The Perpetual Healing Garden - SweetSue's Joyful Return

[AngryBird]

Hm.. a thought crossed my mind from something Keif said ( where are you Keif?)
And looking at your auto.. maybe that is the "problem" ?
OK we know autos go straight into "last pot" but maybe pot should be slightly smaller..because plant gets "intimidated" (can't find a plant word for it so I use that word) my too much space ? DO you understand what I am trying to say? I can't remember where Keif wrote it but it makes sense.

 

[AKgramma]

On the other hand, Does a seedling get intimidated when planted outdoors, with unlimited root space?

 

[SweetSue]

Hm.. a though crossed my mind from something Keif said ( where are you Keif?)
And looking at your auto.. maybe that is the "problem" ?
OK we know autos go straight into "last pot" but maybe pot should be slightly smaller..because plant gets "intimidated" (can't find a plant word for it so I use that word) my too much space ? DO you understand what I am trying to say? I can't remember where Keif wrote it but it makes sense.

The Dark Devil Auto can sometimes be stunted. That one's likely genetic. It grows in excellent soil, that more than compensates for the pot size. Actually, autos should be planted directly into the final pot.

The Industrial Plant is another matter, growing in a medium I'm unfamiliar with, and this may well be part of the problem. I'm trying with all my might to let it run its course, no matter what.

 

[AngryBird]

The Dark Devil Auto can sometimes be stunted. That one's likely genetic. It grows in excellent soil, that more than compensates for the pot size. Actually, autos should be planted directly into the final pot.

The Industrial Plant is another matter, growing in a medium I'm unfamiliar with, and this may well be part of the problem. I'm trying with all my might to let it run its course, no matter what.

I don't disagree with you.. just stating that maybe final pot should be smaller?
Only because autos Are funny in that way..
In my mind I have the autos like "something else" more special made seeds and therefore they think a bit different.
I could be wrong.. it was just a thought

 

[Scottay]

Happpyyy Saturday Sue! Hope this finds you with a smile on your face & joy in your heart!

 

[SweetSue]

Happpyyy Saturday Sue! Hope this finds you with a smile on your face & joy in your heart!

Of course I'm smiling Scottay, and more so since I didn't miss you tonight/this morning. Happy Saturday to you my friend.

 

[Graytail]

... didn't I hear something recently about sleeping ...?

Ya, right ... as if.

It's great bein' old ain' it?

Did you see that clip of Clint Eastwood and his son? Hilarious! I do that to the poor youngsters all the time. I jus' blurt chit out - stuff they've been taught is "wrong".

 

[SweetSue]

... didn't I hear something recently about sleeping ...?

Ya, right ... as if.

It's great bein' old ain' it?

Did you see that clip of Clint Eastwood and his son? Hilarious! I do that to the poor youngsters all the time. I jus' blurt chit out - stuff they've been taught is "wrong".

You know me well Graytail.

My last chore on my way to bed.

The daughter figured out that she can leave the house without the hits from the vaporizer she was taking as a caution. Every week there's something else of great significance she shares. She also said she stopped taking the psyche meds to stave off nightmares because she hasn't had any nightmares since she started with three a day, and she's sleeping even better now that she's on four a day.

I'm up to four a day too, and I also consume copious amounts of other cannabis beyond them. I'm still looking for the method or dose that puts an end to my little compulsions. Aside from the gift of life compulsive behavior was the only thing I got from my father. How sweet of him to pass that particular genetic marker on to the children he abandoned.

Ok, I'm gonna put the iPad away now and listen to some more jazz while I get wasted. Then I'll try sleep again. It's getting rough. Monday would've been our 35th wedding anniversary. Everywhere I look he's there. The empty bed couldn't look less inviting right now.

 

[AngryBird]

that is for Monday

Glad to hear about your daughter.
Have a good night

 

[Duggan]

Good morning to you Susan......Jazz...i love it too!

 

[Canna Montana]

Sue, may i.....it's best to keep them in smaller containers until the roots are well developed, then they go big! It's good practice to up-can at least once during veg. It helps build a strong hungry root system. Cheers gang........i wish you guys would bring me back the keys ....DeLorean just sittin here lookin pretty w/ no friggen keys. I'm bettin Canna took it out...prolly still in the future!

Don't you remember? You were caught by Angry Bird in our bushes. You ran, dropping the keys by the one legged man next door. I think i saw him walking just fine yesterday. You may want to come back to get your car, then check out where he went and what he did there.

 

[witchyhour]

Witchy,...you will be assimilated....muhahaha ....Susan.....help!

It's too messy for me.

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[witchyhour]

These two are photo plants, and they'll be vegging for months. They actually benefit from transplanting, as Duggan pointed out. They're also growing in Doc Bud's HighBrix Blend kit soil, a system that encourages at least one transplanting per cycle.

If you haven't met arteekay and Jay, you need to make their acquaintances. arteekay has a flair for training autos, and he religiously beheads them around day 12-14. They're pulling in 4-6 ounces with great regularity, so he may know a thing or two. We blew the myths about autos out of this site when we were priveledged to have Atrain among us. arteekay kinda filled the void for me that was there when Atrain left.

