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

[SweetSue]

@Sue you probably can't tell in your house, but do you think the dehydrator causes more or less smell in the house when drying vs hang drying?

Truth be told, I don't get much odor from the dehydrator, but then, consider I have a 6' tall Devil's Carnival perfuming the entire apartment, CBD Critical Cure scent permeating the fridge and a branch of the CBD CC hanging to dry in the hallway to my kitchen. It'd be a hard thing to notice. Lol!

The CBD CC was the first plant I tried in there, and she's a fragrant chemovar. I expected it to really smell, and it didn't. I'll let you know how the Candy Cane goes.

Got some nice shots of her successor today.

Wow are you really gonna go all hempy? Tead and i sure corrupted you fast lol. Never thought id see the day!

This one convinced me lexort.

She's every bit as big as her soil neighbor. I expect her to pack those branches with frosty buds. Then there's this Ultra Dawg looking like she's gonna take a bite out of someone.

And the next Devil's Carnival, in hempy this time and still trying to be an Amazon.

I didn't know I could grow plants this big and bad. Hempy is spoiling me.

I had an interesting surprise this morning when the flowering lights came on and I took the time to look.

My AK47xDurban Poison HERMIED! I see a nice fat seed in each of several buds. Note: these are not nanners, but fully-formed seeds.

Can I assume that these seeds are 1) viable and 2) guaranteed Fems?

I wouldn't have any earthly idea AKgramma. Maybe a more experienced member will step forward with some insight.

 

[Van Stank]

What a sweet compliment lexort.

Sometimes I feel out of my league too. something happened when I went hempy.

Good morning everyone

It's a joyful morning delux. I have a harvest to process.

Check this out! The largest cola.

I've decided to do it all in the dehydrator. That'll save me loads of time. I use almost all of this as brownie filling anyway.

Alright, time to get out there and be joyful. You do your best there, I'll do mine here. Together we make life easier for everyone who comes into our lives. I don't know about you, but that thought makes my heart feel warmer.

Catch you later.

Great looking harvest Sue, that Hempy is doing you well! Sorry haven't been by more in the last week. Things look good in your world Sue!

 

[SweetSue]

Great looking harvest Sue, that Hempy is doing you well! Sorry haven't been by more in the last week. Things look good in your world Sue!

Thank you Van. Who doesn't love a harvest, eh?

Just so you know, I never take offense if you don't stop. The subscriptions can get overwhelming. Factor in life and it can get a little nuts sometimes. The room is fluid, the door's always open.

 

[AKgramma]

Truth be told, I don't get much odor from the dehydrator, but then, consider I have a 6' tall Devil's Carnival perfuming the entire apartment, CBD Critical Cure scent permeating the fridge and a branch of the CBD CC hanging to dry in the hallway to my kitchen. It'd be a hard thing to notice. Lol!

The CBD CC was the first plant I tried in there, and she's a fragrant chemovar. I expected it to really smell, and it didn't. I'll let you know how the Candy Cane goes.

Got some nice shots of her successor today.

This one convinced me lexort.

She's every bit as big as her soil neighbor. I expect her to pack those branches with frosty buds. Then there's this Ultra Dawg looking like she's gonna take a bite out of someone.

And the next Devil's Carnival, in hempy this time and still trying to be an Amazon.

I didn't know I could grow plants this big and bad. Hempy is spoiling me.



I wouldn't have any earthly idea AKgramma. Maybe a more experienced member will step forward with some insight.

After a bit of research, I discovered I was wrong. The Lady had no male parts, so did not hermie. She got pollinated sometime while the males and she were sharing a space, before I separated them. I guess some hidden pods matured early. At least the males were all the same strain, so I am not going to lose the AK48 x DP, after all!

 

[TorturedSoul]

I stuck a little cutting from an abused plant into a cup of soil the other day. Sort of forgot about it. Watered it today and realized that it was in flower. WtF? It's like three inches tall and instead of filling the cup with roots, as I'd expected, it's got some tiny little calyxes here and there on it. Colored pistils and everything.

