The Quest For Midnight Sunshine: Dabber Begins Breeding Bodacious Botanicals

InTheShed said:
That certainly explains the delay in the surgery! Good luck with all that timing Van :thumb:.
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Yeah....we toyed with having it done before, but at least right now I know what I can and can't do and I can use time management and do a specific number of work outside and not overdue it. Then I can come in and pack and clean as much as the back will permit and I know I can get everything done, get us moved and settled back in, get the basement set up and 10'x10 set up and running, mix more dirt and THEN have the surgery. If its an improvement, great! If its worse, no big deal....I have all the meds I need. The delays are frustrating for sure! But I think this is the safest route. Might end up being the more painful but I can deal with the pain for in exchange for peace of mind in knowing that Ms Stank and I can do everything on our own without help. Though we are paying the movers to do the moving portion. No way I am messing with the big stuff. It was bad enough moving everything out of the basement on my own.
 
Van Stank said:
Yeah....we toyed with having it done before, but at least right now I know what I can and can't do and I can use time management and do a specific number of work outside and not overdue it. Then I can come in and pack and clean as much as the back will permit and I know I can get everything done, get us moved and settled back in, get the basement set up and 10'x10 set up and running, mix more dirt and THEN have the surgery. If its an improvement, great! If its worse, no big deal....I have all the meds I need. The delays are frustrating for sure! But I think this is the safest route. Might end up being the more painful but I can deal with the pain for in exchange for peace of mind in knowing that Ms Stank and I can do everything on our own without help. Though we are paying the movers to do the moving portion. No way I am messing with the big stuff. It was bad enough moving everything out of the basement on my own.
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Unless it's a small apartment and your friends have strong backs, movers are worth the dough! Do you know how long the recovery and rehab is "scheduled" to be? It may be a while before you'll be up and moving.
 
Not supposed to be long....but nothing is a given with the back. Might not work at all....or might work for up to a year. All a crap shoot at this point. Even if it doesn't, my experience with all the different strains and way to use them has me confident that I can live a slightly watered down version of a normal life minus anything that requires any quick twitch explosive movements out of my back. Guess my dream of being a UFC champ is dead! :rofl:

I have been really experimenting with cannabis use in conjunction with my physical therapy and old injuries and I think I am making some really interesting advances. In the past, I would do PT sober and of course therapy would be limited by the pain to a degree. Well I decided to try therapy after smoking and I was able to push through some pain points that would stop me in the past. I am able to work on stamina for some of these exercises and muscle groups as well by being able to push through the pain. I am also allowing myself to medicate more frequently to deal with any discomfort after the beefed up PT so the angry "after pain" doesn't make me skeptical of doing them more aggressive therapy.

I am finding that my day to day pain on a lot of old injuries (shoulders, knees, elbow, etc) is dropping as I am able to push myself more. So I am attempting to carefully start creating a way to do with the back injury. What I am discovering is it doesn't do anything for the direct nerve pain I experience when I bend or twist or make any sudden movements (seriously..I knocked something over on the coffee table and started to fall and I my reaction of jumping to catch it had me laid up for a couple days).....but what its allowing me to do is work out my back and core muscles more than I am able to if I don't smoke which is reducing a lot of the miscellaneous pain in the back.

So I gotta smoke before and after working out, but its working if I am careful on my form and watching my movements. Makes me hope that even if the procedure doesn't help, I might be able to get back to a respectable level of use and reduced pain if I keep at it. Really makes me wonder about physical therapy and professional athletes or even the injured veterans. The therapy can be every bit as painful as day to day life and we know prescription pain killers aren't the answer.

Not sure if any of that made since but I just blasted my rotor cuff and AC joint with a pretty good band workout and if I wasn't high, I would be in some big discomfort now and for the rest of the day and perhaps tomorrow. Bad enough that I don't like doing it. But smoking before....its all good, even fun cause I am not dealing with the after effects. I even have started making it a point that if i want to smoke or medicate, I have to do some sort of exercise before I can smoke. I am slowly but surely gaining back some degree of normalcy.
 
