The Joy Of Growing - SweetSue Goes Perpetual

Those MOTM votes are easy enough if I just follow my heart. Don't underestimate the power of a good cheerleader. I don't know if you are actually a leader, or if this motley crew qualifies as a team, but you certainly are very cheery ❤️ and you do great work in helping to hold this place together and making it a nice place to be. Your door is always open and welcoming, there are always treats and nice plants inside to look at. And you're always awake!
Besides all that, you are inspiring with your studious determination to learn about growing, and to share it with everyone.
 
You're so sweet Weaselcracker. Thank you. I do my best. Not sleeping gives me a distinct advantage with time constraints. LOL! So why can't I make any headway on the subs notifications board? Oh yeah, because there's more going on than that. :straightface:
 
Weaselcracker said:
I also have that particular superpower of not apparently needing any sleep. That is to say- I don't get any. And I can't keep up either
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LOL! Whew!!!! So it's not just me. :laughtwo: This is the first time in my life it's been like this. Interestingly, it feels pretty normal for me. I don't have anyone else in my current life to accomodate, which is probably a major contributing factor. I can sleep whenever I want. Again, for the first time since young childhood.

This is an intriguing stage of life. I'm not at all comfortable with the idea of being alone for the rest of my life, but this transitional stage was unexpectedly transformational. Being alone - as physically painful as I find it - has allowed me the freedom to be reborn. Not what I expected.

I expected to devastated. See how good you guys are? I'm about as far from devastated as I can get. :laughtwo:

Good work team. :high-five:
 
Hahaha! I finished transcribing today's meditation message, stretched out on the mat to do the 20 minute meditation and fell right asleep. :laughtwo: That was somewhere around 1:00 or so, which suggests I slept comfortably there for about 90 minutes. Woke up refreshed and determined to go to bed.

Then I wandered into the kitchen to turn off lights and found the latest experiment waiting for me. MagicJim had mentioned a diminished buzz from his stem tea. When I say diminished, I mean in comparison to my zippy buzz from the same technique, that of decarbing old stems and steeping them as a tea.

It occured to me that it may have been overly dry plant material, so I chopped up some old stem and decarbed it.

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The material on the left is old stem, left over from harvests over 6 months ago. The material on the right was all stem material that had green still on it. I decided it was smarter to get it chopped, decarbed and jarred up than to leave it to just dry out completely.

At this point my intention was to set it up and go to bed. This was also the point when my brain decided it was already awake enough that sleep was going to be elusive. Why not have some tea Susan?

Yep, woke right up. :laughtwo:

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I'll let you know in 20 minutes, at about 3:10 AM, how it's going, OK?

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Alrighty then............here we go. :battingeyelashes:
 
My ability to drink down scalding beverages without any hesitation sometimes impresses the hell out of me. Took me less than two minutes to get that all down. Again, why I do not drink alcohol. :straightface: Pour that drink and I'll chug it every time. Don't even set an open bottle of wine down near me. :laughtwo: Somewhere around here's then video taken of me the summer we worked the fossil cage in the high Rockies when I drank the greater part of a gallon of wine someone had brought to share with the crew around the fire. As the video goes on I slip further and further off the log I'm sitting on. In the end I was almost flat out with my head using the log as a pillow. LOL!

Until that video I was unaware how bad that tendency of mine to finish the bottle was. I tried to be more careful about where I let myself get that drunk from then on.

Whoa! Six minutes in and reality just did a spatial shift on me. I have a sweet head rush building and the top of my head is tingling like mad. Weeee!!!!! I'm gonna throw some music on for a couple minutes and let it build.

:ciao:
 
This is very interesting. I missed whenever it was you posted about this before. My understanding has always been that stems have next to no thc in them.

