It has been a while- I had to scroll pretty far down my subscriptions list ( 1047 subscriptions...wtf ) to even find my own journal this time. I've been busy, as usual. But I'm happy to report, (whether or not anyone besides me gives a rat's ass) that it's been a happy sort of busy. Unlike most of the busy-ness which consumed my winter and pretty much compromised the tone of this journal from the start.
What happened is... I was attacked by an alien species. More specifically, one particularly hideous member of an alien species. This creature has been attacking me sporadically for over a dozen years now, exerting it's unwelcome gravitational influence over my life and constantly threatening to suck me into it's own realm, aka The Brown Hole.
Anyway I'm happy to report that I've managed to fend it off yet again and send the loathsome thing scuttling back to its hole once more, after many months of bullshit and stress. It will be back. I have only myself to blame for the stress level. Its one of my failings I guess, being a stresscase. What to do though, when an alien is trying to suck you into the vortex of a brown hole?
As of the last little while my failure to keep this journal humming has been only because I have been running around in distant places busy with life. In a couple weeks I expect to be on the scene a bit more. I'm looking forward to journalling some of changes that have been going on at the grow.
Here is just a mini update.
I put six plants into the flowering room tonight under the Hexapus. Two hempies, two regular pots of perlite, and two of coco. Strains are - Golden Tiger, Snow Moon, Peyote Purple, Y Griega, Delicious Candy, and a Lemon Skunk cross which was a gift from a friend.
I also stuck the Critical Cheese into flowering, behind the Hexapus girls in this photo.
Mama Thai hasn't gotten over the curly leaf syndrome, but I can't keep her in the veg room anymore. She is getting too big even though I've hacked her down a couple times. I did manage to get a couple clones off of her so I will do experiments on the clones to try to resolve the curly leaf thing. It will be easier to do tests on small plants than on a big one which has already been through lots of stress and BS.
I hope she manages to produce some buds in spite of whatever the issue is. She's in the back in a 15 gallon pot, barely showing in this photo, Thai Stick on left and MT/TS on the right.
The Thai Stick has turned out to have a bunch of seeds. I'm not sure if they are from her own hermie flowers caused by the CS, or from the MT/TS, or even from the male Thai Stick...
Anyway- she's doing alright. She grows so slowly that sometimes I almost think she is dead, or frozen in time. The fact that she has now produced some obvious visible seeds tells me she is at least still growing.
It sucks when you don't know for sure where the seeds came from- but whatever the source is, it's mainly Thai Stick genetics.
I've decided to try the CS spray again, but this time get smarter and use it on a small Thai Stick clone.
When it hermies and starts flowering it will be easy to isolate, and I will use the plant for seed only. Not that I'm personally worried about being poisoned by the silver in the spray in the Thai Stick plant - but it doesn't hurt to play it safe- and this way I can dodge the poisoned plant possibility completely and make my job much easier at the same time.
There is a bunch of other stuff going on I suppose, but I'll write more some other time. Just trying to squeak in a quick update before I run off again for a few days.
Most of them are ones picked from wandering the faq sections and aren't active, thankfully. There are only about a hundred or so that pop up regularly. I don't bother trying to keep up anymore, but it's fun to drop in and say hi to people once in a while, when I have time. 
Weasel!!
Training is looking good cbgb. I'm glad you're making it all work there. All hail the mini grow space- cfls, tinfoil, string and duct tape. The breeding grounds for most growers. 
