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

[SweetSue]

What strain us that Sue?

That picture was of Carnival 4.1 LTS.

 

[Scottay]

Good to know Scottay. I'll amend my response to the question accordingly.

I'm still learning to turn that training into consistent harvests in excess of 1 ounce. I'm missing a part of the formula, and I haven't determined what it is yet, but I suspect it's a combination of getting the training down and more light. ' Is there ever enough light for the obsessed cannabis cultivator? Lol!

I hear ya on the light thing!! Every time it comes up I think of LightAddict!!! Have you considered Flux?? That man had so many bud sites on one plant that I've ever seen. And he started in a cupboard. I miss that fella. Smart man. Ever hear anything from him ever? You're a great grower Sue!! I respect you big time!! Keep rocking babe!!

 

[SweetSue]

Just went thru a few posts and wow wow!!
Your ladies look amazing.
Its not hard to tell they touched by love.
And a few bigguns too!
So proud and inspired of your progress.
Keep it poppin sugar!

Awww....thanks Stage. It's starting to get to be even more fun. I've been at it long enough that things are beginning to make more sense. Still struggling with yields, but I'll get there, of that I have no doubt. I'm surrounded by so much talent it's inevitable that I learn to get a consistent 2+ ounces from each charge. I'm enjoying the cultivation, but in the end this is an oil production facility, and volume means I can back off on the numbers. I'd like to get it to 14 plants, total.

I hear ya on the light thing!! Every time it comes up I think of LightAddict!!! Have you considered Flux?? That man had so many bud sites on one plant that I've ever seen. And he started in a cupboard. I miss that fella. Smart man. Ever hear anything from him ever? You're a great grower Sue!! I respect you big time!! Keep rocking babe!!

I've been here long enough now to see how members float in and out of the community. They all come back in time, so wait patiently. The love we share in this community is a powerful draw. You yourself know how easily we all became family. We may wander away, but sooner or later you begin to miss the laughter and loving.

I haven't heard a peep about LA. I know he had plans to go to work in the business somewhere. May he be blissfully happy living the dream.

Good morning everyone

My social life continues to blossom. Today I've a luncheon date with one of the girlfriends, then a quick drive through the hair salon and some shopping before I get any garden work done. I want to grab at least one more of those small stainless canisters and an OvGlove, if I can find one. Bed Bath and Beyond may be my source for that piece of equipment.

Before I roll my behind out of the bed and into the shower to wash the sleep from my eyes I wanted to encourage your engaging the universe in playfulness today. You understand that this "life experience" is best done as a game, don't you? Want marvelous things to occur in your day? Get playful and stay there. Watch the magic ensue. I know, I know.....it sounds too easy, too pie-in-the-sky. But it works, and that's why I keep encouraging that mindset.

The best answers and the most beneficial inspiration will come to you when you let go of the need to find the solution and just play. Your ECS will operate most efficiently when you can laugh freely and heartily. The evidence is irrefutable. Play more and life becomes more delightful. Do your best to feel really, really, really happy about whatever you're doing, and follow the inspiration that follows.

In other words, live your life like this:

happy, happy, happy, happy, happy

Dead​

A little incentive for the "happy" part.

Good morning from the flowering tent.

This one looks done.

I need to get a move on........later, my friends.

 

[SweetSue]

Good morning everyone

Look......!!!!!

Welcome little one.

SweetSue has just passed into serious pain management. #1 is the biggest yielder, according to Van Stank, and I expect that one to pop soon, but at least I have one into the light. My patient will be pleased as punch. That light at the end of his pain tunnel just got brighter.

Finding one germinated kinda made my morning sparkle from the start. Now I will turn my attention to a delicious canna omelette with the last of the Carn 4.1 trimmings. Mmmmmm....... In the same way Carnival makes the tastiest brownies, it also. Makes the best-tasting omelettes. I have another Carnival nearing harvest and she has a nice batch of trimmings I'd left on purposely. I'm really enjoying the omelettes with attitude. Lol!

Ok, time to get out there and show the world how we love unconditionally. Do the universe a favor and make someone smile today. Watch how it enlivens your day. If what we give out is what we get back, make it your purpose to give off vibrations of love, appreciation, satisfaction, joy. Create a personal environment that draws to you those experiences you desire to have expressed in your life. Get really, really happy about whatever you're doing and then follow the impulses that come to you. I believe you'll find yourself pleasantly surprised at the outcomes.

