The Joy Of Growing - SweetSue Goes Perpetual

[SweetSue]

Morning Sue. I'm gonna get on those books today too.

Morning Cajun. I'll watch for them. Hey - reinforcement -

Have a good day among the green now, hear?

 

[SweetSue]

Don't forget we're growing trichomes not leaves Sue. Thanxx for all your recent support.

Thanks for the reminder B A R. Good morning my friend. I'm feeling super affectionate this morning. We can blame it on the brownie, if blame needs to be placed. This one was more intense than the lighter ones I toss out with such abandon. Just for you Reg. Have a great day.

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Good Morning everyone

I thought I'd walk you through the tent with me this morning, kind of unedited. I unzipped, picked up the iPad and went to work. This is just as I experienced it, or as close as we can get with our virtual limitations. Come on, this will be fun.

I pulled Carnival out so I could get at the Afghani. She's a bit peaked, but not anything she can't rebound quickly from. I oooed and awwed and she responded. Good soil, abundant love. She'll be fine.

Part of the success of my plan here relies on rotating everyone 1/4 turn every day. This keeps lighting balanced. Let me tell you, ten gallons of LOS weighs a lot!!!! Turns out, I made one of those fortuitous decisions back when I set everything up. It's my opinion that I need reinforcement on the totes to help them distribute the weight of these pots better and avoid sagging. I chose to set pieces of 2x4 on them. Stability and a bit more height. Turns out they make excellent skids for sliding things around. Having flexible walls came in real handy in this tight space too.

Afghani #2 (Day 106)

Carnival (Day 105) I turned around to grab her and was shocked by how much larger her flowers had grown overnight. The growth spurt these plants go through is astounding!

Hanging the lights from a chain with S-hooks makes the daily vertical adjustment so much easier.

I want her in the lights, not on the lights.

Jamaican Dream (Day 50)

The baby is settling in nicely.

Auto Jock Horror x Auto Amnesia (Day 23)

Original Bubblegum (Day 49)

Dark Devil Auto (Day 35)

Stunning growth. She's filling out down inside where we can't see. I'll climb back to see her sister later. Too much work for right now and I need to pull everyone out to drench Jamaican Dream anyway.

The White Widow just blows me away. I'm watching her get thicker and thicker and thicker.....

My tiny dancers. We have some drenching to get out of the way in here. I have all those teeth pulled tomorrow and I don't think I'm goinna want to do anything in here after that.

The Bag Seed is starting to dash into the fade. This plant has held on amazingly well. If it turns out to be decent smoke I want to grow one full sized.

New Year's Bag Seed (Day 95)

Time for a shower - yeah, this is my first stop other than to have the brownie, and then I ate and typed simultaneously, so you got me uncensored and unedited. Well, you guys get uncensored all the time, and you're all so sweet about it.

I'll be back later with more, I'm sure. You get out there and spread that joy. Our success lies in our numbers. Like the Borg, but not at all like them. Have fun out there today. This day has a nice cosmic sparkle to it. Anyone else seeing this?

 

[Duggan]

Hey there girl...how's all eh! Just doin some quick visiting ....read your post about the "S" hooks and chain!....Next time ya buy some chain, just buy "jack chain", that way ya don't need to get those "S" hooks...jack chain is built a lil different than that stuff your presently using....you can just open any link ya want with it instead of using those "S' hooks that can pop off really easy on ya. Jack chain is very widely used in the construction industry for hanging all kinds of things from duct work to rows of FL. lighting. That type of chain you got there is really a pain in the ass and you NEVER see it on construction sites. Have an awesome day Susan!

 

[SweetSue]

Hey there girl...how's all eh! Just doin some quick visiting ....read your post about the "S" hooks and chain!....Next time ya buy some chain, just buy "jack chain", that way ya don't need to get those "S" hooks...jack chain is built a lil different than that stuff your presently using....you can just open any link ya want with it instead of using those "S' hooks that can pop off really easy on ya. Jack chain is very widely used in the construction industry for hanging all kinds of things from duct work to rows of FL. lighting. That type of chain you got there is really a pain in the ass and you NEVER see it on construction sites. Have an awesome day Susan!

Great idea Duggan. I may look into it, because those S-hooks, handy though they may be, get dropped at the most inopportune moments and you're left holding something that won't be easy to sit down. I always carry an extra on me somewhere. Jack chain. Thanks!

