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Incidentally, I won't be starting my next installment of the perpetual until Sunday. For some reason my spirit likes to start new threads on Sunday. Why fight natural forces, eh? 
SweetSue's Perpetual 2.0 - The Transition To Doc Bud's HBB Kit
FlowerNose
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Looking forward to being in on your next perpetual journey with you. Good morning, Sue. Stay medicated.
kelticBlue
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Hey, Tomorrow/today is the day I was planning to start a new journal. This is my third anniversary at 420 Magazine.
Time is flying. Happy Trichs! . .
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Gardening adventures á la SweetSue 
Catching up on drenches and contemplating my garden's future. I have three plants getting ready to move into finish bloom in a couple weeks and only two slots opening in that tent.
I'll be needing a free tent, which means I can't hold onto all these plants.
Hash Hound is already at his capacity, so Jgrowlove is my only alternative to culling. I'm pretty sure the Devil's Carnival clone might not make the cut.
She's just too big for my space at this time. I'll clone her and hang onto the genetics at least until I've tested the mother. I can give the chemivar another run when things slow down. I really want to see how she performs in hempy though, so she may survive.
Im trying to avoid using the bathroom again, but that may be my only recourse in the end, if I want to flower them all out. It worked the last time, and I'm sure they'll survive another go. I'll give that more thought.
Thin Mint GSC has been dropping leaves every day and I've been collecting them in little piles.
Her clone clone is amazing!
She grows these monster fans, just like the Devil's Carnival.
Dark Slide asked to be put into flower today. I said yes. 
The tent is full again.
Time to gather things for the visit to see my BIL. I can't live with the knowledge that he has no advocate. I can at least do that for him. My daughter insisted on going with me. She wants to buffer me from the hospital atmosphere. She understands this isn't as easy for me as it will be in another year. We practically lived in hospital near the end. I try to avoid going into one. I'll get really loaded before we go.
Continue on your delicious day.
Catching up on drenches and contemplating my garden's future. I have three plants getting ready to move into finish bloom in a couple weeks and only two slots opening in that tent.
I'll be needing a free tent, which means I can't hold onto all these plants.
Hash Hound is already at his capacity, so Jgrowlove is my only alternative to culling. I'm pretty sure the Devil's Carnival clone might not make the cut.
She's just too big for my space at this time. I'll clone her and hang onto the genetics at least until I've tested the mother. I can give the chemivar another run when things slow down. I really want to see how she performs in hempy though, so she may survive.
Im trying to avoid using the bathroom again, but that may be my only recourse in the end, if I want to flower them all out. It worked the last time, and I'm sure they'll survive another go. I'll give that more thought.
Thin Mint GSC has been dropping leaves every day and I've been collecting them in little piles.
Her clone clone is amazing!
She grows these monster fans, just like the Devil's Carnival.
Dark Slide asked to be put into flower today. I said yes.
The tent is full again.
Time to gather things for the visit to see my BIL. I can't live with the knowledge that he has no advocate. I can at least do that for him. My daughter insisted on going with me. She wants to buffer me from the hospital atmosphere. She understands this isn't as easy for me as it will be in another year. We practically lived in hospital near the end. I try to avoid going into one. I'll get really loaded before we go.
Continue on your delicious day.
DrDoob
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Good vibes and good luck with your hospital visit. I understand how daunting a task that can be.
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Thank you.
It's more difficult than I want it to be. I'm surprised at how deep the pain still hits after two years. I have a wellspring of joy to pull from and my daughter to lean on.
Blessings to you Dear Sue. It can be hard for Sure...
Hugs Sue 
I hope you have plastic slipcovers on all your furniture, lol. But, seriously, I feel for you. Due to a medical hack (I'd hesitate to call the man a doctor, even though the state does), Mom's bladder capacity is something like a half-ounce. And she has that stupid pride(???IDK???) thing going, so she won't go get a bag setup that she can just empty a few times/day. Instead, she runs to the bathroom pretty much constantly, and refuses to drink anything whatsoever from the time she gets up until she has finished work/errands/etc. and knows she'll not be leaving her house again. It pretty much runs - and ruins - her life, and she's miserable.
