STIHL LOGGER
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and on a side note... my sig worked!! lolz been tryin for 12 hours! big thanks to mtndew for the super helpful link! 
The Perpetual Healing Garden - SweetSue's Joyful Return
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Back in the Phoenix area with Internet access again. I feel lost without my neighborhood. LOL! Caught in rush hour traffic, but at least now I can wander the digital streets while I ride. 
Welcome back 
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Hey Sue! This eliquid is currently doing its best to blow the top of my head off. 
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Hey Sue! This eliquid is currently doing its best to blow the top of my head off.
I'm glad to hear that.
Now that I'm back in Phoenix I can take the time to read your post and figure out how to make my own when I get home. This year I'm going to explore as many different ways of enjoying cannabis and using it for medicinal purposes as I can. Canna has me hankering to play with creams, balms, tinctures and the like, I have three different ways to make CCO to experiment with and you have me salivating over this little adventure. Then there's a sweet recipe for honey oil I found on my iPad during the drive today that the gypsy shared a while back. I have blog posts to write and a new garden to set up. 
It's going to be a fun and transformative year. My life's getting ready to swing into high gear and I've never felt so ready or so capable before. This is my year to find out just who I really am. Somewhere inside here is a kick-ass cultivator getting ready to find full expression. I can't wait to get home and get started.
I think I'll make this the year I finally drop the last of the excess poundage by controlling the diet, at long last, and ramp up Callanetics to advanced student status. I'm tired of screwing around. It's time to see what I look like fully fit. Homeostasis, here I come.
Honey oil!!!! I thought you said that! OK then , one of my ALL TIME favs. Used to get it back in the late 70's. for 15 bucks a gram.Tasty, tasty, tasty. Just a really nice smoke , with a flavour and buzz to match! Just got me thinken back, is all....cheers gang!
Wow... Honey oil back in the '70s! I was busy buying "lids" back in the day.
With all your planning, do you have an IPM in mind?
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Good Morning everyone.
That was so close to my thoughts that I laughed right out loud when I read this. Of course, "back in the day" I was attending a Christian university and just starting to smoke, so I personally never purchased anything larger than an eighth. That's so funny to me, considering how I now grow. The times, they are a' changing.
That's part of those final plans I need to work out this week Rad. I've been reading and re-reading BB's extensive advice to you and giving it some casual thought, but I have a community of thrips that've come to think of my fallow pots as their own party bus during my vacation, so I'll definately be setting up some system and stick with it from now on. I use neem meal as a matter of course for topdressing, but that's about all I've done so far.
I will start a fresh batch of lactobacillus serum as soon as I get home and my regular LOS drenches certainly contribute to the strength and vigor of the soil communities. Healthy soil is where I'm going.
Thank you for the reminder. I'd hate to have overlooked this necessary step in my excitement about getting home.
It's the final days of the month people, so if you haven't taken the time to cast your votes in the contests this is the time to get your buns over there and do so.
420 Contests
This reminder is for myself as well. With all the celebration that was Vegas I've been lax about this duty and January comes with the added civic responsibility to consider the yearly candidates. Those Plant and Nug candidates put themselves out there and agonize over the votes. They've done their part by exposing their talents for our critique. The least we can do is give them an honest look see and cast our votes. It's what you'd want us to do for your entries, no? That's what I thought.
The Member contests are your way to acknowledge the leadership roles demonstrated by so many excellent candidates that it stuns me to be considered with them. Every month the candidates give me a greater appreciation of the uniqueness of our virtual community and the way we so willingly give of our time and affection to people we may never meet face-to-face.
I'm going to try to force myself to get out of bed now (it's been 90 minutes non-stop posting now and I set a limit of 45 LOL!) and get the day started. Breakfast, more posting and Callanetics to get the ball rolling. Let's see how that goes. Hahaha!
Before I wander away to engage myself in those important things let me take the time to encourage you to keep your eyes wide open today for those moments when you can spread more joy in the universe and tip the balance to loving. Love is the driving force behind the universe and joy is like our interpretative dance of love. Make yours particularly active today. Spread that joy far and wide.
That was so close to my thoughts that I laughed right out loud when I read this.
