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WEARING A SEXY BIKINI OR WEARING HOT LINGERIE YOU ALSO GET A PACK OF "LACK ,ABEL STOCK THE LABEL OF THE CHAMPIONS %DITOR S #HOICE RECEIVES PACKS PRIME "LACK ,ABEL STOCK % MAIL YOUR ENTRIES TO 335+ SOFTSECRETS NL OR SEND THEM TO OUR 0O"OX PHOTOS ONLY ./ DIGITAL PRINTS ./4% !LL ENTRIES ARE HANDLED WITH THE UTMOST DISCRETION 7E DON T PUBLISH OUT OF FOCUS PICS AND WE DON T LIKE PHOTOS OF PLANTS IN VEG STAGE )T S FAT BUDS HOT TITS WE WANT TO SEE

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$OUBLE $UTCHESS -ISTY "UBBLE AND THE MISSES SHOWIN OFF HER BOUNTY ,EE #ANADA 4HIS IS A WELL KEPT SMALL PLANT GARDEN WITH GOOD YIELD 4HE ONLY PROBLEM WE SEE IS WITH THE LONG STEMS BELOW THE FLORAL DEVELOPMENT 5SING LIGHTING AND TRIMMING ARE TWO WAYS TO GET BUD DEVELOPMENT ALL THE WAY ALMOST FROM THE GROUND UP

(I ALL THIS IS MY FIRST GROW WHAT YOU THINK $ +ENT 9OUR LADY IS ALMOST THE WHOLE PHOTO AND THAT S SWEET BUT WE WANT TO SEE ALL THE BUD TOO

AND KNOW WHAT YOU GREW AND HOW SO WE CAN TELL YOU HOW GOOD YOU RE DOING ,OOKS LIKE SOLID BUDS WITH GOOD CRYSTAL AND LOW LEAF TO FLOWER RATIO SO WE GIVE YOU APPLAUSE !ND WE FANCY THAT STORM PROOF BOTTOM

4HE 3ALFORD LADS "ROUGHTON 4HE PLANTS ON EACH END ARE WAY TOO LEGGY WITH VIRTUALLY ZERO BUD DEVELOPMENT !GAIN WE KEEP ASKING PEOPLE HOW MUCH LIGHT ARE YOU GIVING THEM 0LANTS JUST DON T GO THIS VERTICAL WITHOUT BUDS UNLESS THEY ARE STRETCHING OR GETTING TOO MUCH NITROGEN 4HE PLANT IN THE MIDDLE LOOKS LIKE THE LEAVES ARE ALL CURLED FROM OVERFERTILIZING

(ERE S FEW PICS OF MY 7HITE 4USK FROM 'OOD (OUSE 3EEDS 4HIS REALLY ENERGETIC STRAIN HAD HER LIFE UNDER !NONYMOUS 9OUR PLANTS HAVE YIELDED WELL BUT THE LEAVES LOOK CURLED AND OR BURNED WHICH USUALLY INDICATES NUTRIENT PROBLEMS 9OU ALSO HAVE TOO HIGH A RATIO OF LEAF TO CRYSTAL 4RY A 0+ FORMULA !LWAYS MONITOR YOUR PLANTS AND ADJUST NUTRIENTS WHEN YOU SEE SYMPTOMS

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-ORISSONS !BESSES 4OULOUSE &RANCE !H DOUBLE DELIGHT 7E ENVY YOU MATE 4HESE PLANTS AREN T READY TO HARVEST AND YOU WANT TO KEEP THEM ALL ABOUT THE SAME VERTICAL HEIGHT )F THE ONE ON THE LEFT DOES SO WELL THEN ALL OF THEM SHOULD ,OOKS LIKE NO NUTE DEFICIENCIES AND LOTS OF CRYSTAL 4RY A BUD BOOSTER FROM START TO FINISH OF BLOOM CYCLE ALONG WITH A CARBOHYDRATE BOOSTER

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8 "OX 4HIS IS A VERY PROFESSIONAL GARDEN ,OOK AT THE THICKNESS OF THE FLORAL TOPS THE FEW LEAVES AND THE MAX DEVELOPMENT OF ALL THE AVAILABLE STEM SPACE !LSO THE WHITE REFLECTIVE MATERIAL ! HUGE YIELD IN A SMALL SPACE AND YOUR LADY IS NICE TOO 'ROWERS YOU SHOULD IMITATE THE CLEANLINESS EFFICIENCY AND DETAILS OF THIS GARDEN

,OOKS LIKE YOU MAY HAVE USED TOO MUCH NITROGEN LOTS OF LEAVES BUT NOT SO MUCH BUD CRYSTAL DEVELOPMENT 9OU WANT TO SEE LOTS OF CRYSTAL ON THE CROP AND NOWHERE NEAR AS MANY LEAVES 4HE LEAVES SHOW SIGNS OF NUTRIENT DEFICIENCY

PERHAPS CALCIUM OR MAGNESIUM 'ROWING WELL IS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE SO KEEP READING 33 AND PUTTING TO USE WHAT WE SHARE WITH YOU AND PRETTY SOON YOU WILL SEE LOTS OF CRYSTAL EVERY TIME

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/UR "UBBLEGUM AT THE END OF IT S CYCLEx 6EGGED UNDER A W %CO LIGHT AND BLOOMED UNDER W (03 -ARIO ,UIGI "ELGIUM 9OU DID OK CONSIDERING THE LACK OF LIGHT AND SPACE 4HIS PLANT COULD HAVE BEEN TWICE AS WIDE AND OR TALL AND GIVEN YOU ABOUT MORE GRAMS MINIMUM )T DEFINITELY DIDN T GET ENOUGH LIGHT IN VEG CYCLE AND IT NEEDED A BETTER BLOOM PHASE FERTILIZER

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*ON ,OOKS LIKE YOUR NUTRIENTS ARE ADEQUATE BUT THE LIGHT IS NOT )F THIS IS ANYTHING PAST ABOUT TWO WEEKS IN FLOWERING YOU ARE NOT GETTING THE FLOWER DEVELOPMENT YOU WANT !LWAYS GIVE MAX WATTAGE AND MAKE SURE THE PLANTS HAVE ROOM TO DEVELOP LARGE FLORAL CLUSTERS

3PINKSY -ERRY #HRISTMAS EVE 9OUR PHOTO IS DATED ,OOKS LIKE SOLID BUD DEVELOPMENT ENTIRE STEM OF YOUR PLANTS LOTS OF CRYSTAL AND FEW LEAVES 9OU DID WELL FOR HAVING WHAT WE ARE GUESSING IS A SMALL SPACE

-Y ST GROW AND MY BITCH X #HRONIC 9IELD WAS OZ OF QUALITY DRIED BUD *ON 4HE MYLAR IS GOOD FOR MAXING LIGHT 'ROWERS SHOULD ALWAYS USE THE HIGHEST REFLECTIVITY MATERIAL THEY CAN FIND 0EOPLE CAN LOOK TO YOUR PLANT AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT A GOOD ONE SHOULD LOOK LIKE AT HARVEST

4HIS IS SOME PICS OF MY PREVIOUS GROW BACK IN THE SUMMER

HERE WE HAVE !+ CLONED PLANTS GROWN ON A SIMPLE METRE SQUARE FLOOD AND DRAIN SYSTEM W 'ROWLUX AIR COOLED JET STREAM LIGHT NUTES USED WAS #ANNA !QUA 6EG &LORES

2HIZOTONIC #ANNAZYM AND 0+ WEEKS BEFORE HARVEST #/ WAS ALSO USED THROUGHOUT THE FLOWER STAGE TOTAL VEG TIME DAYS TOTAL FLOWER TIME DAYS

HANG DRIED FOR DAYS CURED FOR DAYS TOTAL WEIGHT OF DRIED BUD G +EEP UP THE GOOD WORK 335+ LOVE READING ALL YOUR STUFF

GREAT HELP OVER THE YEARS 3TONERS AND THEIR DOG *ACK (EY 'UYS YOU AND YOUR DOG ARE DOING VERY WELL 7E APPRECIATE VERY MUCH THE DETAILED DESCRIPTION YOU GAVE AND WOULD LIKE EVERYONE TO TELL US ABOUT THEIR GARDEN S MECHANICS AND YIELD THE WAY THESE GUYS DID )T SHOWS THAT YOU DID SOME SERIOUS RESEARCH AND PLANNING BEFORE YOU STARTED YOUR PLANTS 7OULD BACK OFF THE # IN THE LAST DAYS OF FLOWER STAGE AND DO A FINAL FLUSHING TO REMOVE GUNK FROM THE CROPS )T IMPROVES TASTE 4HE USE OF MYLAR REFLECTIVE MATERIAL AS WELL AS SUPPORTING THE PLANTS WITH THIN WIRE IS A WORK OF GENIUS 7E LOVE GARDENS AND PHOTOS LIKE THIS 4HANKS

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' 7EST 9ORKS 9OU DO HAVE A VERY WELL MANICURED AND SORTED HARVEST WITH LOTS OF CONSISTENCY AND POPCORN BUD DEVELOPMENT 9OU VE GOT EXPERIENCE WITH SCISSORS AND GARDENING MATE THAT WE ARE SURE OF

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AND SOME "LACK ,ABEL "LUEBERRIES JUST CHOPPED 'REW WITH "!# RANGE PRETTY IMPRESSIVE AND A 3ENSI 3TAR LOOKING LIKE IT MIGHT GIVE DRY OZS WHEN SHE GETS IT 4HANKS GUYS WE OWE IT ALL TO YOU 4REVOR 7ELL IF THAT S SO YOUR CHICK CERTAINLY CAN DO SOMETHING FOR US IN RETURN 3HE S IN THE RIGHT POSITION KEEP HER STILL LIKE THAT WE RE COMING OVERx

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THE SMELL IS SOOOOOO SWEET MAN /LIVIER 4HIS PLANTS LOOKS LIKE 3KUNK BUT IS NOT YIELDING ENOUGH 4HE BUD SHOULD BE TWICE THAT DIAMETER 4RY A BLOOM BOOSTER AND MORE LIGHT

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(ERE ARE A FEW PICS OF ME SECOND CROP /H THE MRS !PPARENTLY ' BUT WHO KNOWS AS ) GOT SOME CUTTINGS OF A MATE ) ENDED UP WITH LADIES GROWN IN "IOBIZZ SOIL AND USED THE FULL #ANNA RANGE OF NUTRIENTS GROWN UNDER WATT (03 (AD A FEW PROBLEMS ALONG THE WAY ESPECIALLY 30)$%2 -)4%3 BLOODY THINGS DRIVE ME MAD BUT SOON GOT THEM UNDER CONTROL !LL IN ALL A GREAT RESULT MAYBE HARVESTED THEM A BIT EARLY BUT NOT TOO SURE !NYWAY HOPE U ENJOY THE PICS AS MUCH AS ) M STILL ENJOYING THE SMOKE THIS SHIT REALLY DOES BLOW YOUR HEAD OFF 2ICKY +ENT

