Leetdood's growing struggles

[leetdood]

Wow, didn't realize it's been quite a few days. I've tried to stay busy!

Filled the tent, cleaned the plants up, sprayed them. Did spraying last night. Lights on this morning and moved last 2 plants back in. I will need to drop the trellis and try and adjust the plants but they might need a 2nd spray so i will play it by ear. Main thing is i have cleaned up all lowers, redundant/inefficient/poor growth, and am getting these plants to better health. Aside from the 15 gal Tahoe I will also be feeding to excess runoff to ensure they aren't sitting in hot media. Need to put pot risers and saucers, especially under Tahoe.

Tahoe was really upset with the lack of light, PM, and the new huge wet feet. But she's a monster and was rootbound for months so she's just tearing into that 15 gal. With another 6 days veg she's gonna eat my breakfast.

Some people over the months etc have asked about Tahoe.

She's a heirloom kush, brilliant plant, great sleep meds. Earthy, mossy, pine. Like being waterboarded with pinesol but more pine than lemon. Very loud. Not easy to grow but not hard either. She throws down. She's just not suitable for facilities so she's "out of fashion" but she's an amazing plant and makes amazing hybrids.

I used to speculate that she's a 91 s1 but someone who ran a bunch of 91 s1s from CSI said they didn't really see that type of plant. So the only real info I have is Swerve, I believe, grabbed her for like 10k. Similar to grass valley nepali og/hashplant used in goji og.

Will drop your blood pressure like a motherfucker. One time i smoked some from @PCC and I went to bed. Hours later, clearly not when I'm high, I got up to go and pee. I got dizzy after and was like, well ill just walk it off. Friends, I did not walk that off. My head hit a tower of solo cups, cracked a bunch, and then the door. I've always had fainting problems but like, you're gonna wanna watch out for that. This is potent meds. A homie was surprised I could smoke a dub and be functional. This isn't like. Pink kush or bubba where you can enjoy yourself and then have a comedown. It's very potent to the dome.

Assorted in progress pics. Irene by the washer drip tray. Tahoe in the tent. Last pic all filled, cleaned up, and treated.

 

[leetdood]

Back left: AnB
Back right: Dragon Hammer
Middle: Tahoe
Middle left: Irene
Bottom left: highway robbery #3 (the one I refer to as hollywood/topanga leaner)
Bottom middle: El Chapo OG (sfv x faceoff x og kush, similar to Tahoe but more modern and diff ratio of terps)
Bottom right: bubba (Matt berger. Also I found out the csi/sha bubba can be called sha bubba. Thanks Denali, love you brother.)

 

[leetdood]

I'm basically repeating myself but it's basically back to watering, cleanup, cutback, and treatment in the main area. Still need to transfer more rooted clones to mini trays. I don't have days off at this point so I need to take it more easy on some days than others. I really overwhelmed myself popping so much seed around springtime, and with all the ongoing mothers/clones. But I'm getting back into a regular flow of things slowly.

Need routine IPM still, but the idea is to get to the point where i can establish ipm and cleaning routines for the entire household regularly.

 

[aCBD]

Looking clean and proper. Keep at it.
The Tahoe stories made me laugh.

 

[leetdood]

Now im a bit more caught up, I'm processing the first of the hash. First wash I did, almost all the best bits from 73 to 119u from after I added in the wedding cake, strawberry gary, and sunset sherbet. Still lots more to process but I'll be doing it batch per batch. This is gonna be set aside to make my mom's topical cream in. So it comes first.

As I did not thaw and strain then wet sieve these as part of the wash. Which I'm learning is best to save time. I'm now thawing this to strain and freeze to sieve.

I started to move it around with my gloved hands but I forgot rule number one... heat makes sticky. Gotta use a refrigerated spoon.

 

[leetdood]

Strained and sieved frozen

Used smallest sieve for quick dry. What a pain

Drying nicely

 

[leetdood]

As24

 

[leetdood]

1.5 cup coconut oil
1/3 cup beeswax
1/3 cup olive oil
About 1 gram high grade decarbed hashish (hour at 230 probably over did it)
4 drops oil of eucalyptus
Melt on med low

Made 2 jars for my mom for christmas tomorrow

 

[MOneYMiKe]

Christmas is next week Fam

 

[leetdood]

Christmas is next week Fam

We are celebrating it early My sister gets Dec 25 this year.

Celebrating an early Christmas with my lovely mother and our friendly family spider-dog Miles Morales. My mom knows me too well, I'm super excited about Teaming with Nutrients.

She got me some other stuff but this is 100% a killer haul.

 

[leetdood]

Still busy

Spending the day with my mom and Miles. I made a cute lil stocking for him and stuffed the bag of treats my mom uses, 2 tiny greenies (toothbrush shaped mini chewables), and an orange rubber gator/lizard squeaky toy thing.

