The Joy Of Growing - SweetSue Goes Perpetual

Pigeons420 said:
Hi friends. Just on a run. Seen a gathering over here in Susan's yard, wanted to say hello.

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Good evening Pigeons. I see you're dashing about to catch up. Have a wonderful evening, hear? Sit down and smoke one. :hugs: :Love:

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TheRoach said:
So are you going to move into the mountains Sue? That sounds interesting. I always wanted to visit a forest in the US, specially in fall.
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I'd like to move West. Different kinds of mountain than we have in the East. I live in a temperate region that has the seasonal changes, and we're going through that change right now. It can be a riotous explosion of reds and oranges. The river valley I live in is boarded with steep bluffs that can't be built on, so we have an abundance of trees. One of the greenest metropolitan areas in the US. I'm very blessed to live both in this region and in this apartment, which affords me an enviable view over a great expanse of the valley and it's greenery. Life is sweet.

It's been too many years though since I've been in the Rockies, and the beauty and light of the West has begun to pull me in a way I wasn't expecting. I'm not really sure yet how it's going to happen, but I'm pretty sure that's where I'm headed.

They had a series of earthquakes in Phoenix, the night before last I think it was. An interesting development as the holidays draw near.
 
SweetSue said:
Good evening Pigeons. I see you're dashing about to catch up. Have a wonderful evening, hear? Sit down and smoke one. :hugs: :Love:

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Yea haven't been feeling to hot today. The family gave me a minute to soak in the tub and relax. Thought I'd take a minute to visit my families!

Hoots start now!
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SweetSue said:
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Incredible work Sue :bravo:

What i admire about your setup is how clean and organized you keep it. From the light angles to the fan setups, the canopy, the height adjustment, everything is so well placed. I'm kind of OCD about it too so looking at your garden gives me great vibes.

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420brother said:
Incredible work Sue :bravo:

What i admire about your setup is how clean and organized you keep it. From the light angles to the fan setups, the canopy, the height adjustment, everything is so well placed. I'm kind of OCD about it too so looking at your garden gives me great vibes.

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Thank you Dear, but it made me laugh to read that, on the heels of ShiggityFlip's comment yesterday about the organized chaos. It's been a challenge becoming comfortable with tent growing, and now that I've adapted I'll be tearing it down and passing it forward. Isn't life grand? Set the goal, move heaven and earth to achieve it, have life change gears, adapt. Works for me. :battingeyelashes:
 
When you come back will you get another tent? Or choose some other way to grow?
 
SweetSue said:
Thank you Dear, but it made me laugh to read that, on the heels of ShiggityFlip's comment yesterday about the organized chaos. It's been a challenge becoming comfortable with tent growing, and now that I've adapted I'll be tearing it down and passing it forward. Isn't life grand? Set the goal, move heaven and earth to achieve it, have life change gears, adapt. Works for me. :battingeyelashes:
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haha thats funny.

i can relate on the tent adaptation, it takes sometime until you are comfortable about growing in a tent. When i started my first tent grow one thing i noticed was that when your tent opens from every side it's infinitely easier to manage the grow, naturally i realised that right after my tent was delivered with a look of "how am i going to reach the plants on the back when they're fully grown" :rasta:
 
I'm going to purchase a cabinet unit that's about 2' deep, haven't decided on width yet, but I want 7' high. I have a wall in the living room where it will sit very discreetly, right next to a window that I can vent through. I believe that will be a space more "me", if you can understand that. The challenges of filling a 4x4 tent are for those who grow big girls in big pots. I'm more drawn to the small taster grow, but I still want to be able to grow two larger specimens. I have a cancer patient I'll be growing for when I return - I'll be meeting him today, as a matter of fact. I'm getting ready to enter an entirely new realm of growing.
 
HARVEST: Kalashnikova Auto (Day 82) & New Year's Bag Seed (Day 103)

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Good Morning Sue,
I am assuming, though I feel it is a safe assumption, that you do the Bud Wash? I am planning on doing that for the 1st time come harvest of my current grow less 1 cola from each plant which I will not wash so I can do a blind taste test. Though from the reviews I have read on it, I may want to make the unwashed colas small ones so as not to waste any :high-five:
I must say, such a small cup of coffee compared to the size of the brownie ;)

Have a great day
 
oldergrower said:
Good Morning Sue,
I am assuming, though I feel it is a safe assumption, that you do the Bud Wash? I am planning on doing that for the 1st time come harvest of my current grow less 1 cola from each plant which I will not wash so I can do a blind taste test. Though from the reviews I have read on it, I may want to make the unwashed colas small ones so as not to waste any :high-five:
I must say, such a small cup of coffee compared to the size of the brownie ;)

Have a great day
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There's a thermos filled off camera oldergrower. :battingeyelashes: The cup is one of a set I found, against all odds, at a thrift store. I got four of those cups and the dinner plates that match. They're numbered issues from the Pennsylvania Railroad dining cars. My husband was a train enthusiast and I'm a fan of the Mountain Laurel, the flower represented (our state flower).

