The Joy Of Growing - SweetSue Goes Perpetual

[Richard Richardson]

Hi Sue Your plants are looking great Sorry about the Likestream

Oh Snap! What the heck are those techs doing now! Not only have they not repaired the "Like" situation yet but they have the "share" links right next to the like button and I can't turn them off; one slip of the finger and BAM! The last thing most of us want to do is accidentally share our grows. It's not like we all live in one of those blessed states.

Rico Suavay, Help... :surrender::surrender::surrender:

Hi Reg The Share button has always been next to the Like button, nothing has changed yet

Our System Techs, Ben & Jerry, are testing a new Like engine at the moment. It's called "Likestream Deluxe"

The engine should boost Likeability by around 42.0% and increase Like efficiency by approximately 4.20%.

These are huge increases in performance over the outdated model, which is still broken.
But the Share has always been There

Here, here...

There, there...

my thoughts exactly, It looks better now

kelticBlue It will look even better soon

I'm finding more and more that "effect" in edibles (in my case at least) is not so much a tolerance level thing (I have no idea how tolerant I am to THC). What I do find is that upping the dose of edibles after a certain point does not notably increase the intensity of the high but rather the duration. Seems we (wife & I) can only metabolize ingested THC at a certain rate so more == longer not so much intenser high.

Hi OMeWan Our liver converts the THC into 11-Hydroxy-THC (the stoned feeling), which is then converted to 11-nor-9-carboxy-THC. This metabolite is not psychoactive and may be why the "effect" plateaus after a while. The more you eat, the longer the liver is producing the active metabolite but also breaking it down, in a continuous, self limiting cycle.

While 11-nor-9-Carboxy-THC does not have any psychoactive effects in its own right, it may still have a role in the analgesic and antiinflammatory effects of cannabis and has also been shown to moderate the effects of THC itself which may help explain the difference in subjective effects seen between occasional and regular users of cannabis.

 

[kelticBlue]

SweetSue Stoner Thoughts

Because I should be in bed, but instead I'm sitting here, cross-legged on the floor at 5:20 in the morning.

There's a function I refer to as the "Likes" Slipstream. Your Control Panel button, top left on the page (CP) gives you the option to choose Notifications, which further gives you the choice to see the likes that were hit in response to your posts. It does this in chronological order, so it allows you to track numerous conversations over the entire site. The option they're trying desperately to restore for us is that valuable slipstream link that can take me directly to that conversation, so I can see if there were any additional posts carrying the conversation to the next step.

It's been frustrating trying to keep up without that function I didn't realize the true value of until just before it vanished. I know, how ironic, eh? My habit is to go there first anyway and then search the conversation down in other ways. I realized yesterday that there's an additional reason that I check in there. It lists the thread the post was left on. One of my goals has always been to make that list I see when I go to my CP be varied, covering a wide range of journals. Last week, when I changed my posting approach it took so much of my time that almost 99% of those registered likes were from this journal. As tickled as I am about that, it bothered me that I'd become myopic.

This morning I noticed that I've restored balance to that list once again. That makes me smile.

Its 5:23. I should try sleep again.

Interesting metric to follow, I never knew it existed. :retty cool:: Ah, the more ya know.

Thanks SS.......

 

[SweetSue]

Rico, most Brilliant One, that was such a delight to find you'd treated us to a rare glimpse of your presence. And me actually asleep when you choose to visit. I bet you knew that when you decided to stop. Aren't you the smart one?

Thank you for the clarification on the likes function. Please tell the overworked tech team we appreciate their efforts and that appreciation will blossom exponentially when functions are restored. Please, I beg of you, make that soon.

The science lesson on the action of the liver was icing on the cake. You really should give a girl warning though. I could have had a breakfast snack waiting. It's always nice to have you drop by though. I know how manic the day must get, so stop anytime.

 

[Weaselcracker]

Glad to hear the likes thing is under the scalpel. Good morning Sue.

 

[SweetSue]

I was going to attempt, but there's no way I can do that right now.

It can be an interesting read, I'll give you that. When you consider the personalities that have followed the journal from the beginning it makes that journey more attractive, but nonetheless daunting. I realize it's overwhelming, which is why I recommend you jump right into the fray and get to know us now. We've changed since yesterday. Go back two months and I don't recognize myself anymore.

Good morning to you ODtheGreat. I see you've been with us for a month now. Are you finding everything to your satisfaction? Is there any way I can help you settle in? I see you have a journal, and later I'll make it a point to swing by and check you out. Make yourself at home.

 

[SweetSue]

Glad to hear the likes thing is under the scalpel. Good morning Sue.

Good morning Weaselcracker. I tried all day long to make it to your journal. For some reason, or a string of reasons to be fair, I never got there. I'll do better today. Have a great day.

 

[Weaselcracker]

Ha ha. Don't worry- barely been there myself. I've been trying all month just to get to my grow! Realized that it's kind of hard to make the journal work without updates and pics. Hopefully I'll get there today and start hacking my way into the pineapple chunk patch, then can update some of that late tonight or tomorrow if I live through the trimming experience. Have a wonderful day Sue!

 

[SweetSue]

Ha ha. Don't worry- barely been there myself. I've been trying all month just to get to my grow! Realized that it's kind of hard to make the journal work without updates and pics. Hopefully I'll get there today and start hacking my way into the pineapple chunk patch, then can update some of that late tonight or tomorrow if I live through the trimming experience. Have a wonderful day Sue!

