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(I THERE AGAIN ME 3OFT 3ECRET BUDDIES (ERE ) AM BACK AGAIN AND THIS TIME ) HAVE A CROP OF 7HITE 2HINO FEMINISED FROM 'REENHOUSE SEEDS 7ELL ) AM CURRENTLY INTO WEEK AS ) TAKE THIS PHOTO AND ) HAVE WKS REMAINING ) USE A WATT 3ON 4 0LUS FOR FLOWERING #OCO NUTES 2HIZOTONIC #ANNAZYM AS FOR WEIGHT GAIN ) HAVE DECIDED TO USE $R (ORNBY S "IG "UD THIS TIME INSTEAD OF #ANNA "OOST !CCELERATOR AS THIS HAS A SHIT LOAD OF AMINO ACIDS IN IT AND BELIEVE ME ) NOTICED THE DIFFERENCE ALREADY AND IN THE LAST WKS ) SHALL GIVE THEM 0+ FOR WK ONLY AND THAT SHOULD GIVE IT THAT EXTRA BOOST AND WEIGHT GAIN !LREADY THEY HAVE A NICE FROSTING ON THE BUDS AND LEAVES AND ) WAS ADVISED BY A BUDDY TO GROW FOR WKS AS THE CRYSTALS WILL BE EXTRA GENEROUS 4HE 'ANGA &ARMA %UROPA 7E LOVE THIS CLEAN ORDERLY GARDEN 9OU ARE TOTALLY RIGHT TO WAIT MORE WEEKS AS YOU MONITOR YOUR CRYSTALS TO MAKE SURE THEY STAY CLEAR AND UPRIGHT 7HEN THEY START TO DROOP AND GO AMBER THAT S HARVEST TIME "OOSTING BLOOMS WITH AMINOS IS A GREAT IDEA BUT WE HEAR THAT THERE ARE BETTER RATIOS THAN FOR PHOSPHORUS POTASSIUM BOOSTERS 9OU SHOULD CHECK OUT PRODUCTS THAT HAVE A DIFFERENT RATIO OF 0 AND + 9OUR GARDEN SERVES AS A MODEL FOR OTHER GROWERS +EEP UP THE GOOD WORK

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(EY ALL YOU LOVELY LOVELY PEOPLE (ERE IS A PICTURE OF MY FIRST EVER GROW WITH A #HEESE CUTTING 3TARTED OFF WITH A WATT M H FOR WEEKS THEN FLOWERED WITH A W SODIUM LIGHT 5SED 6ITALINK #OCO " THROUGHOUT WITH SOME #ANNAZYM "IG "UD 0+ !ND YES IT IS ROCKWOOL AND CLAY BALLS NOT COCO "UT WHAT THE HECK IT WORKS A TREAT 4HERE WAS INCHES TALL OF VEGETATION AND IT YIELDED A MASSIVE GRAMS OR AND HALF OUNCES 4HE BIGGEST BUD WEIGHED HALF AN OUNCE ON ITS OWN 4HE RESIN FROM THE SCISSORS SPANNERED US FROM A SINGLE KING SIZE 2IZLA !NYWAY THIS STUFF WAS ABSOLUTELY HUMMING AT THE END OF THE BUDDING STAGE BUT THE BUDS WERE THE TIGHTEST ) HAVE EVER SEEN OR FELT "EST STRAIN IN THE 5+ AT THE MIN ) SAY 7ELL DONE TO THE "IG "UDDHA COMPANY -ARK -IDLANDS &ANTASTIC EXAMPLE OF WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH ONE PLANT AND LOW WATTS 9OU OBVIOUSLY TRIMMED EARLY ON TO ENCOURAGE BRANCHING AND YOU GAVE THE PLANT THE RIGHT BLOOM NUTRIENTS WHICH INCLUDES LIGHT 4HAT S RIGHT WE VIEW LIGHT AS A .542)%.4 !S WE SAID IN THE PREVIOUS POST RESEARCH IS SHOWING THAT MIGHT NOT BE THE RIGHT RATIO FOR A PHOSPHORUS POTASSIUM BOOSTER

'OOD HARVEST IN 3LOVENIA "ORIS 7HEN DRYING MAKE SURE THE HUMIDITY IS BELOW -AKE SURE THE TEMPS ARE AROUND DEGREES #ELSIUS +EEP SOME AIR CIRCULATION IN THE DRYING AREA $ON T GROUP BUDS SO CLOSE TOGETHER IT PROMOTES MOLD AND FUNGI

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4HIS CROP IS !+ GROWN ON 3ENSI 'ROWN "LOOM ALSO 0+ ) D LIKE TO SAY THANKS TO THE GIRLS + AND %M FOR GETTING THEIR TITS OUT AND SHOWING YOU THEIR SKUNKY MONKEYS 4HANKS TO YOU ALL AT 3OFT 3ECRETS FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK AND EDUCATIONAL READ 4EZ 'REEN FINGERS 9ES WE THANK + AND %M TOO 3WEET HOTTIES THEY ARE MATE 4HIS IS SOME POTENT LOOKING !+ ,OOKS LIKE YOU USED THE RIGHT FERTS AND GOT SUPER DENSE GROWTH

4HIS WAS OUR FIRST AND ONLY GROW DONE UNDER A W LIGHT USING A SOIL COCO MIX AND "IO'ROW "LOOM WOULD LOVE ANY ADVICE YOU CAN GIVE AS WE RE HOPING TO GET ANOTHER GOING SOON 4HE "ELFAST #ROWD ,OVELY PRODUCTION WITH GREAT RATIO OF CRYSTAL TO LEAF -IGHT WANT TO MONITOR HEIGHT AND GO FOR TRIMMED BRANCHING RATHER THAN VERTICAL .OTICE THAT A COUPLE OF YOUR PLANTS ARE SUPER TALL 4HAT CAN BE HANDLED WITH EARLY TRIMMING !LSO IF YOU RE USING REFLECTIVE MATERIAL MAKE SURE IT S RIGHT UP NEXT TO YOUR PLANTS ON ALL SIDES #ONSIDER ,%$ LIGHTS AND SIDE LIGHTING "OOST WITH AMINOS DURING BLOOM PHASE AND MAKE SURE ALL PLANTS GET EQUAL LIGHT

4HERE S ONE OF MY SECOND GROW " UNDER 7 3ODIUM GROWN IN SOIL USING "IO6EGA FEED JUST AT THE END OF ITS DRYING PERIOD IT WAS BUDDING THROUGH OUR EXTREMELY HOT SUMMER AND MY PLANTS WERE A BIT TOO STRESSED SO THEIR NOT AS BIG AS ) D HAVE LIKED BUT NOT ALLOT ) COULD DO )TS STILL A REALLY NICE STRONG SMOKE THOUGH 4HANX FOR THE WICKED FEATURES AND ALL ROUND GOOD READ 3OFT 3ECRETS -R 4 9ORKSHIRE 5SE " VITAMINS AND POTSASIUM SILICATE PRODUCTS DURING HEAT AND STRESS #HANGE YOUR LIGHT CYCLE SO THE LIGHTS ARE ON DURING THE COOLEST PART OF YOUR HOUR DAY 5SE EXTRA AIR CIRCULATION 4HE PLANT IN THE BACKGROUND LOOKS A BIT LEGGY LIKE IT S STRETCHING -AKE SURE TO GIVE PLANTS LOTS OF LIGHT THAT PENETRATES FROM TOP TO BOTTOM

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"LACK $OMINA 3OUTH 7ALES "ARRRR .ICE USE OF TRELLIS )F YOU ENCOURAGE HORIZONTAL GROWTH VIA TRIMMING AND 0 + AUGMENTATION YOU DON T NEED AS MUCH VERTICAL SUPPORT (ERE S A SPECIAL TIP (03 SOLO OR DOMINANT LIGHTING FROM START TO FINISH OF THE ENTIRE CROP CYCLE HAS BEEN SHOWN TO CREATE SHORTER INTERNODES AND DENSER PLANTS !LSO YOU GOTTA USE REFLECTIVE MATERIAL ,OTS OF LIGHT WASTED IN YOUR CURRENT GROW SPACE

4AKE A LOOK AT MY $UTCH $RAGON !NONYMOUS IN 5+ 9OUR LEAVES INDICATE A SEVERE NUTRIENT DEFICIENCY 3OMETIMES WE SEE THIS WHEN THERE S CALCIUM MAGNESIUM IRON PROBLEMS 4HE PLANTS ARE TOO SMALL 4HEY COULD WELL BE STARVED FOR LIGHT )F WE HAD THESE PLANTS WE WOULD DO A FLUSH CAREFULLY MONITOR P( AND USE A MORE RELIABLE BRAND OF NUTRIENTS

) CAN T WAIT FOR EACH NEW ISSUE OF YOUR EXCELLENT MAG TO COME OUT SO ) CAN DOWNLOAD A COPY ENVIRO FRIENDLY OPTION 4HIS IS !RJAN S (AZE FEMINISED SEEDS WEEK OLD 0LAGRON SOIL NUTES HAND WATERED AND A (03 LIGHT !NDY 7EST 9ORKSHIRE 4OKER 'OOD WORK !NDY 4HE LEAVES LOOK LIKE YOU COULD HAVE SOME NUTRIENT PROBLEMS 4HERE S LEAF TIP CURLING AND BURNING WHICH COULD BE OVERFERTILIZATION 4HE LEAVES ARE A BIT PALE WHICH COULD BE A DEFICIENCY !T THE END OF A BLOOM CYCLE LEAVES SOMETIMES NATURALLY GO BAD BUT YOU WANT TO WATCH THEM THROUGHOUT THE CROP CYCLE TO MAKE SURE THE LEAVES AREN T TELLING YOU SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOUR PLANT

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$EAR 3OFT 3ECRETS (ERE WE HAVE SOME OF 3COTLAND S FINER BUDS LONG SWEET AND JUST PEACHY *UST THE WAY WE LIKE EM AS ) M SURE YOU LL AGREE $AVE 3COTLAND /H YEAH WE LL LIKE EM TALL SWEET PEACHY ALLRIGHT 9OU RE HAVING A GREAT BATTLE THERE WE RE SURPRISED 'ANJAMAN DIDN T SHOW UP TO PROTECT THE 3COTTISH LASSIEx

(IGH 'UYS *UST THOUGHT ) D LET YOU ALL HAVE A LITTLE PEEK INTO MY SOFT SECRET GARDEN + AT WEEKS UNDER WATTS OUNCES OF HEAVEN AND MANAGED TO YIELD SOME GREAT POLLEN TOO DIDN T NEED MY WINGS TO FLY WITH THAT STUFF 7HAT YA SAY LADS "UDS OR "UNS 4OKE IT EASY .ANCY "UTTWIN FROM THE .ORTHWEST 0EOPLE NOTICE HOW HE EVEN HAS HIS VENTING COVERED IN REFLECTIVE MATERIAL 4HIS IS A PROFESSIONAL GROW UP IN THE EAVES OF THE HOUSE AND WELL DESERVING OF 0HOTO OF THE -ONTH -AKE SURE YOU FLOOD LIGHT INTO ALL CORNERS OF THIS GARDEN AND CONGRATULATIONS WITH YOUR BABES

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(ELLO EVERYONE AT 3OFT 3ECRETS 'REAT PAPER GREAT ADVICE GREAT GIRLS THANKS ) BOUGHT -ILKY 7AY SEEDS FROM +IWISEEDS ) GOT FEMALES OUT OF GERMINATED SPUDS ) GREW THEM IN .&4 SYSTEM 4OOK CUTTINGS FROM ALL AND DID ANOTHER ROUND AND SELECTED TO KEEP AS MOTHERS /NE ALWAYS LOOKED DIFFERENT BUT IT WASN T TO THIS LATEST CROP ) NOTICED HOW DIFFERENT AND MORE POTENT IT WAS ) GREW THESE GIRLS IN TWO HOMEMADE BUBBLERS OXYPODS WITH #ANNA AQUA ! " UNDER A W W (03 LAMPS !FTER SOME PICTURE COMPARISONS ) VE DECIDED ) VE SOMEHOW BEEN GIVEN A -AKO (AZE SEED IN THE PACK .OT THAT ) M COMPLAINING JUST ) M NOT USUALLY THIS LUCKY YOUR THOUGHTS WOULD BE NICE AND THE OTHER PLANT LOOKS A LOT LIKE THE ORIGINAL -ILKY 7AY !NYWAY ) M OVER MOON WITH BOTH PHENOS 2EBELSHAZE 5+ GROWER "EDFORDSHIRE 9ES )T LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE TWO DIFFERENT VARIETIES THERE "UT BE AWARE THAT ALL BUT THE MOST EXPENSIVE SEEDS CAN HAVE IN STRAIN VARIATIONS 9OU HAVE NICE CRYSTAL AND FEW LEAVES BUT THE LEAVES YOU DO HAVE SHOW A LITTLE NUTRIENT PROBLEMS YELLOWING THAT YOU WILL WANT TO WATCH FOR .&4 IS A GREAT WAY TO GROW BUT CHALLENGING

&IRST TIME ) HAVE DABBLED WITH FEM SEEDS HEIGHTS ALL OVER THE PLACE $ID SOME 'REAT 7HITE 3HARK AND A COUPLE OF 'RAPEFRUIT WHICH ) HAVE SHOWN HERE ALONG WITH MY GORGEOUS MISSUS .UTES COMBO WHICH ) THINK IS A WINNER IS 6ITALINK BASICS #ANNA 0+ AND (OUSE AND 'ARDEN S "UD 8, 4HESE ARE WEEKS IN JUST ABOUT TO DO A DAY FLUSH 0 # 3URREY 9OU VE DONE WELL WITH DENSE BUD DEVELOPMENT -IGHT WANT TO BRING SOME SUPER REFLECTIVE MATERIAL IN CLOSER TO THE PLANTS ON ALL SIDES &LUSHING IS ALWAYS RECOMMENDED IF YOU ARE USING HYDRO NUTRIENTS INDOORS ESPECIALLY WITH ROCKWOOL OR AERO

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!FGHANI GROWN IN SOIL WEEKS IN 'ROWN UNDER X %NVIROLIGHTS 0ETER 4HIS IS SUCH A LOVELY PHOTO 0ETER 9OU HAVE LOTS OF DENSE BUD AND A HOT LADY 7E QUESTION WHETHER THIS IS !FGHANI HOWEVER 4HE LEAVES ARE SUPER THIN ALMOST LIKE A 4HAI 3ATIVA

7E GREW X 7HITE 2HINO X 'REAT 7HITE 3HARK X %L .INO S AND X MYSTERY PLANT 7E GREW IN LITER POTS USING #OCO AND #ANNA NUTRIENTS 4HIS WAS OUR FIRST TIME USING THE POTS AND COCO WHAT A DIFFERENCE !ND MUCH SIMPLER THAN OTHER TRIED AND TESTED METHODS &INISHED UP WITH DRY OUNCES OUT OF FIVE PLANTS $OES THIS SOUND ABOUT RIGHT 3HOULD WE BE GETTING MORE (OW CAN WE GET MORE !NONYMOUS

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) DECIDED TO TRY SOMETHING NEW AND WENT FOR MY FIRST ATTEMPT AT $7# THE PLANT IS A *ACK THE 2IPPER WEEKS SINCE GOING GROWN WITH )ONIC GROW AND BLOOM "UD BLOOD "IG "UD AND FINALLY WHEN WE GET THERE /VERDRIVE WEEKS TO GO J/N/ 4HIS IS A GRAND EXPERIMENT AND YOUR ROOTS LOOK VERY NICE 3OMETHING HAPPENED TO GIVE YOU TOO MUCH VEGETATIVE GROWTH )T COULD BE THAT YOUR PLANT DID NOT GET ENOUGH LIGHT )T SEEMS YOU ARE GROWING WITHOUT USING REFLECTIVE MATERIAL LIKE MYLAR 4HE PLANT IS BUSHY BUT IT IS BUSHY WITH TOO MUCH STEM 4HIS PLANT MAY FILL IN AND GIVE YOU LOTS OF BUDS BUT IT HAS A LOT OF STEM GROWTH 3EE IF YOU CAN LIMIT THAT NEXT TIME 4HE GROW FERT YOU USED MIGHT HAVE HAD TOO MUCH NITRO 9OUR BLOOM NUTES ARE SPOT ON HOWEVER

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/NE PICTURE OF MY LAST 3KUNK 3PECIAL 4HINK THAT HAVE FLOWERED WITH WATT OF NEON AN EXPERIMENT GR !05!./ 4HIS IS A REALLY COOL PICTURE %VEN BEFORE WE READ YOUR LETTER WE KNEW IT WAS A LOW LIGHT PLANT 9OU DID OK TO GET GRAMS BUT WITH AT LEAST WATTS EVENLY DISTRIBUTED ON THIS SAME PLANT AND WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER YOU WOULD HAVE GOTTEN GRAMS

' # 0EOPLE THIS IS A WELL TRIMMED HIGH YIELDING SOLO PLANT )T IS HARD TO TELL BUT THE LEAVES LOOK YELLOW AND WE ARE NOT SURE IF THERE S A LOT OF CRYSTAL "UT THIS IS A DENSE GOOD YIELDING PLANT

(EY ALL ) FIRST SAW YOUR MAGAZINE ABOUT YEARS AGO AFTER SOME OF MY FRIENDS CAME BACK FROM !MSTERDAM WITH A COPY !FTER READING IT ) DECIDED TO DOWNLOAD THE BACK ISSUES AND DO SOME RESEARCH !NYWAY HERE S MY FIRST PROPER GROW 7HITE 7IDOW GROWN UNDER %NVIROLITES IN SOIL WITH " CUZZ NUTES 7ILL SWITCH TO (03 FOR THE NEXT CROP ) WOULD HAVE INCLUDED THE MISSUS IN THE PICS BUT SHE DECIDED TO BREAK UP WITH ME TWO WEEKS AGO -ORE WEED FOR ME NOW (URRAH 'ARETH 9ES YOU NEEDED WAY MORE LIGHT ON THIS ONE ,ESS NITROGEN 'IVE IT A 0+ DURING BLOOM NEXT TIME

*USTIN 3OUTH 7ALES 7AY TO GROW *USTIN 9OUR PICTURE IS ONE OF MANY THAT WAS A BUMPER CROP OF LUSCIOUS LADIES FROM OUR READERS THIS MONTH 4HE QUALITY OF THE GROWS THE PHOTOS AND THE LADIES ARE ALL RISING 7E AT 3OFT 3ECRETS ARE PROUD TO SEE OUR READERS LEARNING THE PERFECT HORTICULTURE FOR MAKING GOOEY FEMALES GROW AND WE NOTE THAT MANY OF YOU ARE BEING REWARDED BY HAVING GOOEY HUMAN FEMALES IN YOUR LIVES TOO

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4RADITIONALLY OVER THE FINAL FEW MONTHS OF THE YEAR AS THE GROWING SEASON DRAWS INTO WINTER GROWERS OF ALL NATIONS FLOCK OVER TO !MSTERDAM TO SOAK UP THE AROMA OF THE #ANNABIS )NDUSTRY S VARIOUS CANNABIS CUPS AND COMPETITIONS )N RECENT YEARS SUCH EVENTS HAVE STARTED TO LOOSE SOME OF THEIR ATMOSPHERE 4HE PRESENCE OF hCELEBRITYv JUDGES RUMOURS OF BRIBERY AND AN INCREASED SENSE OF COMMERCIALISM DOESN T EXACTLY APPEAL TO YOUR AVERAGE HOME GROWER 3UCH IS THE CONTEMPORARY NATURE OF CANNABIS AND ITS SURROUNDING CULTURE THAT HOME GROWERS AREN T ALWAYS CONTENT TO SIT BACK AND LET SOME NINCOMPOOP DO THE JOB OF JUDGING @SUCH AND SUCH AS THE BEST STRAIN OF CANNABIS IN THE WORLD FOR THEM ANYMORE ,OCAL CUPS AREN T A NEW THING (UNDREDS OF LOCAL EVENTS TAKE PLACE WITHIN THE UNDERGROUND CANNABIS COMMUNITY EVERY YEAR 'ROUP ! GROWERS GET TOGETHER WITH 'ROUP " GROWERS GET TOGETHER WITH 'ROUP # GROWERS AND SO ON -UCH LIKE A WINE TASTING CLUB THAT HOLDS ITS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS AS A PRETEXT TO GETTING MERRY LOCAL CANNABIS CUPS PROVIDE A WIDER SOCIAL FUNCTION AT THE VERY GRASS ROOTS LEVEL OF GROWING -IXING IDEAS IN A FRIENDLY SOCIAL SETTING IS ALWAYS FUN SO 3OFT 3ECRETS WERE KEEN TO DISCOVER JUST HOW SUCH THINGS HAPPEN 4HE FOLLOWING IS A REPORT ON THE FIRST ,'! #ANNABIS #UP HELD IN THE 5+

