The Perpetual Healing Garden - SweetSue's Joyful Return

Went and did me some voting! First time.. Damn that made my brain hurt! So many spectacular plants and so many good people here. Best of luck to all of the current entrants! I hope to achieve that level one day. My hat is off to you all. :thumb: :high-five:
 
Mr Am4zin said:
Daily hug time Sue

:hugs:. :Love: :hugs:​

Hope you have a great day :Love:
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:hugs: :Love: :hugs:

You have no idea how much I needed that. I'm isolated here and it's not a healthy thing for me at all. Starting to feel a bit frantic.

I finally made myself choose in the 420 contests. Wow! That was tough. :laughtwo: Now I need to make some coffee while I figure out what else I need to order. The headache's not going away.

My Barney's CBD Critical Cure seeds came in today. :woohoo: Hopefully the rest of my seed collection's not far behind. These were the ones I was most excited about running though, so big sigh of relief.
 
SweetSue said:
Good morning everyone. :Love:

Woke up with a headache. I just now realized it's caffeine deprivation. :straightface: 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. :battingeyelashes: :Love: 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. :laughtwo: 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. :laughtwo: 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. :battingeyelashes:

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. :laughtwo:

Not one to disappoint:

Get out there and Spread That Joy! :battingeyelashes: :green_heart:
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I am so confident in your ability to handle all of this and I am getting excited at the scope of it all. I am currently hunting out some autos for my veg room and am excited to have a new and interesting thing to learn too! Plus it will give me flowers to look at when the 12/12 tent is off! I am definitely getting DD and will be looking for SLH auto as well. I am also thinking Mephisto as A-train knows his stuff for sure and how can I ignore an auto seedbank he has recommended?
 
Well then I'll throw a hug into the mix to! I sure appreciate the fact that we can put our faces into our phones and be at peace with the people we surround ourselves with here. Sure is a pleasure.

The contest are getting harder and harder every month. I think it's fair to say that this website is creating top notch growers and their work is constantly on display in the contests. Goes to show that we're all getting better at this!

:hugs: :Love:
 
Thank you Pigeons. :Love: :hugs: MUAH!!!!!

Cajun had an interesting post yesterday. Working as a professional cultivator in Colorado and frustrated about battling against his body's limitations as he continues to heal from cancer and liver failure he suddenly realized that all the things he was excelling in at work were things he'd learned to do right here in our digital yards. I agree Pigeons, we've created an incredible proving ground.

I love the fact that this site can teach you how to succeed from the ground up - setting up the spaces, choosing the strains for your particular grow, successfully harvesting the best cannabis you're going to be able to find, curing it for maximum potency and medicinal value and processing it into any form you need for consumption.

Someone who needs cannabis for medicinal use can learn all that and then how to make your own concentrated cannabis oil to heal yourself. We're constantly improving the methods to make the process safer, cleaner, more potent and as cost-effective as we can get it.

And then there's what I like to call "The Great 420 Magazine Give-Away". If we find out you need it and can't afford or find it, someone's going to quietly step out of the background and get it to you with no expectations other than the desire to see you thrive. Altruism in action, and it goes on behind the scenes here in ways you can't even begin to imagine.

This is my home, and I'm proud to be counted among its many talented citizens. :circle-of-love:
 
ShiggityFlip said:
I am so confident in your ability to handle all of this and I am getting excited at the scope of it all. I am currently hunting out some autos for my veg room and am excited to have a new and interesting thing to learn too! Plus it will give me flowers to look at when the 12/12 tent is off! I am definitely getting DD and will be looking for SLH auto as well. I am also thinking Mephisto as A-train knows his stuff for sure and how can I ignore an auto seedbank he has recommended?
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I'm a Sagittarian. This means I have the ability to excel at whatever I put my effort and focus to. It's in my nature. Of course, the flip side of that personality is my penchant for being distracted by something new on the horizon, and I want to try that too. :laughtwo: Witness my last grow, trying to pull off learning to use Doc's HB kit while also learning to switch gears from a tiny closet with autos to a 4'x4' tent with autos and photos, grown in two different soil types and trying to mimic Ziggy's taster garden approach. Whew! I managed to get through to Ultimate Harvest but no one in the tent got to full potential.

