Mrs. Greenjeans' first ever grow

I'm not sure where to start, so let's let the pictures tell the story, and I'll chime in as I am able. I've been super busy with the house and kids, so sorry I haven't been updating and chit chatting. I've just got to lay off the site a bit for a few days until I get some things accomplished around my home. I am exhausted and burned out.
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Suzan is my entry in the shotglass grow. I'll talk about her on that thread as well. She's been on 12/12 since...I can't remember now. It's on that thread. Anyhow, she's doing well, but it may be time to trim her roots already.
About Pat and Lily. They seem to have recovered from their traumatic flushing, and have had a light snack, with a drop of Superthrive added to the last feeding, which has greatly sped their recuperation. They now stink to high heaven. It smells like greasy pan fried ass in my closet. :D It actually makes me gag a little bit when I open to door to haul them up to the attic. The smell is reminiscent of rotting meat. Really.
Also, we have new visitors. Two ladybugs have taken up residence in the flower attic, but I keep forgetting to take pics of them.

So, I had taken 5 clones. 3 from Pat, 2 from Lily. Only one had rooted, that being Rochelle. The others had not rooted 3 weeks after I took them, despite being recut and dipped in Rootone. At first I thought my cloning powder was old (I had a jar of Schultz's sitting around the shed.) So I bought a fresh thingy of Rootone.

Still, no roots. Yet they still had a touch of green, so I misted them daily. Then my SuperThrive arrived in the mail. Oh Hosanna! Oh Manna from Heaven! I added a drop to the water in my homemade bubbler. Less than 24 hours later, I had an 1/8th inch taproot on every clone except one.

Less than 48 hours later, the roots on 3 of the clones had grown multiple legs, and extended a full half inch past the bottom of my mini pots that they were sitting in. I had a hard time getting them out of the pots, due to their blammo growth. Even the one that had no tap root has root buds all over it now. So I says to myself, says I, "right on." and planted everyone in the ubiquitous beer cup, since we have a lot of those at my house. I am confident they will make it. :thumbsup:

I know you were pulling for the little girls.

Who wouldn't be happy in a keg cup?
Did you find them IN your house, or on the lawn, as is common in this area (college town)?
The flowering ladies look amazing.
Can you say the same for your lath-and-plaster adventures?
lol

[quote=Mrs. Greenjeans]Oh Hosanna! QUOTE]

I claim this name! as soon as my "H" clone takes. Green you may lose a clone or two but I'm confident you'll bring most of them up into beatiful young ladies.:thumbsup:

In closing I'd like to say

1. Eric, you're crazy, Ramen has made me what I am today.
2. Fog, I think I'm more infamous than legendary.
3. Loathe, always a pleasure.
4. Stinky, you can eat Ramen at my house anytime.
5. R00t, Ramen will put lead in your pencil.
6. KL, Spicy Shrimp Ramen is the straight grub.
7. rnichillo, thanks for stopping in!
8. CG, Triscuits are my other addiction. I think I have a carb problem.
9. Creator, eat some Ramen and think of me.
10. Stinky part deux, I found them in my house, because my dishes aren't over there yet, and the kids were getting tired of drinking from the toilet. We got all the leaks fixed, things are dry. We probably won't address the hole in the ceiling until after we get moved in all the way, and catch our breath. If I can live with the ugly ass bourgeois gilt leafed crown molding in my "aubergine" dining room, I can damn sure live with a hole in the ceiling.

I have a house! It took me til damn near 38 years old, but I am a homeowner! w00000ooooot!:thumbsup: It's just now starting to sink in.

LOL Chrissy! Hosanna is a great name for The Supreme Being's gift. I haven't been able to check in on your adventures today, or on the WW thread. I'll try to do that later.

We are broke. The plumbing and furnace repairs tapped into our meager savings. I mean, we have the retirement fund, but we're not touching that. We have 50 dollars in the bank until the end of the month, we're out of catfood, we both smoke cigs (I know, shut up) and we're out of weed.

Soooo, I took a bud off Pat last night. A small one, 4 grams wet. I dried her out using this method, found here:Grow Marijuana FAQ, Cannabis cultivation - marijuana growing tips & photos
Dankmaster's Microwave Steam Method
A vast improvement in quick dry technology. It does a satisfactory job fairly quickly. Trichomes donâ??t burst and flavor while not great isnâ??t awful anymore -- which is all I can say for any of the previously mentioned methods. What the method does is use steam to dry out the weed.

Necessary items

*Tupperware container with lid.

*Buds fresh off the plant (cut into small pieces, donâ??t shred them â?? cut into nice little chunks).

*3-paper towels.

*Microwave with power setting options.

*Water.

First, take 1/4 piece of a paper towel and lay it on the bottom of the Tupperware container. Then put your cut up weed on the paper towel. Next, take two paper towels, fold them several times and get them wet. Wring out most of the water. You want the paper towels wet but not dripping. Now, you lay the paper towels over the top of the Tupperware making sure that you completely and evenly cover the top. Then take the lid and squeeze it almost all the way on. When I say almost I mean to get all sides and corners on tight except for one corner to allow the steam to exit. Now your ready to put your steam dryer in the microwave.

Set the microwave power to 40 or 50 %. I recommend 40% -- I tried it on full power the first few times and it didnâ??t work nearly as well. Now set it for a minute and let it go. Take it out and let the steam evaporate out and let sit for 15-20 seconds. If the bottom paper towel (the one that the buds are on) is wet change it. If the two paper towels you were using are dry make sure to re-wet and wring out and put back over top and put lid on in same way.

Now microwave at 40-50% for another minute and repeat process for typically 3-5 minutes. This is the best method if you need the herb in less than 20 minutes.
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This worked like a charm. Dried the bud weighed exactly 1 gram. Papi rolled himself a blunt. Now, Papi is Smokezilla. He usually rolls 3 grams in a blunt, and smokes it by himself in order to feel anything. He smoked half of this little blunt of extremely premature bud, and he didn't have to say anything to me. I could tell by looking at him that he was stoned to the bone. He commenced to rambling, getting really cerebral. His eyes took on that familiar look, like he'd been crying...red, puffy, glassy.

So, I am happy. I got my man really really fucking high. Which after all was the whole point of me starting this little adventure. I can't wait until it's properly dried and cured to watch him lose his mind. hehehehe.

:D

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Smoke report
(Breastfeeding while typing)
not sure what you are looking for. The bud took 3 days to dry and at that point was smooth to smoke. The Afghanis give a relaxing couchlock high. It is sticky as all fuck and rather potent, also pretty stinky. It burns even, and is nice in a bong or joint, but we are wanting to look into a vaporizor. What else do you need to know?

LOL! I wasn't asking you for a smoke report. I was just chit chatting with you, and also incidentally I posted a smoke report of my own.