Leetdood's growing struggles

[leetdood]

Thank you @aCBD

Just finished treating all plants from the 40x40". Pic above is Tahoe after I did basic leaf clean up and before I unplugged the light to do the sulfur spray.

Need to make feed and water some and put them back in and at some point train and trellis for an even canopy. Hoping for flip in a week or so.

I had 3 days off so now I'm just catching up on watering and cutting back and spraying sulfur where I can. I treated a bunch of clones in mini trays and moved them down to the taller veg area. Gonna check the other clones and plants, keep cutting back and treating, etc. 25 and 26 will be family days, but otherwise I gotta stay busy and get er done.

Thank you all.

 

[leetdood]

Catching up on watering but here's a picture I just took of the 40x40". Plants are starting to look great but I'm gonna have to pull them out, clean up lowers/unneeded growth, and train them all together to try and make an even canopy.

They will get pulled out to be sprayed again tomorrow to ensure total eradication of the WPM that was still present. This round of spraying I took the extra time to make sure they were all completely dry before putting them back in and closing the tent. I feel like the excess moisture let the issue recur last round. So I'm gonna be extra vigilant and trellis them after they dry off tomorrow. Get them in good solid shape for flowering. Probably make some feed with agsil16h in it make sure they get plenty of the silica.

Otherwise just catching up on tail end of watering, making feed, then gonna cut back and spray today and tomorrow. Then Christmas and boxing day get minimal watering etc. For those who don't know boxing day is our (canadian) holiday / sales day on Dec 26.

 

[leetdood]

Current pic of tahoe. Taking a break then spraying it. Gotta cut off any useless growth after it dries then put all the plants back in and drop the trellis. Even that canopy out.

Need to slide 3 risers under it, just grabbed two clean ones and rinsed sulfur off the other.

Staked irene and need to clean it up. But I just sprayed her and the other 5. The other 5 are doing amazing just need to clean up whatever isn't gonna get light etc. Stay on top of this run so it turns out amazing.

3 need watering so I will feed to excess and check runoff EC to ensure it is low. About to recalibrate my pH pen. Added 5ml agsil concentrate each to the two 4.5 gallon buckets of 60% feed I made, and 5ml each of pH down to bring the pH down to around 6.0 pH.

Still catching up on clones and other plants. But this flower run is coming together.

 

[leetdood]

I added the agsil because it's likely the plants need a full diet to really bounce back, especially irene. Irene is coming back to health but she looks like crap.

2 huge mistakes I made

Letting WPM re occur after first spraying.

Watering when she wasn't fully dried out . Irene burns up and locks out really easily. You can't re water so soon if it's already struggling, it's asking for huge trouble.

 

[leetdood]

As I've mentioned I've had to really struggle to learn how to grow so many different plants at the same time. But I feel like it's worth learning how to handle it and keep plants alive.

 

[leetdood]

Got the risers under Tahoe, cleaned her up, took the pic above, then sprayed her down.

Got the jars clean for making the cream for tomorrow.
Gonna water some plants and set up the cutback station. Gotta eat and make the cream too.

Lots to do. But gonna get it done. Tahoe is looking like she's really settling in but will need a full watering in a few days.

 

[leetdood]

Before I forget. Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone.

 

[leetdood]

Re: canna salve

Seems like using my the best material for my mom's cream let it mix in properly without chunks of plant material. Making more for the family i used the green material in addition to some clean material. Ended up having small brown micro dots/blobs in the cream. It settles at the bottom but it's very unappealing visually I would say.

I did it very late at night which was a stupid decision in hindsight. I rushed a lot of things and you can't really rush working with scalding hot oil. Nothing bad happened but I did pour hot oil in a plastic coconut oil jar and that was not wise. It shrunk up like an ugly shrunken head while I was holding it with scalding hot oil in it. Thankfully it didn't shrink enough to spill the oil.

Splashed a bit on my thumb. It's fine now but there's a dime sized red spot on it.

So lesson learned. Don't do this shit at the end of the night when you're burnt out and tired and wanna get it done with. You'll make a bunch of stupid ass decisions. I'm lucky I just learned to not do that stupid shit again.

Got two fire extinguishers my mom bought me a while back, one near front door and one near bedroom door. But really I should be using my thinker better.

Here's the 19 jars I managed to fill and screw lids on and clean. There's 2 others I filled but the hot oil deformed the rim so I can't thread the lids on. Gonna give those to my downstairs neighbour probably.

My aunt has really bad back pain and her son is the one who introduced me to exotic and high end herb/concentrates. So because I figured she's "used" to the smell I made her a strong batch. Threw in a decent amount of hash into the leftover cream my mom gave me to fuck around with. Decarbed the hash in two jars, one for my aunt and one for the new batch. My aunts cream has a lot of contaminant/plant matter so I showed her the bottom and said be careful with that.

