Purple Bubba & the Old Riders of the Purple Sage

[grouchyoldman]

Proud to call you my friend.
-Grouchy

 

[BU2B]

WooHoo - the visit with La Migra is set and should see us through for the next 10 years when we get to be up-close and personal with ICE ICE Baby once again. Lucky for us we have a good friend who is willing to put us up AND put up with us- just past the halfway point on the five hour drive! My wife says if they want her after 80, they're gonna have to come and get her So our bags our packed, the sneak a toke pods have been loaded with a nice sugar wax center to share with TOKABIGONE on our way to stay legal. Next post should see the household green card atoned for the next decade!

 

[Puglover1]

Good luck!

 

[BU2B]

I know I keep saying I'm going but can't get my foot out the door. I have just got to share this text from TOKABIGONE "... Saw yer post, lol, now everybody knows I smoke dope!" ROTFLMFAO

 

[Puglover1]

:hard-laugh:   :hard-laugh:   :hard-laugh:

 

[TOKABIGONE]

My very good friend BU2B and his lovely wife stopped in to my oasis last eve for a rest stop on their pilgrimage to the lower desert to visit ICE in Phoenix. As usual he came bearing gifts so today I am a very happy camper! We vaped some of his crystal laden special wax then rolled in fine ground bud and vaped in a cartridge. Hooo wheee! My feet have yet to touch the ground since 3pm yesterday! Oh yeah, we smoked a bowl then he made some firecrackers! So I proceed to eat two 10mg crackers a couple hours apart. I woke this morning with a foggy brain so I quickly smoked a bowl with my first cup of coffee and that blew away the fog...mostly. So what am I gonna do today? As little as possible obviously! I do have two more firecrackers same dosage so one for lunch and maybe one at bt. Crackers will get stale if I try to keep them over so It's cowboy up and eat 'em! I do have a nice little smoking stash too so time to fort up and withdraw to the inner sanctum for some under cover deep meditation

 

[BU2B]

psst... the firecrackers were/are about 300mg each ROTFL

 

[Puglover1]

Two 'crackers or two sections of a cracker, Toka? I'd show some respect to edibles made by BU2B, but that's just me. :silly:

 

[TOKABIGONE]

That's two saltine squares with 300ml each so I ingested 600ml in the am and 300 more about 9pm. That's over a 1000ml in a day. Pretty sure I've found my limit. When I woke up this am I couldn't find my head so had to search a bit. Finally found it floating up in the corner. Stuck it back on but couldn't get it straight for quite awhile.

 

[Ckbrew]

Don't ya just hate it when that happens...

 

[BU2B]

We’re home mission accomplished. Now the spouse is as legal as the cannabis! Uncle Sam is happy - and so are we. We had a nice visit with TOKABIGONE who was kind enough to offer us a place to stay. I found the 10 hour round trip drive a bit much for a 10 minute appointment. But… at least it’s all said and done for the next decade.

I took a photo of the girls for comparison to what they looked like when I got home. The grow is officially 5 weeks and 5 days old as of today. I was going to wait until Monday (start of week 6) however, I’ve got the time now so here goes: first two pics are from Wednesday (Week 5 Day 3)

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suzie & SUZIE


Hazel

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suzie & SUZIE (suziie#1 is a dwarf)

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[Puglover1]

"Pretty sure I've found my limit." - It's always a nice thing to know. :silly:

 

[Puglover1]

Is Little Suzie going to be allowed to keep growing all the way through?

 

[BU2B]

Puglover1 Yes - she will be allowed to live out her small life in relative peace as after she refused to grow up I quit trying to school her. It should prove interesting. I started training out each plant to equal one whole between the two of them. That plan changed after a few weeks. SUZIE is short 10 flowering growth tips at this point from my usual training as I removed branches and growth in anticipation of a little more unified growth pattern. suzie will likely have small buds but chopping her out would kill roots as well dramatically increasing the chance of root rot. suzie can't be pulled up and out either as roots are intertwined with those of her sister and doing so would damage the root system for SUZIE and again increase the likelihood of root rot. SUZIE really took off but even though the light is on 24/7 I still can't seem to wake up little suzie.

 

[Puglover1]

BU2B Ah yes, I forgot about the roots in that situation. My first hydro experience was the OG, pre-LED Aero-Garden, nothing grew for as many weeks as weed. Little Suzie is in the way of my visual learning which is why I inquired. Glad your wife is all set!

 

[BU2B]

Week 6 - First Pics: Close enough for Rock n’ Roll 20 February 2022

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The girls are just about ready to start flowering. All plant structure is in place and they are chugging right along. Standing proud at 17.78cm (7 inches) both s1&S2 and Hazel are happy and healthy

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[Puglover1]

Are they NIH trials or drug company trials? Allowing any alcohol use is totally ridiculous. I have NASH or NAFLD, depending on the scan/reader, and I get pancreatitis, because of my one in a million ultra rare lipodystrophy diagnosis. Alcohol abuse is always assumed. I had rhabdomyolysis and I've had a compartment syndrome - it's always assumed the patient did drugs and passed out or laid too long in one position. I only have one kidney left, I can't tolerate or take any pain pills, especially NSAIDS. I'm fine with shots or opiate IVs but that's hardly an option in the war against pain patients. In the 4+ years since taking away proper pain management illegal drug overdoses doubled or quadrupled. The Perdue/Oxy thing - a govt employee blew the whistle years ago about the vast number of pills going to W VA, he was replaced. If I was younger and healthier I'd move out of this country. Greed is ruining what was once a great nation. Too many Members of Congress and people in their circles own stock in big pharma and petroleum. Sorry, BU2B. They're going to keep cannabis illegal to protect their interests. Even with a medical card cannabis gets listed as a street drug on my dr's forms.

 

[BU2B]

I have been looking for this image for a few days and finally found something close to what I want to show.

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It's a head-scratcher - hopefully just the image not my description. If I may beg your indulgence for a minute or two here's why I chose this image: Imagine, if you will; that all branches UP TO the point where the wires begin to turn upward are free of leaves - IF spread out properly during flowering this will facilitate bud packets from the red line in the example upward. Also; forgive my sloppy mousing but if you notice the small plant example on the bottom left showing that if left to grow at a 45 degree angle instead of flat out (fully horizontal) your plant will grow with a fairly even canopy requiring little effort on your part.

Remember me talking about being kind of lazy and doing all I can to get the most out of what is available with as little effort as possible? This, is perfect example - Flowering growth tips further away from the center of the Y will naturally be shorter than those closer to the center of the Y that are older. Several problems solved with one simple solution - allow your plant to grow up at an angle a bit and not completely horizontal if you're going for a manifold or mainline - unless you're doing a SCroG.

Starting tomorrow the girls will have large fan leaves removed as needed to open up and expose growth tips.

Next step? Up and Out for 3 weeks until flowering starts then I turn them loose and only tie them down to spread them out not train them.

If you try BU2B'sPPP Method I'm sure you will find it that while it doesn't add any extra time to your total grow it does require a bit more attentiveness during the first 5 or 6 weeks to insure a structure that will support as many flowers as possible without overcrowding during the flowering stage.

hmmmm.... was just thinking (again) maybe 'efficient' is a better word than lazy! LOL

 

[Puglover1]

I was told those were massagers, I have one somewhere. That is a good example, and advice. Thanks.

 

[BU2B]

Which would explain why I had such a time finding an image 🤣