Even though you're finding help with cannabis, I sure hope that back surgery puts on a better path by itself. You got a lot of years ahead of you and you should enjoy them with the best back money can buy. :goodluck:
 
I agree....but I don't ever put all my eggs in one basket. Gotta have a back up plan and a back up plan to the back up plan. Sometimes I even come up with a 4th plan....but I only got two for this LOL.
 
While you're laid up you'll have time to think of some others!
 
Sounds like a plan Van. Van, the man with the plan!

Speaking of plans.... you know how sometimes you think you know what you're dropping next, and then 3 Alien blues regular seeds just happen to be part of a little trade you make with a buddy.

Ultimately, I wanted to run my blueberry regs with the stabkberry cut to be sure it got "backcrossed" (pretty sure Van's female as not from CKS). I wasnt going to do that until next year, or run any regs next round. But backup plan to the back up plan?

So the current plan is. Take cuts today. And I'll run a stankberry, PSM, and drop CBD amnesia haze, and 3 alien blues for the next run.

Fun fun fun.

Should flip tomorrow *fingers crossed*
 
Gonna need a spreadsheet...
 
TheMadDabber said:
Sounds like a plan Van. Van, the man with the plan!

Speaking of plans.... you know how sometimes you think you know what you're dropping next, and then 3 Alien blues regular seeds just happen to be part of a little trade you make with a buddy.

Ultimately, I wanted to run my blueberry regs with the stabkberry cut to be sure it got "backcrossed" (pretty sure Van's female as not from CKS). I wasnt going to do that until next year, or run any regs next round. But backup plan to the back up plan?

So the current plan is. Take cuts today. And I'll run a stankberry, PSM, and drop CBD amnesia haze, and 3 alien blues for the next run.

Fun fun fun.

Should flip tomorrow *fingers crossed*
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Nice

I have an Amnesia Haze germing now

Fun fun fun
 
TurboBucket said:
Flip buddies! Lol I been stalling on the flip guess I need to go.
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#groupflip

UrbanAchiever said:
a lot going on here man, good for you, looking forward to trying out those stankberry. Come to think of it, any of those crosses . I am tired just reading about all your working on lol
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Cant make any promises.... except they'll for sure be cannabis plants!



Chris Scorpio said:
Nice

I have an Amnesia Haze germing now

Fun fun fun
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Oh nice! Glad you decided on that one. Cannabis cup winning strain there. Cultivator grows it a ton and loves it. Hopefully it will live up to its sterling reputation
 
Always tough to choose next crop rotation. I was hoping to do some fems of CKS Crown Royale, Seedsman Jack herer, Seedsman Skunk #1 and maybe their Mama Mia. But after thinking about some Stankberry x ATF coming my way, I am questioning that plan.

Don’t want to get ahead of myself. Gotta focus on my flowers right now.

Whatever cannabis plants you got going on, I will be watching.
 
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Stankberry

Just a couple pics.

I plan on getting a lot more for an update tomorrow.

@InTheShed you have a spread sheet for everything my man! I'm not very spreadsheet savvy lol

So I think I'm opting against the gravity fed auto water... like @Chris Scorpio said most timers require some psi to operate. And the Toro timer is 40 bucks when a small submersible pump runs less than 10. And were trying to save our monies for our trip to the surface of the sun here in a few weeks.

This will allow me to run a larger res and guarantee they don't run out of water. I'm always wary of power outages ESPECIALLY that time of year but the timer would still function (hopefully). So long as no breakers trip... all should be well.

Just some re arranging and cloning to get done before tomorrow. Last few preparations before flip as usual. Should be a colorful group of kiddos
 
I'm always available for oil strength calculations!
 
Well here we are.... Just about ready for flip.

I trimmed up the dude. I moved him up on the ledge with the cookies sad butt.

Up potted the PSM which already has a lovely fragrance.


Heres a look at the alien blues...

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And some up pot pics.

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3 full worm bins:cool:

So I'll take cuts of stuff tonight. And hopefully change the light cycle before work (their bed time)

Hope you all had wonderful weekends!

:peace:Dabs
 
Aw man, you got the souvenir seeds. Damn I'm so sorry!

Tub is looking well-prepared for the canna-onslaught...it's a coming :thumb:.

I caught a bunch of worms trying to escape the bin this morning. They're probably hungry. Better make salad!
 
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