The Perpetual Healing Garden - SweetSue's Joyful Return

Caught up and impressed as usual! Sorry I get behind, but I seem to have a habit of biting off more than I can chew all at once. I am nothing if not persistent, though! Daily updates! phew! You are wearing me out girl, keep it up! lol
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SweetSue said:
Alright, I can ease your mind. :hugs::hugs::hugs:

First off, as to soil compaction. The tilling of the worm population and the inclusion of some superior aeration components assure me that I have lovely soil that defies compaction. You'd be amazed at the friability of these no-tills and the way they stay evenly hydrated.

So, compaction's no concern at all. The fact that there's already another plant in there and that in this pot the scallions are finally grabbing means that my myco population has been established and growing stronger. That's good news for the seedling, because it gets immediate benefit from that network.

Growing two plants in one pot is actually beneficial to the plants. They like company and there's not the competition for resources or root space you'd imagine. It's my job as the cultivator to see to it that each plot of soil I maintain has the necessary components to grow whatever I plant in them. It's also my job to see to it that I plant them with enough space between them that they're not fighting each other for the light. I learned that lesson the hard way with my recent community pot, a mistake I won't make again.

One of the reasons no-tills work is we leave the roots in place and plant right into them, the sooner after harvest the better. The old roots create pathways through the soil when they degrade and that makes it easier for things to flow through the soil matrix. It also helps keep the soil aerated.
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I guess it's just hard to wrap my mind around it because when I take out my plants after I've harvested them, there seems to be mostly roots. I know the soil is still there but it's just so compact on my plants that I can't imagine another plant coming along immediately and being able to fill the same space with roots. It seems like it would stunt the plant. But I don't grow no til so what do I know? :rofl:
 
One of the defining things about smoking plants grown in Doc Bud's HighBrix Blend soil is the white ash. :blunt:

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I recently followed Sue's advice and planted a couple of my plants in no-till containers for this round in flower. My Acapulco Gold journal is an example of one that I have done a side by side with... 2 identical plants in 7 gallon smart pots, one in no till and one in fresh supersoil mix. Guess which one is doing better?

yep... the no-till.

Also, just as a note... once you grab that old stalk and pull it out of there, making room for your new rootball to be transplanted into the no-till container, there will be no compression. Not a problem... it get's loosened up quite proper as you work to get the next plant in there. I figure the way that I am using nutrient spikes in my containers too, I should probably be able to get by with no-till for several rounds in the same soil/container... how many times have you gotten away with it before starting fresh Sue?

Per Sue's suggestion, I am going to try an auto in one of these the next chance I get... it should love it.
 
ooooh! my 2000'th post... egads. And I did it here! :woohoo:
 
Mr. Krip said:
Here's how the math works:

Your 35 grams of trim is equivalent to 35,000mg. If it has 6% THC, you have a total of 2100mg of THC and the same amount of CBD (35,000 x .06).

The next question is how you want to dose it. For example, in two cups of butter there are 32 TBSP. So, if you used 2 cups, each TBSP would have 65mg of both THC and CBD (2100mg/32 TBSP).

That would probably be close to a good medical dose, but it also depends on how much butter will be in each serving of your edibles. So, if you were to make 24 cookies using one cup of butter/oil, each cookie would have 1/3 TBSP of the oil (24 cookies / 8 TBSP) or about 22mg of THC/CBD.

If you used four cups of butter instead of two to "wash" the initial 35 g of trim, all calculations above would simply be divided in half.

I would probably start a non-user at something like a 5-10mg dose, which is really a recreational dose, and let them work up to the 50+ mg dosages assuming they can handle it and their conditions warrant it.

Usually this requires a stronger butter since you don't want to tell a patient he has to eat 10 cookies 2-3 times per day! :)

I hope that helps!

:Namaste:
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Guys, I just noticed a small error in my above post. In my example, I mentioned using 1 cup of butter to make 24 cookies and meant to say 1 STICK of butter. One cup is actually TWO sticks (16 TBSP) of butter, so one stick (1/2 cup) is 8 TBPS. So, the THC levels in my cookies above, would actually be twice as strong if I actually used 1 cup and not the 8 TBSP (1/2 cup) of the butter I used in the calculations.

Sorry for any confusion! :sorry:
 
KeifKeith said:
Wow,

Thank you all for such a warm and inviting welcome, most especially SweetSue, AngryBird, Duggan and Weenmeoff!

SweetSue, Thanks for not calling out my use of "selfish" when I intended "unselfish" in my post! I'm a bit of a grammar freak and still sometimes fail.