The basic rules with autos are simple:

- plant them into the pot they're going to be finishing in. I get away with not following this one because I transplant earlier than most, but then, look at my DDA and ask yourself if I might have screwed her up with transplanting? Maybe I'm not getting away with it.

- 20/4 lighting from seed to harvest - no exceptions

- if using nutes, don't switch to flowering until they've been flowering ones for a couple weeks past when they start blooming

Aside from those basic rules, all bets are off. LST to your heart's content and give her as much light as you can get, then sit back and enjoy the show.



Yes you may Duggan, and thank you for being so attentive when I'm away.



I don't think so Duggan. She seems pretty happy with hydro.



See? And it shows witchy.

I know ATrain! And yes, I think autos aren't as sensitive as they say. You can still stunt them, but not quite as easily as they say. I do love autos, though.

The huge taboo is defoliation. People get very passionate against it, but I do it and although I've only got 3 grows under my belt, I get between 1 1/2 and 2 oz per plant, which I'm ok with as a beginner.

At the other forum I go to, those guys are competing for a pound per plant, which I think is crazy! This is one guy's second grow, I think...

Isn't that crazy?

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[Duggan]

Too messy...OK , OK . If you call soil messy , then what about all the water flowing all the time and everything that goes with a lot of water. Pumps, lines. PHing, Bottled nutes, worries of power outages,just a few things. If you use soil to grow, especially our DBHBB stuff, you don't just throw it away when the grow is over,...it's re amended , re cooked , and then re used. Check out some of our journals ,on just how we all deal with the mess! There is no mess Witchy and NO worries of pumps failing or lines clogging or a mess of other problems Hydro growers have. i must say , i have to tell you this lil story. I have a friend who grows SSH in Hydro,...another friend grows the very same stuff (clones of the same SSH) in big pots outside in soil. If i let you try the two ...you would swear it was two different strains...one that tastes fantastic with a punch,...the other , the Hydro , that is soo bland and flavorless. If you tried this , you would put away all your water stuff and switch to soil....simple decision. Give it some thought, you may be pleasantly surprised. Have a great day Witchy and gang!

 

[witchyhour]

The Dark Devil Auto can sometimes be stunted. That one's likely genetic. It grows in excellent soil, that more than compensates for the pot size. Actually, autos should be planted directly into the final pot.

The Industrial Plant is another matter, growing in a medium I'm unfamiliar with, and this may well be part of the problem. I'm trying with all my might to let it run its course, no matter what.

My DD got stunted just because she got root bound. It wasn't too bad, but I can clearly see that she just came to a halt and sat there for a few weeks with crazy airy buds. When I changed the nutes, she started again.

I mean, she was dropped 5 days before my Red Poison and Red was harvested on 07/29. Devlish should be done, too, but she's still going...

And her buds are thickening, but I think she'd have monster buds if we hadn't had "the root incident."

Her sample nugs are delicious, though!

Funny how her phenos are so different from yours! She has absolutely no red at all, and she's the tall, leggy type.

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[witchyhour]

Too messy...OK , OK . If you call soil messy , then what about all the water flowing all the time and everything that goes with a lot of water. Pumps, lines. PHing, Bottled nutes, worries of power outages,just a few things. If you use soil to grow, especially our DBHBB stuff, you don't just throw it away when the grow is over,...it's re amended , re cooked , and then re used. Check out some of our journals ,on just how we all deal with the mess! There is no mess Witchy and NO worries of pumps failing or lines clogging or a mess of other problems Hydro growers have. i must say , i have to tell you this lil story. I have a friend who grows SSH in Hydro,...another friend grows the very same stuff (clones of the same SSH) in big pots outside in soil. If i let you try the two ...you would swear it was two different strains...one that tastes fantastic with a punch,...the other , the Hydro , that is soo bland and flavorless. If you tried this , you would put away all your water stuff and switch to soil....simple decision. Give it some thought, you may be pleasantly surprised. Have a great day Witchy and gang!

Thank you, I'll definitely keep that in mind.

I'd love to grow outside in soil, but I don't think I'd get away with the smell...

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[MagicJim]

Hm.. a thought crossed my mind from something Keif said ( where are you Keif?)
And looking at your auto.. maybe that is the "problem" ?
OK we know autos go straight into "last pot" but maybe pot should be slightly smaller..because plant gets "intimidated" (can't find a plant word for it so I use that word) my too much space ? DO you understand what I am trying to say? I can't remember where Keif wrote it but it makes sense.

High Birdie.....I did an auto grow earlier this year. During this grow I used a 5 gallon softie and some new blue pots I bought. The blue pots held about 2.5 gallons. I grew G-13's Pineapple Express autos and the seeds were germinated in their final pots and you can see day 50 here:

The two Top left in this photo:

Link if you care to visit - Autos Day 50

Day 64. The two plants front right marked PEX.

