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4HIS IS MY &IRST 'ROW JUST BEFORE HARVEST ! FRIEND GAVE ME SEEDS AND A COPY OF YOUR NEWSPAPER ) DOWNLOADED ALL YOUR BACK ISSUES AND DID LOTS OF RESEARCH ) THEN BOUGHT A 'REENROOM 'ROW TENT W $UAL 3PECTRUM DIGITAL LAMP EXTRACTOR FAN FILTER "IO "IZZ SOILS &ERTILISERS ! FEW MONTHS LATER ) VE GOT THESE FRAGRANT GIRLS TO SHOW FOR ALL THE HARD WORK STRESS EXPENSE ) DON T KNOW WHAT STRAIN THE SEEDS ) WAS GIVEN ARE BUT IF THEY SMOKE AS GOOD AS THEY SMELL ITS GOING TO BE A GREAT SUMMER 4HEY MAY NOT BE THE BIGGEST BUDS IN THE WORLD BUT ) M HAPPY CONSIDERING ITS MY FIRST GROW 4HE BEST PART ABOUT BECOMING AN INDOOR GARDENER IS THAT ) DON T HAVE TO BUY FROM DEALERS EVER AGAIN THANKS TO 3OFT 3ECRETS #LEETUS -OONSHINE 9OU RE WELCOME #LEETUS 7E RE MORE THAN HAPPY TO SHARE OUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE GREEN GOLD WITH ALL WHO WANT TO KNOW n ESPECIALLY IF THAT MEANS YOU CAN BY PASS YOUR LOCAL SCUMBAG DEALERx

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(ELLO 3OFT 3ECRETS 7E WANT TO THANK YOU FOR A TOP MAGAZINE FULL WITH TOP ADVICE AND TIPS WE GOT ALL THE BACK ISSUES FROM OUR LOCAL HYRDOPHONIC SHOP /UR FAVOUIRTE ISSUE HAS THE COOKING GUIDE IN HOW TO MAKE SPACE CAKES AND WE WILL BEING DOIN THIS SOON !S YOU KNOW THAT %UROPE HAS BEEN FULL OF THIS SANDY WEED 3O ME AND MY MATE THOUGHT WHY DON T WE GROW ARE OWN AND THATS JUST WHAT WE DID 7E ARE COMPLETE NOVICES AND THIS IS OUR VERY FIRST GROW

AS YOU CAN SEE FROM OUR PICS WE ARE GOIN TO BE HIGH AS MO FOS IN A MINUTE 7E WILL SAVE THE LEAVES TO MAKE CAKES AND CAIN THOSE BUDS TILL THEY ARE ALL GONE 4HEY ARE 7HITE 7IDOW AND THEY ARE STINKING WE GOT JUST A FEW DAYS TILL WE HARVEST AND ITS GONNA BE A JOYOUS OCCASION 7E GREW THESE GORGOUS LADIES UNDER A W SODIUM BULB COSTING a WHICH HAS PROVEN TO BE THE BEST a ) VE SPENT ALL YEAR !SH 3TEVE 3OUTHCOAST .UTTERS 'OOD THE HEAR YOU APPRECIATED 7ECKELS STORY ON SPACE CAKE /NLY USE THE SMALL 4(# RICH LEAVES FROM THE BUDS FOR THAT

4HIS IS ONE OF MY 3HIVA 3HANTI NEXT TO MY 1UEEN ) REALLY DO LOVE THEM AND THIS HOLE THING HAS BEEN A GREAT FIRST EXPERIENCE (AVE LEARNED A LOT WITH YOUR PAPER AND ) AM HAPPY BECAUSE YOUR 0APER IS A REAL HEAVY &LOWER 'UN IN THIS NEVER ENDING 2EVOLUTION FOR FREEDOM !ND LAST BUT NOT LEAST ) M HAPPY OF ENDING UP ALL THIS DEALER SHIT ON THE STREETS AND REALLY KNOWING WHAT ) AM SMOKING 0EACE AND LOVE AND 2%6/,54)/.

!NONYMOUS 3HIVA 3HANTI IS A VERY FINE AND SWEET TASTING WEED A SUPERB SMOKE 4HE VARIETY DOES WELL INDOORS AND OUTDOORS THOUGH SHE IS A BIT SENSITIVE TO CERTAIN MOULDS 7HEN YOU GROW HER OUTDOORS ALWAYS PUT HER IN A POT OR TUB SO YOU CAN HAUL HER IN WHEN THE RAIN STARTS TO GET HEAVY

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(I PEOPLE OF 3OFT 3ECRETS (ERE THEY ARE 4HE 3HAMANS OF $UTCH 0ASSION &EM 4HE PHOTOS WERE TAKEN ROUND ONE MONTH AGO .OW WE HAVE TO LET THEM DRY 7E THINK WE MADE A MISTAKE PLANTED )NDOOR /UTDOOR SPECIES .EXT TIME WILL BE BETTER %RIK 3LOVENIA %RIK YOU RE RIGHT THE 3HAMAN IS A REAL OUTDOOR VARIETY 3HE S A CROSS BETWEEN A 0URPLE VARIETY AND AN EARLY FINISHING 3KUNK VARIETY /UTDOORS HALF OF THE LEAVES WILL TURN PUR PLE )NDOORS THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN /UTDOOR VARIETIES CAN FAIRLY EASY BE GROWN INDOORS

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"UD DIGGER POT DIGGER 9OU DIGGER GUYS HAVE HARVESTED THIS LADY WAY TOO EARLYx

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WAS GROWING IN "IOBIZZ SOIL WITH FULL "IOBIZZ ORGANIC NUTRI ENTS UNDER WATT (03 BULB .ATALIE 5+ $ID YOU KNOW THAT LOTS OF GROWERS DEVEL OP ALL KINDS OF SKIN RASHES WHEN TOUCHING A .ORTHERN ,IGHTS PLANT 4HAT S WHY SOME GROWERS WON T EVEN GO NEAR THE LITTLE BITCHES

4HESE ARE !RJAN S (AZE AND (IMALAYA 'OLD 'ROWN IN COCO WITH (OUSE 'RADEN FEEDS .EVER CALIBRATED THE P( METER LAST MONTH AND HAD WRONG READINGS FOR A FEW WEEKS AND HAS MESSED IT UP A BIT "UT FLUSHED AND STILL HAVE A FEW WEEKS LEFT +EITH 9OU RE A REAL CONNAISEUR +EITH 9OUR GROW ROOM LOOKS WELL SUITED FOR GROWING (AZE VARIETIES WHICH TEND TO GET QUITE HIGH

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4HE OFFENDING BEAST IS A #HRONIC OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN BUT SHE WAS NONTHELESS A PRODUCTIVE LASSY )N THE FIRST SNAP WE HAVE THE YES READ IT AGAIN GIRLS PRE CHOP )N THE SECOND SNAP THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST )N THE THIRD PIC WE HAVE A BEAUTIFULL LAS WITH A SMALL LIMB FROM OUR FIRST PLANT /H AND SHE HAS HER TITS OUT UNDER THAT SWEATER 4HE NEXT PIC SHOWS THE OFFENDING LIMB BEFORE HER MAIN HAIRCUT .EXT AFTER A SHORT BACK AND SIDES OLD ENGLISH HAIRCUT TO YOU .EDERLANDERS SHE LOOKS VERY TRIM AND TIGHT )N THE CORNER OF THE SNAP ARE SOME OTHER BABES HANG ING !ND FINALLY THE FINISHED PRODUCT JUST OVER A HUNDRED OUNCES OR JUST SHORT OF THREE KG AFTER DAYS DRYING PLANTS IN AN AUTO POT SYSTEM POWERED BY #ANNA ! AND " HIGH POWERED SILENT AIR PUMPS

SHIT LOADS OF AIR MOVEMENT WITH FOUR UPRIGHT FANS AND A MM 26+ EMPTYING THE ROOM OF ITS HEAT CREATED BY THE SIX W LIGHTS 4HE SMOKE WAS REALLY SWEET BUT WE HAD TO CROP EARLY DUE TO BUD ROT WHICH WAS CONTROLLED "UT ) M NOT SURE ABOUT HOW MUCH WE LOST IN FINISHING EARLY IN WEIGHT TERMS BUT THE STRENGTH DID NOT SEEM TO BE COMPROMISED FORTUNATELY WE HAD STARTED TO RINSE AT THE END OF WEEK )N ALL MY YEARS GROWING NOT TELLING HOW MANY ) HAVE TO ADMIT TO THE AUTO POT WITH THE SMART VALVE BEING THE BEST SYSTEM ) VE USED !LL THE BEST WITH FUTURE PUBLICA TIONS AND KEEP UP THE INFORMING GUYS YOU RE A CREDIT 3KUNKWEED 'OOD LOOKING BUDS PEOPLE THANKS TO THE W LAMPS DOING THEIR JOB 3ORRY TO HEAR ABOUT THE BUD ROT .EXT TIME USE A HYGROMETER TO SEE WHEN THE AIR GETS TOO DAMP AND ACT ACCORDINGLY

) AM WEEKS INTO FLOWER THINK ) CAN GO MORE BEFORE THIS BABY IS READY FOR A GOOD SMOKE ) HAVE CHECKED MY STRAIN ON THE NET AND ) THINK SHE IS FROM THE SKUNK VARIETY ) HAVE BEEN USING A W SODIUM BULB #ANNA 6EGA AND #ANNA &LORES FOR FEED IT WOULD BE VERY INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF ) WOULD HAVE USED A BOOST TO SEE IF ) COULD OF GOT A BIT MORE FROM HER AS THIS IS MY FIRST GROW -ARK 3ORRY TO DISSAPOINT YOU BUT ACCORDING TO US THIS IS AN )NDICA 4HE POINTY AND THIN SHAPE OF THE FLOWERHEADS ARE AN INDICATION FOR THIS ! REAL 3KUNK VARIETY WOULD HAVE DEVELOPED MORE FATTER ROUNDER BUDS

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NOT SURE WHAT IT IS BUT SMELLS STRONG 'ROWN IN A GREENHOUSE FOR MONTHS IN SOIL WITH " ! # .UTRIENTS THEN PUT INDOORS UNDER W (03 FED WITH " ! # "LOOM AND & 3UPERBOOSTER (OPE YOU LIKE 4RIED TO GET THE MISSES TO GET HER TITS OUT BUT SHE WAS NOT HAVING ANY OF IT SORRY $EVIL %XCELLENT JOB WELL DONE

(ERE ARE A FEW PICTURES OF MY GIRLS THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE TO CHOOSE THE BEST OR PRINT THEM ALL 4HINK WE VE DONE GOOD WITH THE #HRONICS AS FOR THE OTHER BUDS ) HAND GREW THEM MYSELF 4HE 9ORKSHIRE 3TONERS (EALTHY LOOKING BUDS @N TITS

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7E RECENTLY ENCOUNTERED A BONUS IN OUR 'ARDEN !FTER PUTTING OUR -OTHER PLANTS OUTSIDE QUITE EARLY IN THE YEAR AROUND THE END OF !PRIL THEY ALL STARTED TO PRE FLOWER BUT ALL EXCEPT ONE MANAGED TO GO BACK INTO A VEG STATE /UR 7HITE *AMAICAN WHICH IS A CROSS OF 7HITE 2USSIAN #HEESE AND *AMAICAN 0EARL WENT ON TO TO DEVELOP FULL AND RIPE STICKY BUDS WITH A POTENT AROMA AND SWEET WOODSY BERRY FLAVOUR 3URPRISINGLY TO US THE LEAVES REMAINED TO STAY A DEEP GREEN SO WE CUT OFF THE BUDS AND LEFT ENOUGH SHOOTS AND LEAVES FOR IT TO GO BACK INTO VEG ) INCLUDED A CLOSE UP OF A BUD TOO ) LOVE YOUR PAPER 4REVOR 4RICHOME %DDIE 'REENFINGERS AND 3TELLA 'EAR 4HAT S RIGHT 7HEN YOU PUT A MOTHERPLANT OUTDOORS EARLY IN THE SEASON FROM HOURS OF LIGHT SHE WILL THINK AUTUMN IS COMING HENCE SHE STARTS BLOOMING 6ERY GOOD HARVESTS ARE TO BE HAD FROM THIS SINCE THE PLANTS MAKE FULL USE OF THE BRIGHT SUMMER LIGHT !S A RULE YOU CAN ALWAYS BRING WELL DEVELOPED PLANTS BACK TO VEG STAGE ESPECCIALY WHEN THEY HAVE A THICK STRONG STEM AND A WELL DEVELOPED ROOT SYSTEM

4HIS IS A PIC OF MY 'RAPEFRUIT 3KUNK GROWN UNDER W AND FED ON )ONIC NUTRIENTS ABOUT WEEKS INTO FLOWER WOT A SMOKE !NONYMOUS 7HY IN THE FLYING FUCK DID YOU REMOVE ALL THE MAJOR LEAVES (OW IS THE PLANT NOW SUPPOSED TO TAKE UP LIGHT AND ENERGY 9OU SCREWED YOURSELF OUT OF WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN A SPLENDID HARVEST )T S NOW BETTER THAT YOU REMAIN ANONYMOUSx

$AVE FROM 0RESTON WITH A -ED MAN WHAT A LADY SHE IS DRY BUD WITH A WEEK GROW AND A WEEK FLOWER IN HYDRO $AVE 3O YOU SEE YOU DON T NEED A WHOLE LOT OF PLANTS TO GET A DECENT HARVEST ! LONG VEG PERI OD WILL BE REWARDED WITH EXTRA FAT BUDS

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) ALREADY SENT IN SOME PICS THE $UTCH MAG BUT ) FIGURED THE 5+ READERS MIGHT WANNA SEE THE BEAUTIFULL TITS OF DE REAL DEAL GINGER &LEMISH GIRL .OT FORGET THE BIG BUDS ) GREW ON MY *ACK (ERRER .,8 !LL MY FRIENDS GOT REALLY EXCITED WITHOUT KNOWING THAT ) WAS GROWING THEIR GANJA ABOUT THE TASTE AND THE SMELL ) OBTAINED

BY USING " ! # BIOLOGICAL NUTRIENTS FOR THE PLANTS )T TOOK ME A LOT LESS EFFORT BECAUSE ) DIDN T HAVE TO MEASURE P( OR %# VALUES AS LIFE IN MY MEDIUM REGULATES ITSELF JUST LIKE IN NATURE #AN U IMAGINE THE EASE ) M SURE A LOT OF GROWERS WOULD PREFER BIO WEED BUT ) M ALSO SURE A LOT ARE AFRAID OF AN INFERIOR YIELD THEN 7ELL ) CAN TELL ) HAD THE QUALITY OF BIOWEED WITH THE YIELD OF A WELL FED PLANT ) ONLY CAN RECOMMEND IT TO EVERY GROWER ,EGALIZE IT 0EAZ "ELGIUM

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7E RE HAPPY THAT YOU RE HAPPY BUT THE SUGGESTION THAT YOU DON T HAVE TO MEASURE YOUR P( AND %# VALUES WHEN YOU USE BIOLOGICAL NUTRIENTS IS ABSOLUTELY FALSE %VEN WITH THE PUREST OF PURE BIOLOGICAL NUTES YOU STILL HAVE TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THE P( AND %# LEVELS

(AIL OH MIGHT MAG ) AM SENDING YOU GUYZ SOME MORE PICS OF MY LATEST GROW HARVEST N SEXY GIRLFRIEND 4HE PICS ARE AOF MY LATEST GROW WHICH WAS SOME 3ATIVA 5NKNOWN "USH POSS -EX OR !FRICAN AND SOME #ITRALAH CLONES WHICH ) FLOWERED EARLY AND KEPT BASICALLY TO SINGLE COLA CLONES ) GERMINATED THE "USH FROM SOME OF THE BEST SATIVA WEED ) HAD SMOKED WITH SEED BUT SHE WAS OBVIOUSLY A LANDRACE OUTDOOR PLANT ) TOPPED HER AS A SEEDLING BUT SHE STILL GREW TO OVER FIVE FIVE LIKE TWINS YOU CAN PROLLY SEE FROM PICS

ALSO SHE TOOK WEEKS TO FLOWER AND EVEN THEN ) THINK SHE COULD HAVE GONE LONGER TO MATURITY TYPICAL SATIVA ) SPOSE GOOD THING IS ) CLONED HER AND ) HAVE A BIG OLD BUSH WHICH ) REVERTED BACK TO VEG AND NOW SHE IS FULLY MATURE AND REPRODUCING PRE FLOWERS AGAIN ) AM HOPING TO PUT HER OUTSIDE IN NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AS ) HAVE BEEN HARDENING HER OFF AND WAITING FOR WEATHER TO GET BETTER !PART FROM THAT THE SLUGS ATE SOME OF OUR OUTDOOR 0URPLE 0OWER AND #INNAMON HOPEFULLY WHEN FLOWERING ) WILL BE ABLE TO TALK MY GORGEOUS GIRL 3AM TO POSE OUTDOORS AGAIN IN THE MEANTIME SHE HAS AGRREED AGAIN TO GET HER UBER SEGSY B BIEZ OUT TO POSE WITH THE OTHER LADIES IN OUR LIVES , T 'ANJA -AN 3ORRY TO SAY THIS BUT YOUR PLANTS LOOK A BIT MEAGRE AND PATHETIC TO BE FAIR !ND A WEEK BLOOM PERIOD IS EVEN FOR AN OUTDOOR VARIETY EXTREMELY LONG EVEN UNACCEPTABLE /NLY THE BEST (AZE S ARE MEANT TO BLOOM THAT LONG 7E THINK YOUR PLANTS MAY HAVE GOTTEN SOME ACCIDENTAL LIGHT IN THE DARK HOURS THAT S WHY IT TOOK THEM SO LONGx "UT YOUR GIRLFRIEND 3AM MAKES UP FOR THE LOSSES SHE S A LOVELY LASSIE

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(ERE S A COUPLE OF PHOTO S OF MY LATEST GROW OF 7HITE 7IDOW GROWN IN SOIL GIVEN ONLY RAINWATER NO NUTES )T S VERY STRONG LIVED UP TO IT S REPUTATION &AIRLY STRAIGHTFORWARD TO GROW NO MAJOR PROBLEMS HAPPY WITH YIELD ALL IN ALL A FUN EXPERIENCE +EEP UP THE GOOD WORK (APPY CHAP 7ELL (APPY #HAP ON THE FIRST PHOTO INDEED YOUR 77 LOOKS HAPPY AND GAY BUT ON THE SECOND SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE S DROWNING AND SHE IS CLEARLY OVER FERTILISED

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5KWORRIOR .ICE LOOKING GROW ROOM AND EXCELLENT BUTT "UT WHY DON T YOU HANG SOME MYLAR ON THE WALLS TO REFLECT THE LIGHT )T WILL INCREASE YOUR CROP BY TO

X 7HITE 2HINO HANGING OUT TO DRY 2YAN %NGLAND "EAUTIFUL BUTT AND BUDS BUT WHY DON T YOU TRIM THE BUDS BEFORE YOU HANG EM OUT TO DRY )F YOU TRIM OFF ALL LEAVES

AND ALSO ALL SMALL FLOWERS ON THE BRANCHES THE MAIN BUDS WILL DRY MORE EVENLY 4HIS WILL NOT ONLY RESULT IN BETTER LOOKING DRIED BUDS BUT ALSO IN A MUCH BETTER SMOKE

) HAVE ATTACHED A PIC OF MY FIRST ATTEMPT OF GROWING OUTDOORS IN POTS /K ) CHEATED A BIT BY VEGGING THEM FOR WEEKS UNDER A WATT LIGHT

THEY ARE NOW IN WEEK AND GROWING IN MY GARDEN NOT BAD CONSIDERING THE WEATHER WE HAVE BEEN HAVING 'REAT PAPER KEEP IT UP #$8 "ASILDON (ET #$8 NEXT SEASON YOU BETTER TOP YOUR PLANTS TO CREATE AN EVEN CANOPY 9OUR HARVEST WILL BE SO MUCH BIGGERx