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3PIDER MITES USUALLY COME IN WITH CUTTINGS 'ETTING RID OF THEM IS TOUGH AND ONCE YOU HAVE THEM IN A GROW ROOM IT S HARD TO PURGE THEM COMPLETELY 4HE PLANTS IN THE PICTURE COULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN HOURS PER DAY OF LIGHT FOR ABOUT ANOTHER WEEK ,OOKS LIKE YOU GOT THE MITES UNDER CONTROL (OW DID YOU DO IT ,OTS OF PEOPLE USE HARMFUL CHEMICALS THAT STAY ON THE BUDS AND CAUSE HEALTH PROBLEMS FOR CONSUMERS

4HIS IS A GOOD USE OF A SMALL INDOOR GROW 4HE PLANTS ARE PROBABLY CLONES AND THEY HAVE NOT MUCH WASTED STEM SPACE (ORIZONTAL CAN BE REALLY PRODUCTIVE IF YOU SPREAD THE LIGHTS AND PLANTS PROPERLY

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4HE CURRENT LEGAL POSITION IN RELATION TO #ANNABIS IN THE 2EPUBLIC OF )RELAND IS THAT IT IS A SCHEDULED SUBSTANCE UNDER THE -ISUSE OF $RUGS !CT 4HIS MEANS THAT IF YOU ARE CAUGHT WITH ANY AMOUNT HOWEVER SMALL YOU CAN BE PROSECUTED AND FINED )T IS ALSO AN OFFENCE TO GROW CANNABIS PLANTS AND ON SUMMARY CONVICTION FOR THIS OFFENCE YOU COULD BE LIABLE FOR A FINE NOT EXCEEDING OR A PRISON SENTENCE OF UP TO MONTHS (OWEVER IF THE COURT DEEMS THAT YOU HAD THE CANNABIS IN YOUR POSSESSION WITH THE INTENT OF SUPPLYING IT THE PUNISHMENTS ARE MUCH MORE SEVERE 7HERE THE MARKET VALUE OF THE DRUGS IS OR MORE AS VASTLY INFLATED POLICE PRICE ESTIMATIONS THE PERSON CONVICTED IS LIABLE FOR A MINIMUM SENTENCE OF A SHOCKING YEARS )N *ANUARY IT SEEMED AS IF THOSE CAUGHT WITH SMALL AMOUNTS FOR PERSONAL USE WOULD BE HANDED A CAUTION RATHER THAN PUT THROUGHT THE COURTS BUT THIS PLAN WAS DROPPED AT THE TH HOUR BY THE INFAMOUS EX -INISTER FOR )NJUSTICE -ICHAEL -C$OWELL 3O AS YOU CAN SEE THE LEGAL SITUATION FOR CANNABIS ENTHUSIASTS IN )RELAND IS NOT PRETTY 4HE CURRENT CENTRE RIGHT 'OVERNMENT IS EXTREMELY UNLIKELY TO MAKE ANY CHANGE WITHOUT SERIOUS PRESSURE BEING EXERTED UPON THEM AND THIS PRESSURE IS UNLIKELY TO COME FROM THE PATHETIC OPPOSITION POLITICAL PARTIES NONE OF WHOM HAVE HAD THE COURAGE TO COME OUT IN SUPPORT OF LEGALISATION 3O IT LL HAVE TO BE PEOPLE POWER ONCE AGAIN

,EGALISE #ANNABIS )RELAND WAS FOUNDED ALMOST A YEAR AND A HALF AGO FOLLOWING SEVERAL YEARS OF SPORADIC ATTEMPTS AT HIGHLIGHTING THE FALLACY THAT IS THIS PROHIBITION OF CANNABIS 6IRTUALLY THE ONLY PUBLIC #ANNABIS ACTION COMPRISED OF * $AYS ANNUAL MASS SMOKE UPS IN A PARK ! FEW TOOK PLACE IN )RELANDS #APITAL CITY $UBLIN BUT FOLLOWING AN INITIAL FLOURISH ATTENDANCES WERE DWINDLING /NLY A SMALL CROWD ASSEMBLED IN AT THE APTLY NAMED -ARLAY 0ARK THE GATHERING THEREAFTER INTERRUPTED BY A NASTY BUNCH OF 'ARDAI )RISH POLICE WHO PROCEEDED TO DEMAND ALL KINDS OF SILLY INFORMATION FROM THE INNOCENT AFTERNOON TOKERS SOME OF WHOM WERE ARRESTED &OLLOWING FROM THIS IT WAS FELT THAT A MORE COHERENT STRATEGY WAS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO BRING THE ISSUE INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN AND TO STIMULATE MEANINGFUL DEBATE )T WAS FELT BY MANY OF THOSE INVOLVED THAT HAVING A TOKENISTIC SMOKE UP IN THE PARK ONCE A YEAR JUST WASN T GOING TO ALTER IN ANY MEANINGFUL WAY THE CURRENT SITUATION IN RELATION TO CANNABIS AND THE MANY PROBLEMS THAT PROHIBITION IS CAUSING )RISH #ANNABIS ENTHUSIASTS 7ITH THAT IN MIND THE DECISION WAS TAKEN TO ORGANISE THE FIRST EVER !NTI 0ROHIBITION MARCH TO ON THESE SHORES TO BE HELD THE TH OF -AY THE SAME WEEKEND AS THE 7ORLDWIDE -ARIJUANA -ARCH ACROSS THE REST OF THE GLOBE 7ITH THAT

THE WHEELS BEGAN TO TURN ON THE WAGON

OF A NEW MOVEMENT EVENTUALLY TO BE CHRISTENED ,EGALISE #ANNABIS )RELAND !N INTERESTING MIX OF PEOPLE CAME TOGETHER TO TAKE ON THE DONKEY WORK OF GETTING A CAMPAIGN UP AND RUNNING ! HEALTHY CONCOCTION OF EXPERIENCE NATIONALITY AND GENDER PROVED PRODUCTIVE AS THE IDEAS BEGAN TO FLOW 7ITH THE HELP OF SUPPORTIVE (EAD (EMP AND 'ROW 3TORES

THE CAMPAIGN PRODUCED A NUMBER OF WELL DESIGNED INFORMATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE LEAFLETS ON TOPICS SUCH AS MEDICAL USE

THE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY PROHIBITION AS WELL AS THE SCOURGE OF CONTAMINATED

CANNABIS A PROBLEM OF PARTICULARLY GREAT MAGNITUDE IN )RELAND 4HE COUNTRY S POSITION ON THE FRINGES OF %UROPE HOWEVER IS NOT THE ONLY CAUSE OF THE PREDOMINANCE OF CONTAMINATED CANNABIS ON THE MARKET !N EVEN DEEPER PROBLEM IS THE LACK OF EDUCATION ON THE ISSUE THE ASSUMPTION BEING THAT SOAPBAR IS hNORMALv CANNABIS AND THAT GOOD QUALITY PURE MARIJUANA IS THE EXCEPTION RATHER THAN THE RULE (AVING BEEN BROUGHT UP KNOWING NOTHING OTHER THAN CHEAP SOAPBAR UNDER a GRAM

)RISH SMOKERS HAVE HAD LEARNT TO EXPECT NOTHING BETTER ONLY THE OCCASIONAL CONNOISSEUR HAVING DECENT HERB 4HE PURPOSE THEN OF THE MASS DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION REGARDING CONTAMINATION WAS OF COURSE TO HELP REPAIR THE DAMAGE DONE BY DECADES OF MISINFORMATION AND INNOCENT IGNORANCE 4HE ADVENT OF GROW SHOPS ON THE ISLAND HAS DEFINITELY HELPED IN A MEANINGFUL WAY AS UNDOUBTEDLY DID THE INFORMATION CAMPAIGN HOWEVER THE SAD REALITY IS THAT THE MAJORITY OF )RISH SMOKERS MANY OF THEM UNDER STILL SMOKE hSOAPv "IT BY BIT HOWEVER THE TRUTH IS SEEPING OUT THERE PEOPLE ARE REFUSING TO BUY SOAPBAR AND AS A RESULT SELLERS ARE SUPPLYING MUCH MORE HERBAL CANNABIS (OWEVER THIS OF COURSE FACES ITS OWN CONTAMINATION ISSUES 4HE LEAFLET ALSO CONTAINED INFORMATION ON

THE PROBLEM OF GRIT WEED AND hGLASS GRASSv SLIGHTLY MORE DEVIOUS FORMS OF CONTAMINATION FAR LESS EASY TO DETECT FOR THE UNTRAINED EYE WAS A GOOD START BUT THIS YEAR THE #ANNABIS COMMUNITY REALLY NEEDS TO MAKE ITS MARK ON )RISH SOCIETY AND SHOW THOSE IN GOVERNMENT THAT WE WILL NOT TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER 4O AVOID A CLASH WITH THE ANNUAL 4RADE 5NIONS -AYDAY MARCH

THIS YEARS RALLY WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE H OF -AY ASSEMBLING AT THE 'ARDEN OF 2EMEMBRANCE AT PM ! CARNIVAL ATMOSPHERE WILL BE THE THEME

WITH EVERYONE ENCOURAGED TO BRING AS MUCH COLOUR NOISE AND ENERGY AS THEY CAN !LL THOSE INVOLVED IN MUSICAL ARTIST

CLOWN AND STREET THEATRE GROUPS ARE ASKED TO BRING OUT THEIR TALENTS ON THE DAY &OR THOSE WHO CAN T MAKE IT ON THE TH AND FOR THOSE WHO CAN A NUMBER OF GIGS EVENTS HAVE BEEN ORGANISED IN THE BUILD UP TO THE MARCH !WARENESS 'IGS ARE BEING HELD IN %AMON $ORANS 4EMPLEBAR ON THE TH F !PRIL AND THE RD OF -AY 4HERE WILL ALSO A HUGE CELEBRATION ON THE NIGHT OF THE TH IN THE 6OODOO ,OUNGE STAY TUNED FOR THE LINEUPS FOR ALL THESE EVENTS BUT EXPECT TO SEE SOME OF $UBLIN S HOTTEST UP COMING BANDS $*S AS WELL AS A GREAT SHOW OF SUPPORT FROM TOKERS EVERYWHERE !GITATE EDUCATE MOBILISE 3EE YOU ON THE TH OF -AY n ,EGALISE )T

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6ENTILATOR BOXES AND EXTRACTORS 4HIS ISSUE THERE WILL BE NO ARTICLE ABOUT GROWING A SHED FULL OF MARIHUANA PLANTS OR A GROW CUPBOARD FULL OF NEW EXPERIMENTS 4HIS TIME AROUND THE ARTICLE WILL BE DEVOTED TO THE ISSUE OF VENTILATOR BOXES 4HEY ARE AN ESSENTIAL INSTRUMENT FOR USING WHEN GROWING MARIHUANA INDOORS AND THERE IS ONE TO BE FOUND IN PRETTY MUCH EVERY GROW SPACE !ND YET WHEN CHOOSING THE RIGHT VENTILATOR BOX THERE ARE A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT POINTS THAT NEED TO BE TAKEN IN TO CONSIDERATION 3O NOISE NUISANCE FOR EXAMPLE WILL ALWAYS BE A MAJOR FACTOR IN ANY GROW SPACE THAT IS FITTED WITH A VENTILATOR BOX ALSO KNOWN AS AN EXTRACTOR "UT EVEN FOR THIS THESE DAYS THERE ARE GOOD SOLUTIONS TO BE FOUND