Of course, "back in the day" I was attending a Christian university and just starting to smoke, so I personally never purchased anything larger than an eighth. That's so funny to me, considering how I now grow. The times, they are a' changing. That's part of those final plans I need to work out this week Rad. I've been reading and re-reading BB's extensive advice to you and giving it some casual thought, but I have a community of thrips that've come to think of my fallow pots as their own party bus during my vacation, so I'll definately be setting up some system and stick with it from now on. I use neem meal as a matter of course for topdressing, but that's about all I've done so far.
I will start a fresh batch of lactobacillus serum as soon as I get home and my regular LOS drenches certainly contribute to the strength and vigor of the soil communities. Healthy soil is where I'm going.
Thank you for the reminder. I'd hate to have overlooked this necessary step in my excitement about getting home.
It's the final days of the month people, so if you haven't taken the time to cast your votes in the contests this is the time to get your buns over there and do so.
420 Contests
This reminder is for myself as well. With all the celebration that was Vegas I've been lax about this duty and January comes with the added civic responsibility to consider the yearly candidates. Those Plant and Nug candidates put themselves out there and agonize over the votes. They've done their part by exposing their talents for our critique. The least we can do is give them an honest look see and cast our votes. It's what you'd want us to do for your entries, no? That's what I thought.
The Member contests are your way to acknowledge the leadership roles demonstrated by so many excellent candidates that it stuns me to be considered with them. Every month the candidates give me a greater appreciation of the uniqueness of our virtual community and the way we so willingly give of our time and affection to people we may never meet face-to-face.
I'm going to try to force myself to get out of bed now (it's been 90 minutes non-stop posting now and I set a limit of 45 LOL!) and get the day started. Breakfast, more posting and Callanetics to get the ball rolling. Let's see how that goes. Hahaha!
Before I wander away to engage myself in those important things let me take the time to encourage you to keep your eyes wide open today for those moments when you can spread more joy in the universe and tip the balance to loving. Love is the driving force behind the universe and joy is like our interpretative dance of love. Make yours particularly active today. Spread that joy far and wide.
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Supergroomer has graciously allowed me to adopt his Carnival as my entry into the memorial grow that's begun in honor of Tim '420 Motoco'. He's using a common training technique of early and topping to increase the number of blooming tips in the hopes of generating more yield. I follow Graytail's method of letting them grow and topping only once, if grown from seed. Of growing a clone it's the same growth but using LST to train, beginning at the same developmental stage where that singular topping would have occurred.
I thought it might be interesting to follow his progress and contrast it to what I'd chosen to do.
His is the top one. My picture is actually day 28, one day older than his at 27, but they're close enough for government work. Hahaha! Dale used to say that all the time. A leftover from his days in the Navy. Wow! That was the first time I was able to relate one of those stories without dissolving into tears. I guess time does heal.
Anyway, the first thing I noticed here was that supergroomer may have the lankier phenotype Graytail most often grows. Mine was the bushier phenotype. I remember being frustrated that mine bore so little resemblance to Graytail's and worrying that that was going to effect the end result. I was wrong.
Looking at the pictures as objectively as I can they appear to be quite similar in growth at this age. I'll be contrasting them about once a week (I was smart enough to set an alert alarm on the iPad this time) to see how they go. My thought is that if they get very similar yields it's easier to follow Graytail and top only once. It only took me 4 days from that topping to get the canopy established as a sweet, flat area that maximized light access and gave me beautiful, dense, rock-hard colas.
I'll post the next one from some way station as I travel home next Wednesday. Hahaha! I had to set the iPad down and do a little dance of joy there.
Time to exercise.
I thought it might be interesting to follow his progress and contrast it to what I'd chosen to do.
His is the top one. My picture is actually day 28, one day older than his at 27, but they're close enough for government work. Hahaha! Dale used to say that all the time. A leftover from his days in the Navy.
Wow! That was the first time I was able to relate one of those stories without dissolving into tears. I guess time does heal. Anyway, the first thing I noticed here was that supergroomer may have the lankier phenotype Graytail most often grows. Mine was the bushier phenotype. I remember being frustrated that mine bore so little resemblance to Graytail's and worrying that that was going to effect the end result. I was wrong.
Looking at the pictures as objectively as I can they appear to be quite similar in growth at this age. I'll be contrasting them about once a week (I was smart enough to set an alert alarm on the iPad this time) to see how they go. My thought is that if they get very similar yields it's easier to follow Graytail and top only once. It only took me 4 days from that topping to get the canopy established as a sweet, flat area that maximized light access and gave me beautiful, dense, rock-hard colas.
