Just a little journal............

Hello Rastagal :) You know I sat at the computer last night with every intention of writting a reply. I had just smoked a joint and had a glass of vodka and orange to sip on ;)
Anyway the computer is right next to the window and I just sat there listening to my favourite music, I like all kinds but have a fondness for 60's Motown and Ska . Well I became totally distracted by watching the dark clouds moving across the light from the moon :o
Before I knew it I had smoked a couple more joints and I was totally unable to type a thing :o
Honestly love you cannot beat "homegrown", it really is kinda satisfying in knowing you have grown something so nice from a tiny little seed all by yourself .
You'll soon know that feeling ................... promise ;)


Hello BkSkillz :) To be honest love I am actually quite happy with the outcome, it's just that by doing a journal I became stressed by the thought of having to "deliver the goods" so to speak. When the plants were struggling I found my self becoming increasingly worried that the outcome was going to be an anti climax :o
It sorta took the fun out of growing and made it stressfull ........... does that make any sense :confused:
Oh and what am I wearing now ............... well it's a slinky PVC catsuit, with high heels, heavly made up and I have a whip in my hand :eek:
Only kidding ;) ................ still in my PJ's :o well I'm going out tonight so I'm going to stay as commfy as possible for the day.


Hello Digi :) Not to worry love, The next crop is well under way. I spent most of yesterday morning riddling out the compost and tidying up the growroom. Hopefully the seeds will be sprouting some time tomorrow and with luck they will be in their pots by the evening and under the MH :)
I've never had total hermmies like this before, I have in the past had the odd little male flower but nothing to be concerned about .................. Ah well never mind I'll just carry on and keep my fingers crossed that it doesn't happen again ;)


Hello Starchild :) How are you ?............I hope you are well and everything is ok :)
You must tell me what "Tincture" is ?, I've really never heard of it before :o
I've got quite a collection of small buds and resinous leaves and I'm not sure what to do with them ;)



Bye for now ........................love mand xxx :)

OH Mand I loved and enjoyed this journal so much, I will miss it a whole lot :( I know you kind of felt like you had pressure being that your a pro and all but it happens to the best of us, I know for a fact that your a GREAT grower I mean look how you helped me so far :) . Maybe you can just take pix of your new grow and never post them untill you feel that it was sucessfull. Then you can maybe post it all at once at the end. Just a thought :o But I know that you'll be sticking around here so I'm not o :mad: about it. So thank you again Mand for helping me and for this journal :dance:

Hello B :) and thankyou very very much :)
I'm not a "pro" though love, I only started growing as a cheaper alternative to buying and I only know the basics. When it comes to the technical stuff I'm totally lost :o
However I do grow now to give me that little something that is just for me, if you know what I mean ;) . It doesn't involve the family or my kids, it has nothing to do with work .................. it's simply my own little thing :)
Well at present I have potted six of the sprouted new seeds and there are ten more to go, as soon as they poke the heads out of the soil they will be put under the MH.
I am going to try a slightly different approach this time by getting the light closer and I might give the "pinching" a miss.
I think that I might induce when the plants are a little smaller inorder to try and get some light to the bottom of the plants for a change :o

Anyway B I'm feeling a bit on the tired side today so I'm going off to bed for a while. I went out on a Christmas thingy last night and it was early this morning before I got home :o
Tell you what, my disco dancing around my handbag days are well and truely over with, I guess I'm just too old :o
Also I'm going to be crippled for days, I bet the person who invented high heels was a guy :rolleyes:
No hangover though ....................... not at those prices ;)


love mand xxx :)

hey mand have you seen my thread lately?

salut Mand ..vu parlay francais?

Hello Mobay :) yes I've seen it, I left a post on there ;)
Don't think it will be long before you're flowering :)


Hello Easy Roller :) I'm affraid not. I usually go over to France once or twice a year, my daughter always has a ride over with me, she can speak a little French that she she learnt when at school ( well she can speak French of a sorts :rolleyes: ).
We cross at Calais and vist the hypermarket on the other side of town. Then have a drive to Bologne for lunch, afterwards it's a run to Adinkerke just in Belgium because that's the place for the cheapest ciggies and tobbaco. also theres a really nice little chocolate shop ;)
Then back to the Eastenders warehouse in Calais to load up on booze.
I did once spend a few weeks in Normandy but anything past Bonjuor and Au Revoir ......................... and I'm lost :o


love mand xxx :)

Yeh nice ..a little northerly for my fashion...But good show..I'm thinking 'vu habit a Kent' or around that neck of the woods....The drive sounds a bit too far otherwise...planes are the way to go..and cheaper on the petrol...but you can't load up the motor with goodies!