 

[brightlight]

Hello Sue....another good option to raise/lower lights is the Tie Boss, very secure, strong, inexpensive, & easy to use.

 

[SweetSue]

Hello Sue....another good option to raise/lower lights is the Tie Boss, very secure, strong, inexpensive, & easy to use.

Thanks brightlight, I'll google.

Daily Update: Perpetual Tent - Week 16, Day 4

Maintenance notes:
- The oldest Dark Devil Auto (Day 63), Paradise Nebula and Jamaican Dream all got Trans/Tea drenches.
- Paradise DeLahaze got a TransWater drench.
- The Unknown Seed got her first CAT drench.
- Jamaican Dream got her full Brazilian stripping.

Shall we? Walk with me.

We had a number of drenches to get in today. I sat down this morning and charted out all the kit plants to be sure I'm staying on schedule and to get all the CATs in on time. Amazingly, everyone's right on schedule. I have no idea how that happened. LOL!

Dark Devil Auto (Day 63)

Look at the fabulous color on the leaves! She's an absolute stunner in person.

Unknown Seed (Day 75) She's already so frosty I can't believe it and today was her first CAT. This should be fun.

Paradise DeLahaze (Day 79). Four days out from her second CAT drench.

Paradise Nebula (Day 63)

Jamaican Dream (Day 50) Time for her next drench, a TransWater. While I was down there I might as well get her cleaned up for the pistil run, eh?

There! Better.

All the trim, as well as all the leaves I've trimmed in the past few days, got tossed onto the Afghani's pot for mulch.

One last peek before we zip it all up and let them keep cooking.

I'm happy. I'm very happy. Yeah, that happy and more.

That's all I got today guys. Thanks for sticking with me. Hope your day has been at least a fraction of the joyful expression mine has been. I started cleaning house again guys! Do you even realize the implications of that? I keep the place reasonably clean anyway, and it's only me, but when they amputated his leg in February I stopped functioning domestically. Things are ragged and very dusty around the edges and the clutter is becoming intrusive. I've been waiting to heal enough that it mattered to me. Yesterday that happened. Hopefully I can get it done before I close it all up for the winter. I want to return from Phoenix to a clean and peaceful home. Well, my home is always peaceful. One of those things I'm known for around these parts.

Continue on on your own joyful journey. I'll see you around the yards.

 

[CyTheElectric]

Hey there girl...how's all eh! Just doin some quick visiting ....read your post about the "S" hooks and chain!....Next time ya buy some chain, just buy "jack chain", that way ya don't need to get those "S" hooks...jack chain is built a lil different than that stuff your presently using....you can just open any link ya want with it instead of using those "S' hooks that can pop off really easy on ya. Jack chain is very widely used in the construction industry for hanging all kinds of things from duct work to rows of FL. lighting. That type of chain you got there is really a pain in the ass and you NEVER see it on construction sites. Have an awesome day Susan!

Hey Sue, as a fellow electrician, I have to also recommend Jack Chain. Cheap and easy.

 

[JuanCarlos]

Sue I just wanted to stop by and bend your ear. I had bought a Solo 32 ounce sprayer a while back. I find it's a bit much for what I use it for. So I came across a cheap spray bottle at the store and picked it up. Worked for about a month before it started leaking. A while back I read about you getting the Flairosol. For the price I figured I would go for it since my cheapo crapped out on me. Got it in today and I must say, it's an interesting little sprayer. Can't wait to give it a go.

 

[SweetSue]

Sue I just wanted to stop by and bend your ear. I had bought a Solo 32 ounce sprayer a while back. I find it's a bit much for what I use it for. So I came across a cheap spray bottle at the store and picked it up. Worked for about a month before it started leaking. A while back I read about you getting the Flairosol. For the price I figured I would go for it since my cheapo crapped out on me. Got it in today and I must say, it's an interesting little sprayer. Can't wait to give it a go.

I love mine, but mine stopped working within weeks. That wasn't a problem for me because by then I'd purchased the remnants of another cultivator's kit, including two Flairosols, one that didn't work, but one that works beautifully. I have no idea what the story is and no energy to chase it down. Having expressed that frustration, I absolutely love the way it sprays that fine mist. If you go a bit light on mix and application of the foliars the plants appear to appreciate your efforts. I found that mine work best with 2 oz or more in them. It's really cool that once you get them going you can flip them over and shoot that mist from below.