I'll post the next one from some way station as I travel home next Wednesday. Hahaha! I had to set the iPad down and do a little dance of joy there.
Time to exercise.
Good Morning everyone.
That was so close to my thoughts that I laughed right out loud when I read this.
That's part of those final plans I need to work out this week Rad. I've been reading and re-reading BB's extensive advice to you and giving it some casual thought, but I have a community of thrips that've come to think of my fallow pots as their own party bus during my vacation, so I'll definately be setting up some system and stick with it from now on. I use neem meal as a matter of course for topdressing, but that's about all I've done so far.
I will start a fresh batch of lactobacillus serum as soon as I get home and my regular LOS drenches certainly contribute to the strength and vigor of the soil communities. Healthy soil is where I'm going.
Thank you for the reminder. I'd hate to have overlooked this necessary step in my excitement about getting home.
It's the final days of the month people, so if you haven't taken the time to cast your votes in the contests this is the time to get your buns over there and do so.
420 Contests
This reminder is for myself as well. With all the celebration that was Vegas I've been lax about this duty and January comes with the added civic responsibility to consider the yearly candidates. Those Plant and Nug candidates put themselves out there and agonize over the votes. They've done their part by exposing their talents for our critique. The least we can do is give them an honest look see and cast our votes. It's what you'd want us to do for your entries, no? That's what I thought.
The Member contests are your way to acknowledge the leadership roles demonstrated by so many excellent candidates that it stuns me to be considered with them. Every month the candidates give me a greater appreciation of the uniqueness of our virtual community and the way we so willingly give of our time and affection to people we may never meet face-to-face.
I'm going to try to force myself to get out of bed now (it's been 90 minutes non-stop posting now and I set a limit of 45 LOL!) and get the day started. Breakfast, more posting and Callanetics to get the ball rolling. Let's see how that goes. Hahaha!
Before I wander away to engage myself in those important things let me take the time to encourage you to keep your eyes wide open today for those moments when you can spread more joy in the universe and tip the balance to loving. Love is the driving force behind the universe and joy is like our interpretative dance of love. Make yours particularly active today. Spread that joy far and wide.
You know Susan!!!!
lexort420
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Figured I'd come by and show you a update of my hempys since you saw them back on teads journal lol.
Dave Groomer
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I posted this on the Coffee Shop thread. I hope Sue doesn't mind me adding it here. 
Just a quick reminder for everyone. Please vote in the monthly / yearly contests. We have some great friends that are nominated.
Member of the Year
Member of the Month
Plant of the Year
Plant of the Month
Please take a moment to share the love with these excellent people that have been nominate and who share their knowledge with us.
Just a quick reminder for everyone. Please vote in the monthly / yearly contests. We have some great friends that are nominated.
Member of the Year
Member of the Month
Plant of the Year
Plant of the Month
Please take a moment to share the love with these excellent people that have been nominate and who share their knowledge with us.
HumbleFarmer
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Hey, I just want to say thanks for what you're doing and the reasons you're doing it. You're an inspiration Sue. Thanks for your focus, energy, faith, and charity. God bless and keep you... Stormy
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Good morning everyone.
Woke up with a headache. I just now realized it's caffeine deprivation.
Hadn't thought of that. I drank coffee all weekend in Vegas and stopped that as soon as we got back. Hmmmm........ Choose your addictions carefully my friends. I may have to brew a pot just to be able to think straight.
Lexort, you can share here anytime. it's nice to have some plant pictures on these pages. Those are some mighty sweet-looking budscicles. What light schedule did you grow these under? It got me thinking about the future option of cloning, running multiple small pots and making good use of verticle space. I started that with my last grow but never carried it through the way I'd intended because I chose this vacation. Looking at your plants I suddenly got a flash of a smaller shelf unit slipped into one of the tents. I love the way this site makes you think outside the box.
Supergroomer, I have no problem with your post. The more participation we can generate for the contests the happier I am. It's one of my goals to inspire greater member participation in all aspects of the site. I've been here now 16 months and I've barely scratched the surface on what's available here. Those contests are a great way to interact with other members and drive us all to improve our technique and outreach. I still have to get over there and cast my own votes. The choices were so incredible this month I had to really think about it. LOL!
