing photosynthesis to occur for a day or two on cut and trimmed buds. I recommend leaving a light on the buds for the first day or two after washing.

This results in very, dense, clean burning, smooth tasting produce! That's the basic recipe....and I'm tweaking and changing it all the time.

Warning: Do NOT use an "organic produce wash" that is based on oils! They sell these in grocery stores and health food stores, and while they might be good for lettuce and cukes....the oil removes resin from the plants.....don't use it!

Water will not harm resin....oil can and does.

Anyone who wants to know more about my methods is welcome to ask me about them anytime!

 

[Mag7]

Try this - hopefully I've successfully brought in the method from the originator of the technique (I've just been reading through this myself...)

Thank you Amy, your making my day some much easier and convenient. I seem to not know my way around very well today.

 

[TorturedSoul]

i'm driving right now

SIX WEEKS... IN DAS KOOLER!

:icon_roll

 

[Amy Gardner]

And FWIW - Graytail talks about (somewhere in that thread) giving quite a healthy agitation while dunking!
Who'd a thunk it? Can't wait to try it out .

 

[SweetSue]

Yup, that post #556 is the lemon juice post. I've been reading and want to try the H202 wash as well but the search is a difficult one lol. I am wanting 5% correct and then what the dilution?

I couldn't find anything stronger than 3%. I used one 32 oz bottle in five gallons of water.