She acts like "bags" would be a real big hassle - and I don't doubt her. But I used to know a guy who rode his motorcycle all over the country. Then he had... issues, and had to stop doing his favorite activity. He was pretty depressed, as you can imagine. He ended up getting a bag - and went right back to riding his motorcycle all over the country. He admitted that he'd had a couple incidents (IDFK), but that they were a small price to pay in order to get his life back.
It's the least I can do. And, sadly, it's also the most I can do
. You are more than welcome to it.Sometimes it swallows me up, other times... Maybe I'm like the Pied Piper of negative energy, lol. I just wander around, sucking it all up - so that I can help keep it from others. I've decided to tell myself that, at least.
I used to consume heroic amounts of sativa. It either banished such things or caused me not to care. Either way, it did the trick
.Hey, yeah, that's what I'll do!!!
Ohwaitaminute...
When Mom dies, I'll be free.
How, then, can I possibly hope to ever be free?!?
I feel like a punching bag half the time - and I can't even hope that that'll end anytime soon. Besides, at the rate things are going, she'll outlive me, then tell everyone that she doesn't know why I up and died on her. Which... I suppose will provide me with one last opportunity to do her a good service, at least.
Yeah... Issues. I got 'em.
DrDoob
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When I first read this I just laughed at the thought of this ever happening. But then just now I saw him leaving for school wearing an old concert tee of mine. lol I guess Bad Religion and Slayer are classic rock nowadays.
My daughter got sent home from middle school for wearing my old concert tee, Fleetwood Mac, Rumors
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Plant of the Month: Mar 2018
Damn sue, every time I go to your journal, I'm 3 pages behind. Man, it moves fast lol .
Happy 420 anniversary Sue!!
.. (there's no emoji on my phone for huge toke!).
I'm about as glad you're here as you are! Yep - that's pretty glad ..
Sending best wishes to you for the day of advocacy at the hospital - it's probably done & dusted now... hope you're traveling ok.
Looking forward to the new journal in a couple of days .
.. (there's no emoji on my phone for huge toke!).
I'm about as glad you're here as you are! Yep - that's pretty glad ..
Sending best wishes to you for the day of advocacy at the hospital - it's probably done & dusted now... hope you're traveling ok.
Looking forward to the new journal in a couple of days .
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Thank you. That helped smooth the path.
Hugs Sue
And this made coming home feel blissful.
We didn't stay long, and he's doing well. He looks like he'll live now. When I found him last week he was near death. His brain got scrambled, so he has challenges ahead, but we made sure losing his home wasn't one of them. I'm glad I went. It wasn't as difficult once I got there as it felt like it would be.
I was so relieved to walk out the front door of the hospital....... It'll be a while before I go back.
Now for the big surprise.....
Yesterday morning I was greeted first thing by a message from TS, who'd recommended me for a sponsored grow with a light supplied by one of our newest sponsors, GROWant. Here's a link to the first post in the welcoming thread that explains the company and their products.
And here's the light I'll be recieving on Thursday.
I'll be starting a new journal dedicated to this light and the tent it covers, beginning with rooted clones and following them through to harvest, to launch when I set the tent up for the grow. I have a couple plants that I'll be harvesting first. Now you understand why I suddenly decided I have too many plants.
I have a lot of juggling and training and relocating of specimens to do. Jgrowlove will be taking the Chem Dawg, Carn 4.3 and CBD Critical Cure 2.5, all in soil. They're in minimal amounts of HB kit soil, so they'll adapt easily to his organic soil. I may offer him some of my prepared soil and some supplies so they can finish out with the kit, if he's so inclined. That'll free up a significant amount of space. I still have a lot to work out with the realignment of the grow, including where to set up an auxiliary flowering space for a few months, but I know this is gonna be lots of fun.
Being a sponsored grow means I'll finally be motivated to learn a little something about lights.