Hello ER :) , Well Kent would be handy but it's a liitle bit further upwards in the midlands and it's well over two hundred miles to Dover but it's nearly all motorway and we take turns at driving ;)
So what with all the driving over there as well, it's a very long day, we have to set off about 3.30am.
However it's just about the only time that my daughter and myself get to spend time alone together nowdays, without my grandson or family being there, it's become "our day" and we actually look forward to it :)
We always take the ferry as well. I never fancied the tunnel, on the boat you can have a break from driving and have a coffee and a snooze ;)




Can I just say about the new grow. Well just fourteen out of the sixteen seeds have germinated, I'll give the last two a few more days but I can't see them doing anything now.
I started with eight sensi skunk and eight skunk#1 but I don't know which is which now :o . I put the pots in trays and put the trays on a small table in the kitchen. Anyway whilst I was looking for some little stickers to mark the pots with so I knew which one was which.
My grandson helped me :rolleyes: by taking them out the trays and putting them all together on a chair, so now I havent a clue which is which :o
Anyway they are all on one tray now sitting under the MH bulb ;)


love mand xxx :)

hey mand
on my 2nd day of 12/12 . they are sleeping now so i will take some pics tomorrow. see you are starting another grow how was your last one :stoned: ?

Hello Mobay :) yes I saw you're last pics, there coning on a real treat love ;) :)

I've started another but I'm trying not to do a journal about it :o I just mentioned it has I'm just "putting my feet up" with a drink before bedtime ............... you know just a drink and a bit of posting to "wind the day down" ;)

The last grow ? ........... It's posted above love :) it was a bit dissopointing, hermmies and allsorts of niggling little problems but it did produce some nice sticky buds which are drying now.


love mand xxx :)

So have you tried a bit of one of those sticky buds yet Mand? :dance:

salute

Hello Marc :) No I've not tried any yet love. I have them hanging in the "pantry", the ventilation is not too good in there so they will take a little while longer yet to dry. In summer I dry them in a shed and they dry out quite quickly but the weather isn't very good for in there at the moment .
I did try some of the one I had to cut quite a while ago because it went "hermmie". However it wasn't very good, mind you it was no where near ready for cutting and it was not very resinous at all.
I have been really busy this week so I haven't had time to smoke anything. I've been organising things for Christmas, I think most of the tribe are coming here Christmas day so that means lots of work for me :( ........................... I'm looking forward to Boxing day, I might get a rest then ;)


Hello Scobbie :) Hows those White widows of your's doing, I bet there looking really good now :)


love mand xxx :)

A Mom's work is never done. :)

Hello Bonsaiguy :) You are so right there love, it truely is a lifetime comitment but in all honesty I wouldn't have it any other way ;)
However this Christmas is turning out to be a lot of work :(
For the dinner I know there is going to be my daughter, her partner and my grandson, then my two lads and I know one of their girlfriends is defintely coming and the other is a "maybe". I've also invited a girl from work, she has not long been divorced and I know she wasn't looking forward to spending Christmas alone so I invited her to spend it with us.
The thing I have really dropped for is my brothers and their wives and all the nephews and niceces are coming round in the evening, so I'm going to lay on a little buffet style tea for them.
Honestly I'm getting worn out just thinking about it, by the time boxing day gets here I'll be just ready for getting totally and seriously .............. well "wasted" :o :)




Ok, I know I said I wouldn't but I'm just going to sneak a few pics in of the present grow :o



love mand xxx :)

ohh they are so cute at this age :p

goodluck mand.

Rekap_

Hello Mand. I just want to say your plants look great. You are truly a grow professional! It's really good to see some expert growers here to help all the new people.

Yess IN deed TC. Mand let us know as soon as u try 1 of those new buds out? Mand how often do you water ur pots when there in thier big pots?

Hello Rekap :) Ah cute, but there being a "bit of a pain" to begin with :o
I have two packets of seeds both Sensi seeds, one is skunk#1 and the other is Sensi skunk. So I have took eight seeds from each pack.
Now one of the eight seems to be growing "normally", I have eight little plants that seem just had they should be ;) However two failed to sprout and there are six that seem to be "not quite right", they seem to be struggling.
The problem is since my grandson decide to "help" me by rearranging the pots before I had chance to mark them I haven't a clue which is growing right and which isn't :o
I could just germinate a few more seeds but I am going to just see how it turns out, if I end up growing less plants than usual it's ok because I would like to try a grow with a few less and see if I can get a little more light to the bottom of the plants ;) .................. You see I do have an habit of growing a few too many than I prehaps should for the available space I have in the growroom.
I might not "pinch" them this time as well to try and keep them a little narrower at the top,.......................... I'll see how they go.

