breathingkush
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Hello all, thanks for taking a few moments to see what I am doing. First things first a little about me. I am a 28 yearold native of Seattle, but now I reside in CA with wonderful partner in crime my beautiful redheaded girlfriend manda (non smoker by the way.) I work in medicine, as a nurse for a dr's office. Some of my hobbies are music, video games, and doing projects around our house.
So I am pretty new to using Marijuana, I am a medical marijuana patient, and beside a little experiminting in my mid teens I had never used any kind of intoxicants. I don't drink, smoke ciggaretts, and try to avoid rx drugs. That is until 3 years ago when I was driving and a person decided to involve me when they took their own life by stepping infront of my truck while I was driving on the freeway. She got her wish, and I wound up with a life changing disorder.
With in 2 months I began having nitemares, panic attacks, nite terrors, waking up screaming, and a handful of other slightly less bothersome symptoms. Not to mention the nightmare/terrors made it nearly impossible to sleep, leaving me grouchy, . For about 3 months I was waking up 6-10 times a night. Soon I was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder(PTSD). It was told to me many many times, that PTSD was a life time disorder and that I would need to find the right balance of therapy and rx drugs to manage my symptoms. I have an amazing medical/support team that works with me and helps me, but in the begining try as they might we just couldn't find the right coctail of drugs and I continued not sleeping. This went on for about 10 months, I have tried nearly every downer, sleep med, anti-anxeity, anti-depressants, also I have a natropath on my supprt team and he tried many different herbs, hypnosis and acupuncture. Somethings worked better then others, but nothing really seemed to really work. Then one visit with my nuerologist he asked me if I had ever used marijuana. I told him about the few experiments, but that my experience was pretty limited. He left the room and came back and gave me a jar with what I now what I know to be an ounce of Kush, and a small no frills glass pipe.
We stepped out back, behind his clinic, and I took a couple hits. It was at that moment that I finally found my "normal feeling" again. It has saved my life. I still have a few nightmares each night, and a panic attack here and there. Thank God my Doctor decided to think outside the box. I still speak with my counselor weekly, and see my support team regularly. Also I should mention that my biggest supporter is manda my girlfriend. She is very good at knowing when I am getting into an anxious mood and tells me to go medicate. Telling me to "go take my midol" she also has encouraged me to speak whats on my mind instead of trapping thoughts in my head and obsessing about them (that is a very typical symptom of PTSD *intrusive thoughts.)
So anyway I have been using about 4-5 grams of marijuana a day, as you all know this can get expensive even buying 1/4 pounds at a time (about a month supply) i still figure it was costing me about $35 a day. So about 4 months ago we decided to try growing my meds. I have spent that time reading and planning. I have done some building, and have germinated my first feminized seeds of grape ape (a local growers personal strain that I have really found to work well for me to sleep being heavy indica dominate.) I intend to only grow mothers from seed as I dont want to invite super bugs, on clones from another garden that have been eating posion and thriving for who knows how many years. lol sorry for the rant there...
I have framed and made walls and now have 2 rooms in the garage. a veg and a flower room. my flower room is 8'x8'x4' with 2 600 watt sealed cooled tubes. I am going with the dual spectrum one HPS one MH I will tweak as I go and am open to suggestoin to when in the flower cycle the plants should be more under each light. My veg room is set up with shelves and is right next to my flower room. I am using 100watt cfl's in the veg room. I have 2 light bars that we replaced in the bathroom that I hope to wire in and set up but I don't know electricity so I am going to wait till my buddy an electrician to come help me with that so I don't burn the house down.. I want to do a perpetual grow with 3 mothers I figure I have space for about 18 plants in the flower room maybe more. know as I go. I want to harvest about every 2 weeks and have a couple sets of clones in the wings.
I am going to grow in soil and use Sun Leaves "International House Guano's" which is:1 lbs. Mexican Bat Guano2.2 lbs. Jamaican Bat Guano2.2 lbs. Indonesian Bat Guano2.2 lbs.Peruvian Seabird Guano. I plan to follow the feeding schedule but would be siked if anyone had used this before. We are very health conscious an I intend to be as organic as I can.
the other 2 strains are maui wowie, and masterkush. I am all about taste. we all know mauie wowie, but masterkush has that super lemon over load flavor that I love. So this is all for now. I have included a few of the first pictures. Please please give me any pointers I take critisim well and just want to make sure I do things right so I have he best setup when the unexpected problems happen. So let me know what you think so far an ask any questions.
Other then that sit back and relax cause we are all in for a long wait lol.
