The Perpetual Healing Garden - SweetSue's Joyful Return

[SweetSue]

My quirky brain wonders if there is a bad water option/ratio.










PS: We need an "eat brownie" emot.

It sounded more complicated than it was in the end, but everyone got an equivalent amount. Four pots, and that meant I just needed to split the tea four ways. It made my quirky brain pause for a moment when I was doing it.

A brownie emoticon would be wicked cool!

 

[CronicHempHog]

High sue

 

[SweetSue]

High sue

Good morning Cronic. Always good to see your smiling face.

 

[kelticBlue]

A brownie emoticon would be wicked cool!

The mother of all sweet and tasty emoticons.

So I hope your Brownie top designs will result in a new trend across the country and globe.
I am on board.

 

[SweetSue]

Daily Update: Day 20 & 22



The photo tent got their first Growth Energy drenches today. The Critical Cure, in the 7 gal pot, gets about 5 ml of drench and .5 ml of Tea. The Critical Mass has closer to 10 gallons of soil and gets about 7 ml of drench and .7 ml of Tea. The 7 gal took just under 1.5 gal of water and the 10 gal took almost 2 gal. Now I have a starting point for scheduling the CATs.

I leveled off their soil lines too. I forgot to mention yesterday that I added leftover drench water to the LOS reserve soil and mixed up a gallon of TransWater to hydrate the kit reserve soil.

While they were absorbing, I decided that was a good time to check in on everyone else.

Med GOM 1.0

Auto Jack Herer

Fantasmo Express

They looked so good I turned the lights up a tick. I think we're at around 75% power.

Dark Devil Auto (Day 20) You can't really see it in the picture but the first thought I had when I came round the corner and spotted her was "Ah, she's decided to start going vertical."

The photo girls are back in their tent.

Critical Mass

Critical Cure

I'm impressed with how healthy they all are. I shouldn't be surprised, considering my soil choices, but it always amazes me that they continue to live under my care. I do shower them with affection. That must cover for my basically negligent nature. LOL!

I took a peek in to see how they're rebounding from the drench. Looking good.

Let me get these rent checks written and get to work reclaiming the body. Time for Callanetics. Then I'm going to get out there and spread some joy of my own around. I'm hoping you're doing the same.

 

[Pigeons420]

Marvelous, Dear Marvelous!

They all look so incredibly healthy. How does it feel to have a full plate? Sure can get overwhelming eh? You sure appear to have a handle on things. Happy for you!

Lots of love!

MUAH!!!

 

[SweetSue]

Marvelous, Dear Marvelous!

They all look so incredibly healthy. How does it feel to have a full plate? Sure can get overwhelming eh? You sure appear to have a handle on things. Happy for you!

Lots of love!

MUAH!!!

Thanks Pigeons. Mmmmmmmmm........

I confess, it feels wonderful. I feel like it was a smart choice on my part to make the photos kit girls and the autos LOS. It lends a certain consistency I've lacked since my first grow. I think I might be able to figure out how to make this work as a sweet perpetual.

I get conflicted at this point. I want a perpetual. I want to relocate. I can't have both, at least not without either first moving or putting off my drive to move, and that's accelerated as I've been packing. I haven't started Callanetics yet because I spent the time instead packing up three boxes of stuff I pulled out of closets and drawers.

I heard from the train club and yes, they're interested in taking it all. They had an unfortunate death in the group, so that must be attended to first, but at least I know that massive pile in the corner is going to disappear sometime in the next week or so. The boxes taking up all my spare hall space are destined to be gone on the evening of the 9th.

I guess I'm just going to start the perpetual and roll with the universe. I have no idea when my move will happen. I could be years from there. *sigh* At least I'll be ready when it comes.

blond moment

As I look back over the past couple days I can vaguely recall thinking "Huh... I can't remember the last time I heard the furnace turn on." Then I'd go back to studying. This afternoon I started shivering. That's when I went to check the thermostat, to discover that the batteries controlling it had died, and who knows when that happened? I'd just put on a sweater and chalked it up to growing more sensitive to the seasonal changes as I aged.

No wonder my plants have been so chilly!!! No wonder I've been so sleepy.

Batteries purchased and installed. Once again it's warm in my little kingdom. Sometimes I get so focused I scare myself. This is one of those reasons I married. Someone sometimes needs to remind me that there're things to be attended to like food and heat. LOL!

It's warm enough now to pulse. Ahhhh....... My muscles need this.

 

[Pigeons420]

"Blonde moment"

Too funny!

 

[Canyon]

Well the Sage n Sour is in jars. I cut it at 13 weeks and a day. The dry weight was more than I expected at 261 g. It smokes rather nice in a cone. The down side is that it is about 40% of what top shelf smoke would be for kick. The High will keep you moving around. It could use more curing than three days.

I will get some outdoor pics tomorrow. They are not that frosty and have little weight for their size. That is about what I expected.

This time of year is hard to dry smoke because the humidity is in the single digits. This is all over dry. I think I will keep the best half and rehydrate it. The other half I think I will shred and fill about a year's worth of cones and rehydrate them. What's left I will vape.

I put one of her daughters into flower 24 days ago and it is acting like a normal plant. I checked tonight and it is 28" now.

I never know.

 

[arteekay]

Everyone's looking great Sue, but you already knew this.

They're at a great age, like when the kids are learning to walk and talk almost, every day is almost a different plant. So excited to watch them all grow up.

