Noob4x4grow
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Sue!!! Miss you, my dear. Hugs for you 
The Perpetual Healing Garden - SweetSue's Joyful Return
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Sue!!! Miss you, my dear. Hugs for you
Yeah, I know. I was just at your yard missing you.
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OOPS!!!
I was over admiring the Dark Devil Auto when the seedlings caught my eye. The Strawberry Blue's working on her fourth node. I decided to try something I watched Cajun do once and gently spread the leaves apart to get more light into the growing tips.
My intent was to let this tip grow a bit more, transplant her maybe tomorrow and then top her in about another week. Then I got to thinking about how the Dark Devil Auto and the Jack Herer both got away from me and in a flash the top was gone.
I'll let her recover for a few days before I transplant her.
I was over admiring the Dark Devil Auto when the seedlings caught my eye. The Strawberry Blue's working on her fourth node. I decided to try something I watched Cajun do once and gently spread the leaves apart to get more light into the growing tips.
My intent was to let this tip grow a bit more, transplant her maybe tomorrow and then top her in about another week. Then I got to thinking about how the Dark Devil Auto and the Jack Herer both got away from me and in a flash the top was gone.
I'll let her recover for a few days before I transplant her.
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So proud of ya! Fun right!!!?!?!
I actually giggled as I ate the top.
I knew this would please you arteekay.
RheinRover
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Morning Sue! Had a few pages to catch up after being gone for the weekend. Happy to see the meds are helping your daughter, I know I felt a little sad when she had decided not to try a while back but you know this is perfect she came around on her own and its great to see the healing power. Hope you have a great start to your week!
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Thank you RheinRover. It's been satisfying, to say the least. Yesterday she came over and loaded the vaporizer herself then took it home to dose at her leisure. She appears to have fallen into a three-a-day schedule and her anxiety levels are almost vanquished already. She has a doctor's visit tomorrow. Typically this starts an anxiety session days in advance that consumes her until she's home safe again. Yesterday she noticed she started to make the unending list of things she needed to get in place to assure a safe trip with the least amount of anxiety and then she simply blew it off as nothing to worry about.
That has never happened with her. She'll be sharing this with her psychiatrist tomorrow, an advocate for medical cannabis.
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I simply must stop putting her through this. This girl goes down fast. I checked her yesterday and noticed on paper that she's due, but I missed it by a day again. 
Already recovering. Amazing how they bounce right back.
She got her recharge top dressing today too. She'll like that. Time to get the buds set.
Now I can tend to Susan. Straight out of bed I could hear her calling for water and I still haven't had my own breakfast. I swear, just like having children underfoot. Lol!
Already recovering. Amazing how they bounce right back.
She got her recharge top dressing today too. She'll like that. Time to get the buds set.
Now I can tend to Susan.
Straight out of bed I could hear her calling for water and I still haven't had my own breakfast. I swear, just like having children underfoot. Lol!
I've always been amazed at how quickly they recover from getting dried out. They perk back up in an hour or two.
I see it less in my perlite only buckets.... which surprises me... I would have imagined it would have dried out quicker than other mixes. Perhaps it's wicking action from the res below. Whatever it is... I can go about a week without seeing droop.
I see it less in my perlite only buckets.... which surprises me... I would have imagined it would have dried out quicker than other mixes. Perhaps it's wicking action from the res below. Whatever it is... I can go about a week without seeing droop.
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I hear you. I once let an extra SWICK reservoir sit for over a month, and there was still moisture in the bottom. Perlite holds an astounding amount of water along its surfaces.
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Daily Update: Monday, May 2, 2016
The day started out with the Transplant drench for CBD Critical Cure, a process that started out with a Recharge topping for her that was then nicely watered in by the drench. She's going to be so pleased with me.
Let's start in the veg tent.
CBD Critical Mass (Day 82) is now five days out from the last drench. I'm thinking about giving her another two days and then flip her. She's definately ready, I'm just waiting on her to finish the last drench. The disposition of these high CBD strains just got to be more relevant with the daughter choosing cannabanoid therapy. I have more to share later.
I'm planning to transplant the Strawberry Blue into the empty pot on Thursday. That'll be two days following the next drench, which should be perfect timing.
Super Cheese (Day 6)
Into the flowering tent. The CBD Critical Cure (Day 82), at 10 AM, about an hour after her drench.
Here she is now, seven hours later. I think she's happy here.
Crossroads (Day 6)
On to the luscious Dark Devil Auto. (Day 80)
Her fans are crisping up. Any day now.
DDA2 (Day 20)
The seedlings. Front and center we have newly topped Strawberry Blue (Day 20). Behind her, on the left, is Bubba Kush (Day 19) and to the right Carnival (Day 15).
She's no worse for wear. I can make out the replacement branches already starting.
That's the girls today. Thanks so much for stopping to visit. I certainly hope I've added to the joy reserves you can now focus on spreading. See how nicely we work together? 
Edit: The Critical Cure and Critical Mass both got the DeStress foliar. Dark Devil Auto got her tortuous essential oil foliar.
