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

[TorturedSoul]

I have a little Blueberry x White Widow cross that I started to grow for those reasons. Sadly, I think it might be a male. If it is, I'll toss it and try to germinate another seed. Seems like those two parents would produce a plant (seed) that'd be helpful for pain and rest.

 

[Hash Hound]

Sue the Chemdawg is not normally that stretchy.

It may have been the lights he was using this time.

It's usually a fairly compact plant.

 

[SweetSue]

Maintenance chores

The plant comes down and then the cleanup ensues. I'm usually slower at this part of the growing than I could be, but everything still clicks along, so I try not to beat myself up about being lazy.

Hempy roots

It's always surprising how many roots cram themselves into the small pots.

Before I use this pot again I'll fix the coverage issue with more duck tape.

No real sludge in here to concern me. The perlite is doing a fine job of acting as matrix.

All cleared out for perlite reclamation. It'll be sifted and soaked in a mild Clorox dilution, then used again.

Soil roots

They take a little more effort.

Solid rootstock all the way to the edges.

After a few minutes of crumbling and shaking the roots are ready to be chopped and added to the bin.

Add a few leaves, some amendment, some EWC and water, mix well and close it up for a month.

I put a tag on each bin to tell me where it came from, the date it was prepared for storage, when it'll be done, and what run the soil is. I'm phasing out soil, not abandoning it. I grow with some of the best soil and nutrients one can choose. I'll make the best use of every bit until I'm through with it, or I can find a local grower keen on trying the kit. I thought Hash Hound might be interested, but he's heard the call of hempy, and it's tempting him too.

Walking by the veg shelf I got ruthless again.

The Jamaican has a month to impress me with her desire to be flowering. That'll take some serious growth on her part.

I have great faith faith in her.

I think I'm finally done with gardening for the day. Let me try to get that Callanetics session in that's been being missed for the past couple days. The joints are starting to creak, and we can't have that.

 

[SweetSue]

Sue the Chemdawg is not normally that stretchy.

It may have been the lights he was using this time.

It's usually a fairly compact plant.

I remember you mentioning that before. I have the clone I'll be running hempy to watch for better structure. I'll be trimming her back next Hash Hound. Those trimmers took on a mind of their own today.

Van, I had a good laugh at your post. It tickles me how that dog barks and I go down within minutes. If I delay to get some chore done the mind fogs and it takes longer. Lol! The eight hours of rock-like sleep caught me off guard. I'm not a fan of the hangover either, but I'll find some holistic way to counter that, possibly by doing a session of qi gong as I roll out of bed on those mornings.

 

[TorturedSoul]

I'm not a fan of the hangover either, but I'll find some holistic way to counter that, possibly by doing a session of qi gong as I roll out of bed on those mornings.

...or just pack a bowl with your favorite sativa and leave it on the nightstand when you go to sleep, lol.

 

[Mag7]

I'm still working out other kinks, like soil management and water needs. I started trying to track water needs this week. It's a raw work in progress.

Every time I water a plant I cross out that date and replace it with the next projected date, and sometimes what drench is coming up.

Grow a tent full of the same plant started together and it's easy to determine how much water you'll need to have on hand. grow a bunch in a perpetual in different mediums and it becomes a balancing act. One my distiller is having a hard time keeping up with. It's become necessary to occasionally truck some in by foot from the local store. It helps to have a general idea ahead of time if I need to make a water run.

Soil management is a bit more challenging. All this designation of "first run, second run, third run......" It wearies my mind and I keep getting confused. In a perpetual garden it gets hairy remembering who got what soil and how old that soil is. Eek!

Sue, I'm sure you have your soil labeled. You could mark a piece of masking tape with your soil run and date on the pot you plant in. That way you always know what's going on soil wise. That's what I will be doing. My second run is cooking now, I won't need it for some time but I got it marked ..

 

[Van Stank]

I have a little Blueberry x White Widow cross that I started to grow for those reasons. Sadly, I think it might be a male. If it is, I'll toss it and try to germinate another seed. Seems like those two parents would produce a plant (seed) that'd be helpful for pain and rest.

Haven't tried the White Widow yet, planning on growing it on my next grow. I know that blueberry alone is great for both sleep and pain. I have heard great things about White Widow (planning on testing it on Ms Stank's migraines) so that cross (Blue Widow or Whiteberry perhaps) sounds like it would be a great hybrid. I think its one I might look into brother! Thanks for the idea.

 

[Van Stank]

Sue, how often do you need to water when growing in hempy?