I'm really just after a "quickish" crop this time, I would like them harvested by April so I can prehaps try a different variety for the summer grow ;)



Hello TC :) Thankyou love ;) Honestly I'm no professional, I'm just greedy :o ................I never seem to be able get enough buds stashed away to have a break from growing.
Also it really has become a little hobby as well, if I can help someone with their grow then that's a bonus for me :)
I don't like to tell anyone how to do there grow I would rather just say how I would do it and then they can read all the advice given to them by everyone and then do it which way ever suits them.
There is a lot of things I don't know so when it comes to anything too technical I kinda go quite :o


Hello B :) I don't have any actual set pattern for watering, I just give them a sprinkling with the watering can when they look a bit dry. In summer that's maybe everyday or possibly two and in winter it's less than that.
I think I was guilty of overwatering on the last lot. When they started drooping I thought they weren't getting enough water and kept giving them more :o


Thankyou guys ..............................love mand xxx :)

Hi Mand,
Here's a little trick we use in the bonsai hobby. But first some general info about watering potted plants, there's an easy way to see if they need water, get your finger dirty. Stick your finger in the soil about one inch or so.
If the first inch (deep) or so of soil is feels dry, it's probably time to water and when you water, drench them. Make sure there are holes in the bottom of the container so the excess can run out. Then about 10 minutes later, drench them again. Our mantra is water well and water less often. Also, you can put about a 1 inch layer of coarse gravel in the bottom of the pot, before you put the soil in (we use #2 poultry grit, which is either crushed granite or flint and will not leach things in to the soil, the granule size is about 1/4" but bigger is ok too.) which will also improve the drainage. Roots that are sopping wet all the time will tend to rot and you don't want that to happen. They need some air too. Overwatering is one of the most common killers of all potted plants. And you should always water from the top down in order to help draw some air in to the soil and help wash away salts and minerals left behing by harder water and feeding.

Now for the hint. Get your self some bamboo chopstick from the local asian restaurant or grocery. When you want to check the moisture in the soil, stick one in each pot about 3 or 4 inches deep. Go do a couple of one hits and then come back and pull out the sticks. you should be able to see and feel the moisture on the stick and get a general idea about how dry the soil is.
Works great for bonsai so it should work well for weed too although bonsai are kept in much shallower pots then pot plants.

PS to Mand: you are far too cute for my own good. ;)

Hello Bonsaiguy :) I have to admit I did go a little over enthusiastic with the watering on the last grow. Well they started drooping and I thought they were thirsty so I just kept giving them more :o
Ah well never mind, that's how we learn by making mistakes ;)

I used to have a little Bonsai tree many years ago, I don't know what type it was, it was given to me for a birthday pressie. However my "ex" decided to break it for me when he was having one of his "little temper tantrums" :(
He used to break quite a few things when he was like that, strange thing was he never destroyed anything that was special to him :rolleyes:
Like I say though B, we all have to make mistakes inorder to learn ;)

Have you thought anymore about doing you're own little grow B, you really should give it a bash you know love, it really is easy and you honestly can't beat a little bit of "homegrown" .................. it truely is very satisfiying to think "this is really ok and I grown it" :)


Oh dear love, "cute" ................. I'll tell the kids that but they don't believe me. The thing is B, they and the rest of the family just see me as being "a little odd". They all say I should stop growing and "act my age" :o .......................... I always tell them "Hell will freeze over first" ;)



Ah well that's my posting done for a while I have a busy few days ahead :o



Merry Christmas all .....................................love mand xxx :)

Hello Mand,

I don't post much here on your thread, but rest assured, I read everything. I find it most interesting.

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Originally Posted by bonsaiguy

PS to Mand: you are far too cute for my own good. ;)

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Mand, you're running away with the entire board following you. :thumbsup:

I think I'm going to start a thread soon for your admirers... LOL! You've got tons of those in here! Good for you!

