The Joy Of Growing - SweetSue Goes Perpetual

[SweetSue]

Sue, I've come to the conclusion that STEALTH means no-one knowing what's going on behind your closed doors. All that downgrading your plant count and disguising your grow area means nothing if folks know you grow. Sooner or later someone's going to blab off to the wrong person. Tight lips and keeping your grow space where if you have guest in the living room or going to the bathroom they don't see whats going on in the back of your apt is the key. My whole grow is in my bedroom and even childhood friends come to visit and have no clue. If I had the space I'd get a 4th tent. The odor is irrelevant since nearly everyone who knows me knows I'm a heavy smoker.

TELL NO-ONE...

I couldn't agree with you more. Hear you loud and clear. I can count on one hand the number of visitors that weren't medical personnel who've been in my apartment in the past six months.

Isn't that a sad thing to be able to admit? Yeah, made me stop and think too. later Susan. Focus.

This is my daughter we're talking about. Not much I hide from her. Thankfully, we've come to a mutually beneficial compromise. It turned into a win-win, which is still making me chortle every now and then.


Love the ideas. Need to get the first part of the update posted and transplant those Thunderpaws that should have been done yesterday.

I'll be back.

PS: These brownies are the best I ever made. I do believe SweetSue has finally found her dose. Isn't that great? LOL! Life is sweet.

 

[SweetSue]

Daily UpdatePerpetual Tent - Week 11, Day 2

I started very late today and ran through the tent as quickly as I could. Some blurry pictures. Lights were getting ready to go out. Please forgive.

Maintenance notes:
- Paradise Nebula got a light Energy drench, and sucked up every bit of it! Vigorous little thing. She's already flowering. Pictures below.

Paradise Nebula (Day 26)

She did NOT want to have her picture taken. It wouldn't focus in for the life of me. These were the best two, and I only used both of them to prove how visually challenging she was today.

Then I looked at this one and thought "Graytail goes through all those steps to make his girls pretty for the camera. SweetSue just tosses them out there into the field and says 'do your best and have fun while you're at it girls' ".

Graytail would have never have sent her out there with yellow leaves. Maybe Uncle Cannabis has us confused?

The LOS vegging girls.

I knew when I took that shot that the focus was off at this end, so I took another of the Critical Super Silver Haze (Day 39). Pretty, isn't she?

The Kit girls, vegging on their end of the shelf. At this point I was feeling the pressure of the clock and I knew I had to get down here and take some quick shots. I wanted a good look at that Unknown Seed plant with the bindings. I stuck the iPad in there and hoped for the best.

I'm liking what I see.

To to get those shots I had to sit down in this tiny space. One of the benefits of becoming more delicate (Delicate! Can you believe I can think of myself as delicate?? I know! What a hoot!) is that I could do that comfortably and squirm around to get the shots without any discomfort. I love being me.

One of those blurry shots. Sorry.

I turned the lights back on real quick 'cause I knew I was cutting it dangerously close and realized I'd forgotten about the White Widow, so she's pretty in pink today.

I turned, moved right on into the Bubblegum, took my shot

...and BOOM! The lights went out. I gave a self-satisfied chuckle, stepped out, zipped her up and came in here for coffee. And here we are. You kept up well. Are you winded too! Hahaha! It's not always this frantic. Tomorrow I'll try to be easier on you. LOL!

I'll get the rest up later. I need a break now.

Before I go - Joy people. Spread it!!

 

[SweetSue]

I struggle with keeping my mouth shut. I do, but its hard. Only 2 people in my life know exactly what is in my tent. No one else. I find it difficult, because I want to share, but I cant. As sure as I do they will know its not the same stuff they find in the bottom of their sacks. So, I just dont tell anyone. I hate that we have to be so secretive. My hubby is probably sick of hearing me talk about my girls. lol

This is one of the biggest reasons we persist. We're compelled to be exuberant about the hobby. We can do that openly here.

 

[Major PITA]

This is one of the biggest reasons we persist. We're compelled to be exuberant about the hobby. We can do that openly here.

My one-word solution: Oregon (or Colorado).

 

[SweetSue]

My one-word solution: Oregon (or Colorado).

Let me tell you, it has crossed my mind. My income goes where I go. I have few ties to the area. I consider it with more frequency than I thought I would. One never knows.

 

[Medicalissue]

what a great journal!!

 

[Amadeus Forzin]

Let me welcome you to this fine journal medicalissue. Make yourself comfortable and get involved, Sue will insist on it. I'm sure she will be along soon with her own welcome and the customary hugs

 

[SweetSue]

Daily Update: The Tiny Closet - Week 11, Day 2

I only had two Thunderpaws come up. They took to the transplant well. Let's see what happens.

The seedlings. Jamaican Dream is on the left, Dark Devil Auto on the right.

Look at all that green under there! These guys are looking good!!!

There she goes! Patience is about to be rewarded. Just a couple days out now.

These two are ready to go. Tomorrow for sure, they get topped and "Let the training begin!"

I can see the spot where she gets topped. Just a bit more height and it's "GO!" time.

That's it for the updates guys. Now I'm going to seek nourishment and maybe, just maybe treat myself to another bit of brownie. Not that I need to, but I'm wondering what it might feel like just a little further above the clouds.

 

[Black Thumb]

Damn that made me hungry!