(I THERE 3OFT 3ECRETS 4HIS IS MY WIFEY SHOWING OFF OUR CROP OF 3ENSI 3TAR GROWN FROM FEMINISED SEEDS 4HEY ARE APPROXIMATLEY DAYS INTO BLOOM ) AM NOW FLUSHING THEM AND STILL HAVE WKS LEFT TILL THEY FINISH OFF AND THEY ARE LOOKING GOOD JUST OOZING OUT RESIN AND ROCK HARD 4HEY ARE GROWIN IN #ANNA #OCO UNDER A WATT 3ON 4 0LUS ) USE CANNA ! " 2HIZOTONIC FOR GOOD HEALTHY ROOTS AND STEMS AND CANNAZYM SINCE ) REUSE THE MEDIUM UP TO THREE TIMES AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST 0+ AND #ANNA "OOST !CCELERATOR TO TURN EM INTO FAT LADIES ) CANNOT GET A MAGAZINE SO ) HOPE YOU WILL STILL SEND ME SOME "LACK ,ABEL SEEDS AS YOU HAVE NOW SEEN MY LADIES TITS AND THEY RE NOT BAD FOR BEING ALMOST +EEP UP THE GOOD WORK CAUSE THIS MAGAZINE IS A BRILLIANT READ FOUNDATION FOR ANY GANJA FARMER AND ) SHALL CONTINUE DOWNLOADING PAST ISSUES OF 3OFT 3ECRETS )4 3 4(% "/-" 'ANJA FARMER 5+ 4HANKS FOR THE PICS 'ANJA FARMER 3ENSI 3TAR IS A VARIETY THAT S MUCH USED FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES AND IT S WIDELY PRESCRIBED BY '0 S THE WORLD OVER

$EAR 3OFT 3ECRETS 7E ARE YOUNG GROWERS MY GIRLFRIEND AND ME FROM THE NEWEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 7E ARE JUST STARTING AND THIS IS OUR FIRST PLANT THAT HAS NOT FINNISHED ITS FLOWERING CYCLE WE HAD TO HARVEST HER WEEKS EARLY COUSE WE WON T BE HOME FOR A MONTH 4HE SEED FROM WHICH WE RAISED THIS PLANT IS DOMESTIC

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THATS WHERE WE HEARD ABOUT YOUR MAGAZINE AND GOT A COPY 7E HOPE THAT YOU WILL HELP US AND SEND US SOME FINE SEED TO CONTINUE WITH GROWING AND THIS TIME IT COULD BE SOME GOOD STUFF *ENA "OCA -ONTENEGRO 'REAT TO HAVE READERS EVEN IN THE FAREST CORNERS OF %UROPE 7E CAN T TELL MUCH ABOUT YOUR PLANTS OF COURSE BUT YOUR GIRLFRIEND MADE US DROOL #ONGRATS FOR THAT

-Y FIRST ATTEMPT INDOOR ) USUALLY GROW OUTDOOR PLANTS )S A QUITE DIFFERENT NICE STUFF HR FOR FIRST DAYS WEEKS HR VEG STAGE WEEKS HR FLOWERING 4HAT S IT "IO ' POWER ALL STUFF ON THE WAY WHIT (OUSE AND 'ARDEN SOIL NUTRIENTS W FOR VEG W END MORE FOR FLOWERING ! TOUCH OF LOVE FOR TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE NICE REGGAE IN THE BACKGROUND 3ORRY FOR NO HAVING THE NACKED LADY BUT MY GIRLFRIND IS FOR MY EYES ONLY +EEP UP THE GOOD WORK

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REMOVED "UT WE DO NOT THROW THEM AWAY AS WE ARE GOING TO USE THEM TO MAKE NEW CLONES FROM /NCE WE HAVE TRIMMED THE GROWTH SHOOTS FROM THE STEM WE USE A SHARP KNIFE AN OLD FASHIONED RAZOR BLADE IS IDEAL FOR THIS TO SLICE OFF THE UNDERSIDE OF THE SHOOT AT AN ANGLE "Y DOING THIS WE REMOVE THE TOUGH BARK OF THE STALK 4HIS IS SO THAT THE CLONING POWDER WHICH WE ARE ABOUT TO APPLY CAN MORE EASILY PENETRATE THE SHOOT THROUGH THE PARTIALLY REMOVED BARK "Y DOING THIS THE GROWTH SHOOT WILL MORE EASILY AND WHAT S MORE MORE QUICKLY FORM ROOTS

7E LET TWO CLONES ROOT IN #OPITO THE OTHER TWO IN -APITO )N THIS PHOTO THE LITTLE BLOCKS OF COCO #OPITO ARE CLEARLY VISIBLE

! SMALL NOTE TO ADD HERE IS THAT ONE MARIHUANA VARIETY WILL ROOT CLEARLY QUICKER THAN THE OTHER ) HAVE REGULARLY HAD FAIRLY WHITE VARIETIES THE DESCENDENTS OF WHICH WERE ANYTHING BUT QUICK IN DEVELOPING ROOTS 4HIS DID CREATE A CERTAIN DEGREE OF FRUSTRATION AND A LOAD OF TIME WASTED "UT THE GROWER WHO REALLY SHOWS SOME PATIENCE AND DOES HIS VERY BEST WILL STILL MANAGE TO

4HE CIRCULATION PUMP DOES ITS WORK AND MAKES SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS AND REMAINS WELL MIXED GET SOME GREAT CLONES FROM EVEN THE MOST PATIENCE TAXING PLANT )N CONTRAST TO THE HARD OF ROOTING VARIETIES ) HAVE ALSO CLONED ONCE OR TWICE MORE COMMERCIAL VARIETIES AND FOUND THEIR ROOT GROWTH TO BE ALMOST UNSTOPPABLE 4HESE ROOTS GREW SO DANGEROUSLY QUICKLY THAT WE REALLY HAD TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THINGS 7HENEVER ROOTS GET TOO MUCH LIGHT AND OR REMAIN DRY FOR TOO LONG THEY CAN BE DAMAGED AND EVEN DIE COMPLETELY IN THE WORST CASES THANKS TO WHICH THE YOUNG CLONE BECOMES INCREDIBLY STRESSED 4HIS IS HIGHLY DISADVANTAGEOUS FOR THE GROWER BECAUSE STRESS FOR MARIHUANA PLANTS CAN HAVE VERY NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES

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7HILE THE MARIHUANA PLANTS IN OUR PREVIOUS ARTICLE WERE BARELY ROOTED AFTER JUST A FEW DAYS OF GROWTH IN THIS ISSUE WE WILL BE TAKING A LOOK AT HOW THEY HAVE BEEN GETTING ON 4O JUST SUM UP THE MAIN POINTS THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED SO FAR WE ARE GROWING THE HYBRID VARIETY + X 4OP ON TWO DIFFERENT GROWING SUBSTRATES )N ONE GROW TUB WE HAVE -APITO SUBSTRATE AND THE OTHER TUB IS FILLED WITH #OPITO "OTH SUBSTRATES HAVE DELIVERED MANY A GROWER IN THE PAST A GOOD HARVEST AND WHILE ONE WILL SWEAR BY -APITO THE OTHER IS WELL IMPRESSED BY #OPITO AS A SUBSTRATE

$ESPITE THE FACT THAT THE PLANTS ARE BEING RAISED ON TWO DIFFERENT SUBSTRATES THEY DO NOT SHOW ANY MARKED DIFFERENCES )N FACT ) D GO EVEN FURTHER AND STATE THAT THE + X 4OP PLANTS ARE DEVELOPING AT EXACTLY THE SAME RATE 0ERHAPS THIS HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT THE PLANTS HAVE BEEN SUPPLIED WITH PRECISELY THE SAME QUANTITIES OF NUTRIENTS AND ON TOP OF THAT ALSO HAVE THE SAME CLIMATIC CONDITIONS AT THEIR DISPOSAL IN THE GROW SPACE 2EGARDING THE NUTRITION THE PLANTS HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE STANDARD !

AND " NUTRIENT ON TOP OF WHICH WE HAVE BEEN ADDING AN EXTRA TRACE ELEMENT MIX

TO THEIR FEED WATER 4HIS TRACE ELEMENT MIX IS SIMPLY A LIQUID SUBSTANCE CONTAINING A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING THE GREEN LADIES MIGHT FANCY )T MAKES FOR THAT LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA VA VOOM WITH WHICH THE PLANTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO DEVELOP IN TO LOVELY COMPACT PLANTS )N FACT TO ENSURE THAT THE GROW SPACE IS NOT RAPIDLY OVERWHELMED BY A SEA OF GREEN LEAVES WE PRUNE THE PLANTS REGULARLY

1à }Êà ÌÃÊ>ÃÊV ià 4HE GROWTH SHOOTS THAT DEVELOP AT THE BOTTOM THE STEM ARE THE FIRST TO BE

9OU WILL FIND THAT SOME CLONES THOSE WHO HAVE HAD TO DEAL WITH STRESS WILL REFUSE TO DEVELOP ANY FURTHER COME TO A STANDSTILL DURING THEIR GROWTH PERIOD OR EVEN DIE OFF COMPLETELY &OR THE GROWER THEN THE FIRST DRAMA HAS ALREADY BEGUN

AS IT WILL NOW BE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO CREATE A FIELD OF EVENLY GROWING PLANTS )N SHORT WE END UP WITH @JUST A BUNCH OF PLANTS A NUMBER OF WHICH WILL BE BIG ENOUGH TO PUT INTO BLOOM

BUT ANOTHER GROUP OF WHICH HAVE BARELY GROWN CONFRONTING US WITH A SITUATION WHERE WE HAVE TO WEIGH UP THE PROS AND CONS OF WHAT TO DO NEXT /NE SOLUTION CAN BE TO REMOVE THE CLONES THAT HAVE BEEN DELAYED IF THAT IS NOT TOO MUCH TROUBLE OR TO PRUNE BACK THE ONES THAT HAVE DEVELOPED ACCORDING TO PLAN IF THEY ARE THE MINORITY SO THAT THEY ARE THE SAME SIZE AS THEIR SLOWCOACH SISTERS )N BOTH CASES IT WILL COST US SOME TIME AND PROBABLY MEAN A MUCH REDUCED HARVEST 3O TRY TO AVOID GETTING IN TO THE SITUATION DESCRIBED ABOVE CARE FOR YOUR CLONES AS BEST YOU CAN AND IN ANY EVENT

TRY NOT TO STRESS THEM

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, V ÊÜ Ê ÃÊ `i> 4O RETURN AGAIN TO THE ISSUE OF CLONING POWDER )N ORDER TO MOST EFFECTIVELY APPLY THIS DUNK THE CUT AT AN ANGLE TIP OF THE SHOOT IN A BOWL OF WATER THEN DIP THE STALK IN THE CLONING POWDER 4AKE GOOD CARE TO NOT OBSTRUCT OR CLOG THE SAP STREAM AS THE GROWTH SHOOT WILL NOT SURVIVE LONG IF YOU DO AND CERTAINLY WILL NOT MAKE IT TO BECOME A CLONE .EXT WE STICK THE GROWTH SHOOTS IN TO ROCK WOOL BLOCKS INTO WHICH WE HAVE PRICKED SMALL HOLES 2OCK WOOL IS IDEAL FOR ALLOWING SHOOTS TO TAKE ROOT IN BECAUSE THEY TAKE UP WATER PRETTY EASILY AND HOLD ON TO IT !S WELL AS THIS PROPERTY THEY ALSO ALLOW OXYGEN TO PERMEATE THEM VERY EASILY AS SOON AS THEY GET JUST A LITTLE BIT DRIER )N ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CREATE THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH THE AS YET TO TAKE ROOT CLONES CAN THRIVE EVEN MORE READILY

WE SPRAY THEM REGULARLY WITH WATER 4HIS CREATES AN ELEVATED AIR MOISTURE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN TO THANKS TO WHICH THE LEAVES OF THE GROWTH SHOOTS CAN ALSO GET HOLD OF SUFFICIENT MOISTURE 7E DO NOT PUT THE STILL UN ROOTED CLONES WITH THE OTHER PLANTS AS THERE THEY WOULD DRY OUT MUCH TOO QUICKLY AND FURTHERMORE THE AIR MOISTURE LEVELS THERE ARE FAR FROM IDEAL )N THE GROW CUPBOARD AT THIS MOMENT THE AIR MOISTURE LEVEL IS ONLY ABOUT AND THAT IS TOO LOW FOR CLONES THAT DO NOT YET HAVE ROOTS 4HAT IS WHY WE CHOOSE INSTEAD TO LET THE GROWTH SHOOTS DEVELOP THEIR ROOTS IN A SPECIAL GERMINATING TRAY WITH A SEE THROUGH LID

WHICH WE PLACE UNDER FLUORESCENT LIGHT 7E PLACE THE TRAY AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE TO THE LIGHT SOURCE SO THAT THE CLONES TO BE ARE LIGHTLY WARMED AND HAVE ACCESS TO THE OPTIMAL AMOUNT OF LIGHT FROM THE ALREADY MEAGRE LEVELS EMITTED BY A FLUORESCENT LIGHT 4HE GERMINATING TRAY HAS THE ADVANTAGE THAT WE CAN KEEP THE AIR MOISTURE INSIDE IT PRETTY HIGH WHICH WILL BENEFIT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GROWTH SHOOTS IN TO CLONES

/ iÊi>ÃiÊ vÊ>Ê«À viÃÃ > Ê ÀÀ }>Ì ÊÃÞÃÌi 4HE REMOVAL OF THE LOWER MOST GROWTH SHOOTS FROM THE STEM DOES NOT ONLY YIELD SOME NICE LOOKING CLONES IT ALSO HELPS THE PLANT DEVELOP A STURDY STEM AND SIDE BRANCHES WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY GO ON TO PRODUCE GREAT FLOWER HEADS "UT BEFORE WE GET THAT FAR THERE S A BIT OF TIME TO GO GIVEN THAT THE LADIES AT THIS MOMENT

ARE STILL IN THE HOURS OF LIGHT GROWTH CYCLE 4HE MANY HOURS THE LAMPS WILL BE SHINING MEAN THAT THE PLANTS WILL DEVELOP A GREAT THIRST FOR FEED WATER &ORTUNATELY WE ARE NOT FORCED TO LUG AROUND WATERING CANS FULL OF IT SINCE THESE PLANTS WILL BE REGULARLY WATERED VIA A PROFESSIONAL IRRIGATION SYSTEM 4HIS SYSTEM IS LOCATED UNDERNEATH IN THE GROWING TUB OVER WHICH THE SUBSTRATE HAS BEEN LAID 4HANKS TO THE CONVENIENCE OF THIS AS GROWERS WE ONLY HAVE TO RE FILL THE WATER RESERVOIR EVERY FOUR OR FIVE DAYS WITH WATER AND THEN MIX INTO THIS THE NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTS 4HE CIRCULATION PUMP DOES ITS WORK AND MAKES SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS AND REMAINS WELL MIXED )F WE DID NOT DO THIS THEN

4HE PLANT IS ALREADY FORMING A LOVELY THICK LEAF COVER ON THE TOP 4HANKS TO THIS THEY WILL RECEIVE AS MUCH LIGHT AS POSSIBLE AND THE CHANCES THAT WILL DEVELOP MOST OPTIMALLY WILL BE INCREASED

7HENEVER ROOTS GET TOO MUCH LIGHT AND OR REMAIN DRY FOR TOO LONG

THEY CAN BE DAMAGED AND EVEN DIE COMPLETELY IN THE WORST CASES THE LIQUID NUTRIENTS WOULD TEND TO SETTLE TO THE BOTTOM AND THE CONCENTRATION OF THEM IN THE WATER WOULD NO LONGER BE EVEN THROUGHOUT 4HIS CAN BE A DANGEROUS SITUATION TO ALLOW TO ARISE GIVEN THAT THE PLANTS COULD RECEIVE A TOO HIGH DOSE OF FERTILIZERS AS IT IS AT THE BOTTOM WHERE THESE CONCENTRATIONS TEND TO OCCUR AND AT THE BOTTOM WHERE THE SUBMERSIBLE PUMP DRAWS ITS WATER FROM 4HAT IS WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS ALLOW THE PUMP TO RUN FOR TEN MINUTES OR SO BEFORE YOU START ALLOWING IT TO DO ITS WORK IRRIGATING THE PLANTS )N THIS WAY WE SAVE OURSELVES A WHOLE HEAP OF GROWERS ANGST BECAUSE ALLOWING YOUR PLANTS TO BE POISONED JUST ONCE WITH A TOO HIGH CONCENTRATION OF NUTRIENTS WILL ALMOST ALWAYS END UP PRODUCING DISAPPOINTING RESULTS COME HARVEST TIME

-V À }ÊÃ iÊ Ûi ÞÊv ÜiÀÃt 3INCE THE PLANTS HAVE DEVELOPED NICELY AND HAVE REACHED THE DESIRED SIZE IN A COUPLE OF DAYS WE WILL BE PUTTING THEM IN TO BLOOM &ROM THAT MOMENT WE WILL ALSO BE GIVING THE PLANTS EXTRA BLOOM FEED IN ORDER TO GIVE THEM THAT LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA HELP IN FORMING SOME TOP NOTCH FLOWERS )N THE NEXT ARTICLE WE HOPE TO BE ABLE TO SHOW YOU SOME OF OUR OWN LOVELY FLOWERS !LONG WITH THIS WE WILL ALSO BE BRINGING YOU ALL THE IMPORTANT DETAILS AND OR FINDINGS THAT NEED TO BE KNOWN BY GROWERS ALONG WITH TREATMENTS AND SO ON

7E PRUNE THE PLANTS REGULARLY AND BY DOING SO HELP THEM DEVELOP A STURDY STEM AND STRONG SIDE BRANCHES

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.EW :EALAND LAMB THE GUN SALUTE 2EDCOATS WITH SHINY GOLD BUTTONS AND "USBY HATS &EW PEOPLE TEND TO CORRELATE THE COMMONWEALTH WITH VAST PLANTATIONS OF CANNABIS SPANNING THE VIEW ACROSS THE $ORSET $OWNS TO .EPAL AND FROM .ORTH 6IRGINIA TO +INGSTOWN 4HE COMMON WEALTH THAT ONCE MADE %NGLAND A GREEN AND PLEASANTLY RICH LAND SAILED ITS WAY THROUGH HISTORY ON SAILS AND ROPES MADE FROM HEMP &ROM THE EARLIEST FIELDS OF CULTIVATION UNDER A FEUDAL SYSTEM TO LATER SYSTEMS OF DIVIDE AND RULE THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF CANNABIS CULTIVATION AND THE PURSUIT OF IMPERIALISM HAVE ALWAYS BEEN CLOSELY ALIGNED )N TURN A @COMMONWEALTH OF CANNABIS ACKNOWLEDGES MANY OF THE PROCESSES BEHIND THE ORIGINS OF GLOBALIZATION

BY ,AZYSTRAIN

/ iÊ Üi> Ì 4HE "RITISH #OMMONWEALTH AKA #OMMONWEALTH OF .ATIONS WAS FOUNDED IN BY THE "RITISH %MPIRE 4HE #OMMONWEALTH MAPS THE MOVEMENT OF "RITISH TRADE AND COLONIALISM BEFORE THIS DATE 4HE #OMMONWEALTH MAY BE DESCRI BED AS FOLLOWS @4HE #OMMONWEALTH IS PRIMARILY AN ORGA NISATION IN WHICH COUNTRIES WITH DIVERSE ECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS HAVE AN OPPORTU NITY FOR CLOSE AND EQUAL INTERACTION 4HE PRIMARY ACTIVITIES OF THE #OMMONWEALTH ARE DESIGNED TO CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE OF ECONOMIC CO OPERATION BETWEEN MEMBER NATIONS AS WELL AS THE PROMOTION OF DEMO CRACY HUMAN RIGHTS AND GOOD GOVERNANCE IN THOSE NATIONS ;3OURCE 7IKIPEDIA

= 4HE TERM @#OMMONWEALTH OF .ATIONS WAS REPLACED AFTER 7ORLD 7AR )) 4HESE DAYS THE #OMMONWEALTH DOESN T EXIST AND DOES NOT HOLD DIRECT POLITICAL ECONOMIC

OR RELIGIOUS GOVERNANCE OVER ITS FORMER MEMBER NATIONS ALTHOUGH IT STILL HOLDS MUCH INFLUENCE OVER THEM -UCH LIKE A RICH CLUB WHERE NOBILITY LANDOWNERS