Well, I'm off... this has been a late, in-the-middle-of-the-night post. Back to sleep. I'm waiting for Santa Claus. ;)

Best Wishes,

-turtle420 :cool:

go girl

Hello Turtle :) I hope Santa bought you lots of nice pressie's ;)

Oh dear love, I feel all kinda embarrased after you're post :o In all honesty love I'm affraid Amanda is just a middle aged woman who just drinks and smokes too much and who's family think's is slightly odd ............. I dare say they are right :o
Well I spent all Christmas day doing all the dutifull cooking and hostess type duties but I also spent all day "slurping" glass after glass of Vodka. I find it the best way to get through a "full on family get together" ;)


Hello seedypotseed :) Thankyou for that love ;)





I know I said I wasn't doing another journal and I'm not really, but I'll just do a little update of this latest lot ;)
Well out of sixteen seeds fourteen germinated and three of those failed to carry on growing in the pots, leaving a total of eleven seedlings.
I could germinate a few more seeds but I'll just stick with the eleven and I'll also mention it to the chap on the market just before I buy my next seeds ;)
Anyway I'll just add a few pics of those taken this morning.


A couple of hours ago I also tried a little of the last crop. The total outcome was not a great deal, just a few ounces :o However it is quite good, it seems very "in you're face" not suttble at all. For a time I was totally "out of it". So all in all I am quite pleased with it :)


love mand xxx :)

Thats Great to hear Mand. Nicely done

the white widows are just about ready scatching my head at when to harvest they are at the end of 8 weeks on new years eve they are about 30% red hairsjust now so i will cut them about then so thanks for all the input mand your a star looking for a diffarent strain with good yeild but want to keep hight at a minamum so any ideas,and mand its good being middle aged it gives you time to enjoy your kids we had our sons down over christmas and it was great to go for a pint with them and just to enjoy them anyway hope you had a sweet christmas and hope the new year brings you and your family the best of health and all the luck in the new year and as we say up here happy hogmany and ill have a voddy and think of you ,salute

Hello B :) You know I was kinda dreading looking to see what I had posted on my last post, I was a little worse for wear when I written it :o

I was just looking at you're last pics on you're journal, very welldone B, super grow :)




Hello Scobbie :) Ah Hogmany :) ................. that's when I give up the Vodka for the evening and I (and the rest of the family) revive our Scottish bloodline and the only drink allowed is a few dram's of Whiskey ;)

Hmmm I always like to end up with a plant about a yard (metre) in height, I have grown taller ones but I find the that the yeild was not really any greater. As for variety, well I'm kinda stumped as to which is the best for yeild. I think that my best ever yeild came from an Afghani plant that I grew once, I did however let it get quite tall but it did produce a very potent and plentifull bud ;)

Have a very Happy Hogmany love, oh and you're not going to drink too much are you ........................... I won't :rolleyes: ;) :)



love mand xxx :)

thanks for the input Mand.

Hello B :) That's ok love but in all honesty I don't think you need it, you're doing a really fabulous job with you're grow :)




Well there's not much to say about my little lot :o The cold is slowing them right down, I have had some seriously "dodgy" seeds, so I'll just post a couple of pics ......................



love mand xxx :)

Hello Mand,

New grow looking good. Last time I saw pics like this, you ended up with a pretty cool harvest. :)

Happy New Year!!!! Many good wishes to you and all your loved ones :)

-turtle420 :cool:

happy new year mand have a good yin
wejocksluvadramsoseeyouonmanextgro

Hello Scobbie :) Ah I may be only half Scottish but I'll still manage to get through a full share ;)
It's a little embarrasing really no one in the family actually drinks very much so I'm kinda "the black sheep" but no one will darest "tut tut" me tonight ..................... well it's traditional isn't it ;) :)


Hello Turtle :) I'm affraid that this grow will just have to take it's chances love :o In all honesty I really shouldn't grow at this time of year it's just too cold in the growroom really.
However I just put them in there and see what turns out ;)

I am counting it as eleven seedlings but there are two more that are not really doing anything, so I'll just add a pic of them but I doubt very much they will make it :o



Thankyou very much guys and a very very Happy New year to you all.

love mand xxx :)

nice to you starting again Mand. Get Your partY on tonight Mand ITS NEW YEARS :dance: HAVE A HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEARS :thumbsup:

Mand I just got back from a party and I just got 2 say that I truly love you 4 helping me out the way you did. Please keep checking out my thread the way you've been doing. I'm sorry I'm a little drunk but hey its NEW YEARS. So thank you very much :dance: I wish the best 4 you in 06 and Damn I wish you were my sons Grandma you a coool ass grandma no1 should ever take you 4 granted ;)

Hiya Mand, Haven't posted in awhile and your the first one that comes to mind when I visit the site..... wanted to wish you a Happy New Year!!! :dance: I got caught up reading all your post and sounds like you had a busy Xmas but it sounds like you have a great family. My Xmas and New Year were a bit uneventful, guess I'm gettin old,lol. ;)