My joyful self will be catching up with yours later.

 

[Tead]

I often have to help them with their hats when they pop in perlite.
Temps are down(ish), time to dig thru the seed stash.

 

[SweetSue]

I often have to help them with their hats when they pop in perlite.
Temps are down(ish), time to dig thru the seed stash.

There you are!!!

Missed your snarky ass.

This one needed help with half the shell. The membrane was wrapped around the stem. I think I see movement in #1.

 

[SweetSue]

The work behind the scenes

I've spent a significant portion of the day catching up on the little things you don't often think about that keep the perpetual moving forward.

Pots and saucers are cleaned in preparation of the next in line.

Roots get cleaned and dried.

Used perlite gets soaked in bleach water and thoroughly rinsed before being reused. This is the most time-consuming of jobs, and the one I'm most likely to put off, just like I will reclaiming the soil. I have a batch of soil with root ball awaiting the arrival of more EWC that'll need an additional Transplant drench and some Roots! to replenish the struggling biota. They're still ok, the rootball hasn't dried out from the last drench, since it's been closed up tight since harvest.

I save the used fabric pots until I have enough on hand to run through the washer. Before that can happen they're turned inside out and the dirt is beat out of them, so as not to clog up the washer with mud. It makes me smile to see them all clean and ready for use.

They take time, and I never get them done until inspiration hits me, but it sure is satisfying to get all the little chores done. The cleaning of the perlite will take a day or two. I still have another basin full to sort through in search of the leftover prills from Osmo Plus. I keep looking at that basin and thinking I'd rather dump it on the community garden.

A couple glamour shots from the sparkly Thin Mint GSC. She's got just over a week left. The branches are beginning to sag from the weight of the oil being produced.

The daughter smiled at the size of her. She may prefer Thin Mint to Candy Cane, but what she really appreciates is the variety. This is one of those things the overbearing legislatures aren't taking into consideration, but then they're trying to keep cannabis a medicine only, and medicine isn't supposed to make you feel this good.

"Why would it matter what chemovar you had access to? Just take your medicine and be quiet about the limitations we impose."

Yeah...... I don't think so. Lol!

In time it'll all go back to a saner view of this marvelous plant. Thank goodness I'm bold enough that I choose not to wait for them to catch up to us.

 

[DrDoob]

Yeah...... I don't think so. Lol!

In time it'll all go back to a saner view of this marvelous plant. Thank goodness I'm bold enough that I choose not to wait for them to catch up to us.

You're awesome, I wanna be like you when I don't grow up.

 

[SweetSue]

Final Tally: Carnival 4.1

She came in at 31 grams dry.

20 grams low and slo...

...and 11 grams of dehydrated buds.

Better than an ounce. No complaints here.

 

[TorturedSoul]

This one needed help with half the shell. The membrane was wrapped around the stem.

I have to assist with removal of the seed case and membrane occasionally when conditions are hot and dry (or not hot, but very dry). When I get around to noticing that the seedling needs a little help, I'll drip water onto the area, wait a bit, drip more water onto the area, wait a bit, et cetera. I've seen several fall off on their own (after I've done the repeated water drips) this way, and the ones that I've still had to manually remove seemed to go easier than those times before I started hydrating the area first. Seedling survival, and survival without getting mangled has gone up accordingly.

I LOVE that round, clear drain saucer thing! It even has raised areas, so containers that only have drain holes on their bottoms can still drain!

I mostly set a plant into a five-gallon bucket with a little rock or two under one side of the pot when I have to water it. (No, I'm not sacrificing a potential decent-sized plant container for this, lol, it's my work bucket so it has to be available on short notice.) I figured that this wouldn't work with my two-liter bottles because they're tall, skinny, potentially - and hopefully - top-heavy, and don't have the most stable base design... so I made the drain holes up ever so slightly from the bottom, on those stupid inner curves.

Roots get cleaned and dried.

Isn't a healthy root system a lovely thing to see?