MERCHANT TRADERS AND CIVIL SERVANTS FROM DIFFERENT NATIONS CAN MEET TOGETHER AND RUB SHOULDER SHOOT GAME OR PLAY A QUICK ROUND OF POLO !LL VERY JOLLY COLLOQUIAL TEA ON THE LAWN TYPE STUFF !T THE HEAD OF WHICH SITS THE SOVEREIGN THE HEAD OF THE @/LD #OMMONWEALTH !USTRALIA #ANADA

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/ iÊ }ÃÊ> `Ê+Õii ÃÊ vÊ > >L Ã ,ET S GET SOME THINGS STRAIGHT BEFORE CON TINUING 4HE PRESENT 1UEEN OF %NGLAND IS NOT A CANNABIS FARMER -ANY OF THE FORMER 2OYAL 0LANTATIONS IN )NDIA 3OUTH !FRICA

THE #ARIBBEAN HAVE SINCE BEEN SOLD OFF

REPATRIATED TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNERS OR TURNED INTO .ATIONAL 0ARKS OPEN ESTATES 4HOSE ROYAL PLANTATIONS THAT STILL EXIST TODAY ARE USED TO CULTIVATE REGULAR OFTEN ORGANIC FOOD CROPS FOR FORESTRY RAISING CATTLE OR FOR HUNTING PROTECTING ENDANGE RED ANIMALS !S YOU CAN IMAGINE THINGS WERE NOT ALWAYS THE CASE 4O SAIL THE SPOILS OF WAR FROM ONE PORT

ROUND THE #APE /F 'OOD (OPE TO THE NEXT DURING THE MIDDLE AGES INVOLVED MANY SAILS AND A GOOD DEAL OF ROPE SAILS AND ROPE THAT WERE BEST MADE FROM HEMP 4HOSE PEOPLE WITH ANY INTEREST IN IMPORTING AND EXPORTING RICHES FROM ONE CONTINENT TO THE NEXT ARE USUALLY THOSE THAT SIT AT THE TOP OF THE PEPPER CHAIN AND MOST WORTH THEIR SALT THE HEAD OF THE TABLE THE KINGS AND QUEENS $URING THE MEDIE VAL PERIOD THE BIGGEST BENEFACTORS OF THE HEMP INDUSTRY WERE %UROPE S RULING ELITES 4HOSE THAT COULD FUND WILD AND EXTRAVA GANT ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN COULD

EASILY STEP UP THE SOCIAL LADDER BY SAILING A SHIP BACK TO %NGLAND WITH A CARGO HOLD FULL OF 4HAI STICKS AND HASHISH 4HE KINGS AND QUEENS OF /LD %UROPE INCLUDING 2USSIA WERE MOST INFLUENTIAL WHEN IT CAME TO THE SUBJECT OF CONTROLLING THE RATE OF PRODUCTION IN HEMP !S EARLY AS +ING *OHN OF %NGLAND ORDERED PORTS IN SOUTHERN "RITAIN TO GROW HEMP ,ATER IN *ACOBEAN TIMES IT WAS COMMON FOR MEMBERS OF NOBILITY TO START SPONSO RING EXPEDITIONS OF VOYAGE AND @DISCOVERY INTO THE @.EW 7ORLD WHICH BACK THEN MEANT INVADING ANYPLACE BEYOND 0ARIS 4HE SAME KINGS AND QUEENS THAT FUNDED A GROWING SPICE TRADE FROM %AST AND 7EST INTO %UROPE IN TURN SUPPORTED THE MODERN MOVEMENT OF SLAVERY !MID A RENAISSANCE OF KNOWLEDGE THESE KINGS AND QUEENS OF %UROPE PLOTTED TO CREATE A @.EW 7ORLD /RDER OR AT LEAST A VISION OF A NEW FEUDAL %UROPE SOMEPLACE OVERSEAS 2ICH PICKINGS WITH A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED ATTITUDE #LAIM IT /WN IT 0OP IT IN A BOX AND SEND IT HOME BEFORE ANYONE NOTICES IT IS MISSING !ND IF ANYONE DOES NOTICE IT S MISSING EITHER SHOOT THEM AS SAVAGES OR SUBDUE THEM AS SLAVES 3UCH WAS THE SOCIAL ORDER OF THE DAY 4HE 7ELSH POET $YLAN 4HOMAS ENCAPSULATES THIS ATTI TUDE INTO HIS POEM @4HE HAND THAT SIGNED THE PAPER FELLED A CITY &IVE SOVEREIGN FINGERS TAXED THE BREATH

$OUBLED THE GLOBE OF DEAD AND HALVED A COUNTRY

4HESE FIVE KINGS DID A KING TO DEATH 4HE HAND THAT SIGNED THE TREATY BRED A FEVER

!ND FAMINE GREW AND LOCUSTS CAME 'REAT IS THE HAND THAT HOLDS DOMINION OVER

-AN BY A SCRIBBLED NAME

/ iÊ/À> Ã>Ì > Ì VÊ- >ÛiÊ/À>`i )N #OLUMBUS SET HIS HEMP SAILS FOR THE !MERICAS TAKING WITH HIM HEMP SEEDS TO SWAP WITH THE LOCALS AS GIFTS )N RETURN HE BOUGHT HOME MANY LUXURY ITEMS INCLU DING ANIMAL SKINS POTATOES TOBACCO RUM

AND MAZE ! LITTLE WHILE LATER THE TIME IT TAKES A PIGEON TO FLY NORTH WORD REACHES %NGLAND THAT A 3PANIARD HAS FOUND RICHES OVERSEAS 4IME LATER STILL A FLEET OF "RITISH MERCHANT SHIPS WAS ARRANGED TO SET SAIL FOR @SAFE PORTS IN !FRICA 4HE 'AMBIA HAD ALREADY BEEN BOUGHT BY %NGLISH TRADERS FROM THE 0ORTUGUESE THRONE IN 4HIS SAFE PORT AND MANY OTHERS ON THE 7EST #OAST OF !FRICA MADE THE IDEAL PLACE TO START CULTIVATING TALL TYPES OF CANNABIS SATIVA USED TO MAKE ROPE -ORE SEED PER ACRE COULD BE HARVESTED IN !FRICA THAN IN $ORSET SO IT MADE PERFECT SENSE TO MOVE THE WHOLE DOPE GROWING OPERATION ABROAD

AND SHIP SEED OUT FROM ELSEWHERE

!FTER FILLING UP ON SLAVES THE SAME BOATS WOULD REFURBISH THEIR HEMPEN SAILS AND ROPES BEFORE MAKING THE VAST STINT ACROSS THE !TLANTIC 7EATHER PERMITTING THE MER CHANT SHIPS WOULD ROLL UP SHOREWARD IN "RAZIL TO COLLECT COPPER WHICH THEY LATER MADE INTO SPOONS AND TRADED FOR MORE SLA VES 4HEY D THEN SET SAIL LOOKING FOR FRIEN DLY ISLANDS IN THE LOWER !NTILLES NEVER A &RENCH ONE PERHAPS LAYING ANCHOR IN "ARBADOS THEN *AMAICA AND THEN THIS BIG OLD PLACE UP NORTH THE 3PANISH CALLED !MERICA .EW %NGLAND AS WE CALLED IT BACK THEN 4HIS WAS THE PIRATES LAST PORT OF CALL BEFORE SETTING HOME FOR "LIGHTY "ACK THEN .EW 9ORK WAS CALLED .EW !MSTERDAM PROBABLY FOR GOOD REASON BUT THAT S ANOTHER STORY !T EACH PORT OF CALL THE PERSON RESPONSI BLE FOR THE SHIPS PROVISIONS WOULD MAKE READY TO SOW OUT FIELDS OF HEMP 4HIS INSURANCE POLICY WOULD ENSURE THAT A JOUR NEY HOME BE POSSIBLE SHOULD THE MAIN VESSEL FAIL THEM ON THE JOURNEY AHEAD AND THEY BE FORCED TO RETURN TO THE LAST PORT OF CALL "Y WHICH TIME THE LAST BATCH OF HEMP SOWN WOULD BE HALFWAY READY TO HARVEST OR ONLY SEVERAL WEEKS AWAY FROM MAKING ROPE !NY PLANTATIONS THAT WERE LEFT UNMANNED NATURALLY TURNED FERAL AND THEN WILD 0LANTATIONS WOULD SUPPORT THE NEXT SAILORS TO ARRIVE SOMETIMES MANY YEARS LATER )N THE HOLD OF THE -AY &LOWER THE BOAT THAT SAILED THE FOREFATHERS TO THE 53!

CONTAINED CANNABIS SEED 4HEY CALLED IT h(EMPv ,IKEWISE THE %AST AND 7EST )NDIAN #OMPANIES WERE MOST INFLUENTIAL IN THE INTERCONTINENTAL MOVE MENT OF CANNABIS SEEDS ! GLOBAL NETWORK OF HEMP TRADE FASHION AND INDUSTRY WAS ENVISAGED BY %NGLISH $UTCH 3PANISH

0ORTUGUESE AND &RENCH MERCHANT SAILORS 5NTIL "RITANNIA RULED THE WAVES IT WAS A COMPETITION TO SEE WHO COULD OVERGROW THE BIGGEST PARTS OF THE WORLD FIRST -ANY SHIPS RECRUITED "OTANISTS TO TRAVEL WITH THEM TO MAKE STUDIES AND TAKE SPECIMENS OF STRANGE AND UNUSUAL PLANTS DURING THE VOYAGE 4HE MOST FAMOUS OF WHICH WAS 3IR *OSEPH "ANKS

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ALSO SAILED OUT WITH INTENTION ON GOVER NING A FIRM MONOPOLY ON %AST )NDIAN TRADE USING A SERIES OF ANCIENT MARITIME LAWS AND BRUTE FORCE THEY GAINED CONTROL "RITISH AND $UTCH TRADE OVERSEAS WAS NEAT LY DIVIDED INTO TWO SEPARATE COMPANIES MUCH LIKE A MILITARY CAMPAIGN 4HE %AST )NDIAN #OMPANIES WERE HELL BENT ON SECU RING INVESTMENTS IN THE SPICE TRADE ALREADY ESTABLISHED BY THE 0ORTUGUESE SAILOR 6ASCO DA 'AMA IN ,UXURY ITEMS SUCH AS PEPPER SILK SAFFRON TEA OPIUM AND CANNABIS SEED RESIN AND FLOWERS WERE MARKETED FOR COLLECTION BY %AST )NDIAN #O REPRESENTATIVES WHO WOULD ESTABLISH RELATIONS WITH LOCAL FARMERS AND TRADERS 4HE COMPANY S REPRESENTATIVES WOULD ENGINEER AND MANAGE NEW PLANTATIONS OF CROPS AND THEN SET UP PORTS AND HARBOURS FOR WHOLESALE EXPORTATION BACK HOME )T IS VIA TRADE WINDS BETWEEN SAFE PORTS THAT THE SEED OF SATIVA SPECIES IDEAL FOR ROPE AND CORDAGE ORIGINAL FROM 4HAILAND

.EPAL AND #HINA REACHED PLACES LIKE 3RI ,ANKA +ENYA $URBAN 4HE 'AMBIA AND FINALLY %UROPE 0LANTATIONS OF CANNABIS WERE NATURALLY THE EASIEST AND QUICKEST CROPS TO MANAGE AND MAINTAIN SO BECAME SOME OF THE MOST POPULAR -ANY GENETICS WERE SOWN ABOUT ON VOYAGES FROM ! AND " HAPHAZARDLY FINDING THEIR WAY INTO NEW HANDS AND NEW LANDS -UTINY CORRUPTION

AND STORMS AT SEA NO DOUBT ALL PLAYED THEIR PART IN THIS GLOBAL PROCESS )N A SIMILAR VAIN THE 7EST )NDIAN #OMPANIES WERE HELL BENT ON EXPLOITING !FRICA AND THE .EW 7ORLD TO THE LEFT OF THE MAP 3PANISH SETTLERS HAD ALREADY INTRODUCED THE PEOPLES OF #ENTRAL !MERICA TO CANNABIS AND THE PRACTISE OF SINSEMIL LIA FARMING JUST AS NATIVE !MERICANS INTRODUCED EARLY %UROPEANS TO ANCIENT METHODS OF PERMACULTURE HYDROPONICS

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CARRY OUT THE MENIAL TASKS OF SOWING SEED AND REAPING HARVESTS OF BANANAS

COFFEE SUGAR TOBACCO NUTMEG AND LOTS OF CANNABIS 4HE TROPICAL CLIMATE OF #ENTRAL !MERICA WAS PERFECT FOR THE CULTIVATION OF CANNABIS THE RICH LAND FULL SUN THE ROL LING MIST WERE ALL PERFECT 4ODAY STUPID PEOPLE STILL PONDER AS TO WHY *AMAICA IS STILL GANJA CENTRUM 4HE #OMPANIES SURE HADN T FOUND HEAVEN OR AND ISLAND HAVEN

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BUT IT S A BIT OF A DOOZY AND ) RECKON IT S WORTH TELLING AGAIN 2IGHT SO IT SEEMS THAT A TRUCKLOAD OF WEED WAS FOUND ABANDONED ON A SLIP ROAD OUTSIDE OF ,OS !NGELES !ND ) M NOT TALKING ABOUT A COUPLE OF KILOS OF GEAR EITHER THIS HAD AN ESTIMATED STREET VALUE OF M 5+0 M SO IT S A SERIOUS FUCKING AMOUNT 4HERE S A TOUCH OF THE -ARIE #ELESTES ABOUT IT ALL TOO AS THE VEHICLE WAS UNLOCKED AND THE ENGINE WARM BUT NO ONE WAS IN THE CAB 3POOKY !PPARENTLY THERE ARE hNO SUSPECTS AND NO REAL LEADSv ! DIBBLE CALLED 3GT 0RESZLER OF THE #ALIFORNIA (IGHWAY 0ATROL HAD THIS TO SAY ABOUT THE WHOLE THING h3OMEBODY S GOING BE IN SOME MAJOR TROUBLE FOR WALKING AWAY AND LEAVING THAT QUAN TITY SITTING ON THE SIDE OF THE FREEWAY ) M GLAD ) M NOT HIM v &UCKING UNDERSTATEMENT OR WHAT ) LL BET THE GENIUS WHO DID IT WISHES HE WASN T HIM AND WAS SOMEWHERE FAR AWAY )N FACT IF HE S GOT ANY SENSE HE PROBABLY IS SOMEWHERE FAR AWAY AS WHILE DOPE DEALERS OF MY ACQUAINTANCE ARE MAINLY A PRETTY LAID BACK BUNCH ) RECKON THEY D BE A BIT IRATE ABOUT THE LOSS OF MILLION QUID S WORTH OF GREENERY 7HAT A BUFFOON -AYBE HE WAS ABDUCTED BY ALIENS 4HIS KIND OF REMINDED ME OF AN INCIDENT ALONG THE SAME LINES THAT INVOLVED PEOPLE KNOWN TO YOURS TRULY .O NAMES MENTIONED BUT THEY AND A WHOLE LOT OF OTHERS KNOW WHO THEY ARE

'EORGE ))) HAS A LOT TO ANSWER FOR !

'ERMAN +ING THAT LOST !MERICA TO THE 2EVOLUTIONARIES (E DID HOWEVER URGE THE SOUTH COAST OF %NGLAND TO PLANT DOPE FOR ROPE TO SOURCE THE .APOLEONIC 7ARS )T IS ALSO RUMOR THAT .APOLEON INVADED 2USSIA FOR ITS HEMP ALTHOUGH IF ANYONE HAS EVER GROWN OR SMOKE RUDE RALIS ONE WOULD QUESTION WHY $URING THE EARLY TH CENTURY AND SOME THING DOPE SMOKING WAS POPULAR WITH UPWARDLY MOBILE SECTS IN ,ONDON JUST LIKE 'OBI BERRIES ARE TODAY 4HOSE WHO SORT OPULENCE !RTISTS 7RITERS

AND A NEW BAND OF 3OCIALIST WERE ALL ENCOURAGED TO OPEN THEIR MINDS VIA A HOOKAH PIPE USING HASHISH %VEN 1UEEN 6ICTORIA WAS SAID TO HAVE USED A TINC TURE OF CANNABIS TO ALLEVIATE HER MENS TRUAL PAINS #ANNABIS WAS A PLANT TO BE RECKONED WITH ! HEMP FUELLED ECONOMY HELPED FUND THE )NDUSTRIAL 2EVOLUTION AND SECURE "RITISH CONTROL OF OVER OF THE GLOBE 4HE PROSPERITY OF THE COMMON WEALTH AND COMMON CANNABIS CULTIVA

TION REACHED THEIR FINAL PORTS OF CALL DURING THE ND 7ORLD 7AR (EMP WAS STILL USED IN VAST QUANTITIES TO MAKE CLOTHING AND SOAP BUT THE DAYS OF WHOLESALE PRODUCTION WERE NEARING AN END 4HE INTRODUCTION OF NEW SYNTHETIC FIBERS AND PLASTICS WAS JUST ONE REASON FOR CANNABIS S OVERALL SOCIAL DECLINE )NDEPENDENCE AFTER 77)) GRADUALLY REPATRIATED MANY LANDS PREVIOUSLY GOVERNED BY THE "RITISH AND THE PLANTA TIONS OF CANNABIS STAYED WITH THEM !NY CONNECTION BETWEEN THE COMMONWEALTH AND CANNABIS CULTIVATION WAS DUSTED OVER OR BRUSHED ASIDE NEVER TO BE SPO KEN OF AGAIN 4ODAY THE REAL HISTORY OF A @#OMMONWEALTH OF #ANNABIS IS FILED AWAY INTO THE ARCHIVES OF THE "RITISH -USEUM AND THE OFFICES OF FORMER %AST 7EST )NDIAN 4RADE #OMPANIES JUST LIKE THE ONES ON +ATTENBURGERSTRAAT ,IKE ANY ACCOUNT OF HISTORY SOMETIMES THE ONLY VISUAL DISPLAY OF WEALTH THAT REMAINS STILL FALLS BENEATH THE SHADOWS CAST BY THE ARCHITECTURE OF BYGONE DAYS

4WO FLATMATES DECIDE TO MAKE A BIT OF MONEY BY GETTING INTO DOPE DEALING ) MEAN LOTS OF PEOPLE SEEM TO DO OKAY OUT OF IT SO HOW HARD CAN IT BE 4HEY SCRIMP AND SAVE AND GET A GOOD AMOUNT OF MONEY TOGETHER ! DEAL IS BROKERED AND OFF THEY GO 4HE GUY HEADS OFF TO PICK UP A LOAD OF WEED NOT MILLION S WORTH YOU UNDERSTAND

NOBODY ) KNOW IS IN THAT KIND OF LEAGUE ONLY IN !MERIKA EH IN THE FLATMATE S CAR !NYHOW IT ALL GOES OFF WITHOUT ANY SORT OF HITCH MONEY CHANGES HANDS HE PICKS UP THE SPINACH PUTS IT ALL IN THE BOOT AND IS HEADING BACK TO BASE WHEN HE NEEDS TO TAKE A PISS (E PULLS IN TO A MOTORWAY SERVICE PLACE AND RUNS TO USE THE TOILET (E S SO DESPERATE TO STRAIN HIS GREENS THAT HE LEAVES THE KEYS IN THE IGNITION AND THE DOOR UNLOCKED 7HAT A FUCKING FANNY !NYHOW HE GETS BACK NO CAR (E THINKS MAYBE HE S COME OUT THE WRONG EXIT SO HE RETRACES HIS STEPS THERE S ONLY ONE EXIT AND THE MOTOR DEFINITELY ISN T WHERE HE LEFT IT )N TRUE 7EST OF 3COTLAND STYLE SOME FUCKER HAD STOLEN IT 3HIT 7HAT TO DO (E CAN T PHONE THE POLIS BECAUSE IT S GOT SOMETHING LIKE A POUND THAT S OUNCES OR ABOUT GRAMS OF WEED IN THE BOOT AND THERE S NO WAY THEY LL BELIEVE THAT AMOUNT S FOR PERSONAL USE !S IT TURNED OUT THE CAR WAS LIFTED BY A JOYRIDER WHO DROVE IT UNTIL IT RAN OUT OF PETROL THEN TORCHED IT 4HIS OF COURSE MEANT NO MORE WEED BUT IT ALSO MEANT NO RUN IN WITH THE OLD BILL EITHER 0LUS THE FLATMATE WAS ABLE TO CLAIM THE CAR WAS STOLEN FROM OUTSIDE THE HOUSE AND MAKE AN INSURANCE CLAIM 4HE LOSS OF 5+0 IN WEED WAS A SMALL PRICE TO PAY AND AT LEAST IT WAS THEIR OWN MONEY AND NOT FRONTED BY A THIRD PARTY )T S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE IF YOU RE DRIVING AROUND WITH A LOT OF DOPE AND YOU NEED TO GO FOR A PISS OR ANYTHING ELSE LOCK THE FUCKING CAR BEFORE YOU DO IT 9OU REALLY COULDN T MAKE THIS FUCKING STUFF UP ,ATER