Cannafan reminded me yesterday that it's better to focus on one thing and do it well than to do a number of things half-assed. Love that girl - she snapped me right back onto the path. Having gone through the last grow, even half-assed, I now feel confident in my ability to continue growing with the kit and I already had confidence in my no-tills, so I'm ready to tackle the soils and keep improving my talents there. The goal this time will be to learning to maximize yield and dramatically increase terpene expression and trichome production. Both of those efforts will reward me with more oil per plant with increased medicinal values.

Choosing to have the two smaller tents should benefit me, but it will also give me the opportunity to demonstrate how easy it can be to grow in a small space on a reasonable budget. My first grow was a good lesson in how you could have almost no space and very limited funds and still pull off better than two ounces per plant in less than three months time. That was great fun to pull off, and so little stress.

This grow is all about taking your health care back under your own control and showing how anybody can do it. This is a revolutionary idea and I get goosebumps just typing the words in. The more people we convince to give it a try the harder it's going to be to stop the flood of acceptance for this marvelous plant we're so obsessed with growing. So my goals here are relatively simple: grow successfully and make my own oil. Today I'm making a step-by-step plan to pull that off in my own living room. This is exciting Shiggity.

Ahhh..... Halfway through the cup of coffee and the headache is beginning to fade. I'd considered just working through it, but I'll likely have coffee again with the family before I go home, so better to have the caffeine and wait until I'm home and have meds to help me break the addiction again. Although, I do like my coffee.

Which reminds me, Shiggity, please share your recipe for Bullet Coffee here so I can blog it. I have coconut oil waiting for me at home and I'm going to try it. I won't have cannabutter, but I may be able to get the canna part in some other way until I have enough inventory on hand to try making butter. I still haven't used my MBM, and it's coming up on a year. First harvest, for sure, that baby's getting pressed into service.
 
electro gypsy said:
partly true.. a number of things 3/4 assed is wayyyyy more fun. :)

highya Sue :hugs: been missing you :Love:
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:rofl: I was just thinking how much I've missed you too. :hugs: :Love: Almost recovered from Vegas. LOL! Have you posted any music to keep me engaged? Let me go look. :battingeyelashes:
 
SweetSue said:
My Barney's CBD Critical Cure seeds came in today. :woohoo: Hopefully the rest of my seed collection's not far behind. These were the ones I was most excited about running though, so big sigh of relief.
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Great minds think alike sue. Im growing the critical cure also. So far she is very healthy and budding away (day 28 from the flip). Im Growing this one for my wifes back pain. You made a good choice with the CC. Later
 
SweetSue said:
:rofl: I was just thinking how much I've missed you too. :hugs: :Love: Almost recovered from Vegas. LOL! Have you posted any music to keep me engaged? Let me go look. :battingeyelashes:
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not lately. pulled a groin muscle last week.. can't believe i just posted that but wth. lol. been grouchy as hell. and all backed up, but that's not unusual :laughtwo: ok lemme dig up some music lol
 
SweetSue said:
Good morning everyone. :Love:

Woke up with a headache. I just now realized it's caffeine deprivation. :straightface: 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. :battingeyelashes: :Love: 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. :laughtwo: 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. :laughtwo: 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. :battingeyelashes:

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. :laughtwo:

Not one to disappoint:

Get out there and Spread That Joy! :battingeyelashes: :green_heart:
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Glad you like them Sue! Those clones were pretty much thrown into the flowering box as soon as they were rooted. They are grown on a light schedule of 12/12 under a mars hydro reflector 96X5. I just have to get the timing right for getting new clones to put in the box but when i do it should end up being a production line 3 in every 2-4 weeks as well as harvesting every 2-4 weeks that's my hope atleast lol. Should be able to fit 15 plants total in there lol
 
When I was a kid I used to go pulling my groin muscle quite a bit. Not so much nowadays haha. Just kidding electro. It is amazing how one small muscle injury can debilitate us so completely!


Sue the recipe for Shiggs Bulletproof coffee is this:

You will need:
Cannabutter or regular butter unsalted.
Cannacoconut oil or regular virgin unrefined coconut oil
Blender
Fresh Brewed HOT coffee preferably French press but any will work.
Sugar or honey optional for peeps with a Sweettooth

I add to the blender for each serving (two servings max in my oster)
1tbs coconut oil
1tbs butter
1/2 tbs sugar or honey

When all is added then pour in 12oz coffee. Blend for a good 20 seconds so it becomes super frothy. Pour immediately especially if your blender pitcher is glass as it will steal some heat from the coffee. If you like your coffee very hot then use room temp butter and make sure to preheat your pitcher. Let the pitcher sit with hot water inside for a minute then pour out and make the coffee in it.