Used perlite gets soaked in bleach water and thoroughly rinsed before being reused. This is the most time-consuming of jobs, and the one I'm most likely to put off

I hate the smell of chlorine, and always have. Mom used to clean everything she could with Chlorox when I was a youngin'. I still have a habit of flushing other people's toilets before urinating in them, even if they appear to be clean and just-flushed (when I was growing up, our bathroom was approximately 5'x6' - so definitely a "confined space" - and it turns out that adding urine to a container full of chlorine bleach produces Bad Medicine :icon_roll ).

I once asked her why she used so much bleach all over the place, and she said it was so that people didn't get sick. I replied that I'd rather be sick, lol. I have since learned that being sick is much worse than smelling bleach (and possibly even worse than the big toxic cloud of chlorine gas / chloramines that fills the ~240 cubic foot space you're trying to pee in without puking, passing out, getting pneumonia and/or fluid in the lungs, or expiring). But I still cannot stand the smell/taste of chlorine. Sadly, concentrated H₂O₂ costs more than chlorine bleach, so...

just like I will reclaiming the soil. I have a batch of soil with root ball

It's funny, I suppose, but - poor as I am - I've never done this for the purposes of reusing soil in a future cannabis grow. My expensive store-bought soil eventually ends up in my outdoor (NON-cannabis) garden. Except for that one time when my brother talked me out of three five-gallon buckets full of soil/perlite... only to tell me a few days later that he'd used it to fill a hole in his back yard :rolleyes3 .

awaiting the arrival of more EWC that'll need an additional Transplant drench and some Roots! to replenish the struggling biota. They're still ok, the rootball hasn't dried out from the last drench, since it's been closed up tight since harvest.

When you have and use everything for this, does the microbial life in your soil eventually decompose and consume all the old root/etc. mass?

I save the used fabric pots until I have enough on hand to run through the washer.

Good to know that one can do this with those things.

I keep looking at that basin and thinking I'd rather dump it on the community garden.

The community garden would probably benefit greatly. I'd be too paranoid to do something like that, though, unless it was a late-night drop-off.

what she really appreciates is the variety.

I can imagine. Aside from the obvious benefits, it likely helps prevent "strain burnout."

This is one of those things the overbearing legislatures aren't taking into consideration

I've been following a thread about the ongoing legalization saga in Canada. I wonder how much strain choice people will have, legally, up there when it's all said and done. Then again, I think the concept of getting mail-order cannabis is accepted in Canada.

The (potential) ability to try as many strains as one likes in order to determine which one works best for THEM is just one of the reasons why being allowed to grow one's own cannabis is important - and something that a great many politicians are too incredibly stupid to have figured out or, more likely since they generally manage to tie their own shoes and find their way home at night, willfully ignore in the pursuit of (tax) money.

There are several states that have legalized cannabis for medicinal use, yet do not allow people to grow their own medicine. The result - and I do not feel like there is any need for me to add "IMHO" here, because it's a fact - is that there are still lots of people who cannot afford to use cannabis medicinally and, if they somehow manage to pay caviar prices for aspirin/penicillin... may not even get the specific cannabis (strain, cannabinoid ratio/strength, terpine ratio/strength, et cetera) that they need!

but then they're trying to keep cannabis a medicine only

I could live with that, sort of. I mean... They should probably be allowed to collect (a reasonable amount of) tax on recreational-use cannabis - but NOT on medicinal-use cannabis. (IOW, tax wants, not necessities.) But I don't see how that'd work, unless you could ensure that people were only purchasing medicinal-use cannabis for medicinal use. Best way I know of to make it workable would be to remove the "buzz" from medicinal-use cannabis or somehow block that effect. But IDK if THAT would work, either, since some of the benefits of cannabis come from the same components that give buzz. It's a head-scratcher, lol.

medicine isn't supposed to make you feel this good.

I've got nothing to say in response to that; I just enjoyed reading it.

"Why would it matter what chemovar you had access to? Just take your medicine and be quiet about the limitations we impose."

To that, I say break all of their arms and then, for treatment... hit 'em with six weeks of intense chemotherapy. Afterwards, ask them how they liked getting the wrong treatment for their issue (and how well their arms healed).

I've been told (a time or... two) that I sometimes am a bit extreme. To those who've just read the above and find yourselves agreeing with this evaluation, realize that I could have stated "shoot them in the gut and then throw a bottle of aspirin at them," .