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DAYS )T IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU BOOK IN ADVANCE BECAUSE THE ROOMS ARE EXTREMELY POPULAR

3INCE OUR LAST VISIT TO &OCUS THE BUSINESS HAS BEEN FULLY REFURBISHED AND EXTENDED 7E ALWAYS THOUGHT &OCUS LOOKED GREAT IN THE PAST BUT THEY WAY THEY HAVE IT SET UP NOW IS REALLY MODERN NEAT AND A SIGHT FOR SORE EYES )N THE MANY NICELY DONE OUT DISPLAY CASES THERAE IS A DIZZYING ASSORTMENT OF HEAD AND SMART SHOP ARTICLES LAID OUT %VERYTHING THAT YOU MIGHT EVER WANT FROM A HEAD OR SMART SHOP IS FOR SALE HERE .ATURALLY THAT ALSO EXTENDS TO THE RANGE OF DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF EXOTIC MUSHROOM BECAUSE THEY ALSO STOCK THESE

7EB SHOP "UT THE GOOD FOLKS OF &OCUS ARE CONSTANTLY BUSY WITH EXTENDING THE RANGE OF THEIR EMPIRE .OT ONLY CAN UP TO TWELVE PEOPLE SPEND THE NIGHT THERE THESE DAYS BUT THEY HAVE ALSO LAUNCHED THEIR OWN LINE OF &OCUS SEEDS 4HERE ARE AROUND FEMALE VARIETIES IN THEIR RANGE SO A GOOD ENOUGH CHOICE FOR ANYONE 4HE NEXT THING THE &OCUS GUYS DID WAS SET UP A COMPLETE WEB SHOP )T COULD NOT BE ANY EASIER NOW TO ORDER ANY OF THE MANY PRODUCTS STOCKED BY THE &OCUS SHOP VIA WWW TRIP FOCUS COM !ND IT HAS TO BE SAID THE WEB SITE DOES LOOK VERY SLICK AND PROFESSIONAL

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)F YOU RE PLANNING A TRIP TO -AASTRICHT ANY TIME SOON WE CAN TOTALLY RECOMMEND YOU PAY A VISIT TO &OCUS AT NUMBER ON THE +LEINE 'RACHT

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9EAH MAAN THE @POTFATHERS SEEM TO BE SAYING THIS IS THE PLACE 4HE BUILDING WITH ITS GENEROUS M OFFERS MORE THAN ENOUGH SPACE FOR THIS ENTHUSIASTIC NEWCOMER TO 'ROWSHOPLAND "UT DESPITE THE IMPOSING SIZE OF THE PLACE IT HAS NONETHELESS MANAGED TO PULL OFF HAVING QUITE A COSY INTIMACY THANKS TO THE ENORMOUS , SHAPED BAR 3O THERE S ALWAYS A QUIET SPOT TO GO AND HAVE A DISCRETE CHAT ABOUT YOUR HORTICULTURAL NEEDS WITH ONE OF THE SEASONED GROWING EXPERTS FROM 3UPER 'ROW 7OOD PREDOMINATES AND THE LOOK IS A LITTLE REMINISCENT OF THE 7ILD 7EST "EHIND THE COUNTER THERE ARE FOUR 46 SCREENS AND AN INEXHAUSTIBLE RANGE OF NUTRIENT PREPARATIONS AND OTHER GROWING MATERIALS 4HE OWNER *OHAN WANTS WITH HIS NEW BUSINESS TO BRING BACK THE @OLD FASHIONED GROW SHOP FEEL AND THAT TO HIM MEANS GIVING ALL THE ATTENTION TO THE CUSTOMER S NEEDS WHETHER HE HAPPENS TO BE A BIG PLAYER OR A BEGINNER 7ANDERING IN AND GETTING SOME EXTENSIVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE POSSIBILITIES LEAVES YOU IN NO WAY UNDER ANY OBLIGATION LET THAT BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR 'OOD ADVICE FROM ! TO : THAT IS WHAT 3UPER 'ROW IS ABSOLUTELY ALL ABOUT 7ITH MORE THAN YEARS PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE COUNTER YOU CAN HAND YOUR OWN GROWING SHOPPING LIST OVER TO THE GUYS FROM 3UPER 'ROW WITH TOTAL CONFIDENCE %VEN IF YOU RE LOOKING TO GET WITH THE VERY LATEST GROWING TECHNIQUES SUCH AS GROW TENTS

HERE YOU CAN BE BROUGHT QUICKLY UP TO SPEED AS TO HOW TO GET YOUR MAXIMUM YIELDS OUT OF THEM

3UPER 'ROW PUT ITSELF ON THE MAP WITH MUCH FANFARE WITH ITS OPENING TWO MONTHS AGO 4HE SPACIOUSLY EQUIPPED GROW SHOP OPPOSITE THE 2$7 BUILDING IN 3CHIEDAM IS BUBBLING WITH GREAT PLANS 4HANKS TO CAST IRON SERVICE AND AN EQUALLY STRONG RANGE THIS PLACE HAS EVERYTHING IT NEEDS IN ORDER TO STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD IN A CRAMPED MARKET !S HAS BECOME COMMONPLACE THESE DAYS 3UPER 'ROW IS LOCATED ON AN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE WITH ALL THE ADVANTAGES THAT GO WITH IT ANONYMOUS AND FREE PARKING FAST AND EASY ACCESSIBILITY AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO LOAD UP YOUR VAN BEHIND CLOSED DOORS "UT THIS IS ONLY SCRATCHING THE SURFACE OF WHAT 3UPER 'ROW HAS TO OFFER /NCE YOU HAVE FOUND YOUR WAY TO #ALAND STRAAT 3UPER 'ROW IS HARD TO MISS &ROM THE EAVES OF THE 3UPER 'ROW BUILDING GRIN THE MERRY STONERS THEMSELVES #HEECH AND #HONG

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.OW THAT ALL THE HEAVY TRIMMING WORK FROM THE LARGE QUANTITY OF TOP HEAVY PLANTS IS BEHIND US THERE IS STILL A BIG PILE OF LEAF MATERIAL COVERED WITH LITTLE RESINOUS HAIRS LEFT OVER -ANY OF THE PLANTS ALSO HAD SUCH HEAVY BUDS THAT THE BRANCHES THEY WERE ON JUST COULD NOT SUPPORT THE WEIGHT ANY MORE AND WERE HANGING LOW "UT YOU TELL ME WHO IS GOING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT SUCH A SITUATION 7ELL NOT ME THAT S FOR SURE )T IS ONE OF THE VERY BEST THINGS THAT CAN HAPPEN AND IT DOES NOT TAKE MUCH TIME TO REALISE THAT AS WELL AS A HUGE AMOUNT OF TOP QUALITY BUDS WE ALSO HAVE A MASSIVE VOLUME OF LEAF TO WORK WITH 4HERE ARE A THOUSAND AND ONE WAYS WITH WHICH TO PUT YOUR LEAF MATERIAL TO GOOD USE 3O YOU CAN MIX IT INTO MEALS OR YOU CAN MAKE HASH OIL TO NAME JUST TWO -Y PREFERENCE IS STILL TO MAKE MYSELF SOME HASH BY GETTING THE ACTIVE INGREDIENTS OFF THE LEAF MATERIAL !S YOU MAY HAVE READ IN A PREVIOUS ARTICLE ) ALWAYS MAKE MYSELF A LUMP OF WATER HASH FROM THE LEFTOVER LEAVES "UT IN ORDER TO AVOID REPEATING MYSELF AND BY WAY OF A LITTLE EXPERIMENTATION THIS TIME AROUND WE WILL BE DOING SOMETHING A BIT DIFFERENT .AMELY WE ARE GOING TO COMBINE MAKING SOME @SKUFF DRY HASH AND SOME WATER

AND A PRESS 4HE HIGH QUALITY HASH THEY MAKE FROM THE LEAF MATERIAL IS VERY PROFITABLE AND WITHOUT THE RISKS INVOLVED IN GROWING

` LÀ Ü ÊVÀÞÃÌ> Ã 9OU GET SKUFF BY ALLOWING THE LEAF MATERIAL TO DRY OUT 4O DO THIS YOU LEAVE IT FOR SEVERAL WEEKS DEPENDING ON THE TEMPERATURE WHERE IT IS LYING TO DRY 4HIS LEAF MATERIAL IS THEN PUT IN A POLLINATOR FROM THE 0OLLINATOR #OMPANY 4HIS IS A MACHINE WITH A LARGE SIEVE IN IT )T LOOKS A LOT LIKE A WASH TUB WITH A SIEVE AROUND

) WANTED TO USE THE SAME LEAF MATERIAL AGAIN TO MAKE WATER HASH OUT OF HASH "ECAUSE THE MACHINE FOR EXTRACTING THE POLLEM IS QUITE EXPENSIVE TO BUY

CERTAINLY IF YOU DO NOT ANTICIPATE REGULAR LARGE QUANTITIES OF LEAF MATERIAL TO PROCESS YOU CAN BEST DO THIS BY TAKING IT SOMEWHERE TO HAVE DONE ) GO TO A GROW SHOP CALLED !LIEN IN )*ZENDIJKE WHERE THEY WILL DO THIS FOR FREE 4HERE ARE ALSO SMALLER MACHINES THAT ARE BETTER PRICED

BUT WHY BOTHER GETTING ONE IF YOUR LOCAL GROW SHOP WILL DO IT FOR GRATIS WHEN YOU NEED THE HELP &URTHERMORE THE CRYSTALS YOU COLLECT ALSO HAVE TO BE PRESSED AND THAT CAN ALSO BE DONE THERE /THERWISE

YOU CAN ALWAYS GET HOLD OF YOUR OWN SMALL PRESS AND MAKE YOUR OWN SLAB OF HASH 4HIS IS ONLY ADVISABLE IF YOU REALLY DO HAVE AN ENORMOUS QUANTITY OF LEAF AT YOUR DISPOSAL

/N THE OTHER HAND THERE ARE ALSO PEOPLE WHO DO NOT GROW BUT SIMPLY BUY THE LEAF MATERIAL FROM VARIOUS GROWERS FOR A GOOD PRICE 4HESE HASH MAKERS OF COURSE CAN WELL AFFORD TO BUY THEIR OWN POLLINATOR

IT 4HE TUB WITH THE SIEVE IS FILLED UP WITH LEAF MATERIAL AFTER WHICH IT IS FIRMLY SEALED SHUT AND PLACED IN A SQUARE BOX 4HE SIEVE IS CHURNED AT A REASONABLE SPEED AND THE CRYSTALS ARE SHAKEN FREE BY THE VIBRATIONS 4HESE CRYSTALS THEN HAVE NO OTHER OPTION BUT TO SINK THROUGH THE SIEVE AND ARE COLLECTED INSIDE THE SQUARE BOX 4HIS BOX HAS A NICE SMOOTH BLACK SURFACE ON WHICH YOU CAN SEE THE GOLD BROWN CRYSTALS LYING !FTER ABOUT HALF AN HOUR OF ACTIVITY YOU CAN NEATLY SCRAPE ALL THE CRYSTALS TOGETHER WITH A CREDIT CARD OR SOMETHING SIMILAR 4HE CRYSTALS SLIDE DOWN INTO A SMALL BOX AT THE BOTTOM !FTER EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SCRAPED TOGETHER ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS TAKE OUT THE LITTLE BOX 3O AFTER MINUTES WE NOW HAVE A NICE QUANTITY OF UN PRESSED CRYSTALS 4HIS CAN BE TAKEN BY THE PROFESSIONAL GROW SHOP OWNER TO THE TON PRESS )N THIS THE CRYSTALS WILL BE PRESSED TOGETHER UNDER GREAT PRESSURE IN TO A LOVELY SLAB OF HASH !FTER A FEW

4HE TOP SIEVE OF THE POLLINATOR IS FILLED WITH THE LEAF MATERIAL /NLY THE CRYSTALS CAN FALL THROUGH THE SIEVE

MINUTES IN THE PRESS WE END UP WITH A POTENT LUMP OF HASH THAT IS READY FOR IMMEDIATE CONSUMPTION &ROM ABOUT GRAMS OF DRY LEAF ) GOT A PRESSED PIECE OF HASH OF ABOUT EIGHT GRAMS )T LOOKS A WHOLE LOT MORE UN PRESSED BUT AFTER A QUICK TEST SMOKE IT IS APPARENT THAT YOU NEED VERY LITTLE IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE A GOOD HIGH )N SHORT IT S A VERY POWERFUL HASH

!N IMPORTANT FACTOR IS OF COURSE THE VARIETY FROM WHICH YOU ARE GATHERING YOUR CRYSTALS 4HE ONE HASH IS BETTER THAN THE OTHER 9OU ALSO GET DIFFERENCES IN QUALITY DEPENDING ON HOW LONG YOU CHURN THE SIEVE THE LONGER YOU DO THIS THE LOWER THE QUALITY SINCE MORE FRAGMENTS OF LEAF ARE SHAKEN INTO THE POLLEM MIX 4HE BEST POLLEM THEREFORE IS SHOOK FREE DURING THE FIRST FEW MINUTES OF CHURNING )T IS ALSO USUALLY THE CASE THAT IF YOU START WITH A GOOD WEED YOU LL END UP WITH A GOOD PIECE OF HASH /F COURSE YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PRESS IT BUT IN A PRESSED STATE IT IS MORE EASY TO TRANSPORT 4HIS IS HANDY ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE LARGE QUANTITIES OF IT

5N PRESSED CRYSTALS ARE MAINLY USEFUL FOR QUICKLY ROLLING A JOINT WITH !FTER ALL YOU DON T HAVE TO CRUMBLE BITS OFF YOU CAN JUST TAKE SOME CRYSTALS BETWEEN YOUR FINGERS AND SPRINKLE THEM OVER YOUR TOBACCO OR WEED )F THE CHOICE IS UP TO ME SPRINKLE IT OVER SOME WEED BECAUSE TOBACCO IS JUST GARBAGE !FTER THE WHOLE PROCEDURE HAS BEEN COMPLETED ) ASK FOR MY LEAF MATERIAL BACK AND RETURN HOME WITH IT 4HIS LEAF MATERIAL ) BELIEVE IS STILL FULL OF CRYSTALS

AND IT WOULD BE A SHAME TO JUST THROW IT AWAY 4HE ONLY QUESTION IS HOW MUCH CRYSTAL REMAINS

) WANT TO USE THE VERY SAME LEAF MATERIAL AGAIN TO MAKE WATER HASH WITH )T IS NICE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE TWO KINDS OF HASH FROM THE SAME LEAF TRIMMINGS FROM THE SAME WEED VARIETY AS ) WILL BE IN THE NICE SITUATION OF BEING ABLE TO MAKE A COMPARISON AND SEE WHICH IS BEST 7HICH IS ALWAYS PLEASANT 7ILL IT BE THE PRESSED CRYSTALS ) GATHERED FROM THE DRIED LEAF OR THE WATER HASH -MM 4HE PROBLEM WITH WATER HASH IS THAT CERTAIN VARIETIES DO NOT PROVIDE ANY TASTE IF THEY RE MADE THIS WAY 3O PRESSED HASH SHOULD TASTE BETTER 4HE WAY TO TEST THIS IS MAKE THE TWO KINDS OF HASH AND THEN DO A TEST SMOKE 4HIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO REALLY KNOW FOR SURE IF A VARIETY IS SUITABLE FOR MAKING WATER HASH FROM )F NOT THEN YOU CAN JUST GO AHEAD AND MAKE ORDINARY SKUFF $O NOT GET ME WRONG THE WATER HASH YOU OBTAIN WILL ALWAYS BE POTENT AND OF VERY HIGH QUALITY "UT REAL HASH SMOKERS WILL ALWAYS BE ABLE TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE WHEN THEY SMOKE IT -AYBE YOU HAVE ALREADY COME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO SAID THAT WATER HASH IS NOT SO TASTY AND THEY PREFER TO SMOKE SKUFF 4HAT WOULD SIMPLY BE DOWN TO THE WEED VARIETY THEY USED TO MAKE IT NOT BEING A SUITABLE ONE FOR MAKING WATER HASH FROM 3INCE THIS WAY OF MAKING HASH IS STILL RELATIVELY NEW ) STILL FEEL MORE EXPERIMENTATION WITH IT IS NEEDED THEN HOPEFULLY WE WILL EVENTUALLY HAVE A LIST WITH ALL THE VARIETIES THAT ARE SUITABLE FOR GETTING A GOOD RESULT WITH AND WHICH NOT *UST AS WE HAVE WITH SKUFF 3OME VARIETIES ARE JUST BETTER AND TASTIER "UT FOR NOW IT S TIME TO GET TO WORK 4HE LEAF MATERIAL THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN SIEVED ONCE THROUGH THE POLLINATOR ) AM NOW GOING TO PUT THROUGH THE ICE O LATOR ALSO FROM THE 0OLLINATOR #OMPANY &OR THIS YOU JUST NEED A LITRE BUCKET

IN TO WHICH YOU PLACE THE TWO BAGS )N THE BAG WITH THE BIGGEST HOLES IN IT

YOU PLACE THE LEAF MATERIAL 4HE HOLES ARE BIG ENOUGH FOR THE CRYSTALS THAT ARE BROKEN LOOSE BY THE COLD TO PASS THROUGH 4HE SECOND BAG WITH VERY TINY HOLES IN IT TRAPS THE LOOSE CRYSTALS BUT LETS THE WATER THROUGH 4HE BUCKET IS FILLED WITH ICE COLD WATER 9OU CAN GET HOLD OF THIS BY PLACING 0%4 BOTTLES OF WATER IN YOUR DEEP FREEZE FOR

4HE HASH PRESS WITH A PRESSURE OF TONS CAN TRANSFORM THE HASH POWDER IN TO A BLOCK WITH ITS PRESSURE

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TWO HOURS BEFOREHAND $O THIS FOR TOO LONG AND THE WATER WILL FREEZE AND OF COURSE YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO POUR IT IN YOUR BUCKET SO KEEP AN EYE ON HOW LONG YOU LEAVE IT IN !NOTHER WAY IS TO JUST USE NORMAL TAP WATER AND THEN PUT LOADS OF ICE CUBES IN IT 4HE ICE CUBES MELT AND CREATE ICE COLD WATER )N ORDER TO DETERMINE WHETHER IT IS ICE COLD OR NOT JUST STICK YOUR HAND IN THE BUCKET 9OU SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO BEAR KEEPING IT IN FOR VERY LONG 4WENTY OR THIRTY SECONDS TOPS BECAUSE THE WATER WILL BE SO COLD THAT IT CAUSES PAIN IN YOUR HANDS -AYBE IT IS ALSO A GOOD IDEA FOR PEOPLE WITH TENDER HANDS OR WHO HAVE OTHER PROBLEMS WITH THEIR HANDS TO WEAR GLOVES WHILE DOING ALL THIS JUST TO REDUCE CONTACT WITH THE ICE COLD WATER 4HERE S NO POINT IN JUST BEING BRAVE ABOUT IT 4HE PROBLEM IS THAT IF YOU HAVE REMOVED THE BAGS IN ORDER TO DO A FIRST GATHERING OF CRYSTALS FROM INSIDE THEM

THE BAGS NATURALLY NEED TO BE PUT BACK IN AGAIN )N ORDER TO DO THIS YOU WILL NEED TO HAVE YOUR HANDS SUBMERGED IN THE ICE COLD WATER FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME )N DOING THIS YOU WILL VERY QUICKLY DETERMINE WHETHER THE WATER IS INDEED COLD ENOUGH OR NOT )F THE WATER HAS BECOME TOO WARM THEN YOU JUST NEED TO THROW A FEW MORE ICE CUBES IN 7ATER HASH IS BEST MADE IN A COOL LOCATION SO THAT THE ICE COLD WATER ONLY RISES IN TEMPERATURE SLOWLY 7ITH ENOUGH ICE CUBES YOU CAN EASILY BE BUSY FOR THREE HOURS BEFORE THE WATER TEMPERATURE BECOMES UNSUITABLE )N YOUR GARDEN SHED SUMMER HOUSE OR VERANDA IN THE COLD OUTDOORS THIS WHOLE PROCESS OF MAKING WATER HASH WORKS FINE 4HE WINTER IS FOR THE SAME REASON A VERY SUITABLE TIME FOR GATHERING YOUR LEAF MATERIAL FOR PROCESSING 4HE COLDER TEMPERATURES WILL GIVE YOU A HELPING HAND TO GET THAT LITTLE EXTRA YIELD FROM OUT OF YOUR LEAF MATERIAL 4O GET THE HIGHEST YIELDS OF SKUFF THE BEST TECHNIQUE IS TO LET THE POLLINATOR DO ITS CHURNING IN A LARGE WALK IN FRIDGE OR FREEZER ) DON T KNOW WHETHER THERE ARE SPECIALLY MADE ONES FOR THIS JOB BUT THE FACT REMAINS THAT COLD TEMPERATURES HELP THE CRYSTALS TO BREAK LOOSE AND SO RAISE YOUR YIELD

3O ANYWAY WE HAVE OUR BUCKET FILLED WITH WATER AND ICE CUBES AND OUR LEAF MATERIAL HAS BEEN PUT IN 9OU ARE BEST OFF JUST LEAVING THE LEAF MATERIAL TO SIT FOR A WHILE AND THEN ADDING THE ICE CUBES 3OME PEOPLE CHOOSE TO FIRST PUT IN A LAYER OF LEAF THEN ICE CUBES

THEN ANOTHER LAYER OF LEAF FOLLOWED

)T CAN HAPPEN THAT YOU HAVE CAUGHT SO MANY CRYSTALS THAT THE BAG GETS CLOGGED UP 4HE FULLER THE BAG THE LESS EASY THE WATER CAN FLOW AWAY

BY ICE CUBES AGAIN .OW WE JUST NEED THE MIXER AND WE RE READY TO ROLL !

