SweetSue's Perpetual 3.0 - The Hempy/HB Hybrid Grow

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I can see I have a ways to go then. Next specimen I'll plan the nute schedule with a finer touch. Thank you for sharing that Hash Hound. Was that girl grown in the winter or summer months? I guess the real question is, "influenced by atmospheric temperatures?"

She is lovely my friend. You hold that bar high. :bravo: You once suggested small plants were sufficient for the typical garden. Look at those pictures. This is why we keep reaching for big pots.

Stage has me thinking he's the one who really has it figured out, if big girls in HB soil is what you're after. Have you seen his videos? Good Lord, none of us will stand a chance when his beauties hit the runway. :thedoubletake: He's explained to me how he does it, and my minds been churning ever since. I don't have his tent capacity but I have the bathroom, and I can buy a small heater to toss in there when I have a plant that needs special care. I was looking at a small, personal size unit just yesterday. Deposit's next week. One of them will probably show up in the Spa in time.

Hmmmm.... They only had one more on the shelf. That's cutting it close. WTH.... I love risk. :cheesygrinsmiley: I bet it'll stil be sitting there on Wednesday, and if not then on to another idea.

So true TS - HH all those pics are gorgeous :yummy:

Hey Sue, Jamaican lovely, looking lovely. All the good bits look really, really good :bravo:

She surprised the hell out of me......I just felt Doc smile from a distance with a "Not me" attitude. :laughtwo: He's in Jamaica having a blast with his disciples. Lol! I can close my eyes and hear the surf, feel the waves gently wash over my feet as I walk the edge. It's kinda sweet that my girl is blooming when the gang is on her genetic line's native land. :slide:

It's so odd that I can place myself right there beside them and feel like I'm actually there. Damn! I wanted to meet Graytail and his lovely wife in the worst way. :laughtwo: Another time, possibly on his own stomping grounds, when legal issues fall to the wayside and we're free to share. Yep. We have some interesting days in our future.

She's growing much more dramatically than I remember her mother, but then that's the way with clones, they typically out-perform the parent. I'll have to pull some pictures for comparison.

Good morning everyone :Love:

I only have a few minutes before I run to lunch with the seniors. I'm torn between computer time or a walk in the sun afterwards. The walk just won out. It's gloriously sunny out there. :laughtwo: I feel incredible today, moreso than usual. Lol! The longer I practice deliberate waking the more momentum my life picks up. I can see how this could be intimidating and so easy to slow down with negative thinking. When you learn to set aside the resistance of doubt it gets really fast, and the tendency is to grab for something to slow it down.

That's a fear response, born of the apprehension of what lies ahead. I believe only good lies ahead, no exceptions. That means whatever happens in my life I can look at it as a good thing, something that will ultimately benefit no only me, but everyone else. It's the nature of the universe that all things work together for good. No exceptions. It's letting yourself see it from that perspective that gets that energy stream going faster.

Before I flow out the door to lunch and my walk along the river I wanted to share just a few shots from the garden. CBD CC 3 is beginning to be breathtaking in her second week under flowering lights.

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See what I mean? :dreamy:

My wake 'n bake was J's Royal Gorilla. Whoa!!

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Makes me break into a sweat! :laughtwo: Seriously, my palms are sweaty. Lol! This is the chief reason, beyond that enticing sunshine, that the walk won out. I gotta test run this out in Mother Nature's realm. The bird life is picking up tempo along the banks of the Mighty Mon.

Be deliberately joyful my friends. That deliberate part is the most important one. Joyful for the sake of feeling joyful. Your ECS will thank you with more efficient healing and the universe will fall over itself to show you more things to be joyful about. Win-win. :yahoo:

Later, my friends. :ciao:
 
I think I mentioned in this thread that I was in the process of quitting smoking. Make that trying to quit, and I failed. I broke down and bought a pack of those $1.92 cheap and nasty filtered cigars (like cigarettes, but made with the tobacco scraps left over from making real cigars). To be honest, I'd have probably just ended up buying generic menthol cigarettes if I could afford them.