In time it'll all go back to a saner view of this marvelous plant.

Like so many of our issues, it could - eventually - be solved by switching this welfare state I mean so-called capitalist economy to an actual pure capitalism one. IMHO.

 

[SweetSue]

Oh TS.....so much conversational fodder. I'll be back for that later.

Good morning everyone

And then there were two...

* Contented sigh * All this time and I still hold my breath when I plant. So far, my banana peel method has been successful 2 out of 2 times. Let's anticipate that will continue with these two.

Alright gang, another day to fill with joyful expression. Give it your best shot and laugh more. Remember, life is supposed to feel good. If it's not, take a moment and deliberately choose a better-feeling thought. Then just keep doing that and watch what the universe brings to you.

Isn't this the most fun you ever had? I'll be back later with updates.

 

[Jgrowlove]

Good morning sweet sue! Hope your day is filled with joy! Have u had the chance to try the chemdog I left u. Omg it might be my favorite smelling plant I've grown yet. The terps are almost overwhelming when drying. Fills up the whole room!!

 

[Tead]

Used perlite gets soaked in bleach water and thoroughly rinsed before being reused. This is the most time-consuming of jobs, and the one I'm most likely to put off, just like I will reclaiming the soil.

Tead's been pretty guilty of not cleaning it and just tossing it. PITA.

I hate the smell of chlorine, and always have.

Set a soggy batch of rootball and perlite aside for a few days or weeks. It'll develop an aroma much more irritating than bleach.

 

[SweetSue]

Tead's been pretty guilty of not cleaning it and just tossing it. PITA.


Set a soggy batch of rootball and perlite aside for a few days or weeks. It'll develop an aroma much more irritating than bleach.

That's what that was. I left the last one sitting off to the side of the living room for three days. That was long enough. Broke it all down yesterday.

I don't have anywhere to dump it that could be useful. It sure is a pain to reclaim though, and I'm not fond of the smell of chlorine either. I almost never used it before this. Gets everything clean and ready to go, so I'll be sticking with it. One more rinse to go.

 

[SweetSue]

Good morning sweet sue! Hope your day is filled with joy! Have u had the chance to try the chemdog I left u. Omg it might be my favorite smelling plant I've grown yet. The terps are almost overwhelming when drying. Fills up the whole room!!

I tried it two nights ago, and meant to mention it yesterday. Wonderfully effective sleep meds. Put me down in less than 15 minutes. Of course, it was after 2 AM, but I'm typically up 'till after 3. I'll be trying it again tonight, to get a better sense of its social side.

It was indeed fragrant. You did a great job raising this one.

 

[SweetSue]

Weekly Update: The Veg Shelf and Clones - Friday, October 20, 2017

All hempy plants in my garden get fed 2 tsp of CaliMagic per gallon of water.

Things have temporarily settled down in here. It'll get busy again in about a week when I start potting up clones. I think I'll start planning to harvest one plant a week. That means I need to start one every week. This week I cheated and started two. This passion sure is difficult to reign back.

I'll get it down sooner or later. Lol!

Candy Cane 3.1 (Day) Maintaining at 12 ml of Parts A & B and 4 ml of Energy per gallon of water. Just waiting for her spot under the flowering lights.

The girl's getting hard to contain. I clip leaders daily. Today I also did a spit of defoliation, taking off the leaves showing signs of some deficiency I haven't chased down yet.

Its only one level of leaf development, and it correlates to a period a while back when I thought I might be using too much CaliMagic, and then changed my mind. The period with less CaliMagic application was where these leaves turned up. All new growth looks fine.

She's ungainly though, and she goes into flower within a week. I trimmed off some of the outlying branches and cleaned up her underside, leaving a candidate for cloning and not much else.

She's gonna be a beast in flower. Her branches are strong and firm, giving me hope that I may have found my solution to spindly stretching. We shall see in a couple weeks if my plan works.

That'll do for now. She'll be fully recovered in a matter of days. She requires that watering every two days or she yells pretty loud. Lol!

Carnival 4.5 (Day) Feeding on 10 ml of Parts A & B and 4 ml of Energy per gallon of water.

Back from the visit to the GROWant240 tent, now that there's more room under the quantum boards. She's starting to throw out five-bladed leaves already.

