The Joy Of Growing - SweetSue Goes Perpetual

YEEEEEE HAWWWWWW t5 came in gonna post a update on my site soon as I get the plants put to bed:cheertwo:
 
bassclef said:
Better late than never on the Boz Scaggs.. My wife and I got into collecting vinyl about 6 months ago when someone gifted us a record player and some old records.. Never been the same. Music just doesn't sound as good, as it does coming off a vinyl record.. the love and care that went into mixing a album, playing it cover to cover. We have all of Boz Scaggs records.. People just give them away, its a shame because there is so much music that was never digitized(and who cares digital sounds like poo poo anyway!).

We're a boz scaggs family :) Want a record that will blow your mind? Get yourself War - All Day Music and let it spin cover to cover.. Easily a top 5 record of all time and no one has heard it(well a few have).
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The mods are going to pull that at some point because it's off topic, but I posted it on my Spot thread so it'll be accessible. Thanks. One of my favorite albums, and I'd not thought of it for years. You sent me into flashbacks there. :laughtwo:

I've been rediscovering music again. For so many years all I did was watch Dale and listen to his breathing, to the exclusion of much else. Having evenings and nights to myself has reawakened an unquenchable thirst for music and singing. Just the other day my vibrato decided to return. Such joy! Now I can't get enough music in during the day. Dale sleeps most of the time (something's going on with the heart - transfusion yesterday and two echocardiograms today, but no one's talking about it yet) so I almost always have headphones in.
 
Bearswhowalk said:
YEEEEEE HAWWWWWW t5 came in gonna post a update on my site soon as I get the plants put to bed:cheertwo:
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:yahoo:

I get to wire up my T8s this evening. WooHoo!!!!
 
SweetSue said:
She's not a dwarf MassMedMan, just stunted by a combination of too cool temps in the first couple weeks and the 11/13 light schedule the tent is on. It'll be interesting to see what difference having proper environmental control in place makes. If you check out Ziggy's SWICK trays they run the gamut in size. I don't know if there's even any way to predict what a given seed will do under this set up. That mystery, magnified over many, many plants is part of the appeal to me.
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Ok, thanks, I have some dwarf red autos sex unknown, that I'm looking for a date... have not planted them yet but I'm surfing looking for a date,, yours looked like their type ;) looks like it'll be good smoke... Good luck.. I'm SWICKing a few under Doc's kit... and a CBD OG started in a three gallon smart, now up canned to a seven gallon,, and she's SWICKing,, she's gonna be around awhile and help with some oil...she's got four heads,, weird plant
 
MassMedMan said:
Ok, thanks, I have some dwarf red autos sex unknown, that I'm looking for a date... have not planted them yet but I'm surfing looking for a date,, yours looked like their type ;) looks like it'll be good smoke... Good luck.. I'm SWICKing a few under Doc's kit... and a CBD OG started in a three gallon smart, now up canned to a seven gallon,, and she's SWICKing,, she's gonna be around awhile and help with some oil...she's got four heads,, weird plant
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Your garden puts mine to shame MassMedMan. Such stunning plants. I'm glad the SWICKS are working for you. I'm partial to them throughout, because I'd kill plants otherwise, but when they hit flowering the water intake can be hard to keep up with and the SWICK takes all that guesswork out of the equation. One of the best methods I've utilized.
 
WOOT WOOT go check out my update sue
 
mass do you have a journal link
 
A while back we were talking about being able to find the updates. Cannafan posted this excellent tutorial about doing just that, so let me share it with you.

Cannafan said:
Here's a how to for people who want to go directly to "UPDATE" grow information posts on the thread. It can be a real time saver if you don't have time to scroll through posts to find what you need. This is also how you would search any other threads on the forum for what you are looking for:

First go to the top of the page and click on "Search Thread", or "Search Forum" if you are not on a particular thread

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Type what you are looking for in the dropdown box, in this example it's "Update".

This will take you to a page with posts from the thread that relate to your search term (s):

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Click on whichever post you want and it will take you to that post. Keep in mind, sometimes it takes a few seconds to go directly to the post..especially pages with lots of images:

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Now if you want to get really detailed on your search, you can choose the "advanced search" option:

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This takes you to a page where you can get all kinds of nit picky on what you are looking for. LOL

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Give it a try, have fun.

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Thank you Canna. :circle-of-love:
 
SweetSue said:
Your garden puts mine to shame MassMedMan. Such stunning plants. I'm glad the SWICKS are working for you. I'm partial to them throughout, because I'd kill plants otherwise, but when they hit flowering the water intake can be hard to keep up with and the SWICK takes all that guesswork out of the equation. One of the best methods I've utilized.
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Very nice of you but it's a collaboration effort. All I've read and learned here, applied there... thank you. I'm more than pleased where they are. Once they are done, I will no till those pots with new beans.... most are seven gallons worth of soil with my stacking so I should be able get at least one more run from them... maybe more
 
MassMedMan said:
Very nice of you but it's a collaboration effort. All I've read and learned here, applied there... thank you. I'm more than pleased where they are. Once they are done, I will no till those pots with new beans.... most are seven gallons worth of soil with my stacking so I should be able get at least one more run from them... maybe more
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I would expect with the care you've put into them they should continue to do well for you much longer than one more run.
 
