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[472 R/T SE]

I work with a lot of patients that rely on Mary and most really like CBD so fingers crossed!  You won't get a high from it either.

I was actually thinking about you when I started this up, wondering if you knew of strains that have been successful?  I figured a person like yourself would get more honest answers from patients than me.   

I'm promised myself over a year ago to not let them raise my dosage due to my tolerance.  It's tough.

[71ChallengeHer]

I have a garden too. My PT.    Cherry , Plum and Beef Steak Tomatoes. Turnips, radishes, candy onions, garlic, some many kinds of peppers, cucumbers, basil, fennel, orange mint tea, mint julep, pineapple mint, chamomile , 4 different types of eggplant. I have been canning my butt off. The best way I have found to do cucumber , squash, and zucchini . We have a 6 or 7 foot fence at one end of the garden. Then we screw open hooks up the fence. And train the vines grow up. It does take up your garden space. If your growing melons you need to put newspaper under them and roll them a couple times a week. It keeps them from rotting. I also go to Lowe's and get Animal Be Gone. And if you plant marigold around the outside of the garden. Bunnies hate the smell. Helps to keep them out. I also sprinkle with Demetrius earth . It's great for bugs and is safe to humans. Hope this helps some people. 

[AKcharger]

This is good info!

[472 R/T SE]

I forgot one.  I planted a basil in a planter for my wife in the spring.  Now that's a finicky one to grow.  This one doesn't like sun or water???   

I've often wondered if their aroma was beneficial. 

[67440chrg]

Thanks for the info 71challengher

[71ChallengeHer]

I forgot one.  I planted a basil in a planter for my wife in the spring.  Now that's a finicky one to grow.  This one doesn't like sun or water???   

I've often wondered if their aroma was beneficial. 

.  I grow basil on my deck in planters. They are in hot sun most of the day. I water in the evening. If it looks try in the am I give it a drink. You have to pinch the tops off when they start to go to seed or the plant will die off. It's kinda like tricking it. Try purple basil. It's amazing in salads, pesto and cooking. 

[472 R/T SE]

I forgot one.  I planted a basil in a planter for my wife in the spring.  Now that's a finicky one to grow.  This one doesn't like sun or water???   

I've often wondered if their aroma was beneficial. 

.  I grow basil on my deck in planters. They are in hot sun most of the day. I water in the evening. If it looks try in the am I give it a drink. You have to pinch the tops off when they start to go to seed or the plant will die off. It's kinda like tricking it. Try purple basil. It's amazing in salads, pesto and cooking. 

My wife's been going out on the deck & plucking I think leaves off when she's making a sauce?  She's the one who bought it & then had no idea how to utilize it so I can tell her what you said, thanks.

It's been in shade the whole time since even 70 degree direct sun would wilt them.

[Dino]

I work with a lot of patients that rely on Mary and most really like CBD so fingers crossed!  You won't get a high from it either.

I was actually thinking about you when I started this up, wondering if you knew of strains that have been successful?  I figured a person like yourself would get more honest answers from patients than me.   

I'm promised myself over a year ago to not let them raise my dosage due to my tolerance.  It's tough.

It seems to be a personal thing as far as strains go; what works great for one does zip for another.  I think changing strains often is the way to go as you get desensitized pretty easily, that's the nature of the beast.  Some patients use a certain strain with a vapor inhaler for instance and then use another in an edible.  Changing it up keeps you from having to increasage the dosage often.  Using it at different time of the day can help as well, but it won't have much of an effect. if any, if you need it throughout the day.

I hav always had a love/hate relationship with old mary.  It's an amazing painkiller and does wonders for s many people, but it can be a drag on your life as well.  Hopefully CBD will be a positive game changer.

[472 R/T SE]

It's crazy all the strains there are.  I don't remember that many strains back in the day?

I avoid the couch lock, drag down strains.  I read where the Sativa's are completely different, way less CBD's & suppose to enhance your mood enough to be active.

[Dino]

Ha!  No they have quite a bit more choices these days.   

Sativas are generaly mellower while indicas can make you best buddies with the couch.  Hybrids can be just the ticket for many as it packs a punch in the painkilling department whle keeping you from crashing and burning.  A strong hybrid like that of the Chemdog family is excellent to knock yourself out and have a solid night's sleep without the hangover.   

[polywideblock]

try "bubble gum "    good for getting "creative"   

[AKcharger]

OK you wacky reefer addicts   lets take a break for the Marawanna talk and back to more conventional gardening...

1) I was thinking about putting the garden some where in this corner, mostly because it's kind of out of the way and allows the lawn to be mowed easy...but as you can see it will have some shade for some of the day. I suspect ill be limited to what I can grow, but what do you guys think?