HALF HOUR S MIXING TO START WITH )T IS EASIEST IF YOU CAN FIX THE MIXER IN PLACE -IXING FOR HALF AN HOUR BY HAND IS A VERY BORING ACTIVITY -AYBE YOU CAN INVITE A FEW MATES OVER n THEY MIGHT LEARN SOMETHING )F YOU REALLY CAN T

FIGURE OUT A WAY OF FIXING THE MIXER

THEN AT LEAST MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE A LID FOR THE BUCKET THROUGH WHICH YOU

COLLECTED WET HASH 7ITH A PIECE OF KITCHEN PAPER WRAPPED AROUND IT IT GOES TWICE AS QUICK BECAUSE THIS ABSORBS

!LL IN ALL ) NOW HAD FROM GRAMS OF DRY LEAF MATERIAL EIGHT GRAMS OF PRESSED SKUFF AND TEN GRAMS OF WATER HASH

!FTER LETTING THE POLLINATOR CHURN FOR SOME TIME WE SCRAPE THE CRYSTALS TOGETHER IN A CATCHING TRAY AND LATER THIS CAN BE PRESSED IF SO WISH

4HE POWDER IS PRESSED TOGETHER UNDER PRESSURE

CAN POKE IT SO THAT THE MIXER CAN STILL DO ITS JOB ON ITS OWN -Y BUCKET AS IT HAPPENS HAS NO LID BUT ) SOLVE THE PROBLEM BY PLACING TWO PLANKS OF WOOD OVER THE BUCKET AND THEN SOMETHING HEAVY ON TOP OF THEM )N THIS WAY THE MIXER IS KEPT FIRMLY IN PLACE "EFORE ALLOWING YOUR MIXER TO SET TO WORK ON ITS OWN THOUGH YOU HAVE TO CHECK THAT IT WILL NOT WOBBLE OR MOVE ABOUT )T WOULD BE AN ABSOLUTE DISASTER TO FIND YOUR MIXER RUINED LYING IN THE WATER

AND FURTHERMORE YOUR BAGS RIPPED OPEN 4HEN YOUR DREAM OF A LARGE QUANTITY OF PURE WATER HASH WILL REMAIN JUST A DREAM 3O DON T BE SLOPPY AND TAKE GOOD CARE )T CAN HAPPEN THAT YOU HAVE CAUGHT SO MANY CRYSTALS THAT THE BAG GETS CLOGGED UP 4HE FULLER THE BAG THE LESS EASILY THE WATER CAN FLOW AWAY 4O SPEED THINGS UP A LITTLE WE TAKE THE BAG FIRMLY BY THE TOP RIM AND WRING IT WITH THE FREE HAND ON THE LOWER PART WHERE THE SIEVE IS 7E KNEED IT MORE AND MORE SO THAT THE CRYSTALS ARE MOVED AND THE WATER CAN FIND ITS WAY THROUGH THE SIEVE ONCE AGAIN 9OU CAN ALSO SHAKE THE BAG LIGHTLY BACK AND FORTH BUT THIS CAN BE A SLOWER PROCESS

Ûi ÞÊÜ>ÌiÀÊ >Ã /NCE WE HAVE FINISHED WITH THE MIXING

REMOVE THE FIRST BAG IN WHICH THE LEAF WASTE REMAINS 7E LET THE SECOND BAG DRAIN AND THEN WE SEE THE TRAPPED CRYSTALS

! DARK GOLD BROWN COLOUR IS A GOOD INDICATION THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF CRYSTALS THAT HAVE BEEN SHAKEN FREE "Y MIXING FOR TOO LONG THE WATER CAN TAKE ON A GREEN COLOURATION

4HE END RESULT 4HE STILL WET WATER HASH AFTER BEING PRESSED LIGHTLY IN THE HANDS

!FTER A MINUTE OR SO THE WATER IS ALMOST ALL OUT AND YOU LEAVE THE BAG TO REST )N THIS WAY ALL THE CRYSTALS REMAIN TOGETHER AT THE END AND NOT SPREAD ALL OVER THE SIEVE 4HIS MAKES THE SCRAPING TOGETHER OF THE CRYSTALS EASIER 9OU CAN CONTINUE TO MIX AWAY FOR AS LONG AS YOU LIKE BUT YOU WILL NOTICE THAT FEWER AND FEWER CRYSTALS APPEAR IN THE BAG AND SO EVENTUALLY IT WILL BE NOT WORTH YOUR TIME TO CONTINUE ANY LONGER ) HAVE DONE FOUR TIMES A HALF HOUR OF MIXING UNTIL THE LEAF MATERIAL WAS SO EXHAUSTED OF CRYSTALS THAT IT WAS NO LONGER WORTHWHILE MIXING ) HAD ALSO PUT A LITTLE TOO MUCH LEAF MATERIAL IN THE BIG BAG THANKS TO WHICH MANY CRYSTALS HAD TROUBLE FALLING INTO THE CAPTURE BAG THROUGH ALL THIS LEAF MATTER )T WAS THANKS TO THIS ) HAD TO KEEP MIXING FOR LONGER 3O IT IS PREFERABLE TO PUT LESS LEAF MATERIAL IN THE LARGE BAG THAN TO KEEP STUFFING IT FULL 4HE CRYSTALS HAVE TO SINK AND THEN THEY FALL AGAIN ON THE LEAF MATERIAL 4HE MIXER THEN WHISKS THEM BACK TO THE TOP AND SO THE PROCESS GETS STUCK IN A LOOP &EWER CRYSTALS FALL IN THE LOWEST SIEVE SO THAT YOU HAVE TO STICK AT IT FOR MUCH LONGER 7ITH LESS LEAF IN THE BAG TO START WITH THE CRYSTALS HAVE MORE CHANCE OF FALLING THROUGH THE SIEVE BECAUSE THEY ARE LESS HINDERED BY THE LEAF MIXTURE !FTER ) HAVE REMOVED THE BAG WITH CRYSTALS AND SCRAPED THEM TOGETHER ) PRESS THE MOISTURE OUT OF THE CRYSTALS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SIEVE 4HEN ) TAKE THE SIEVE BETWEEN MY HANDS AND SQUEEZE THE EXCESS MOISTURE OUT OF THE BALL OF

LOTS OF MOISTURE 9OU CAN JUST AS WELL PUT ALL YOUR WEIGHT ON IT IN YOUR SHOES AND PRESS THE MOISTURE OUT UNDER YOUR FEET /R YOU CAN CHOOSE NOT TO PRESS IT AT ALL AND JUST LEAVE IT TO DRY AS A POWDER )N THIS CASE TAKE CARE THAT THE WET HASH DOES NOT BECOME MOULDY 4HIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED TO ME BUT ) DO BELIEVE IT CAN HAPPEN WITH POOR QUALITY WATER HASH WHERE LOTS OF GREEN LEAF FRAGMENTS REMAIN IN IT 4HIS GREEN LEAF BECOMES MOULDY AND SO THE HASH IS RUINED TOO 4HIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER MIX THE LEAF MATERIAL WITH ANY OBJECT WITH SHARP EDGES AS THIS HELPS CHOP THE LEAF INTO FINE PIECES WHICH WILL THEN BECOME POLLUTANTS

)F YOU HAVE DONE EVERYTHING WELL THEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO BE WORRIED ABOUT )F YOU WANT TO ABSOLUTELY SURE THAT ALL THE WATER IS OUT OF YOUR HASH THEN JUST LEAVE IT FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS OR OVERNIGHT IN THE FREEZER 4HE WATER THEN COMES OUT IN A NICE LAYER OF ICE ON THE HASH 4HIS CAN THEN BE SIMPLY WIPED OFF !ND YOU CAN BE ABSOLUTELY SURE THAT THERE IS NO WATER AT ALL LEFT IN THE HASH THAT COULD ALLOW MOULD TO DEVELOP ON THE INSIDE 4WO HOURS LATER ) HAD A LOVELY TEN GRAM LUMP OF WATER HASH )T WAS ONE OF THE BETTER ONES ) HAVE PRODUCED TO DATE 4HIS ONE WAS REALLY PURE AND YOU COULD TELL THIS FROM THE QUALITY OF THE WATER TOO )T REMAINED A LOVELY GOLD BROWN 4HE LONGER YOU KEEP MIXING THEN THE GREENER THIS BECOMES 4HE REALLY GOOD THING ABOUT THIS WATER HASH WAS THAT IT REMAINED PLIABLE 3O IT WAS NOT ROCK HARD BUT REMAINED SOFT 9OU CAN MAKE ALL KINDS OF SHAPES WITH IT )T IS HANDY LATER FOR MAKING A JOINT WITH

!LL IN ALL ) NOW HAD FROM GRAMS OF DRY LEAF MATERIAL EIGHT GRAMS OF PRESSED SKUFF AND TEN GRAMS OF WATER HASH -Y SUSPICIONS HAD BEEN CORRECT THERE WERE INDEED A LOT OF CRYSTALS LEFT IN THE LEAF MATERIAL AND THESE COULD EASILY HAVE BEEN THROWN AWAY !LL THIS LEADS ME TO CONCLUDE THAT THE COMBINATION OF MAKING SKUFF AND WATER HASH WORKS PERFECTLY ) WOULD EVEN DARE TO GO AS FAR AS TO SAY THAT IN MY OPINION BY COMBINING BOTH METHODS YOU GET THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS AND AT THE SAME TIME YOU GET THE LARGEST YIELD POSSIBLE "ECAUSE THE WATER HASH METHOD DOES MAKE SURE THAT ALL AND ) MEAN ALL THE CRYSTALS HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE LEAF MATERIAL $OING IT THE OTHER WAY ROUND SO FIRST MAKING WATER HASH AND THEN SKUFF WILL NOT HAVE SUCH A GOOD OUTCOME )T JUST WOULDN T !LL GOOD STORIES MUST COME TO AN END

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/UTDOOR GROWING WITH FEMALE SEED PART 4HIS IS ALREADY PART THREE IN THE SERIES OF ARTICLES ABOUT GROWING WITH FEMALE SEED AND IN IT WE ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT HOW THINGS ARE GOING WITH THE $URBAN PLANTS !S YOU WOULD HAVE READ IN THE PREVIOUS ARTICLE THESE PLANTS WERE PRONE TO A LOT OF BREAKAGES "RANCHES SNAPPED OFF WITHOUT ANY DISCERNABLE CAUSE IN ADDITION TO WHICH THEY ALSO DISPLAYED A GROWTH PATTERN THAT WAS NOT EXACTLY LIKE THAT YOU SEE IN @NORMAL MARIHUANA PLANTS .ONETHELESS ) DID TRY TO DO MY BEST AND SUPPORT THE PLANTS AS WELL AS ) COULD TO CARE FOR THEM WELL AND EVENTUALLY THEY DID TURN OUT TO BE RATHER LOVELY PLANTS 7HAT BEGAN AS A TRIAL OF MISERY ACTUALLY TURNED IN TO SOMETHING PRETTY REASONABLE KEEPING IN MIND THAT THEY STILL HAVE TO UNDERGO THEIR BLOOM PERIOD 4HE PLANTS ARE NOW ENTERING THE *UNE *ULY PERIOD 4HANKS TO MARVELLOUS WEATHER THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO INCREASE IN SIZE RATHER NICELY 4HE DRAWBACK OF A FINE SUMMER IS THAT THERE IS OFTEN NO RAIN FALLING 4HANKS TO THIS WE GROWERS HAVE TO GIVE THE PLANTS AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF WATER )N FACT IT HAS BECOME SOMETHING OF A DAY LONG TASK SINCE THESE LARGE $URBAN PLANTS USE SO MUCH WATER IN THIS WARM WEATHER TO THE EXTENT THAT TAKING A WEEK OFF AND SO SKIPPING WATERING DUTIES IS PRETTY IMPOSSIBLE

3UMMER WEATHER HAS ARRIVED AND THE PLANTS NOW BEGIN TO DEVELOP MORE AND MORE

&ORTUNATELY AT ONE OF MY GROW SITES ) STILL HAVE ACCESS TO AN AUTOMATIC IRRIGATION SYSTEM WHICH IS PERFECT FOR TAKING A LOT OF THIS WORK OFF MY HANDS "UT EVEN THOUGH IT IS AUTOMATIC IT STILL NEEDS A CLOSE EYE KEEPING ON IT 5SUALLY THE RAIN TUBS ARE EMPTY AFTER THREE DAYS AND SO THAT MEANS MY THREE PLANTS ARE USING LITRES OF FEED WATER WATER WITH LIQUID NUTRIENTS AND STIMULATORS MIXED IN WITH IT BETWEEN THEM LITRE PER RAIN TUB PER PLANT 4HERE IS A DANGER THAT

THAT THERE IS A TAP IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT PROXIMITY AT A SPOT AS CLOSE TO THE PLANTS AS POSSIBLE +EEP A CLOSE EYE ON THE TEMPERATURE OF THE WATER THIS SHOULD NOT BE TOO LOW GIVEN THAT THE PLANT WOULD GET A BAD SHOCK FROM THIS &ILL THE WATERING CAN THREE QUARTERS FULL WITH COLD WATER AND THEN TOP IT UP WITH HOT WATER FROM INDOORS THIS USUALLY DOES THE TRICK 4HE IDEAL WATER TEMPERATURE IS AROUND THE # MARK /NCE THE WATERING CAN IS FULL ) ADD THE LIQUID NUTRIENTS AND STIMULATORS TO THE WATER 4O DO THIS ) USE A DOSAGE SYRINGE

SO THAT SO THAT IT CAN BE DONE WITH PRETTY GOOD ACCURACY "Y DOING SO THE CHANCES OF OVER FEEDING ARE NEGLIGIBLE 3INCE ) MOSTLY GET MY NUTRIENTS AND STIMULATORS OUT OF LARGE JERRY CANS IT WOULD BE A HASSLE TO LUG THEM BACK AND FORTH EACH TIME ) WANT TO USE THEM SO ) TEND TO DECANT SOME OF THE NUTRIENT AND STIMULATOR OUT OF THEIR CANS INTO SMALL GLASS JARS $OING THIS MAKES WATERING THE MARIHUANA PLANTS CONSIDERABLY EASIER -ANY GROWERS FIND THEMSELVES WONDERING FROM TIME TO TIME JUST WHY IS IT THAT THE WATER REQUIREMENTS OF MARIHUANA PLANTS SHOOT UP SO ENORMOUSLY WHEN THE WARM SUMMER WEATHER COMES ALONG 7HEREAS A BIG MARIHUANA PLANT LIKE THE FEMALE $URBAN ON A CLOUDY DAY WITH A TEMPERATURE OF ABOUT # IS HAPPY WITH BARELY LITRES OF FEED WATER PER DAY

ITS NEED FOR FEED WATER ON WARM ABOVE # AND DRY WEATHER CAN SOAR UP TO LITRES PER DAY 3O WE RE TALKING HERE ABOUT A TENFOLD INCREASE IN FEED WATER DEMAND .OW OF COURSE IT IS TRUE THAT THE EVAPORATION OF THE FEED WATER DURING THESE HOT DRY PERIODS PLAYS A LARGE ROLE 4HE ACTUAL QUANTITIES OF FEED WATER THAT REACH THE ROOTS OF THE MARIHUANA PLANT ARE CONSIDERABLY LOWER THAN THE TOTAL

4HE MODEST NUMBER OF DOWNPOURS HAS ONE OTHER DRAWBACK ATTACHED TO IT 4HE CHANCE OF AN INFESTATION BY LICE IS RAISED BY QUITE A LOT CAN ARISE WHEN A RAIN TUB IS EMPTY AND THE TIMER SWITCH HAS NOT BEEN SWITCHED OFF 4HE SUBMERGED PUMP WILL CONTINUE TO CUT IN EVERY MORNING AS PROGRAMMED AND THIS CAN BECOME A FIRE HAZARD WHEN THERE S NO MORE WATER FOR IT TO PUMP IN THE RAIN TUB 4HIS SITUATION HAS ALREADY OCCURRED ONCE THIS GROWING SEASON AND ) CAN TELL YOU IT S A REAL PAIN WHEN SUCH AN EXPENSIVE PIECE OF KIT GOES UP THE SPOUT +EEP A CLOSE WATCH AND EVERY COUPLE OF DAYS CHECK EVERYTHING IS THE RULE OF THUMB WHEN WORKING WITH EXPENSIVE IRRIGATION SYSTEMS LIKE THIS

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!T ONE OF THE TWO GROW SITES THE MARIHUANA PLANTS ARE AUTOMATICALLY GIVEN FEED WATER $URING THE WARM SUMMER MONTHS WE WILL NEED TO FILL THE RAIN TUB EVERY THREE DAYS

!T THE OTHER GROW SPACE THOUGH THIS IS A LUXURY PROBLEM AND THERE S NOTHING FOR IT BUT FOR ME TO LUG AROUND WATERING CANS FULL OF FEED WATER 4O CUT DOWN ON THE MISERY INFLICTED THANKS TO ALL THAT CARRYING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE IT IS AN IDEA TO USE A GARDEN HOSE 7ITH THIS WE CAN FILL THE WATERING CAN PROVIDED

AMOUNT GIVEN TO THEM DURING WARM WEATHER 7E CAN TRY TO KEEP EVAPORATION LEVELS DOWN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE

BY ONLY GIVING THE PLANTS FEED WATER IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THE MORNING AND AT THE END OF THE EVENING ) HAVE HEARD IT SAID THAT