I'm really close to pulling it out of the cup, shaking any soil off of it, and tossing it into my oven at about 170°F while I go for a walk. If I thought I'd end up with enough to fill up a one-hitter, I would.

Hmm... I guess half of a one-hitter is better than nothing, ya?

 

[SweetSue]

After a bit of research, I discovered I was wrong. The Lady had no male parts, so did not hermie. She got pollinated sometime while the males and she were sharing a space, before I separated them. I guess some hidden pods matured early. At least the males were all the same strain, so I am not going to lose the AK48 x DP, after all!

WHEW! So glad to hear that. This is an intriguinging strain, and I was looking forward to your report on it.

I stuck a little cutting from an abused plant into a cup of soil the other day. Sort of forgot about it. Watered it today and realized that it was in flower. WtF? It's like three inches tall and instead of filling the cup with roots, as I'd expected, it's got some tiny little calyxes here and there on it. Colored pistils and everything.

I'm really close to pulling it out of the cup, shaking any soil off of it, and tossing it into my oven at about 170°F while I go for a walk. If I thought I'd end up with enough to fill up a one-hitter, I would.

Hmm... I guess half of a one-hitter is better than nothing, ya?

What did you decide to do with it? The happiest way to approach this situation is with a hearty whoop of joy that you had half a bowl of something more effective than dirt.

I dream of the day when we can freely and easily ship dried and cured buds to each other. I'd almost bet no one on this site would be without meds during that delicate stage when you need to let them keep some leaves so they can bloom.

It was most likely an auto. As soon as the tap root of an auto hits bottom they bloom. Bottom is a lot closer in a solo cup than it is in a five-gallon pot.


Good morning everyone

I woke up this morning and decided that as much as I've enjoyed the Ultra Dawg, I need a break from the indica strains for a day or two, using them only as sleep meds when needed. I don't care for the slightly groggy feeling at wake up. It washes off in the shower, but still..... Back to the steady sativa diet.

This morning I'll kick off with a capsule and Carnival.

I've begun a practice of cleaning the bong every morning. It's unbelievable how dirty the thing can get when you only smoke sticky buds. Suddenly I can taste the cannabis. Lol!

Happy September. Another month to fill with joyful days. I love that new start to the day, to the week, the month, the year.... Yeah, I do love life, don't I? It's hard to be otherwise when every day starts with a childlike giggle and the deliberate proclaimation of

"You bet I'm ready to play!"

Ok, time for some nutritional support and then on to the updates. I'll be back later to encourage more joy and share pictures of the girls.

 

[TorturedSoul]

What did you decide to do with it? The happiest way to approach this situation is with a hearty whoop of joy that you had half a bowl of something more effective than dirt.

Surprisingly - considering the... state I was in, mentally - I let it be.

I dream of the day when we can freely and easily ship dried and cured buds to each other.

Err... .

It was most likely an auto.

Actually, lol, it's a cutting from the Huckleberry plant I've been growing (from a seed that was gifted to me... last Autumn?). I wanted to root one so I could remove the "mother" in order to make way for a room full of autos (and maybe a phototropic plant, if I can figure out which one will be the most compact).

I'm guessing that what happened is the monster in the garden (I think it's the Kali Mist, but it could be the Jack Herer) pollinated it after extreme stress drove it into full-bore hermaphroditic survival mode. Light poisoning and all that. IDK, to be honest. I've never experimented by pollinating a large plant's "pre-flowers" during the vegetative phase, then cloned it.

Another possibility is that it was pollinated (via the same source) after I cut it.

It's kind of funny. It'd be really funny if I wasn't hoping to save a cut of the plant. I do still have a couple of Huckleberry seeds left, but they were among the batch that spent a few weeks in my hot attic (while I searched the rest of the house for my seed stash <DOH!>). I might just give up on this plant altogether and hope that those seeds remain viable. The need for a decision is still a week or two away. Seedlings don't take up much room (I only have two at the moment).