Looks like maybe I'll need to wait until I can grow a crop again and try to keep an ounce (or three?) for myself, and try again to quit then. That way, whenever I just cannot seem to stand it any more, I can have a hit, a bowl, a joint, whatever. Repeatedly, lol, until I've managed a few weeks in a row without a single cigarette.

Figured I'd post the above here just in case anyone was quietly wishing me luck or whatnot. If so, well, sorry to disappoint you (and myself, I guess). It just seems like I've currently got too many issues going on at one time, and if I drop that one... I get the crutch back that helps me deal with the rest of them. Or maybe that's just rationalizing, IDK. I've quit lots (and lots :rolleyes3 ) of other substances through the years, and most of them without much in the way of withdrawal problems. This one is just beating me down.

Man, I am wishing you luck or whatnot, I too am in the process of quitting. About two years ago I made it almost a whole year before the stress monster pulled me back in. I'm actually just sitting here reading 420 with my plants actively not walking to 7-11 for smokes.

Good luck!
 
Man, I am wishing you luck or whatnot, I too am in the process of quitting. About two years ago I made it almost a whole year before the stress monster pulled me back in. I’m actually just sitting here reading 420 with my plants actively not walking to 7-11 for smokes.

Kind of torturing myself by not having one right now. I'm going to go for a walk. It's way too cold for me to go outside and open my mouth (cold air causes an exposed tooth nerve to figuratively(?) try to kill me), so that'll be an hour or so that I know I won't reach for one.

Thanks, and the best of luck to you, too. Who'd have thought that something that you don't have to use a needle to consume could be so addicting? Probably doesn't help that I'm nearly 50 and started <SIGH> at around age 11, huh? I could probably have paid off my house (if not straight out written a check for the thing to begin with) with what I've spent on the things...
 
I can see I have a ways to go then. Next specimen I'll plan the nute schedule with a finer touch. Thank you for sharing that Hash Hound. Was that girl grown in the winter or summer months? I guess the real question is, "influenced by atmospheric temperatures?"

Sue

She was started Sept 2014 and harvested Jan 2015

Winter months in the Burg in a basement. Temps were probably 60's at night and low 70's in the day.
 
I think I mentioned in this thread that I was in the process of quitting smoking. Make that trying to quit, and I failed. I broke down and bought a pack of those $1.92 cheap and nasty filtered cigars (like cigarettes, but made with the tobacco scraps left over from making real cigars). To be honest, I'd have probably just ended up buying generic menthol cigarettes if I could afford them.

Looks like maybe I'll need to wait until I can grow a crop again and try to keep an ounce (or three?) for myself, and try again to quit then. That way, whenever I just cannot seem to stand it any more, I can have a hit, a bowl, a joint, whatever. Repeatedly, lol, until I've managed a few weeks in a row without a single cigarette.

Figured I'd post the above here just in case anyone was quietly wishing me luck or whatnot. If so, well, sorry to disappoint you (and myself, I guess). It just seems like I've currently got too many issues going on at one time, and if I drop that one... I get the crutch back that helps me deal with the rest of them. Or maybe that's just rationalizing, IDK. I've quit lots (and lots :rolleyes3 ) of other substances through the years, and most of them without much in the way of withdrawal problems. This one is just beating me down.

Stop thinking about it like that and you'll have a better chance of getting beyond it TS. Nicotine is possibly the single most addictive drug in use on th planet. I remember the day our boy stopped by to grab something he'd forgotten and forgot he had a cigarette behind his ear. Dad very casually mentioned "So you're smoking now, are you?" The chagrined boy snatched the stick from this head, shook it in disbelief at his stupidity, and brushed it off with a casual "Oh, I can quit this anytime I want" with that cocky late-teen attitude.