THE EXTRACTOR SUCKS OUT THE AIR TOO HARD THEN THE TEMPERATURE WILL PLUMMET TOO FAST AND THAT IS EXACTLY THE SCENARIO WE AS GROWERS ARE TRYING TO AVOID 4HE MARIHUANA PLANTS WILL NOT THANK YOU FOR IT AT ALL AND IT WILL NOT ONLY CAUSE UNTOLD STRESS FOR YOUR PLANTS BUT FOR YOU AS A GROWER TOO

- Õ `Ê`> « } &OR THE RIGHT VENTILATOR BOX YOU ARE BEST OFF GETTING SOME ADVICE FROM YOUR LOCAL GARDEN CENTRE "UT THERE ARE ALSO POINTS WHICH YOU AS A GROWER NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO YOURSELF 3O FOR EXAMPLE CHECK CAREFULLY HOW ADJUSTABLE IT IS THINK HERE ABOUT THE EXAMPLE QUOTED ABOVE WHEREBY WE WOULD BE MUCH BETTER ABLE TO KEEP THE TEMPERATURE CONSTANT !LSO LOOK CAREFULLY AS WELL AT HOW SECURELY THE MOTOR HAS BEEN ATTACHED 4HIS NEEDS TO BE SOUNDLY AND STABLY FIXED SO THAT THE VENTILATOR BOX IN ANY EVENT DOES NOT GO FLAPPING ABOUT )T IS ALSO IMPORTANT THAT THE VENTILATOR BOX DOES NOT MAKE TOO MUCH RACKET OR RATHER ) SHOULD SAY NO RACKET AT ALL 3O ALWAYS LET THE EXTRACTOR RUN AT ITS HIGHEST SETTING AND THEN LOWER IT ACCORDING TO YOUR JUDGEMENT &ORTUNATELY THERE ARE MORE AND MORE GARDEN CENTRES THAT CAN ADVISE THE GROWER ON SECURITY ISSUES OF WHICH PREVENTION OF SOUND NUISANCE IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST

)N THE PAST THERE HAVE BEEN MANY MANY GROW OPS BUSTED THANKS TO THE SMELL NUISANCE CAUSED AFTER THE VENTILATION HAD BROKEN DOWN 4HIS IS A LARGE EXTRACTOR IN A BOX

SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS A WIND BOX !N EXTRACTOR OF THIS FORMAT IS IDEAL FOR THE SOMEWHAT LARGER GROW SPACE

6ENTILATOR BOXES ARE AN ABSOLUTE MUST IF YOU INTEND TO GROW MARIHUANA INDOORS )T S THE PIECE OF KIT AFTER ALL THAT MAKES SURE THAT THE TEMPERATURE INSIDE DOES NOT RISE TOO HIGH THAT THE AIR MOISTURE LEVEL DOES NOT GET OUT OF HAND AND IN ADDITION IT DRAWS IN FRESH AIR FROM OUTSIDE TO REPLENISH THE SUPPLY OF #/ SO THAT THERE IS ENOUGH FOR THE GROWING NEEDS OF YOUR PLANTS 4HE @OLD AIR IS BLOWN OUTSIDE BY THE VENTILATOR BOX SO THAT FRESH #/ RICH AIR IS DRAWN IN FOR THEM .ATURALLY THE FANS ALSO HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY IN THIS PROCESS BY BLOWING THE FRESH AIR IN "OTH INSTRUMENTS THEREFORE COMBINE TO CREATE THE CONDITIONS THAT WE NEED FOR A GOOD INDOOR CLIMATE AND WITH OUT THEM INDOOR GROWING WOULD BE A WHOLE LOT MORE DIFFICULT

,ivÀià }ÊÌ iÊ> À !LTHOUGH THERE ARE STILL PLENTY OF GROWERS WHO ONLY MAKE USE OF A SINGLE APPARATUS THAT BOTH SUCKS THE AIR OUT OF THE GROW ROOM AND DRAWS FRESH AIR IN FROM OUTSIDE THE EXTRACTOR VENTILATOR BOX SOME GROWERS REFRESH THE AIR IN THEIR GROW SPACE BY SIMPLY LEAVING THE DOOR

OPEN A CRACK )N GENERAL THIS IS A PRETTY HAZARDOUS GAME ESPECIALLY WHEN FOR EXAMPLE YOU ARE GROWING IN AN ATTIC SPACE OR ANY SPACE HIGH UP IN THE HOUSE AS THE WEEDY AIR WILL MOSTLY NOT DISPERSE VERY FAR 4HE WARMER AIR WILL JUST GET TRAPPED IN THE UPPER PART OF THE HOUSE IN THE ATTIC AND REMAIN HANGING AROUND

)T CAN SOMETIMES BE BETTER TO GET HOLD OF TWO TUBE VENTILATORS RATHER THAN ONE AND THEN RUN BOTH VENTILATORS RUN AT A LITTLE OVER HALF THEIR FULL POWER THERE AND ALSO THE EXTRACTOR IF THIS HAS SUFFICIENT CAPACITY WILL ENSURE THAT THE AIR STREAM SIMPLY FLOWS TO THE GROW SPACE )N SHORT AIR WILL BE BEING SUCKED INTO THE SPACE WHILST THE AIR STREAM FLOWS OUT REMAINING NEGLECTED .ATURALLY THIS IS DEPENDENT ON HOW FAR OPEN THE DOOR TO THE GROW SPACE IS LEFT OPEN 3O BE SMART AND IF YOU RE GROWING LIKE THIS MAKE SURE THE DOOR IS ONLY OPEN A SMALL CRACK BY FIXING THIS WITH A LATCH OR SOMETHING SO THAT THE EXTRACTOR REMAINS POWERFUL ENOUGH

TO REMOVE THE AIR NOT JUST OUTSIDE THE GROW SPACE BUT OUT OF THE HOUSE ENTIRELY

/Þ«iÃÊ vÊÛi Ì >Ì ÀÊL Ý )F WE LOOK AT THE VENTILATOR BOXES THAT ARE USED IN GROWING MARIHUANA THERE ARE BASICALLY TWO TYPES THAT ARE MOST COMMON 4HESE ARE THE TUBE VENTILATORS ALSO KNOWN AS INLINE VENTILATORS AND THE CENTRIFUGAL VENTILATORS 4HIS LAST TYPE THE CENTRIFUGAL VENTILATOR IS KNOWN IN GROWERS JARGON AS A @SNAIL OR @SNAIL SHELL 4UBE VENTILATORS IN GENERAL ARE EASY TO REGULATE AT DIFFERENT SETTINGS AND THAT IS VERY HANDY DURING GROWING #ERTAINLY FOR THE GROWERS WHO WANT TO WORK VERY PRECISELY AND FOR EXAMPLE WANT THE TEMPERATURE VERY CONSTANT

HAVING A FINE ADJUSTMENT FOR THE VENTILATOR BOX IS A GOOD THING TO HAVE 4HE EXTRACTOR AFTER ALL CAN NOW REGULATE THE TEMPERATURE VERY EASILY

BY SIMPLY OPERATING JUST A LITTLE BIT FASTER OR SLOWER 7ITH EXTRACTORS THAT DO NOT HAVE SUCH FINE ADJUSTMENT KEEPING THE TEMPERATURE OF THE GROW SPACE CONSTANT WILL PRESENT FAR MORE DIFFICULTIES 7HEN

4HESE DAYS THERE IS A RANGE OF SOUND DAMPENING BOXES ON THE MARKET INTO WHICH THE VENTILATOR BOX FITS EASILY AND TO BE HONEST MOST OF THEM DO A GOOD JOB OF DRAMATICALLY REDUCING THE NOISE THEY MAKE 7HICH IS LUCKY SINCE BACK IN THE DAY THE GROWER WHO DID NOT HAVE THE NECESSARY $)9 SKILLS WITH WHICH TO BASH TOGETHER HIS OWN SOUND DAMPENING BOX WAS OFTEN THE LOSER WHEN HIS EXTRACTOR TURNED OUT WHEN HE GOT IT HOME TO HAVE A NOISE LIKE A JET FIGHTER !FTER ALL THERE ARE STILL A LOT OF US WHO GROW IN DOMESTIC HOMES AND YOU WOULD NOT BE THE FIRST GROWER TO DISTURB THE SLEEP OF HIS NEIGHBOURS

.OW IT IS THE CASE THAT WHEN A PARTICULAR NOISE IS ALWAYS THERE IN THE BACKGROUND OF COURSE THIS SHOULD NOT BE OVERDONE THE NUISANCE LEVEL AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT IS DRAMATICALLY REDUCED

SIMPLY BECAUSE PEOPLE GET USED TO IT .ONETHELESS IT IS BETTER TO JUST KEEP THE NOISE AS LOW AS POSSIBLE THIS IS ALSO MORE PLEASANT FOR YOU TOO SINCE IT IS THE GROWERS WHO WILL BE EXPOSED TO THE NOISE OF THE EXTRACTOR THE MOST

AND FOR THAT REASON A SOUND DAMPENING BOX IS A USEFUL ADDITION %SPECIALLY VENTILATOR BOXES THAT USE AN ELECTRIC REGULATOR TEND TO MAKE A BIT MORE NOISE THAN NORMAL AS DOES AN EXTRACTOR THAT IS BEING USED TO SHIFT MORE THAN L MIN OF AIR 3UCH EXTRACTORS THANKS TO THEIR HIGH RATE OF OPERATION CAN CAUSE A LOT MORE NOISE NUISANCE )N CASES LIKE THIS IT CAN SOMETIMES BE BETTER JUST TO

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4HIS IS A GAUZE FILTER WHICH THE EXTRACTOR TUBE VENTILATOR ALSO HAS TO BE ATTACHED TO 4HE GAUZE IS THEN FIL LED WITH ACTIVE CARBON GRANULES *UST ATTACH THE FILTER CLOTH AROUND IT AND THE GROWING CAN BEGIN