The day started out with the Transplant drench for CBD Critical Cure, a process that started out with a Recharge topping for her that was then nicely watered in by the drench. She's going to be so pleased with me.
Let's start in the veg tent.
CBD Critical Mass (Day 82) is now five days out from the last drench. I'm thinking about giving her another two days and then flip her. She's definately ready, I'm just waiting on her to finish the last drench. The disposition of these high CBD strains just got to be more relevant with the daughter choosing cannabanoid therapy. I have more to share later.
I'm planning to transplant the Strawberry Blue into the empty pot on Thursday. That'll be two days following the next drench, which should be perfect timing.
Super Cheese (Day 6)
Into the flowering tent. The CBD Critical Cure (Day 82), at 10 AM, about an hour after her drench.
Here she is now, seven hours later. I think she's happy here.
Crossroads (Day 6)
On to the luscious Dark Devil Auto. (Day 80)
Her fans are crisping up. Any day now.
DDA2 (Day 20)
The seedlings. Front and center we have newly topped Strawberry Blue (Day 20). Behind her, on the left, is Bubba Kush (Day 19) and to the right Carnival (Day 15).
She's no worse for wear. I can make out the replacement branches already starting.
That's the girls today. Thanks so much for stopping to visit. I certainly hope I've added to the joy reserves you can now focus on spreading. See how nicely we work together?
Edit: The Critical Cure and Critical Mass both got the DeStress foliar. Dark Devil Auto got her tortuous essential oil foliar.
Noob4x4grow
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Looking marvelous as usual Sue! Here have some hugs
Noob4x4grow
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I can't believe your temps are that high with LEDs I thought they were supposed to be cooler.
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Update about the daughter's protocol.
My daughter lives in a world where she swims in a sea of anxiety. Her extreme sensitivity to any medications has made it impossible to find a maintenance drug to help her live with some relief from this emotional onslaught. I've know for years that cannabis might be the drug that would give her the highest quality of relief with the least amount of side effects. Finding out she was sensitive to sativa-dominant strains and possibly THC made it more challenging, but now we can choose from strains like the Criticals I'm growing, which are a balanced ratio of THC:CBD, reducing the euphoric effects while providing the medication in CBD form that we believe would be most beneficial to her.
The Med GOM 1.0 that she's testing out now can exceed that balance and come closer to 1:2 THC:CBD. The relief she's experiencing with this strain is nothing less than miraculous. She's offered to author her own testimonial on her day, but I'll tell you that she spent the morning traveling by bus to see her doctor, and then following up that trip with a grocery run through the local Target as she waited on the connecting bus home.
This is the point where we typically have me walk down to meet her so she can survive the trip through Target without a panic attack. She usually has one anyway, but at least I'm with her.
This morning, as she was preparing to leave the apartment and the tremors of fear began she decided to take her morning dose. Why not? She's confident now that euphoria is not a concern, so now she sees it as medication. What surprised her were things like the absence of her nervous sweats, which always start on the way down the stairs so that by the time she hits the streets there're beads beginning to run down her face. Her bus trip was non eventful. The visit with the doc casual and relaxed. By the time she got through the rest of her morning and was on that connecting bus on her way home she realized the prevailing attitude for her day out was not panic but an uncustomary nonchalance.
This is unbelievably good news for her mother.
When she gets it written she'll post it here.
My daughter lives in a world where she swims in a sea of anxiety. Her extreme sensitivity to any medications has made it impossible to find a maintenance drug to help her live with some relief from this emotional onslaught. I've know for years that cannabis might be the drug that would give her the highest quality of relief with the least amount of side effects. Finding out she was sensitive to sativa-dominant strains and possibly THC made it more challenging, but now we can choose from strains like the Criticals I'm growing, which are a balanced ratio of THC:CBD, reducing the euphoric effects while providing the medication in CBD form that we believe would be most beneficial to her.
The Med GOM 1.0 that she's testing out now can exceed that balance and come closer to 1:2 THC:CBD. The relief she's experiencing with this strain is nothing less than miraculous. She's offered to author her own testimonial on her day, but I'll tell you that she spent the morning traveling by bus to see her doctor, and then following up that trip with a grocery run through the local Target as she waited on the connecting bus home.
This is the point where we typically have me walk down to meet her so she can survive the trip through Target without a panic attack. She usually has one anyway, but at least I'm with her.
This morning, as she was preparing to leave the apartment and the tremors of fear began she decided to take her morning dose. Why not? She's confident now that euphoria is not a concern, so now she sees it as medication. What surprised her were things like the absence of her nervous sweats, which always start on the way down the stairs so that by the time she hits the streets there're beads beginning to run down her face. Her bus trip was non eventful. The visit with the doc casual and relaxed. By the time she got through the rest of her morning and was on that connecting bus on her way home she realized the prevailing attitude for her day out was not panic but an uncustomary nonchalance.
This is unbelievably good news for her mother.
When she gets it written she'll post it here.