/ iÊ Ê 4HE ,OCAL 'ROWERS !SSOCIATION IS A SMALL GROUP OF GROWERS 4HE GROUPS MAIN OBJECTIVES ARE TO SEEK KNOWLEDGE ABOUT CANNABIS AND ITS CULTIVATION AND TO HUNT DOWN AND PRESERVE EXCEPTIONAL CANNABIS GENETICS )T S NOT A WHOLESALE OPERATION JUST A FEW FRIENDS GETTING TOGETHER EVERY NOW AND THEN OVER SOME CANNABIS FLOWERS FOR A GOOD OLD FASHIONED SMOKE SESSION 4HE ,'! EXTENDS ITS WINGS BY INCLUDING A FEW HONORARY NON LOCAL MEMBERS INTO ITS SPHERE AND CAN ALWAYS FIND TIME FOR ITS NON GROWING FRIENDS !S THE ,'! S SMOKING SESSIONS DEVELOPED INTO INFORMAL

SOCIAL GATHERINGS THE ATMOSPHERE BETWEEN ITS MEMBERS BECAME MORE AND MORE COMPETITIVE IN A FRIENDLY AIMING TO GROW BETTER BUDS SORT OF WAY !S THE DAYS TURNED INTO YEARS IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT THE ,'! SHOULD HOLD THEIR OWN #ANNABIS #UP 7HY NOT 4HIS WOULD BE THE BEST WAY FOR THEM TO TEST EACH OTHERS QUALITIES AS A HOME GROWER WHILE HAVING FUN 4HE EVENT WAS HELD AT A SECRET LOCATION OVER A ONE DAY PERIOD AND ALL ENTRIES ON THE DAY WHERE ONLY OPEN TO ,'! MEMBERS

/ iÊ Ê > >L ÃÊ Õ«ÊÓääÇÊÊÊÊÊ )T IS A COLD WINTER S MORNING THE DAY AFTER THE NIGHT BEFORE 4HERE WAS AN VIBE OF ANTICIPATION IN THE AIR 'ROWDOC WHO FLEW IN THE NIGHT BEFORE WAS ALREADY SAT UP SMOKING @#HEESE JOINTS OVER PERCOLATED COFFEE WITH OUR HOST /UR RENDEZVOUS POINT WAS ONLY A FEW CLICKS AWAY JUST A CAR JOURNEY DOWN THE ROAD !S WE ARRIVED AT THE VENUE WE WERE GREETED BY THE HOST OF THE DAY S EVENT (APPY SMILEY FACES EVERYWHERE )NCENSE FILLED THE AIR ALONGSIDE THE CHARACTERISTIC SCENT OF 3KUNK WEED AS WE WERE GUIDED FROM ONE ROOM INTO ANOTHER IT WAS APPARENT THAT A PARTY WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN 4HE MAIN LOUNGE HAD BEEN TEMPORARILY TRANSFORMED INTO A CHILL OUT SMOKING AREA FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE DAYS EVENT 4HE TIME WAS FAST APPROACHING AM OR GONE WHEN THE CUP OFFICIALLY STARTED ALTHOUGH THERE WAS ALREADY A PRE CUP SMOKING SESSION BLAZING ,'! MEMBERS WERE DOTTED ABOUT EVERYWHERE 4HE MAIN CHILL OUT SPACE THE PLACE WERE THE SERIOUS JUDGING WENT ON WAS FURNISHED WITH A VARIETY OF COMFY SEATS AND CUSHIONS ARRANGED AROUND A CENTRAL GLASS TABLE !NOTHER AREA TO ONE SIDE WAS FITTED OUT WITH HIGH SEATS AND HAD A DISTINCT COFFEESHOP COUNTER FEEL ABOUT IT WHERE PEOPLE COULD CHAT MORE QUIETLY 4HE BACKDROP WAS A BLEND OF OLD SCHOOL $RUM AND "ASS AND 0ROGRESSIVE (OUSE *UST PAST AM AND ALL THE ENTRANTS JUDGES HAD FINALLY ARRIVED AND WERE IN

PLACE TO RECEIVE THEIR @GIFT PACKS %ACH GIFT PACK CONTAINED SAMPLES OF WEED A SCORE SHEET A LIGHTER RIZLAS ROACHES AND SEVERAL PACKS OF SEEDS 4HE MAIN ORGANISERS OF THE EVENT WERE THE ,'!

BUT MANY OTHER PEOPLE HELPED OUT 4HE ,'! WOULD LIKE TO SHOUT A BIG h$ANK 5v TO THE FOLLOWING FOR MAKING THE DAY SO SPECIAL 4ONY AT 3AGARMATHA 3EEDS FOR FRONTING GIFTS AND PRIZES (IGH 1UALITY 3EEDS FOR AWARD PRIZES 'ROW$OC 3EEDS FOR SPONSORING WELCOME PACKS GIFTS AND AWARD PRIZES /H AND 3UBURBAN 3EEDS FOR THE DONATION OF THEIR YET TO BE RELEASED GENETICS 7ITH A DEADLINE OF PM TO HAND IN THE SCORE SHEETS THE *UDGES WERE REMINDED OF THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE EVENT !S SEASONED SMOKERS EVERYONE WAS UP FOR THE CHALLENGE ALTHOUGH FOR SOME ,'!

MEMBERS THE JUDGING WASN T REALLY A TASK THE WINNER 3HINOBI SUBMITTED HIS SCORE CARD FIRST AT AROUND THE HR MARK %ACH JUDGE WAS PROVIDED WITH A SELECTION OF SAMPLES CLEARLY LABELLED FROM !LL OF THE SAMPLES WERE GROWN INDOORS SOME HYDRO SOME BIO 4HE QUALITY OF MOST OF THE ENTRIES SUBMITTED WAS ABOVE THE COFFEESHOP AVERAGE )T WAS TIME TO BREAK OUT A FEW RIZLAS AND GET SAMPLING SOME OF THE BAGGIES PROVIDED BEFORE THE TIME RAN OUT 7ITHDRAWING INTO THE hCOFFEESHOP CORNERv SAMPLES AND WERE HIT ON A GLASS PIPE FIRST TO JUDGE TASTE JUST BEFORE ROLLING A SPLIFF OF THE SAMPLE TO GET STONED FURTHER STILL %ACH SAMPLE WAS TO BE JUDGED FROM ACROSS TEN CATEGORIES ON THE SCORE SHEETS PROVIDED 4HE CATEGORIES WERE APPEARANCE CONDITION QUALITY CURE SCENT TASTE SMOKEABILITY EFFECT SATISFACTION AND OVERALL 7ITH EACH SAMPLE THE JUDGING GOT HARDER $ WHO DID THINGS IN A STRAIGHT ORDER REMARKED h3AMPLE IS HEAVY BUT THIS IS MY THIRD SPLIFF v 4HE JUDGING WAS A REALLY SERIOUS AFFAIR 4HE MAIN TABLE INCLUDED A LIGHT POWERED MICROSCOPE LOOKING GLASS AND A PIPE FOR CLOSER INSPECTION OF BUDS WHILE TESTING 4HE GENERAL DISCUSSION IN THE ROOM WAS CENTRED ABOUT THE ORIGIN AND QUALITY OF THE SAMPLES ON THE TABLE WITH LOTS OF CULTIVATION BANTER THROWN IN %NTRANTS JUDGED THEIR OWN ENTRIES AND EVERYONE ELSE S SO THINGS GOT QUITE CONFUSING AT TIMES 3OME SAMPLES WERE BRED BY OTHERS OR BRED AND GROWN BY THE SAME MEMBER WHILE OTHERS CAME FROM OR WERE ENTERED

BY PROFESSIONAL SEED COMPANIES SO THE STANDARD WAS HIGH 4HIS ALSO KEPT THE GUESSING GAME AND COMPETITION ALIVE 4HIS MOTLEY BUNCH OF CHARACTERS BETWEEN THEM CONTAINED AT LEAST TWO PRO GROWERS A PRO BREEDER A FEW RETIRED HERB SALESMEN AND SEVERAL CANNABIS CONNOISSEURS FRIENDS THAT COULD DESCRIBE WEED AS THEY SMOKED IT 7HEN IT CAME TO THE JUDGING PART THEY ALL CERTAINLY KNEW WHAT IT IS THEY WERE THEIR TO DO THEY WERE ALL SMOKING THE SAME LANGUAGE 2EFRESHMENTS WERE SERVED AT JUST GONE PM 4HIS INCLUDED A SPREAD OF OPEN TOP SANDWICHES ON THE HOSTS HOMEMADE SUN DRIED TOMATO BREAD SALAD CHIPS AND A CHEESE AND PINEAPPLE HEDGEHOG ! TRADITIONAL "AKEWELL 4ART COOKED BY $ARLEK SEC THE NIGHT BEFORE WAS ALSO SERVED FOR DESSERT #AKES CHOCOLATE TEA COFFEE BEER AND FRUIT JUICE WAS AVAILABLE ANYTIME JUST IN CASE SOMEONE GOT THE SUDDEN MUNCHIES &URTHER ROUNDS OF SANDWICH MAKING WENT ON INTO THE EVENING .ORDIC STYLE !S DID PLENTY OF BEER DRINKING HOMEMADE HASHISH AND BUTANE OIL SAMPLING AND ONLINE GAMING

!S THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSED THE SCORE SHEETS WERE SUBMITTED IN TURN BY EACH JUDGE AS AND WHEN THEY WERE COMPLETED OF COURSE 0RIZES WERE AWARDED AFTER ALL THE SCORES WERE ADDED UP AT THE END BUT THE NAMES OF THE SAMPLES WERE ANNOUNCED IN BETWEEN JUST TO KEEP EVERYONE ON THEIR TOES AND GUESSING 4HE SAMPLES ENTERED WERE REVEALED AS FOLLOWS @3TRAWBERRY $IESEL @"UBBLE $UST @!FGHAN (INDU +USH @#HEESE @.3 .EW 3TRAIN @3AXON !XE %VERYONE WAS REALLY STONED BY THIS STAGE AND SO SOME PEOPLE THOUGHT THIS WAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FINAL WINNERS ALREADY 4HERE WAS THEN AN EVER GREATER AIR OF SUSPENSE AS THE OFFICIAL WINNERS WERE NAMED IN ASCENDING ORDER JUST AFTER 3ILENCE FELL ACROSS THE SMOKED FILLED ROOM AS THE FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE 4HE WINNERS WERE PLACED AS FOLLOWS )N RD PLACE WITH POINTS WAS @.3 .EW 3TRAIN FROM 'ROW$OC 3EEDS ENTERED BY 'ROWDOC )N ND PLACE WITH POINTS CAME @3TRAWBERRY $IESEL FROM 2ESERVOIR 3EEDS ENTERED BY -AX ,UMENS )N ST PLACE WITH POINTS WAS PLACED @#HEESE ORIGINALLY FROM 3ENSI 3EEDS ENTERED BY 3HINOBI ! ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOLLOWED THE ANNOUNCEMENT FOLLOWED BY THE GIFTING OF THE AWARD PRIZES %ACH PRIZE WINNER WAS AWARDED WITH A GLASS CURING JAR CONTAINING A SELECTION OF THE SPONSORS SEEDS AND A MEDAL 4HE WINNING GOLD MEDAL CONTAINED A SMALL YR OLD HAND PRESSED !FRICAN HERB FLOWER AS AN HEIRLOOM TO THE ,'!

AND THE DAYS EVENT 4HE WINNER 3HINOBI WAS THUS OBLIGED TO REVEAL HIS METHODS SO THAT OTHERS COULD IMPROVE THEIR GARDENING SKILLS TOMORROW 4HE FIRST ,'! ## WAS OFFICIALLY OVER 3HINOBI WOULD RETAIN THE TITLE OF @,'!

'ROWER OF THE 3EASON UNTIL NEXT TIME AN EVENT WAS HELD 4HOSE THAT DIDN T CONTINUE TO KEEP THE HOSPITALITY OF THE HOST WAY UP INTO THE SMALL HOURS OF THE MORNING WENT HOME SMILING WITH JUST A HINT OF RED EYE 4HE DAYS EVENT HAD BEEN A VICTORY FOR CANNABIS

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/NE OTHER ADVANTAGE TO GROWING WITH SEEDLINGS IS THAT THEY OFTEN DEVELOP A MUCH MORE STURDY OFTEN QUITE WOODY MAIN STEM AND THE CHANCES OF A GOOD END RESULT ARE INCREASED ACCORDINGLY %VEN SO FOR ME THE MOST IMPORTANT REASON FOR GROWING FROM SEED HAS NOT YET BEEN MENTIONED AND THAT IS THAT GROWING MARIHUANA CAN SOMETIMES BECOME SOMETHING OF A GRIND WHEN YOU JUST GROW THE SAME VARIETY YEAR AFTER YEAR ) CONFESS ) M THE SORT OF GROWER WHO FINDS IT FUN TO REGULARLY TRY OUT NEW VARIETIES OF MARIHUANA RATHER THAN GROWING THE SAME OLD STRAIN %SPECIALLY WHEN YOU RE TRYING TO RAISE A REALLY SPECIAL HYBRID OR A VARIETY THAT YOU KNOW IS HARDLY GROWN ANYWHERE ELSE THE KICK JUST GETS BIGGER AND BIGGER THE CLOSER TO A GREAT END OF THE GROW CYCLE YOU GET 4HEN THERE IS ALSO THE FACT THAT EVERY VARIETY OF MARIHUANA HAS HER OWN PROPERTIES AND IDIOSYNCRASIES WHICH STRETCHES YOUR GROWING SKILLS EACH TIME TO TRY AND GET THE BEST OUT OF IT !N AMAZING LOOKING FLOWER HEAD DRENCHED WITH WHITE 4(# CRYSTALS IS YOUR END REWARD

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0URCHASED CLONES ALSO HAVE THE PROBLEM OF BEING A FREQUENT SOURCE OF SPINT OR IN THE WORST CASES APPEAR TO BE SUFFERING FROM A CERTAIN TIREDNESS WITH LIFE 4HIS COMES FROM THE PLANTS BEING CLONED OVER AND OVER AGAIN &OR THESE REASONS ) CAN THOROUGHLY RECOMMEND HAVING A GO AT GROWING FROM SEED )N THIS ARTICLE ) WILL BE SUMMARISING THE POSSIBILITIES OF GROWING FROM SEED AND BE POINTING OUT A FEW THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN DECIDING WHICH MARIHUANA VARIETY TO GROW

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GROWER CAN RELAX WHEN GERMINATING HIS SEEDS 4HE CHANCES OF GETTING A MALE PLANTS FROM FEMINISED SEEDS IS AS GOOD AS ZERO AND THAT IS A REAL WEIGHT OFF A GROWER S MIND 4HINGS USED TO BE MUCH DIFFERENT AND YOU USUALLY HAD TO PHYSICALLY WEED OUT THE MALE PLANTS AND THIS ALWAYS PROVED HARDER THAN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE 7ORST OF ALL IT WASTED A LOT OF TIME AND THAT IS ALWAYS A SHAME 4HIS LOSS OF TIME WAS FREQUENTLY HELD UP BY $UTCH INDOOR GROWERS AS THE REASON WHY THEY GREW FROM SEED SO INFREQUENTLY 4HE WHOLE PROCESS AFTER ALL COULD COST A FEW WEEKS OF EXTRA PRE GROWTH AND THAT LOGICALLY MEANS FEWER HARVESTS PER YEAR !LTHOUGH THIS REASONING IS TO A CERTAIN EXTENT VALID THERE ARE CERTAIN WAYS OF PREVENTING MUCH OF THIS PRE GROWTH

TIME LOSS 3O FOR EXAMPLE A SIMPLE GERMINATION TRAY AND A LOW POWERED LAMP ARE OFTEN MORE THAN ENOUGH TO SPEED THE GROWTH OF NEW SEEDLINGS IN THEIR POTS AND HELP THEM THRIVE IN THE FIRST TWO WEEKS )N THIS WAY WE CAN ALSO TIME THE GERMINATION TO BEGIN A WEEK BEFORE THE PREVIOUS GENERATION OF FEMALES IS READY TO HARVEST "Y DOING THIS YOU WILL BE ABLE TO PLANT THE FIRST SEEDLINGS DIRECTLY SINCE THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN STARTED AND THERE WILL BE BARELY ANY LOSS OF TIME /N TOP OF THIS THERE S THE FACT THAT THESE SEEDLINGS WILL OFTEN HAVE MUCH MORE LIFE FORCE THAN THE OVER CLONED ALTERNATIVES )N SHORT ONCE THE SEEDLINGS HAVE DEVELOPED INTO SMALL PLANTS THEY CAN IN A SHORT SPACE OF TIME PUT ON QUITE A GROWTH SPURT AND WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP POWERFULLY THEREAFTER

)N CONTRAST TO INDOOR GROWERS OUTDOOR GROWERS FREQUENTLY GROW FROM SEED !ND FOR GOOD REASON BECAUSE AFTER ALL WE DO HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PLANTS ARE IN THE SOIL AND GROWING EARLY ENOUGH SO THAT THEY HAVE TIME TO FULLY BLOOM OUTDOORS OR ELSE OUR CHANCES OF SUCCESS WILL BE PRETTY SMALL 4HIS TIMING IS NOT SO EASY WITH CLONES YOU VE BOUGHT BECAUSE THE BLOOM PERIOD CAN HAVE A TENDENCY TO START QUITE LATE 4HIS IS NOT SO SURPRISING WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT THE CLONES HAVE USUALLY COME FROM INDOOR GROW ROOMS THANKS TO WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN USED TO QUITE DIFFERENT CONDITIONS !ND THERE S ANOTHER GOOD REASON FOR THIS PREFERENCE AND THAT IS THAT WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN GROWING OUTDOORS FOR THE BEST PART OF A YEAR YOU REALLY WANT TO BE ABLE TO LOOK FORWARD TO A GOOD LOOKING TASTY VARIETY )N SHORT IT S BETTER TO SPEND A BIT MORE ON SOME DECENT SEEDS THAN TO PIN YOUR HOPES ON A COUPLE OF LIMP CLONES AND HOPING THINGS TURN OUT OKAY )F ) LOOK AT MY OWN SUCCESSFUL YEARS GROWING OUTDOORS THEN ) HAVE TO HONESTLY SAY THAT THEY HAVE PRETTY MUCH ALWAYS BEEN WHEN ) GREW FROM SEED SUITABLE FOR GROWING OUTDOORS

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GROWER 4HE ONE MARIHUANA VARIETY IS MORE SENSITIVE TO FOR EXAMPLE EC LEVEL IN THE FEED WATER AND SUBSTRATE THAN THE OTHER THANKS TO WHICH THE CHANCE OF OVER FERTILIZING A SENSITIVE VARIETY IS LARGER 9OU MAY ALSO NOTICE THAT ONE MARIHUANA VARIETY PRODUCES MANY MORE LEAVES THAN THE OTHER !LTHOUGH IT IS USUALLY THE CASE THAT MARIHUANA VARIETIES THAT PRODUCE A DENSE FOLIAGE ARE EASIER TO RAISE THE MASS OF LEAVES CAN MAKE HARVESTING A REAL PAIN

