I've been doing this unspoken toast for the attainment of long hair since 1928. At some point, I'm going to have and KEEP me some long hair. So let me join in and accept your fenugreek well wishes and hopes!
I know I can dry them out but I would only need a little for my scalp oil, not sure what to do w the rest as I'll be making more for fresh rinses. I guess from now on, I'll do one spoonful at a time.
Alright, Day 3 sprouts
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They are FULL to the top now! Three little plastic spoon fulls have filled up a spaghetti sauce jar. It's gonna take me FOREVER to get through this bag of seeds. lol
So I'm not sure I want to use the sprouts beyond making a tea/rinse. I've gotta research how long I can keep them in this state before I have to discard them. I really don't feel like mixing up a DC or anything so I will either need to find another use for the sprouts or I have to throw them out.
I have decided to get a pitcher specifically for my hair tea/rinse and keep it refrigerated between usage. I'll pour some into my rinse container ahead of time and let it naturally warm up to room temp, maybe add a little hot water to it and then pour it on in the mornings. I'm more likely to keep up something simple like that. Also, it allows me to shower at night more often, which fits my lifestyle better.
With my hair cornrowed, my ends will be protected but still accessible for the tea and also for the water treatment I used on them.
Your hair is super long. I would love for my hair to grow up to be like yours.
Aww, thank you! I am trying to get my ends super healthy like YOURS!!!
You can rinse, put on a paper towel for an hour or two and put them back in the jar and put them in the fridge. The cold will put them in a type of suspended animation and stall the growth or slow it down tremendously.Alright, Day 3 sprouts
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They are FULL to the top now! Three little plastic spoon fulls have filled up a spaghetti sauce jar. It's gonna take me FOREVER to get through this bag of seeds. lol
So I'm not sure I want to use the sprouts beyond making a tea/rinse. I've gotta research how long I can keep them in this state before I have to discard them. I really don't feel like mixing up a DC or anything so I will either need to find another use for the sprouts or I have to throw them out.
I have decided to get a pitcher specifically for my hair tea/rinse and keep it refrigerated between usage. I'll pour some into my rinse container ahead of time and let it naturally warm up to room temp, maybe add a little hot water to it and then pour it on in the mornings. I'm more likely to keep up something simple like that. Also, it allows me to shower at night more often, which fits my lifestyle better.
With my hair cornrowed, my ends will be protected but still accessible for the tea and also for the water treatment I used on them.
You can eat the sprouts in a salad!
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I bet your concoction for you scalp smells lovely!!!
But, did you personally ever get RESULTS with the sulfur?I tell you, I'm desperately trying to find a sulfur substitute to get that Njoy growth going! I highly identified with you when you talked about that sulfur smell. I tried last year to reintroduce it to my regi but between tarnishing my jewelry and the smell, I had to let it go. lol. No matter what I added to my oils, nothing could squash that sulfur smell. Maybe I was heavy handed with it.
I'm wondering if a combo of clove + Fenugreek would be a good substitute for the sulfur powder to get that boost for me. It DEFINITELY smells better! Because that sulfur had me and Babe like...
Oooo interesting! Okay, so that's even better that you are growing even better without the stinky sulfur, and you have experience and results to fall back on. No doubts. I like that.Honestly, I can't even tell. I used it religiously from about May 2010 until May 2013. I went from SL to MBL. But I was also using Ayurveda, GHEing regularly and braided up 99% of the time. Also, that's pretty standard growth for three years, esp when Njoy did that from Feb to Nov in ONE YEAR! So, I guess, no I didn't get those results.
2018 to 2020, I hopped back on the HHJ and repeated everything I did, minus the sulfur, my hair retained and grew even better without it.
However, in 2022, after cutting out locs, my hair was the shortest it has been since 2010. So last year I was really trying to see what would be a growth booster for me and since my hair was short, there was less risk in experimenting. But I could only hang with the sulfur for about a month before I had to give it up.
For me, in my HHJ, I'm very much stick-with-what-works and I avoid bandwagons. But even I was impressed with her growth that year, bc it was much more than just retention going on there. And now that you've mentioned it, I'm not sure I've seen other ladies repeat the growth that she got using sulfur.
HOWEVER, I have another theory about that and I believe she got that boost bc she wet bunned everyday, all year (and, of course, manifesting)! I've seen ladies get length quickly via wet bunning from the moment I first found the hair boards in 2009. The extra moisture and physically protecting the ends is a good combo. In fact, from my unscientific observations over the years, I'd say I've seen weaves, wigs and wet bunning give the most dramatic hair growth results on both hair boards I've been on. Also, my personal experience has been that braids/cornrows, which are usually used with wigs and weaves, provide me with the best retention. I still haven't found my secret growth booster though.
Why was I legit cutting off hair?! The whole section was full and "thick". Nahhh. Not for me, not at this time. I decided to go back to microtrimming. I'll assess my ends again in 3 months and see if I need a "proper" trim then. 
OMG, those mixes look and sound so yummy!!!
I can't wait to see your hair results!
Thank you! I’m actually excited to get going again! I’m even watching hair videos again.
It’s definitely time to up my self-care. The back of my hair is back at APL if not longer. The crown is shorter and had some breakage but I’m not cutting it. It’s always been my problem area. I’m gonna leave it alone and nurse it back to health. My family is fine at least physically. My narcissistic parents have been showing their 
more lately and trying to drag me back into their nonsense. Dealing with them was exhausting! I’ll post more about it in the narcissistic parents thread or the That Girl thread.