Devil's Carnival 1.1 (Day) Time came to chop off her top and start the cloning process. I don't plan to run another DC for a while, and when I do I plan to make it another seed, hoping for some color. The chemovar is too potent to let fall by the wayside, so I'll be cloning it into perpetuity. I kept this stalk just in case the clone cutting didn't make it, and now I'm wondering if I might not be able to maintain her as a kind of hempy mother, keeping her roots contained within the 2 liter bottle, and periodically trimming her top and roots to keep her delayed.

The larger fans got pulled. I want her to take some time. She's running on half-strength nutrients at the moment while I determine exactly what I'm gonna do with her.

Alaskan Thunderfuck #1 & #2 Both came up within a day of each other, so I'm going to consider them exactly the same age. Van tells me #1 is the biggest yielder. Glad I am to see her make an appearance.

#2 got herself all twisted around. Her taproot was growing up out of the perlite.

I carefully reset her. She looked fine before I left the house earlier.

No matter how I try, the clone shelf keeps growing. Up to four, with more on the horizon.

Devil's Carnival 1.3. (Day) If I decide to work with the mother I may offer this clone to J, if he's interested.

CBD Critical Cure 2.8 (Day) This girl is intended for meds for a friend. Hopefully she'll provide the relief his struggling ECS is crying out for.

CBD Critical Cure 2.7 (Day) I'm always amazed at how well the cuttings take to this process. She has another week before I'll be ready to transplant her. I want to get CC3.1 into flower and reconfigure a few plants first. Hempy makes this so easy to adapt to.

Jamaican 1.1 (Day) I have high hopes for this baby. I'm looking forward to seeing her fill the Spa all on her own. I really, really want to see what she'll look like when she's unfettered.

On to the tiny closet.

 

[SweetSue]

Weekly Update: The Tiny Closet

Dark Slide (Day 108, flip + 39) She's due for her first TransWater drench following her CAT drenches tomorrow. She also had a Brix foliar last Sunday, the day of her second CAT. She's busily beefing up her buds, doing so without any demands other than water and light. An easy girl to raise.

Just on the verge of a trichome explosion.

Pistils are beginning to turn, and in my garden I consider that a sign that we're about 3-4 weeks from harvest. I'm looking forward to testing her out.

Ultra Dawg (Day 110, flip + 37) Her mother came down in record time for my garden, and she's only four days from that mark right now. I've looked over the records and decided that tomorrow I'll start her flush about four days ahead of schedule and get her harvested next weekend, if not before.

Her inner chambers are packed with dense, frosty buds that all smell unbelievable. She dominates the fragrances in this space, for sure.

Packed

The photo gods laughed at my attempts today. All evidence points to harvest ASAP. She's already mostly cloudy, with just the beginnings of amber development.

Next up, the Spa.

 

[SweetSue]

Weekly Update: The Spa - Friday, October 20, 2017

Devil's Carnival 1.1 (Day 85, flip + 29) She's in mid-bloom, and her nute levels are running 16 ml of Parts A & B with 8 ml of Bulk per gallon of water. Looking at her objectively, it doesn't look like I'm going to beat the ounce haul the mother offered, but it's definately easier to deal with at this height than her mother was at 7'

I just love the way she's always praying to the indoor sun.

Her massive trichome coverage is beginning to establish itself. She smells just like the mother did growing in soil.

Most of the sugar sprinkling is below the canopy, just the same way Carnival expresses.

Blue Dream S1 (Day 79, flip + 6) Just starting the process of blooming, she gets fed 14 ml of Parts A &B with 1 ml of Energy per gallon of water. For some reason one of her waterings got overlooked, and she never even complained.

The stretch is getting under way.

On the verge of blooming. Don't you love those light green centers?

Jamaican Bag Seed (Day 103, flip + 26) Her last Brix foliar was Sunday, and she had a TransWater drench on Tuesday. I'll pull her out one of these days to get some better pictures. She defies the camera and blurs the shots almost every time.

She's impressing the hell out of me, particularly with the mango scent that fills the senses when you brush against her. *sigh* She'll give me a taste of her possibilities, but I'll get what I'm really looking for from her clone. We have some sweet bud sites going here.