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BY PREFERENCE GROWN ON COCO AND MANY GROWERS ARE CONVINCED THIS IS THE MEDIUM THAT WITH WHICH TO GET THE BEST RESULTS WITH THIS VARIETY 2OCK WOOL BY CONTRAST IS REGULARLY USED FOR GROWING THE RATHER MORE SENSITIVE VARIETIES ON BECAUSE THE EC VALUE IS REASONABLY QUICKLY AND EASILY RAISED AND LOWERED THE LATTER BEING THE MORE USEFUL IN PRACTICE 4HIS MAKES RAPID REACTION TO CHANGES MORE EASY AND FURTHER MORE THERE IS LESS SUSCEPTIBILITY TO SALT ACCUMULATION AND SO AN INCREASE IN EC VALUE 7ITH SOIL OVER FERTILIZATION IS EASIER BECAUSE IT CAN ACT LIKE A SORT OF SIEVE LEAVING SALTS BEHIND IN THE SUBSTRATE 3O YOU NEED TO PAY MORE ATTENTION NOT TO OVER FERTILIZE 2EGULAR CHECKS WITH THE EC METER CAN SAVE A LOT OF HASSLE &ORTUNATELY THERE IS PRACTICALLY NO VARIETY OF MARIHUANA THAT TURNS ITS NOSE UP AT A SUBSTRATE LIKE SOIL THANKS TO WHICH AN EARTH MIX CAN BE USED FOR PRETTY MUCH EVERY INSTANCE PROVIDED YOU KEEP AN EYE ON THAT EC LEVEL ) HOPE TO HAVE PASSED ON A FEW TIPS WITH THIS ARTICLE WHICH YOU AS A GROWER WILL BE ABLE TO USE FOR THE NEXT TIME YOU THINK ABOUT GETTING HOLD OF A DIFFERENT VARIETY OF MARIHUANA 3O WHEN THE GRIND OF GROWING THE SAME OF WEED FINALLY GETS TO YOU WHY NOT TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND MAYBE YOU LL FEEL THAT GROWER S BLOOD PULSING THROUGH YOUR VEINS ONCE MORE

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!CCIDENTALLY IF YOU WANT THE TRUTH 4HAT SORT OF WORK WAS NEVER VIEWED AND IN CERTAIN PLACES IN THE WORLD STILL IS NOT VIEWED AS A JOB 3O IT WAS HARD AS A BOY TO ASPIRE TO A JOB THAT WAS NOT EVEN IN EXISTENCE TO THE VISIBLE WORLDx) EXPECT IT IS A BIT LIKE THE WORK MY CHILDREN WILL BE DOING IN YEARS NOT IMAGINABLE FROM WHERE WE STAND WITH OUR CURRENT KNOWLEDGE

) DO NOT HAVE A FAVORITE AS ANYTHING ) GROW BECOMES A PART OF ME DURING ITS LIFE CYCLE ) GET AS PASSIONATE ABOUT GROWING FRUITS OR VEGGIES TOO ) EXPECT -OTHER .ATURE S WORLD DOES IT FOR ME BIG TIME

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7 i Ê` `ÊÞ ÕÊv ÀÃÌÊ`iÛi «ÊÞ ÕÀÊ Ü ÊÃÌ V Ê> `Ê Ü ÊÃii`ÊL> ¶ )T IS HARD TO PIN POINT A TIME ABOUT SEED SINCE FROM THE FIRST TIME ) SMOKED ) BEGAN COLLECTING SEEDx ) SUSPECT MY 5NIVERSITY YEARS WERE THE DEFINING POINT OF MY SERIOUS APPROACH ALONG WITH TRAVELING AND SEED COLLEC TION -ULLUMBIMBY -ADNESS WAS A STRAIN ) WORKED ON WITH SEVERAL OTHERS IN NORTHERN .37 IN THE EARLY TO MID S AND WITH WHICH ) HAD A LOT OF SUCCESS WITH EARLY ON 4HE FIRST 3EED "ANK THAT ) FOUNDED UNOFFICIALLY WAS IN !USTRALIAxBUT OFFICIALLY THE TAX PAYING COMPANIES ONLY EXIST AND STILL DO EXIST IN (OLLAND

Ê£ ÓÊÞ ÕÊÀi V>Ìi`ÊÞ ÕÀÊÃii`Ê L> ÊÌ Ê ÃÌiÀ`> °Ê Ê `Ã } Ì]Ê ` ÊÞ ÕÊiÛiÀÊÀi}ÀiÌÊÌ ÃÊ Ûi¶ (OLLAND ESPECIALLY THE EARLY TO MID S WAS A FANTASTIC PERIOD FOR LIKE MINDED PEOPLE )T WAS A HAPPENING DAILY AND ) EXPECT THE ENTHUSIASM AND PASSION FOR HAVING A COFFEE SHOP TO GO TO AT THE END OF A DAY S WORK TO POW WOW AND EXCHANGE IDEAS ETCxWELL IT GOT US ALL IN THE PLAN )T WAS ALSO THE TIME ) BEGAN WORKING WITH .EVILLE WHO WAS THE FOUNDER OF 4HE 3EED "ANK WHICH WENT ON TO BECOME THE 3ENSI 3EED "ANK 2OB #LARKE WAS AROUND A LOT AND A HOST OF OTHER SCIENTIFIC CHAR ACTERSxSO IT WAS AN EXCELLENT TIME AND A LOT OF VERY CONSTRUCTIVE BREEDING WENT ON 2EGRET THE MOVE TO (OLLANDx.O ) DO NOT REGRET ANYTHING ) HAVE DONE IN MY LIFE UP TILL NOW SO THE ANSWER WOULD BE NO "UT LIKE ALL THINGS THERE IS A LIFE SPAN AND BY ) HAD HAD ENOUGH NOT TO MENTION THE BLATANT CAPITALISM AND STANDARD GREED RELATED THINGS THAT COME WITH SUCCESS AND CHANGE PEOPLE YOU ONCE KNEW WELL 3UCH IS LIFE

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#ANNABIS #UPS ARE THINGS ) DO NOT REALLY KEEP A TALLY ON AS THEY KIND OF LOST THEIR MEANING FOR ME NOW "UT LET S SAY WAS A YEAR BOTH .EVILLE AND ) TRIED VERY HARD TO DO OUR BEST WORK AND IT WAS A VERY SUCCESSFUL YEAR 5P UNTIL THEN AND BETWEEN US BOTH WE HAD DONE SERIOUSLY WELL WITH BREEDING THINGS PEOPLE ENJOYED )N A LOT OF %UROPEAN COUNTRIES OUR STRAINS HAVE BEEN ENTERED

BY THE RESPECTIVE GROWERS AND CONTINUE TO RECEIVE ACCOLADES )T IS NOT A REASON OR MOTIVATION TO WORK WITH THIS PLANT ) LEAVE THAT TO THE OTHERS NOWADAYS

vÌiÀÊ i>Û }Ê ÃÌiÀ`> Ê>ÃÊÌ iÊ Ü À `½ÃÊ ÃÌÊv> ÕÃÊV> >L ÃÊ LÀii`iÀ]ÊÜ >ÌÊ` `Ê- > Ì L>L>Ê` Ê iÝ̶ 7ELL ) LEFT (OLLAND AS ) WAS HEAD HUNT ED BY A 3WISS GROUP BASED IN 4ICINO THE )TALIAN SIDE OF 3WITZERLAND ) SOLD MY INTEREST IN THE '(3CO SET UP -R .ICE 3EED "ANK TOOK MY MOTHERS AND FATHER PLANTS AS WELL ALL OF .EVILLE S MOTHER AND FATHER PLANTS AND HEADED TO THE HILLS ) WAS INVITED TO SET UP A NEW COMPANY WITH A 3WISS PARTNER AND WAS MADE VICE PRESIDENT ALONG SIDE $OCTOR .USSBAUMER WHO WAS MADE PRESIDENT PLUS LAWYERS AND CRIMINOLOGIST /UR INTENTIONS WERE TO BEGIN ESSENTIAL OIL PRODUCTION SEED PRODUCTION MEDI CAL TINCTURES TO AID PATIENTS WITH PAIN MANAGEMENT ISSUES AND JUST ABOUT ANY THING ELSE THAT WAS POSSIBLE -Y NEW COUNTRY S CULTIVATION POSSIBILITIES MADE (OLLAND LOOK LIKE A KINDERGARTEN FOR GROWERS IN COMPARISON

ÜÊ` `ÊÞ ÕÊ > iÊÌ iÊV iVÌ Ê Ü Ì Ê Ü>À`Ê >À ö /VER A BEER OR TWO AT ONE OF THE (IGH 4IMES #ANNABIS #UP WHEN ) WAS BREED ING THE 7HITE FAMILY HYBRIDSx 3O THAT WAS IN )T WAS ONE OF THE MOST EASY AND DEEPLY TOUCHING FRIENDSHIPS THAT EVOLVED FROM DAY ONE (OWARD -ARKS WAS UNKNOWN TO ME PREVIOUSLY SO ) DID NOT HAVE ALL THE EXPECTATIONS THAT CAN CLOUD ONE S VIEW WHEN YOU MEET -IND YOU HE HAD PERFECT CREDEN TIALS FROM MY POINT OF VIEW ) RECALL HE ASKED ME WITH THAT SILKY SMOKED VOICE HE HAS hANY CHANCE AN OLD BASTARD LIKE ME COULD FIND A WAY TO WORK WITH YOU IN THIS BUSINESS vx OR SOMETHING TO THOSE WORDS -Y REPLY WAS SOMETHING

9ES BUT SINCE WE HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN OWNING AND FOUNDING OTHER EXISTING SEED COMPANIES WE DECIDED TO CHANGE THE NAMES FOR ALL OLD EXISTING STRAINS EXCEPT FOR @3UPER 3ILVER (AZE 7E DID THAT SINCE SO MANY OTHER SEED COMPA NIES COPIED OUR ORIGINAL NAMES BUT USED DIFFERENT PLANTS TO MAKE THOSE SEEDS WITH )N FACT LOOK AT @7HITE 7IDOW AND HOW MANY COMPANIES OFFER IT ALL CLAIM ING IT TO BE THE ORIGINALxTHAT IS WHY WE RENAMED IT @"LACK 7IDOW AND TO THIS DAY NO ONE HAS COPIED IT

7 >ÌÊ ÃÊ /¶Ê @'ENE "ANK 4ECHNOLOGY WAS THE NAME OF THE MOTHER COMPANY ) FOUNDED IN 3WITZERLAND AFTER LEAVING (OLLAND )T WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE PERIPHERAL COMPANIES AND ACTIVITIES WE ESTABLISHED AFTERWARDS LIKE THE (EMP BEER CLONING NURSERY ESSENTIAL OIL DISTILLATION FOR THE COSMETIC INDUSTRY MEDICAL TINCTURE USED FOR PAIN MANAGE MENT OF -3 AND #HEMOTHERAPY PATIENTS AND OF COURSE SEED PRODUCTION

'"4 WAS CLOSED AND ALL ASSETS WERE SEIZED AFTER YEARS OF FUNCTIONING NOR MALLY IN 4ICINOxDUE TO SELF RIGHTEOUS 0ROSECUTORS WITH A MISSION TO ERADICATE (EMP IN EARLY 4O THIS DAY NO LAWS HAVE EVER BEEN CHANGED TO INITI ATE @/PERATION )NDOOR AND CANNABIS IS LEGAL TO GROW IN 3WITZERLANDxAS LONG AS IT IS NOT DONE FOR THE ILLEGAL DRUG MAR KET "UT THAT IS POLITICS AND PARADOX TOO DIFFICULT TO INTERPRET IF YOU ARE SITTING ON MY SIDE OF THE FENCE

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7 V ÊÛ Ã ÃÊ` iÃÊ- > Ì L>L>Ê `Ê Ê}>À`i Êv ÀÊÌ iÊvÕÌÕÀi¶ ) DO NOT REALLY THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE VERY MUCH BUT ) PLAN TO GO BACK TO OLD SEED STOCK OF BOTH .EVIL S AND MY OWN AND PULL A FEW OLD FLAVORS OUT OF THE VAULTS 4HE THRILL OF MAKING THE STRONGEST EFFECTING #ANNABIS HAS GONE FOR ME ) PREFER TO CONCENTRATE ON AROMAS AND FLA VORS IN THE FUTURExSINCE ALL MY PLANTS ARE PROVEN TO BE STRONG ENOUGH ALREADY 'ROW SOME /LIVES AND MAKE SOME WINE IN BETWEEN RAISING A FEW CHILDREN GIVES ME SOMETHING TO DO DURING THE NIGHT HOURS OF MY GROW ROOMS AND BREEDING PROJECTSx

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'REEN 0EACE WAS FOUNDED IN /RIGINALLY THE ORGANISATION WAS OPPOSED TO NUCLEAR TESTING IN THE !LASKAN 0ACIFIC !S TIMES CHANGED THE ORGANISATION CHANGED AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES MOVED INTO THE FRAME !NTI GLOBALISTS AND 0RO ACADEMICS HAVE SINCE PLACED BRICK TO WINDOW OR PEN TO PAPER IN REACTION TO THE QUESTIONS OF h'LOBAL 7ARMINGv AND h#LIMATE #HANGEv -ORE RECENTLY THE -ATHEMATICIANS GOT INVOLVED AND CAME UP WITH A SIMPLE CALCULATION WHICH HELPS MEASURE THE EFFECTS THAT INDUSTRIAL GLOBALISM I E OUR LIFESTYLE HABITS ARE HAVING ON OUR PLANET THEY CALLED IT THE h#ARBON &OOTPRINTv ! #ARBON &OOTPRINT IS AN ESTIMATED CALCULATION OF THE AMOUNT OF GREENHOUSE GASES #/ UNITS GENERATED BY EACH INDIVIDUAL AS THE BY PRODUCT OF THEIR DAILY ACTIVITIES 4HE AVERAGE ANNUAL CARBON FOOTPRINT IN THE 5+ IS 4ONNES PER PERSON E G K7H OF ELECTRICITY PRODUCES TONNES OF #/ 4YPICALLY @&UEL ELECTRICITY GAS COAL OIL MAKES UP OF OUR DAILY EMISSIONS 7ITH ANOTHER OF OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT COMING FROM OUR @2ECREATION ,EISURE ACTIVITIES &OR EXAMPLE A 2ETURN &LIGHT FROM "IRMINGHAM TO !MSTERDAM KM FOR PASSENGER GENERATES TONNES OF #/ ;SOURCE WWW CARBONFOOTPRINT COM= )N THESE TIMES IT IS INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT THAT AS HUMANS WE CAREFULLY MONITOR AND MANAGE THE LEVELS OF NATURAL RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO US WHILST COUNTERING OUR LIFESTYLES AGAINST THE AMOUNT OF BY PRODUCTS WE GENERATE AND CONSUME AND THOSE WE WASTE ON A DAILY BASIS ,ET S START WITH WATER BOTTLED FROM THE 3PRINGS OF SOMEWHERE EXOTIC )T MAY TASTE LIKE MOUNTAIN MIST BUT IT S LIKELY OVERLOADED WITH CARBON FOOT PRINTED AIR MILES 4HE PLASTIC BOTTLE IT CAME IN IS ALWAYS INORGANIC SINCE EVEN AFTER WHEN RECYCLED IT WILL PRODUCE FURTHER NOXIOUS GASES AND RESIDUE SCUM INCREASING OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT FURTHER 3OIL THAT HAS TRAVELLED HALF WAY ROUND %UROPE AND BACK AGAIN CONTAINING PEAT FROM THE STEPPES OF 3CANDINAVIA 2USSIA DISFIGURES THE LOCAL LANDSCAPE IT CAME FROM AND DESTROYS MUCH OF THE WILDLIFE THAT ONCE THRIVED UPON IT %VERY SACK OF VOLCANIC OR MINERAL BASED SUBSTANCE USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF PERLITE AND VERMICULITE LITERALLY CHISELS AWAY FURTHER AT THE MOUNTAIN FROM WHICH IT WAS FORMED "AT GUANO FROM THE SHORES OF +ENYA OR THE DEEPEST CAVES OF "ORNEO MIGHT DO THE BUSINESS IN AN INDOOR SOIL MIX BUT AT WHAT COST TO -OTHER %ARTH 3EAWEED IS NO LONGER CONSIDERED @/RGANIC BECAUSE OF THE NON SUSTAINABLE FARMING METHODS INVOLVED IN ITS COLLECTION 7HAT ELSE )T IS NOW TIME FOR GARDENERS TO OPEN UP AND ADMIT THAT THE WORLD IS GRADUALLY RUNNING OUT OF HOME GROWING RESOURCES .OW THE ISSUE OF FOSSIL FUEL ! (IGH 0RESSURE 3ODIUM (03 BULB RUNNING AT TONNES OF #/ PER K7H IS LIKE APPROXIMATELY X 2ETURN &LIGHTS TO AND FROM

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!MSTERDAM FROM THE 5+ ON THE CARBON FOOTPRINT SCALE WHICH DOESN T TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION ANY hBAGGAGE HANDLINGv COSTS OF COURSE 4HOSE ILLOGICAL GROWERS THAT GO TO THE LENGTHS OF INSTALLING A HEATER IN AN INDOOR GARDEN IN WINTER WHICH RUNS AT A GREATER K7H OUTPUT THAN ANOTHER LAMP REALLY ARE RUBBING THEIR SKULLS AGAINST A COLD WALL ,IKEWISE ADDED FANS FILTERS AIR PUMPS AND HEATERS EACH IN TURN TAKE THEIR TOLL ON VALUABLE EXPENSIVE NON RENEWABLE FOSSIL FUELS WHILE SUCKING THEIR ENERGY INTO THE GROW ROOM ,IKEWISE AIR CONDITIONER UNITS AND THOSE #/ GENERATORS WHICH IRONICALLY PUMP OUT THE VERY GAS THAT EVERYONE S STRESSING ABOUT ARE OFTEN PLACED INTO GROW ROOMS WITHOUT ANY FURTHER CONTEMPLATION AT ALL "ECAUSE EVERYONE KNOW h#/ IS GOOD FOR PLANTS RIGHT v -OST OF WHICH FALLS INTO THE CATEGORY OF GENERAL @GARDEN INEFFICIENCY OR @GARDENING STUPIDITY OR OFTEN A COMBINATION OF BOTH ,UCKILY IT S NOT ALL A QUESTION OF DOOM AND GLOBAL DUMBING 3EVERAL LEADING HORTICULTURAL MANUFACTURERS AND RESEARCHERS ARE CATCHING UP WITH THE TECHNOLOGIES NOW AVAILABLE TO US ALL "Y PUSHING IDEAS INSTEAD OF PRODUCTS SOME COMPANIES ARE NOW DESIGNING SOME REALLY INNOVATIVE @ENVIRO CONSCIOUS IF NOT YET ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY GEAR )N FACT MANY HORTICULTURAL @IDEAS HOLD A PRE EXISTING DOMESTIC OR SPACE AGE .!3! USE JUST LIKE LOW ENERGY LIGHT BULBS AND P( TRUNCHEONS WHILE OTHERS ARE STILL FRESH AND EXCITING TO THE WORLD ,OW ENERGY SELF BALLASTING LAMPS HAVE BEEN STANDARDIZING THE WAY THAT NEW GROWERS APPROACH THE OLD ISSUES OF HEAT LIGHT EFFICIENCY WITHIN THE INDOOR GARDEN SET UP FOR SOME TIME NOW 3HEFFIELD 5NIVERSITY HAVE BEEN RUNNING COMPARISON TESTS OVER EFFICIENCY LUMEN 0!2 SPECTRUM OUTPUT HEAT GENERATION OPERATING COSTS WITH ()$ (03 LAMPS ILLUSTRATING JUST HOW DATED TECHNOLOGY IS STILL MAINSTREAM SO TO SPEAK WHILE UNDERGROUND GROWERS HAVE ALREADY MOVED ONTO ,%$S WHICH IS A POSITIVE STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION )N REALITY THE ERGONOMIC CONCEPTS AND ENGINEERED DESIGNS BEHIND MANY MODERN HORTICULTURAL APPENDIXES INCLUDING DIAMOND SHADE REFLECTORS ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL UNITS AND IRRIGATION SYSTEMS EACH HOLD AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY PRINCIPLE AT THEIR CORE CENTRED AROUND INTENSIVE YET SUSTAINABLE METHODS OF URBAN FARMING )N THIS SENSE THE HIPPIE ETHIC OF THE S AND SUBSEQUENTLY THAT OF @'REEN 0EACE STILL RALLIES STRONG WITHIN THE MINDSET OF THE HORTICULTURAL INDUSTRY AT LARGE AT LEAST THE PEOPLE WE MEET #ERTAIN APPLICATIONS ARE OF COURSE STILL MANIFESTED VIA WARFARE AND INEQUALITY BUT THAT S ANOTHER ISSUE &OR EVERY ACTION THEIR IS ALWAYS A REACTION !ND SO THE PEACEFUL ACTIONS OF A FEW INDIVIDUALS AS IN THE CASE OF 'REEN 0EACE HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO HAVE MADE POSITIVE CHANGES ACROSS THE GLOBE !ND THAT WAS NOW ALMOST FOUR DECADES AGO 3OFT 3ECRETS IS DEDICATED TO THE SIXTIES ERA 7E WOULD THEN LIKE TO ASK ALL THE READERS OF 3OFT 3ECRETS TO FIND THEIR @(IPPIE 2OOTS THIS YEAR FIRSTLY BY HELPING TO SAVE THE PLANET BY REDUCING THEIR OWN CARBON FOOTPRINT HOWEVER BIG OR SMALL /NE ,OVE BAREFOOT AND SWATHED A BRIGHT ORANGE SARONG WALKING SEVERAL CITY BLOCKS TO REACH THE COURTHOUSE WHERE HE WAS GREETED BY WAITING MEDIA