Thought you never saw this day coming, huh? I've been the recipient of great generosity, but I never bothered to be more than plug-and-go. That'll change. Sunday will be the beginning of the new installment of the perpetual journal, as planned. The sponsored journal will be seperate, although everyone gets covered here too.
I'm excited.
Can you tell? I get to start my new year as a cultivator by introducing a new sponsor to my subscribers, playing with a new, fancy-schmancy light and growing some wickedly potent cannabis.
I have 2 Carnival clones rooting at the moment. If I do one in the sponsored grow and one under my quantum boards and COBs we can watch a side-by-side. I'll make everything else the same. So much to learn and plan. Just what I needed at this time to keep me charged and creative. This is is gonna be fun.
Mmmmmm...... The baked potato is done. I can smell it out here. Time for dinner.
Later.
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We have days where the pages fly by with blistering speed Buckshot.
Grow over 20 plants and watch how much excitement that generates. Lol!
Thank you. That helped smooth the path.
And this made coming home feel blissful.
We didn't stay long, and he's doing well. He looks like he'll live now. When I found him last week he was near death. His brain got scrambled, so he has challenges ahead, but we made sure losing his home wasn't one of them. I'm glad I went. It wasn't as difficult once I got there as it felt like it would be.
I was so relieved to walk out the front door of the hospital....... It'll be a while before I go back.
Now for the big surprise.....
Yesterday morning I was greeted first thing by a message from TS, who'd recommended me for a sponsored grow with a light supplied by one of our newest sponsors, GROWant. Here's a link to the first post in the welcoming thread that explains the company and their products.
And here's the light I'll be recieving on Thursday.
I'll be starting a new journal dedicated to this light and the tent it covers, beginning with rooted clones and following them through to harvest, to launch when I set the tent up for the grow. I have a couple plants that I'll be harvesting first. Now you understand why I suddenly decided I have too many plants.
Jgrowlove will be taking the Chem Dawg, Carn 4.3 and CBD Critical Cure 2.5, all in soil. They're in minimal amounts of HB kit soil, so they'll adapt easily to his organic soil. I may offer him some of my prepared soil and some supplies so they can finish out with the kit, if he's so inclined. That'll free up a significant amount of space. I still have a lot to work out with the realignment of the grow, including where to set up an auxiliary flowering space for a few months, but I know this is gonna be lots of fun.
Being a sponsored grow means I'll finally be motivated to learn a little something about lights.
Sunday will be the beginning of the new installment of the perpetual journal, as planned. The sponsored journal will be seperate, although everyone gets covered here too.
I'm excited.
I get to start my new year as a cultivator by introducing a new sponsor to my subscribers, playing with a new, fancy-schmancy light and growing some wickedly potent cannabis.
This is is gonna be fun.
Mmmmmm...... The baked potato is done. I can smell it out here. Time for dinner.
Later.
This is great news! He Will get better, you feel better then you tought you would AND you are the perfect grower for This sponsored grow. You go Sue, Im pre-Subbed .
kelticBlue
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Cool beans with the sponsored grow. You know so many in our mag's circle to call on for info/help about lights, I dont think the learning curve will be to bad. I think they made a good choice. Whoot!
I am thrilled for you!!
I am thrilled for you!!
Oh, that's wonderful for you, SweetSue!
And I'll have a chance to get into one of your journals on the very first day (so I'll only have 80 posts to read through initially, instead of 800, LMAO).
I just took a closer look at that particular product. They have an image that shows its PAR footprint. In it, the light is hung at 24" and shows the amounts across a 4'x4' area. There is another graphic that shows the PAR (in the center, directly under the panel) at various heights. At 12", it shows that central "hot spot" as receiving 1,700 µmol/m²/second. That is more than you'd need/want, but same @ 24" looks low (IMHO).
Knowing nothing else, I might tentatively suggest that 18" might be a good compromise to shoot for after initially hanging at a greater distance and acclimating the plant(s). I wish there was an image that showed the output at 18" - and when hung in a room/tent that was only 2'x2'. Assuming highly reflective walls, you'd see (lol) more light available in that 2'x2' space than in the central four square feet of a 4'x4' space, obviously, and this would raise your numbers. But IDK if it would raise them enough to max out the amount of light-energy, to reach the maximum amount that the plant(s) can process - so it is possible that you'd get into the sweet spot where things like temperature and CO₂ level become your limiting factors, rather than the amount of light that the plant is receiving, but I'd still be open to lowering the panel to less than 24".