Adding to the feeling of "bummer" is that I'd have stuck the clone into a hempy setup. Now I'll probably just leave it in its little cup until I decide to bake it to death and then cremate the remains.

Hmm... There's no time like the present, lol?

As soon as the tap root of an auto hits bottom they bloom. Bottom is a lot closer in a solo cup than it is in a five-gallon pot.

AKGramma mentioned the same thing to me last evening. And you are both correct, of course. The two seedlings I have in those doggone medium-sized 18-ounce Solo cups (whatever happened to the 24-ounce version? They're 33% larger!) are Train Wreck Auto (Crop King Seeds) and that White Widow Auto (Soul Breeders - a breeder I'd never heard/read of before) .

I know this to be true. But I wonder how far I can push it before dooming them to midgetdom, lol?

I also wonder if those sprinkles are just that - or the preface to an actual rain event? I refuse to mow my yard every three days, lol, so it's like six or seven days since I did so and it's already back to shin-height. Ah, the joys of living in an actual house instead of sharing a building with a bunch of other people... But the grass doesn't fight, doesn't stink, won't cry to a landlord if/when I turn the stereo up loud enough for the woofers to blow out lighters from several inches away and throw on Nazareth's cover of The Ballad of Hollis Brown (that one would make a stone weep even while causing one's eardrums to bleed from the bass/drums) and will never rat me out. So, on the balance, I can live with the rampant alien mutant grass on steroids. Besides, it looks so pretty growing up through the SNOW in Febraury, lofl. (No, that isn't one of my exaggerations - the stuff is... relentless.)

 

[Radogast]

I stuck a little cutting from an abused plant into a cup of soil the other day. Sort of forgot about it. Watered it today and realized that it was in flower. WtF? It's like three inches tall and instead of filling the cup with roots, as I'd expected, it's got some tiny little calyxes here and there on it. Colored pistils and everything.

I'm really close to pulling it out of the cup, shaking any soil off of it, and tossing it into my oven at about 170°F while I go for a walk. If I thought I'd end up with enough to fill up a one-hitter, I would.

Hmm... I guess half of a one-hitter is better than nothing, ya?

It's probably that you set it too far from the light.

I had one of my four flourescent tubes burn out (old age) and with the sudden reduction in light, most of my veg plants started setting flowers. I replaced the tube with my last flourescent tube, and they somewhat stabilized.

After 2 weeks? I lost another bulb and they started flowering heavy again.

It seems a sudden change in light color or light intensity can cause photoperiod cannabis to flower.

 

[TorturedSoul]

It's probably that you set it too far from the light.

It's about ten inches lower than the plant I cut it from. And they're both under a ~350-watt hybrid LED panel. You could be correct, even so - but by the time I noticed male flowers on the... jungle sativa monster (lol), they were like clusters of grapes hanging everywhere (and many had already opened and spread their... love). I'll probably snap a picture of it before I throw it to the wolves.

 

[Amadeus Forzin]

Happy Friday Sweetness

I have a question about your brownies. How much oil does the packet mix ask for? The only one available in she store here only calls for 40ml of oil, 70ml water and 1 egg, to fill an 8x8 inch tin.

I notice you use between 1/3 and 1/2 Cup (78-118ml) and 2 eggs. I'm trying to get the dosing right for the lads trip away.

 

[KeifKeith]

SweetSue

"I dream of the day when we can freely and easily ship dried and cured buds to each other. I'd almost bet no one on this site would be without meds during that delicate stage when you need to let them keep some leaves so they can bloom."
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Hi great 420Mag folks!

Indeed Sue, won't that time be great, to share and trade our yield among the group? I'd have never thought it even possible until the last decade or so, I hope to live long enough to see the day and legally share my own produce.

I thought you might get hooked on Hempy, it's so forgiving and easy. I once abandoned every other method myself for perlite, but eventually added soil back into the methods. I like doing organic too, just for the fun of it, the produce difference to ME is indiscernible. I've tried most every illumination type over the decades, and most indoor grower methods as well (I really don't want to add up the all money I've spent on equipment for every method, I might cry!), only to keep going back to straight perlite. Its so clean, cheap, easy and forgiving of neglect.