"Sure you can son," Dad replied, "I've been quitting for the past 30 years."

The boy broke the cigarette in half, and as far as I know, never lit up another. I always warned my children to choose your addictions wisely. Me? I'm addicted to loving unconditionally and being joyful. And sugar. That's probably the next compulsion of mine to fall.

I used to think of cannabis as my chosen addiction, but now I understand biology enough to know that's propaganda talk, not reality.

Sue

She was started Sept 2014 and harvested Jan 2015

Winter months in the Burg in a basement. Temps were probably 60's at night and low 70's in the day.

Makes sense Hash Hound. I'm just beginning to realize that I can take season into account if I want to manipulate color. Those shots garner more votes in the contests. :cheesygrinsmiley:

I had to take a few more pictures. Mine isn't anywhere as pretty overall as yours was, but she definately has her moments. :battingeyelashes: :green_heart:

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Hiya Sue!! Everything looking beautiful as always!!

Hash Hound....buddy that flower is gorgeous!! Autumn like colors!!! Frosty goodness!!! Damn there's some talented growers here isn't there? :goodjob:

:volcano-smiley: til the next vape hit.......
 
Stop thinking about it like that and you'll have a better chance of getting beyond it TS. Nicotine is possibly the single most addictive drug in use on th planet. I remember the day our boy stopped by to grab something he'd forgotten and forgot he had a cigarette behind his ear. Dad very casually mentioned "So you're smoking now, are you?" The chagrined boy snatched the stick from this head, shook it in disbelief at his stupidity, and brushed it off with a casual "Oh, I can quit this anytime I want" with that cocky late-teen attitude.

"Sure you can son," Dad replied, "I've been quitting for the past 30 years."

The boy broke the cigarette in half, and as far as I know, never lit up another. I always warned my children to choose your addictions wisely. Me? I'm addicted to loving unconditionally and being joyful. And sugar. That's probably the next compulsion of mine to fall.

I used to think of cannabis as my chosen addiction, but now I understand biology enough to know that's propaganda talk, not reality.

It's got me a little more down than usual, of course. But not to an extreme (I think?). It's easier for me to write this "try" off and begin looking forward, in a hopeful manner, to the next "try" to come. Maybe, with just a wee bit more preparation... Maybe?

I am undecided about how addictive nicotine really is. Some, absolutely. But there are a lot of other things in the average cigarette, and they've been fine-tuning them to make us purchase more of them for many decades. (And it wouldn't be the first drug that I ended up learning through... personal experience that it isn't the drug itself that sinks its teeth into the back of your neck so horribly but, instead, the... fillers :rolleyes3 .) Plus - speaking of decades - even a junkie ends up taking a break now in then, if only because they're in jail and haven't made a connection yet (or haven't sunk to the level of trading the only thing they have left for drugs), have to go boost a few $500 car stereos so they can sell them for $20/each and pay their dealer, et cetera. But I've been buying cigarettes without hassle for all of my adult life and a big chunk of my childhood (if it was the only other drug that has been compared to cigarettes in therms of its addictiveness, surely I'd have died by now). Smoke smoke smoke. I stayed at a job that I hated like nothing else for, IDK, an additional five years or more mostly because I could smoke smoke smoke the entire time I was working. Boss probably figured they wouldn't kill me any faster than all the chemicals in the work environment would, lol (he may well have been correct, it turns out). So it's like I picked up a cigarette 37 years ago and never put it down.