Random gardening thoughts: Planning a Perpetual
I've been thinking for days about lighting and setting up a perpetual. I have the DormGrow 450 for one tent (planning to buy a round red light to supplement in here) and the two 300W Mars Hydros (100x3 & 60x5) for the other tent. That leaves the closet.
What I'm considering is to make the closet my seedling to early veg area where everything on the shelves is in cups or one gallons and under CFLs, with larger girls in waiting on the floor under T8s. It gives me a month or so to get Dale's hobby stuff cleared out and get the tents up and then I can start getting some sort of perpetual flow established. The first run's going to throw me off a bit, since I have this pressing need to get some quick harvests for the daughter's oil, but from then on I want to be able to get it running smoothly to replace a harvested plant with another right behind it.
I'm also thinking I want to have one tent dedicated to autos under 20/4 lighting and the other for photos. That means the auto one could run straight seed-to-harvest and keep them flowing through. There should be enough room in there to get to where I harvest one a month, after the first run. That leaves the closet as the veg part of the photo grows. I can only fit two crates in the bottom of the closet, so the timing will be key. I can split the space vertically, with seedlings above, one gallons below them and the crates on the floor. I bet I could learn to keep them waiting patiently in the one gallons until space opened up.
I started my cultivation adventures with autos, and then ran my tent under 11/13, essentially turning everything I grew in there into autos. Even my Carnival and Jamaican Dream got accelerated in the end. This growing photos is a new mindset for me, but I'm determined to get it right. What may sway me completely to autos is the new batch of high CBD autos getting ready to hit the market this summer. That auto Carnival will be out this summer too. To be able to grow the meds I need as autos would make me one happy camper, seed cost notwithstanding.
And everytime I get there I hear Shiggity tell me, once again about how cloning assures you of the integrity of the phenotype and I go back to square one. I hear you ShiggityFlip. It's not just me I'm growing for and the plan is to someday be able to expand, which requires me to learn the craft of growing photos and cloning. I'll behave and stop trying to wander off the path.
I'm often reminded my favorite lines from Frank Turner's song "If Ever I Stray"
"The path I chose isn't straight and narrow. It wanders around like a drunken fellow. Some days it's hard for me to follow, but if you've got my back I'll go on. If you've got my back I'll go on."
I keep going because you all have my back and I want to do the same for you.
Time to set the iPad down and get on with the day. I ended my day yesterday immersed in a study of unconditional love and that influence is kinda overwhelming me today. I've a renewed sense of how love is the force that drives the universe and a deeper appreciation of how that force gets expressed as a matter of course on this site. I couldn't be more pleased to know that my daily challenge to "spread the Joy" is openly accepted and carried out with childlike glee. I can almost feel you all waiting for it.
Not one to disappoint:
Get out there and Spread That Joy! 
Woke up with a headache. I just now realized it's caffeine deprivation.
Hadn't thought of that. I drank coffee all weekend in Vegas and stopped that as soon as we got back. Hmmmm........ Choose your addictions carefully my friends. I may have to brew a pot just to be able to think straight. Lexort, you can share here anytime.
it's nice to have some plant pictures on these pages. Those are some mighty sweet-looking budscicles. What light schedule did you grow these under? It got me thinking about the future option of cloning, running multiple small pots and making good use of verticle space. I started that with my last grow but never carried it through the way I'd intended because I chose this vacation. Looking at your plants I suddenly got a flash of a smaller shelf unit slipped into one of the tents. I love the way this site makes you think outside the box. Supergroomer, I have no problem with your post. The more participation we can generate for the contests the happier I am. It's one of my goals to inspire greater member participation in all aspects of the site. I've been here now 16 months and I've barely scratched the surface on what's available here. Those contests are a great way to interact with other members and drive us all to improve our technique and outreach. I still have to get over there and cast my own votes. The choices were so incredible this month I had to really think about it. LOL!
Random gardening thoughts: Planning a Perpetual
I've been thinking for days about lighting and setting up a perpetual. I have the DormGrow 450 for one tent (planning to buy a round red light to supplement in here) and the two 300W Mars Hydros (100x3 & 60x5) for the other tent. That leaves the closet.