If you ever want to grow crazy root volumes even faster, pump air (aquarium pump) into a 24" flexible air tube coiled around in the reservoir. In my experience, in just 3 weeks the roots can totally fill a 5 gallon bucket. Warning: oscillating fan air movement moving the leaves helps the stems support the plant as growth can be so fast that stems can be a little rubbery for a week or two in Veg.

Nice harvests happening for you, awesome! Dehydrator huh? I tried that once in the 80s with a RONCO Popeil (sp?) Jerky dehydrator, it didn't work out too well for me but it was just a quick and stoned idea and experiment!

Sorry to hear about BIL, you know how much you've helped him and given him life beyond what a SIL usually would! Feel good for what you have done for him so far, especially after the last "event" that made you shut down. Props for helping him, good heart always girl.

I just got back from Houston this morning, what a freakin mess, those poor folks, I know their pain, I've lived it myself in New Orleans in 1965 with Hurricane Betsy, and Camiile in 1969 in Pass Christian. Hurricanes are no fun, but flooding is Noah's Ark shit in modern day (parable or real, it SUCKS). Prayers (or good Karma, positive thoughts, paying it forward emotions .. whatever the belief system) and money, they need lots of both. If anyone can offer either please do so, they really need it. My Nephew, his Wife and my Godchild are all well thank God, just no more stuff, all things are gone. Things can be replaced, it's only stuff, not life! I brought them back here to stay with me for a few weeks to get away from ground zero. He works in Petrochemical, and that industry won't be up for several weeks or even months, so no income for them until refineries are back in production. No worries there, I can easily house, clothe and feed them for a while. Still, it's so heartbreaking to see so many people in shock and loss, it's a similar emotional reaction as grief is from death IMHO, but it will all work out, and with a little help from the rest of the USA, a little more quickly.

What seed bank did you get you DDA from Sue? I want to try growing that strain from seed, and I haven't run across it yet. I have a very good collection of seeds, bought, grown, traded and gifted, but no DDA ... yet!

Enjoy your harvests and Oil production, I know I do!



Keith

 

[KeifKeith]

I never thought of this, I am always fighting with Dripping branches swinging this way and that.
And then the cursing cause I do not like a wet mess on my floor.

Maybe try the string centrifuge drying method ... tie a string to the bottom of the stem and swing it around in a circle like a lasso rope, it will relocate the mess from your floors to your walls!

I do this outside myself, but do slow down if you start to obtain lift!




Cheers



Keith

 

[AKgramma]

It's about ten inches lower than the plant I cut it from. And they're both under a ~350-watt hybrid LED panel. You could be correct, even so - but by the time I noticed male flowers on the... jungle sativa monster (lol), they were like clusters of grapes hanging everywhere (and many had already opened and spread their... love). I'll probably snap a picture of it before I throw it to the wolves.

Remember what I have been telling you about using dried and powdered leaves and male part as cooking herbs. You can even use them fresh and get stoned off your lasania (sp), chili, stew, or whatever you're cooking!

Waste not, want not. ;-)

 

[AKgramma]

Happy Friday Sweetness

I have a question about your brownies. How much oil does the packet mix ask for? The only one available in she store here only calls for 40ml of oil, 70ml water and 1 egg, to fill an 8x8 inch tin.

I notice you use between 1/3 and 1/2 Cup (78-118ml) and 2 eggs. I'm trying to get the dosing right for the lads trip away.

When we make brownies from a mix, we melt the cannabudder to the same measurement of the oil on the package. It's all about moisture and the particular mix of dry ingredients. You want a super-moist brand to start with. But anything on the shelf will do.

You are replacing plain old oil with melted cannabudder. The rest is easy. Same deal if you make them from scratch.

(edit) dose per serving is also easy. If you used 28g of bud for your cannibudder and you cut the brownies into 16 pieces, that's 1.75g per brownie. Sue says you can lose 15% in making the budder, so the end product will be around 1.5g per brownie at the very least.