I tried to post this response as well as you experienced forum folks do, quoting each post and responding to each in one message, but I kinda got stuck with one "Reply to Quote", but I'll figure it out soon. This place seems wonderful and exactly what I have been desiring for awhile, adults discussing MJ responsibly. I will do my absolute best to follow all the rules (the forum guidelines are lengthy, obviously required and enforced) as I'm sure this is a major reason this site seems like a real resource and not another "Weed Chat Room". I think I already broke one rule (unintentionally), and hopefully the moderator of that thread will not smack me too hard! I would prefer to become an asset to the site as opposed to a liability, as I do have many years of experience growing plants, trees and just about anything that a local garden nursery sells. I thought about making my screen name something like "cuttinkid" or "CuttinForever" or something similar, since my allowance as a child was dependent upon the number of successful cuttings I could produce for my parents nursery. But those names seemed to infer I was a troubled teen with a razorblade. Also, it seemed to infer I am young, which I haven't been in several decades. Cuttings are more generally referred to as "clones" now, but they will always be cuttings to me! I truly appreciate all the information I've read and learned on 420Magazine, unselfish people sharing experiences and life, so many journals are chocked full of good stuff! No one knows everything, at least not in my realty, even though some people do believe they know everything. I'll never ever know everything, my mind is open and ready to learn new things and unlearn wrong things.

Over the many hours engaged as a visitor before I joined, I've had many chuckles and shake-my-head moments while reading through some threads. Misconceptions, the oft-repeated parroting of bad information, and outright hubris by people that obviously are new to horticulture and botany in general are a problem for new growers. Perhaps some people think that Cannabis is such a special plant that normal botanical rules and practices don't apply? It is a special plant, without a doubt one of the most useful to humans on earth, but it is still only a plant that requires all the normal elements (in various proportions and various times) to thrive and produce. My thoughts are Corn, Wheat, Soy, and then Cannabis, in that order of importance to our species, but that's just my opinion!

The classifications of Plants ("Plantae" is the test question answer, one of my college professors would flip in his grave if I didn't include Kingdom nomenclature) is a very complex and interesting subject, still very open to debate (intelligent debate, not arguing falsehoods!). I hope to learn much more about this plant, especially in the realm of and use as human medicine. I've attained an age that caused piqued interest in its uses as medicines, I no longer view it as only my lifelong recreational preference over alcohol. I am not a fan of Big Pharma and the whole advertisement pricey and dangerous drugs, whilest Monarch butterflies abound and blue skies are a constant. As a society, America had little choice but to be ignorant of the medicinal value of cannabis during the past century. I never, ever thought that I would live to see the day where this type of discussion was even possible among citizens. Now it seems likely that before I die, a vast majority of states will have greatly decriminalized the plant, and many will even allow it's responsible cultivation and possession. CHANGE IS POSSIBLE!

Again, thank you all for the warm welcome, I am very attracted to the adult communications (I can still be a kid sometimes too) and kind interactions that seem to be the bread and butter of many 420Magazine forums. This is VERY unique on our faceless angry troll Internet.

Thank you SweetSue, for allowing me to hijack your thread with encouragement! I promise to stop now and let the Carnival tempt my mouth and wallet.

Whew, this place (420Magazine) is like a drug in and of itself! I was warned!

Thank You
Keith
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:) :thanks: I was just taught on how to multi quote so it is my turn to give back :) See in the right corner of my post?
The icon with no text. just a bubble and a + ?
When you multi quote you press that and on last multi quote you want you press the bubble and then Reply with quote
 
Emilya said:
I recently followed Sue's advice and planted a couple of my plants in no-till containers for this round in flower. My Acapulco Gold journal is an example of one that I have done a side by side with... 2 identical plants in 7 gallon smart pots, one in no till and one in fresh supersoil mix. Guess which one is doing better?

yep... the no-till.

Also, just as a note... once you grab that old stalk and pull it out of there, making room for your new rootball to be transplanted into the no-till container, there will be no compression. Not a problem... it get's loosened up quite proper as you work to get the next plant in there. I figure the way that I am using nutrient spikes in my containers too, I should probably be able to get by with no-till for several rounds in the same soil/container... how many times have you gotten away with it before starting fresh Sue?

Per Sue's suggestion, I am going to try an auto in one of these the next chance I get... it should love it.
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I should be following you more closely Emmie. :hugs:

Thinking back on it I believe one of my no-tills was on its fifth run before I had to tear everything down last time. There wasn't any compaction at all. The beauty of a no-till is you don't have to pull the rootball out at all. Plant the next seed into the pot right behind the plant you cut at the soil level, a little off to the side. The simplicity of seed-to-harvest is what sold me, but I travel that path more reminiscent of a drunken fellow than a straight and narrow kinda gal, so I wandered away. I'm coming back to that mindset again.

I think the Rapid Rooters might be what I'm searching for to get germination in hand and have minimal transplantation. Planting seeds into a no-till on a SWICK can be challenging from a light placement perspective. I like the tight nodes I get with CFLs. arteekay, how do you get those tight nodes under LEDs?

