The Perpetual Healing Garden - SweetSue's Joyful Return

[SweetSue]

Eight hours now, and I felt that slight tiredness behind my eyes that suggests a buzz beginning to diminish. I'm gonna risk a half brownie.

This should be all I'll need for the rest of today. My hope is that by having it now and refraining from smoking for the rest of the evening I'll be able to get to bed before 5 AM. I've been speeding around here for the past day and I'm beginning to wear down.

Watch, I'll do Callanetics and be rejuvinated. Lol!

 

[kelticBlue]

When I gardened with my mother we always watered seedlings with chamomile to avoid damping off. Huh! I'd forgotten all about that. I should go back to that practice.

It is what I do seedlings seem to do well with it, brew a little chamomile mix. : - )

I have had a companion tarragon for many months in my soft pot. Also, I am letting the amaranth take over the same pot for the next month or two. Gonna see how my sprout does with the neighbors in the pot. Then chop and drop the amaranth as cover/mulch. My tarragon has actually flowered and the chamomile got too big to bother with so I killed it. I might try chamomile as a rotation crop. If I get that advanced. prolly not......

 

[SweetSue]

Whew! Palms are sweating again, the whole body is buzzing and bouncy has returned. Good God guys, I know this isn't me. I was on the phone with my best friend when the brownie hit full force. What a rush! Unf----nbelievable! Never felt a rush hit like that, and I've had brownies shift me in physical space. This was like a bottle rocket went off though the center of me and burst across my brain.

Ok, the reason I stopped Callanetics and came here. I wanted to share a bit of the magic that fills SweetSue's life.

Some of you have been watching me explore the concept of deliberate manifestation, that mindset that frees you to allow marvelous things you desire to spontaneously present themselves in your daily life. What I've mostly learned is not to try so hard. The real trick my friends, and I can't believe sometimes that it took me 63 years to let myself see it, is to deliberately choose to think thoughts that make you happy.

I get frustrated too. You've witnessed it, and it's never pretty. But I move past frustration fairly quickly and get back to feeling confident again. What I just learned was that it's as easy as refusing to have that frustrating thought. To choose to turn away from that thought and determine to be happy.

To care if more about the way I felt than anything else in the world.

I have to say, that all through this "awakening" I'm having I've been hearing Graytail tell me this same message from many directions over the last two years. Thank you, kind sir, for continuing to look for another path to the watering hole for this feisty filly. Lol!

Well, I did figure it out my friend, and I made good use of that knowledge. The first time I recall applying this concept of choosing to think happy thoughts was the night I started to tell myself that I couldn't afford the trip to paradise on my limited income. Suddenly I refused to think that thought and with deliberate conviction went instead to the window seat of the plane circling Montego Bay. I'd already been there, so this was easy for me. I made myself feel it. I put as much real emotion into that blissful pre-memory as I could muster. I was there and oh, so happy.

Within 24 hours my brother, just returned from his honeymoon in Fiji and feeling incredibly generous, called to offer to finance the trip for me.

First time at bat and I hit the home run. It flashed me back to the first grow I ever did, my first serious commitment (that was Dale, it lasted 34 years), the list goes on. Apparently I've been doing this all my life. Made me stop and consider what I could do to make things happen faster in my life, that magic point when desire and manifestation are almost instantaneous. I realized I'd done just that with paradise. Theory is, when you've trained yourself to be consistently joyful, grateful for every waking moment, when you find delight in every breath you're blessed to pull in, then life becomes almost magical.

Yesterday I was considering how much I desired to locate a decent surface on which to roll a joint. I haven't been in the habit of rolling many joints, but Ditch keeps tempting me, and I keep rolling them. My house didn't have one plate, dish, surface of any kind that I was happy with. I decided such a surface needed to find me. I'm too busy living to keep looking.

Today, less than 24 hours from the moment that thought crossed my mind, the surface did just that.

It's nothing more than a storage box with the perfect surface for rolling a joint. Just exactly what I'd asked for.

Hold on. I think we have some fun times ahead.