 

[mouser]

Remember what I have been telling you about using dried and powdered leaves and male part as cooking herbs. You can even use them fresh and get stoned off your lasania (sp), chili, stew, or whatever you're cooking!

Waste not, want not. ;-)

My first experience with edibles was tossing shake in the pasta sauce...it quickly became a hit.. Rasta Pasta Pesto Tasted awesome.

 

[AKgramma]

My first experience with edibles was tossing shake in the pasta sauce...it quickly became a hit.. Rasta Pasta Pesto Tasted awesome.

Any kind of tomato-based sauce will completely mask the taste of the weed. I haven't tried it with Chicken Parmesan or other cheese sauce yet.

But, you can make a big batch and freeze the leftovers (I go single portions) and enjoy anytime you please. At least you know what went into your frozen meal!

 

[mouser]

Any kind of tomato-based sauce will completely mask the taste of the weed. I haven't tried it with Chicken Parmesan or other cheese sauce yet.

But, you can make a big batch and freeze the leftovers (I go single portions) and enjoy anytime you please. At least you know what went into your frozen meal!

I beg to differ...you could definitely taste the weed in the sauce. Touch of cinnamon and nutmeg and that stuff was the bomb

 

[AKgramma]

I beg to differ...you could definitely taste the weed in the sauce. Touch of cinnamon and nutmeg and that stuff was the bomb

I forgot to mention the spices and other herbs I use to beef up the sauce. Onion and Garlic powder, celery salt, and the rest of a jar of hot salsa! (using up what was left when I ran out of chips)

 

[SweetSue]

Happy Friday Sweetness

I have a question about your brownies. How much oil does the packet mix ask for? The only one available in she store here only calls for 40ml of oil, 70ml water and 1 egg, to fill an 8x8 inch tin.

I notice you use between 1/3 and 1/2 Cup (78-118ml) and 2 eggs. I'm trying to get the dosing right for the lads trip away.

Sorry, I missed this in a busy day. You can use any mix you have on hand. I've used a mix that used 1/3 cup and one that calls for 1/2 cup. I make the oil for brownies special by the batch and always use 8 grams for a pan, regardless of the oil called for.

 

[SweetSue]

It's probably that you set it too far from the light.

I had one of my four flourescent tubes burn out (old age) and with the sudden reduction in light, most of my veg plants started setting flowers. I replaced the tube with my last flourescent tube, and they somewhat stabilized.

After 2 weeks? I lost another bulb and they started flowering heavy again.

It seems a sudden change in light color or light intensity can cause photoperiod cannabis to flower.

This explains why my very first plant, the adoptee Northern Lights from the BIL, went into flowering out in the open. She was under bulges for Dale's plants and one was going bad. All these years I've wondered about that Rad.

SweetSue

"I dream of the day when we can freely and easily ship dried and cured buds to each other. I'd almost bet no one on this site would be without meds during that delicate stage when you need to let them keep some leaves so they can bloom."
_______________________________

Hi great 420Mag folks!

Indeed Sue, won't that time be great, to share and trade our yield among the group? I'd have never thought it even possible until the last decade or so, I hope to live long enough to see the day and legally share my own produce.

I thought you might get hooked on Hempy, it's so forgiving and easy. I once abandoned every other method myself for perlite, but eventually added soil back into the methods. I like doing organic too, just for the fun of it, the produce difference to ME is indiscernible. I've tried most every illumination type over the decades, and most indoor grower methods as well (I really don't want to add up the all money I've spent on equipment for every method, I might cry!), only to keep going back to straight perlite. Its so clean, cheap, easy and forgiving of neglect.

If you ever want to grow crazy root volumes even faster, pump air (aquarium pump) into a 24" flexible air tube coiled around in the reservoir. In my experience, in just 3 weeks the roots can totally fill a 5 gallon bucket. Warning: oscillating fan air movement moving the leaves helps the stems support the plant as growth can be so fast that stems can be a little rubbery for a week or two in Veg.