 

[Chris Scorpio]

Haven't tried the White Widow yet, planning on growing it on my next grow. I know that blueberry alone is great for both sleep and pain. I have heard great things about White Widow (planning on testing it on Ms Stank's migraines) so that cross (Blue Widow or Whiteberry perhaps) sounds like it would be a great hybrid. I think its one I might look into brother! Thanks for the idea.

I have a WW that's close to cured...nice smoke GF really likes it

I'm waiting for all my Indica to get done..... Blueberry is one of em

 

[Chris Scorpio]

Sue, how often do you need to water when growing in hempy?

Pot size is what depixs it Van

My 3gal go for 4-5 days easy, the 1 gal 2-3

I hiked for 4 days...even my Hempy starts did fine

 

[Van Stank]

I think you will really like that Blueberry brother! I know I do. Its one I am thankful I took a clone off and that is working its way through the veg stage. Not to mention that the smell is amazing!! I can sniff my blueberry all day long and it never gets old!

 

[Chris Scorpio]

I think you will really like that Blueberry brother! I know I do. Its one I am thankful I took a clone off and that is working its way through the veg stage. Not to mention that the smell is amazing!! I can sniff my blueberry all day long and it never gets old!

Ya that and the skunk I'm excited about
And my Green Doc us looking amazing

 

[SweetSue]

Ha, yeah, it won't end up 14' tall and nine feet across. I suspect you still could end up with something a little taller than you are, that you cannot get get your arms around. Especially if that's going to be a five-gallon hempy. That's not DWC - but it's still capable of outgrowing soil.

Hope you have lots of room....

Room is the one thing I'm lacking in at the moment. Don't scare me like that. Lol!

a FIVE GALLON HEMPY

I see her own Malawi Christmas Tree in the Making

...or just pack a bowl with your favorite sativa and leave it on the nightstand when you go to sleep, lol.

Now why hasn't that occurred to me as an option? Although.... this morning I literally went straight from sleep to the wake 'n bake with Pigeons, and after six hits of Carnival I still felt like I needed to climb back into the bed.

But tonight I'll do that. I did Callanetics late this evening, and that always energizes me enough that the Indicas'll be called into service.

Sue, I'm sure you have your soil labeled. You could mark a piece of masking tape with your soil run and date on the pot you plant in. That way you always know what's going on soil wise. That's what I will be doing. My second run is cooking now, I won't need it for some time but I got it marked ..

What a neat idea, and why didn't I think of that before. Pigeons alerted us to the fact that hockey tape works well for his function. It won't come off even in the wash. Lol!

Sue, how often do you need to water when growing in hempy?

As Scorpio says, it depends on the pot as well as the plant. I've recently taken to picking mine up and feeling the weight as an indicator, whereas as recently as a week ago it was strictly by a schedule, every so many days. Then I thought about it and decided it made more sense if I let the plant empty the reservoir out.

My vinegar bottle pots go about 3-4 days and the other pots are between 4-5 for the small ones and 5-6 days for the larger ones, which Rad once calculated to be holding about 2.5 gallons of perlite.

Next I'll try feeding them every other time instead of every time. It's occurred to me that all this lushness can be a detriment. Cannabis expresses the most potent oils when things are a little in the stressful side. This is why Doc recommends you cut water supplies to a bare minimum when you shift to flowering. So I'll start skipping a feeding and see how they respond. I bet they thank me.

 

[Radogast]

Weekly Update: Veg Shelf - Friday, September 1, 2017

Devil's Carnival 1.1 (Day 37) She can't be contained. Lol! I swear, she keeps creeping up to gargantuan stature. I seriously considered culling her this afternoon. The shelf is overloaded, and my garden isn't built to accomodate Amazons.

There's disputing her vigor and beauty. Her size is working against her at this stage. If I cull her, I'll take a clone so I don't lose the genetics until I've sampled the produce.

Devils Carnival has AMAZINGLY large leaves for her size. WOW!

The plants have èxploded the space. Lol! I shifted the lights one rung towards the front of the shelf and made use of the floor space.

You have a wonderfully expansive tent structure Quite steampunk in construction

Next I'll try feeding them every other time instead of every time. It's occurred to me that all this lushness can be a detriment. Cannabis expresses the most potent oils when things are a little in the stressful side. This is why Doc recommends you cut water supplies to a bare minimum when you shift to flowering. So I'll start skipping a feeding and see how they respond. I bet they thank me.

And I remember Doc saying let them dry out when they first hit flower, then keep them moist - but I've really been wondering if I get the frost I should out of keping them moist - Not that I'm complaining, the potency of my girls has been rewarding, especially as I'm moving towards better strains I keep forgetting to ask him to clarify.