To figure that out I had to jump back into the journal to the security breach. That was physically painful to read. Knowing it was coming up I started to panic for a moment. Whew!
 
I'm supposed to be doing Callanetics. So not going to happen tonight. Lol! I got lost in playing with a new toy. I solved the problem of snuffing the hemp wick.

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Now, all I have to do is figure out how to light it one-handed.
 
SweetSue said:
I'm supposed to be doing Callanetics. So not going to happen tonight. Lol! I got lost in playing with a new toy. I solved the problem of snuffing the hemp wick.

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Now, all I have to do is figure out how to light it one-handed.
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Eh, I've heard good/bad things about hempwick, so naturally I tried it. Waste of money, plus additional time. Just use the lighter lol
 
StupidNoob said:
Eh, I've heard good/bad things about hempwick, so naturally I tried it. Waste of money, plus additional time. Just use the lighter lol
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Spooky! I was just thinking about you and there you were! :laughtwo:

I like the way it lights the bowl, but I have to agree with you. I find myself mindlessly reaching for the plain lighter. If I could figure out how to make it effortless to use...... My hands are small enough that it's a challenge to manipulate it properly.
 
It's two weeks old today and I haven't increased the amount of nutrients yet. Should that be adjusted weekly? My concern here is I'm still dealing with a tiny baby seedling. I was hoping she'd suddenly spring to life as a sign that the taproot has finally hit the reservoir. Obviously I'm missing the mark here. If you can explain it to me I can correct my mistake and make this work the way it's intended.
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So... it seems you might be operating under a small misconception.
We don't wait for the roots to hit the bottom before it starts growing... it just speeds way up when the roots hit the bottom.
I would expect you to see growth rates similar to your soil grows until the roots hit the bottom, then the speed.

In my garden, I use a base mix of water for cloning and seedlings that contains 1/4tsp of my veg nutes. This gives everything a slight touch without any risk of damage. If all the things I'm going to use that mix on are doing well, I might boost it to 1/2tsp.
Then, when I see 3 or 4 sets of leaves, I start bumping up the mix. I usually jump it up in 1/2tsp increments, but to each their own.

I don't bump the mix on any set schedule. I let the plant appearance drive that decision. It might be weekly, but I don't push them very aggressively and usually find myself adjusting at about 2 weeks rather than every 1 week.

I really find that I'm inadvertently following pretty close to the feeding schedule published by my nutrient provider.... tho their numbers are a touch low.
 
lexort420 said:
Couldn't you just wave it back and forth like a match to put it out?
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You can, but when I'm using it, I'm usually in bed with a pipe or bong. The flame goes out, but there is still a cherry on the tip of the hemp wick. I never remember to prepare to put it down in the ashtray. It's never close enough. Lol stoner problems. I think that lighter pack that Sue has would be ideal for me. I have huge man hands (seriously freakishly large like Lana on Archer) and the lighter pack would be manageable to me. I would also bend the wick over just enough so when the lighter lights, it will light the wick too. Then it can be a one handed tool.

RoorRip :bong:
 
Morning to ya SS and friends....another beautiful day on my week off with the boys....Yeepa!
Hey Sue,..love that duhicky for the wick thingy! :tokin:
Have a great day all you guys!:circle-of-love:
 
Tead said:
So... it seems you might be operating under a small misconception.
We don't wait for the roots to hit the bottom before it starts growing... it just speeds way up when the roots hit the bottom.
I would expect you to see growth rates similar to your soil grows until the roots hit the bottom, then the speed.

In my garden, I use a base mix of water for cloning and seedlings that contains 1/4tsp of my veg nutes. This gives everything a slight touch without any risk of damage. If all the things I'm going to use that mix on are doing well, I might boost it to 1/2tsp.
Then, when I see 3 or 4 sets of leaves, I start bumping up the mix. I usually jump it up in 1/2tsp increments, but to each their own.

I don't bump the mix on any set schedule. I let the plant appearance drive that decision. It might be weekly, but I don't push them very aggressively and usually find myself adjusting at about 2 weeks rather than every 1 week.

I really find that I'm inadvertently following pretty close to the feeding schedule published by my nutrient provider.... tho their numbers are a touch low.
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Yes Tead, I was operating under that misconception, but thankfully I've been watering her almost every day with the 1/4 tsp/gal mix. I suppose it's time to increase since she appears to be tolerating it well. I'll make the change today. I'm working on getting a passport which just morphed into needing a copy of the acceptable form of birth certificate. The quick trip to the post office just became an all-day excursion to downtown and a visit to the Dept of Vital Records to pluck down another $20.

You all know I'll find the copy I lost just as soon as I get back home. :laughtwo: I figured it's a nice day and I haven't visited the confluence in a while, so why not? I may even take an incline ride and admire the city from above. It's a sparklingly beautiful day.
 
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