BY DOING THIS THE PLANTS CAN RECEIVE UP TO MORE OF THE FEED WATER THANKS TO THE EVAPORATION AT THESE TIMES OF THE DAY BEING MINIMAL )F YOU HAVE THE POSSIBILITY OF GIVING THEM FEED WATER IN THE EARLY MORNING AND THE EVENING

THEN PERSONALLY WHEN GROWING OUTDOOR MARIHUANA ) PREFER TO CHOOSE THE EARLY MORNING 4HE PLANTS AT THIS TIME CAN START TAKING UP THE WATER IMMEDIATELY AND THEN HAVE SEVERAL HOURS LATER WHEN THE SUN BEGINS TO SHINE IN WHICH TO TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF IT 4HANKS TO THE LARGE QUANTITY OF SUN LIGHT THAT IS REACHING THE LEAVES THE PLANT CREATES A HUGE AMOUNT OF ENERGY AND CAN MAKE USE OF LARGE QUANTITIES OF NUTRIENTS AS A RESULT !S WELL AS THIS THE PLANT

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SUFFERED A LOT FROM THE SUN AND DRYNESS AND THANKS TO THIS CONTAIN LESS SAP FOR FEEDING ON IT CAN SEEM AS IF THE WHOLE LOUSE COLONY HAS FOUND ITS WAY TO FEAST ON THE WELL DEVELOPED MARIHUANA PLANTS

TAKES UP MUCH MORE NUTRIENT WHEN THE CONDITIONS INCLUDING PLENTY OF SUNSHINE

ARE IDEAL !S A RESULT OF THIS IS IT OFTEN MAKES LITTLE SENSE TO GO GIVING THE PLANTS LOADS OF LIQUID NUTRIENT AND STIMULATOR MIXED IN WATER ON VERY CLOUDY DAYS 9OU RE MUCH BETTER OFF GIVING THESE SUPPLEMENTS IN THE EARLY MORNING OF LOVELY SUNNY SUMMER DAYS 4HIS IS WHEN THE PLANT CAN BEST MAKE USE OF THEM AND THE EFFECT WILL BE MUCH BIGGER "ESIDES THE FACT THAT MARIHUANA PLANTS NEED MORE WATER ON WARM DAYS TO REMAIN HEALTHY THERE IS ANOTHER IMPORTANT POINT TO BE MADE HERE 4HE REASON THAT THE NEED FOR FEED WATER IS SO MUCH GREATER IS PRIMARILY THAT THE MARIHUANA PLANTS NEED IT TO BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND THE HEAT 4HEY DO THIS BY EVAPORATING STRICTLY SPEAKING TRANSPIRING WATER OUT OF THEIR LEAVES "Y DOING THIS THEY COOL THEMSELVES DOWN AND REMAIN IN GOOD CONDITION !NOTHER ARGUMENT IS THAT THE PLANTS JUST FEEL BETTER WITH A HIGHER AIR MOISTURE CONTENT THANKS TO WHICH ON DRY DAYS WHEN THE AIR MOISTURE IS OFTEN VERY LOW THEY TRY TO COMPENSATE THEMSELVES 3O THEY MAKE SURE THEMSELVES THAT THE ALTERNATION BETWEEN LOW AND HIGH AIR MOISTURE PERIODS IS NOT TOO ABRUPT )NDOOR GROWERS ARE ALREADY VERY FAMILIAR WITH PHENOMENON AND TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT THEIR PLANTS ENJOY A HIGH AIR MOISTURE LEVEL THROUGHOUT THEIR GROWTH PHASE 4HEY DO THIS BY USING FOR EXAMPLE AN AIR HUMIDIFIER "Y DOING SO THE PLANTS HAVE NO NEED TO TRANSPIRE WATER VAPOUR SINCE THERE IS ALREADY SUFFICIENT IN THE AIR AND THEY CAN DEVOTE ALL THEIR ENERGY TO GROWTH )T IS NOT FOR NOTHING THAT PLANTS GROWING IN MOIST CONDITIONS PROVIDED THIS IS NOT OVERDONE WHICH INCREASES THE RISK OF MOULD INFECTION DEVELOP LIKE PLANTS POSSESSED AND INCREASE THEIR DIMENSIONS TANGIBLY QUICKER THAN MEMBERS OF THE SAME VARIETY THAT ARE NOT EXPOSED TO SUCH IDEAL MOISTURE CONDITIONS

5SUALLY IT IS ANTS THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR TRANSPORTING THESE ANNOYING BUGS TO OUR MARIHUANA PLANTS 4HEY WATCH OVER AND TAKE CARE OF THE LICE IN EXCHANGE FOR WHICH THE LICE EXUDE FOR THEM A SWEET LIQUID 4HIS IS IN PRINCIPLE QUITE INTERESTING BUT NOT ESPECIALLY AMUSING WHEN WE CONSIDER THE DAMAGE THAT THE LICE DO TO THE PLANTS THEY ARE FEEDING OFF NAMELY OURS 4HAT IS WHY WE HAVE TO TAKE STEPS TO ERADICATE THEM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SINCE OTHERWISE IN THE SHORTEST OF POSSIBLE TIMES THEY WILL BE TAKING OUT OUR PLANT IN LARGE NUMBERS

7E CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE FEMALE PLANTS AS WELL AS POSSIBLE 4HUS STEM IS NOW STOOD STRONGLY SINCE WE SUPPORTED THE MAIN STEM WITH THE AID OF TYRIPS ATTACHING IT TO A BROOM HANDLE

,ICE ARE VERY ANNOYING CREATURES 4HEY SUCK THE SAP FROM THE PLANT WHICH IN TURN SERI OUSLY HINDERS THE GROWTH AND BLOOM 4HEY ARE PARTICULARLY PRONE TO ARRIVE IN THEIR HUN DREDS AFTER A LONG PERIOD OF DRY WEATHER

+EEP A CLOSE EYE ON THE TEMPERATURE OF THE WATER THIS SHOULD NOT BE TO LOW GIVEN THAT THE PLANT WOULD GET A BAD SHOCK FROM THIS

* >}ÕiÊ vÊ Vi 2ETURNING TO THE OUTDOOR CONDITIONS DURING THE MONTHS OF SUMMER THE MODEST AMOUNT OF DOWNPOURS HAS ONE OTHER DRAWBACK ATTACHED TO IT 4HE CHANCE OF AN INFESTATION BY LICE IS RAISED BY QUITE A LOT 4HESE LITTLE BUGGERS ARE MAD ABOUT MARIHUANA PLANTS AND CAN DO A LOT OF DAMAGE ONCE THEY GET A GRIP %SPECIALLY BECAUSE THE SURROUNDING PLANTS HAVE

4HANKS TO THE LARGE AMOUNT OF SUNLIGHT AND GOOD CARE THE FEMALE PLANTS BEGIN TO DEVELOP IN TO MORE AND MORE COMPACT BUSHES

3ADLY BRANCHES HAVE CONTINUED TO BREAK OFF "UT THE PLANT DOES REMAIN ALIVE AND BEGINS TO GROW EVER MORE IN HEIGHT

7HEN IT COMES TO COMBATING ANY INFESTATION IT IS BEST TO TREAT THE PLANTS IN THE EVENING ONCE THE SUNLIGHT IS NO LONGER SHINING ON THE LEAVES "ESIDES THE RECIPE ) ONCE RECOMMENDED OF PRESSED GARLIC IN WARM WATER THERE HAS FOR SOME TIME NOW BEEN ANOTHER VERY EFFECTIVE PRODUCT ON THE MARKET 'OING UNDER THE NAME OF 3PRUZIT THIS BIOLOGICAL INSECTICIDE IS AVAILABLE FROM VARIOUS GARDEN CENTRES )T IS USED BOTH FOR DECORATIVE PLANTS AS WELL AS ON VEGETABLES AND OR FRUIT TREES AND IS THEREFORE FINE FOR USE BY US WEED GROWERS TOO IT IS NOT HARMFUL FOR THE WEED )T IS SIMPLE TO USE AND IT WORKS SUPERBLY AGAINST ANY GNAWING AND SUCKING BEASTIES 9OU GET THE BEST RESULTS WHEN YOU TREAT THE PLANTS PREFERABLY SEVERAL DAYS IN A ROW AND PREFERABLY IN THE EVENING 7E SPRAY THE WHOLE PLANT ESPECIALLY THE LEAVES AND NOT FORGETTING TO DO THEIR UNDERSIDES TOO )T IS HERE THAT THE YOUNG LARVAE AND EGGS ARE USUALLY TO BE FOUND LURKING AND NOT JUST OF LICE BUT ALL KINDS OF CREATURE #HOOSE A DRY NIGHT ON WHICH TO DO YOUR SPRAYING

SINCE THE RAIN WOULD JUST RINSE THE SUBSTANCE OFF AGAIN AND MAKE SURE THAT IT IS NOT TOO WINDY WHICH ALSO LOWERS THE EFFECT 7IND MAKES THE STUFF DRY OUT TOO QUICKLY THANKS TO WHICH THE PLANTS BARELY HAVE THE CHANCE TO TAKE THE INSECTICIDE UP VIA THEIR LEAVES

$ESPITE THE FACT THAT DRYNESS MAKES THE CIRCUMSTANCES FOR INSECTS SUCH AS LICE MORE FAVOURABLE AS COMPENSATION IT DOES ALSO MAKE FOR LESS TROUBLE WITH SLUGS %VEN BETTER THEY CAN GO AS FAR AS TO DIE OUT COMPLETELY 4HINGS HAVE BEEN VERY

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4HE PLANTS GROW WITH SUCH SPEED THAT THERE IS NO HOLDING THEM BACK 4HIS LADY GREW ABOVE ROOF HEIGHT IN NO TIME AT ALL

MOST NOTORIOUS SINCE THESE HAVE THROWN MANY A LOVELY BIG PLANT TO THE GROUND AND SMASHED HER UP AS A RESULT )F SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENS TO YOU IT IS OF COURSE A COMPLETE PAIN IN THE ARSE "ESIDES THE FACT THAT FOR SUCH A PLANT THE OUTDOOR SEASON IS EFFECTIVELY LOST SUCH AN EVENT ALSO MARKS THE IMMEDIATE END OF THEIR GROWING CAREER FOR SOME GROWERS 7HICH IS ACTUALLY A PITY SINCE A DISASTROUS GROWING YEAR IS OFTEN FOLLOWED BY A YEAR FILLED WITH GROWING SUCCESS AND EVEN NOW AND THEN

BY A SUPER HARVEST WHEN EVEN THE INDOOR GROWERS GET A BIT TAKEN ABACK 3O DO NOT GIVE UP TOO SOON IS THE MESSAGE BUT JUST KEEP DOING WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN DOING %FFORT WILL ALWAYS BE REWARDED IN THE LONG TERM

*ÀÕ iÊÀi}Õ >À Þ )T PERHAPS LOOKS A LITTLE WEIRD BUT IN THESE GLASS POTS THERE IS EVERYTHING ! " NUTRIENTS VARIOUS STIMULATORS AND BOOST ERS THAT THE MARIHUANA PLANTS NEED

4HE PLANT IS INDEED A LITTLE THINNED OUT BY THE BREAKING OFF OF SEVERAL SIDE BRANCHES ON ITS UNDERSIDE BUT NONETHELESS THE CROWN STILL LOOKS PRETTY PROMISING 4HE PLANT IS NOW AROUND METRES HIGH

DIFFERENT IN OTHER SUMMERS ) HAVE HAD WHOLE BUSHES STRIPPED BARE AND EATEN JUST BECAUSE IT HAD RAINED HEAVILY FOR A FEW DAYS IN A ROW AND THE AIR MOISTURE HAD SHOT UP $RAMAS LIKE THIS STRIKE VERY RARELY IN DRY SUMMERS AND THIS IN ITSELF CAN BE DESCRIBED AS AN ADVANTAGE 4HANKS TO THE LOVELY WEATHER AND THE GOOD CARE THEY HAVE RECEIVED THE PLANTS HAVE DEVELOPED INCREDIBLE SIZES )T ALL LOOKS VERY IMPRESSIVE BUT AS A RESULT OF THEIR SIZE MY WORRIES FOR THE DAMAGE THAT MIGHT BE CAUSED BY A STORM GUST HAVE RISEN TOO 4HE COLOSSAL $URBAN PLANTS CATCH A LOT OF WIND AND THEN AS A GROWER ALL YOU CAN DO IS HOPE FOR A GOOD OUTCOME "ESIDES PROTECTING THE PLANTS AS WELL AS POSSIBLE

BY STICKING STAKES IN THE GROUND AROUND THE MARIHUANA PLANTS WHICH WE CAN TIE THE PLANTS TO USING STRING AND STRIPS OF BICYCLE INNER TUBE FOR SUPPORT AS WAS EXTENSIVELY DESCRIBED IN THE PREVIOUS ARTICLE WE ARE PRETTY MUCH AT THE MERCY OF THE POWERS OF MOTHER EARTH 7ARM SUMMERS ARE USUALLY A GUARANTEE OF A NUMBER OF HEAVY STORMS AND BEFORE THESE COME THERE CAN BE VERY STRONG WINDS 4HE HARD GUSTS OF WIND ARE

3O AROUND MID *ULY ) START TO PRUNE THE MARIHUANA PLANTS REGULARLY 4HIS IS A GOOD TIME FOR A VARIETY SUCH AS THE $URBAN

SINCE AS YET THERE IS NO SIGN OF ANY FLOWER FORMATION -EANWHILE WE CAN TRIM BACK THE PLANTS A LITTLE AS WE SEE FIT BEFORE THE BLOOM PERIOD STARTS ) GO ESPECIALLY FOR THE THIN POORLY DEVELOPED SIDE BRANCHES !LSO THE BRANCHES THAT ARE RECEIVING MINI MAL SUNLIGHT ) MOSTLY TRIM OFF 9OU WILL OFTEN SEE THE WELL DEVELOPED SIDE BRANCHES DEVELOP EVEN FASTER AS A RESULT OF DOING SO AND THAT IS A FAVOURABLE INDICATION THAT THE FORMATION OF THE FLOWER HEADS IS ABOUT TO BEGIN +EEP A GOOD EYE OPEN WHEN PRUNING YOUR SIDE BRANCHES THAT YOU DO NOT REMOVE ALL THE BRANCHES FROM ONE SIDE OF THE PLANT ONLY FOR EXAMPLE FROM THE SHADED SIDE

WHERE THE BRANCHES ARE OFTEN POORLY DEVEL OPED 4HE PLANT ALWAYS TRIES TO GROW SO THAT HER SIDE BRANCHES ARE REASONABLY WELL BALANCED WHICH HELPS HER STAY UPRIGHT )F WE WERE TO NOW GO TRIMMING OFF A FEW SIDE BRANCHES FROM THE SAME SIDE OF THE PLANT THE SHE CAN START TO DROOP RATHER SADLY OR BEGIN TO BEND OVER 3O KEEP A GOOD EYE ON THIS BECAUSE JUST A SMALL BREATH OF WIND CAN THEN SOMETIMES BE ENOUGH TO TIP THE PLANT OVER COMPLETELY 4HANKS TO THE GREAT WEIGHT OF THE PLANT THIS NEARLY ALWAYS SNAPS THE MAIN STEM 3IMPLY HELPING THE PLANT BACK ON TO ITS FEET IS NO LONGER SUFFICIENT AND THE CHANCE THAT THE STEM SNAPS COMPLETELY IS EVEN GREATER )T IS BETTER TO SUPPORT THE MAIN STEM WITH SOMETHING LIKE A STRONG CHAIR OR A STAKE NAILED HORIZONTALLY TO TWO POLES )N THIS WAY THE CAN STILL BE PERSUADED TO NOT GIVE UP THE FIGHT AND SO AT THE VERY LEAST WE ARE STILL GUARANTEED SOME OUTDOOR WEED 4HANKS TO THE PLANT BEING SUPPORTED

BY THE CHAIR AND OR STAKE THE FLOWER HEADS WILL BEHELD SUFFICIENTLY FAR OFF THE GROUND THAT THE RISK OF MOULD AND OR SAND GRAINS GETTING INTO THEM IS LOWERED 0ARTICULARLY WHEN GRASS IS GROWING UNDER THE PLANT IN THE AUTUMN THIS WILL BE A SOURCE OF MOULD

WHEN THE BLOOMS HANG TOO CLOSE TO IT 4HE GRASS HOLDS ESPECIALLY IN THE AUTUMN A LOT OF DEW AND SO CREATES A HIGH AIR MOIS TURE JUST ABOVE IT )T GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT THIS IS ANYTHING BUT FAVOURABLE FOR WEED BUDS SUCH AS THE ONES WE HAVE ON THE $URBAN PLANT )N THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE WE WILL BE TAKING A LOOK AT HOW THE BLOOM PERIOD PROCEEDS FURTHER 7ITH A BIT OF LUCK THE FLOWER HEADS WILL BE ENJOYING A FINE AUTUMN WHICH WILL INCREASE THE QUALITY OF THE WEED IN LEAPS AND BOUNDS

9OU DO NOT COME ACROSS MANY MARIHUANA PLANTS BIGGER THAN THIS ONE EVERY DAY AS OUTDOOR GROWERS 4HE BASIS OF THIS SUCCESS IS LITRES OF WATER EVERY DAY AND ONE VERY ENTHUSIASTIC GROWER

4HE FIRST FLOWER HEADS ARE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ALREADY .OW WE JUST HAVE TO HOPE FOR A GOOD AUTUMN

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#ANNABIS IS A DIOECIOUS SPECIES 4HIS MEANS WHEN CANNABIS SEEDS ARE BRED AND GROWN UNDER NATURAL CONDITIONS THEY GIVE OUT BOTH MALE AND FEMALE PLANTS 4HE FEMALE FLOWERS CALYX RELY ON THE POLLEN PRODUCED BY MALE FLOWERS ANTHER TO PRODUCE SEED 4RUE MALE FLOWERS ONLY OCCUR ON MALE PLANTS 7HEREAS ABNORMAL MALE FLOWERS CAN OCCUR IN FEMALE AND OR HERMAPHRODITIC LINES MALE AND FEMALE PLANTS (ERE WE ARE CONCERNED WITH TRUE MALES ONLY 4ODAY THE MAJORITY OF CANNABIS GROWERS ARE CULTIVATING SINSEMILLIA PLANTS WITHOUT SEED &EMALE PLANTS PRODUCE SINSEMILLIA FLOWERS WHEN STARVED FROM SOURCES OF MALE POLLEN &EMALE SINSEMILLIA PLANTS START TO EXHIBIT STRONGER PATTERNS OF GROWTH WITH BIGGER SMELLIER STICKIER FLOWERS WHEN GROWN IN ISOLATION FROM THEIR MALE SIBLINGS 4HIS PLANT MECHANISM HAS EVOLVED SO THAT ISOLATED FEMALE PLANTS OBTAIN A GREATER @CHANCE OF OBTAINING POLLEN SOURCED FROM THE WIND OR PASSING ANIMALS !T THE POINT WHEN THE FEMALE CALYX BECOME POLLINATED SINSEMILLIA PRODUCTION CEASES AND FEMALES CONCENTRATE PLANT ENERGY TOWARDS SEED PRODUCTION RATHER THAN GROWTH &OR THIS REASON SINSEMILLIA GROWERS ALWAYS REMOVE !,, MALE PLANTS FROM THE GARDEN -ALE PLANTS ARE HABITUALLY PULLED AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE DURING ADOLESCENCE TO HELP PROTECT THE SINSEMILLIA CROP FROM SEEDING (ERE WE SHALL TAKE AN ALTERNATIVE LOOK AT THE POTENTIAL OF THOSE MALE PLANTS THAT WOULD HAVE OTHERWISE REMAINED IN THE GARDEN