Which one is larger? What did each yield? Blue pot 29 grams. Softie yielded 22 grams. Which is my favorite smoke? I haven't decided. Both are top shelf.

I also had a runt during this grow. My Ultraviolet, grown in a blue pot yielded a whopping 7 grams. I smoked some this morning and it's mighty fine too.

So, I really don't draw any conclusions any more. Any of the wonderful plants can fool you. Have a great day Birdie and folks.

 

[SweetSue]

Thank you, I'll definitely keep that in mind.

I'd love to grow outside in soil, but I don't think I'd get away with the smell...

I dream of growing monsters in the great outdoors. I watch hydro grows from a distance and I'm amazed at the size you guys get with your plants, and I've always wondered what difference it really makes with the flavor and potency. It's a great part of why there's a hempy in my tent. I'm probably the only LOS cultivator you'll meet who even considered going "backwards" in technique, given my passion for my own LOS, but I really wanted to see if there was any difference myself. I've been spouting this line about increased quality, but I was parroting something I had no actual experience at. It would have worked better if I knew how to make the little one thrive, eh?

You have to let Duggan be the ambassador for Doc that he's driven to be. His passion springs from experience, and he may be the most revered of all our HB growers. He's grown for so many years, using one method or another, and his results with the kit are so consistently top shelf that he's driven to share that joy with every cultivator he comes across. It's one of the traits I admire most about him.

Now I know what other site you've been hanging out at. When you speak to Atrain again, give him my best. He's tried to entice me to his site, and I have a membership, but my life revolves around this slice of the cosmos. Maintaining 11 active threads keeps me pretty solidly right here. But I miss him so much sometimes it's physically painful. He and I befriended each other in our first grows, during which he won POTM and I won MOTM. It kinda threw both of us out into the middle of the street right at the beginning and we were both going at top speed from there on out. What a resource that wonderful man is.

The competitive spirit of the driven autoflowering maniacs on that site amazes me. From that competitive spirit comes the refined techniques we then use to improve our own grows. I think it's kinda crazy too, but isn't it fun watching them drive each other to new heights?

I want to say here how much I'm enjoying your company. I'm really glad we met.

......... If you tried this , you would put away all your water stuff and switch to soil....simple decision. Give it some thought, you may be pleasantly surprised. Have a great day Witchy and gang!

I'm hoping this lazy hempy I'm trying to grow takes off and surprises me, because I want very much to try this as a comparison, growing two identical plants in two different mediums, one with living organic soil and one with bottled nutes. But first I actually have to get them to grow. *sigh*

Day 64. The two plants front right marked PEX[/B].

Which one is larger? What did each yield? Blue pot 29 grams. Softie yielded 22 grams. Which is my favorite smoke? I haven't decided. Both are top shelf.

I also had a runt during this grow. My Ultraviolet, grown in a blue pot yielded a whopping 7 grams. I smoked some this morning and it's mighty fine too.

So, I really don't draw any conclusions any more. Any of the wonderful plants can fool you. Have a great day Birdie and folks.

I have a little note on my front door that keeps my perspective on target. It was so effective I started using it as my lock screen on the phone.

This is what I'm trying to make one of my new credos. I'd have to say it's been working. As pertains to gardening cannabis, it reminds me that there are so many different ways to skin this cat that it'd be madness to say one way was superior to another. It's my reflection of the tolerance I see expressed here every moment of every day.

Up until 5 AM last night, so of course I slept until 11. Kinda shoots the day from the get-go, doesn't it? Good thing I live an unstructured life and keep no one alive but myself. Lol! Ok, let me roll my butt out of the bed now and get this day started. See if I can make a little noise today.

Good Morning World!!!!​

 

[CMJJMC2000]

Hope your Med Gom is doing well. Mine has been hung up to dry, I'll let you know what the scales tell me in a few more days. The scissor hash was fantastic, totally relaxing care-free bake.

 

[SweetSue]

Sue, IMHO I would probably replace that Industrial Plant. I don't want it to give you a bad impression of hempy and that seedling is definitely a very slow starter and likely to be a slow grower and runt its whole life.

You've got enough there to pop another seed or root a clone and I can pretty much guarantee a better experience with the hempy. In no time, it will surpass that Industrial Plant!

If you want, you can transplant the Industrial Plant to soil to see if she does any better there but I probably wouldn't waste the space on a plant that is problematic since grow space is always limited, as is the time to take a plant through flowering.

Thank you K. I did miss this one. It's so funny..... I left that morning post and headed off to leave you a "good morning" message, right before I intended to go looking for the post I must surely have missed, to find you waiting for me. You spoil me, and I really appreciate that.

I'll take your advice and start another plant. I'll make this one something for me, something zippy and fun. Something Sweet Seeds, I think. Because this at 26 days is unacceptable.

I mean, I'm giving hempy a bad name and I'm feeling bad for Tead and lexort. I gotta make good on this K. My stage is too big to fail on, and my own competitive spirit's gonna drive me to succeed at it, even if my plan is to return to LOS exclusively in time.

Thank you again.