 

[lexort420]

Looking great sue just wanted to stop on by and let you know that lol

 

[Tead]

to discover that the batteries controlling it had died

Ya know... we toss fancy digital doodads into our world and just make things uglier. What was wrong with a mechanical thermostat... or a mechanical timer?
I have dreams of digital destruction. Have we improved life with all the 1's and 0's? Is it better or worse?
I'd have to fall on the 'worse' side of the line... and I do 1's and 0's professionally.

 

[SlowToke]

Tead, I like your thoughts, but on the other hand the digital age did bring us 420mag. Sometimes there is a baby in all that bathwater...

 

[Heirloom]

I still prefer the mechanical stuff, though I have a digital t-stat or two. I use mechanical timers, they just last and are easy to deal with. I have a few from the 80's that still work. I'd use them but they are two prong, not grounded three as is standard now.

While the digital age has brought us some neat stuff and made info instantly available, it is also a curse. Makes people lazy in a lot of ways, and dependent.

If it all went away tomorrow I wouldn't sweat it one bit. Just adjust a few habits. I keep reference materials in hard copy.

 

[SweetSue]

I do the same thing Heirloom. Reference hard copies for the pertinent stuff, digital for the rest. Now the kids are floating around on platforms instead of walking. Whew! That's a tough one to see. I think the hardest one for me is parents of young children lost in their cell phones while the young ones walk silently along. But having music on the bus rides is a godsend and as SlowToke pointed out, we have this wonderous neighborhood to play in.

Hello lexort. You have a wonderful day.

 

[SweetSue]

Daily Update: Days 21 & 23

Just a quick look in. I fell asleep early again last night. Is it possible I'm slipping into a more normal sleep pattern after almost a year? Dare I hope? Now to stop doing that fully dressed.

The auto tent.

The photo tent.

The tiny closet.

Starting to take off now. I need to start new plants this next week if I'm going perpetual. Decision time girl.

I'm gonna make another stab at Callanetics. Maybe starting the day with them will work better. It's hard to believe that it's so difficult to get something I enjoy so much scheduled in without distraction. I'm determined this morning though. You all have a spendid day and get out there and spread the joy.

 

[SweetSue]

Taking a break between the Feldenkrais Daily Stretches and full on Callanetics. I already had my brownie, so I'm nicely buzzed, but I like that extra step going into body sculpting. Callanetics is such an intense mind/body experience that it gives me an edge to expand that mind a little more before I start.

I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed this particular delivery system.

Ahhhh..... Warmed up, mind expanded, focused and ready to go back in for the serious work. Maybe a quick peek into the tents before I start. LOL! Growing is such an addiction. It's so easy to step across the room and unzip. I considered the other day that I'd probably be content with one large room as a living space. The fan would have to be muffled, but I've discovered I have very simple needs and they don't necessarily require large living quarters. What they do require is growing space. Priorities, after all.

It's an especially bright morning. Cajun shared some wonderful news with us about a career change and we're all smiling like butcher's dogs this morning. Even supergroomer, who's recovering from surgery. Make that an especially gentle one bud.

All the more reason(s) to celebrate with another hit. Like I needed a reason to have more of this delicious Jamaican Dream.

 

[Radogast]

The tiny closet.

Starting to take off now. I need to start new plants this next week if I'm going perpetual. Decision time girl.

Dark Devil looks like a strawberry plant

My how the little ones change when they grow up !



Separating tents into an auto tent and a photo tent makes the perpetual grow more complicated than having a veg tent and a flower tent.

For perpetual, seems to me like you should flip one tent to flowering light (when ready) and move the girls from the veg tent to the flower tent (when ready.)

Your small closet could be a 'floating' purpose area: Seedling nursery, cloning, grafting experiments, intensive training, extra flowering space as needed.

 

[SweetSue]

Dark Devil looks like a strawberry plant

My how the little ones change when they grow up !



Separating tents into an auto tent and a photo tent makes the perpetual grow more complicated than having a veg tent and a flower tent.

For perpetual, seems to me like you should flip one tent to flowering light (when ready) and move the girls from the veg tent to the flower tent (when ready.)

Your small closet could be a 'floating' purpose area: Seedling nursery, cloning, grafting experiments, intensive training, extra flowering space as needed.

You're so right Rad. This run is an exception because I felt the need to do a quick oil production run, so I went with the excess of autos and strongly tilted the grow to high CBD strains. My plan is to shift things as I go, making the auto tent the veg area/auto tent and the photo tent flips into the flowering tent. I could also run a couple small taster pots in the open spaces of the photo tent once they get flipped. I hadn't considered that until this moment.

Basic plan is 2 flowering photos, two autos sharing space with vegging photos, and one Dark Devil Auto in the closet. The DDA grows in a no-till, so at the appropriate time I can just plant the next seed off to the side, or start one in a solo cup sitting right next to the one I'm preparing for harvest.

Sound better?

Incidentally, when I got the grow up and running I realized that even with all the forethought it appeared I had too many high CBD/low THC for my purposes and that confused me. I have this policy of trusting the guidance of the universe and had tried my best to do so here, so WTH???

Then I ran into my friend who's son still suffers seizures. See how the guided life can work out if we don't fight it? I'll grant you, it's not an easy path and there have been any number of occasions in my life when I've stopped, looked down that path and thought "Are you freakin' kidding me?" but went on anyway. This was one of those times.

It's scary sometimes, and I'm remembering how much scarier it can be alone, but I've been at this a while now. You pick up survival tricks as you go.

Enough conversation, more work. Back to pulsing.

 

[STIHL LOGGER]

Them lil girls are soooo pretty Sue! Hope all is well in the world of controlling mind, body and spirit.

p.s. I have a DD on the way!