Hey Doc gotta step in here and say take a look at my journal - I've been running LOS for 4 - 5 runs now! I don't do N-P-K or even follow that "science". there's a bunch of folks doing LOS for YEARS like me that back that up. I see the results from the folks that use your kit, its GREAT. I get good result with LOS and I don't agree with your assessment of LOS and my results don't parse out your review. Not knocking your grow methods at all by any stretch as I am results oriented. Your kit gets results and so does LOS. Just sayin... try it before you knock it.

BTW - "The Rev" is NOT LOS despite what he may claim or not claim. Look elsewhere (BlueJay) for info on LOS, please.

Keep it green & purple!!

Here's my Dark Devil the day I chopped her - tiny little thing, but she's got the goods - 100% LOS .
Companion crop is Alfalfa - notice she's also in flower. :thumb:

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Doc Bud said:
OK!

I've been watching and familiarizing myself with the LOS. I did a review of "The Rev's" book a few months ago, so I actually got that book out and re-read parts of it, did some checking online, etc. I'm not an expert on LOS by any stretch of the imagination, but I do know a couple things about soil and microbes......so here's what I'm seeing.

1. I think you're feeding too much in the way of teas, aloe vera, coconut water and especially Agsil. This has created way too much potassium and probably too much sodium in the soil. Remember how I constantly harp on keep K levels down? Sodium is even worse when it gets heavy, BTW.

2. There is excess humus in the LOS pots which has made life difficult for the biota. Soils do best with about 6% humusl, provided the minerals are in place and the other critical ratio's ( Ca:K, P:K, Ca:Mg) are intact. I suspect with your roots, amendments and cover crops you're over the 10% threshold.....no bueno. Excess organic material acidifies the soil as well.

Add 1 and 2 together and you've basically got a flat battery (so seeds don't germinate) and a toxic environment for biota. so if something did manage to germinate, it will struggle trying to grow because it's got nothing to eat!

Remember all those mentions of Theory and practice? In theory, your LOS should be perfect in every way.....I mean it's a Living Organic Soil! Good lord, what could be better than that?

However, creating a stable environment in a small container takes a lot of practice.....and that's where the theory breaks down.

If you're really determined to use LOS, I suggest going back to the original recipe and mostly adding water with a microbial boost.....with maybe 1 or 2 enzyme teas max during the cycle. I'd stay away from Agsil, Coconut water, Aloe Vera, and leaf mulches. That's where your excess potassium is coming from, although I suspect that your beginning mix is also quite high in K and possibly sodium as well. When you add even more K and Na along with even more organic material, it's quite predictable that your soil will go flat.

Good soil needs to be:

1. mineralized in the proper ratios: 18:1 Ca:K 1:1 K:P, 7-10:1 Ca:Mg, trace elements in trace amounts.
2. full of healthy, living ACTIVE biota
3. electrical energy about 200 ERGS.
4. No more than 8% humus content. 6% is better.

Back in my days of microbial tea brewing, organic soils, yucca juice, guano's and the like I had what I thought was pretty good soil. I was shocked and dismayed when I actually got it tested at a lab and found my ratio's were a joke and the soil was essentially toxic with sodium.

Theory and practice......
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Oh BB, she's so much prettier than mine. What a difference environment makes. You have every right to be proud of her. Can't wait to get a smoke report after the cure. Can't wait to do my own Dark Devil smoke report. :laughtwo:

edit: Nice blooming alfalfa, by the way. Have you seen BAR's use of the common weed, Lamb's Quarters as a companion plant? It was a bit of serendipity that placed the first plant in one pot and when he researched it he decided to leave it and had significant improvement in the companion cannabis plant. Now he has them scattered in all his pots. Another grand 420 experiment.

Love this site.
 
B A R said:
I'm confused Mass. How can the sex be un known if they're autos?
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"Auto flowering" refers to the light schedule needed to flower. They'll flower regardless of the schedule. It has nothing to do with the sex. I always buy mine feminized, but you can get autos unsexed, or 'regular'.
 
That's correct. There are male and female autoflowers.

You gotta look a little harder to find the male seeds, imho. And the selection isn't the best... so far, or what I've found.
 
And my learning curve continues.
 
ok sue what is going on here woke up ladies to find browning on leaves i didnt notice earlier and a overall yellowish tint to her here are some pics
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gave her a gallon flush and will see how she looks in the next few days at 31d did i transplant her to early/late?
 
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