2) I had this scrap lumber from the old fence I was going to trash but was thinking to line the bottom of the rasied bed with it so I don't need as much dirt and it will let the wood return to nature in an environmentally friendly way :-)...again feedback


Thanks

[green69rt]

Down south, I would avoid using wood in any kind of ground-contact situation, it attracts termites.  Up north, I don't know.  But wood always rots away so be prepared to replace fairly soon ( a couple of years.)   I used cinder block to raise my beds, fairly easy to move around and gives a nice 8" rise. Pretty cheap and easy to expand or reduce as needed.

[67440chrg]

Last night the two coons came up on the back deck that had been stealing from my garden. My little girl was in the room and would have had a fit if I used a real gun so I shot the crap out of them with a bb gun. It put a stinger on them but I dont know how long they will remember. The cantaloupes are awful tempting for them. If they come back I will set a live trap I have and turn them loose at work 28 miles away. There is a lot of timber there.

[472 R/T SE]

Ha!  No they have quite a bit more choices these days.   

Sativas are generaly mellower while indicas can make you best buddies with the couch.  Hybrids can be just the ticket for many as it packs a punch in the painkilling department whle keeping you from crashing and burning.  A strong hybrid like that of the Chemdog family is excellent to knock yourself out and have a solid night's sleep without the hangover.   

What I'd like is honest answers from someone who's in the same boat I am.  It doesn't matter what strain or type if it's not gonna work I don't want to waste anymore $$ or what little self esteem I have left on it.  Everybody is different.

I absolutely hate getting refills for the narcotics, luckily they give 3 months in advance.  I always feel a like a lower class citizen every time I go in there.  What I hate is everyone's treated the same, be it a tweeker or someone just wanting pain relief. 



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[Lord Warlock]

Since having cancer spread to bones, been depending on MJ to keep me from using pain killers for most of the day.  Waiting till mid week to get a new prescription for pain killers, can live without them if I have the alternative.  Smoking isn't good though, need to quit that, bought a magic butter machine to process excess bud and leaf material, now I have too much oil and butter...don't make edibles often, think i'll go nuts during holidays.  

As for what the op was asking for, strains, I've tried lots of different strains over the last 15 years, some grew better than others, my favorite is White Widow, and I usually have at least one of those growing, I also liked White Rhino, Snow White, and currently have a crop of Medusa, Swiss Cheese auto, White Castle, and white widow. Mazar, Super Silver haze grew really well, had 9 to 12 inch buds, and skunk of course.  (unsuccessful attempts included bubblegum, ICE, Crystal, aurora indica, ) Most are white strains.  They tend to grow well in the hydro/aero setup.  I always encounter height issues when they get deep  into flowering, they tend to grow as much in flower as they do in vegetative.  This last grow I started the flowering cycle as soon as each sprout was about 10 inches tall.  (usually would wait till almost 20) Had to pull one male out, swiss cheese is female and into flowering, rest are still trying to figure out what they are.  One did not appreciate having concentrated flowering food added directly on its roots...burned the crap out of all the leaf tips on one plant only.  It is recovering, but now I worry it will go male or he/she.  

Never hurts to see what wins the cannabis cup, then try a few of those seeds, if you can get ahold of them. 

[472 R/T SE]

The seeds I bought were Cup winners.

I harvested my Chem Dawg couple weeks ago.  It ended up being 13 weeks in flower, Sativa.

That screwed me up with the plants on the deck.  I had planned on bringing them in & inside the tent.  I got the Dominiator put in the tent but had to leave the Afgan out.  I kept thinking the Dom. had mold issues but come to find out inside the dead buds were what looked like little white eggs.

I sprayed everything with some organic stuff, Green Clean and those eggs swelled up.  I now think the eggs were feces from all the little catepillars I'm starting to see.  It pisses me off cause this Dom strain has been potent & there's only about 3-4 ounces left.

1st of December I'm gonna start a light deprivation grow of some Dom. seeds.

[Lord Warlock]

bugs=bad, have lost a grow or two because of them before, they always seem to go for the nicer ones.  I haven't encountered mold yet, not while growing at least, usually have to worry about mold when drying or aging.

[polywideblock]

do you guys have harlequin/jewel /stink  beetles ?

bastards get in among the buds and then if you try to get them out they let go with the defence response and ruin everything  theres no way to win

[Lord Warlock]

nope, nothing like that gets into the garage or garden. 

[67440chrg]

Its been over here where im at for a month or so. I will try to bring this back up in the spring. How about down under yall should be planting about now.

[472 R/T SE]

Do you know if the mite product affects the catepillars? 

The day after I sprayed all of a sudden I found about a half dozen stationary, looked like they weren't feeling well.  I opened up a bud & they nestle themselves in there & go to town, you can't even see them inside it.

I've noticed there's not near as many pistols.  Are those little assholes eating those too?