I don't preheat though the coffee comes out at a nice ready to drink temperature and is frothier than a latte at Starbucks. When making the canna version I wouldn't add a whole tbs of cannabutter or cannacoconut oil. Unless you want to sleep for days haha. Start out by making it regular and add maybe a teaspoon!
 
SweetSue said:
This grow is all about taking your health care back under your own control and showing how anybody can do it. This is a revolutionary idea and I get goosebumps just typing the words in. The more people we convince to give it a try the harder it's going to be to stop the flood of acceptance for this marvelous plant we're so obsessed with growing. So my goals here are relatively simple: grow successfully and make my own oil.
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Well, you've already convinced me. I made oil yesterday, and with the left overs stuck to the glass, I added coconut oil and am using that on my eczema. I've already picked out my next two seeds based on this thread as well (Med Gom 1.0 and Candy Kush), and cannot wait to switch fully into medicinal mode. Unfortunately, lack of budget will slow that, but I'll get there!

And I wouldn't have had the knowledge or confidence without this thread. So thank you! :circle-of-love:
 
smokiebear said:
Well, you've already convinced me. I made oil yesterday, and with the left overs stuck to the glass, I added coconut oil and am using that on my eczema. I've already picked out my next two seeds based on this thread as well (Med Gom 1.0 and Candy Kush), and cannot wait to switch fully into medicinal mode. Unfortunately, lack of budget will slow that, but I'll get there!

And I wouldn't have had the knowledge or confidence without this thread. So thank you! :circle-of-love:
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Well, this started my day off with a big smile and a warm heart. I assume you'll be learning to tack? If euphoria isn't a concern tacking isn't technically necessary, although I'd recommend you learn to do it anyway, since you're going to get such incredible results you're going to want to teach someone else how to do it and they may need to avoid euphoria.

This is my personal situation. I'm in very good health, excepting some minor concerns, so I can get away with making my oil straight sativa, high THC and I could just use it the way Rick Simpson does, by simply swabbing it inside the mouth, but I want to teach my daughter to tack, so I'll be teaching myself first. Since I'll know how to tack I might as well continue the practice. The whole idea is homeostasis, and I know that tacking gives me much more bioavailability than ingesting, so tacking is my best option to get to that stage faster.

I'm proud of you smokiebear. This is a major turning point in your life. I wish we were closer geographically so I could actually wrap you up in this hug.

:Love: :hugs: :Love:​
 
smokiebear, check your PMs.
 
SweetSue said:
Well, this started my day off with a big smile and a warm heart. I assume you'll be learning to tack? If euphoria isn't a concern tacking isn't technically necessary, although I'd recommend you learn to do it anyway, since you're going to get such incredible results you're going to want to teach someone else how to do it and they may need to avoid euphoria.

This is my personal situation. I'm in very good health, excepting some minor concerns, so I can get away with making my oil straight sativa, high THC and I could just use it the way Rick Simpson does, by simply swabbing it inside the mouth, but I want to teach my daughter to tack, so I'll be teaching myself first. Since I'll know how to tack I might as well continue the practice. The whole idea is homeostasis, and I know that tacking gives me much more bioavailability than ingesting, so tacking is my best option to get to that stage faster.

I'm proud of you smokiebear. This is a major turning point in your life. I wish we were closer geographically so I could actually wrap you up in this hug.

:Love: :hugs: :Love:​
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I felt it despite the distance! :hugs:

I am learning to tack, not because I need to avoid the euphoria, just because I feel that having the knowledge and know how can only help me in the long run. Plus, once I start learning about something, I not satisfied until I know everything I could ever possibly need to know about said topic. Oil, and healing is very much the same. I need to know everything. There are many days where I barely comment because I just cannot stop reading.

It's been wonderful. I've been off work for a few months because I am simply too exhausted to manage a full day like everyone else. Yesterday I felt almost no pain. I danced while I cooked. I haven't done that in months. This morning, my neck is a little sore, but that's about it. Feeling that change is unbelievable.
 
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