> iÊ* > ÌÃ $URING ADOLESCENCE THE SEXUAL EXPRESSION OF A PLANT IS VISIBLE &EMALE PLANTS PRODUCE CALYX AND MALE PLANTS PRODUCE ANTHER IN THEIR FLORAL STRUCTURE 4HERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS TO TELL MALE PLANTS APART FROM FEMALE PLANTS BEFORE FLOWERING WHEN FULL SEXUAL EXPRESSION OCCURES 0RIOR TO CHANGES IN PHOTOPERIOD AT AROUND WEEKS OF VEGETATIVE GROWTH MALE PLANTS SLOWLY START TO SHOW THEMSELVES IN THE GARDEN 4HIS MAY BE LESS PRONOUNCED IN CERTAIN GENETICS AND MORE PRONOUNCED IN OTHERS 3OME HEAVY INDICA LINES DISPLAY AUTO FLOWERING MALES AT DAYS REGARDLESS OF PHOTOPERIOD WHEREAS CERTAIN SATIVA STRAINS TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OF BEFORE SHOWING THEIR SEX -ALE PLANTS INVARIABLY GROW TALLER THAN THEIR FEMALE SIBLINGS 4HIS EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISM ENSURES THAT WIND CARRIED MALE POLLEN REACHES THE FEMALE CANOPY OF FLOWERS DOWN BELOW )NTER NODAL GAPS ON MALE PLANTS SHOOT UP EARLY WHILE THE WIDTH REMAINS MUCH THE SAME THROUGHOUT GROWTH 7HEN CONTRASTED WITH FEMALE PLANTS FROM THE SAME PARENTS WHICH USUALLY GROW SHORTER AND WIDER OVERALL THESE DIFFERENCES ARE MOST NOTICEABLE .ODAL BRANCHES IN MALE PLANTS ARE ALSO MUCH REDUCED WHEN COMPARED WITH THOSE ON FEMALES OF THE SAME AGE FROM THE SAME SUB SPECIES 4HE ROOT STRUCTURE IN MALE PLANTS IS ALSO LESS PROLIFIC THAN IN FEMALES &EMALE PLANTS CONCENTRATE ENERGIES INTO ROOT PRODUCTION EARLY TO HELP ANCHOR SEED BARING PARENTS INTO PLACE FIRMLY BEFORE BLOOMING -ALE PLANTS ON THE OTHER HAND DO NOT REQUIRE SUCH INTENSIVE UNDERGROUND SUPPORT SINCE THE FLOWERING TIME AND LONGEVITY OF MALES IS MUCH SORTER 4HE ENERGY REQUIREMENTS OF MALE PLANTS IS MUCH LESS USING FEWER NUTRIENTS DURING FLOWERING 4HE OVERALL TIME FROM GERMINATION TO INSEMINATION IN MALE PLANTS MAY BE AS SHORT AS A COUPLE OF WEEKS WITH LITTLE LONG TERM INVESTMENT IN ROOT SYSTEMS NEEDED -ALE PLANTS ARE THEREFORE EASILY UPROOTED IN SOIL SUBSTRATES WHEREAS FEMALE PLANTS PUT UP FAR MORE RESISTANCE IN THE ROOTS WHEN PULLED UPON !NOTHER WAY TO IDENTIFY MALE PLANTS EARLY ON IS BY STANDING DIRECTLY OVER THE PLANTS TO GAIN A BIRD S EYE VIEW OF THE FLOWER HEADS 4HE CENTRAL BUDS OF MALE PLANTS OFTEN APPEAR WHITE IN THE CROWN WHERE THE MALE PREFLOWERS ARE STARTING TO FORM 4HIS IS MOST VISIBLE DURING THE FIRST WEEKS AFTER SWITCHING OVER TO LIGHT CYCLES ,OOKING FOR hBALLSv CAN BE MISLEADING IN SOME STRAINS ESPECIALLY IN THOSE WITH FEMALE PREFLOWERS THAT CURL TO MIMIC MALE FLOWERS )T IS THEREFORE ALWAYS WISER TO OBSERVE AND CONFIRM SEXUALITY IN PLANTS CLOSELY DURING THE FIRST FEW WEEKS OF FLOWERING TO AVOID ANY UNWANTED MISTAKES 5NIDENTIFIED MALES CAN CAUSE CHAOS IN A SINSEMILLIA GARDEN WHILE CLEARLY IDENTIFIED MALE PLANTS CAUSE FEWER PROBLEMS WHEN PLACED INTO ISOLATION ON THEIR OWN

> iÊ i iÌ VÃ 'ENETICALLY MALE PLANTS DISPLAY THE SAME VARIATION IN LINEAGE AS THEIR SIBLING SISTERS 6ARIATIONS IN THE GENOTYPE ARE SHARED BETWEEN BOTH PARENTS PLANTS IN MALES JUST AS IN FEMALES 0ROBLEMS HOWEVER ARISE BECAUSE SO MUCH OBSERVATION IS PLACED INTO THE FEMALE ASPECTS OF CANNABIS AS A SPECIES THAT THE MALE SIDE TENDS TO GET OVERLOOKED OR COMPLETELY IGNORED 6ERY FEW GARDENERS FULLY UNDERSTAND MALE PLANTS AND HOW THEY WORK FOR EXAMPLE VIABILITY RATES IN POLLEN GO UNRECORDED &EW IF ANY PEOPLE GROW OUT GARDENS OF EXCLUSIVELY MALE PLANTS )NFORMATION ABOUT MALES IS OFTEN BASED ON A SINGLE STUDY OF A SINGLE GENUS SPECIES )N MANY CASES SUCH OBSERVATIONS TAKE PLACE OVER NIGHT RATHER THAN A PROLONGED PERIOD OF TIME ACROSS GENERATIONS OF POPULATIONS OF PLANTS 4HE MAJORITY OF BREEDERS WORKING WITH MALE PLANTS WORK WITH INDIVIDUAL PARENT STOCK !LLOCATING ONE MALE PLANT FROM THE LOT TO ACT AS h0OPPAv OFTEN FOR THE USE OF CROSS BREEDING ONTO SEVERAL FEMALE CLONES h(Ev OFTEN GOES ON TO SPAWN WHOLE GENERATIONS

OF PLANTS BECAUSE hHISv GENETICS WERE DEEMED WORKABLE UNIQUE OR VALUABLE AT THE TIME 4HIS IS OF COURSE @EASY BREEDING /THER BREEDERS OPEN POLLINATE SEED CROPS OF CANNABIS RATHER THAN INDIVIDUAL PLANTS

WHICH ULTIMATELY MAINTAINS GENETIC DIVERSITY WITHIN THE SAME SUB SPECIES OR CULTIVAR 4HE AIM HERE IS TO MAINTAIN A REPRESENTATION OF !,, OF THE CHARACTERISTICS ORIGINAL INVOLVED IN THE STRAIN BY USING SEVERAL MALES RATHER THAN ISOLATING SPECIFIC PLANTS AS PARENTS TO MAKE NEW HYBRIDS WITH 3UCH METHODS OF INBREEDING ARE ONLY EVER POSSIBLE FROM SEED USING SEVERAL MALE AND FEMALE PLANTS OVER GENERATIONS AS PARENTAL STOCK 4HERE IS ALSO A GROWING BAND OF CLOSET BREEDERS OR POLLEN CHUCKERS AS THEY ARE KNOWN WHEREBY IT IS FASHIONABLE TO BREED POLY HYBRID LINES FROM SINGLE SEED PACKETS OR IMPORTED CLONES IN THE CONFINES OF ONES HOME -ANY PROFESSIONAL "REEDERS HAVE GONE FULL CIRCLE OVER THIS

BY ATTEMPTING TO HACK BREED THEIR OWN LINES FOR RETAIL PURPOSES 5LTIMATELY THE AIM IS TO POLLINATE AS MANY INDIVIDUAL FEMALE PLANTS CLONES AS POSSIBLE FROM THE SAME SOURCES OF POLLEN 4HIS NOT ONLY STRENGTHENS THE CHANCES OF PRODUCING SOMETHING REALLY SPECIAL EVERY NOW AND THEN BUT ACTS AS A UNIQUE PUBLICITY STUNT TO MARKET UNTESTED SEED LINES AGAINST )N EITHER SCENARIO LINE BREEDING OPEN BREEDING OR HACK BREEDING A BASIC LEVEL OF INTIMACY BETWEEN THE GROWER AND MALE PLANTS IS OBSERVED %XPERIENCED GROWERS GET A FEEL FOR THINGS AFTER A WHILE LEARNING TO IDENTIFY NICE MALE PLANTS AS THEY COME ACROSS THEM IN THE GARDEN WHICH IS OFTEN THE REASON THEY STARTED BREEDING THEIR OWN SEEDS TO BEGIN WITH FOR BETTER GENETICS OVERALL )N THIS RESPECT THE FUTURE OF MALE GENETICS LAYS IN THE HANDS OF CONTEMPORARY BREEDERS

> iÊ Àii` }ÊÊ 4HERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS GROWERS CAN TEST THE POTENTIAL OF A MALE PLANTS 4HE FIRST IS STUPIDLY OBVIOUS WHY NOT SMOKE IT $ESPITE WHAT OUR !MERICAN COUSINS WOULD HAVE US BELIEVE MALE PLANTS ARE RARELY WORTH SMOKING BECAUSE THE RESIN PROFILE IS ALMOST OBSOLETE %ATING MALE FLOWERS WOULD PROVIDE MORE OF A INDICATION TO QUALITY !S WOULD CHEWING THE STEMS 4HE BEST WAY TO TEST A MALE PLANT IS TO BREED IT WITH A FEMALE PLANT AND SOW OUT THE RESULTING SEEDS 4HIS IS THE ONLY FAIL SAFE WAY OF REALLY GETTING TO GRIPS WITH WHAT S HAPPENING WITH ANY PARENT PLANT MALE OR FEMALE !T THIS STAGE THE 'ROWER HAS ALREADY TURNED "REEDER $ESPITE WHICH METHOD OF MANAGEMENT IS USED ONCE PURPOSEFUL PROCREATION TAKES PLACE WITH MALE CANNABIS PLANTS PEOPLE ARE BREEDING THEIR OWN ,EARNING TO UNDERSTAND THE MECHANISMS BEHIND THE MALE PLANTS USED IN BREEDING IS OF THIS PROCESS /THER WAYS TO JUDGE THE POTENTIAL OF A MALE PLANT IS BY CAREFUL OBSERVATION PRIOR TO THE POINT OF CONCEPTION 4HE SMELL OF ANY PLANT USUALLY INDICATES ITS QUALITY "Y RUBBING A STEM WITH ONE FINGER AND THEN RUBBING THE STEM OF ANOTHER MALE WITH ANOTHER FINGER WE CAN EASILY JUDGE THE DIFFERENCE IN AROMA 4HE PLANTS OVERALL STATURE HEALTH

AND DEXTERITY ARE OTHER IMPORTANT ASPECTS (EALTHY PARENT STOCK ARE ALWAYS FIT AND STRONG NOT SICK AND WEEDY -ALES SHOULD BE TRUE TO THEIR GENETICS .ICE MALES STAND OUT ABOVE THE REST OF THE MALES IN THE GARDEN 0ROVIDING A HOMOGENEOUS SEED LINE IS BEING USED THE TALLEST AND BOLDEST MALE PLANTS WILL ULTIMATELY MAKE THE TALLEST AND BOLDEST PARENT PLANTS WITH BREEDING )F A BATCH OF PLANTS HOLDS VARIATION THEN SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS IN INDIVIDUAL MALE PLANTS CAN BE PERPETUATED IN LINEAGE 4HIS MIGHT INCLUDE THE USE OF EARLY FLOWERING MALES PLANTS THAT STAY LOW OR THOSE THAT DISPLAY INTERESTING LEAF PATTERNS COLOURATION

OR SCENT -ALE PLANTS THAT TOLERATE SPECIFIC CLIMATIC CONDITIONS OR OVERGROW THEIR SIBLINGS MAY ALSO BE USED TO INJECT VITALITY INTO PLAYED OUT OR FINICKY IN BRED LINES -UCH IN THE SAME WAY AS SPECIFIC FEMALES ARE SELECTED AND KEPT AS MOTHERS SOME BREEDERS GO TO EXTREME LENGTHS TO MAINTAIN SPECIFIC MALE PLANTS AS FATHERS OR hKEEPERSv ,EARNING TO RECOGNISE MINUTE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CORRESPONDING OR CONTRASTING MALE CULTIGENS IS THEN ANOTHER SKILL OF THE BREEDER

> iÊ >ÌÀi` #OMMERCIAL GROWERS IN %UROPE HAVE VERY LITTLE USE FOR MALE PLANTS 3HOW MOST CASH CROPPERS A FLOWERING MALE PLANT AND THEY LL RUN A MILE FOR FEAR OF CATCHING POLLEN ON THEIR CLOTHES 9EP HATRED OF MALE PLANTS HAS REACHED PANDEMIC LEVELS /NE ONLINE GROWER ONCE ASKED h7HAT DO YOU DO WITH MALE PLANTS v TO WHICH THE EVER ELUSIVE +ERBDOG REPLIED h3WEAR AT THEM AS YOU THROW THEM IN THE BINv 3ADLY THE MAJORITY OF NORMAL CANNABIS PLANTS OVER OF THEM IF YOU STOP AND THINK ABOUT IT END UP ON THE COMPOST HEAP OR IN THE BIN /F THOSE PLANTS THAT MAKE IT TO ADOLESCENCE AT LEAST HALF OF THEM ARE GOING TO BE MALE 3OW OUT A SINGLE SEED AND 3OD S ,AW IT WILL PRODUCE A MALE PLANT -ALE PLANTS CROP UP WITH THE SAME REGULARITY AS FEMALE PLANTS IN TRUTH SO THE RATIO OF MALE TO FEMALE SEEDS TENDS TO BALANCE ITSELF OUT AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF SOWING "UT THIS DOESN T HELP MUCH IF YOU RE A SINSEMILLIA FARMER &OR MANY THE DISPOSAL OF MALE PLANTS HAS BECOME JUST ANOTHER DAY IN THE OFFICE UNLESS GROWING FROM CLONES OF COURSE 3OME SEED COMPANIES HAVE TAKEN FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE GROWING SINSEMILLIA TREND BY PRODUCING EXCLUSIVELY FEMALE FEMINIZED SEEDLINES &EMINIZED LINES ARE HOWEVER SUSCEPTIBLE TO TRANSEXUALITY AND GENETIC MUTATIONS WHICH MAKES THEM INADEQUATE AND UNSUITABLE FOR FUTURE PROGRAMS OF BREEDING 3OMETHING THAT MUST ALWAYS BE CONTEMPLATED WHERE PRESERVATION IS THE GOAL

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->}>À >Ì >Ê-ii`ÃÊ $URING THE MID S 3AGARMATHA 3EEDS BLOOMED INTO EXISTENCE TO BECOME ONE OF THE WORLDS LEADING SEEDBANKS &ROM THEIR BASE IN !MSTERDAM 3AGARMATHA S UNIQUE COLLECTION OF GENETICS STRETCHES FROM .EBRASKA TO -ONGOLIA AND BACK AGAIN 4ONY AT 3AGARMATHA IS AS CHILLED AS THE @-ATANUSKA -INT AND AS HUMBLE AS THE @9UMBOLT (E WAS ALL TO HAPPY TO TAKE FIVE TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT 3AGARMATHA 3EEDS FOR THE READERS OF 3OFT 3ECRETS 33 4ONY WHEN DID YOU FIRST START GROWING CANNABIS 4ONY $URING HIGH SCHOOL IN THE LATE S MOST OF THE FELLAS WERE GROWING #OLOMBIAN STRAINS GUERRILLA STYLE IN THE WOODS AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD 5SUALLY IT WAS STOLEN OR DESTROYED BUT SOMETIMES WE WOULD GET A GOOD HARVEST FROM A COU PLE PLANTS THAT WOULD MAKE IT 7E USUALLY SHARED THE BOUNTY BETWEEN US 7EED WAS SO CHEAP AT THE TIME IT WAS EASY TO SHARE AND THE RIGHT THING TO DO 4HE QUALITY WAS NOT QUITE AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL BUT WE LOVED IT JUST THE SAME .OW AND THEN WE WOULD PLANT A 4HAI OR (AWAIIAN STRAIN AND 7/7 %VEN WHEN GROWN IN .EBRASKA THAT WEED WOULD BE THE BOMB 3URE IT WOULD COME BACK SEEDY FROM ALL THE DITCH WEED IN THE AREA BUT WE DID NOT MIND -OST OF THE WEED AT THAT TIME HAD SOME SEEDS !FTER EMIGRATING TO (OLLAND IN ) STARTED WORKING FOR 3ENSI 3EEDS AND GREW ALL THERE VARIETIES 4HAT WAS A PLEASURE TO BE SURE

$ID YOU EVER IMAGINE 3AGARMATHA WOULD BECOME ONE OF THE WORLDS LEAD ING 3EED "ANKS 7HEN ) STARTED 3AGARMATHA ) HAD NO IDEA HOW FAR OR LONG SHE WOULD SAIL 7E KNEW THAT OUR BEANS WERE OF HIGH QUALITY AND UNIQUE TO THE SCENE ) NEVER IMAGINED THAT WE WOULD WIN SEVERAL AWARDS AND PLEASE SO MANY PEOPLE WITH OUR PRODUCTS 4HAT IS THE REAL SATISFACTION 7E WISH TO THANK EVE RYONE WHO HAS BEEN BRAVE ENOUGH TO GROW OUR BEANS AND TAKE THE RISK IN THEIR PATH 7HAT DO YOU THINK IS THE KEY TO YOUR SUCCESS 1UALITY CONTROL ) BELIEVE THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS 3AGARMATHA HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL 5NTIL 3AGARMATHA WAS BUSTED LAST SUM MER WE GREW ALL OF OUR BEANS PERSONALLY 4HAT MEANS EVERY ASPECT OF THE GROW WAS IN OUR CONTROL IF SOMETHING WASN T JUST PERFECT WE WOULD STOP ANALYZE AND BEGIN AGAIN !NOTHER PLAN OF OPERATION IS THAT WE DID NOT CARRY OUT TOO MANY PROJECTS AT ONE TIME "Y KEEPING THINGS SIMPLE AND SLOW

WE ARE ABLE TO MONITOR ALL THE FACTORS OF THE PROJECT AND KEEP THINGS IN ORDER !NOTHER FACTOR IN OUR SUCCESS IS THE FACT THAT MOST OF OUR BEANS DO NOT COME FROM !MSTERDAM THEREFORE THE FLAVORS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF OUR SEEDS DIFFER FROM THE REST 3AGARMATHA MAY BE THE ONLY COM PANY THAT GIVES A SATISFACTION GUARANTEE 7HICH CULTIVATION METHOD DO 3AGARMATHA 3EEDS USE

7HY DID YOU START BREEDING CANNABIS 7HILE WORKING FOR 3ENSI AND EXPERI ENCING ALL THE VARIETIES IN THEIR STABLE ) REALIZED THAT THERE WERE MANY FRIENDS OF MINE THAT HAD GOOD SEEDS TOO ) KNEW THEY WERE DIFFERENT FROM THE !MSTERDAM GENETIC POOL 3O ) DECIDED TO NETWORK MY CONTACTS AND COME UP WITH MY OWN BREEDING MATERIAL !LSO BREEDING SEEDS WAS LEGAL IN THE EARLY S SO EVERY THING ADDED UP FOR STARTING A SEED COM PANY ) HAVE A BACKGROUND WITH BOTANY AND JUST LOVE TINKERING WITH CANNABIS AND OTHER ETHNOGENIC SUBSTANCES 3AGARMATHA WAS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY OF THE MUSHROOM CULTURE CIRCULATING %UROPE 7AS IT DIFFICULT TO ESTABLISH 3AGARMATHA 3EEDS AS A PROFESSIONAL COMPANY IN (OLLAND %XCEPT FOR SOME DRAMA WITH PERSON NEL 3AGARMATHA WAS NOT TOO DIFFICULT TO ESTABLISH $URING THAT TIME THERE WERE ONLY A HANDFUL OF SEED COMPANIES MOST OF WHICH WERE SELLING SEEDS OF SIMILAR GENETIC CONTENT 4HE TWO MOST INFLU ENTIAL SEED BANKS HAD CLOSED 333#

3%%$"!.+ LEAVING 3ENSI 3EEDS AND A FEW OTHERS IN THEIR WAKE -Y FIRST SEED COMPANY WAS CALLED #EREBRAL 3EEDS BECAUSE WE ALSO SOLD OTHER TYPES OF SEEDS "UT ONLY THOSE THAT WOULD GET YOU HIGH "ECAUSE OF A THIRD PERSON