If we don't hear back by tomorrow I'll send out the search parties. LOL!

 

[SweetSue]

Had to run to the bank for my brother. It's just around the corner, and I'm about an hour since ingesting that 1 gram of brownie delight. Wandering around the local Dollar General and having one of those delicious, giggly, "I'm so sweetly buzzed" moments. Thinking how much happier I am with a full dose.

Smiling at the idea that it only gets better from here.



This would feel even better with freedom.

 

[UncleCannabis]

Had to run to the bank for my brother. It's just around the corner, and I'm about an hour since ingesting that 1 gram of brownie delight. Wandering around the local Dollar General and having one of those delicious, giggly, "I'm so sweetly buzzed" moments. Thinking how much happier I am with a full dose.

Smiling at the idea that it only gets better from here.



This would feel even better with freedom.

Buying more brownie mix at Dollar General are we?
The bank Sue, don't forget to go to the bank.

 

[Dchannn]

You guys heard him ask me to get wordy, didn't you? OK Dchann, here we go:

In my own words. It begins with the planning. Graytail taught me the wisdom of getting the schedule worked out for the first plants through, and then work backwards from there to fill in the gaps and make sure you have a flow planned. He teaches mostly by example, so this training I speak of is available to anyone with the tenacity to dissect his journals. Well, I hound him with questions and he graciously indulges me, so I have something of a deeper understanding than the journals alone offer, but much of what I hounded him about I eventually found in reading the journals. It's quite a resource we have in the archived journals.

Tenacity. There's a key. Coincidentally, my initial response to the question of what makes a happy long-term marriage. It can be intimidating and frustrating in the early stages and there'll be many times when you just want to throw in the towel and answer the siren call of the big girls and a limited number of charges. Again, I'm tickled at the number of points there that will also apply to the art of building a lasting marriage.

But the beauty of a smoothly operating perpetual has its own pull, doesn't it? It offers the additional benefit of a steady supply of more variety, because you can always slip something new into a well-planned system. Once you've figured out how often you want to harvest you just plant a new one on that same schedule. If I want to harvest every week I better be planting every week, hadn't I? The hum of pulling one out to harvest and slipping another right in behind and another seed gets dropped........ Like breathing after a while, I imagine. Of course, I speak of seeds, but cloning is a valuable source of planting stock.

I hear the advice to plant more than you need, but that's not really practical for most of us, is it? It behoves us then to assure germination, and that's where someone like B A R comes in, with a system that gives him almost 100% success rate with germination. Failure to germinate slams the perpetual to a halt, so make this step work and work consistently. This way you can grow a dependable excess, because you do want more in veg than you can fit into the bloom space, in case something goes wrong with another plant. Working out that excess limit is an individual comfort zone thing. But you want no holes in the belt moving produce into the flowering room.

Once you figure out the planting schedule and lock down your germination technique it's just tenacity and good record-keeping, because if you don't keep some type of records you're doomed in a perpetual. A sense of humor helps. It's a bit hairy until you pull down the first harvest, turn around and find that someone else slipped right into her space and the conveyor belt you set up is actually working. And another seed gets dropped.

sue- that answer was total class. Thank you.

-do you have the ability to show me a copy of your"schedule" while I check out Graytails journal?
- and of course to be selfish even more....maybe take a quick look at my grow and give any advice. I think you know what I am aiming for, master growing advice would be very helpful.

All the best.

 

[SweetSue]

Moved Excalibur under the LEDs.

 

[SweetSue]

Strawberry Blue (Day 74)

She's packing it on so tight it's scary. No signs of really slowing down yet. She has the most amazing strawberry smell.

 

[36Gr0w]

Sue, here is soil test results for your base soil. Jeremy at BAS just posted it a bit ago.

 

[SweetSue]

Sue, here is soil test results for your base soil. Jeremy at BAS just posted it a bit ago.

Thank you so much 36. I'll blog it now, so I don't lose it. Thanks for saving me the leg work.

 

[Dchannn]

Wow, that Starwberry makes me so excited to see how mine turns out.

 

[Pigeons420]

Buying more brownie mix at Dollar General are we?
The bank Sue, don't forget to go to the bank.

 

[SweetSue]

Wow, that Starwberry makes me so excited to see how mine turns out.

I'll have to swing by and check yours out. Mine presents in miniature due to the restricted pot size and limited light schedule. Yes, she is lovely. Sweet-smelling and sticky as she can be too. She acts like she wants to just keep on growing. At 74 days we're witching Three weeks I'd say.

 

[Pigeons420]

Beautiful!

That strawberry is looking delicious! Starting to see some fox tailing, great sign of an approaching harvest.


Can't wait to read the reviews of this one!

 

[ODtheGreat]

I'm sure there's some good stuff to learn if I go back, my eyes were just so tired it was hard to try and keep up with current conversations lol. But I'll be here from now on if you don't mind. Good afternoon to you by now lol. Yes I'm liking it here thank you. I live somewhere where I cannot be open about what I like to do. So I feel like I'm closed off in my own world most of the time. Thankfully I've found this place, I get to learn and somewhat interact with more growers. It makes me happy Thanks for makin me feel at home! And there's nothing so special in my journal yet. Waiting for some seeds to pop