 

[SweetSue]

Devils Carnival has AMAZINGLY large leaves for her size. WOW!

She's busily re-establishing those monster leaves. Lol! There doesn't seem to be a way to slow her down.

You have a wonderfully expansive tent structure Quite steampunk in construction

The daughter'll get a good chuckle about that. I stopped and turned to gaze at it and I'll have to agree. Lol!

And I remember Doc saying let them dry out when they first hit flower, then keep them moist - but I've really been wondering if I get the frost I should out of keping them moist - Not that I'm complaining, the potency of my girls has been rewarding, especially as I'm moving towards better strains I keep forgetting to ask him to clarify.

The first watering going in you let them go to the beginnings of wilt, and then you begin with 1 gallon for every 7 gallon pot of soil, split between top and bottom. The trick is in finding the number of days between drenches that keeps her on the edge, but not wilting. In my garden that's between four and five days, depending on the drought-resistance of the particular plant. Most of mine now get watered every four days in flower.

 

[SweetSue]

Good morning everyone

Last night I avoided the indicas, smoking Carnival until I nearly fell asleep sitting on the floor. Lol! This morning I'm rested and alert, instead of awake and dragging. I like this feeling better. The indicas now become sleep meds as needed, with the possible exception of Ultra Dawg, which I found to be excellent daytime smoke as well. I still need to find the timing that kicks back to sativas before evening hours decend.

This is totally contrary to how most of you schedule your chemovars, isn't it? I was never one to follow the crowd. Lol!

The girls wanted to say good morning too, on this cloudy and cold Sunday. We went straight into fall temperatures this weekend. Brrrrr.... It'll be good walking weather, and I think I'll throw on the jeans and tennies and head out for the river trail after breakfast. It should be delightfully brisk.

You can't see them clearly, but they're in there.

Yeah...... it surprises me too, how well they all look. I guess living in a perpetual state of joy has an effect on the living things around me.

All the more reason to grab hold of that joy you feel bubbling and spread it out from yourself to those that cross your path, be they human, some other animal species, or the plant charges we willing accept the responsibility for. Wallow in gratefulness today and see how much more the universe can bring you to be grateful for.

This obsessive hobby we all enjoy is deliciously therapeutic and creates a joy in me that is unmatched in other areas of my life. I've spent the greater part of three years thinking about the communication that sometimes goes on between cultivator and cannabis, contemplating the possibility that the plants are growing us, as much as we're growing them. Only someone cultivating cannabis can understand this concept, I believe, and it's one of my dreams that someday everyone will be free to choose this hobby without fear.

A plant that benefits man this extensively shouldn't have fear attached to it on any level. Just my way of thinking. I'm sure I'll spend the rest of my days on this blue pearl educating others about cannabis truth. What a wonderful thought.

Alright crew, time to get out there and make your world sparkle. A new day, a new week, a new month. Ready to play???? Here we go!

 

[Morglie]

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?

A couple days late and I haven't read far enough to see if you already culled her but they can still produce even when they start tiny.
This

Ended up like this

This is Malawi that likes to stretch a bit. I don't know if an indica heavy strain would get quite as full.

 

[New B]

So a question for you sue and others.
My uncle is dealing with aracnoidits. Any Idea on how to help with this condition?
A 2 to 1 cbd is doing nothing for him. At all with FHO
TIA

 

[SweetSue]

So a question for you sue and others.
My uncle is dealing with aracnoidits. Any Idea on how to help with this condition?
A 2 to 1 cbd is doing nothing for him. At all with FHO
TIA

Define what you mean by "doing nothing at all for him." Obviously cannabinoids are getting into the system. They work at the cellular level, so often when you're using something CBD-dominant you won't notice what it's doing until you stop using it and the creaks and subtle pains you didn't notice falling away return.

I'm assuming you're referring to the inability of the oil to temper the immediate pain? That may require THC. We know that it's the CBD repairing the inflammation of the nerve sheathing, but we should assume that's long-term, behind-the-scenes work, so to speak. Keep using it regardless. It's doing mighty powerful work, even if you can't see the results. When someone is this far out of ECS balance it'll take some time to get back to level.

My recommendation would be to add some THC to the mix. If I recall correctly, euphoria wasn't something he wanted to be dealing with, so you might want to consider small 10 mg or less doses of THC to see if this will give him relief.

 

[SweetSue]

I have a WW that's close to cured...nice smoke GF really likes it

I'm waiting for all my Indica to get done..... Blueberry is one of em

Had to laugh. Hash Hound grows White Widow as one of his regular strains. His GF really likes it too. Lol!