Enjoy. Stop back and let me know how it works for you. I want yours to work for years. Clean it out after each use.

 

[ShiggityFlip]

Instead of a whole new chain I would recommend small carabiners to replace the s-hooks. Very cheap at the hardware store and won't be as dangerous to the light and plant as an unsecured s-hook. I just got a couple flairosols in too, and some 10 gallon and 1 gallon root pots. And I may have just gotten a few 150x3 LEDs...

 

[JuanCarlos]

I love mine, but mine stopped working within weeks. That wasn't a problem for me because by then I'd purchased the remnants of another cultivator's kit, including two Flairosols, one that didn't work, but one that works beautifully. I have no idea what the story is and no energy to chase it down. Having expressed that frustration, I absolutely love the way it sprays that fine mist. If you go a bit light on mix and application of the foliars the plants appear to appreciate your efforts. I found that mine work best with 2 oz or more in them. It's really cool that once you get them going you can flip them over and shoot that mist from below.

Enjoy. Stop back and let me know how it works for you. I want yours to work for years. Clean it out after each use.

Well I am sorry to hear that yours went kaput! I hope it lasts years as well, but I guess we will see. I am pretty good about cleaning them out afterwards, so let's see. Hopefully if it does break it does it quickly so I can return it!

 

[SweetSue]

Good Morning everyone.

I'm having the five remaining teeth extracted today, and although I'm thankful to finally get this part of the process behind me I'm having a bit of a time gearing up for the pain. Let me get all of this finished so I can focus on music and healing.

Gardening is all finished and pictures are being uploaded. Here's a few teasers.

Look! Foxtailing! Both plants are foxtailing, but the blossoms on the Bag Seed (on the left) are tiny things, packed in there so tight it's unbelievable.

Let me make some coffee and oatmeal and get right back to it. My appointment is for 1:00 to give me time to eat and let things settle. Such a thoughtful crew. That should give me plenty of time to get posting in.

 

[B A R]

Make sure you have a fat one with you to light up as soon as you walk out of the dentist's office. Telling you from experience it helps; that plus the Novocaine, woo wee!

 

[SweetSue]

Make sure you have a fat one with you to light up as soon as you walk out of the dentist's office. Telling you from experience it helps; that plus the Novocaine, woo wee!

Thanks for the heads up B A R. I'll have one rolled before I go. The dentist is only a block and a half from my apartment. My daughter's walking with me, but as soon as I get home I'll fire it up.

 

[SweetSue]

Carnival (Day 106)

We have up to six weeks to offer her. With this reduced light schedule I don't think she's going to last that long, but she has CATs starting next week. This is so much fun to watch.

 

[SweetSue]

Dark Devil Auto (Day 50)

I pulled that heavy Afghani out to get back there and was well rewarded. I'm soooo excited about this specimen that I could just scream! My heart beat faster when I set the Afghani down and turned back to find this.

See what I mean? She's unbelievably beautiful and those pistils look like they eat well, don't they?

Yeah, I'm real happy with this one.

 

[SweetSue]

I grabbed a nice shot of the White Widow this morning. She's at Day 69, and looking elegant as she can be.

She sits in the corner, almost inaccessible. That often turns out to be a good thing, and in her case I believe it will. Keeping that SWICK filled is a challenge though, and for that I have my handy Santa's Watering Wand that I found on clearance last year. It reaches all the way back there and jams right into the reservoir so there's no spillage.

When I'm done with it I toss it back on its hook. Easy-peasy.

The right tool for the job.

 

[SweetSue]

Jamaican Dream (Day 50)

What an accommodating and vibrant charge! Pictures don't do her justice. Take my word for it.

I cut her back to ten tops yesterday.

I think she's gonna surprise me.

 

[B A R]

That's similar to what I water with Sue, a long automotive oil funnel. Put a screen on the bottom to have the feed disperse instead of flooding through it like a hose and putting indents in the soil.

 

[SweetSue]

That's similar to what I water with Sue, a long automotive oil funnel. Put a screen on the bottom to have the feed disperse instead of flooding through it like a hose and putting indents in the soil.

Thanks Reg, that's a great idea. I probably would have never thought of that. Serious hug!

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