USE TWO TUBE VENTILATORS RATHER THAN A SINGLE ONE AND RUN BOTH VENTILATORS AT A LITTLE OVER HALF POWER THE NEIGHBOURS WILL BE VERY THANKFUL 4HESE ARE ALL TRICKS WITH WHICH TO REDUCE THE NOISE NUISANCE !NOTHER ADVANTAGE IS THAT SHOULD ONE OF THE EXTRACTORS PACK UP THEN WE ALWAYS HAVE THE OTHER ON HAND TO RUN FLAT OUT FOR A WHILE IN EMERGENCIES )N THE PAST THERE HAVE BEEN MANY MANY GROW OPS BUSTED THANKS TO THE SMELL NUISANCE CAUSED AFTER THE VENTILATION HAD BROKEN DOWN 'ROW OPS ON THE GROUND FLOOR OR IN CRAWL SPACES OR CELLARS ARE PARTICULARLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE OFTEN WARMER AND ABOVE ALL PUNGENT WEED AROMA PENETRATING EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY IN SEARCH OF A WAY OUTSIDE WHEN THE EXTRACTOR IS NOT DOING ITS WORK PROPERLY

>«>V ÌÞ )N ADDITION TO THE TUBE VENTILATORS THERE ARE ALSO THE CENTRIFUGAL VENTILATORS ALSO KNOWN AS @SNAILS OR @SNAIL SHELLS 4HESE CAN BE DIVIDED INTO SINGLE AND DOUBLE SUCTION MODELS "OTH TYPES ARE NORMALLY AVAILABLE WITH A CAPACITY OF FOR EXAMPLE L MIN AND L MIN )T GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT THE L MIN TYPE WILL PRODUCE MORE SOUND THAN

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"ELGIUM AND 0ORTUGAL TO NAME ONLY ARE ONLY TO HAPPY TO SIGN A PRESCRIPTION ALLOWING THE PATIENT TO USE CANNABIS TO RELIEVE THEIR CONDITION AND SYMPTOMS !CCORDING TO A PRACTICING PHYSICIAN BASED IN /REGON IN THE 53 A STATE WHICH LEGALISED CANNABIS USE FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES OVER YEARS AGO hMARIJUANA IS LESS DANGEROUS AND ADDICTIVE THAN A LATTE FROM 3TARBUCKSv 7HICH FLIES IN THE FACE OF SO CALLED hMEDICAL EXPERTSv AND THEIR OPINIONS HERE IN THE 5+ 3O WHO S RIGHT AND WHO S TELLING LIES !CCORDING TO AN E MAIL THE #ANNA :INE RECEIVED FROM THE (OME /FFICE hv4HE 'OVERNMENT HAS NO INTENTION OF LEGALISING THE USE OF CANNABIS IN ITS RAW FORM FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES (OWEVER IT RECOGNISES THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC PAIN AND DEBILITATING ILLNESSES SUCH AS MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS WHO ARE LOOKING TO ALLEVIATE THEIR SYMPTOMS AND WHO MAY NOT FIND ADEQUATE RELIEF FROM EXISTING MEDICATION 4HAT IS WHY THE 'OVERNMENT HAS SAID THAT IT WOULD SEEK 0ARLIAMENT S AGREEMENT TO MAKE ANY NECESSARY CHANGES TO THE LAW TO ENABLE THE PRESCRIPTION OF CANNABIS BASED MEDICINE FOR THE PURPOSES OF RELIEVING PAIN "UT THIS COULD NOT HAPPEN WITHOUT PRODUCT APPROVAL BEING GRANTED BY THE -EDICINES AND (EALTHCARE PRODUCTS 2EGULATORY !GENCY -(2!

A SNAIL WITH A CAPACITY OF L MIN "UT IN SOME INSTANCES THE PURCHASE OF A L MIN MODEL MAY BE UNAVOIDABLE 4HIS MOSTLY BECOMES AN ISSUE WHEN THERE IS FOR EXAMPLE LOTS OF RESISTANCE IN THE EXIT FLOW FROM THE AIR SYSTEM n IF FOR EXAMPLE YOU HAVE A LONG LENGTH OF TUBING THROUGH WHICH THE AIR FLOWS THROUGH FROM THE SNAIL TO THE OUTSIDE OR EVEN MORE SERIOUSLY LOTS OF TURNS AND KINKS THAT CAN HAMPER THE PASSAGE OF THE AIR )N SUCH CASES A LARGE CAPACITY IS NECESSARY GIVEN THAT IF WE USED A LIGHTER TYPE IT COULD BE PUMPING AWAY LIKE CRAZY WITHOUT MUCH AIR BEING REMOVED FROM OUR GROW SPACE AT ALL 4HESE ARE VERY IMPORTANT POINTS TO PAY ATTENTION TO #ERTAIN GROWERS CAN ALWAYS BE HEARD MOANING ABOUT THE MUCH TOO HIGH TEMPERATURE IN THEIR GROW SPACE /FTEN THEY WILL HAVE SPENT LOTS OF EFFORT ON REDUCING THE NUMBER OF LAMPS TO BRING THIS DOWN OR THEY EVEN GO AS FAR AS TO BUY AN AIRCO SYSTEM "UT OFTEN DESPITE ALL THEIR EFFORTS IT SEEMS THAT NOTHING WILL HELP )N SUCH GROW ROOMS IT IS OFTEN THE FAULT OF TOO LOW A CAPACITY OF EXTRACTOR AND AN ACCOMPANYING AIR SYSTEM WITH TOO MANY KINKS IN IT THAT IS THE TROUBLEMAKER 3O ALWAYS PAY ATTENTION TO THIS POINT

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)N ORDER TO PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH THE 'OVERNMENT FACES DIFFICULTY IN MAKING ANY CHANGES TO THE LAW UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS SATISFIED THAT THE BENEFITS HAVE BEEN FORMALLY ESTABLISHED BY THE STATUTORILY RECOGNISED MEANS $OCTORS MUST BE CONFIDENT ABOUT THE PRODUCTS THEY PRESCRIBE 4HIS POSITION IS SUPPORTED BY THE "RITISH -EDICAL !SSOCIATION vv 9ET $R 0HILIP ,EVEQUE A LONG TERM PROPONENT OF CANNABIS FOR MEDICAL USE SAYS h)T HAS BEEN NINE YEARS SINCE MEDICAL MARIJUANA WAS LEGALIZED AND AS OF *ANUARY ST WE HAVE ./7 MEDICAL PERMIT HOLDERS WITH CAREGIVER AND GROWERS AND

MORE PENDING ISSUANCE PERMIT CARDS v h4HE /REGON $EPARTMENT OF (UMAN 3ERVICES ESTIMATED THAT ONLY ABOUT PATIENTS WOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE MARIJUANA PERMITS THEY ARE NOT PRESCRIPTIONS )F ) REMEMBER CORRECTLY IN THE FIRST YEAR WE REGISTERED ONE THOUSAND MARIJUANA PATIENTS AND ABOUT WERE MINE 4HIS WAS MY ONLY PRACTICE AS ) HAVE A SPINAL CORD INJURY WHICH PREVENTS ME FROM RUNNING AROUND A REGULAR OFFICE

4HE $(3 3TATE -EDICAL "OARD THE POWERS THAT BE COULDN T FIGURE OUT WHERE ALL THESE PATIENTS WERE COMING FROM BUT SUBSEQUENT INVESTIGATIONS BY THE 5 3 GOVERNMENT ESTIMATED THAT /REGON HAD ABOUT THOUSAND REGULAR USERS -OST ARE SELF TREATING FOR A VARIETY OF MEDICAL CONDITIONS v 4HE WORST ADVERSE SIDE EFFECT FROM A HIGH DOSE OF THE PURE MEDICINAL AGENT HASHISH IS MAYBE SLEEPING FOR HOURS ALTHOUGH THE PURE SYNTHETIC 4(# AS PRESCRIPTION -ARINOL CAUSES SEVERE PANIC ATTACKS IN MANY PEOPLE AND THEY AVOID IT AND OFTEN USE THE NATURAL PLANT INSTEAD 4HERE ARE MANY DISBELIEVERS THAT MARIJUANA IS TRULY A GOOD MEDICINE THROUGH ITS BEEN USED BENEFICIALLY FOR AT LEAST YEARS AND NEVER KILLED ANYONE $ATE 3OURCE #ANNA :INE

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4AKE A STROLL DOWN /UDE ,ELIESTRAAT !MSTERDAM S OLDEST AND SHORTEST STREET

AND A BUNCH OF FUNKY FRESH CANNABIS FLAVOURS WILL HIT YOUR NOSTRILS 4HE SCENT OF MELTING PINE LEMON TAR AND SWEET HAZE WAFTING AROUND IN THE AIR ARE THE ESSENCE OF TWO BREEDERS @$ h$ONv AND @! h!ARONv FROM $.!

'ENETICS /RIGINALLY BASED IN #ALIFORNIA $ AND ! RECENTLY PACKED UP THEIR PROPAGATORS AND MADE THE COLD JOURNEY OVER TO !MSTERDAM !S ACTIVE MEMBERS OF 2ESERVA 0RIVADA AKA THE 7EST #OAST COLLECTIVE OF BREEDERS BOTH $ AND ! HAD A MISSION TO PUT THE LAND OF CANNABIS CUPS BACK ON THE NARROW AND STRAIGHT 4HE BEST WAY FOR $ AND ! TO REACH THEIR OBJECTIVE WAS TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN GENETICS $.! 'ENETICS 3OFT 3ECRETS THEN ARRANGED AN INTERVIEW WITH $ AND ! TO FIND OUT HOW THEY VE BEEN GROWING

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BEGAN SMOKING AND GROWING VERY EARLY (AVING AN OLDER BROTHER THAT SMOKED HELPED SPEED UP THE EXPERIMENTAL PROCESS 3MOKING AT AND GROWING HIS FIRST SEED AT $ S STORY IS A BIT DIFFERENT (AVING BOTH PARENTS THAT SMOKED HERB GAVE HIM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE THAN MOST PEOPLE )T JUST WASN T hBADv OR A hDRUGv EVER $ DIDN T SMOKE FOR THE FIRST TIME UNTIL (E GREW HIS FIRST SEED AT 7E MET UP IN THE S IN h(OLLYWEEDv 7E WERE BROUGHT TOGETHER

BY THE WEED 7E WERE HELPING hMEDICAL PATIENTSv WITH NO MEDICAL PAPERS 4HIS WAS BEFORE THE MEDICAL ACTS THAT ARE NOW IN PLACE PROTECTING hDISTRIBUTORSv OF MARIJUANA TO PRESCRIPTION HOLDERS "ACK THEN THERE WERE NO DISPENSARIES LIKE THERE ARE NOW )T WAS NOT SAFE FOR PEOPLE LIKE US IN THE GREAT OL 53! 3O IT SEEMED LOGICAL TO MOVE OVER TO !MSTERDAM 7E HAVE BEEN IN !MSTERDAM FOR YEARS NOW AND ARE GOING STRONG

ÜÊ` `Ê Ê i iÌ VÃÊLiV iÊ Ì iÊÃii`ÊL> Ê ÌÊ ÃÊÌ `>Þ¶ 7E LOVE WHAT WE DO HELPING PEOPLE WITH MEDICAL NEEDS )T S A MUST IN THESE DAYS )F ONLY PEOPLE COULD USE MEDICAL MARIJUANA INSTEAD OF TAKING A