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/À Ê >À ÞÊv ÀÊ ÕÃ ÞÊ À ÜÌ !FTER YOUR SEEDLINGS HAVE THEIR THIRD OR FOURTH SET OF TRUE SERRATED LEAVES YOU WANT TO TRIM THEIR TOPMOST GROWTH TIP WHICH IS CALLED THE hAPICAL MERISTEMv 4HIS IS THE TOPMOST GROWING PORTION OF YOUR PLANT )T WILL BE A VERY TINY SET OF TRUE LEAVES EMERGING FROM THE STEM 9OU WILL NEED A MAGNIFYING GLASS OR PHOTOG RAPHER S LOUPE AND A PAIR OF SHARP VERY SMALL SCISSORS 7HEN THE TINY TOPMOST LEAVES ARE ABOUT HALF THE SIZE OF THE LOWER FULLY DEVELOPED TRUE LEAVES YOU WANT TO CUT THEM OFF JUST ABOVE WHERE THEY EMERGE FROM THE STEM $/ ./4 #54 4(% 34%- /&& "%,/7 4(% 4).9 3%4 /& 425% ,%!6%3 /.,9 #54 4(% 4).9 ,%!6%3 *534 !"/6% 7(%2% 4(%9 %-%2'% &2/- 4(% 34%- !FTER YOU DO THIS YOUR PLANT WILL GENER ATE TWO SETS OF TRUE LEAVES AND A HORIZON TAL GROWTH PATTERN WHERE YOU WOULD HAVE HAD ONLY ONE SET OF TRUE LEAVES AND A VER

3EEDLINGS CAN HANDLE ADULT LEVELS OF LIGHT AS LONG AS YOU KEEP THE HEAT OFF OF THEM TEMPERATURES COMBINED WITH TOO MUCH NITROGEN AND # CAUSE TOO TALL PLANTS THAT PRODUCE LESS BUD WEIGHT TOO MUCH LEAF AND TOO MUCH STEM )F YOU ARE GROWING OUTDOORS YOU CAN DO A FEW DAYS OF PARTIALLY SHADING YOUR SEEDLINGS OR CLONES TO GET THEM USED TO FULL SUN "UT AGAIN GIVE THEM ADULT LEVELS AS LIGHT AS SOON AS YOU CAN

4HESE PLANTS HAVE GOOD DENSE BUDS

7E AT 3OFT 3ECRETS GET HUNDREDS OF READ ERS PHOTOS OF CANNABIS EVERY MONTH 7E LOVE THEM ESPECIALLY WHEN THE WORLD S HOTTEST BABES ARE UNDRESSED IN THEM BUT WE KEEP NOTICING A PERSISTENT PROBLEM THAT WE WANT TO SOLVE FOR YOU 4HIS PROBLEM IS THAT MANY OF YOU ARE GROWING PLANTS THAT HAVE TOO MUCH VERTICAL STEM GROWTH AND NOT ENOUGH BUD GROWTH 7HEN WE SEE A PLANT THAT IS FOR EXAMPLE FOUR FEET TALL HALF OR MORE OF THE HEIGHT IS IN STEM GROWTH AND MOST OF THAT STEM GROWTH IS ./4 STEM THAT IS COVERED IN STICKY GOOEY DENSE LARGE DIAMETER BUDS WE SEE A BIG PROBLEM )NDEED MANY OF YOU WHO ARE GROWING INDOORS HAVE A LIMITED AMOUNT OF HEIGHT TO GROW IN 9OU HAVE YOUR LIGHTS ABOVE YOUR PLANTS OF COURSE AND THIS LIMITS HOW TALL YOUR PLANTS CAN GET 9OU NEED TO GET THE MOST BUD GROWTH PER INCH OF STEM 4HAT S WHY YOU NEED YOUR PLANTS AS SHORT AND PRODUCTIVE AS YOU CAN MAKE THEM

HARVESTS BY CONTROLLING THE RATIO OF STEM TO BUD AND BY LIMITING VERTICAL HEIGHT 3O AS ALWAYS WE AT 3OFT 3ECRETS ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE GIVING YOU THE INSIDER SECRETS FROM THE WORLD S MOST SUCCESSFUL GROW ERS SO YOU GET BIGGER BETTER HARVESTS AND MAKE THE MOST FROM YOUR GROW EQUIP MENT NUTRIENTS ELECTRICITY AND TIME 0LEASE NOTE THAT THESE YIELD BOOSTING INSTRUCTIONS HAVE TO BE APPLIED SLIGHTLY DIFFERENTLY DEPENDING ON WHETHER YOU ARE GROWING CLONES OR SEEDLINGS INDOORS OR OUTDOORS AND ON THE PARTICULARS OF YOUR OVERALL CROP SEASON LENGTH

ÛiÊ/ i Ê ÌÃÊ vÊ } ÌÊ >À Þ 3OME PEOPLE THINK YOU SHOULD BE VERY GENTLE WITH CLONES AND SEEDLINGS WHEN IT COMES TO HOW MUCH LIGHT YOU GIVE THEM EARLY ON

/UTDOORS YOU PROBABLY DON T HAVE LIGHT RELATED PHYSICAL HEIGHT LIMITATIONS AFTER ALL THE SUN IS PRETTY FAR AWAY AND YOUR PLANTS ARE NOT LIKELY TO BUMP INTO THE SUN ANYTIME SOON BUT YOU DO WANT YOUR PLANTS TO BE AS SHORT AND PRODUCTIVE AS POSSIBLE 4HE SHORTER THEY ARE THE LESS LIKELY THEY ARE TO BE SEEN BY RIP OFFS AND POLICE

"UT THE MOST SUCCESSFUL GROWERS PUMP HIGH INTENSITY LIGHT ONTO THEIR CLONES AND SEEDLINGS AS SOON AS THEY CAN )T S TRUE THAT CLONES SOMETIMES NEED TO BE ROOTED UNDER FLUORESCENT OR LOWER INTENSITY LIGHT BECAUSE THEY HAVEN T DEVELOPED A ROOT SYSTEM THAT CAN HANDLE HUGE DEMANDS FROM INTENSE PHOTOSYNTHESIS OR INTENSE HEAT FROM GROW LAMPS YET 9ET WE VE SEEN CLONES ROOTED UNDER SUNLIGHT AND HIGH INTENSITY LIGHT NO PROBLEM

"UT IT S OBVIOUS TO US FROM LOOKING AT READER PHOTOS THAT MANY GROWERS ARE NOT USING SEVERAL EASY WAYS TO GET BIGGER

)T ALL DEPENDS ON THE GENETICS QUALITY AND HEALTH OF YOUR CLONES AND SEEDLINGS &OR EXAMPLE IF YOU WANT TO BABY YOUR

(ERE S WHY IN THEIR EARLIEST DAYS OF GROWTH INCLUDING WHILE A SEEDLING HAS NOT YET EVEN EMERGED FROM WHATEVER YOU SPROUTED IT IN IF CLONES OR SEEDLINGS SENSE THEY ARE NOT GETTING ENOUGH LIGHT THEIR STEMS WILL STRETCH STRETCH STRETCH TOWARDS THE LIGHT SOURCE )N SOME CASES WE VE SEEN A SEEDLING WITH CM OR MORE OF BARE STEM BEFORE IT EVEN HAS ITS BABY LEAF SET ON IT 4HIS CREATES A WEAK LEGGY SPINDLY PLANT THAT IS LATER TO BE TOO TALL WITH TOO LONG SPACE BETWEEN LEAF SETS INTERNODES AND WHICH IF IT PRODUCES AT ALL WILL HAVE TO BE SUP PORTED BY STAKES AND STRINGS

TICAL GROWTH PATTERN IF YOU HAD ALLOWED THE PLANT TO GROW NATURALLY 9OU CAN ALSO DO THIS TRIMMING ON ANY SIDE BRANCHING STEMS AS THE PLANT DEVEL OPS &IND THE APICAL MERISTEM OF THE SIDE BRANCHES AND TRIM ALMOST ALL OF THE TINY TOPMOST LEAVES 4HIS WILL MAKE THE SIDE BRANCHES DEVELOP DOUBLE HEADS AND ENCOURAGE BRANCHING 5NTIL ABOUT WEEKS INTO YOUR VEGETA TIVE PHASE FOR SEEDLINGS AND ABOUT WEEKS FOR CLONES YOU CAN TRIM SOME OF THE APICAL MERISTEMS TO GET DOUBLING AND HORIZONTAL DEVELOPMENT 4HESE TIMELINES ARE GENERAL GUIDELINES !NOTHER WAY OF LOOKING AT IT IS THAT YOU WANT TO STOP TRIMMING YOUR APICAL MER ISTEMS AT LEAST TWO WEEKS BEFORE YOU INTEND TO FLIP YOUR PLANTS INTO FLOWERING

BY STARTING YOUR HOUR LIGHT CYCLE 9OU WANT IT SO THAT YOUR PLANTS HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO DEVELOP ALL THEIR DOUBLED SETS OF TRUE LEAVES AFTER YOUR FINAL TRIM LONG BEFORE YOU START THEM BLOOMING )F YOU

)N THEIR EARLIEST DAYS OF GROWTH IF CLONES OR SEEDLINGS SENSE THEY ARE NOT GETTING ENOUGH LIGHT THEIR STEMS WILL STRETCH STRETCH STRETCH TOWARDS THE LIGHT SOURCE "ETTER TO LET YOUR PLANTS KNOW AS SOON AS YOU HAVE ROOTED THEM OR SPROUTED THEM THAT THERE S PLENTY OF LIGHT FOR THEM SO THEY DON T HAVE TO STRETCH 'IVE THEM LOTS OF LIGHT AS SOON AS YOU CLONE THEM OR AS SOON AS THE SEEDLING EMERGES FROM WHAT EVER YOU SPROUTED IT IN (ERE S HOW YOU CAN TELL IF YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF LIGHT WHEN GROWING SEED LINGS A PROPERLY GROWN SEEDLING GETTING ENOUGH LIGHT WILL HAVE ITS BABY LEAVES THEY ARE NOT SERRATED WITHIN CM OF THE SOIL LINE AND WILL HAVE ITS FIRST SET OF TRUE LEAVES SERRATED LEAVES WITHIN CM OF THE SOIL LINE

TRIM YOUR PLANTS AND THEN START BLOOM PHASE TOO SOON THEREAFTER YOUR PLANTS MAY TAKE A LONGER TIME TO GO INTO BLOOM 9OU ALSO HAVE TO BE CAREFUL NOT TO TRIM TOO MANY APICAL MERISTEMS !ND YOU DON T WANT TO TRIM THE SAME APICAL MERISTEM S TOO OFTEN 9OU NEED TO LET THE DOUBLED SET OF TRUE LEAVES DEVELOP FOR A WEEK OR MORE AND EXAMINE IT AND THE PLANT S PROFILE BEFORE YOU DECIDE IF YOU WANT TO DOUBLE YOUR DOUBLES BY TRIMMING AGAIN 9OU NEED TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE PROFILE OF YOUR PLANT AND THE REGROWTH

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get more production. Push your plants, monitor them carefully, and you can as much as DOUBLE YOUR YIELD! So now we’ve just given you easy to use insider secrets on increasing your yield. These tips have nothing to do with plant genetics. Obviously, if you are growing a Thai Sativa, you are going to get a leggy, taller plant than if you are growing Afghan Kush.

You need to look at how much vertical height you have, and your overall growing conditions, when you are selecting seeds or clones to grow from. When you are breeding your own seeds, it’s best to select male and females that are short, well-branched, and dense. Breed them, and keep breeding them so your plants are genetically likely to be short and productive.

These plants are too leggy and vertical

of the doubled sets of leaves from each cut, and be wise in how you do this procedure. Trimming is an art and a science.

You may find that your first attempts at trimming don’t work perfectly. Be conservative at first until you see what happens when you trim.

But after you have mastered this, you will be rewarded with bushier, denser, better-producing plants. You will be basically doing topiary on your cannabis to give you a dense, bushy, horizontally shaped, more round, bigger diameter plant - instead of a leggy, vertical plant with huge gaps between internodes.

Please note that this procedure can also be applied to clones, except of course that clones already have true leaves and you can just cut the apicals from every stem set that you want to see doubling from.

Please also note that this procedure on average will result in your plants taking a bit longer to mature and be ready for flowering. Trimming also means you have to feed your plants more nutrients, because you are making them work harder. Rest assured that when you see one plant giving you many ounces of kind bud, it will be worth the effort.

Give Them Even Light By Rotating, Tying Down, Side Lighting and Reflecting Light is a nutrient. Your plants drink it in through their leaves. The more light your leaves get, the more buds your plant will produce up and down the stems. We love it when we see photos of plants that have buds covering the entire length of their stems from the very bottom of the plant to the very top.

Now, take a look at your garden’s light profile. How much light is each of your leaves getting? If you want too-tall plants that grow leggy and produce narrow little buds and lots of stems, just make sure your plants get only light from the top with little or no light penetration into the plant leaves below the canopy.

But if you want to get way more and way bigger buds, you have to feed intense light to every leaf set, including the lowest ones. There are various ways to do this:

• Use mylar or other highly reflective material (NOT aluminium or tin foil or flat white paint) to bounce light back onto your plants from all angles, including the floor • Install side lighting instead of just having lights above your plants • Use enough wattage to generate enough light to fill your entire grow space.

Some of you need to suck down more electricity and use bigger wattage lights.

• Rotate plants so all plants are directly under your lights for equal amounts of time • Space your plants so light can penetrate below the canopy • Use light movers so your lights move across your entire garden back and forth • Tie your plants down horizontally so they get lots of light all up and down the entire length of their stems. This is especially good for huge outdoor plants with strong sun. Or trellis your plants and mount your lights vertically up and down to shine full on the trellis.

• If you grow outdoors where it’s cloudy a lot, give your plants high intensity electric light a few hours a day, being careful not to give them more than 12 hours of total light during bloom phase in autumn.

• For indoor growers, some studies have shown that using High Pressure Sodium solo, or as the dominant light source in vegetative phase, and solo in bloom phase, promotes shorter, bushier more flowery plants.

Feed Them Special Ingredients Instead of Ingredients that Promote Leggy Growth A lot of fertilizers you feed your crops have too much of the wrong kind of nitrogen, and not enough phosphorus and potassium and other ingredients.

This creates lots of stem and leaf growth but it doesn’t promote shorter, bushier, more productive plants.

There are ways to use fertilizers so you get shorter, bushier, more productive plants. These include: • Use three-part, widely-adjustable fertilizers like Advanced Nutrients’ GrowMicro-Bloom so you can experiment with backing off the nitrogen starting

about two weeks into your grow cycle with seedlings and one week into your grow cycle with clones. Of course, your plants need nitrogen to grow well and you may see a little leaf yellowing which should be corrected by adding nitro in again until leaves are lime green. But nitro causes excessive leaf-

If you are very lucky, you might be using genetics that naturally branch, go horizontal and have multiple growth tips, but these are rare genetics, and it’s more likely you will have to use the procedures we outlined above, and selectively breed your own genetics,

Obviously, if you are growing a Thai Sativa, you are going to get a leggy, taller plant than if you are growing Afghan Kush ing and stemming, so you need to use it sparingly while monitoring your plants for nitro deficiency at the same time.

There’s a balance you’ll find between too much nitro and too little. The color of the leaf is a good indicator of nitrogen presence in your plants. If the leaf is lime green, it’s healthy. If it’s very deep green or yellowish, it’s getting too much, or too little nitrogen.

• Use formulas that contain floral boosting components. There are products like Advanced Nutrients’Bud Blood, Connoisseur and others that are specifically engineered to trigger plants to produce bushier growth, more budding sites, heavier buds, buds that are denser and bigger diameter, and longer-developing buds with more crystal. These products contain more than N-P-K and micronutrients. They contain special ingredients, such as amino acids, hormones and other stuff that rev up your plants’ flower factories into high gear. It is hard to get the nutrient companies to tell you explicitly that their products are designed to get you a bushier plant with more fat, juicy buds on it, but we’re not talking about bloom boosters, which should be used of course- we are talking about other types of formulas that influence plants to be shorter, denser, more horizontal, and produce more budding sites and larger flowers. Read the company’s product descriptions and ask them questions and then you can figure out which products will do what you want.

• The main thing to remember regarding nutrients and all other aspects of growing is that if you want generic, boring results, use a generic approach.

If you want truly spectacular yields, be creative in how you use nutrients, light, trimming and other methods to

to get the kind of short, wide, harvestheavy plants we’re talking about here.

The thing you need to know is that if you take two seedlings both grown from the same seed, and you trim one as we explained above and don’t trim the other, and grow them side by side in the same garden and allow each to ripen fully-- you will get a bigger harvest from the trimmed plant.

In some cases, you will get double or more weight from the trimmed plant as compared to the untrimmed!

We urge all growers to be creative and scientific in growing their plants so they get huge gobs of crystally, potent, mind-altering bud from every plant they grow, no matter if from seed, clone, indoors or outdoors.

Remember: just planting a seed or rooting a clone and then parking it outdoors or under a grow light is not good enough for you. Follow the above advice, pay close attention to your plants as you experiment with making them shorter and more productive, and you will do better than Nature!

Worm manure contains very valuable nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus that will contribute greatly to an exceptional growth (nitrogen) and flower production (phosphorus).