Nice harvests happening for you, awesome! Dehydrator huh? I tried that once in the 80s with a RONCO Popeil (sp?) Jerky dehydrator, it didn't work out too well for me but it was just a quick and stoned idea and experiment!

Sorry to hear about BIL, you know how much you've helped him and given him life beyond what a SIL usually would! Feel good for what you have done for him so far, especially after the last "event" that made you shut down. Props for helping him, good heart always girl.

I just got back from Houston this morning, what a freakin mess, those poor folks, I know their pain, I've lived it myself in New Orleans in 1965 with Hurricane Betsy, and Camiile in 1969 in Pass Christian. Hurricanes are no fun, but flooding is Noah's Ark shit in modern day (parable or real, it SUCKS). Prayers (or good Karma, positive thoughts, paying it forward emotions .. whatever the belief system) and money, they need lots of both. If anyone can offer either please do so, they really need it. My Nephew, his Wife and my Godchild are all well thank God, just no more stuff, all things are gone. Things can be replaced, it's only stuff, not life! I brought them back here to stay with me for a few weeks to get away from ground zero. He works in Petrochemical, and that industry won't be up for several weeks or even months, so no income for them until refineries are back in production. No worries there, I can easily house, clothe and feed them for a while. Still, it's so heartbreaking to see so many people in shock and loss, it's a similar emotional reaction as grief is from death IMHO, but it will all work out, and with a little help from the rest of the USA, a little more quickly.

What seed bank did you get you DDA from Sue? I want to try growing that strain from seed, and I haven't run across it yet. I have a very good collection of seeds, bought, grown, traded and gifted, but no DDA ... yet!

Enjoy your harvests and Oil production, I know I do!



Keith

I'm thankful your family members are well and you have the means to keep them comfortable as they recover from the shock and devastation. It certainly makes you rethink the value you put on possessions, doesn't it? It'll take them years to recover, and it'll start all over again. Once again we'll have a mass migration out of a major metro area as they rebuild. I often wonder how many relocated by Katrina haven't made it back to their roots yet.

Thank you for the reminder of ways to offer assistance.

The BIL...... that's a tough one. I was the one who dealt with my own brother's recovery following his stroke. Too soon to deal with it. It's bothered me that I have this reaction my daughter says is PTSD, but I understand the injury enough to know that I have the means to heal the brain chemistry disconnect and I'll get past it.

His situation is a not-so-gentle reminder to treat the people in your life with love and respect, because the consequences of choosing otherwise may be dire. He needs an advocate, and no one in the family wants to go there. He did so much emotional damage over the years. Mental illness is misunderstood, and that can be a nasty bite someday you didn't plan on.

There's no way of knowing how this will pan out for him.

I'll PM you about the seed bank.

I'm hoping the dehydrator can replace the production of FHO. It'll be nice to have another option to standing over the stove for hours. If it works the way I want it to I'll be able to make 36-hour infused oil with the dehydrated buds and get an equivalent oil.

Maybe try the string centrifuge drying method ... tie a string to the bottom of the stem and swing it around in a circle like a lasso rope, it will relocate the mess from your floors to your walls!

I do this outside myself, but do slow down if you start to obtain lift!




Cheers



Keith

My first experience with edibles was tossing shake in the pasta sauce...it quickly became a hit.. Rasta Pasta Pesto Tasted awesome.

Any kind of tomato-based sauce will completely mask the taste of the weed. I haven't tried it with Chicken Parmesan or other cheese sauce yet.

But, you can make a big batch and freeze the leftovers (I go single portions) and enjoy anytime you please. At least you know what went into your frozen meal!

I forgot to mention the spices and other herbs I use to beef up the sauce. Onion and Garlic powder, celery salt, and the rest of a jar of hot salsa! (using up what was left when I ran out of chips)

You guys have me so hungry now I'll have to do something about dinner soon. Let me whip out these updates. Mouser, cinnamon And nutmeg in the pizza sauce? How much did you add?