EDIT- Anyway... I'll catch this little update in the morn. Just read through the first 25 pages of B A R's journal, my eyes are tired, and I have to get up in a few hours. In order to get up, I suppose first I have to fall asleep. The only thing I dislike more than going to sleep, is getting up. Hmmmm....
Goodnight Sue, have fun! ❤️
 
SweetSue said:
My ability to drink down scalding beverages without any hesitation sometimes impresses the hell out of me. Took me less than two minutes to get that all down. Again, why I do not drink alcohol. :straightface: Pour that drink and I'll chug it every time. Don't even set an open bottle of wine down near me. :laughtwo: Somewhere around here's then video taken of me the summer we worked the fossil cage in the high Rockies when I drank the greater part of a gallon of wine someone had brought to share with the crew around the fire. As the video goes on I slip further and further off the log I'm sitting on. In the end I was almost flat out with my head using the log as a pillow. LOL!

Until that video I was unaware how bad that tendency of mine to finish the bottle was. I tried to be more careful about where I let myself get that drunk from then on.

Whoa! Six minutes in and reality just did a spatial shift on me. I have a sweet head rush building and the top of my head is tingling like mad. Weeee!!!!! I'm gonna throw some music on for a couple minutes and let it build.

:ciao:
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So you like the White Widow, dontcha ?
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I love the leaf color on your Dark Devil. I think that's why I subbed to this journal in the first place, to watch another Dark Devil grow. If I ever find myself buying seeds again, I may just have to pick up a 3 pack of Dark Devil. I've yet to do an autoflower. I love their vigor :rofl:
 
3:14 AM. I'd have to say that it must have been Jim's stems, because my old stems carry the same smack-you-with-a-2x4 effect my fresh ones had.

I'm going back to the music now. I was lost in Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistable". How sweet of him to write a song about me. :battingeyelashes: :circle-of-love:

That was harder to type than it needed to be. :laughtwo: Let me wander the threads for a while while I enjoy the music and the buzz. It's not as intense as those "Bangin' Brownies" I had earlier, but it did make my skin go all tingly just now, and I am definately wide awake, at least for the moment.

See you around. :Namaste:
 
Coming up on 4 AM. I'm still fairly buzzed from the tea, but I'm also exhausted, so this little girl is stumbling into bed. See you in the morning. Later in the morning, silly. :laughtwo:
 
I may have missed it earlier, but you're using alcohol to extract the goodies right? What temperature would you need brew the stem tea without evaporating the alcohol?
 
Radogast said:
So you like the White Widow, dontcha ?
:circle-of-love:

I love the leaf color on your Dark Devil. I think that's why I subbed to this journal in the first place, to watch another Dark Devil grow. If I ever find myself buying seeds again, I may just have to pick up a 3 pack of Dark Devil. I've yet to do an autoflower. I love their vigor :rofl:
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Definately enjoying my first a White Widow and for sure will grow one out in the future. I think you'd like the DDA smoke Rad. You'd probably only need a small quantity. They hit hard and fast and stick for a long time. All those desirable traits. :battingeyelashes:
 
Atulip said:
I may have missed it earlier, but you're using alcohol to extract the goodies right? What temperature would you need brew the stem tea without evaporating the alcohol?
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Ohh... It's so much easier than that Atulip. :laughtwo: Chop the stems, toss into the 225 degree (F) oven on a tray for 30 minutes, add to boiling water and steep. I steeped for about 15 minutes the first time. Last night it wasn't quite as long steeping, but it still gave a wicked buzz.
 
Morning Susan! Just cruising on thru....hope ya have a great day girl! Cheers eh!:circle-of-love:
 
SweetSue said:
Ohh... It's so much easier than that Atulip. :laughtwo: Chop the stems, toss into the 225 degree (F) oven on a tray for 30 minutes, add to boiling water and steep. I steeped for about 15 minutes the first time. Last night it wasn't quite as long steeping, but it still gave a wicked buzz.
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Does that work? I thought THC wasn't water soluble and required a fat or alcohol extraction?
 
Atulip said:
Does that work? I thought THC wasn't water soluble and required a fat or alcohol extraction?
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It gets decarbed in the oven, so you can get high just chewing it in the same way I eat baked buds. I understand what you're saying, but I'm telling you, I got a respectable buzz from each attempt. I'm going to try again later in the afternoon, before I would be taking my evening brownie dose, and then hold off on the brownie.

I've considered that it may be kick-starting my lingering brownie buzz, but if that's what's happening, I find that exciting news in and of itself. :battingeyelashes: :Love:
 
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