 

[SweetSue]

The BIL is having an evening session with the early music of the Beatles. Loud enough to make my coffee move in the cup. Lol! It's OK, it brings him peace, and his brain is so scattered I'd do almost anything to help him out with it. This is small, and it's music I like. "Love Me Do", I mean, what's not to love, loud or not.

Hahaha! But the speed element of this potentiated DDA has me bouncing to the music. I'm so high right now I'm sweating, and it's freezing outside the window I'm sitting beneath because the cascade of cold air feels soooooo good.

I'm gonna try for Callanetics again. This should be fun. "PS, I Love You" just came on. Awwww.....

 

[SweetSue]

Goodnight moon.

 

[Weaselcracker]

It's so nice tonight, shining down outside my window, trees and everything all sparkly and covered in a thick layer of snow.

 

[PrincessFiona]

Hi sweet sue just wondering what decarbing weed is? Thanks in advance x

 

[ShiggityFlip]

Whew! Palms are sweating again, the whole body is buzzing and bouncy has returned. Good God guys, I know this isn't me. I was on the phone with my best friend when the brownie hit full force. What a rush! Unf----nbelievable! Never felt a rush hit like that, and I've had brownies shift me in physical space. This was like a bottle rocket went off though the center of me and burst across my brain.

Ok, the reason I stopped Callanetics and came here. I wanted to share a bit of the magic that fills SweetSue's life.

Some of you have been watching me explore the concept of deliberate manifestation, that mindset that frees you to allow marvelous things you desire to spontaneously present themselves in your daily life. What I've mostly learned is not to try so hard. The real trick my friends, and I can't believe sometimes that it took me 63 years to let myself see it, is to deliberately choose to think thoughts that make you happy.

I get frustrated too. You've witnessed it, and it's never pretty. But I move past frustration fairly quickly and get back to feeling confident again. What I just learned was that it's as easy as refusing to have that frustrating thought. To choose to turn away from that thought and determine to be happy.

To care if more about the way I felt than anything else in the world.

I have to say, that all through this "awakening" I'm having I've been hearing Graytail tell me this same message from many directions over the last two years. Thank you, kind sir, for continuing to look for another path to the watering hole for this feisty filly. Lol!

Well, I did figure it out my friend, and I made good use of that knowledge. The first time I recall applying this concept of choosing to think happy thoughts was the night I started to tell myself that I couldn't afford the trip to paradise on my limited income. Suddenly I refused to think that thought and with deliberate conviction went instead to the window seat of the plane circling Montego Bay. I'd already been there, so this was easy for me. I made myself feel it. I put as much real emotion into that blissful pre-memory as I could muster. I was there and oh, so happy.

Within 24 hours my brother, just returned from his honeymoon in Fiji and feeling incredibly generous, called to offer to finance the trip for me.

First time at bat and I hit the home run. It flashed me back to the first grow I ever did, my first serious commitment (that was Dale, it lasted 34 years), the list goes on. Apparently I've been doing this all my life. Made me stop and consider what I could do to make things happen faster in my life, that magic point when desire and manifestation are almost instantaneous. I realized I'd done just that with paradise. Theory is, when you've trained yourself to be consistently joyful, grateful for every waking moment, when you find delight in every breath you're blessed to pull in, then life becomes almost magical.

Yesterday I was considering how much I desired to locate a decent surface on which to roll a joint. I haven't been in the habit of rolling many joints, but Ditch keeps tempting me, and I keep rolling them. My house didn't have one plate, dish, surface of any kind that I was happy with. I decided such a surface needed to find me. I'm too busy living to keep looking.

Today, less than 24 hours from the moment that thought crossed my mind, the surface did just that.

It's nothing more than a storage box with the perfect surface for rolling a joint. Just exactly what I'd asked for.

Hold on. I think we have some fun times ahead.