We had Talon pass away from eating a piece of rubber toy. So I wasn't sure how this would go with Miles yesterday. Anyway turns out a 3 dollar piece of rubber crap barely lasted five minutes with the guy before my mom went like "seems dangerous (cause you're taking pieces away every time) maybe just toss it" and I'm like, yeah I guess so. Miles kept ripping into the orange reptile and tearing bits off and I'd grab them so he wouldn't try and eat them.

He was a bit sad so I guess I gotta get cloth toys from now on. Silly me. I had given Hero a rubber hamburger before he passed and oddly enough, instead of tearing it apart he would hold it gently in his mouth, drop it, then try and get my sister or mom to pick it up for him. I told my mom he must have known it was from me

As for my plants I get back to work tonight and tomorrow. Not much to report just got a system set up for defol and cutback. Bleach water in a measuring cup to put open scissors in and sink filled with rinse water. 60 second bath in each rotating. Got a rough station set up for spraying small/medium sized plants with sulfur too. So I'm just gonna continue watering, cleaning, and getting plants under control, pruned, and treated. It'll make ongoing tasks even easier.

In the 40x40" most looks good except Irene. I think I didn't let her dry back enough before I fed her to excess, and didn't flush enough out. So I'll evaluate when I get back but it might be worth going for another week or so of veg, treatment, and training. I don't want to go without what i consider my meds (hash or flower) but at the same time I don't want another poor run of Irene. I want her to shine like she deserves. So I'll evaluate that and see what needs doing but in general these plants need the hot media flushed out with proper feed and Tahoe is still drying back and returning to the expected norm. I also haven't processed all the flower hanging so I try to avoid going too much above room temp so they get a bit of a cool run which leads to a slow dryback.

 

[leetdood]

Getting a feel for the hygrometer. They're not super accurate and can have some swing etc. I took a couple pics so you can see it's around the acceptable range and how a hygrometer is used. I'm new to this but I've had friends who use them with Grove bags or Mason jars to make sure they're not too wet or drying out. I wanted some to make sure I'm bagging the flower at the right time instead of too early or too late. Looks like keeping my bedroom around 50 to 60 rh keeps the flower in good shape.

I'm also finding out that I have to treat as24 like sour diesel flower. Basically makes everything that comes into air contact, even thru a ziploc, reek like you just smoked 500 blunts and have another 500 ready to go.

Basically gotta drive someplace, smoke, then immediately shower and change into clean clothes unless you're hanging with people who love the smell of loud.
You can smell it through your eyelids is how bad it was taking it out to my car. Pretty sure the pot store clerk (there's one right next door) looked at me like damn that's some shit.

 

[leetdood]

I'm really noseblind and used to most of this shit so i didn't realize it was *that* bad

 

[leetdood]

The lil booze chocolates my mom got me. She's like "don't forget there's alcohol in those." I'm like, yeah this says 2% I'd have to eat like 30 to get there.

But I guess I don't drink, except these tiny things lol, so I keep catching a buzz if I eat one or two. My mom slowed down on the drinking so she said eating 3 all together actually made her mildly ill.

It's funny to imagine saying out loud "oh I don't drink at all, except Christmas, I'll eat those tiny chocolate liquor filled candies or brandy beans"

"Officer i swear I've only had four brandy beans I'm not drunk"

Spending another day with the family. Gonna catch up tonight but I got a lot done yesterday. Sprayed some clones and plants with sulfur, cleaned, got a bunch of watering done. Just a lot more to go still but I should be free to work on the plants for the next 3 days. Just wanted to spend today with the family and then do Christmas and boxing day all day. So it's basically 2 days off I got with my mom and a 3rd today. I still do work when I get home but point is I basically spend all day relaxing with my loved ones. That's what it's all about.

Feedback on the cream is all good so far so for Christmas treats and gifts I grabbed two more jars of coconut oil and went to Supplies for the Soul, found these bead jars I saw online (24 for 14 dollars with lids, no tax), said aanii (hello), asked for labels, they don't have any, said miigwetch (thank you) then paid and left. I usually write things down because I'm deaf, but I have the habit of saying thank you to the cashier for leaving. So I'm like ah, I gotta be respectful and say Miigwetch, and I got that out and the old woman checking me out seemed to get it

Round labels seemed expensive (5 to 6 dollars) compared to cutting gift stickers from a 3 dollar booklet down to size.

Have enough hash and ingredients now to make about 4 or 5 small Mason jars so will do 2 of those, one for my grandparents and one for my aunt for their bad joints and backs, then fill the small jars to give to everyone else.

76 day sherb is really good.

 

[MOneYMiKe]

Lol
Glad u got time w/family
And yeah that’s all it’s about brother
And the chocolates now that’s funny
Have a blessed day leet

 

[leetdood]

Lol
Glad u got time w/family
And yeah that’s all it’s about brother
And the chocolates now that’s funny
Have a blessed day leet

You too mike.