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Looking marvelous as usual Sue! Here have some hugs
Why thank you Noob. Just in time.
And they are Noob. If you let the room you're growing in reach temperatures above 80 degrees because you're so lost in studying the particulars of the Budwig cottage cheese/carrier oil mix and the chemical reaction that occurs there that makes the oil water soluble that you don't notice the rising heat, the tents will overheat as well.
There's no substitute for paying attention, something I've been known to slack on. I've always said they survive despite me. Unconditional love apparently works with plants too. You have idea how I talk to these plants. You'd laugh if you could hear it. Dale used to chortle at my mothering all the time.
RheinRover
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Sue, this has me a little choked up. Being a parent myself I can only imagine the joy you're feeling right now. Your love and dedication has prevailed and your daughter has found relieve from your never ending hard work. Bless you Sue!
Your story is just another reason why I can never side with anyone who is against MMJ. I have seen the healing powers too many times first hand to have even an ounce of doubt.
Now that this is working for her have you modified your grow to include those strains you had originally acquired for her treatment?
Best of luck with her appointment today! Excited to hear how her day goes
Edit: With the time change I guess I was a day off
Happy to read that her day went well. Excited to see in her words how the day was.
smokiebear
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Thank you RheinRover and smokiebear. 
It's brought a new lightness to the day.
RheinRover, the two CBD Criticals were planted in expectation of her therapy. The CBD Critical Cure was the one recommended to her by Cajun, and she's in flower right now. As small a dose as it takes for her to find relief, she has plenty here to tide her over. My friend's husband lost out on this harvest. He'll have to wait for another harvest, which won't be until late June when these come down. I'm thankful he didn't rush over to get it last week. I think he's not enamoured with the idea that it won't get him high.
It's such a deeply-rooted mindset, that cannabis should get you high or it's not effective, one that I've had to overthrow in my own mind. Watching my daughter's body demonstrate immediate and easily observable release from the anxiety that's plagued her from infancy...... There really aren't words adequate enough to express the joyful relief and the burning anger at our prohibitive laws that make my baby's decision to heal a criminal enterprise. This is utter madness that must be stopped.
It's brought a new lightness to the day. RheinRover, the two CBD Criticals were planted in expectation of her therapy. The CBD Critical Cure was the one recommended to her by Cajun, and she's in flower right now. As small a dose as it takes for her to find relief, she has plenty here to tide her over. My friend's husband lost out on this harvest. He'll have to wait for another harvest, which won't be until late June when these come down. I'm thankful he didn't rush over to get it last week. I think he's not enamoured with the idea that it won't get him high.
It's such a deeply-rooted mindset, that cannabis should get you high or it's not effective, one that I've had to overthrow in my own mind. Watching my daughter's body demonstrate immediate and easily observable release from the anxiety that's plagued her from infancy...... There really aren't words adequate enough to express the joyful relief and the burning anger at our prohibitive laws that make my baby's decision to heal a criminal enterprise. This is utter madness that must be stopped.
I'd love to hear open honest opinions are thought from the horse's mouth here. I feel it could give us some data on how the change in attitudes can occur... perhaps we can spread it some.
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New Arrivals
Something made me stop and check the box that the seeds in paper towels were in. Sure enough I had two ready to go. I'd intended to use Reg's method of towel to Rockwool cube to soil, but the pot these are going into already has an established mycorrhizal community, so I popped them right into the matrix.
The Crossroads had already shed her shell.
The Shiva Shanti ll is still wearing hers, so she's under the dirt working her way out.
I'll be doing the next drench on the CBD Critical Mass today and flipping her. I'm thinking of switching the pots around and putting the community pot into veg mode. I think that might be an interesting experiment. Those three are for my recreational use, so I can play more with them.
Look at that, my grow shifted back to its intended medicinal focus, and now I need to learn how to clone. I missed my opportunity with the Critical Cure, but I have more seeds. This strain fascinates me. Cajun tells me it smells horrid in flower but the cure brings out a strong mango influence to both smell and taste after a decent cure. Looking forward to that.
The perpetual healing garden plods steadily along. All's well in SweetSue's world.
Something made me stop and check the box that the seeds in paper towels were in. Sure enough I had two ready to go. I'd intended to use Reg's method of towel to Rockwool cube to soil, but the pot these are going into already has an established mycorrhizal community, so I popped them right into the matrix.
The Crossroads had already shed her shell.
The Shiva Shanti ll is still wearing hers, so she's under the dirt working her way out.
I'll be doing the next drench on the CBD Critical Mass today and flipping her. I'm thinking of switching the pots around and putting the community pot into veg mode. I think that might be an interesting experiment. Those three are for my recreational use, so I can play more with them.
Look at that, my grow shifted back to its intended medicinal focus, and now I need to learn how to clone. I missed my opportunity with the Critical Cure, but I have more seeds. This strain fascinates me. Cajun tells me it smells horrid in flower but the cure brings out a strong mango influence to both smell and taste after a decent cure. Looking forward to that.
The perpetual healing garden plods steadily along. All's well in SweetSue's world.