Yes, one of the pictures shows the water in place. With the small taster grow I only need a small volume of water, and those containers fit the bill perfectly. Make your test colas small. You won't regret the wash. Those of us who wash our buds can't believe others don't. When you see what comes out of those plants.....
 
There you go. * sigh of relief * I get a little gun shy when it gets low. There's a tendency to start overindulging when stores begin to dwindle. I keep getting close to leaving that feeling behind, to find myself there all over again. :straightface: But for today, all's well in SweetSue's world. There're plants drying in the hall. :Love:

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Some serious weight in the Bag Seed plant. I think that one's going to surprise me. :slide:

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SweetSue said:
HARVEST: Kalashnikova Auto (Day 82) & New Year's Bag Seed (Day 103)

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Nice dope sticks, Sue. :thumb:

Looks like we'll be watching "The Joy of Harvesting - SweetSue Going on Vaca" for the next month. :loopy:
 
MysterySeeds said:
Nice dope sticks, Sue. :thumb:

Looks like we'll be watching "The Joy of Harvesting - SweetSue Going on Vaca" for the next month. :loopy:
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Absolutely, and good morning to you MysterySeeds. Only 12 more plants to go. :battingeyelashes:
 
Hi, Sue!

This was just the inspiration I needed to see this morning! It's like an awesome picture book of harvesting that tells a delicious story:)

I'm thinking a lot about the harvest that's to come for me, and the things I want to do -- bud washing being at the very top of the list.

Of course I've read the Hiker/Doc Bud thread on bud washing -- just wanted to check what you do:

1. rough trim first? All fan leaves off, but leave sugar leaves?
2. wash buds in three containers-- #1 warm with lemon and baking soda, #2 warm, #3 tap cold
3. hang for a bit so it's not dripping wet
4. trim buds

then proceed as usual with dry and cure? Is that right?
 
glimmergrass said:
Of course I've read the Hiker/Doc Bud thread on bud washing -- just wanted to check what you do:

1. rough trim first? All fan leaves off, but leave sugar leaves?
2. wash buds in three containers-- #1 warm with lemon and baking soda, #2 warm, #3 tap cold
3. hang for a bit so it's not dripping wet
4. trim buds

then proceed as usual with dry and cure? Is that right?
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All that looks right, except that I'd hang the buds to dry for 4-7 days before doing a final trim and then curing. And if powdery mildew, bud rot, or bugs made it into your crop, then I'd add a 1:3 ratio of hydrogen peroxide and RO water dunk at the beginning. Just my $.02.
 
glimmergrass said:
Hi, Sue!

This was just the inspiration I needed to see this morning! It's like an awesome picture book of harvesting that tells a delicious story:)

I'm thinking a lot about the harvest that's to come for me, and the things I want to do -- bud washing being at the very top of the list.

Of course I've read the Hiker/Doc Bud thread on bud washing -- just wanted to check what you do:

1. rough trim first? All fan leaves off, but leave sugar leaves?
2. wash buds in three containers-- #1 warm with lemon and baking soda, #2 warm, #3 tap cold
3. hang for a bit so it's not dripping wet
4. trim buds

then proceed as usual with dry and cure? Is that right?
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How thrilled am I that I could get you excited for your own harvest. This will be your first, won't it? Nothing like the first, so treat it with the joyful respect it deserves and make sure you have lots of time to enjoy.

I don't trim off anything other than necrotic leaves. I wash everything else, since I save the trim for future hash making or butter making or..... You get the picture. Anyway, I want everything washed, so it all stays on. I trim after the wash. I always plan to simply take the bigger fans off and let it hang before I get the rest, but I love trimming so much that I always end up standing there and getting them all down to where I want them. :laughtwo:

PeeJay has me trimming in a completely different mode than I used to. I was much more casual about it the first few times through. I wonder sometimes if he fully appreciates how much he affects us with his tendency towards perfection. Between him and Graytail I can't believe I'm not so intimidated that I crawl under a rock somewhere. LOL!

I try to leave anything with decent sugar on. Doc Bud has mentioned more than once that he believes the trichomes on the sugar leaves may be stronger than those on the buds. The little sugar leaves look so beautiful when they dry curled protectively around the buds. I just love that look. These two plants didn't have many of those leaves and I got a bit carried away this morning. I could blame that on PeeJay, couldn't I? *giggle*

Doc has been insistent lately that there's no reason for anything other than room-temperature water for the wash. I set these up before going to bed last night and I'm so thankful for this modification you wouldn't believe it. Hahaha! The first one is the one with baking powder and lemon - I guess at my amounts, but I know from experience with 5 gallon buckets what the consistency of the wash water should be.

You have the rest of it down. Doc recommends they not go directly into darkness. His contention is that photosynthesis continues for a time following harvest, so let that process continue by keeping some type of light available for at least the day of harvest. It certainly doesn't hurt to follow that directive, and if he's right you help the dry and cure along by doing so.

I started weighing mine every morning. When they stop changing I jar them up. In my hall that usually takes 3-4 days.

When are you thinking on your harvest? I'll set an alert on my calander so I don't miss it. I keep missing everyone's harvests and that simply can't continue. :laughtwo:
 
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