I'm getting a lot more time with the family on the good days, but sometimes I can see how my father passing was hard on them. I'm just trying to spend time with them and keep it upbeat and be considerate. It seemed to make my grandmother's dementia worse but I just try and show people (I've dealt with this with my mom's mother/father and my mother going through chemo/covid brain fog) that you just gotta try and be patient, act super happy, and go with the flow but instead of arguing with the person or blowing them off, you kinda redirect them. Like the other day my grandmother brought out a old family picture and talked about my dad. I said something about how this picture was "definitely the 90's" because my dad and mom looked like they came straight outta the movie Office Space. Talked about how it was weird to see my dad's house with less things in it, because he had a massive coin collection that my mom and sis packed up for safety reasons. Then moved on and talked about other things. We had masks on because my sister back in Ottawa was feeling very ill, and she didn't want to think my mom would pass her illness to me or anybody else, or to me then me to my grandparents. My grandma especially with the dementia will keep offering food and drink. So I just went like "Oh, thank you so much, I've got a monster in the car! You know how I am!" and just act super happy any time she asks something like that. Hug her a couple extra times, make sure I smile at her.

Mostly I say all that because my mom pointed out if she gets in a bad mood then it persists and then my Grampa has to deal with it. Which is true. I try and be kind and easygoing but one big issue with my mom and my dad's parents is that I will straight up not eat cooked fish. So the other day my mom didnt realize I straight up said that I was gonna eat the sides, no fish, and they made a portion for me, because something got lost in translation. I gotta tell you, my grandmother got SUPER upset and worked up about it. I just had to tell her I was really happy with the sides, that I was good on the fish, and that I loved everything and was having a good fill up. She still got really worked up and kept going on about it. My grampa ended up telling her "Let leetdood do what he wants, he knows what he likes." This was an issue we resolved when I lived there for end of high school and start of college, but with everybody's brain fog they forgot I don't eat that one thing. I will pretty much eat anything else, i like good food but food is food.

Gonna focus on the plants today and tomorrow. Probably make the cream on Christmas Eve and label the jars. Feedback is good so far. My downstairs neighbour who I'm gonna give a small jar to said "It’s great. Good for the skin."

Overall it's a very small amount of hash/product for the end result but lots of people don't really enjoy the weed smell etc. So I mainly use small amounts of the batch that was made with Wedding Cake. My friend mentioned that you can use reclaim from dabbing to make the cream, but I'm torn on that. On one hand, that is an amazing use of stuff that doesn't smoke so good the second time. On the other hand, I think the family would be icked out by the idea of "Here's the stuff I smoked and cleaned out of my bong, in a cream." Of course I could always explain the idea of vaporizing clean rosin vs combusting flower but that's unlikely to get through.

As some of you may know, I grow legally, most just so I can tell the landlord and cops to go pound sand. Which I did actually have to do- I like telling people the story of how the Mythical Plant Counting Man turned out to be the Fire Chief who went, like The Count with his finger, one, two, three.. a bit later he was "done" so I figured he just didnt wanna count them all

I have to renew my license yearly and this year I went for a straight renewal, 40 grams a day (195 plants indoors), for $244 canadian.

It's expensive for my budget but I get to tell my landlord shit like

"What is this!?!" (veg rack crammed into my bathroom at the time because of PM)
Me: "My plants"

"Buddy, you can't live like this"
"I can"

"I rent this unit to live in, not grow in"
"I live here"

He used to hit up my mom as a point of contact. Last convo they had (because my mom said "Hey, don't talk to me anymore, you should be talking to leet") he basically said he was concerned about his investment and was gonna show the pic of my cultivation license to his lawyer. I can only assume after that his lawyer told him "Oh yeah, looks legit, leave your tenant the fuck alone lol"

 

[leetdood]

Also, for the cultivation license

Their booking system only had options for Male or Female for gender. I'm a Male but like, our drivers licenses allow for three options. M, F, or X where X is like non-applicable or prefer to not disclose.

So I emailed some feedback and said hopefully they can include a third option for anybody who isn't M or F or prefers to not disclose.

 

[aCBD]

Good read, thanks for sharing.
Family time is so precious.
Not easy sometimes like you said but it's always good to be home again afterwards.


I can't get over the 195 plants indoors for what? 244 canadian a year?
That's terrific. Even 244 a month with that plant count would be fine for me.

 

[leetdood]

The price depends on plant count. I find that 195 medical and 4 recreational is enough for my current pheno hunting needs, and as i mentioned nobody really counts.

I smoked all of the strawberry gary, I really liked how functional I could stay on it and get stuff done. All this other stuff is pretty potent or narcotic and I keep having to power through it to get stuff done lol. Currently smoking as24 but the 76 day sherb is pretty up there too.

 

[aCBD]

The price depends on plant count. I find that 195 medical and 4 recreational is enough for my current pheno hunting needs, and as i mentioned nobody really counts.

I smoked all of the strawberry gary, I really liked how functional I could stay on it and get stuff done. All this other stuff is pretty potent or narcotic and I keep having to power through it to get stuff done lol. Currently smoking as24 but the 76 day sherb is pretty up there too.

I am really happy for you to have that opportunity dood. Even if it's legal here, the reglementations and plant count is a joke.

Nice, that sounds like a good strain to have in the rotation.