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4HE BUDS FROM A 3KUNK ARE OFTEN RECOG NISABLE FROM THEIR MANY SMALL POINTY OUT WARD FACING LEAFLETS IN THE FLOWER HEAD

)T HAPPENS QUITE OFTEN THAT A GROWER MAN AGES TO SUCCESSFULLY PRE GROW HIS PLANTS BUT THEN THE BLOOM DOES NOT GO VERY WELL 4HIS IS USUALLY BECAUSE THE MARI HUANA PLANT HAS A VASTLY DIFFERENT SET OF FERTILIZER NEEDS DURING THE BLOOM PERIOD )F AS A GROWER YOU ARE NOT AWARE OF THESE CHANGED NEEDS AND JUST CONTINUE PUMP ING IN THE OLD DOSE OF LIQUID NUTRIENTS YOU WILL SOON NOTICE THE HEALTH OF THE PLANTS START TO DECLINE .OW ONE VARIETY OF MARIHUANA PLANT IS MUCH EASIER TO GROW THAN THE OTHER AND EACH TYPE HAS ITS OWN PARTICULAR NEEDS 3KUNK IS A LADY THAT CAN BE QUITE PICKY DURING THE BLOOM PERIOD 4O BE MORE PRECISE 3KUNK HAS AN ENORMOUS NEED FOR PHOSPHORUS 0 AND POTASSIUM + DURING THE BLOOM PERIOD !S WAS

)T HAPPENS QUITE OFTEN THAT A GROWER MANAGES TO SUCCESSFULLY PRE GROW HIS PLANTS BUT THEN THE BLOOM DOES NOT GO VERY WELL THE PROBLEM OF WATER FLOWING OVER THEIR RIM WHICH WOULD IMMEDIATELY REDUCE THE GROW SPACE TO A SOPPING WET MESS )DEAL TUBS FOR GROWING IN ARE THOSE TRAYS USED IN THE HOME AS OVERFLOW TRAPS PLACED UNDER WASHING MACHINES 4HESE TRAYS ARE CHEAP VERY STRONG HAVE USE FUL DIMENSIONS AND THANKS TO THEIR WHITE COLOUR THE STRONG LIGHT FROM THE LAMPS IS REFLECTED AND THE ILLUMINATION OF THE PLANTS IS SUBSTANTIALLY IMPROVED AS A RESULT )N SHORT THEY HAVE A WHOLE BUNCH OF BENEFITS AND IT IS NOT FOR NOTHING THAT THESE DOMESTIC TRAYS MEANT FOR WASH ING MACHINES HAVE BECOME SO POPULAR AMONG GROWERS 4HE TRAYS MEASURE X CM AND ARE CM IN HEIGHT 4HEY ARE AVAILABLE IN PRETTY MUCH EVERY BUILDER S SUPPLIES AND DEPARTMENT STORES 9OUR LOCAL GROW SHOP WILL PROBABLY ALSO HAVE A SELECTION OF GROW TUBS AVAILABLE WHICH ARE GREAT FOR GROWING ON WATER WITH !FTER WE HAVE FIRST OF ALL REMOVED THE LAYER OF SOIL AND FILLED THE TRAYS WITH WATER WE FIRST HAVE TO GIVE THE PLANTS A COUPLE OF DAYS TO SETTLE 3UCH A RADI CAL CHANGE OF ENVIRONMENT IS A PRETTY BIG DEAL FOR THEM AFTER ALL "UT 3KUNK PLANTS QUICKLY FIND THEIR FEET AND ONCE THEY DO THEY FIND THE MEDIUM OF JUST WATER VERY MUCH TO THEIR LIKING 4HE LEAVES OF THE PLANTS DEVELOP A HUGE NUMBER OF @FINGERS A SURE SIGN THAT

MENTIONED IT IS HERE THAT MANY GROWERS SLIP UP BECAUSE IF YOU DON T TAKE THIS QUIRK INTO ACCOUNT THEN 3KUNK PLANTS WILL VERY SOON BEGIN TO FALL APART 4HE HUGE NEED FOR PHOSPHORUS 0 AND POTASSIUM + IS CREATED BECAUSE 3KUNK A VERY HEAVY YIELDER 4HE LADIES WANT TO PRODUCE A HUGE NUMBER OF LARGE FLOWER HEADS BUT THEN WE DO HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR WISHES )N SHORT MAKE SURE THAT ALL THE NECESSARY NUTRIENTS ARE AVAILABLE SO THAT THE 3KUNK PLANTS CAN PERFORM OPTIMALLY !S REGARDS THE BLOOM NUTRIENT IT IS BEST TO GO FOR ONE WITH AN .0+ RATIO OF 4HIS GOLDEN RULE IS BY NO MEANS WELL KNOWN AMONG GROWERS BUT AS ) HAVE SAID 3KUNK DOES HAVE AN ENORMOUS HUNGER FOR PHOSPHORUS 0 AND POTASSIUM + DURING THE BLOOM PERIOD 7HEN AS GROWERS WE ARE AWARE OF THE ABOVE DOSAGE RULE FOR BLOOM NUTRIENT MIXED IN WATER THEN WE WILL BE SPARED YELLOWING LEAVES AND INSTEAD LOOK FORWARD TO A WHOPPING HARVEST )N FACT THIS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE BIG GEST SECRETS TO GROWING PRIZE WINNING 3KUNK GIVEN THAT EVERY OTHER DOSAGE SCHEME IN WHICH THE DOSE OF PHOSPHO RUS AND POTASSIUM ARE CLEARLY LOWER WILL ALMOST ALWAYS END UP ON THE DISAPPOINT ING SIDE

!N OLD FOOTBALL PUMP OFF WHICH WE HAVE SAWN THE FRONT SERVES AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR TAKING REGULAR WATER SAMPLES OUT OF THE GROW TUBS

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- Ê ÀÊV V Ê> Ã ÊÛiÀÞÊ ÃÕ Ì>L i %VEN THOUGH WE HAVE CHOSEN TO GROW THE 3KUNK PLANTS ON WATER SINCE WE ARE OFTEN ABLE TO GET SUCCESSFUL HARVESTS FROM THIS METHOD THESE LADIES ARE ALSO VERY WELL SUITED TO GROWING ON SOIL AND COCO &OR BEGINNER LEVEL GROWERS GROWING ON SOIL IS PERHAPS A BIT EASIER AND SERVES WELL FOR THEM TO GET A FEEL FOR GROWING IN THEIR FINGERTIPS &OR THE MAJORITY OF BEGINNERS IT IS OFTEN THE SKUNK VARIETIES THAT THEY FIRST COME IN TO CONTACT WITH BECAUSE THEY DO NOT DEMAND AS MUCH IN COMPARISON WITH OTHER MORE HIGHLY STRUNG @REAL WHITE VARIETIES 3KUNK IS A MUCH LESS CRITI CAL PROPOSITION 3HE USUALLY GROWS PRETTY RAPIDLY DEVELOPS PRETTY EASILY INTO A LOVELY FULLY GROWN PLANT AND BLOOMS EXUBERANTLY PROVIDED WE CARE FOR HER WELL AND MAKE SURE SHE HAS THE RIGHT DOSES OF NUTRIENTS )F YOU DO CHOOSE TO GROW IN SOIL GREAT BIG POTS ARE IDEAL THESE CAN SAFELY HAVE A VOLUME OF LITRES OR SO )N THE FIRST PLACE BECAUSE 3KUNK HAS THE TENDENCY THAT THE MORE ROOM SHE IS GIVEN THE BIG GER AND STRONGER SHE CAN DEVELOP AND IN SECOND PLACE BECAUSE SMALL POTS OF SOIL ALWAYS RUN THE RISK OF DRYING 'IVING TOO MUCH WATER IS NEVER GOOD FOR A MARIHUANA PLANT BECAUSE SHE REALLY HATES A WET UNDER SOIL )F THE PLANTS GET TOO LITTLE WATER THIS IS ALSO FAR FROM PERFECT 7HEN THE SOIL IS ALLOWED TO DRY OUT TOO MUCH THEN THE LITTLE ROOT HAIRS DIE OFF AND THE LADIES ARE SUBJECT TO IRREPARABLE STRESS #ERTAINLY WITH A PLANT LIKE 3KUNK WHICH IS WELL KNOWN FOR HER LARGE LEAF PRODUCTION A WATER DEFICIENCY IS HAZARDOUS "ECAUSE WE OFTEN LET 3KUNK PLANTS GROW UNTIL THEY ARE QUITE A BIT BIGGER THAN USUAL AND THE PLANTS DEVELOP LARGE NUMBERS OF LEAVES THE TRANSPIRATION OF MOISTURE IS PARTICULARLY HIGH 4HANKS TO THIS THE PLANTS HAVE A REAL NEED TO BE ALWAYS SUPPLIED WITH SUFFICIENT WATER AND THE CHANCE OF DRYING OUT IS MUCH LOWER WHEN THEY ARE IN LARGE POTS 4HE QUANTITY OF SOIL IS AFTER ALL MUCH LARGER THANKS TO WHICH MUCH MORE MOISTURE CAN BE HELD IN IT "UT THE RISK OF A SHORTAGE OF WATER WITH THE GROW METHOD WE ARE ATTEMPTING IS NIL AS WE ARE GROWING ON WATER ARE WE NOT 4HAT IS WHY A VARIETY LIKE 3KUNK DOES SO VERY WELL WITH THIS TYPE OF GROWING

- Ê> `ÊV V 4O JUST FINISH OFF THE STORY ABOUT THE BIG POTS WHEN YOU THINK YOU D PREFER TO GROW 3KUNK ON SOIL LIGHTLY PRE FERTILIZED

4HE OXYGEN PUMPS ARE ALLOWED TO RUN HOURS A DAY SO THAT THE WATER IN THE GROW TUBS IS RICHLY PROVIDED WITH OXYGEN 4HE ROOTS OF THE PLANTS ARE WILD ABOUT IT

7HEREVER YOU LOOK YOU SEE FLOWER HEADS .OT FOR NO REASON ARE VARIETIES LIKE 3KUNK WELL KNOWN AS BIG YIELDERS

SOIL IS TO BE RECOMMENDED SO THAT THE PLANT CAN CONTINUE TO BE PROVIDED WITH SUFFICIENT NUTRIENTS VIA ITS FEED WATER !S YOU CAN IMAGINE A PLANT LIKE 3KUNK WHICH IS ALMOST BURSTING WITH THE DESIRE TO REACH A LARGE SIZE DOES NOT TURN ITS NOSE UP AT A NICE BIT OF NUTRIENT .ONETHELESS A LIGHTLY FERTILIZED SOIL MIX

V Û> Õi !LTHOUGH 3KUNK WILL NOT IMMEDIATELY SUFFER FROM SMALL CHANGES IN THE QUANTITY OF LIQUID NUTRIENTS IT IS GIVEN IT IS STILL BEST TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THE EC OF THE WATER IN WHICH THE PLANTS ARE GROWING

!LTHOUGH 3KUNK WILL NOT IMMEDIATELY SUFFER FROM SMALL CHANGES IN THE QUANTITY OF LIQUID NUTRIENTS IT IS GIVEN IT IS STILL BEST TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THE EC OF THE WATER IN WHICH THE PLANTS ARE GROWING WILL PROVIDE ALL THE NUTRIENT NEEDED FOR THE FIRST TWO WEEKS AND FREQUENTLY THE WHOLE GROWTH PERIOD 4HAT THIS GROWTH PERIOD IS ON THE LONG SIDE IS DOWN TO THE FACT THAT WE TEND TO ALLOW THE 3KUNK VARIETIES TO REACH A SOMEWHAT LARGER SIZE AND SO WE GIVE THEM LONGER IN PRE GROWTH $O ALSO BEAR IN MIND THAT A PLANT LIKE 3KUNK IS ALSO GOING TO HAVE REACHED A PRETTY TALL HEIGHT BY THE TIME IT GOES INTO BLOOM )F YOU HAPPEN TO BE GROWING IN A SPACE WITH LIMITED HEIGHT THEN IT IS WELL WORTH STIMULATING THE PLANTS TO DEVELOP IN GIRTH BY THE SIMPLE EXPEDIENT OF REMOV ING THE TOP CROWN OF THE PLANT OBVI OUSLY BEFORE IT DEVELOPS ITS OWN FLOWER HEAD )N THIS WAY ALL THE NUTRIENTS VIA THE SAP STREAM IN THE MAIN STEM OF THE PLANT WILL GO TO THE SIDE BRANCHES WHICH WILL INCREASE HUGELY IN SIZE THANKS TO WHICH THEY WILL LATER DURING THE BLOOM PERIOD ALSO BE ABLE TO CARRY A MUCH LARGER LOAD OF BUDS )F YOU DO DECIDED TO TOP THE PLANTS KEEP IN MIND THAT THE PLANTS DO NEED TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY AND SPACE IN WHICH TO DEVELOP WIDTH WISE 3O MAKE SURE THEY HAVE PLENTY OF FREE SPACE AROUND THEM !S WELL AS THIS WE ALSO NEED TO REMEMBER TO TOP THE PLANTS AT THE MOMENT BEFORE THE TOP SHOOT REACHES THE DESIRED HEIGHT THE PLANTS WILL ALSO INCREASE FURTHER IN HEIGHT DURING THE BLOOM "ESIDES DOING WELL ON SOIL AS A SUBSTRATE 3KUNK ALSO REWARDS BEING GROWN ON COCO )N FACT COCO CAN PRODUCE TOP RESULTS WITH A HEAVY YIELDER LIKE 3KUNK AND IF YOU HAVE EVER FELT THE DESIRE TO GIVE GROWING ON COCO A WHIRL THEN IT IS CERTAINLY WORTH THE EFFORT TO TRY OUT THIS VARIETY ON THAT SUBSTRATE !GAIN YOU SHOULD USE LARGE POTS FOR THE SAME REA SON THAT THEY ARE A GOOD IDEA WITH SOIL

&OR THIS TOO OVER THE YEARS GROWERS HAVE DEVELOPED VARIOUS TIPS AND TRICKS TO HELP 3O FOR INSTANCE WE CAN USE A SIMPLE FOOT BALL PUMP WHICH WE HAVE SAWN THE FRONT OFF AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR REGULARLY CHECK ING THE EC VALUE OF THE WATER IN THE GROW TUBS 7ITH ONE SIMPLE DRAW ON THE PUMP WE CAN BASICALLY SUCK UP A SAMPLE FROM THE GROW TUB WHICH IS THEN EASY TO PUMP OUT IN TO A MEASURING CYLINDER 4HEN ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS DUNK THE EC METER IN IT WAIT A COUPLE OF MINUTES AND WE KNOW

WHERE WE STAND #ERTAINLY WHEN YOU GROW ON A SUBSTRATE LIKE PURE WATER YOU ARE LIABLE TO GET WOBBLES IN THE EC LEVEL HAPPENING PRETTY QUICKLY 7E ARE AFTER ALL ADDING LIQUID NUTRIENT TO THE WATER IN THE TUBS WITH REGULARITY SO THAT THE PLANTS ALWAYS HAVE ACCESS TO ENOUGH FERTILIZER "ECAUSE THIS FERTILIZER IS DIRECTLY IN THE WATER AND THE PLANTS HAVE OFTEN ONLY USED A FRACTION OF IT IT IS VITAL THAT WE KNOW HOW MUCH NUTRIENT REMAINS IN THE TUBS AFTER A PERIOD OF TIME 4HE EC VALUE OF THE WATER THAT IS SITTING IN THE GROW TUBS GIVES US A PRETTY GOOD INDICATION AND THAT IS WHY WE MEASURE AND CHECK IT WITH SUCH REGULARITY /NE OTHER HAZARD TO GROWING ON WATER IS THAT THE LIQUID NUTRIENTS AND STIMULATORS CAN EASILY SINK CREATING IN THE BOTTOM OF THE WATER A LAYER OF TOO HIGH CONCENTRA TION OF FERTILIZER 4O MINIMISE THIS DANGER WE LET THE OXYGEN PUMP DO ITS WORK HOURS A DAY "ESIDE THE FACT THAT THIS WILL MAKE SURE THERE IS ALWAYS A GOOD HIGH LEVEL OF OXYGEN DISSOLVED IN THE WATER WHICH IS PARTICULARLY LOVED BY THE ROOTS

,ITTLE BY LITTLE THE FLOWER HEADS CONTINUE THEIR STEADY DEVELOPMENT

4HE 3KUNK PLANTS HAVE NOW REACHED VERY DECENT DIMENSIONS 4HE WHOLE GROW SPACE IS BULGING WITH PLANTS

,EFT A 7HITE 3HARK RIGHT THE 3KUNK 4WO TOTALLY DIFFERENT PLANTS WITH TOTALLY DIFFERENT FLOWER HEADS

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4HE 3KUNK HAS NOW BEEN BLOOMING FOR SIX WEEKS

4HE FLOWER HEADS OF A 3KUNK OFTEN HAVE A POINTY SHAPE

IT ALSO MAKES SURE THAT THE NUTRIENTS ARE WELL DISTRIBUTED THROUGH THE WATER

ALLOW THE 3KUNK PLANTS A BIT LONGER IN PRE GROWTH A GOOD TWO WEEKS SO THAT YOU GET SOME REAL BUSHES 3UPER HARVESTS WILL THEN BE MORE THAN DO ABLE

4O MAINTAIN THE QUALITY OF THE WATER IN THE GROW TUBS WE REGULARLY REFRESH THE ENTIRE WATER $URING THE COURSE OF GROWING A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF WATER EVAPORATES THANKS TO THE HEAT IN THE GROW SPACE AND ALSO A HUGE AMOUNT IS USED

BY THE PLANTS )T IS OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO REGULARLY DRAIN OFF THE OLDER WATER FROM THE GROW TRAYS AND PUT IN FRESH WATER 4HE DANGER OF EVAPORATION IS THAT SALTS THAT ARE NATURALLY IN THE MAINS WATER ARE LEFT BEHIND 4HE CONCENTRATION OF THESE SALTS CAN RISE DANGEROUSLY TO LEVELS THAT THE MARIHUANA PLANTS REALLY DO NOT ENJOY 3TRONGER STILL THEY CAN EVEN QUITE EASILY DIE FROM IT

}Ê i>Ûià 3O TO RETURN TO THE ISSUE OF BIG LEAF REMOVAL DO THIS IN MODERATION 0LUCKING THEM BALD IS GOING TO BE VERY COUNTER PRODUCTIVE AS IT WOULD HAVE DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES FOR THE LIGHT UPTAKE !S WELL AS THE NEED TO MAINTAIN GOOD ILLUMINA TION OF THE BUDS THE REMOVAL OF THE BIG LEAVES HAS ANOTHER ADVANTAGE IN THAT IT REDUCES THE AIR MOISTURE BETWEEN THE FLOWER HEADS AND ENSURES IT NEVER GETS TOO HIGH ! 3KUNK MAY WELL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A HUGE HARVEST BUT THAT ALSO

4HE DAMES WANT TO PRODUCE A HUGE NUMBER OF LARGE FLOWER HEADS BUT THEN WE DO HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR WISHES 7E REPLACE THE OLD WATER BY SIMPLY PUMPING OUT SOME OF THE WATER FROM THE GROW TRAYS WITH THE ADAPTED FOOTBALL PUMP AND REPLACING IT WITH FRESH MAINS WATER !S ALWAYS MAKE SURE THAT THE FRESH WATER HAS A TEMPERATURE OF AROUND # AND THE PLANTS WILL BE VERY GRATE FUL $O THIS BY SIMPLY MIXING THE COLD MAINS WATER IN ADVANCE WITH SOME HOT WATER IN A BUCKET