PILL FOR THIS AND THAT THERE WOULD BE LESS PEOPLE IN PAIN AND MORE PEOPLE GETTING HEALTHIER FROM THIS MEDICAL PLANT

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½ÃÊ ÛiÊÌ Ê ÃÌiÀ`> ¶Ê 4WO REASONS 4HE 53 'OVERNMENT DOESN T THINK KINDLY OF SEED BREEDERS (OLLAND NEEDED SOMETHING NEW $ WOULD GO TO !MSTERDAM IN THE S AND EVERY TIME HE CAME BACK IT WAS LIKE h7E GOTTA GO OUT THERE AND REPRESENT WHAT THEY JUST DON T KNOWv !FTER A FEW YEARS OF THIS ! MADE A VISIT TO THE hMECCAv OF CANNABIS AND AGREED WE NEEDED TO BE OUT HERE )T S NOT THAT THERE WASN T ANY GOOD SMOKES IN !MSTERDAM ITS JUST YOU REALLY HAD TO SEARCH AROUND TO FIND THE QUALITY 4HIS HAD TO CHANGE SO WE WENT TO WORK 3TEPPING UP OUR GAME THROUGHOUT THE YEARS HAS PROVEN WHAT S BEEN NEEDED TO KEEP $.! ON TOP AND WINNING COMPETITIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD 5LTIMATELY PROVIDING THE HIGHEST QUALITY GENETICS TO THE PUBLIC )N SOME 3TATES IT IS LEGAL TO GROW MEDICAL MARIJUANA $IFFERENT #OUNTIES HAVE DIFFERENT LAWS AND A DIFFERENT AMOUNT OF PLANTS YOU CAN GROW FOR MEDICAL USE 4HE 3TATE LAW SAYS THE STATE CAN HAVE MEDICAL MARIJUANA BUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS ITS NOT ALLOWED )F YOU ONLY HAVE TO DEAL WITH LOCAL COPS IT SHOULD BE NO PROBLEM *UST DON T RUN INTO THE h-!.v OR IT S BYE BYE FREEDOM )T S A DOUBLE EDGED SWORD SO THAT S WHY WE RE OVER HERE IN %UROPE 7E FEEL DEEPLY FOR ALL THE PEOPLE INCARCERATED FOR THIS MIND OPENING PLANT !ND STRIVE TO BRING THE TRUTH AND PROPER RESEARCH ON THIS SUBJECT

$ON AND !ARON SHARING THE LIMELIGHT AT THE RECENTLY HELD (IGHLIFE #UP WITH ANOTHER TOTAL WINNER 'ERRIT FROM -AGUS 'ENETICS

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`Ê>ÊV iVÌ ÊLiÌÜii ÊÌ iÊ ÀiÞÊ Ài>ÊV vviià «Ê> `Ê Ê > Ài>`ÞÊiÝ Ã̶ 7E WERE FRIENDS WITH THE 'REY !REA BEFORE $.! 'ENETICS BECAME WHAT IT IS TODAY 3O IT WAS A SEAMLESS TRANSITION FROM FRIENDS TO COLLEGES !LSO IT IS THE ONLY !MERICAN OWNED COFFEE SHOP IN !MSTERDAM .OT THAT WERE NATIONALISTS OR ANYTHING QUITE THE OPPOSITEx )T S JUST WE HAD A SIMILAR MIND SET 7E BOTH LIKED GOOD QUALITY WELL PREPARED HERB

7 ÞÊ` Ê ÊÀ>ÌiÊÌ iÊ ÀiÞÊ Ài>Ê Ã Ê } Þ¶ 7HENEVER WE CAME OUT OVER THE YEARS ON VACATION IT ALWAYS SEEMED TO BE THE 'REY !REA WE ENDED UP BUYING THE MAJORITY OF OUR SMOKE FROM /F COURSE WE SAMPLED FROM ALL OVER TOWN AND THE +ATSU AND THE .OON ALWAYS HAD GOOD QUALITY SMOKE )T S JUST THE 'REY !REA WAS IN THE CENTER AND DESPITE BEING A SMALL SHOP ALWAYS HAD A GOOD VIBE

GLASS BONGS AND GREAT SMOKE

7 iÀiÊ ÃÊÌ iÊ Êà «ÊL>Ãi`¶Ê `ÊÜ >ÌÊ ÃÊ Ê vviÀ¶Ê 4HE $.! 'ENETICS SHOP IS LOCATED IN !MSTERDAM ON 3INT .ICOLAASSTRAAT

VERY NEAR $AM SQUARE 7E CARRY $.! ,UX "ONGS #LOTHING $.!

'EAR 2ESERVA 0RIVADA AND $.! SEEDS

4IGHTPACKS AND OF COURSE CLEAN BONGS TO TRY

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WHICH ALSO WON @"EST 3ATIVA IN THE (IGH 4IMES #ANNBIS #UP LAST YEARx 6ISIT COFFEE SHOP 'REY !REA IN !MSTERDAM IF YOU WANT TO SMOKE $.! S CHAMPION WEED

4HE -ARTIAN -EAN 'REEN IS AN EASY STRAIN TO GROW AND HAS A VERY SPECIAL PLACE IN OUR HEART 7E LOVE THE TASTE

THE SMELL THE HIGHx)T S JUST OUT OF THIS FUCKING WORLD 4HE -ARTIAN -EAN 'REEN GROWS LIKE A INDICA WITH NOT A LOT OF BRANCHING 4HE WATER HASH IS AMAZING AND THE TASTE REALLY COMES THROUGH

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v `i Ì > ¶ ,! #ONFIDENTIAL IS A STRAIN FOR TRUE HEADS AROUND THE WORLD 3HE IS EASY TO GROW AND GOOD FOR BEGINNERS 4HE YIELD IS LOW THE TASTE IS OFF THE CHARTS 4HE SECRET TO THIS STRAIN IS VEGGING HER FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE 4HE , ! #ONFIDENTIAL IS GROWN BEST IN A PERPETUAL FLOWER ROOM SO IT CAN PRE VEG FOR AS LONG AS NEEDED TO GET LARGE PLANTS !S EVERYONE WHO HAS SMOKED AND GROWN THIS STRAIN AGREES ,! #ONFIDENTIAL IS SOME OF THE MOST TASTIEST AND STRONGEST POT AROUND (ANDS DOWN !MSTERDAM S FAVORITE STRAINx )F IT EVER MAKES IT TO THE COFFEESHOPS /UR ABSOLUTE FAVORITE

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V «i¶ #HOCOLOPE %ASY TO GROW FROM BEGINNERS TO MASTERS OUTDOORS OR INDOORS /NE WORD DESCRIBES THIS STRAINxDELICIOUS 4HE #HOCOLOPE IS A COMBINATION OF EARLY S #HOCOLATE 4HAI 8 #ANNALOPE MALE 3HE IS A JOY TO GROW NUTRIENT FRIENDLY AND HAS A VERY LOW LEAF TO BUD RATIO MAKING IT EASY TO TRIM 3UPER CROPPING IS A MUST FOR THE MAIN COLA 4HIS DOES TWO THINGS &IRSTLY IT PROMOTES THE REST OF THE PLANT TO GROW CATCHING UP TO THE TOP GIVING A EVEN CANOPY AND SECONDLY IT KEEPS THE TOP FROM GROWING UP INTO THE LIGHTS AND OVERGROWING THE ROOM 7ITH THESE TWO THINGS IN MIND GROWERS WILL BE SURE TO HAVE A GREAT CROP "AG APPEAL AND A DISTINCT SMELL ARE A MUST WHEN DEMANDING A TOP PRICE !ND THIS STRAIN PROVIDES THAT

ÜÊ` iÃÊ Ê > >}iÊ Ì½ÃÊ }i iÌ VÊÃÌ V ¶ 7E HAVE MOTHER ROOMS AND OUR SELECTED BREEDING FATHERS THAT ARE NEVER CHANGED &INDING A GOOD BREEDING MALE IS THE HARDEST PART OF BREEDING 4O FIND A GOOD MOTHER IT IS A SELECTION PROCESS "OTH REQUIRE TIME AND SPACE

7 V Ê ÊÃÌÀ> ÊÜ Õ `ÊÞ ÕÊ >`Û ÃiÊL Ì ÊÌ iʼ iÜÊ}À ÜiÀ½Ê > `ÊÌ iʼ `Ê}À ÜiÀ½ÊÌ ÊÌÀÞ¶ &OR THE BEGINNER GROWER WE WOULD RECOMMEND 3HARKS "REATH #ANNALOPE

2E#ON +USH "ERRY -ARTIAN -EAN 'REEN #ANNADENTIAL OR ,EMON 3KUNK &OR THE MODERATE TO SEASONED GROWER WE WOULD SUGGEST 3WEET (AZE

3UPER #ANNALOPE OR #ONNIE #HUNG !ND FOR THE SKILLED EXPERT TRY TO MASTER THE 3OUR #REAM # OR THE !NNUNAKI

3OFT 3ECRETS

PROTECTED BY MEDICINAL LAWS WITHIN THEIR STATES BUT THEY STILL WANTED TO REMAIN NAMELESS 7ITH OUR ROOTS BEING 7EST #OAST WE CAME TOGETHER TO HELP BRING THE WORLD THESE SPECIAL STRAINS UNDER THE NAME 2%3%26!

02)6!$! -OST OF WHICH GROWERS CAN T GET ANYWHERE ELSE BECAUSE THEY ARE INDIGENOUS TO THE 7EST #OAST AS HEIRLOOM STRAINS &OR THE FIRST YEAR WE SOLD THESE SEEDS

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#HOCOLOPE #ANNALOPE (AZE 2ECON

AND ,EMON 3KUNK 4HE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THAT ALL $.! STRAINS WILL TASTE SMELL AND SMOKE DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER 7E THINK THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO KEEP THE VARIETY AND FLAVORS FRESH

EXCLUSIVELY AT OUR SHOP IN !MSTERDAM AND NONE TO ANY DISTRIBUTORS /NE REASON FOR THIS WAS TO CREATE DEMAND AND TO SEE HOW THE WORD OF MOUTH WOULD DICTATE 2ESERVA S FUTURE 4HE SECOND REASON WAS TO NARROW DOWN THE STRAINS 7HEN WE STARTED THERE WERE NEARLY STRAINS !FTER SOME FINE TUNING 2ESERVA 0RIVADA IS NOW READY FOR THE MASSES 7E ARE OFFERING 2ESERVA 0RIVADA UNDER $.!

'ENETICS NOT ONLY AT OUR SHOP BUT ALSO EVERYWHERE ELSE $.! SEEDS ARE SOLD )N THE LAST YEAR OR SO WE HAVE LOOKED AT THE VARIETY AND BROUGHT OUT THE FIRST SIX SELECTIONS FOR THE 2%3%26!

02)6!$!