The lenses and such will play a part, too. IDK how much it matters, but lowering it too much would probably give you areas of discrete(+/-) colored spots instead of one evenly(+/-) mixed light pattern. If that makes any sense.
This is, in actuality, an 80-watt device. On average, I'd discount that (level of wattage) as being adequate for flowering in a 2'x2' space. But with new technology, one never knows.
Are you going to stick your Malawai Gold (or cutting of same)in there and let it have the entire four square foot space? That could be interesting. (But I love sativas.)
Will it be an Osmocote Plus hempy lady? Something else?
You may not have decided yet. And you may wish to surprise us all by saving all of this stuff for the introductory post(s) in your upcoming journal. So I will not be disappointed if you either cannot or do not wish to answer such questions at this time.
I checked on my Train Wreck Auto to see if I should give it a splash of water before repotting later... and realized it has already begun to flower in its 18-ounce Solo cup.
. No, I won't be sticking it in the two-gallon container. LMFAO. Either a two-liter bottle or the one-gallon square (but not cubical) pot, methinks. Chronic procrastinators should all grow auto-flowering plants, I suppose, lol?
And I'll have a chance to get into one of your journals on the very first day (so I'll only have 80 posts to read through initially, instead of 800, LMAO).
I just took a closer look at that particular product. They have an image that shows its PAR footprint. In it, the light is hung at 24" and shows the amounts across a 4'x4' area. There is another graphic that shows the PAR (in the center, directly under the panel) at various heights. At 12", it shows that central "hot spot" as receiving 1,700 µmol/m²/second. That is more than you'd need/want, but same @ 24" looks low (IMHO).
Knowing nothing else, I might tentatively suggest that 18" might be a good compromise to shoot for after initially hanging at a greater distance and acclimating the plant(s). I wish there was an image that showed the output at 18" - and when hung in a room/tent that was only 2'x2'. Assuming highly reflective walls, you'd see (lol) more light available in that 2'x2' space than in the central four square feet of a 4'x4' space, obviously, and this would raise your numbers. But IDK if it would raise them enough to max out the amount of light-energy, to reach the maximum amount that the plant(s) can process - so it is possible that you'd get into the sweet spot where things like temperature and CO₂ level become your limiting factors, rather than the amount of light that the plant is receiving, but I'd still be open to lowering the panel to less than 24".
The lenses and such will play a part, too. IDK how much it matters, but lowering it too much would probably give you areas of discrete(+/-) colored spots instead of one evenly(+/-) mixed light pattern. If that makes any sense.
This is, in actuality, an 80-watt device. On average, I'd discount that (level of wattage) as being adequate for flowering in a 2'x2' space. But with new technology, one never knows.
Are you going to stick your Malawai Gold (or cutting of same)in there and let it have the entire four square foot space? That could be interesting. (But I love sativas
.) Will it be an Osmocote Plus hempy lady? Something else?
You may not have decided yet. And you may wish to surprise us all by saving all of this stuff for the introductory post(s) in your upcoming journal. So I will not be disappointed if you either cannot or do not wish to answer such questions at this time.
I checked on my Train Wreck Auto to see if I should give it a splash of water before repotting later... and realized it has already begun to flower in its 18-ounce Solo cup.
. No, I won't be sticking it in the two-gallon container. LMFAO. Either a two-liter bottle or the one-gallon square (but not cubical) pot, methinks. Chronic procrastinators should all grow auto-flowering plants, I suppose, lol?I asked biveda and spell,checked.did its thing..
thnaks for informative reply. Do,they use it for guitars. Same same. Wood rises or molds. . So we are trying to cure by slo dry, cool and 40-60 % r h . It's like,layering beer radogast.! I have the perfect frig it has a sack of weed, two orange peels 40 grams rough trimmed flowers.