I suppose that there are a great many substances that we (mostly ;) ) just joke about being addictive, that - if we lived and breathed them most every waking moment for that many years - might end up being substances that we'd have to check into rehab to deal with. I know, for me personally, I drank pop once in a while growing up, but mostly just filled a glass from the Coleman water jug full of ice-water that was ALWAYS in the kitchen, every time I went by (shame we didn't know that our water was poisoning us here at the time, huh?). I probably had the clearest urine in the state, by average, lol. I just wasn't all that interested in that sweet syrupy crap. Then after I had my big <CRASH> and was left with basically daily, often debilitating headaches, I read that caffeine can help with headaches, and started drinking more of it, along with COFFEE(!!!) all the time. Fast-forward 29 years or so, and... I've been out of pop, cigarettes, and food, gone to the store with just a pocket full of change - and had a real problem figuring which one I needed ("needed") the most. And it has often ended up a tiebreaker between the pop and the cigarettes. "I really NEED a cigarette, NOW! But if I buy Dr. Pepper(*), that's got calories in it, I can go without dinner tonight." ;) .

(*)I got to the point some time ago where if I drink Mountain Dew, it feels like it's eating its way through my belly.

Now, if I get lucky enough to be able to buy a two-liter of Dr. Pepper in addition to the groceries (I've overcome this enough to always buy food first *improvement!!!* ), and drink it, the next day or three (week, maybe) is a little horrible. But it's no big deal. By that, I mean I can - and do - manage to not go looking for change on the sidewalk in the middle of Winter (whilst fighting a bear, in freezing rain, etc. lol) to buy another bottle, you know? It's just a PitA like anything else that part of me doesn't want to put up / deal with, as opposed to this cigarette thing.

...and I'm still not convinced that this is a result of the nicotine. Not all of it, anyway. Nicotine plus MENTHOL plus everything else in it, multiplied by the life of doing it seems much more likely. I had some success cutting down without going nuts by using generic menthol cough drops (but they only put 100 in a bag, what am I going to do tomorrow? ;) ) and using the cigarette-shaped vaporizer pen. My brother has a coupon to get two "bold" menthol/nicotine refill cartridges for a dollar that he's supposed to drop off soon, and I'm going to try to find a tiny $4.99 10ml bottle (which lasts me quite a while) of the "juice" that I can stand the taste of to do redneck refills of the cartridges with instead of paying seven bucks per two-pack. Those will help, methinks. Kind of crutches for my crutch, lol.

See? Planning ahead for the next battle in this war. Which I intend to win, eventually.

Please stop and pat yourself on the back, Sue! It's thanks to you - and your positivity - that I managed to get past that whole "I've just given up" phase of my life. In terms of smoking cigarettes, and more. I hate like the dickens to use the word, but there's some hope now and then, now.

I got a little over four hours of sleep on this night!!! :thumb:

My dad used to say, "I'll quit when I'm dead." (Or maybe that was, "I'll be able to quit when...," I don't remember which. He managed to beat that by about a year or so, IIRC. But he was begging for a cigarette on the day before his last one (couldn't do anything but make horrible no-pause attempting-to-breathe noises on his last one, and pat Mom's hand whilst trying to somehow give comfort to her). So I know what Dale meant, I think.

I do not even know your son, but I'm proud of him. My ex-wife was much the same way. Came home one evening, said she'd been to her checkup and her doctor said things were fine but suggested she quit smoking. She then said, "Oh, that reminds me," and then grabbed her purse, took out half a pack of cigarettes, and dropped them into the trash can (and tossed me her lighter). That was... '95 or '96, and I was annoyed by the ease at which she'd quit (once I realized it wasn't some kind of joke) even then - because I'd already tried. Then I tried a few more times during her marriage. Heard "just go buy a pack of cigarettes, FFS!" a few times, too :rolleyes3 . I was always nice as could be to her - but there was some collateral damage now and then. Temper so short I drove foot-to-the-floor into the @sshole in front of me because he wouldn't go when the light turned green, stuff like that (wait, who's actually the @sshole in that memory, lol?). "Hey, where's your buddy?" "IDK, I guess he got mad when I knocked the p!ss out of him." "WHAT?!?!" "Yeah, he was... He said... IDK, but it must have been something."

Karma. Anyone need any? I have extra ;) .