0URPLE 7RECK #OLETRAIN !POLLO )NDICA !POLLO 3ATIVA 3WEET 4IMER 2%3%26! #/../)33%523 -)8 !LL OF THE 2ESERVA 0RIVADA BREEDERS HAVE BEEN MAKING SEEDS AND BREEDING FOR YEARS 4HEY MAKE SELECTIONS FOR BREEDING PURPOSES TO ENSURE THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE HYBRIDS 3OME OF THESE CROSSES ARE MADE FROM CLONE ONLY STRAINS AND SOME ARE MADE BY THE CUBING PROCESS !LL SEEDS WERE TRADED THROUGH FRIENDS AND FINE TUNED IN THE $.! LABORATORIES $.! 'ENETICS DOES NOT EMPLOY ANY BREEDERS NOR DO THESE BREEDERS HAVE ANY AFFILIATION WITH $.! 7E JUST SHARE A MUTUAL LOVE FOR THIS PLANT

#ANNALOPE (AZE IS SIMPLY ONE OF THE BEST (AZE S AROUND IN !MSTERDAMx

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4RUE #HAMPION VARIETY #HOCOLOPE PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS $ ,INE

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4HE 2ESERVA 0RIVADA IS OUR SIDE PROJECT THAT GIVES US A CHANCE TO DO SOME THINGS THAT WE COULD NOT DO WITH $.! )T ALSO A PLATFORM TO SHOWCASE SOME GREAT STRAINS THAT WOULD NOT HAVE THE CHANCE TO REACH THE GLOBAL MARKET 2ESERVA 0RIVADA IS A 7EST #OAST COLLECTIVE OF BREEDERS WHO UNTIL NOW HAD NO PLACE TO SHOWCASE THEIR CREATIONS 4HESE BREEDERS ARE ALL

-ARTIAN -EAN 'REEN

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BY ,AZYSTRAIN

2ECENTLY @POLICE CHIEFS POW WOW HAVE BEEN REPORTING OF AN EXPLOSION IN THE NUMBERS OF hCANNABIS FARMSv WE RE THINKING OWLS AND BARNYARDS MANAGED BY hORGANISED CRIME GANGSv THE MAFIA PERHAPS OPERATING WITHIN THE GRASSY CITIES TOWNS AND SUBURBS OF THE 5+ #RIME JOURNALISTS IN THE -IDLANDS AND THE 3OUTH 7EST ARE HOT ON THE CASE "USY LIKE ESTATE AGENTS VISITING hDRUG DENSv AND hCANNABIS FACTORIESv IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS ACROSS THEIR REGIONS ! NARCO APOCALYPTIC NIGHTMARE IS UNFOLDING ,OCK UP YOUR CHILDREN THE "OGEY -AN IS ABOUT TYPE STUFF !T WHICH POINT WE HAD TO ASK OURSELVES @)S THIS REALLY THE FACE OF CANNABIS CULTIVATION IN THE 5+ /R @)S THIS ANOTHER SMOKESCREEN PUT UP BY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA 7ORD TRAVELS FASTEST ALONG THE JUNGLE TELEGRAPH 3O IT WAS ACTUALLY CANNABIS DEALERS THAT COTTONED ON TO WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE 5+ FIRST $URING THE COMMERCIAL PRICE OF @SKUNK WEED PER KILOGRAM STARTED FALLING !T THE SAME TIME THE STANDARD IN QUALITY OF COMMERCIAL CANNABIS WAS GETTING LOWER AND LOWER 4O A LEVEL OF CONTAMINATION EVENTUALLY BUT THEN THAT S ANOTHER ISSUE ALREADY COVERED BY 3OFT 3ECRETS ! PATTERN BASED ON THE OVERALL REDUCTION IN THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF IMPORTED CANNABIS FROM (OLLAND "ELGIUM AND OTHER %5 COUNTRIES AND AN INCREASED PRODUCTION OF CANNABIS TERMED hHOME GROWNv WAS BEING PLOTTED !T WHICH POINT THE %DITOR OF 3OFT 3ECRETS STEPPED IN ASKING US ALL TO CONSIDER THE MATTER IN MORE DEPTH )NITIALLY WE WROTE A LONG WINDED ARTICLE THAT AIMED TO PLACE @6IETNAMESE 'ROWERS IN THE 5+ INTO A PSEUDO SOCIO ECONOMIC GEO POLITICAL CONTEXT 4HE ARTICLE WAS REJECTED ON CONTEXTUAL GROUNDS

3INCE THEN WE HAVE NOTICED THAT A MORE @CRIMINAL FRATERNITY HAS APPEARED ACROSS THE UNDERGROUND GROWING SCENE IN GENERAL 4IME WAS WHEN HYDROPONIC SHOPS IN THE 5+ WERE FREQUENTED BY HIPPIES TECHNOS PUNKS RASTA S AND THE OCCASIONAL MONEY MAKING CHAV 4HESE DAYS UNLESS OUR IMAGINATIONS ARE RUNNING WILD WITH US MANY SHOPS ARE VISITED

BY MONEY MAKERS COKE HEADS GANG STARS AND PERHAPS JUST THE OCCASIONAL 6IETNAMESE BUSINESS MAN AND HIS CLAN /NLY SOME OF WHOM FEEL A NEED TO TAKE THEIR BAD ATTITUDES WITH THEM TO THE GROWSHOP 4HE IDIOTS WITH MORE MONEY THAN GARDENING SKILL WILL AS LAZY PREDICTS RUIN THE IMAGE CULTURE AND FUNCTION OF A 5+ CANNA INDUSTRY THAT HAS FOUGHT LONG AND HARD TO ESTABLISH ITSELF IN A LEGITIMATE BUSINESS SENSE )F NOT ALREADY THE CASE

.OW ACCORDING TO THE ORGAN GRINDERS IN THE HOME OFFICE THE PRESS LOCAL DEALERS IT S THESE h6IETNAMESE TRIADSv THAT HAVE hMUSCLED INv ON THE WHOLESALE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF CANNABIS ACROSS THE 5+ 4HIS IS OF COURSE A LOAD OF TOTAL BULLSHIT SPUN UP BY A SPIN DOCTOR SOMEWHERE FOR MUPPETS TO BELIEVE IN 4HE WEEKLY CONSUMPTION OF CANNABIS IN THE 5+ RUNS INTO DOUBLE FIGURE TONNAGE 3O EITHER THESE 6IETNAMESE GROWERS HOLD A MONOPOLY ON THE CANNABIS MARKET AND THE REAL ESTATE THAT SUPPORTS ITS CULTIVATION /R SOMEONE HAS BEEN SNIFFING AT THE SOLVENT MARKER PENS OR SWIGGING GIN AGAIN !T BEST COLLECTIVELY 6IETNAMESE GARDENERS IN THE 5+ PRODUCE AN ESTIMATED OF THE TOTAL CANNABIS BEING CONSUMED ON THE STREET 0ERHAPS LOWER THAN IF WE COUNT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT GROW AT HOME AND DON T SELL

4HE PROFITABILITY INVOLVED IN PRODUCING LARGE QUANTITIES OF HIGH GRADE CANNABIS FOR A BLACK MARKET ECONOMY IS OF COURSE EXTREMELY LUCRATIVE 4HIS IS WHAT GETS ORGANISED CRIMINALS INVOLVED IN GROWING 4HE -ONEY )N THE POT WORLD THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING ORGANISED AND DISORGANISED IS SOLELY BASED ON WHETHER OR NOT ONE MAKES A PROFIT FROM ANY PRODUCE THEY SELL !T ITS CURRENT PRICE CANNABIS IS A FEW PENCE MORE EXPENSIVE PER GRAM THAN STERLING SILVER IN THE 5+ )N ECONOMIC TERMS CANNABIS IS HOWEVER A CONSUMABLE SOURCE OF PROFIT 0EOPLE COME BACK FOR MORE CANNABIS 4HE DEMAND THAT OUTSTRETCHES SUPPLY IN SOME PLACES TEN FOLD IS THEN ALWAYS RELATIVE 7HERE ONE MARKET IS DRY THE OTHER WILL BE AWASH WITH AVAILABLE PRODUCT AND SUPPLY 3ALE AND CONSUMPTION !LL WITHOUT THE OVERSEEING EYE OF THE )NLAND 2EVENUE OR 4AXMAN 4HE REVENUE INVOLVED IN GROWING CANNABIS IS NOW SO HIGH THAT IF NEEDED PEOPLE ARE INDEED WILLING TO TRAVEL INLAND FROM OVERSEAS TO PROFIT FROM THE 4AXMAN ! MODERN GOLD RUSH THAT GROWS ON TREES )LLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE REPORTED AS BEING SMUGGLED INTO THE 5+ BY MEMBERS OF DRUG TRAFFICKING SYNDICATES PURPOSELY TO TEND TO CANNABIS CROPS #RIME GANGS h"IG "OSSESv WITH ORGANISED ADDRESSES AND A SLAVE LABOUR hWORKFORCEv OF hIMMIGRANT WORKERSv TENDING TO THE hTOXIC PLANTSv 4HE MAINSTREAM MEDIA RELISHES IN SUCH IMAGERY AND PROPAGANDA )T S A GREAT WAY OF STRENGTHENING FEAR WHILE FUELLING THE PARANOID DELUSIONS OF THE XENOPHOBES THAT READ THEIR DAILY PAPERS )N REALITY 'ROWERS IN THE 5+ WERE @ON THE GROW A LONG TIME BEFORE ANYONE EVER MENTIONED THE WORD @6IETNAMESE ,IKE ANY PERSON OR GROUP THAT GROWS CANNABIS TO MAKE A PROFIT FROM ITS SUPPLY THEY ARE ALL @WEED DEALERS 4HOSE WITH STICKY FINGERS

OFTEN IN OTHER PEOPLES POCKETS HAVE BEEN CASHING IN ON THE UNDERGROUND INDUSTRY FOR SUCH A LONGTIME NOW THAT THEY HAVE BECOME COMPLACENT AND SPOILT #ANNABIS GROWING IS A CRIMINAL OCCUPATION IN THE 5+ OPEN TO ANYONE THAT IS WILLING TO SPEND TIME IN JAIL FOR CULTIVATION OR SUPPLY OF LARGE AMOUNTS 3UCH IS THE ELUSIVE REALITY OF AN UNDERGROUND INDUSTRY FUELLED BY PROHIBITION GANGSTARS AND GREED PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS BE PREPARED TO TAKE RISKS #APITALISM ALWAYS RALLIES AROUND THOSE THAT OWN THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION 4HAT S NOT A -ARXIST PERSPECTIVE IT S JUST COMMON SENSE 4HE 5+ 'OVERNMENT REALLY NEEDS TO START LOOKING AT THE REASONS WHY SO MANY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE SMUGGLED INTO THE 5+ EACH YEAR TO GROW CANNABIS )F SUCH PHENOMENA EXISTS 7HY DO 6IETNAMESE GROWERS CHOOSE TO COMMIT HOME GROWING CRIMES INSTEAD OF OTHER CRIMINAL OFFENSES 7HY NOT LET PEOPLE GROW THEIR OWN CANNABIS TO HELP REDUCE THE COMMERCIAL SUPPLY IN THIS TRADE IF THIS IS THE CASE 7HY DOES THE 5+ GOVERNMENT CONTINUE TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF CANNABIS AMID FREE THINKING PEOPLE 7HY SINGLE OUT AND TARGET hCANNABIS FARMSv AND h6IETNAMESE GROWERSv AS A HYPOTHETICAL SCAPEGOAT 7HO OR WHAT WILL BE NEXT 7E OFTEN WONDER IF THE 0OLISH COMMUNITY IN THE 5+ WHICH IS ALSO ON THE INCREASE AND SMOKING WILL SUFFER THE SAME BLATANT STEREOTYPING OVER THE COMING YEARS OR NOT 7E GUESS ONLY TIME WILL TELL