Ê«iÀ ` $URING THE BLOOM PERIOD IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO REGULARLY REMOVE LARGE LEAVES 3KUNK PLANTS ARE WELL KNOWN FOR THE MASSIVE AMOUNT OF FOLIAGE THEY CAN PRODUCE AND THIS CAN BECOME DISADVANTAGEOUS WHEN IT LEADS TO EVEN JUST A COUPLE OF LOVELY BUDS BEING LEFT IN THE SHADE WHERE THE LAMPS DO NOT SHINE DIRECTLY )N ADDITION IT IS WORTH REMEMBER ING THAT OUR GROW SPACE IS EQUIPPED WITH WATT LAMPS AND SO THEY ARE ENOUGH TO KEEP ON ILLUMINATING THE ADULT PLANTS ,AMPS WITH WATTS OF POWER ARE ACTUALLY BETTER FOR RAISING QUICK GROWING VARIETIES SUCH AS 3KUNK 4HERE ARE EVEN GROWERS WHO SWEAR BY THEIR USE OF WATT LAMPS BECAUSE WITH THESE THEY CAN REALLY PUMP UP THE DIMENSIONS OF THEIR PLANTS AND THE LIGHT FROM THESE BIG BOYS EVEN PENETRATES TO THE LOWEST SIDE BRANCHES )F YOU THINK YOU FANCY A GO ON WATTERS THEN ) WOULD

MAKES THE FLOWER HEADS MORE SENSITIVE TO MOULD #ERTAINLY A VARIETY LIKE 3KUNK IS KNOWN TO BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO BUD ROT 4HIS VERY DANGEROUS MOULD VARIETY THAT SPREADS LIKE WILDFIRE FROM SPORES HAS REDUCED MANY A 3KUNK GROWER TO TEARS 0RETTY MUCH EVERY TIME IT IS TOO HIGH AN AIR MOISTURE THAT IS TO BLAME FOR ALL THIS GRIEF

4HE BLOOM PROCEEDS EVER FASTER THE BUDS ARE MAKING MORE AND MORE 4(# THREADS

>ÀÛiÃÌ 7HEN HARVESTING BIG PLANTS LIKE 3KUNK IT IS ALWAYS WORTH MAKING THE EFFORT TO HARVEST THE TOP MOST BUDS FIRST 9OU WILL NOTICE THAT THESE ARE USUALLY RIPE FIRST ANYWAY 4HE FLOWER HEADS BELOW THEM CAN GENERALLY BE LEFT FOR ANOTHER DAY OR TWO BEFORE BEING HARVESTED 9OU WILL OFTEN FIND THAT ONCE THE BIG TOP BUDS HAVE BEEN REMOVED AND THE UNDERLYING BUDS EXPOSED FINALLY TO THE FULL LIGHT OF THE LAMPS THEY DISPLAY A SUDDEN AND DRAMATIC INCREASE IN SIZE 4HIS ALL ADDS TO YOUR ACHIEVING A GREAT HARVEST AND IT S SOMETHING AS A GROW ER YOU NEED TO DO VERY LITTLE TO ACHIEVE 4HE HARVESTING OF A THE TOP BUDS OF A BIG YIELDER LIKE 3KUNK CAN EASILY BE DONE

/N THIS PHOTO TOO THE RECOGNISABLE POINTY FLOWER SHAPE IS CLEARLY VISIBLE

TOO HIGH AN EC VALUE IN ONE OF THE GROW TUBS DECIDE THEY HAVE NOT YET FINISHED WITH BLOOMING )N EVERY GROW OP THERE ARE ALWAYS A FEW PLANTS AMONG THEM THAT FOR WHATEVER REASON ARE READY TO HARVEST BEFORE THE OTHERS )N ITSELF THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM SINCE IF YOU MISS A RIPE PLANT YOU CAN JUST HARVEST IT IMMEDIATELY "UT IF YOU DO NOT DO THIS THEN THE FLOWER HEADS CAN BECOME OVER RIPE AND BEGIN TO BREAK UP TOO EASILY /NE FURTHER NICE THING ABOUT HARVESTING SOME PLANTS EARLY IS THAT YOU DO GET A PREVIEW OF THE DELIGHTS TO COME ) HOPE ) HAVE MANAGED TO GIVE YOU AN IMPRESSION WITH THIS ARTICLE OF THE POSSIBIL ITIES IN GROWING A VARIETY LIKE 3KUNK )T IS A PLANT WELL SUITED FOR BEGINNER GROWERS AND CAN BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SOME GREAT SUC

4O MAINTAIN THE QUALITY OF THE WATER IN THE GROW TUBS WE REGULARLY REFRESH THE ENTIRE TUB IN JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS /F COURSE THIS IS DEPENDENT ON THE SIZE AND NUMBER OF PLANTS BUT IN OUR CASE SUCH AN APPROACH IS CERTAINLY WORTH THE EFFORT 9OU WILL ALSO FIND THAT NOT ALL THE PLANTS ARE RIPE FOR HARVEST ON THE SAME DAY 4HE DIFFERENCE IS USUALLY NO MORE THAN A DAY OR TWO BUT IT CAN HAPPEN THAT A FEW PLANTS PERHAPS BECAUSE THEY WERE EXPOSED TO

CESSES )N FACT ) D GO SO FAR AS TO SAY THAT AS A GROWER YOU REALLY HAVE TO BALLS THINGS UP NOT TO GET A GOOD HARVEST OF A VARIETY LIKE 3KUNK "UT EVEN FOR THE MOST EXPERI ENCED GROWERS 3KUNK HAS A LOT TO OFFER ESPECIALLY WHEN THE DELUGE OF BUDS BRINGS OUT YOUR BEST GROWER S INSTINCTS 4HESE ARE THE REASONS WHY 3KUNK IS STILL FOR MANY A GREAT COFFEE SHOP CLASSIC WITH THE UNBEAT ABLY SWEET HIGH

3KUNK IS STILL FOR MANY THE COFFEE SHOP CLASSIC WITH THE UNBEATABLY SWEET HIGH

4HE FLOWER HEADS ARE AS GOOD AS RIPE AND IT WILL NOT BE LONG NOW BEFORE HEY WILL BE HARVESTED

4HE PROBLEM IS SO PREVALENT BECAUSE A GOOD FULLY GROWN 3KUNK PLANT PRODUC ES WAY MORE TRANSPIRATION THAN A VARIETY SUCH AS 00 0OWER 0LANT WHICH CLEARLY PRODUCES LESS FOLIAGE !ND SO IT IS THAT A GROWER WITH PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE OF VARIE TIES LIKE 00 CAN BE A BIT SURPRISED THE FIRST TIME HE GROWS 3KUNK ) PERSONALLY KNOW PLENTY OF GROWERS WHO ONLY HAD TROUBLE WITH THINGS LIKE BUD ROT THROUGH OUT THEIR GROWING CAREER WHEN THEY GREW WITH A VARIETY LIKE 3KUNK &ORTUNATELY WE ARE GROWING THE PLANT IN WINTER THANKS TO WHICH THE AIR WE DRAW IN FROM OUTSIDE IS GOOD AND DRY THAT IS IT HAS A LOW MOISTURE CONTENT )N SHORT IDEAL FOR SAFELY BLOOMING A VARIETY LIKE 3KUNK IN "UT JUST TO MAKE THE BLOOM THAT LIT TLE BIT SAFER IT S STILL A GOOD IDEA TO USE A DE HUMIDIFIER %SPECIALLY WHEN GROWING A VARIETY LIKE 3KUNK THIS IS A GIZMO THAT IS VERY HANDY TO HAVE AT YOUR DISPOSAL

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4HE LAST ISSUE OF 335+ FEATURED A DISTURBING ACCOUNT OF THE CANNABIS SITUATION IN .ORTHERN )RELAND )N MANY WAYS THAT SITUATION IS UNIQUE THE RESULT OF FOUR DECADES OF ARMED CONFLICT AND THE ALMOST TOTAL SEGREGATION OF THE CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT COMMUNITIES IN THE URBAN CENTRES WHERE PARAMILITARIES PLAYED THE PART OF POLICEMAN PUNISHER AND LATER POLITICIAN "UT THE IMPACT OF .ORTHERN )RELAND S 4ROUBLES WERE ALSO FELT BY TOKERS IN THE )RISH 2EPUBLIC WHICH BECAME A FERTILE FUNDING GROUND FOR THE )2!

4HOUGH THEY DID NOT CONTROL THE DRUG MARKET IN THE SOUTH THE )2!

EFFECTIVELY @LICENCED DEALERS TO OPERATE IN CERTAIN AREAS 4HE DEALERS DIDN T HAVE MANY OPTIONS EITHER PAY THE )2!

TAX AND CONTINUE TO DO BUSINESS OR FACE THEM DOWN AND WAIT FOR A BULLET IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD 0ERVERSELY THE )2! AND POLITICAL WING 3INN &EIN WERE AT THIS POINT MAKING POLITICAL CAPITAL AND WINNING VOTES WITH A HARD ANTI DRUG LINE IN COMMUNITIES WHICH WERE WRACKED WITH THE FALLOUT FROM THE HEROIN EPEDEMIC OF THE LATE S )T WAS A WIN WIN SITUATION FOR THE )2! )F THE DEALER PAID UP THEY MADE EASY MONEY )F THEY DIDN T PAY UP THEY GOT KILLED 3INN &EIN GOT MORE VOTES AND THE NEXT DEALER WOULD BE AWARE OF THE LETHAL CONSEQUENCES OF NOT COOPERATING WITH THE PARAMILITARIES "EFORE LONG THE )2! HAD VIRTUAL CONTROL OVER THE DRUGS TRADE SOUTH OF THE BORDER AND IT WAS AN )2! ALLY *OHN 'ILLIGAN WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR FLOODING THE MARKET WITH SOAPBAR HASH IN THE EARLY S 9OU COULD ARGUE THAT THE )2! IS INDIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING )RELAND THE POOR MAN OF %UROPE WHEN IT COMES TO CANNABIS !NYTHING TOO CONTAMINATED TO BE ACCEPTED

BY SMOKERS IN MAINLAND %UROPE CAN BE SHIPPED OVER TO EAGER )RISH CUSTOMERS WHO WILL SMOKE ANYTHING 4HE VAST MAJORITY OF OUR CANNABIS IS IMPORTED AND THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THAT IS CONTAMINATED 4HE LATEST CONTAMINANT IS SUSPECTED TO BE WALLPAPER PASTE WITH UNFORTUNATE CUSTOMERS RECEIVING A WET PRODUCT WHICH HARDENS TO THE POINT OF BEING ALMOST UNSMOKEABLE WHEN DRIED /THER MORE SUBTLE CONTAMINANTS HAVE LARGELY REPLACED THE GLASS CONTAMINATED WEED WHICH FLOODED )RELAND LATE IN AND WHICH REMAINS POPULAR IN SOME PARTS OF THE COUNTRY 4HE PRICE OF GLASS GRASS VARIES DEPENDING ON DEMAND IN SOME PARTS OF THE COUNTRY DEMAND HAS DROPPED TO THE POINT THAT GLASS GRASS IS SUBJECT TO SPECIAL OFFERS OUNCES FOR %URO FOR EXAMPLE OR %URO AN OUNCE AN UNBELIEVABLY LOW PRICE IN TODAY S 2IP /FF )RELAND

)F YOUR IMPORTED WEED IS A LITTLE MORE EXPENSIVE SAY %URO AN OUNCE THE CHANCES ARE YOU RE GETTING SOMETHING WHICH THOUGH CONTAMINATED CAN PASS THE @GRIT TEST SMOKERS USE TO WEED OUT THE GLASS GRASS APOLOGIES FOR THE PUN 4HE CENTRALISATION OF THE DRUG TRADE INTO THE HANDS OF LARGE CRIMINAL GANGS HAS GONE HAND IN HAND WITH THE DECLINE IN THE QUALITY OF PRODUCT AVAILABLE 4HOUGH THERE ARE SCATTERED REPORTS OF QUALITY IMPORTED PRODUCT EVEN 4HAI 3TICKS HAVE APPARENTLY MADE A RECENT APPEARANCE IN THE COUNTRY THE STAPLES OF THE MARKET ARE CONTAMINATED WEED SOAPBAR HASH AND LOW GRADE POLM 4ODAY THOUGH THE )2! NO LONGER PLAYS A ROLE THE STRUCTURES OF THE INDUSTRY REMAIN LARGELY UNCHANGED AND THE SUPPLY ROUTES AND PRODUCT AVAILABLE HAVE BARELY ALTERED IN A DECADE AND A HALF SAVE FOR THE FACT THAT YOU CAN NOW SOURCE CONTAMINATED WEED AS WELL AS CONTAMINATED HASH /F COURSE NOT EVERYONE BELIEVES THAT CONTAMINATION EXISTS *OHN DOESN T *OHN S WHAT YOU MIGHT CALL THE TYPICAL )RISH DRUG DEALER (E IS ONE OF THE FOOTSOLDIERS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DRUG TRADE PYRAMID AND HE HAS BEEN KIND ENOUGH TO LET ME INTO HIS HOUSE AND ENTERTAIN MY QUESTIONS "UT WE RE OFF TO A BAD START WE HAVE VERY DIFFERENT OPINIONS ABOUT THE QUALITY OF HIS WEED 7HEN ) TESTED IT IN MY TEETH IT GRITTED SO ) TOLD MY TRACKSUITED INTERVIEWEE THAT HE WAS IN POSSESSION OF GLASS CONTAMINATED WEED (E REFUSED TO BELIEVE ME (E TOLD ME THAT THE GLASS BEADS WERE 4(# CRYSTALS INDICATING THE EXCEPTIONAL STRENGHT OF THE WEED )T WAS POINTLESS TO ARGUE THAT 4(# CRYSTALS ARE WATER SOLUBLE OR TO TELL HIM THAT GLASS CONTAMINATION HAS BEEN SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT (E WOULDN T CARRY OUT THE GRIT TEST HIMSELF BUT TOLD ME THAT EVEN IF ) WAS RIGHT THE GLASS PARTICLES WEREN T DOING ANY HARM TO HIS CUSTOMERS OR HIMSELF 4O *OHN WEED IS WEED (E DOESN T KNOW ABOUT THE CONTAMINATION NOR DOES HE CARE !LL HE REALLY CARES ABOUT IS GETTING STONED !ND "OB -ARLEY (E S A BIG FAN OF "OB -ARLEY 4HE POSTERS ARE EVERYWHERE HIS #$ COLLECTION RUNS THE -ARLEY GAMUT FROM @"ABYLON BY "US TO @%XODUS EVEN *OHN S ASHTRAY FEATURES A CRUDE CARVING OF THE RAGGAE LEGEND !S HE SAT IN HIS HAPPY HAZE SURROUNDED BY HIS "OB -ARLEY POSTERS HE GRINNED AND DELIVERED HIS REBUKE TO MY EARLIER INDICTMENT OF HIS GRASS -OTIONING AT THE ICONIC PICTURES *OHN WAVED HIS JOINT IN THE AIR AND DECLARED hTHIS IS LOVELY WEED THIS IS THE SHIT "OB WAS SMOKING v

/F COURSE THIS WAS MOST CERTAINLY NOT THE SHIT THAT "OB WAS SMOKING 4HIS WAS NOT ONLY INTENSIVELY GROWN BUT IT WAS DOUBLY CONTAMINATED )T HAD BEEN ORIGINALLY TREATED WITH GLASS PARTICLES IN THE .ETHERLANDS PRIOR TO EXPORT AND IT WAS THEN SAND BLASTED

BY THE $UBLIN GANG FROM WHOM *OHN WAS SOURCING HIS WEED *OHN IS NOT PARTICULARLY CONCERNED ABOUT WHERE THE WEED COMES FROM AND HE COULD HARDLY CARE LESS (E IS NOT WHAT YOU WOULD CALL A CONSCIENTIOUS CONSUMER HIS MOTIVATIONS ARE PURELY ECONOMIC h7HERE THE WEED COMES FROM HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MEv HE SCOFFS h"USINESS IS BUSINESS AND AT THE END OF THE DAY ) M OUT TO MAKE MONEY THEY RE MAKING MONEY EVERYBODY S MAKING MONEY SO EVERYBODY S HAPPYv HE SHRUGS (OW MUCH MONEY IS *OHN MAKING (E IS SURPRISINGLY OPEN ABOUT HOW MUCH HE SELLS FOR WHAT PRICE AND TO WHOM 4HE NATURE OF HIS @JOB SUCH AS IT IS RESULTS IN WEED SEEKING VISITORS CALLING AT ALL HOURS OF THE DAY AND NIGHT 7HEN HE TAKES A PHONE CALL OF WHICH HE TAKES SEVERAL DURING THE COURSE OF THE INTERVIEW THE ONLY QUESTIONS HE USUALLY UTTERS ARE @HOW MUCH ARE YOU LOOKING FOR AND @WHEN DO YOU WANT TO GET IT 7HEN HE HANGS UP HE GOES TO FETCH THE SCALES AND THE WEED ) WATCH HIM CREATE TWO %URO BAGS OF WEED WEIGHING OUT PORTIONS OF GRAMMES PER BAG (E THEN TAKES OUT A SMALL NOTEBOOK INTO WHICH HE NOTES THAT HIS TWO NEWEST CUSTOMERS NOW OWE HIM %URO 4HERE WERE A LIST OF NAMES IN HIS NOTEBOOK EACH WITH FIGURES EITHER FRESHLY WRITTEN OR STRUCK THROUGH INDICATING EITHER A DEBT MADE GOOD OR A DEBT OUTSTANDING *OHN IS EFFECTIVELY A FRANCHISEE OF THE CRIME SYNDICATES AND HIS ARRANGEMENT IS IDENTICAL TO THAT OF THOUSANDS OF OTHER SMALL TIME DEALERS (E DIDN T JUST DECIDE THAT A %URO BAG SHOULD CONTAIN GRAMMES 4HAT IS THE RATE HE WAS GIVEN BY HIS PAYMASTERS 4HEY SELL OUNCES OF WEED TO *OHN AT %URO A POP .ATURALLY IT COMES CHEAPER IN BULK BUT *OHN DOESN T HAVE ENOUGH CAPITAL TO INVEST IN LARGER QUANTITIES AND ANYWAY HIS CUSTOMERS ARE SIMILARLY THRIFTY AND RARELY VENTURE BEYOND A %URO BAG 4HIS AMOUNTS TO POTENTIAL EARNINGS OF JUST OVER %URO PER OUNCE A NEAT %URO PROFIT ACCRUING TO *OHN FOR EVERY TEN BAGS SOLD (E TELLS ME HE HAS ABOUT CUSTOMERS SOME REGULARS OTHERS NOT (OW OFTEN CUSTOMERS COME BACK DEPENDS OBVIOUSLY ON HOW LONG THEIR WEED LASTS 'IVEN THAT OVER HALF OF THE BAG S WEIGHT IS ACCOUNTED FOR BY GLASS PARTICLES AND SAND *OHN S CUSTOMERS RECEIVE ABOUT GRAMMES OF CANNABIS FOR THEIR %VEN "UBBLEHASH IS