Nice guy nice guy nice guy nice guy <SNAP!> . Nice guy nice guy nice guy <SNAP!> . Got examined with the implication that I might have been bipolar somewhere around then. Nope, just a <BLEEP>. LMAO. I like to think that I've... grown? since then, matured. The, ah... beast inside is chained much more securely. I don't even recall the last time I even yelled at someone in anger, but at a guess... ten or fifteen years? And, aside from one attempted mugging, one drunk who insisted on acting like I used to, and a cousin that a woman (bad dating choice :;): ) kind of invited over to my house to hang out with us one night and decided to attack me when I caught them trying to steal what little I had of value, I haven't gotten into any physical fights, either.

Karma, get yer Karma! Special, three for a dollar, no wait, endless supply, Karma, get your Karma! ;) :rolleyes3

Ohwaitaminute, this is your grow journal, not personalized online therapy by the hour at really friendly rates <SLAPS FOREHEAD>.

Makes sense Hash Hound. I'm just beginning to realize that I can take season into account if I want to manipulate color. Those shots garner more votes in the contests. :cheesygrinsmiley:

I used to dislike "purple strains." The ones I encountered always seemed to be "rough" in flavor and not overly pleasing to the head. But this must have changed since the '80s/'90s, because people sure seem to like them now. And, I agree, the purple (/blue/red) buds do provide such wonderful photograph material.

It was thanks to you, Sue, that I'm optimistic about the DDA. I wonder the DDA seed I've got soaking has sprouted yet? Or the SSDC, the White Widow Auto, the Purple Skunk Mass Auto, or the Northern Light Auto? I ran out of stable places to stick a Solo cup on my oven rack at that point, but there'll be a Train Wreck Auto, an Auto Jock Horror x Auto Amnesia cross, and maybe others soon. Will probably go the green two-liter bottle route again for most, but with perlite (hempy) instead of soil. I seem to have more luck in some kind of hydroponics setup than in dirt, for some reason. If they haven't germinated by tomorrow, I'll pour a capful of HO₂ into each cup for an O₂ boost and to ward off any possible random pathogens. Might have to pull them out to use the over for its intended purpose tomorrow evening, too. Note to self: Remember to remove cannabis seeds from oven before turning it on to preheat to 375°F this time. I've already lost one from this batch when I was pouring water into the DDA cup and my right hand failed on me. Never found it, too small to see I guess. The broom and dustpan will tomorrow and the trash man can have it. Good thing I have a fair few left of that one, because you really do have me psyched about trying DDA (and, perhaps, seeing some lovely coloration before I get to that stage).

I had to take a few more pictures.

Oh, yes, please. We love it when you take - and post - pictures!

Mine isn't anywhere as pretty overall as yours was

Overall, I am always impressed by what your pictures show, Sue. Especially since you seem to take a more "natural" approach to growing cannabis than I generally have. Lol, I don't naturally expect to see the greatness that I always end up seeing. *kudos to you*
 
Im in the hospital with half my voicbox surgically removed and a hole in my throat so I can breath also have a tube sticking out of my stomach to eat if you call a liquid diet that you don't smell or taste eating. So yes help anyone to quit smoking because cancer is terrible and family and friends suffer too. Just trying to help. Cancer sucks.
 
Im in the hospital with half my voicbox surgically removed and a hole in my throat so I can breath also have a tube sticking out of my stomach to eat if you call a liquid diet that you don't smell or taste eating. So yes help anyone to quit smoking because cancer is terrible and family and friends suffer too. Just trying to help. Cancer sucks.

