Salutations Yodabuds,
...a bit slow... How was the smoke?
Hummm... That was months ago. Well, i vaguely recall at the moment i felt lucky for the somewhat different experience, although i couldn't define what the benefits were precisely.
I think your the first person on AFN to grow one out...
Actually there's just 1 seed left and it started with a pack of 10. Only 1 went through its whole life cycle to my satisfaction, which lasted until it died of old age in mid-January. To be exact i simply removed its flowers (most of them) and left it there on its foot to see what would happen, so i continued to water it because i was curious... I can honestly say the Cannatonic probably was the best deal i could have got relatively to my houseplant style of application, no offense intended. One ~35 g harvest after 7 plants (less than 10 g for the 6th one, unless mistaken!) may not sound good but this doesn't quite tell the whole story (The Borg and more!)... In any case i still wish to have High-CBDs, but from an Auto-Flowering strain if i can help it!! Because i'm never going to grow a "regular" (season-driven photo-sensitive) cannabis plant again if it's not for cross-breeding, ultimately - dry flowers being a bonus if any. At most a session shouldn't last more than 3 months - or nothing! Otherwise i shall begin to consider another hobby!!
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A few developments have occured lately, one of those motivates me to abandon permanent CFL sessions in favour of a method closer to greenhouse gardening with artificial light supplement not exceeding 4 to 6 hours per day. That means a time will come when i must decide between switching to another hobby or proceed with
the "Docking Station" cabinet plan (take note it evolved since 2011). I'm not actually on the right path for this sort of ambitious action since i don't want temperature to exceed a preset threshold near 21 to 23 degrees Celcius (70 - 73 degrees Fahrenheit) and this will require some crafting skills i suppose. Yet, the reason for such target temperature has to do with being much luckier with a colder environment, so far. In addition, the strains i dream of are northern purple Auto-Flowering cannabis plants, on my window sill so i can enjoy their presence in my rocking chair. E.G. it would be overkill to convert a refrigerator for some mild 4 h/day use (during long cloudy periods).
Focus on the window sill, my prototyping platform is an open structure which works best between Febuary and March, then mid-August to November i'd say... That's unconvenient and i don't even see my plants!! So, harvest is a bonus - but a very significant one, of course. Now if Hydro-Quebec changes my meter for an "intelligent" one then there can no longer be 16 h sessions under a fair amount of CFLs, so i begin to believe that without a suitable cabinet i can't hope to succeed. It may not seem obvious with only ~400 Watts for 4 hours after the sun went down, but i'd expect that such power-consumption regime taking place from sunset to the late evening news would become obvious if their meter readings are sampled often enough...
Someday the time may have come to revise plans.
All of cbd curious guys would love to hear your opinion on them...
The thing is i must point out there's not much i can offer to them. The label under my alias name was revised a few times but the matter is i don't define myself in terms of cultivation alone, because i have goals of my own which are modest that don't appear to be compatible with most of what i observed in forums similar to ours.
Before one can qualify aroma and taste there's a need to differenciate perceptions first, my pipe allowed me to grasp some of the basics but some batches are just dull and then the next is like new, since it's been so long inbetween (for a lack of self-sufficiency), etc. Sorry but i'm as new a vaporist as i am a cannabic hobbyist, although after a while i can tell which toke i liked and which i'd prefer to avoid, but it seems i've abused so much this last year, trying to reclaim all those stolen years (thanks to governmental bigotry!), euh... Well i lost some 25 years to smoking and i didn't quit just for the glamour of it; i didn't even hope to appreciate anything cannabis-related again when i definively quit in 2007. Vaporism changed that.
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The guy may be old but he's not as good as Gandalf on a cinema screen, i'm refering to me here. Vaporism was a discovery made by accident as i was looking for an e-Cig to offer as a gift - since e-Cigs and vaporizers mix well on web sites, euh... Boom! The revelation came after 10 days of intense initiation using an HervalAire v2.1, and voila! But the electric machine caused me dryness issues which only Fog Conditioning solved to my satisfaction, after months making circles around the device. I later found out a butane-operated pipe such as the VaporGenie happens to be self-moisturizing, starting from there coughing seemed a relatively trivial issue but the additional comfort came with it's own price as i suspect it contributed to rendering me sensitive to something in dry cannabis which makes me sneeze, etc. Was the pipe too efficient at exposing me to aroma and taste??? If it were then it could mean i've lost my sense of smell, or the batch was awfully devoid of such features (it happens)... In all likeliness i'd seek the truth somewhere inbetween.
My opinion on the Cannatonic and/or High-CBDs?
I want more, certainly. But i don't know where to go for seeds anymore, so i'll have to stick to Cannatonics and some Purple Ryder #2 (which i yet have to germinate but i dropped the May session idea anyway). Finally, the benefit of CBDs is something i still need to explore myself but i'm confident it's the way to go.
Then there's the matter of a probable intolerance if not allergy. Perhaps a different vaporizer would fix that, que sera sera!
Can't wait to see where you take the "next step"
That's what i wondered about as well when i started this thread. After a while the echoes died and life took me somewhere else. If the hobby can't survive on a window sill then it will be threatened, this translates as a requirement for wheels and doors, some air conditioning, a humidifier, ozonator, multiple timers. Etc., etc. I'm not even convinced i can/must build this hybrid cabinet at all. There's a stack of photographs waiting, plenty of them should be processed/edited and yet i've put that on hold. Mplate is full.
Right now the younger Cannatonic ain't been doing too well. I've flushed it, the large base yellow leaves will fall once i moved it to the window, when it starts stretching and reconfigure. I still haven't found the electric cord for my LapTop, maybe the calculator's IR port will do if i find an AC remote control box at Walmart, Canadian Tire or Rona. Whatever... I hope i've got some solder left somewhere!
So. This post starts sounding like a journal and the sun calls me in the veranda right now, time to leave!!
Enjoy the summer everyone...