RARELY THIS EXPENSIVE )T WOULD BE A BIT LIKE BUYING A HALF CAN OF $UTCH 'OLD FOR THE PRICE OF A HALF BOTTLE OF THE FINEST WINE *OHN S REWARD FOR THIS OUTRAGEOUS PER GRAM VALUATION OF HIS CONTAMINATED WEED IS MORE REGULAR CUSTOM AS HIS APPARENTLY SATISFIED CUSTOMERS NONETHELESS FIND THAT THEIR BAGGIES DO NOT LAST TOO LONG 7HEN ) DELICATELY PUT IT TO *OHN THAT HIS WEED IS RATHER PRICEY HE SAYS THAT NOBODY MINDS PAYING THE PRICES BECAUSE hEVERYBODY KNOWS THAT WEED IS EXPENSIVEv ) CAN T HELP BUT NOTICE THAT IT WAS NOT EXPENSIVE ENOUGH TO PREVENT *OHN FROM SKINNING UP A SECOND JOINT IN THE SPACE OF ABOUT HALF AN HOUR 4HEN AGAIN THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN AFFORD TO CHAIN SMOKE THIS STUFF AT THOSE PRICES ARE THE ONES SELLING IT EFFECTIVELY MAKING OTHERS PAY FOR THEIR HOBBY "ESIDES THERE S ALWAYS THE CHEAP ALTERNATIVE IF YOU CAN T AFFORD THE @'UCCI OPTION 4HIS ALTERNATIVE IS SOAPBAR HASH WHICH IS MADE UP OF CANNABIS WHATEVER ELSE YOU CAN FIND IN THE GARDEN AND A FEW SCOOPS OF COFFEE TO MAKE IT ALL NICE AND BROWN 7HEN HE LIGHTS UP HIS THIRD JOINT OF THE AFTERNOON STRAIGHT AFTER HIS SECOND HE HAS IGNITED A HASH JOINT WHICH SMELLS NOTHING LIKE CANNABIS INSTEAD EMITTING A NOXIOUS SICKLY SWEET SMELL WHEN BURNED )T S CERTAINLY NOT A SMELL "OB -ARLEY WOULD HAVE RECOGNISED *OHN BUYS THIS POLLUTED HASH IN NINE OUNCE BARS WHICH COST %URO EACH (E SELLS IT FOR %URO PER @OUNCE THOUGH HE MAINLY SELLS QUARTERS AT %URO A POP *OHN SAYS HIS CUSTOMERS GENERALLY PREFER TO SMOKE THIS DURING THE DAY AND DURING THE WEEK AND PIG OUT ON WEED AT THE WEEKENDS TREATING THEMSELVES TO A BAG OR TWO 4HE REASON HIS CUSTOMERS PAY THESE PRICES IS BECAUSE THIS IS THE GOING RATE 4HEIR PREVIOUS DEALER CHARGED THE SAME RATES NOW THEY RE JUST PAYING THE DIFFERENCE TO *OHN AND DEALING WITH HIM INSTEAD BECAUSE HE LIVES NEARER 4HEY NEVER MEET THE PEOPLE PROVIDING THE WEED 4HEY SEE *OHN

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AS THEIR DEALER AND THAT IS WHERE THEIR CANNABIS UNIVERSE BEGINS AND ENDS )T NEVER OCCURS TO THEM EITHER TO SOURCE GREATER QUANTITIES OR TO GROW THEIR OWN TO SAVE MONEY &OR *OHN S CUSTOMERS TO SOURCE OUNCES OR BARS DIRECTLY WOULD BE AS UNIMAGINABLE AS A -C$ONALD S CUSTOMER OPTING TO SOURCE AND SLAUGHTER THEIR OWN COW INSTEAD OF HAVING A HAMBURGER 4HERE S NO DOUBT THAT *OHN S IS A PROFITABLE PURSUIT )N ORDER TO MAKE ENDS MEET AND TO APPARENTLY SMOKE AS MUCH AS HE LIKES HE HAS HAD TO DO LITTLE MORE THAN GET HIS FRIENDS TO STOP BUYING FROM THEIR FORMER DEALER AND TO START BUYING FROM HIM (E S NOT EXACTLY LIVING A LIFE OF LUXURY BUT HIS ROOM IS WELL EQUIPPED AND HIS TRACKUIT AND RUNNERS WERE AN ALMOST LUMINOUSLY WHITE SHADE OF PALE 4HEY LOOKED BOTH NEW AND EXPENSIVE &ROM WHAT ) CAN GATHER THOUGH HE IS HARDLY PROVIDING SPREADSHEETS *OHN SHIFTS ABOUT TWO OUNCES OF WEED PER WEEK AND PERHAPS THE SAME AGAIN OF WHAT HE CALLS @NORMAL HASH 4HIS AMOUNTS TO A FAIRLY IMPRESSIVE PROFIT MARGIN OF ABOUT PER WEEK 'IVEN THAT HE S ALSO CLAIMING THE DOLE *OHN IS PULLING IN ABOUT PER WEEK WELL ABOVE THE AVERAGE INDUSTRIAL WAGE AND CERTAINLY FAR IN EXCESS OF THE MINIMUM WAGE WORK HE WAS PREVIOUSLY ENGAGED IN 4HOSE FURTHER UP THE FOOD CHAIN MAKE MULTIPLES OF THIS THOUGH *OHN SAYS HE IS HAPPY TO REMAIN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PROFIT PYRAMID 4HIS MAY SEEM UNAMBITIOUS BUT IT S PROBABLY BETTER FOR HIS HEALTH 7HILE *OHN SAYS THAT HE HAS NEVER PERSONALLY BEEN THREATENED OR ATTACKED HE MENTIONS THE NAMES OF PEOPLE WHO HE SAYS HAVE BEEN KILLED FOR OFFENCES AS MINOR AS HAVING

ALLEGEDLY INSULTED MEMBERS OF OTHER PEOPLE S FAMILIES "ECAUSE MOST OF THE VICTIMS ARE YOUNG WORKING CLASS MEN LIKE *OHN SOCIETY DOESN T PARTICULARLY CARE $RUG DEALING WAS ALWAYS A RISKY PROFESSION IN TODAY S $UBLIN IT IS A VOLATILE MINEFIELD *OHN TELLS ME THAT hMOST OF THE BIG BOYS ARE COKED OFF THEIR TITS AND ARMED TO THE TEETHv 4O OPERATE IN THIS BUSINESS IS TO TIPTOE AROUND THE EGOS OF THE hBIG BOYSv PAYING YOUR RESPECTS KEEPING YOUR HEAD DOWN AND NAVIGATING THE PARANOID TERRAIN OF THEIR AFFECTIONS AS SURE FOOTEDLY AS A MOUNTAIN GOAT

NATURE OF MUCH OF THE VIOLENCE HAS BEEN SHOCKING TO CITIZENS OF A COUNTRY WHERE THE POLICE ARE STILL UNARMED

3INCE EXTREME VIOLENCE IS THE QUICKEST ROUTE TO RESPECT LIFE HAS BECOME A FAIRLY CHEAP COMMODITY )N THE NINETIES SADISM WAS THE PRESERVE OF PYSCHOPATHS *OHN TELLS ME ABOUT A NOTORIOUS NORTH $UBLIN DEALER WHO PULLED A YOUNG GIRL S FINGERNAILS OUT BECAUSE SHE HAD FAILED TO PAY FOR HER a LUMP OF HASH BUT TODAY VIOLENCE IS A CONDITION OF ENTRY TO RATHER THAN A TOOL OF THE TRADE #RUEL VIOLENCE COMMANDS FEARSOME AWE THE PERPETRATOR BECOMES A LEGEND IN THE UNDERWORLD AND A VILLIAN IN THE COMMUNITY )N TODAY S $UBLIN DEBT IS ONLY SETTLED BY DEATH AND THE hBIG BOYSv HAVE BECOME EVER MORE UNSTABLE THEIR ESCALATING HURRICANE OF VIOLENCE SERVING ONLY TO WHET THEIR APPETITE FOR FURTHER VIOLENCE AND TO PUBLICLY ILLUSTRATE THE IMPOTENCE OF THE STATE WHEN CONFRONTED WITH CASH RICH WELL ARMED PHARMACOLOGICALLY FEARLESS EGOMANIACS

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4HIS METER SQUARE HYDROPONIC GARDEN IS EASY TO IRRIGATE BY HAND FROM BELOW

/À> ë > Ì } ) JUST STARTED SOME SEEDS ) PUT THREE SEEDS IN A POT AND THEY ALL STARTED GROWING LIKE HELL ) KNOW ) M GOING TO PUT THEM IN SEPARATE POTS ) DON T KNOW WHEN TO TRANSPLANT (OW LONG WILL IT BE BEFORE ) WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THE SEX OF THE PLANT 3ORDID 3TEVE ,IVERPOOL 4RANSPLANT THE SEEDLINGS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO THAT THE ROOTS DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO INTERTWINE /NCE THE ROOTS GROW AND MIX WITH EACH OTHER YOU WILL HAVE TO BREAK THEM APART AND YOU WILL HAVE TO BREAK ROOTS 4HE BROKEN ROOTS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO TRANS PLANT SHOCK AND SLOW GROWTH 3MALL PLANTS ALSO SUFFER LESS TRANSPLANT SHOCK THAN LARGER PLANTS 7ATER SEEDLINGS BEFORE TRANSPLANTING WITH A FERTILIZER OR TRANSPLANT HEL PER THAT CONTAINS VITAMIN " 4HIS WILL FURTHER EASE TRANSPLANT SHOCK 4RANSPLANT INTO A GROWING MEDIUM WITH THAT HAS SIMILAR TEXTURE SO THAT ROOTS HAVE NO TROUBLE PENETRATING AND WATER MOVES EVENLY THROUGHOUT )F SEEDLINGS ARE LEGGY YOU CAN BURY THEM UP TO THE FIRST SET OF LEAVES 2OOTS WILL GROW ON THE SUBTERRANEAN STEM ) LIKE TO TRANSPLANT LATE IN THE DAY SO THAT PLANTS HAVE ALL NIGHT TO RECUPERATE 4HE NEXT DAY GIVE THE LITTLE ONES LESS LIGHT AND KEEP COOL ABOUT DEGREES & UNTIL ROOTS ACCLI MATE TO THE NEW SOIL )N ONE TO THREE DAYS THEY ARE OFF TO THE RACES

4HE VENT FAN MUST BE STRONG ENOUGH TO EVACUATE AIR THAT IS DRAWN THROUGH A CHARCOAL FILTER )F THE FAN IS NOT ADEQUATE AIR VENTILATION WILL ALSO BE INADEQUATE AND THE ROOM WILL BE STAY HOT

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4HIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A HERMAPHRODITE OR INTERSEX FLOWER WHERE A MALE FLOWER APPEARS ON A FEMALE PLANT 3UCH PLANTS ARE DIFFICULT TO BREED WITHOUT HAVING MORE INTER SEX PLANT OFFSPRING

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3ECTION OFF A PORTION OF A ROOM WITH PLASTIC TO ENCLOSE A GROW ROOM !LWAYS MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A VENT HOLE TO DIRECT HOT USED GROW ROOM AIR BEFORE SETTING UP YOUR GROW ROOM

(EAT WILL BE A CONSTANT PROBLEM AND THE LIGHTS ARE TOO CLOSE TO PLANTS 4HREE W LAMPS PRODUCE A HELL OF A LOT OF HEAT AND SHOULD BE AT LEAST TWO FEET ABOVE PLANTS TO AVOID BURNING FOLIAGE 2EMEMBER WHEN THE INSIDE OF THE PLANT WILL BE ABOUT PERCENT WARMER THAN THE ROOM TEMPERATURE !T DEGREES # THE INTERIOR OF THE LEAF IS ABOUT DEGREES & 4HE PLANT WILL TRANSPIRE MORE AND MORE WATER TO LOWER THE INTERNAL TEMPERATURE OF THE LEAF 4HIS SETS THE STAGE FOR INCREASED WATER CONSUMPTION HIGHER HUMIDITY AND MORE PROBLEMS THAT ARE EASILY AVOIDED !

LITER RESERVOIR WILL NEED TO BE FILLED EVERY DAY WITHOUT FAIL $EFINITELY ATTACH THE FAN TO A THERMOSTAT AND POSSIBLY A HUMIDISTAT TO CONTROL BOTH TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY 9OU WILL FIND THAT THE TEMPERATURE LOWERS A LITTLE BUT HUMIDITY WILL RISE SUBSTANTIALLY AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT 4HIS EXCESS HUMIDITY WILL SET THE STAGE FOR POWDERY MILDEW AND BUD MOLD BOTRYTIS 9OU SHOULD GIVE PLANTS MORE SPACE TO GROW AND TO STAY COOL 9OU SHOULD CONSIDER USING OR W LAMPS THAT GENERATE LESS HEAT AND COST LESS TO OPERATE %ITHER WATTAGE WILL PROVIDE ADEQUATE LIGHT TO FORM THICK DENSE BUDS 9OU CAN ALSO PLACE THESE LAMPS CLOSER TO FOLIAGE WITHOUT FEAR OF BURNING IT !LSO SET UP A HEAT SHIELD SUCH AS A SHEET OF ALUMINUM OR OTHER METAL TO DEFLECT HEAT FROM THE CEILING AND PLACE LAMPS AS CLOSE TO THE CEILING AS POSSIBLE

4HIS -ARLIES #OLLIE FROM 3ENSI 3EEDS HAS BEEN BLOOMING ABOUT A MONTH AND LEAVES AROUND THE BUD ARE ALREADY STAR TING TO FROST WITH RESIN

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/N $ECEMBER (OME 3ECRETARY *ACQUI 3MITH PASSED A NEW TECHNOLOGY INTO 5+ LAW ! MEASURE CALLED h#LEANFEEDv %SSENTIALLY #LEANFEED IS A MEANS OF CENSORING WEBSITES THE GOVERNMENT DON T LIKE AND AFTER THE MATERIAL WE HAVE PUBLISHED ABOUT THE LIES THIS ADMINISTRATION HAVE TOLD REGARDING CANNABIS AND THE LAWS SURROUNDING IT IT S FAIR TO SAY THE GOVERNMENT DON T LIKE THE #ANNA :INE .OT ONE LITTLE BIT 3INCE THE START OF *ANUARY WE HAVE SUFFERED A CATALOGUE OF PROBLEMS WITH REGARD TO GETTING OUR MATERIAL PUBLISHED

THE ENTIRE PERIOD WHICH EVENTUALLY RAN TO ALMOST FULL DAYS 4O THIS DAY "4 AND THEIR HOME HUB BROADBAND SERVICE HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO GIVE A REASON FOR THE BREAK IN SERVICE 4HEY STILL TOOK THEIR PAYMENT ALL THE SAME

7iLÊ ÃÌ } 4HEN ON THE TH OF *ANUARY ) STARTED RECEIVING E MAILS FROM MY WEB HOSTING COMPANY WHICH IS A "RITISH COMPANY WHOSE NAME ) WON T MENTION RIGHT NOW AS ) M STILL IN COMMUNICATIONS WITH THEM ON THE SUBJECT 4HE E MAILS STATED hAS PART OF A SERVICE IMPROVEMENT SCHEME YOUR WEB FILES ARE BEING MOVED TO A NEW FASTER SERVER v 4HESE WEB FILES COVER AROUND A DOZEN DIFFERENT WEBSITES 2EGULAR VISITORS TO THE #ANNA :INE WILL KNOW THE SERVICE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GOOD 6ERY GOOD IN FACT 4HE WEBSITE ALWAYS OPERATED WELL 0AGES LOADED VERY QUICKLY "UT ON THE TH *ANUARY MY SERVICE LEVELS DROPPED TO A CRAWL 0EOPLE SAT STARING AT A BLANK SCREEN WAITING SOMETIMES OR FULL MINUTES FOR THE PAGE TO LOAD ! SITUATION WHICH HAS REMAINED TO DATE AND WHICH HAS SEEN THE VISITOR NUMBERS DROPPING OFF DAILY AS A RESULT

} iÊ iÜÃÊ1 /N THE TH OF *ANUARY ) RELEASED A STORY TO 'OOGLE NEWS AND THAT WAS TO BE THE LAST ARTICLE ) WOULD RELEASE FROM THE #ANNA :INE AS 'OOGLE .EWS 5+ PULLED THE PLUG

3ERVICES WHICH WE PAY FOR BUT WHICH OVER A PERIOD OF TIME WE NO LONGER RECEIVED OR RECEIVE BUT WITH A MARKED DEGRADATION OF SERVICE LEVELS

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!FTER TWO DAYS OF "RITISH 4ELECOM TECH SUPPORT TELLING ME hTHE FAULT IS A MYSTERYv ) DECIDED TO DO SOME OF MY OWN DETECTIVE WORK

) DECIDED ) NEEDED TO DO SOME RESEARCH AND AFTER ONLY A SEARCH OR TWO ) WAS SHOCKED AT WHAT ) FOUND OUT

4HE ONLY SERVICE PROVIDER IN THE AREA IS "RITISH 4ELECOM 3O ) CHECKED WITH THE NEIGHBOURS EITHER SIDE AND LO AND BEHOLD THEIR PHONE SERVICE HAD BEEN UNAFFECTED THROUGHOUT

"ACK IN $ECEMBER (OME 3ECRETARY *ACQUI 3MITH WROTE SOME UNBELIEVABLE NEW LAWS ,AWS WHICH RECEIVED LITTLE OR NO PUBLICITY ,AWS WHICH NEVER GOT TO FOLLOW THE NORMAL PATTERN OF PASSING THROUGH THE (OUSES OF 0ARLIAMENT BEFORE BECOMING STATUTE

ÜÊ ÌÊÜ À Ã 4HE TECHNOLOGY BEHIND THESE NEW LAWS WAS DESIGNED AND CONCEIVED BY "RITISH 4ELECOM 4HE MISSION BRIEF

!PPARENTLY THE )NTERNET WE ALL LOVE AND KNOW SO WELL IS ACTUALLY BEING OVERSEEN

BY THE AUTHORITIES %VERY WEB SEARCH EVERY WEBSITE WE VIEW EVERY PICTURE FILE WE LOOK AT HAS BEEN PRE AGREED BY THE GOVERNMENT WHO SAYS WHETHER WE CAN OR CAN T LOOK AT IT (OW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL 7OULD YOU LIKE TO COMPLAIN TO YOUR LOCAL MEMBER OF 0ARLIAMENT 9OU CAN T 7OULD YOU LIKE THAT HE REPRESENTS YOU AS THE MOTION IS DISCUSSED IN

)T APPEARS NOT &ROM EVIDENCE ) HAVE FOUND OUT AND WITNESSED AT FIRST HAND THROUGH THE MONTH OF *ANUARY THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY ALSO APPLIES TO WEBSITES GUILTY OF NO MORE THAN CAUSING THE GOVERNMENT SOME IRRITATION OR EMBARRASSMENT .O ONE CAN DOUBT THE CANNABIS ISSUE HERE IN THE 5+ IS AN IRRITATION TO THE GOVERNMENT AND AS THAT S OUR PRIMARY SOURCE OF MATERIAL ON THE #ANNA :INE ) GUESS THAT MAKES US A GOVERNMENT IRRITANT 4HE hCREAMv THEY USED TO TREAT THIS IRRITANT BEGGARS BELIEF )T WAS *ANUARY TH OUR LAST STORY WAS SYNDICATED BY 'OOGLE .EWS "Y *ANUARY ND ) WAS AWARE NO MORE OF MY STORIES WERE BEING PICKED UP SO ) EMAILED 'OOGLE .EWS LOOKING FOR SOME ANSWERS

4O STOP THE UPSURGE OF WEBSITES DISPLAYING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND AT FACE VALUE THERE CAN T BE VERY MANY 5+ CITIZENS THAT WOULD DISAGREE WITH THE NEED FOR SUCH MEASURES 'ETTING A LITTLE HEAVY HANDED WITH WEB ADMINISTRATORS WHO MAKE THEIR LIVING FROM DISPLAYING DISGUSTING IMAGES INVOLVING CHILDREN CAN BE NO BAD THING RIGHT

)N THE E MAIL WHICH WAS POLITE AND COURTEOUS THROUGHOUT ) ATTEMPTED TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF WHY THE #ANNA :INE HAD THE PLUG PULLED AS 'OOGLE ARE NOT NORMALLY A COMPANY WHO BOW TO BULLY BOY TACTICS

"UT ARE THE NEW MEASURES GOING TO STOP THERE /R WILL THE GOVERNMENT EXTEND THESE MEASURES AT WILL

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)TS HARD TO SAY !S MENTIONED EARLIER THERE IS NO PUBLIC RIGHT OF REPLY OVER THESE NEW REGULATIONS "UT BEFORE GOING ANY FURTHER LET ME TELL YOU WHAT ) FOUND OUT ABOUT CLEANFEED !PPARENTLY "RITISH 4ELECOM CAME UP WITH THIS PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY BY WHICH IT AND THE INDUSTRY WATCHDOG THE h)NTERNET 7ATCH &OUNDATIONv GATHERS A SET OF WEB ADDRESSES WHICH IT THEN PASSES ON TO THE (OME /FFICE