It's 14 days old. I snarled a dry, bud let. Torched it. Wonderful. But not ready. Too green.. picked too early.. but wonderful.. her sister has been left . I have learned, patience and disiplle. Especially at flower. All the work now matures. I'm thinking of time lapse video. The plants move. Mine are near my work out floor. Raw sunlight, mojave desert. They move ..I don't see wind moving anything else. I've gone at night, and no wind I'll sit quiet, they move.. ok I need video.. I'm on it..
Oh, that's wonderful for you, SweetSue!
And I'll have a chance to get into one of your journals on the very first day (so I'll only have 80 posts to read through initially, instead of 800, LMAO).
I just took a closer look at that particular product. They have an image that shows its PAR footprint. In it, the light is hung at 24" and shows the amounts across a 4'x4' area. There is another graphic that shows the PAR (in the center, directly under the panel) at various heights. At 12", it shows that central "hot spot" as receiving 1,700 µmol/m²/second. That is more than you'd need/want, but same @ 24" looks low (IMHO).
Knowing nothing else, I might tentatively suggest that 18" might be a good compromise to shoot for after initially hanging at a greater distance and acclimating the plant(s). I wish there was an image that showed the output at 18" - and when hung in a room/tent that was only 2'x2'. Assuming highly reflective walls, you'd see (lol) more light available in that 2'x2' space than in the central four square feet of a 4'x4' space, obviously, and this would raise your numbers. But IDK if it would raise them enough to max out the amount of light-energy, to reach the maximum amount that the plant(s) can process - so it is possible that you'd get into the sweet spot where things like temperature and CO₂ level become your limiting factors, rather than the amount of light that the plant is receiving, but I'd still be open to lowering the panel to less than 24".
The lenses and such will play a part, too. IDK how much it matters, but lowering it too much would probably give you areas of discrete(+/-) colored spots instead of one evenly(+/-) mixed light pattern. If that makes any sense.
This is, in actuality, an 80-watt device. On average, I'd discount that (level of wattage) as being adequate for flowering in a 2'x2' space. But with new technology, one never knows.
Are you going to stick your Malawai Gold (or cutting of same)in there and let it have the entire four square foot space? That could be interesting. (But I love sativas
Will it be an Osmocote Plus hempy lady? Something else?
You may not have decided yet. And you may wish to surprise us all by saving all of this stuff for the introductory post(s) in your upcoming journal. So I will not be disappointed if you either cannot or do not wish to answer such questions at this time.
I checked on my Train Wreck Auto to see if I should give it a splash of water before repotting later... and realized it has already begun to flower in its 18-ounce Solo cup.
TS .. I read your post. Some insight into auto behavior. I've selected auto for next runs. Because;
I use the sun, RA .. it's part of the spirituality for me now.
No photoperiod till next march open season.. what to do.
Enter autos, in time they go, bloom...
here what I do wit auto but idk shit about grow, yet.
Germinate same, paper towel on warm mud pots. Two,days three most.
On paper move to cup, I moved some to final 5 gallon pot, just because..others to solo cup I'll xplant later.
Ok , I feed in growth tiny spec miracle grow, epsom salt every three days. Water by hand till,they can take regular irrigation
Place in its space. Grow,trim I use lst bending with sticks, clips and twine each bend creates so many colas. But it goes to flower in 8-12 weeks depend on strain. Do you do anything to keep the plant into veg longer and then blast into flower. Like you may with photoperiod. Maybe delay 2 weeks, or if going long intimate flower any way>
And for veg I get nitrogen with flower stop green..ok add phousphos? How what old school material during early flower. At nearly harvest flush with water t,remove all stuff, just water, then I reduce water. They respond by blasting out stick icky. Nice. I put them unto rain tent, when it rains and they are sticky, I cover with tent, se pics. I once overslept left one for day or so. That made all of them go deeper in flow]er,resin thc, all good. So I know how to make photoperiod plant go,to flower. And I'm stuck with sun. Any tips on your auto observation appreciated...
Thanks
Lvmarc
Girl peeking out of tent