I see you have some new babies.... way cool :D . You really should keep us up on your new grow. The site wouldn't be the same without ya. I had some Kush plants I recently harvested and did they ever smell stinky, low yield and should have been better smoke for as strong as they smelled but it wasn't bad. Got a few more about ready in flower, a couple with good size buds and one with alot of thick solid buds. I used that Liquid Karma additive with my 3 part GH and it seems to really help. Actually been sort of a inbetween grow stragglers from old grow and a few early clones that were too few to start a new grow but "waste not want not". trying to work up into a good bunch for a scrog . Managed to get within 10 or so of what I was trying for but when ya fall short you have to use even the poor starters so its not what I was aiming for but it will have to do. Just had a heck of a time making a cloner that worked , just couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong , followed all the advice and still wouldn't work well. Finally figured it out I was not sealing the humidity chamber of the cloner , had my cuttings dangling and held in lil rubber tubing and the air was dissapating the necessary humidity in the chamber below the lid. Simple to solve but knowing what was wrong took awhile to discover . Like you said we learn by our mistakes.

Well I'm just carring on like some ole magpie so I will close for now. Your the Bomb Mand everybody loves ya hun. Have a happy New Year and keep us up on your new girls, ok :thumbsup: :dance: :D

Boxing???? :confused:

peace sweet lady :D
Bill

Hello B :) Awwww Thankyou love :) ....................... Hey you got a little drunk on New Years Eve, oh dear I'm affraid I got embarrassingly drunk :o
That's one of my fault's though I'm affraid I never seem to know my own limitations ................... Ah well never mind there's nothing wrong with "letting you're hair down" once in a while ;)

I'll definetely keep looking at you're grow but in all honesty I reckon you've got this growing lark all "sussed out" :)



Hello Bill :) very nice to hear from you :) I hope that you've all settled in now into you're new place. I read on you're other thread that you have nearly got you're motorbike "on the road", when you have just make sure that you "be carefull" when riding it, Watch out for the idiots on the road and stay safe ;)

It's been a very busy Christmas Bill, especailly Christmas day but I don't mind really, makes me feel wanted and usefull I suppose ;)
You sound kinda busy with the growing :) I have to admit that the last lot of mine didn't produce very much but I am pleased with the quailty of it.
It is quite good with a really intense "high" and a really pleasant relaxing "afterglow" to it :)
Anyway I am hoping very much to be going on a little holiday soon (in a couple of weeks) :) . I'm supposed to be going with two girls from work, one can definetely go and the other is trying her best to be able to go, I'm going to find out later today if she can make it ..................... if she can we are going to book a little Villa in Lanzarote.
That means I will have to leave the house, my dogs and the plants in the care of my boys ................... God knows what I will come back home too :rolleyes: , honestly Bill without me to keep an eye on them they are liable to do anything ;)


The plants :o ................. well out of sixteen seeds, 3 failed, two have never really got going and one did get going but seems to have stopped ???
So there are ten which seem ok now I'll put some pics on so you can see for yourself ;) ................... The first pic is of the two that have not really done anything and the one that appears to have stopped ???



Bye for now ................... love mand xxx :)

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Boxing???? :confused:

Bill

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Hello Again Bill :) I think you are refering to "Boxing day" ;)

It's the day after Christmas day, ........... don't you call it that in the US ????


Oh another thing Bill, don't ever try to book a holiday online, I've been at it for the last hour or so and at the end of it all a message came on the screen asking me to ring the holiday company saying it was unable to process my details :(
I rang them and they were next to usless and can't give me the dates I wanted so now I'm back to square one :rolleyes:


Hmmmm I wonder if the others fancy a week in Amsterdam instead ;) :)


love mand xxx :)

alright mand thats me started again out of six cutting of my white widows they all took i also got a few seeds of my grow so if you need any gees a shout take care pal

Hello Scobbie :) Thankyou love, I'm ok but that's a really kind offer :)


Have you harvested the Widows ;) .................... I'll tell you what Scobbie you'll have to forgive me if you have already said :o Today is being "one of those days", everything I do, touch, or have anything to do with is going "horribly wrong" :rolleyes:
I don't think I've recovered from New Years Eve yet ;)


love mand xxx :)

yeh ive harvested out of ten plants i got 13oz and i used all my small buds and trim and got about 8 gram of honey oil bit the next will be better as that was my first time