3OFT 3ECRETS

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TO BE PRECISE WHEN ) WAS A UNIVERSITY STUDENT ) LIVED IN A FLAT WITH A GUY WHO WAS POSSIBLY THE BIGGEST STONER ) VE EVER MET )N FACT QUITE POSSIBLY HE WAS THE STONER S STONER (E LOVED DOPE AND SPENT EVERY POSSIBLE MINUTE OF EVERY DAY GETTING OUT OF HIS HEAD !SIDE FROM ACTUALLY USING IT HE WAS SOMETHING OF AN ORACLE AS FAR AS ALL THINGS CANNABIS RELATED GOES YOU NAME IT THE MAN HAD IT MAGAZINES PAMPHLETS COMICS

RECORDS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF BOOKS

YOU COULD SHAKE A 4HAI STICK AT .EARLY TWENTY YEARS ON AND ,AURENCE #HERNIAK MANAGES TO GET TO 6OLUME

"OOK *UMP FORWARD A FURTHER YEARS AND ) VE FINALLY MANAGED TO TRACK DOWN A COPY 4O SAY IT S HARD TO FIND WOULD BE SOMETHING OF AN UNDERSTATEMENT IT S ABOUT AS RARE AS A HEN WITH TEETH .OT QUITE AS RARE AS "OOK HOWEVER WHICH IS ABOUT AS RARE AS A SKATEBOARDING HEN WITH TEETH "OTH ARE AVAILABLE VIA A NUMBER OF INTERNET BOOKSHOPS BUT BE WARNED THEY ARE EXPENSIVE

) REMEMBER SITTING IN HIS ROOM ONE DAY PARTIALLY IMMOBILISED THROUGH THE INGESTION OF FAR TOO MUCH HASH OIL 2EMEMBER THAT -ESSY BUT OH

SO EFFECTIVE WHEN A PARTICULAR TOME CAUGHT MY BLOODSHOT EYE 4HIS WAS A COPY OF PART ONE OF #HERNIAK S MAGNUM OPUS AND WAS TITLED h4HE 'REAT "OOKS OF (ASHISH 6OLUME

"OOK v /BVIOUSLY THE TITLE ITSELF WAS ENOUGH TO PIQUE INTEREST ON MY PART AND WHEN ) D STRAIGHTENED UP ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY TALK ) ASKED NICELY AND GOT TO BORROW IT )T WAS SHORT ON TEXT BUT LONG ON PHOTOGRAPHS OF A SORT ) D NEVER SEEN BEFORE ,OVINGLY FRAMED COLOUR PORTRAITS OF MORE TYPES OF DOPE THAN

3O 6OLUME "OOK IS IT WORTH IT )N TERMS OF HOW MUCH IT COSTS IF YOU RE GOING TO PUT OUT ANY MORE THAN AROUND a FOR THIS ) D HAVE TO SAY PROBABLY NOT 4HE PRECEDING BOOKS IN THE SERIES WEREN T EXACTLY BIG ON TEXT AS ) VE SAID (OWEVER AS THIS WASN T THE PRIMARY PURPOSE ) GUESS THEY CAN BE FORGIVEN !ND WHILE THERE WASN T TERRIBLY MUCH OF IT THE WRITTEN MATERIAL THAT WAS PROVIDED WAS INSIGHTFUL AND INFORMATIVE (OWEVER

THE OF AMOUNT OF READING MATERIAL BRAIN CANDY AS OPPOSED TO JUST EYE CANDY IN "OOK MAKES THE EARLIER ONES LOOK LIKE 4HE -AHABHARATA BY

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3OIL AND WATER ARE FUNDAMENTAL TO THE EXISTENCE OF PLANT LIFE 7ITHIN /RGANICS THE CONDITION OF THE SOIL PLAYS A KEY ROLE IN CULTIVATION AS DOES A CLEAN AND FRESH SUPPLY OF WATER )N (YDROPONICS !EROPONICS AND !QUA CULTURE WATER IS THE VITAL ELEMENT INVOLVED IN GARDENING 2EGARDLESS OF THE METHOD EMPLOYED THE DUTY OF THE 'ARDENER IS TO CAREFULLY MONITOR AND MANAGE THE SOIL AND WATER IN HIS HER GARDEN 4HIS GIVES PLANTS AN INCREASED RATE OF SURVIVAL AND PRODUCES THE BEST STANDARD OF FLOWERS AND FRUITS AT HARVEST #LOSER OBSERVATION AND INVESTIGATION INTO THE QUALITY OF THE SOIL AND WATER AVAILABLE TO US AS GARDENERS IN THE 5+ HOWEVER RAISES A FEW INTERESTING QUESTIONS &IRSTLY FEAR NOT (ERE WE ARE JUST HYPOTHESISING ON FACT 7E HAVEN T JOINED THE TIN FOIL HELMET BRIGADE YET 3OIL AND WATER CONTAMINATION ONLY NORMALLY OCCURS WHEN A CONCENTRATION OF ELEMENTS ARE DEPOSITED IN ONE PLACE OR BLANKETED ACROSS A LARGE AREA OVER LONGER PERIODS OF TIME !FTER WHICH THE CONDITION IS ALREADY PRESENT AND THE EFFECTS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO REVERSE 7ATER FILTRATION SYSTEMS AND SOIL STERILIZATION PROGRAMS ARE EFFECTIVE ON A SMALL SCALE SHORT TERM BUT THE PRACTICALITIES OF TREATING EVERY CONTAMINANT THAT COMES INTO CONTACT WITH THE GARDEN ENVIRON AND THE GARDENER IS USUALLY TOTALLY IMPRACTICAL -UCH MORE A CASE OF SENSIBLE RISK LIMITATION THAN CONSISTENT PARANOID ASSESSMENT 3TILL IT S ALWAYS GOOD TO BE AWARE OF THESE THINGS .OT ALL THE ADDITIONAL CHEMICALS WE FIND IN SOIL AND WATER ARE BAD FOR THE GARDEN S HEALTH OR THAT OF THE GARDENER )N THE MAJORITY OF CASES MOST HEALTHY SOILS CONTAIN A MAGICAL BLEND OF MICROSCOPIC TRACE ELEMENTS METALS AND MINERAL DEPOSITS %LEMENTS THAT EXIST IN SUCH SMALL QUANTITIES THAT THEY EITHER LAY REDUNDANT IN THE SOIL OR ACT AS POSITIVE ADDITIONS WORKING IN HARMONY WITH MICRO BACTERIA AND PLANT LIFE )T IS ONLY WHEN CERTAIN MINERALS OR TRACE METALS BECOME OVER CONCENTRATED WITHIN A SOIL THAT THEY BECOME TOXIC ACTING AS POLLUTANTS 4WO EXAMPLES OF POLLUTANTS THAT ARE HARMFUL TO PLANT LIFE INCLUDE OIL AND CHEMICAL SPILLAGE OUTDOORS IN THE GARDEN OR A BUILD UP OF RESIDUAL SALTS DUE TO OVER FERTILISATION INDOORS 4HE 3OIL !SSOCIATION DESCRIBES ITSELF AS h THE 5+ S LEADING ENVIRONMENTAL CHARITY PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE ORGANIC FARMING AND CHAMPIONING HUMAN HEALTHv 4HE 3OIL !SSOCIATION S OWN STANDARDS HOWEVER ONLY MEET THE 5+ 'OVERNMENT S hMINIMUM REQUIREMENTSv SET BY $%&2! REGULATIONS $%&2! S OWN #OMPENDIUM @ON THE STANDARD FOR ORGANIC FOOD PRODUCTION IS AVAILABLE AT WWW DEFRA GOV UK FARM ORGANIC STANDARDS PDF 7HAT $%&2! FAIL TO MENTION HOWEVER IS THAT A CERTAIN DEGREE OF

COMPARISON 3O "OOK IS THE BIGGEST OF THE THREE AND CONCENTRATES MUCH MORE ON IMAGES OF DOPE OF VARIOUS TYPES &AIR ENOUGH AS THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE REALLY THE BIG SELLING POINT BUT TO BE ABSOLUTELY FRANK WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS ) DON T THINK THAT THOSE IN "OOK ARE UP TO THE STANDARD OF THE PREVIOUS TWO NOT BY A LONG CHALK ) MEAN TO SAY THERE ARE COLLAGES IN ITSELF A DODGY CONCEPT EVEN IN IN THIS BOOK THAT WOULD BE REJECTED FROM A HIGH SCHOOL ART EXHIBITION )T S KIND OF LIKE HE HAD A LOT OF THE NOT SO GOOD REJECTED PHOTOGRAPHS LEFT OVER FROM THE PREVIOUS TWO BOOKS AND DECIDED TO USE THEM ALL UP TO SEE JUST HOW GULLIBLE PEOPLE REALLY ARE 9ES WHILE LOOKING THROUGH IT ) GOT A DEFINITE SENSE THAT -R #HERNIAK WAS VERY MUCH SCRAPING THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL SEE FOR EXAMPLE THE FRANKLY PITIFUL SECTION ON %NGLAND AND WHY NOTHING ON 3COTLAND WHILE AT THE SAME TIME TRYING TO SCREW A LAST DROP OF MONEY OUT OF HIS CASH COW )T SEEMS TO ME THAT 6OLUME OF 4HE 'REAT "OOKS OF (ASHISH WILL IN ALL LIKELIHOOD BE THE ONLY ONE AND FOR THIS WE SHOULD PROBABLY BE THANKFUL AS

IN ALL HONESTY "OOK IS ONE TOO FAR 6ERY DISAPPOINTING THIS IS POOR FARE AND STRICTLY FOR COMPLETISTS ONLY "Y $R *OHN $EE 4HE 'REAT "OOKS OF (ASHISH "OOK

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4HIS HASH SMOKE REMINDED ME OF PINE WOODS AND GAVE A TERRIFIC HIGH

%ACH OF THE OTHER OUTDOOR VARIETIES ALSO HAD THEIR OWN CHARMS WILD AROMAS THAT YOU NEVER COME ACROSS IN THE INDOOR VARIETIES BUT ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE OUTDOOR WEEDS 4HE EFFECTS WERE STRIK ING AND THE LOVELIEST OUTDOOR WEED WAS NOT NECESSARILY THE STRONGEST WEED IN THIS CATEGORY 4HE BIGGEST CATEGORY THAT ) HAD TO JUDGE WAS THE "IO !MONG THE "IO