What I'm considering is to make the closet my seedling to early veg area where everything on the shelves is in cups or one gallons and under CFLs, with larger girls in waiting on the floor under T8s. It gives me a month or so to get Dale's hobby stuff cleared out and get the tents up and then I can start getting some sort of perpetual flow established. The first run's going to throw me off a bit, since I have this pressing need to get some quick harvests for the daughter's oil, but from then on I want to be able to get it running smoothly to replace a harvested plant with another right behind it.
I'm also thinking I want to have one tent dedicated to autos under 20/4 lighting and the other for photos. That means the auto one could run straight seed-to-harvest and keep them flowing through. There should be enough room in there to get to where I harvest one a month, after the first run. That leaves the closet as the veg part of the photo grows. I can only fit two crates in the bottom of the closet, so the timing will be key. I can split the space vertically, with seedlings above, one gallons below them and the crates on the floor. I bet I could learn to keep them waiting patiently in the one gallons until space opened up.
I started my cultivation adventures with autos, and then ran my tent under 11/13, essentially turning everything I grew in there into autos. Even my Carnival and Jamaican Dream got accelerated in the end. This growing photos is a new mindset for me, but I'm determined to get it right. What may sway me completely to autos is the new batch of high CBD autos getting ready to hit the market this summer. That auto Carnival will be out this summer too. To be able to grow the meds I need as autos would make me one happy camper, seed cost notwithstanding.
And everytime I get there I hear Shiggity tell me, once again about how cloning assures you of the integrity of the phenotype and I go back to square one.
I hear you ShiggityFlip. It's not just me I'm growing for and the plan is to someday be able to expand, which requires me to learn the craft of growing photos and cloning. I'll behave and stop trying to wander off the path. I'm often reminded my favorite lines from Frank Turner's song "If Ever I Stray"
"The path I chose isn't straight and narrow. It wanders around like a drunken fellow. Some days it's hard for me to follow, but if you've got my back I'll go on. If you've got my back I'll go on."
I keep going because you all have my back and I want to do the same for you.
Time to set the iPad down and get on with the day. I ended my day yesterday immersed in a study of unconditional love and that influence is kinda overwhelming me today. I've a renewed sense of how love is the force that drives the universe and a deeper appreciation of how that force gets expressed as a matter of course on this site. I couldn't be more pleased to know that my daily challenge to "spread the Joy" is openly accepted and carried out with childlike glee. I can almost feel you all waiting for it.
Not one to disappoint:
Get out there and Spread That Joy!
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Why thank you Stormy.
What a pleasant post to find after spending the better part of an hour putting together that lengthy morning one of my own. I'm inspired by the wonderful friends who surround me here, and I'm hoping you'll become one of them. 
to my humble journal. I see this is your 4th post, so you've been lurking for months. Quite a site, eh? It's like going to university non-stop with the best bunch of buds imaginable. Are you growing? Considering a journal? We love new journals and the opportunity to watch another cultivator evolve. I look forward to getting to know you better. If there's anything I can do to help you along and get better situated here in our virtual neighborhood, you know where to find me.
Dave Groomer
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Good morning everyone.
I've been thinking for days about lighting and setting up a perpetual. I have the DormGrow 450 for one tent (planning to buy a round red light to supplement in here) and the two 300W Mars Hydros (100x3 & 60x5) for the other tent. That leaves the closet.
Get out there and Spread That Joy!
I think for me the biggest hurdle with the perpetual thing, is not having too much in the veg tent at one time. I need to be especially careful now since my veg tent is less then 1/2 the size of my flower tent. When I fist got my cloner I was taking 2 clones from every plant, and they almost all took!!!! Too many plants. Timing the start of each plant is important.
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I think for me the biggest hurdle with the perpetual thing, is not having too much in the veg tent at one time. I need to be especially careful now since my veg tent is less then 1/2 the size of my flower tent. When I fist got my cloner I was taking 2 clones from every plant, and they almost all took!!!! Too many plants. Timing the start of each plant is important.
Graytail once shared with me that the veg area is the key. You set up the bloom room and it's essentially the oven. Put the plant in and let it go. All the real excitement is in the preparation, in that veg space. So you need to figure out the first harvest date and work backwards from there, always growing more in the veg space than you'll need. That means some aren't going to make it in. That's the difficult part - putting the love and energy into plants you end up composting.
I'll get it. I'm one determined and hard-headed woman.
smokiebear
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I'll get it. I'm one determined and hard-headed woman.
Exactly how I feel about growing!