Thin Mint GSC (Day 99, flip + 53) Another girl I may need to accelerate. She's nearly falling over with the weight of the buds, and she just looks and feels "done" to me, you know? She's started on the lowest level of nutrients, just 12 ml of Parts A & B per gallon of water, but I'm thinking start her flush with the next watering and finish her off a couple days after Carn 4.2.

Dripping with essential oils. I believe the daughter has determined that this is her new preferred chemovar. She smiles when I mention it as one of her options. She comes over here to use her vaporizer, and let's me load it for her. She can't stand handling the flowers. Do I spoil them or what? Lol!

All of the lower buds look nice and dense. She sparkles so pretty in the light.

Canopy maintenance.

On to the tents.

 

[SweetSue]

Weekly Update: GROWant240 Sponsored Tent

29 days since transplant, the girls are on 12 ml of Parts A & B with 4 ml of Energy per gallon of water. They get watered every two days, and Chem Dawg and Malawi 1.1 are drinking up every bit of it.

Malawi 1.1 (Day) I'm getting close to the moment when I need to decide what pot to finish her out in. Her mother's in soil, which gave me more room to spread her out. I'll need a different strategy for this girl. I'm thinking get her into one of the smaller pots and see what she does on her own. It's supporting the branches that's giving me pause. With the mother I used the ring of bamboo.

Still feeling my way through with this chemovar. She's a beauty though, isn't she?

Carnival 4.4 (Day) Starting to come into her own. Her Frankenplant days are almost completely behind her now. She's recovering nicely from her toppings on Sunday.

A promising structure is developing.

Chem Dawg (Day) Also responding well to the toppings. I'm close to having her where I want her, then it's a matter of letting her fill out before the flip. We have about a month left to play around before it'll be time to get them flowering. Coordinating three different chemovars can sometimes be tricky.

Happy, happy plants. Happy, happy cultivator.

One more to go.

 

[SweetSue]

Weekly Update: Friday, October 20, 2017

Carnival 4.2 (Day 127, flip + 61) She's had two cycles of flush, and I'm thinking tomorrow morning is a good time to take her. The tent is overcrowded, and Malawi is the one suffering. This girl's panting to get over the finish line as it is.

Before the next Carnival gets to flowering I'm gonna learn how to work the nutrients better and extend her out anothe week or two. It's easier to get that extra time in ther with soil, IMO, but only because I'm not as familiar with manipulation of nutrient levels.

Obviously she'd prefer a lighter touch with the nutrients. All of her tips are burned. See? I'm beginning to notice. The next logical step is learning to work the formulations.

I could probably push her another week, but this stage makes for the euphoric experience I find most rewarding. Still....next harvest window with a Carnival I'd like to see come in at least a week later than this. With soil I'm used to letting them go until there're no more white hairs.

She's fully cloudy. I start getting nervous about ambers popping up.

All of her branches are filled out beautifully.

Malawi (Day 94, flip + 48) She had a Brix foliar on Sunday and got a TransWater drench yesterday. It hurts me to see how badly burned her upper leaves are. This is bound to have a negative impact on production. She still has almost another 40 days to go though, so she may surprise me. She'll appreciate getting more light when Carnival gets harvested. I was going to flip CC 3.1 yer Carn 4.2, but I'd rather slip her into the closet in a couple days after UD 1.1 comes down and leave Malawi more room to breathe. Maybe then she can forgive me for the abuse.

I've been careful about the Brix foliars since the burning incident. The damage was already done. Thankfully, the lower areas were spared the pain. It's these regions I'm hoping can respond with more vigor, given more light access.

I mean "ouch!!!" I'll redeem myself with the clone. Not much more I can do for this poor soul.

CBD Critical Cure 2.6 (Day 74, flip + 10) Starting in on the bloom cycle with 14 ml of Parts A & B with 1 ml of Energy per gallon of water. She's beginning to get a stretch going, and signs point to flowers bursting forth in a day or so.

One last look back. Tomorrow the view changes once again.

Three harvests approaching within a week or so. I think I'm gonna need more jars.

That's the end of the nickle tour ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much for stopping to share in the joy they bring me. I do hope I made the trip worth it for you. It's been a long day I'm ready to pull out this Chem Dawg J left with me and let it work its magic. Maybe I'll catch you around the yards.

Until then,