7HY ) WOULD BE GUESSING IF ) ANSWERED BUT YOU ONLY HAVE TO READ THROUGH MY MATERIAL WHICH IS STILL ON 'OOGLE .EWS TO SEE WHY THE GOVERNMENT 'ORDON "ROWN AND *ACQUI 3MITH SPECIFICALLY MAY WANT TO TAKE THE #ANNA :INE hOFF THE AIRv

) M CURRENTLY STAYING WITH MY GIRLFRIEND WHILST ) WAIT FOR A NEW HOUSE IN #ARDIFF AND WE RE SMACK BANG IN THE MIDDLE OF A 3OUTH 7ALES HOUSING ESTATE

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)N TURN THE (OME /FFICE ADDS ITS OWN hHIT LISTv TO THE DETAILS PROVIDED BY "4 AND THIS LIST IS THEN DISTRIBUTED AROUND )NTERNET 3ERVICE 0ROVIDERS WITH THE INSTRUCTION hBLOCK TRAFFIC TO AND FROM THESE WEB ADDRESSESv (OME /FFICE MINISTER 6ERNON #OAKER APPROACHED EVERY )NTERNET 3ERVICE 0ROVIDER IN THE LAND AND A FEW ABROAD AND hINVITEDv THEM TO JOIN IN THIS INITIATIVE 4HEREAFTER IT WAS SIMPLY A CASE OF PROVIDING THE )30 S WITH THE ADDRESSES OF THE OFFENDING WEBSITES AND THE DEED WAS DONE 4HE )NTERNET WAS CENSORED "UT ARE WE HAPPY VIEWING THE ULTIMATE ICON OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH n THE )NTERNET AFTER FIRST BEING /+ D BY SOMEONE AT THE (OME /FFICE $O WE TRUST THE GOVERNMENT ENOUGH TO TREAT THESE RESPONSIBILITIES WITH A FAIR HAND !ND IF WE DO CAN WE GUARANTEE THAT ALL FUTURE GOVERNMENTS WILL TREAT THEM WITH THE SAME RESPONSIBLE ATTITUDE )S THE GOVERNMENT GOING TO TARGET ONLY WEBSITES INVOLVED IN DISTASTEFUL PORNOGRAPHY

.OTHING CAME BACK IN REPLY 4HE FOLLOWING DAY ) MAILED THEM AGAIN

4HE THIRD DAY ) MAIL AGAIN ASKING DIRECT QUESTIONS ABOUT CLEANFEED AND BY THIS TIME ) M WELL AND TRULY PISSED OFF WITH THE WHOLE THING .OTHING )T WAS THE SAME WITH MY HOSTING COMPANY 4RY AS ) MAY TO GET SOME INFORMATION OUT OF THEM THEIR REPLIES ) M A CUSTOMER AND ) WAS DEALING WITH TECH SUPPORT SO ) GUESS THEY WERE DUTY BOUND TO ANSWER REFERRED ONLY TO TECHNICAL POSSIBILITIES BUT EVEN THOUGH ) ASKED DIRECT QUESTIONS REGARDING #LEANFEED ) GOT NO MENTION OF THE WORD BACK FROM THEM )T WAS AS IF ) NEVER MENTIONED IT IN THE FIRST PLACE "4 NEVER EVEN WROTE BACK 3TILL HAVEN T AS WE GO TO PRESS *ANUARY TH ) MAILED THE WHOLE OF &LEET 3TREET WITH NOT A SINGLE REPLY EVEN OUT OF CURIOSITY .O ONE WILL TALK ABOUT OR EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACT ) MENTION #LEANFEED )T S AS IF IT DOESN T EXIST ,ATER ON *ANUARY ND THE WHOLE THING TOOK A FAR MORE SINISTER TURN BUT ) LL TELL YOU ABOUT THAT AS WELL AS WHAT 'OOGLE .EWS SAID WHEN THEY FINALLY REPLIED NEXT TIME

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BY TILE MOSAICS DEPICTING THE $UTCH COMMERCE OF SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS AGO "OTH AREAS ARE WELL DECORATED AND COSY PRESENTING A MORE PRIVATE ENCLAVE IN THE BACK OF THE SHOP 4HESE AREAS ARE MUCH MORE UPSCALE THAN CENTRAL COFFEESHOPS OF SIMILAR SIZE AND ARE PERFECT FOR PRIVATE CHATS A QUICK DINNER OR GETTING SOME WORK DONE (OWEVER ONE DOWNSIDE THAT RUNS THROUGH THE SHOP BESIDES THE MINIMALIST TOILETS IS THE AMOUNT OF TELEVISIONS SCATTERED THROUGHOUT BROADCASTING A CONSTANT LOOP OF #ANNABIS #UP AND GROWING VIDEOS &OR LOCALS THIS MAY BECOME A BIT REPETITIVE OR EVEN DISTRACTING ALTHOUGH FOR THE AVERAGE SMOKING OR GROWING TOURIST THESE ARE BITS OF MEDIA THAT ARE NOT EASILY AVAILABLE TO THEM AT HOME AND IT MUST BE FUN TO SEE SO MUCH ABOUT

DRINK AND SOME SEEDS OR SHIRTS TO BUY AS SOUVENIRS #ONCERNING THE INTERIOR IT S REFRESHING TO SEE THAT SOME SHOP OWNERS DO STILL HAVE THE SMOKER IN MIND AS INTERESTING DÏCOR IS ONE WAY TO GET PEOPLE COMING BACK FOR MORE &EW COFFEESHOP PROPRIETORS SEEM TO REALISE THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING WELL hSTUFF v TO LOOK AT AFTER SMOKING A LITTLE TOO MUCH 7HILE THE GIANT WALL COVERED IN 3UMERIAN TEXT MAY BE A BIT OVERWHELMING WITH SO MUCH ATTENTION TO DETAIL IN THE WHOLE SHOP THE NEW 'REENHOUSE IS THE KIND OF PLACE WHERE YOU WILL NOTICE SOMETHING NEW EACH TIME YOU VISIT

3EVERAL OTHER THINGS ARE QUITE REFRESHING ABOUT THIS SHOP FORMERLY THE "LUE 6ELVET &IRST OF ALL EVEN THOUGH IT S COLD RIGHT NOW THINGS WILL WARM UP HERE IN OUR RAINY CITY AND WHEN THEY DO IT S RARE TO BE ABLE TO ENJOY A COFFEESHOP WITH AN OPEN FRONT 6ISITORS CAN SIT AND WATCH THE BUSTLE OF THE (AARLEMMERSTRAAT WITH THE ADDED BENEFIT OF FRESH AIR )T SHOULD ALSO BE NOTED THAT THE STAFF AT THIS LOCATION ARE INCREDIBLY FRIENDLY AND THE GUYS BEHIND THE SMOKE BAR ARE VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE AND INTERESTED IN THEIR WORK !S GOOD HELP IS A COMMODITY IN

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SHOP 4HE USUAL COFFEE AND TEA MENU IS STUDDED BY PERKS SUCH AS FRESH MINT TEA SMOOTHIES AND MILKSHAKES &OOD INCLUDES STANDARD BREAKFASTS ALONG THE LINES OF SCRAMBLED EGGS AND TOAST OR YOU CAN FILL UP ON A FULL %NGLISH BREAKFAST BEFORE SETTING OUT FOR THE DAY ,ATER VISITORS CAN MUNCH ON AN !MERICAN STYLE BURGER FOR LUNCH BEEF OR VEGETARIAN AND SUPPLEMENT THE MEAL WITH SOUP SIDE DISHES OR SALADS ALL REASONABLY PRICED &OR THOSE WITH A SWEET TOOTH MAKE SURE

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2OCKWOOL CUBES BRING WITH THEM A MULTITUDE OF ADVANTAGES OVER PLANTING DIRECTLY INTO COMPOST .OT LEAST OF WHICH IF YOU DON T ACTUALLY WISH TO USE COMPOST TO GROW WITH IT CAN MAKE A MESS OF YOUR NICE CLINICALLY CLEAN GROWING ENVIRONMENT

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5SING SMALL INCH STARTER CUBES MAKES THE SEEDLINGS EASILY TRANSPORTABLE EASY TO HANDLE WHILST ALSO OFFERING A FANTASTIC MEDIUM FOR THE YOUNG ROOTS TO DO THEIR THING UNHINDERED BUT BEFORE USING THEM THEY NEED A LITTLE PRE TREATMENT

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2OOTS ARE WEIRD THINGS 2ATHER THAN JUST SET THEM DOING THEIR THING AND FEED THEM WHEN FEEDING WHAT ARE ESSENTIALLY BARE ROOTS WE NEED TO MAKE LIFE A LITTLE EASIER FOR THEM 0( RATIOS ARE THE RATIO OF ACID TO ALKALI IN THE WATER 7E ADJUST THE P( TO ENSURE THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF IONS ARE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PLANT AND FOR YOUR ROOTS TO WORK TO THEIR OPTIMUM YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE THE FEED THEY RECEIVE IS hIN THE ZONEv 4HE ZONE VARIES DEPENDING ON THE METHOD YOU RE USING BUT AS A RULE OF THUMB IF ) GROW HYDRO BETWEEN AND HAS ALWAYS WORKED WELL FOR ME 3OME ALLOW THE P( TO RISE OVER AND UP AS HIGH AS BEFORE ADJUSTING BUT ) BELIEVE YOU RE ALREADY IN THE PLACE WHICH MAY MAKE CERTAIN NUTRIENTS UNAVAILABLE TO THE PLANTS

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7HILST THE LIGHT SPECTRUM GIVEN OFF BY THE METAL HALIDE IS RIGHT IN THE ZONE THE HEAT PRODUCED AS A BY PRODUCT OF THE hARCv TAKING PLACE WITHIN THE GLASS TUBE ISN T AND THIS WAS GOING TO BE MY FIRST PROBLEM WHICH NEEDED SOLVING

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get more production. Push your plants, monitor them carefully, and you can as much as DOUBLE YOUR YIELD! So now we’ve just given you easy to use insider secrets on increasing your yield. These tips have nothing to do with plant genetics. Obviously, if you are growing a Thai Sativa, you are going to get a leggy, taller plant than if you are growing Afghan Kush.

You need to look at how much vertical height you have, and your overall growing conditions, when you are selecting seeds or clones to grow from. When you are breeding your own seeds, it’s best to select male and females that are short, well-branched, and dense. Breed them, and keep breeding them so your plants are genetically likely to be short and productive.

These plants are too leggy and vertical

of the doubled sets of leaves from each cut, and be wise in how you do this procedure. Trimming is an art and a science.

You may find that your first attempts at trimming don’t work perfectly. Be conservative at first until you see what happens when you trim.

But after you have mastered this, you will be rewarded with bushier, denser, better-producing plants. You will be basically doing topiary on your cannabis to give you a dense, bushy, horizontally shaped, more round, bigger diameter plant - instead of a leggy, vertical plant with huge gaps between internodes.

Please note that this procedure can also be applied to clones, except of course that clones already have true leaves and you can just cut the apicals from every stem set that you want to see doubling from.

Please also note that this procedure on average will result in your plants taking a bit longer to mature and be ready for flowering. Trimming also means you have to feed your plants more nutrients, because you are making them work harder. Rest assured that when you see one plant giving you many ounces of kind bud, it will be worth the effort.

Give Them Even Light By Rotating, Tying Down, Side Lighting and Reflecting Light is a nutrient. Your plants drink it in through their leaves. The more light your leaves get, the more buds your plant will produce up and down the stems. We love it when we see photos of plants that have buds covering the entire length of their stems from the very bottom of the plant to the very top.

Now, take a look at your garden’s light profile. How much light is each of your leaves getting? If you want too-tall plants that grow leggy and produce narrow little buds and lots of stems, just make sure your plants get only light from the top with little or no light penetration into the plant leaves below the canopy.

But if you want to get way more and way bigger buds, you have to feed intense light to every leaf set, including the lowest ones. There are various ways to do this:

• Use mylar or other highly reflective material (NOT aluminium or tin foil or flat white paint) to bounce light back onto your plants from all angles, including the floor • Install side lighting instead of just having lights above your plants • Use enough wattage to generate enough light to fill your entire grow space.

Some of you need to suck down more electricity and use bigger wattage lights.

• Rotate plants so all plants are directly under your lights for equal amounts of time • Space your plants so light can penetrate below the canopy • Use light movers so your lights move across your entire garden back and forth • Tie your plants down horizontally so they get lots of light all up and down the entire length of their stems. This is especially good for huge outdoor plants with strong sun. Or trellis your plants and mount your lights vertically up and down to shine full on the trellis.

• If you grow outdoors where it’s cloudy a lot, give your plants high intensity electric light a few hours a day, being careful not to give them more than 12 hours of total light during bloom phase in autumn.

• For indoor growers, some studies have shown that using High Pressure Sodium solo, or as the dominant light source in vegetative phase, and solo in bloom phase, promotes shorter, bushier more flowery plants.

Feed Them Special Ingredients Instead of Ingredients that Promote Leggy Growth A lot of fertilizers you feed your crops have too much of the wrong kind of nitrogen, and not enough phosphorus and potassium and other ingredients.

This creates lots of stem and leaf growth but it doesn’t promote shorter, bushier, more productive plants.

There are ways to use fertilizers so you get shorter, bushier, more productive plants. These include: • Use three-part, widely-adjustable fertilizers like Advanced Nutrients’ GrowMicro-Bloom so you can experiment with backing off the nitrogen starting

about two weeks into your grow cycle with seedlings and one week into your grow cycle with clones. Of course, your plants need nitrogen to grow well and you may see a little leaf yellowing which should be corrected by adding nitro in again until leaves are lime green. But nitro causes excessive leaf-

If you are very lucky, you might be using genetics that naturally branch, go horizontal and have multiple growth tips, but these are rare genetics, and it’s more likely you will have to use the procedures we outlined above, and selectively breed your own genetics,

Obviously, if you are growing a Thai Sativa, you are going to get a leggy, taller plant than if you are growing Afghan Kush ing and stemming, so you need to use it sparingly while monitoring your plants for nitro deficiency at the same time.

There’s a balance you’ll find between too much nitro and too little. The color of the leaf is a good indicator of nitrogen presence in your plants. If the leaf is lime green, it’s healthy. If it’s very deep green or yellowish, it’s getting too much, or too little nitrogen.

• Use formulas that contain floral boosting components. There are products like Advanced Nutrients’Bud Blood, Connoisseur and others that are specifically engineered to trigger plants to produce bushier growth, more budding sites, heavier buds, buds that are denser and bigger diameter, and longer-developing buds with more crystal. These products contain more than N-P-K and micronutrients. They contain special ingredients, such as amino acids, hormones and other stuff that rev up your plants’ flower factories into high gear. It is hard to get the nutrient companies to tell you explicitly that their products are designed to get you a bushier plant with more fat, juicy buds on it, but we’re not talking about bloom boosters, which should be used of course- we are talking about other types of formulas that influence plants to be shorter, denser, more horizontal, and produce more budding sites and larger flowers. Read the company’s product descriptions and ask them questions and then you can figure out which products will do what you want.

• The main thing to remember regarding nutrients and all other aspects of growing is that if you want generic, boring results, use a generic approach.

If you want truly spectacular yields, be creative in how you use nutrients, light, trimming and other methods to

to get the kind of short, wide, harvestheavy plants we’re talking about here.

The thing you need to know is that if you take two seedlings both grown from the same seed, and you trim one as we explained above and don’t trim the other, and grow them side by side in the same garden and allow each to ripen fully-- you will get a bigger harvest from the trimmed plant.

In some cases, you will get double or more weight from the trimmed plant as compared to the untrimmed!

We urge all growers to be creative and scientific in growing their plants so they get huge gobs of crystally, potent, mind-altering bud from every plant they grow, no matter if from seed, clone, indoors or outdoors.

Remember: just planting a seed or rooting a clone and then parking it outdoors or under a grow light is not good enough for you. Follow the above advice, pay close attention to your plants as you experiment with making them shorter and more productive, and you will do better than Nature!

Worm manure contains very valuable nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus that will contribute greatly to an exceptional growth (nitrogen) and flower production (phosphorus).

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Finding your yield of crystals from an IceO-Lator or Bubbleator a bit disappointing?

Then try using a fine mesh bag (for example 45 mc) in combination with the rougher bag in which the trim waste has been placed (usually 220 mc or 185 mc). The principle is actually very simple: the rougher bag is stuffed with the trim waste, the crystals fall through it and remain coated on the finer grade sieve. This sieve really should not be too wide a mesh, otherwise too many (smaller) crystals fall through! And logically, this is going to cause you to lose a fair bit of yield.

When it rains a real lot it can be tricky to give our marihuana plants their required volumes of liquid nutrient.

After all, yet more water could lead to real problems.

One trick for use on poor substrates (mixtures with little fertilizer in them) to make sure the plants do get sufficient nutrient during heavy periods of rain, is to scatter pure fertiliser on top of the substrate (in powder form). By doing this the heavy rain can carry small particles of the fertilizer concentrate down into the substrate, thanks to which the marihuana plants can still have enough nutrient at their disposal. Choose in advance a neutral fertilizer such as worm manure or bat guano, so that the chance of over-fertilizing does not raise its ugly head.

A successful way of managing to impose one last bit of stress on your marihuana plant that are in the last stages of blooming (so that they can be encouraged use their last reserves of energy by putting it into the formation of the flower heads), is simply to turn off their lamps for the last two to three days of their cycle. Unplug the lamps completely a couple of days before they’re due to finish and don’t put them back on. This admittedly rigorous method makes sure the buds are good and fat and that they will be bulging with crystals. We do have to make sure during this dark period that the temperature does not fall too low and that we keep the air moisture content at a reasonably low level (below 60%), so that we do not create conditions encouraging to moulds.

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Colofon Soft Secrets is published by Discover Publisher BV P.O.Box 362, 5460 AJ, Veghel, Netherlands Telephone: +31-(0)73-5498112 Fax: +31-(0)73-5479732 E-mail: maryjane@highlife.nl Publisher: Boy Ramsahai Editor:

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Contributors: Jorge Cervantes, Ed Rosenthal, Jules Marshall, Kaz Peet, Joe Kane, Lazystrain, Dr. John Dee, Weckels, Bart B., Red Dragon, Steve Davis, Brendan Hogan et al.

Translations: Jules Marshall Comics: Jim Stewart, John A. Short, Robbie Bonham Editorial adress: Soft Secrets, P.O. Box 17250, 1001 JG, Amsterdam, Holland, E-mail: SSUK@softsecrets.nl Layout & print: R&B Communicatie, Schijndel, Holland Advertisements: Dave, tel: +31-(0)73 5498112 or mobile +31-(0)6 20626839 E-mail: dave@highlife.nl Cover photo: White Rhino © Ollie, UK A word from the publisher: The UK government has embarked on a process of relative liberalisation towards the use of cannabis, and cannabis activists are engaged in broadening this engagement. Several local councils and police chiefs now actively support a Dutch-style coffeeshop system as a way of separating soft and hard drugs, as it has proven to do in Holland.

Whether they are finding their way to new coffeeshops or growing for their personal supply, cannabis users are a menace to no one, and are causing no discernable social problem. Some politicians and commentators are calling for the outright legalisation of marihuana. Let’s wait and see how the debate develops during a period of relative peace between all sides of the argument. In the meantime, the publisher hopes Soft Secrets will show the public a positive side to the normalisation of cannabis use, and is anxious to offer a forum to both pro- and anti-legalisation advocates. This assumes that the publisher does not necessarily agree with everything that appears in articles and advertisements. The publisher therefore distances himself explicitly from published statements or images that might give the impression that an endorsement is being made for the use or production of cannabis.

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Bio Bizz

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18

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High Quality Seed Bank 0031-20-4205550

55

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Hydroglo Hydroponics 0044-1304-203199

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75

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52

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55

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37

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71

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28-29

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28-29

Sensi Seeds

13

Serious Seeds

44

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48

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69

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75

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71

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16

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28-29

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