BK
So I am pretty new to using Marijuana, I am a medical marijuana patient, and beside a little experiminting in my mid teens I had never used any kind of intoxicants. I don't drink, smoke ciggaretts, and try to avoid rx drugs. That is until 3 years ago when I was driving and a person decided to involve me when they took their own life by stepping infront of my truck while I was driving on the freeway. She got her wish, and I wound up with a life changing disorder.
With in 2 months I began having nitemares, panic attacks, nite terrors, waking up screaming, and a handful of other slightly less bothersome symptoms. Not to mention the nightmare/terrors made it nearly impossible to sleep, leaving me grouchy, . For about 3 months I was waking up 6-10 times a night. Soon I was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder(PTSD). It was told to me many many times, that PTSD was a life time disorder and that I would need to find the right balance of therapy and rx drugs to manage my symptoms. I have an amazing medical/support team that works with me and helps me, but in the begining try as they might we just couldn't find the right coctail of drugs and I continued not sleeping. This went on for about 10 months, I have tried nearly every downer, sleep med, anti-anxeity, anti-depressants, also I have a natropath on my supprt team and he tried many different herbs, hypnosis and acupuncture. Somethings worked better then others, but nothing really seemed to really work. Then one visit with my nuerologist he asked me if I had ever used marijuana. I told him about the few experiments, but that my experience was pretty limited. He left the room and came back and gave me a jar with what I now what I know to be an ounce of Kush, and a small no frills glass pipe.
We stepped out back, behind his clinic, and I took a couple hits. It was at that moment that I finally found my "normal feeling" again. It has saved my life. I still have a few nightmares each night, and a panic attack here and there. Thank God my Doctor decided to think outside the box. I still speak with my counselor weekly, and see my support team regularly. Also I should mention that my biggest supporter is manda my girlfriend. She is very good at knowing when I am getting into an anxious mood and tells me to go medicate. Telling me to "go take my midol" she also has encouraged me to speak whats on my mind instead of trapping thoughts in my head and obsessing about them (that is a very typical symptom of PTSD *intrusive thoughts.)
So anyway I have been using about 4-5 grams of marijuana a day, as you all know this can get expensive even buying 1/4 pounds at a time (about a month supply) i still figure it was costing me about $35 a day. So about 4 months ago we decided to try growing my meds. I have spent that time reading and planning. I have done some building, and have germinated my first feminized seeds of grape ape (a local growers personal strain that I have really found to work well for me to sleep being heavy indica dominate.) I intend to only grow mothers from seed as I dont want to invite super bugs, on clones from another garden that have been eating posion and thriving for who knows how many years. lol sorry for the rant there...
I have framed and made walls and now have 2 rooms in the garage. a veg and a flower room. my flower room is 8'x8'x4' with 2 600 watt sealed cooled tubes. I am going with the dual spectrum one HPS one MH I will tweak as I go and am open to suggestoin to when in the flower cycle the plants should be more under each light. My veg room is set up with shelves and is right next to my flower room. I am using 100watt cfl's in the veg room. I have 2 light bars that we replaced in the bathroom that I hope to wire in and set up but I don't know electricity so I am going to wait till my buddy an electrician to come help me with that so I don't burn the house down.. I want to do a perpetual grow with 3 mothers I figure I have space for about 18 plants in the flower room maybe more. know as I go. I want to harvest about every 2 weeks and have a couple sets of clones in the wings.
I am going to grow in soil and use Sun Leaves "International House Guano's" which is:1 lbs. Mexican Bat Guano2.2 lbs. Jamaican Bat Guano2.2 lbs. Indonesian Bat Guano2.2 lbs.Peruvian Seabird Guano. I plan to follow the feeding schedule but would be siked if anyone had used this before. We are very health conscious an I intend to be as organic as I can.
the other 2 strains are maui wowie, and masterkush. I am all about taste. we all know mauie wowie, but masterkush has that super lemon over load flavor that I love. So this is all for now. I have included a few of the first pictures. Please please give me any pointers I take critisim well and just want to make sure I do things right so I have he best setup when the unexpected problems happen. So let me know what you think so far an ask any questions.
Other then that sit back and relax cause we are all in for a long wait lol.
BK
Welcome Xlr8, glad to see someone signed the guest book at least! Although your grow expertise is even better! So I started so Femized Ajans Ultra Haze #2 last week they have sprouted and are planted, more about that in the near future.
with the rest of the grow - can't wait to follow. 
That was amazing. that guys pretty cool, he was nice enough to answer a lot of emails from me. 