My grandparents got a small Mason jars worth. They seem pleased.

 

[leetdood]

The oil from the shrunken jar I kept for myself cause I dunno about plastic leaching.

 

[leetdood]

Now I gotta figure out if these jars are food safe. I didn't really think about that.

 

[aCBD]

Now I gotta figure out if these jars are food safe. I didn't really think about that.

are there symbols on the back of it

 

[leetdood]

Nope. It's this type

 

[aCBD]

They say it's good for cosmetics so it should be fine.

 

[leetdood]

Been very busy
Holidays were incredible and went really well, but very draining also. So I didn't quite stay on top of everything. I think I had one or two plants die. Will re-evaluate today- last night was a storm of catching up on watering before I hit the sack.

Irene looks like ass so I'm not sure what to do with that. Guess since the others are doing well I'll just get the run together and send it as long as the Irene clones are doing well. I could pull it out but then I'd have to babysit it and I'm trying to get stuff *off* my plate.

My sister didn't head up to hang out with my dad's family cause she was still grieving. So I gotta go drop by and give her her cards and gifts, but that's for tomorrow or another day. Won't be the whole day and she isn't too far from here. Got four jars of cream left over so I guess she gets two and her mom and stepdad get one each.

So, really, just scrambling to catch up again and make sure everything is going smoothly and resume cleaning of my entire garden and house. Not sure if I'll visit someone for new years or just stay home and focus on the plants.

Hope y'all had a great time. I did for sure. Also smoked a j with my cousin of that 76 day sherb and man, that was so frigging tasty. Amazing plant. My mom had said that it wasn't just as24 that reeked, but I didn't believe her. I had rolled the two paper jay up right when my cousin said he had to drive his dad home. So I gave it to him, and later on he told me he had to hide it outside in a baggie as it was too smelly to keep in his truck. So my mom was right about that, as usual. LOL

Kinda insane how you can get used to all this overpowering potency and smell. I smoke this shit all day and it's like, yeah it smell and tastes great but that's standard to me now.

 

[leetdood]

OK

recalibrated my pH pen a bit late and checked some things.

It's a pH lockout I had going on, gonna check more religiously with the pH pen and continue to calibrate etc and make sure I'm checking in time to not lose plants or lose progress.

 

[leetdood]

Didn't realize it was a lockout at first but some numbers were off and it made me realize why plants were showing signs of what I thought was the WPM or overfeeding. It was actually the lockout.

 

[leetdood]

This is also why I try to keep 2 of each plant. Lot harder to lose 2 at the same time.

 

[leetdood]

Correcting the issue now

In hindsight I should've seen it, but I caught it in time I think. Gonna continue watering, cleaning, etc and check ph and ec. Probably just gonna skip new years and focus on improving my garden/home situation. I'm making headway with the established routines and corrections but I need to put a lot of time into it because there's a lot of plants.

Have a good weekend everyone.

 

[leetdood]

So part of the lesson here is, don't slack on the items on your routine if you can help it. Consistency and being on the ball matters a lot when you've 100 plants.

The good news so far is nothing critical died. One highway robbery #4 and one wedding cake. They're duplicates so I didn't actually lose anything other than 2 plants which I might not have actually needed. However I do think im staying home and catching up for a while.

Pretty caught up on watering. Stayed up late to make sure everything was caught up and cleaned all the debris I could find. So this morning I made two buckets feed for Tahoe, gonna start that later when I can use shop vac for the runoff.

Gonna continue to water plants and clean up and check ec and pH. Most plants are in decent shape so I'm just gonna cut back and treat where needed. Gonna try and break down the 3 gallon pots that are in the way and move the AC out of the way.

Not sure if I mentioned it but the AC slipped so I had to remove it. The carbon fiber straps screwed to the sill kept it secure, but I'm definitely buying a proper brace before putting it back in permanently. Also need a better way to block the window space, cardboard isn't working long term.

In general stuff is just going better. I've got all 4 buckets for feed, washer and kitchen space are accessible/usable, I'm getting back into a regular routine not just constantly focused on the plants. Got that cutback system, gonna empty the bucket of foliage and dead leaves and keep going. Putting out the trash regularly and making sure the things/spaces i use are as clean as i can get them.

Overall just doing the same things over and over but improving the space and situation so it's easier on me. My body is also getting much more normal and less hard on my back and hernia repair area. So I still need breaks but can do a lot.

Hope you guys are doing well. Will take pics where possible, but not much to take pics of right now. The small tent needs more work as I've been gone and wasn't able to do all that was needed, but is going smoothly. Thank you all.

 

[leetdood]

Also got that license renewal done, went pretty smoothly. My rx is for 40 grams a day, the math they have is ridiculous. Cost about 244 Canadian all in. Just concerned about mail slowdown.

You have to mail the application and rx to Health Canada but once they get it, you're good until they process it. So I did it a month out cause of the Canada Post strike.