People don't realize the power of manifestation. A few months ago I told Stage I would try talking about something and see the response I get. Wasn't much of a response but to me its an integral part of my growing technique and I feel is very important to getting my plants to give me their best. I will stand or sit at the end of my grow so that I can reach my arms out and basically put my arms at both ends. (It's only in perspective. I don't actually have 12 foot arms lol.). Then I have this meditation that I do. I imagine a beam of light enters the top of my head and flows through my body and through my feet to the center of the universe. I am impaled by pure light, anchoring me to the ground and sky. When I breath in it goes through me and also out my outstretched palms. It bathes the whole grow in healing light. Then when I exhale I imagine gray energy getting sucked into my hands from the plants, removing negativity and ill health. It comes back all the way to my spine where the light pushes it back up my spine and sends it back to the universe. I sit there and repeat and can see the energy waves moving back and forth. Though seeing them isn't the important part. With each inhale the plants are bathed and filled with white light, with every exhale they are cleared of bad energy. Then I begin to ask the plants for what I want, "do your very best for me girls, bring me some colors, bring me the most potent, tasty, beautiful buds you can. Bring me trichomes, more than you have ever thought of before." In my mind I can see them swell right before my eyes. In my mind I erase the previous future they have and replace it with a new one that they didn't know they could achieve.

 

[SweetSue]

People don't realize the power of manifestation. A few months ago I told Stage I would try talking about something and see the response I get. Wasn't much of a response but to me its an integral part of my growing technique and I feel is very important to getting my plants to give me their best. I will stand or sit at the end of my grow so that I can reach my arms out and basically put my arms at both ends. (It's only in perspective. I don't actually have 12 foot arms lol.). Then I have this meditation that I do. I imagine a beam of light enters the top of my head and flows through my body and through my feet to the center of the universe. I am impaled by pure light, anchoring me to the ground and sky. When I breath in it goes through me and also out my outstretched palms. It bathes the whole grow in healing light. Then when I exhale I imagine gray energy getting sucked into my hands from the plants, removing negativity and I'll health. It comes back all the way to my spine where the light pushes it back up my spine and sends it back to the universe. I sit there and repeat and can see the energy waves moving back and forth. Though seeing them isn't the important part. With each inhale the plants are bathed and filled with white light, with every exhale they are cleared of bad energy. Then I begin to ask the plants for what I want, "do your very best for me girls, bring me some colors, bring me the most potent, tasty, beautiful buds you can. Bring me trichomes, more than you have ever thought of before." In my mind I can see them swell right before my eyes. In my mind I erase the previous future they have and replace it with a new one that they didn't know they could achieve.

This, got you a tap of the Hammer 'O Rep. I'll begin to incorporate this mediation right now. This is exquisite Shiggity. I understand how it works. You actively remove any and all doubt about the grow, which frees your mind to allow the inspiration that guides your grow. There's also that cosmic realignment that kinda scares people into thinking we're a little weird as we make miracles happen as a matter of course. They want to believe, but all these others are standing around telling them they're not being serious or "real."

Real is what you make it. You're going to create your own reality anyway. There's no way around that. Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. You and I belong to a brave band of travelers who aren't intimidated or put off by the reality everyone around us chooses to live with. We're too busy making magic happen in our lives.

I'm so thrilled to be able to say you're my friend. I'm getting ready to start a new thread dedicated to building and maintaining a positive mindset, if for no other reason than to strengthen the ECS. You're going to love this thread.

 

[SweetSue]

Two days into the flip. BOOM! We have the beginnings of flowers.

 

[SweetSue]

The 2 1/2 pots on the left are Roman Chamomile started from seed.
The Cannabis seeds on the right had about 3 weeks head start.
(The little Cannabis plant in the front right is about the same age as the Roman Chamomile.)

Thank you Rad. I missed this yesterday. That's what I suspected. Chamomile was one of the first seeds we dropped every spring, to replenish the walking path.

 

[ShiggityFlip]

And...it's magic. Magic is real. We are the weavers of our destiny. A little knit here, a tug there, we continually reweave and shape the tapestry we create together. Actively changing things with your mind is as important as any grow practice. I get more trichomes because I ask thebplant to create that tapestry with me. We become woven together and entwined. She lets me know what I must do and I ask her for what I want to see. I let her know that her art will be seen and smelled, loved and cherished. That her buds will make me healthier as I take her in, which makes her more and more a part of me too. I clone her and keep her with me...it is an ongoing love.

 

[SweetSue]

It's so nice tonight, shining down outside my window, trees and everything all sparkly and covered in a thick layer of snow.