 

[SweetSue]

Damn that made me hungry!

You can finish that piece. I'll grab another.

 

[SweetSue]

what a great journal!!

Why thank you Medicalissue. What a sweet thought. I try my best.

Ahhh... A new member smart enough to join our virtual slice of Paradise. Welcome to my journal and to the larger community. If there's any way we can help you settle in easier, please stop someone and let them know. The most helpful bunch of cannabis cultivators in the world roam these virtual streets, with a goal to help each other do this better. Around here we try to laugh a lot too. I think they're just naturally hysterically funny. Lucky me that so many of them choose to stick around here.

Are you considering beginning a grow journal? A great way to accelerate the learning curve.

 

[B A R]

I struggle with keeping my mouth shut. I do, but its hard. Only 2 people in my life know exactly what is in my tent. No one else.

I know what you mean Sorenna. At the beginning I was so excited I wanted to to tell everyone but common sense prevailed. Now I actually get kicks out of everyone begging me to plug them into my connect and like Sue says, I have all of you here to share my grow with.

I couldn't agree with you more. Hear you loud and clear. I can count on one hand the number of visitors that weren't medical personnel who've been in my apartment in the past six months.

Isn't that a sad thing to be able to admit?

Nope, it's a great thing. Sometimes I wish we weren't so connected with so many people.

My one-word solution: Oregon (or Colorado).

For a lot of us relocation isn't an option Pita but it would probably take a crowbar to pry me out of the city anyway; even just to The Bx or Bklyn. Hopefully soon we'll all be free to grow across this whole planet.

 

[SweetSue]

Amen to that!!!

 

[B A R]

Oh, and the funniest part is I don't even have to lie! When they ask "Why won't you introduce me or pick me up something from your connect?" I tell them the guy's real small time and doesn't have enough to go around. Plus he doesn't want anyone in his business. He's just doing me solids.

 

[Graytail]

Oh, and the funniest part is I don't even have to lie! When they ask "Why won't you introduce me or pick me up something from your connect?" I tell them the guy's real small time and doesn't have enough to go around. Plus he doesn't want anyone in his business. He's just doing me solids.

Yep, I know a guy who grows it - I know him really well.

 

[B A R]

 

[Happy Hemper]

A cautionary tale from the (limp) phallus of North America:

One of my dear friends is in the hobby of Marine Aquariums (salt water reef tanks) and they use a great deal of electricity. In order for various Corals to thrive they need light usually a couple of MH coupled with ancillary light such as multiple VHOs or such, they also require a fairly heavy current generated by multiple pumps. My last setup added an additional $100 to my electric bill.
On to the point, he recently received a call from his utility saying that his bill was the highest in his upper middle class neighborhood and that they would like to come into his house for an 'energy audit'. He politely refused and told them that it was ok and that he understood his usage. Two weeks later he gets a ring of the doorbell, it is the local police and they are there to investigate a 911 call from a cell phone that came from his house according to the GPS data. He was the only one home at the time and told them that the number in question was unknown to him and that no one called from his location. They insisted that they had to come in to verify that all was ok and he let them come in. The officers looked into every room, closet, bathroom, garage and out building before they were satisfied. They complemented him on his well maintained aquariums and left. My friend believes they suspected him of running a grow operation, which he does not nor does he smoke or drink.

As I said, a cautionary tale. A good example of what can happen is from our 420 friend D. with her current situation. Even if you live in a legal State do not talk about your grow as it can set you up for invasion, theft etc. Be safe, as they say it is not paranoia if they are actually out to get you.


p.s. IMHO, this is just another good reason to grow with LED.

 

[36Gr0w]

From a 15g second round no till pot that has had mulch added the whole time. SST and top dressings randomly. Another month left at least. I try to keep a layer about an inch thick of mulch, and add to it with veg trimmings, culled plants, and weeds or clippings from around the property. I already do all of this besides the SST, but sprouting seeds is easy and I use it for all the gardens. Main difference, when I mulch inside, I make sure to cut it into smaller/finer pieces, and I don't layer it as much
6-10" outside, 1/2 - 1" inside is how I do it.

 

[Pigeons420]

Morning Susan!

Wanted to let you know that you're beautiful and you're an inspiration of mine!

MUAH!

 

[SweetSue]

Those of you that are parents- do you ever have those moments when you wonder "What the F**K was I THINKING when I gave up birth control?"

Yeah, this is one of those moments.

It occurs to me that this sentiment is best felt by those of us blessed with ADULT children. I distinctly remember the moment in time where I gave my own mother a taste of this particularly irritating emotional response.

If memory serves me well, we didn't speak for 6 months. Sometimes I make loving me unconditionally more challenging than other times. Thank goodness I've evolved, and how wonderful that my relationship with my own daughter has benefitted from those lessons learned at my mother's gentle hand. She'd have been within her rights to have thumped me hard.

Huh! I just looked back there and I could see the Art of Loving Unconditionally being passed from my grandmother down to my daughter. What an interesting sense, and to see it that clearly. It's apparently a family trait I was lucky enough to inherit.

I'm glad you all enjoy being on the receiving end. I'm compelled to love, and you guys are a sweet outlet for that.



Oh yeah, Caramel-topped, Sativa-stuffed Brownie for breakfast. That may explain part if it.

Coffee!!!