3IMON AND ) BROKE UP #EREBRAL 3EEDS TO FORM 3AGARMATHA 3EEDS AND 3ERIOUS 3EEDS 3IMON IS A FANTASTIC GROWER AND 3AGARMATHA WISHES 3ERIOUS GREAT SUC CESS

3AGARMATHA USES SOIL MIXTURES IN OUR BREEDING PROGRAMS 7E BELIEVE SOIL PRO VIDES THE MOST NUTRIENTS INCLUDING MICROS THAT ARE NEEDED FOR SEED PRODUCTION 7HEN GROWING OUR PLANTS FOR THE SEED PROGRAM

WE DO NOT PRESSURE THEM FOR MAXIMUM OUTPUT LIKE YOU MAY DO WHEN GROWING FOR PRODUCTION 4AKING OUR TIME TO GROW LARGE MOTHERS IS ESSENTIAL FOR PREMIUM SEED PRODUCTION 7HEN GROWING SENSIMILLA WE DON T MAKE A JUDGEMENT ON WHICH MEDIUM IS BEST 5SUALLY PLANTS GROWN IN SOIL WILL TASTE A BIT BETTER AND HAVE A MORE PUNGENT AROMA (OWEVER WHEN HYDRO TECH IS USED BY A QUALIFIED BOTANIST THE END RESULT MAY BE HARD TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE 'ENERALLY HYDRO GROWS WILL PRODUCE SLIGHTLY LARGER PLANTS WITH A LIGHTER GREEN PIGMENTATION "UT WHEN AN UNQUALIFIED GROWER ATTEMPTS HYDRO TECH THE RESULTS CAN BE CATASTROPHIC @#HEM "UD IS THE TERM WE USE TO DESCRIBE THAT MESS ) AM SURE WE HAVE ALL EXPERI ENCED SOME SO ) WONT BORE YOU WITH THE AWFUL DETAILS OF WHAT #HEM "UD CONTAINS )F YOU HAVE DONE YOUR HOMEWORK ) THINK THE CHOICE OF SOIL VS HYDRO IS A MATTER OF YOUR PARTICULAR GROWING ENVIRONMENT .O ONE WANTS TO HAUL BAGS OF SOIL UP AND THEN DOWN FLIGHTS OF STAIRS LEAVING A DIRT PATH WHERE EVENTUALLY ONE OF THE BAGS HAS LEAKED )F YOU LIVE ON THE GROUND FLOOR AND HAVE A METHOD OF REMOVING YOUR SPENT SOIL THEN THERE ARE FEW REASONS TO USE HYDRO IN MY OPINION 3OME PEOPLE CONFUSE SOIL WITH ORGANIC GROWING 7HEN YOU USE SOIL IN A SMALL POT OF LITRE AND

WATER WITH NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTS IN MY OPINION IT IS NOT AN ORGANIC GROW -OST FARMERS WILL AGREE THAT ORGANIC USUALLY CONSIST OF DIGGING DEEP HOLES MAKING A BALANCED TIME RELEASED SOIL MIXTURE AND PERHAPS ONE OR TWO NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTED FEEDINGS DURING THE CHANGE FROM VEGETA TION CYCLE TO THE FLOWERING CYCLE 0ERHAPS YOU CAN TELL ) COME FROM AN OUTDOOR FARMING BACKGROUND .EBRASKA (OWEVER ) MUST SAY THAT HYDRO TECH HAS COME ALONG WAY SINCE THE S WITH MANY NEW EXCITING FORMULAS THAT ARE PRO DUCING SOME STAGGERING RESULTS SO THE GAP BETWEEN THE TWO TECHNIQUES IS CLOSING $O YOU BREED FROM SEED OR CLONE 3AGARMATHA USUALLY BREEDS FROM CLONES THAT HAVE BEEN CHOSEN FROM A VERY LARGE GROW 3ELECTION IS THE KEY TO PRODUCING QUALITY MOTHER AND FATHER CONTENDERS 4HIS IS A SHORT DESCRIPTION ON HOW OUR PROGRAM WILL GO ABOUT CHOOSING PARENTS FOR BREED ING SCHEMES &IRST WE MAKE MULTIPLE COPIES OF ALL THE INDIVIDUALS USED IN THE GROW $URING THE GROW WE ELIMINATE THOSE NOT WORTHY OF BREEDING #HOOSING THE MOTHERS IS EASY

WHAT YOU SEE IS USUALLY WHAT YOU GET /F COURSE THE PROOF IS IN THE SMOKE -AKING THE MALE SELECTION GETS MUCH MORE DIF FICULT /NE REALLY HAS TO WATCH FOR SLIGHT DIFFERENCES SUCH AS LEAF FORMATION OVER ALL VIGOR AND FINISHING TIMES 4HEN WE MAKE MULTIPLE FERTILIZATION COMBINATIONS WITH THE VARIOUS MOTHERS VS FATHERS !FTER ALL OF THAT COMES THE TEST GROW 4HIS IS WHERE WE GROW OUT THE SEEDS FROM THE DIFFERENT TRIALS AND SEE WHAT COMES UP

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ISN T GROWING GANJA THAT S FOR SURE 4HE ANSWER IS THAT THEY BOTH NEED TO BE ABLE TO GROW PLANTS USING ONLY ARTIFICIAL LIGHT 4HE 3PACE 0ROGRAM HAS LONG SINCE BEEN AWARE OF THE HUGELY IMPORTANT ROLE PLANTS WILL PLAY IN THE EXPLORATION OF SPACE )N ORDER TO SUS TAIN LIFE ON LONG SPACE FLIGHTS OR INDEED A 3PACE 3TATION FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME

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HAS TO DO SOMETHING WITH ALL THOSE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ITS NOT AS IF THEY WERE ABOUT TO CURE WORLD HUNGER )T IS MAN S INSATIABLE DESIRE TO EXPLORE THE UNIVERSE THAT PROPELS SUCH TECHNOLOGIES FORWARD 3O .!3! HAS THE TASK OF GROWING PLANTS IN 3PACE USING THE LEAST AMOUNT OF SPACE

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THOSE MOMENTS THAT OFTEN APPEAR SEEMINGLY UNIMPORTANT YET ARE ACTUALLY OF SUBTLE BUT DEEP SIGNIFICANCE IN A PERSON S SUBSEQUENT LIFE "ASED IN THE EXPERIMENTATION AND AVANT GARDE FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT OF THAT WONDERFUL METROPOLIS "ERLIN &UTURE ,OOP &OUNDATION ARTIST -ARK "ARROTT CREATED THIS NOSTALGIC TRIP AFTER BEING PRESENTED WITH A #$ CONTAINING DIGITISED INTERVIEW STYLE RECORDINGS THAT HIS COUSIN HAD RECORDED OF ALL THE FAMILY IN THE EARLY TO MID S 4HE ALBUM IS THE RESULT OF A COMBINATION OF HIS LOVE OF EXPERIMENTING WITH ANALOGUE SYNTHESIZERS COUPLED WITH HIS LONG STAND ING RAISON D ETRE TO ENGENDER MUSIC THAT CAPTURES ATMOSPHERE FEELING AND EMOTION IN ADDITION TO BEING A PERSONAL VOYAGE IT ALSO SHOWCASES FAMILY LIFE IN THE S PRO VIDING A PERSONAL TRIGGER OR CULTURAL INTER

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Ê-/" Ê- / " EST FOR THOSE NOT SO OLD TO EACH LISTENER "EAUTIFULLY AND SUGGESTIVELY MELODIC WITH ROUSING PASSAGES OF ORCHESTRATION THE #$ IS ACCOMPANIED BY A $6$ CONTAINING DIGI TISED MM FOOTAGE FROM THE SAME PERIOD TRUE h!UDIO 4ELEVISIONv )F WE CANNOT FACE THE PAST HOW CAN WE MOVE INTO THE FUTURE (ENRY h*UNJOv ,AWES @'REENSLEEVES v 2ULERS 'REENSLEEVES

!S PART OF THE EXTENSIVE MUSI CAL RELEASE CELE BRATIONS TO MARK 'REENSLEEVES 2ECORDS TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY

COMES THE LAUNCH OF THIS BRAND NEW SERIES ! RETROSPECTIVE TRIBUTE TO THE HUGE IMPACT THAT THE ARRIVAL OF v VINYL HAD ON THE TUNES RECORDED IN THE STUDIOS OF +INGSTON *AMAICA @'REENSLEEVES v 2ULERS MAKES AVAILABLE HIGHLY COLLECTABLE MATERIAL THESE INVALUABLE #$ PACKAGES WILL BE SPLIT INTO INDIVIDUAL PRODUCER AND GENRE SECTIONS SUCH AS DUB DJ VOCAL AND DANCEHALL &ROM ITS INITIAL CONCEPTION ON THE .EW 9ORK DISCO SCENE IN THE MID SEV ENTIES THE TWELVE INCH SINGLE SPREAD ACROSS THE SEAS ITS ARRIVAL UPON #ARIBBEAN SHORES CAUSING A QUANTUM SHIFT IN REGGAE MUSIC .OT ONLY WAS THERE AN INCREASE IN LENGTH

CLARITY AND DEPTH OF SOUND BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY A NEW WORLD OF POSSIBILITY FOR EXPERIMENTATION 4HIS FIRST JUICY SELECTION SHOWCASES THE WORK OF PIONEERING PRODUC ER (ENRY h*UNJO ,AWES 7ITH HIS KNACK FOR CHECKING NEW AND ORIGINAL TALENT IT WAS HE AT THE CONTROLS BEHIND THE MIGHTY "ARRINGTON ,EVY INITIALLY HITTING THE DECKS WITH THE HUGELY INFLUENTIAL @%NGLISHMAN @,OOK 9OUTHMAN "ARRINGTON ,EVY IS FEATURED HERE 7ITH THIS STABLE OF ARTISTS

ALSO INCLUDING 3CIENTIST 9ELLOWMAN %EK ! -OUSE *OSEY 7ALES 7AILING 3OULS

2ANKING 4OYAN AND &RANKIE 0AUL ,AWES COULD HARDLY GO WRONG AS THIS RELEASE AMPLY DISPLAYS -OST OF THE TRACKS HERE ARE NEW TO #$ FORMAT AND 7AILING 3OULS @&IREHOUSE 2OCK HAS PREVIOUSLY NEVER SEEN THE LIGHT OF DAY 3KA #UBANO @!Y #ARAMBA #ASINO 3OUNDS

#OMING AS THE SECOND ALBUM FROM THIS COLOUR FULLY INTRIGU ING OUTFIT @!Y #ARAMBA PRO VIDES A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY NOT ONLY TO EXPERIENCE THE IRRESISTIBLY UP TEMPO DELIGHT OF THIS DANCE FLOOR DRIVEN PLEASURE BUT ALSO AN INSIGHT INTO A WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES A HIGHER PLANE WHERE MUSI CAL FUSION OCCURS BEYOND THE LIMITING

POLITICALLY MOTIVATED REMIT OF MANKIND

! JOYOUS SYNTHESIS OF A FULLY FLAVOURED #UBAN SOUND SPAWNED IN 3ANTIAGO DE #UBA MUSICAL HEARTLAND AND BIRTHPLACE OF THE #UBAN 2EVOLUTION TOGETHER WITH THE RIOTOUS RHYTHMS OF *AMAICAN MENTO AND SKA &ORMED BY 0ETER 3COTT AND .ATTY "O

LEAD SINGER WITH INFAMOUS ,ONDON SKA BAND 4OP #ATS 3KA #UBANO ARE THEM SELVES ,ONDON BASED BUT FEEL THAT 3ANTIAGO DE #UBA IS THEIR TRUE HOME vWHERE LIFE IS HARD BUT ALSO RICH AND REAL AND VIBRANT ) GO THERE TO WRITE SONGS WORK OUT ARRANGE MENTS ABSORB THE VIBE AND CLEAN THE CULTURAL POLLUTION OUT OF MY HEAD v SAYS .ATTY "O 4HIS INTOXICATING MUSICAL HYBRID DRAWS ON THE ROOTS OF THE TRADITIONS

THE MUSICIANS BEING ENCOURAGED TO EXPLORE ELEMENTS SUCH AS USING !FRICAN INSTRU MENTS LIKE THE MARIMBULA AND THE BOTIJUE LA AS WELL AS 9ORUBA PERCUSSION -USICALLY EXCELLENT @!Y #ARAMBA IS MADE COMPLETE

BY A SURREAL SENSE OF HUMOUR DISPLAYED IN TRACKS SUCH AS @7HO S !FRAID /F 4HE "IG "AD 7OLF AND THE VISIONARY SENSE OF IDE ALISM IN @2EVOLUTIONARY 3KA THAT IS PIVOTAL TO THE BANDS EXISTENCE

6ARIOUS @&AMOUS 7HEN $EAD 0LAYHOUSE

4HE LATEST INSTAL MENT ENERGETI CALLY BOUNCING FORTH FROM LABEL

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REVOLUTIONARY SOUNDS OF #HICAGO AND $ETROIT THEMSELVES A CELEBRATION OF THE GENIUS OF +RAFTWERK AND BLACK DANCE CUL TURE 4HE @!UTOBAHN REMAINS BUSY .ASIO &ONTAINE @2ISE 5P 'REENSLEEVES

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@2EVOLUTION

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ELEVATING LYRICS AND MELODIES AND CON SCIOUS VIBES .ASIO &ONTAINE HAS BECOME MUCH LOVED AND RESPECTED ON THE INTERNA TIONAL ROOTS SCENE TO THE EXTENT THAT HE IS FREQUENTLY LIKENED TO THE GREAT "OB -ARLEY HIMSELF 7ITH A HUGE GLOBAL FAN BASE HIS APPEAL SPANS WELL BEYOND THE REGGAE COM

MUNITY HIS TALENT BEING APPRECIATED UNRE STRICTED BY THE BOUNDARIES OF GENRE CLAS SIFICATION

BY MUSIC LOVERS EVERYWHERE !S WELL AS HIS PERFORMANCE ON THE ROOTS STAGE AT THIS YEARS 'LASTONBURY &ESTIVAL HE ALSO APPEARED ON THE JAZZ WORLD STAGE WHERE HE RECEIVED A RAPTUROUS RESPONSE FROM THE CROWD !CTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS

BUT THE RESONANT IMPACT OF THIS BLOODS HEARTFELT CALL FOR UNITY PEACE AND LOVE CAN NOT BE DENIED ,IARS @,IARS -UTE

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"REAKBEAT AS THE NEW PUNK 7HY NOT "ACKDRAFT PIONEERS OF THE .ORTHERN BASS BRUTALISTS ARE LET LOOSE ON THE IMPECCABLE BACK CATALOGUE OF THE VISION ARY AND STILL UNSURPASSED "OTCHIT 3CARPER LABEL 4HEIR DEBUT MIX #$ SLAMS OVER THIRTY TRACKS INTO AN EXPLOSIVE SEVENTY MINUTES MERE ANARCHY IS LOOSED UPON THE DANCE FLOOR 4HEIR RE MIXING OF CLASSIC TUNES FROM 4 0OWER &REQ .ASTY AND !TOMIC (OOLIGAN SHOWS THEIR DEXTERITY THE ANARCHIC RE MIX OF @& CK /FF 0 SS /FF IS A GLORIOUS CELEBRA TION OF THE TRUE CONFRONTATIONAL NATURE OF ROCK N ROLL 4HIS MIX IS LIKE A CLAW HAM MER TO THE SKULL ,ISTEN AND RE FRAGMENT YOUR BRAIN ! PRICELESS FREE LOBOTOMY

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SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN USE FOR MAKING ALL KINDS OF MUNCHABLES SPACE CAKE

SPACE BROWNIES OR MY FAVOURITE SPACE MUFFINS ) HAVE EVEN HEARD OF GUYS WHO FRY UP THEIR BEEF STEAK OR PORK CHOPS IN IT "UT ) M GUESSING THE MAJORITY OF YOU WILL JUST USE IT FOR MAKING SPACE CAKEx

- ÊÜ >ÌÊ` ÊÞ ÕÊ ii`¶ ! LARGE PAN REAL BUTTER PREFERABLY FULL FAT BUTTER TRIM WASTE OR A COUPLE OF BAGS OF NICE WEED WATER A SIEVE A COLANDER OR STRAINER AND A TEA TOWEL

)N THIS PARTICULAR INSTANCE WE ARE GOING TO BE USING TWO LARGE PANS AND FOUR PACKS OF BUTTER

0UT THE PANS ON THE STOVE ON A HIGH HEAT WITH TWO PACKS OF BUTTER IN EACH

!FTER THE BUTTER IS MELTED ADD ) LITRE OF WATER TO EACH PAN

AND MAKE SURE THAT THE BUTTER IS NOT ALLOWED TO BROWN

!LLOW THE MIXTURE TO WARM UP BUT NOT BOIL

/NCE THE MIXTURE IS ALMOST BOILING TAKE THE PAN OFF THE HEAT AND STRAIN THE WHOLE LOT WITH THE SIEVE !NY CLUMPS SHOULD BE CAUGHT IN THE SIEVE )N THIS WAY POUR THE CONTENTS OF EACH PAN INTO A SINGLE PAN

2INSE CLEAN YOUR SIEVE

2INSE THE EMPTY PAN NICE AND CLEAN TOO

.OW SPLIT THE BUTTER WATER MIX BETWEEN THE TWO PANS

SIEVING IT ALL ONCE MORE AND RETURN THE PANS TO THE STOVE ON A LOW FLAME

$IVIDE THE LEAF TRIMMINGS BETWEEN THE TWO PANS

0ACK THE PANS GOOD AND FULL AND ADD ANOTHER HALF LITRE OF WATER TO EACH

!LLOW THE CONTENTS OF EACH PAN TO SIMMER FOR SIX HOURS

STIRRING REGULARLY )T TAKES A GOOD SIX HOURS BEFORE THE 4(# IS ALL OUT OF THE TRIM WASTE AND IN THE BUTTER WATER EMULSION -AKE NOTE DO NOT ALLOW THE PANS TO BOIL

4AKE AN EMPTY PAN AND PUT THE COLANDER STRAINER ON IT 2EMOVE THE MAJOR PART OF THE LEAF TRIMMINGS FROM EACH PAN AND PLACE IT IN THE COLANDER

0RESS THE MOISTURE FROM THE TRIM WASTE

0RESS IT AGAIN

)N THE MEANTIME POUR THE LIQUID WEED BUTTER IN TO THE PAN THAT YOU VE TAKEN THE TRIM WASTE OUT OF

.EXT PLACE THE TRIM WASTE IN THE TEA TOWEL AND WRING IT OUT OVER THE PAN WITH THE LIQUID WEED BUTTER IN IT

.OW YOU CAN THROW THE TRIM WASTE AWAY

3IEVE THE WEED BUTTER

7RING THE TEA TOWEL OUT WELL OVER THE PAN

,ET THE WHOLE LOT COOL OFF QUIETLY

)N ORDER TO GET THE WHOLE LOAD CLEAN AND EDIBLE PUT THE TEA TOWEL n OR PREFERABLY A CLEAN ONE n IN THE COLANDER AND POUR THE LIQUID WEED BUTTER INTO IT

/NCE THE TOP LAYER HAS SOLIDIFIED POUR OFF THE CONTENTS OF THE PAN AND STRAIN

.OW YOU CAN USE THE BUTTER FOR ANY SUITABLE RECIPE SO FOR CAKE MUFFINS BROWNIES

AND SO ON -AKE SURE THAT YOU DO NOT USE TOO MUCH AT BUTTER AS THIS WILL MAKE YOU FEEL SICK *UST TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE NEVER REPLACE MORE THAN A FIFTH OF THE BUTTER IN A RECIPE WITH WEED BUTTER "Y STICKING TO THIS RULE OF THUMB THERE IS NO CHANCE OF AN OVERDOSE 3CRAPE ANY BUTTER OFF THE SIDES OF THE PAN

!LL SOLID MATTER IS NOW THE WEED BUTTER )N ORDER TO MAKE IT ALL NICELY STORABLE PUT THE WEED BUTTER IN A TUB THEN SOFTEN THIS BRIEFLY IN THE MICROWAVE AND PUT IT STRAIGHT IN TO THE FRIDGE .OW IT WILL HAVE AN EASY TO USE SHAPE

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