Yes it does B.C. :hugs::hugs::hugs::hugs: If you don't own a copy of Kelley Turner's "Radical Remission" I suggest you secure one and read it cover-to-cover. We think of cancer as the enemy, but in reality it's your greatest teacher. Its purpose, as is the purpose of any illness, is to make you whole. Kelley has a marvelous way of explaining the steps taken by cancer survivors who healed themselves. Your oncologist probably knows patients who have spontaneously healed, but they don't talk about it because they don't want you to have false hope that your body knows how to heal. :straightface:

It's an important message for cancer patients, because this is what the cells do - they heal. Your ECS and the cells it tends to have the capacity to turn the entire event around and shift the momentum back to healing. "Radical Remission" is an invaluable tool for anyone in need of modifying the healing conversation you have with yourself.

I'll be sending my own loving intentions your way, if that's alright with you. :battingeyelashes: :Love:
 
TS, yes it's my grow journal, but it's a healing garden, so any and all conversation is on topic in this yard. Look at the good you just did with that baring of your soul. :hugs::hugs::hugs:

I chalk the success of my garden up to great nutrients, fabulous lighting, and the ever-present company of some of the best cannabis cultivators a girl could hope to know, not to mention my steady flow of cosmic inspiration. :battingeyelashes:

Good morning everyone. :Love:

These may be her last pictures. Tomorrow morning will be her harvest. This morning I'm seeing a broad smattering of impending amber.


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There's still some new growth happening, but I don't see that it's going to amount to anything significant. CBD CC 2.8 is more than ready to stop in behind her.


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I'm already looking forward to the next specimen, which I believe I'll need to start in a couple months. I'm trying to get the rotations more finely-tuned. Increasing yields will become a priority, but not so much that I open the garden up to the risks of complications. The daughter and I are in continuous conversation about what's really necessary as opposed to what we want to explore.

To be honest, I dream of having rooms to grow in. :cheesygrinsmiley:

Alright my friends, time to get out there and infect the world with copious amounts of unconditional loving. We're damned good at that trait, so let's show the world how happy stoners express unbridled joy. :yahoo: :slide: :yahoo:

I trust you're up to speed with the rules? Suspend all judgement. Put aside all assumptions that aren't of a positive nature. Laugh frequently and heartily. Joyful expectation of the wonder that lies ahead. Hugs where you can find them. They're an important part of a healthy psyche. At least one, held for ten seconds, every day.

Got it? :battingeyelashes: Good. Get out there and have fun. :cheesygrinsmiley:
 
Hi Sue:

Very powerful and somewhat sad thread here recently but I will second the notion that tobacco in general and cigarettes in particular are deadly addictive and a terribly difficult thing for those who use them to stop. I've watched multiple people including my own mother go from them, at least as a major contributing factor.

On the other hand, yesterday was my wife's mother's funeral. She died from the sudden onset of pancreatic cancer after never even having a cold for 82 years. Never smoked. Never overweight. As I sat there holding my wife's hand I kept thinking, she had lived such a perfect lifestyle. For so long. Then one day, boom.

Cancer takes all. I really think there is probably more genetic influence on that deathly lottery than environmental factors all added up for most of us. But being obese, unhealthy eating, and smoking cigs are probably things that push many of those who are genetically susceptible over the line. For some it helps to rationalize things, I've heard many people say that a hugely fat smoker "deserves it" compared to a sweet old lady who lives right but the truth is nobody deserves it. I have known plenty of huge fat smokers and most of them are still around so who knows.

Some of the most critical and impactful things in life are so God damned random.

Prayers for all those whom cancer has afflicted, and affected. Just my two cents.

Peace, Hyena
 
Separately, I want to wish you a Happy Valentine's Day.

You really are sweet, Sue.

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Peace, Hyena
 
It's strange, though. My paternal grandfather smoked cigarettes and died of cancer. But he smoked like a chimney for 78 years, and it was a brain tumor that got him instead of lung cancer (at 92). Go figure. Life's a lottery.
 
Happy Valentines Day SweetSue.... :hugs: :hugs: :hugs: :Love: :hugs: :hugs: :hugs:

Here's the prettiest blossom I have

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Thank you Jim. Happy Valentine's Day to you too. This one's just for you. :kisstwo:

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