I could imagine it Weaselcracker. I could also hear the silence that comes with it.

Hi sweet sue just wondering what decarbing weed is? Thanks in advance x

The cannabinoids are structured with attached carbon molecules. THCA for example, on its own, is powerful medication for the healing of many circumstances, much of which we're just beginning to discover. But it won't get you high and it won't kill cancer cells the way we need it to. The same applies for CBDA. It may have medicinal value that's just being discovered, but it's metabolized component, CBD, is IMO, the most versitle cannabinoid available in the mix, and it requires metabolization as well.

In order for THCA, the naturally occurring acid cannabinoid, to become metabolized so that it can work as the medicine we desire or the buzz we're seeking you have to release those carbon atoms. That process is called decarboxylation, and you achieve it by either heating the cannabis or allowing it to cure for an extended period of time. The most common practice of cannabis consumers is to bake the plant material in the oven under controlled conditions. I use 245 degrees F.

Most will do this for 30 minutes to an hour. The time and temperature will determine which cannabinoids will be metabolized, and in what quantity. What I realized by accident was that if I decarb for 90 minutes the THC was much more powerful than anyone anticipated.

Did you understand that Fiona? I can try again if I missed the mark.

 

[SweetSue]

It's so nice tonight, shining down outside my window, trees and everything all sparkly and covered in a thick layer of snow.

Hi sweet sue just wondering what decarbing weed is? Thanks in advance x

And...it's magic. Magic is real. We are the weavers of our destiny. A little knit here, a tug there, we continually reweave and shape the tapestry we create together. Actively changing things with your mind is as important as any grow practice. I get more trichomes because I ask thebplant to create that tapestry with me. We become woven together and entwined. She lets me know what I must do and I ask her for what I want to see. I let her know that her art will be seen and smelled, loved and cherished. That her buds will make me healthier as I take her in, which makes her more and more a part of me too. I clone her and keep her with me...it is an ongoing love.

*sigh* Beautiful words.

 

[Spookies]

When I gardened with my mother we always watered seedlings with chamomile to avoid damping off. Huh! I'd forgotten all about that. I should go back to that practice.

I'm looking for established plants to transplant from the wild. This is too cool. Props to the guy with them already next to his plants eh very cool. There is a variety that is available as a spreading close cover lawn replacement. I need to find a patch of it. Sneakygreen already found one. Photos in my journal.

 

[SweetSue]

Stick a fork in this one. She's done. She went to mostly cloudy overnight. I'll give her one more drench today of just water and check her again tomorrow, but she's telling me it's her time.

My real sense is that she can come down tomorrow. For those of you that garden in Doc's soil, is it advisable to get one water drench past the CAT before harvesting, or could she come down tomorrow, which is when I think the best time would be? You all know how little I care for amber trichomes.

 

[ShiggityFlip]

Sue I try to have at least a couple drenches after any 2nd round cat when I have used one (I used it on my pretty foxtail PF this time.

 

[SweetSue]

Sue I try to have at least a couple drenches after any 2nd round cat when I have used one (I used it on my pretty foxtail PF this time.

Thanks for responding Shiggity. She had a third CAT last week. Wow! I just checked and it's been a week since she got drenched, so water is definitely called for. I can't believe I missed that.

 

[SweetSue]

buzz update

I'm shocked that I'm still this high after being up for four hours, moving pretty much non-stop. That last half brownie was over 19 hours ago and only contained the equivalent of half a gram of potentiated cannabis. I'm still high enough that I don't feel the need for my breakfast brownie.

This is going to not only stretch my harvests, but it gets me to the point I've been seeking for the past two years. The way I feel right now, clear-headed, capable, confident, blissfully happy and seeing the world loaded with potential waiting for me to take notice, is the way I choose to feel on a regular basis, only with this cannabis I don't have to work at it. Not even a little bit. My brain shifts right back to grateful.

This is life as its meant to be. This is the healthy human brain running at full speed. A healthy woman's brain, proven by science to run more functions at rest than a man's brain working at full tilt. This is how I'll do my best to feel, with the help of cannabis, for the rest of my life.

 

[SweetSue]

I'm still bouncing.

This is so much fun. Lol!