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(IGHLIFE AND 3OFT 3ECRETS CONTRIBUTOR $OKKIE WAS CHOSEN AS A JUROR IN THE (IGHLIFE #UP (E WAS WELL CHUFFED (E ACQUITTED HIMSELF WITH A SCIENTIFICALLY NARROW MINDED FOCUS ON HIS JOB !S OF NOW PASSION HAS A NEW NAME $OKKIE 4HIS IS HIS STORY

,AST 3UMMER ) WAS ASKED WHETHER ) WOULD BE INTERESTED IN BEING A MEM BER OF THE JURY FOR THE (IGHLIFE #UP ) DID NOT NEED TO THINK FOR VERY LONG TO GLADLY ACCEPT THE INVITATION )N THE MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED ) WAS PRETTY BUSY GROWING VARIOUS VARIETIES AND THE WHOLE THING KIND OF SLIPPED MY MIND "UT SURE ENOUGH ) EVENTUALLY RECEIVED A MESSAGE FROM THE MYSTERIOUS (IGHLIFE #UP ORGANISERS ASKING ME TO COME OVER AND PICK UP MY #UP STASH "ACK HOME ) WAS IMMEDIATELY STRICKEN

BY THE SHEER QUANTITY OF SAMPLES ) COULD IMMEDIATELY APPRECIATE THAT THIS WAS NOT SOMETHING THAT COULD BE ACCOMPLISHED IN A COUPLE OF DAYS

,AID OUT BY CATEGORY

TESTING ! MORE RELAXED APPROACH WAS CALLED FOR 4HE QUANTITY OF SAMPLES WOULD NOT MAKE IT EASY TO MAKE A JUDG MENT AND THEN TO MARK THIS WITH A SCORE 4HE FIRST STEP WAS TO GET AN OVER ALL VIEW OF ALL THE VARIETIES ) HAD !FTER ONE HEAVY EVENING S SMOKING IN WHICH ) TRIED THEM ALL OUT ) HAD BESIDES A RAW THROAT AND CORK DRY EYES A FINE PICTURE OF THE VARIOUS SORTS REPRESENTED IN THEIR VARIOUS CATEGORIES 7HAT WAS IMMEDIATELY NOTEWORTHY WAS THE HIGH CALIBRE OF THE SAMPLES OF WEED AND HASH THAT HAD BEEN SUBMITTED AND ) HEREBY EXTEND MY COMPLIMENTS TO ALL THE PARTICIPANTS )N ORDER TO TEST EVERYTHING AS BEST ) COULD ) PREPARED MYSELF WELL !RMED WITH A VAPORIZER PIPE AND A MICRO SCOPE ) VENTURED INTO THE FIRST REAL TEST )N ORDER TO NOT MAKE THINGS TOO DIFFICULT FOR MYSELF ) DECIDED TO START WITH THE SMALLEST CATEGORY 4HE /UTDOOR 7EED CATEGORY WAS AMAZING

ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CONSIDER WHAT A CRAP SUMMER WAS IN (OLLAND /NE VARIETY IMMEDIATELY CAUGHT MY ATTEN TION AND SHE WAS ALMOST AS BEAUTIFUL

AS AN INDOOR VARIETY MARVELLOUS FULL BUDS /N OPENING THE BAGGIE SPRING HIT ME IN THE FACE )T WAS INTERESTING HOW AN OUTDOOR WEED COULD LOOK SO DAMN GOOD !FTER SMOKING IT ) WAS FLOAT ING ON A CLEAN LOVELY HIGH 4HIS WAS A WEED THAT HAD BEEN CAREFULLY LOOKED AFTER UPON HARVESTING )T WAS IMMEDI ATELY APPARENT THAT IT HAD BEEN BEAUTI FULLY TRIMMED AND WELL DRIED

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!LMOST ALL THE WEED WAS OF GOOD QUALITY

SORTS THERE IS A HUGE AMOUNT OF VARI ETY ) ENCOUNTERED 3KUNKY FLAVOURS

AND THERE WERE HEAVY WHITE VARIETIES AMONG THEM )F ) JUST STUCK TO SMELLING THE BAG ) EXPERIENCED ONLY THE POWER OF THE SMELL BUT IF ) THEN BROKE A BUD OPEN THEN ALL THE SUBTLE FLAVOURS WERE EXPOSED !LL BIO VARIETIES HAVE SOME THING IN COMMON IN THEIR AROMA WHILST THEY ALL HAD THEIR OWN UNIQUE SMELL 4HE ONE SMELLED OF MANGO WHILST THE OTHER SMELLED MORE OF MANDARINS "UT ALSO CLOVES DRIED FLOWERS AND OF COURSE THE @SWEATY FEET PUNGENCY ) RECOGNISED IN MANY VARIETIES OF BIO WEED THAT WERE ENTERED IN THIS YEAR S #UP 7HAT SURPRISED ME A BIT WAS THAT THERE WERE NO EXOTICALLY COLOURED WEED VARI ETIES AMONG THE ENTRANTS $ON T GET ME WRONG ALMOST ALL THE WEED WAS OF FIRST RATE QUALITY BUT ) DID MISS A GOOD PURPLE OR RED VARIETY !MONGST THE BIO WEED WAS JUST A SINGLE SAMPLE THAT WAS NOT GREEN "UT THERE IT HAS TO BE SAID IT SMELLED OF NOTHING IT WAS VERY HARD DIFFICULT TO CRUMBLE DRY AS CORK AND THE TASTE WAS JUST STRANGE 4HAI 7HATEVER A WONDERFULLY RELAXED FEEL ING DESCENDED UPON ME ON TRYING THIS 4HAI LIKE VARIETY )T TOOK ME A WHOLE WEEK TO TEST THE ENTIRE "IO CATEGORY !S WELL AS CLOSELY INSPECTING EACH SAMPLE AND SMOKING IT

OF COURSE EACH WEED HAD TO BE JUDGED

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)N CONTRAST TO THE WEED WHEN TRYING THE HASH CATEGORY ) COULD NOT TEST MORE THAN THREE SAMPLES A DAY "ECAUSE THE EFFECTS OF HASH OFTEN TAKE MORE TIME TO WORK THEMSELVES THROUGH ) HAD TO WAIT LONGER BEFORE ) COULD MOVE ON TO EXPERIENCING ANOTHER SAMPLE ) DECIDED TO TEST THE "IO WEED VARIETIES DURING THE DAY AND TO MAKE A START ON THE HASH IN THE EVENINGS ) FELT LIKE #HARLIE IN THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

4RICHOMES PRESSED INTO HASH

! REMARKABLE OUTDOOR WEED THAT HAD HIDDEN HER CHARMS UNDER ALL THOSE LEAVES

&ROM CLOSE UP YOU CAN SEE HOW POTENT THIS OUTDOOR WEED IS

4HAT NIGHT SLEEP ELUDED ME ENTIRELY -ISS #ANNABIS WAS SEDUCING ME THROUGH TO THE EARLY MORNING CHAL LENGING ME TO TRY YET ANOTHER FLAVOUR 4HERE WAS A LOT OF VARIATION AMONGST THE .EDERHASH 5NDER THE MICROSCOPE ) COULD SEE JUST HOW BEAUTIFUL HASH CAN BE $AZZLING CRYSTALS THAT HAD BEEN PRESSED TOGETHER INTO GLITTERING SWEETIES 7ITH THE POINTS SYSTEM AT MY DISPOSAL ) MANAGED TO SEPARATE OUT THE DIFFERENT EFFECTS BETTER AND BETTER

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4HERE WERE HASHES AMONG THE RANGE OF SAMPLES THAT WERE VERY CLEAN AND NEATLY PRESSED AND THERE WAS ALSO A LOT OF VARIATION IN THEIR BUBBLE TESTS )T LATER TRANSPIRED THAT THERE WAS ALSO MUCH VAR IATION IN THEIR EFFECTS ! BUBBLE TEST IS VERY EASY TO PERFORM YOU TAKE A LIGHTER AND HOLD THIS CLOSE TO THE HASH n BUT NOT TOO CLOSE THAT THE HASH IGNITES n AND WAIT UNTIL THE SURFACE OF THE HASH BEGINS TO BUBBLE 4HE TRICHOMES THAT HAD BEEN PRESSED INTO HASH BECOME LIQUEFIED BY THE HEAT 4HE MORE PLANT MATTER THERE IS IN THE HASH THE SLOWER IT WILL BEGIN TO BUBBLE

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)N CONTRAST TO THE HASH VARIETIES THAT ) ALL TOO OFTEN COME ACROSS IN COFFEE SHOPS ) FOUND THESE VARIETIES ALL VERY SOFT IN MY THROAT 4ESTING HASH IS A VERY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE TO TESTING WEED 4HE EFFECTS OF .EDERHASH ARE HARDCORE

NARCOTIC 7ASTED AND STUCK TO MY SOFA

) ASKED MYSELF WHERE THIS WOULD END 4HIS CATEGORY IS NOT ONE TO BE TESTED WITH JOINTS EACH JOINT HITS LIKE A SLEDGE HAMMER ) ELECTED TO MAKE SMALL PIPES UP TO TEST HASH SAMPLES THAT NIGHT 7ITHOUT TOBACCO THE TASTE AND THEREBY THE EFFECT TOO WAS MUCH BETTER 0LUS ) WAS MUCH MORE ABLE TO REMAIN AWAKE ) WAS NOW MUCH LESS WASTED FROM THE HASH AND IN THIS WAY ) WAS ABLE TO GET THROUGH THE VARIOUS HASHES WITHOUT DISAPPEARING TOO DEEP INTO #HOCOLATE $REAMS

)N THIS MICROSCOPE PHOTO OF THE WEED CONCERNED YOU CAN SEE HER BEAUTIFULLY DEVELOPED TRICHOMES

ON ITS EFFECT "ECAUSE ) HAVE A LIFE IN WHICH CANNABIS USE IS FULLY INTEGRATED

) WAS ABLE TO CONDUCT MY TESTS WHILST GOING ABOUT MY NORMAL BUSINESS ) RECORDED MY OBSERVATIONS OF EACH VARI ETY ) SMOKED ON A SCRAP OF PAPER AND THEN STUCK THAT PAPER INSIDE THE BAG OF THE WEED CONCERNED ) THIS WAY ) MAN AGED TO GET THROUGH SEVERAL BAGS A DAY WITHOUT ALLOWING ANY HIGH TO DIRECTLY INFLUENCE THE ONE COMING AFTER IT THE HIGHS WERE SPREAD OUT AND FOLLOWED EACH OTHER MORE SLOWLY PLUS EACH WEED HAD A CHANCE TO LEAVE MY SYSTEM BEFORE THE NEXT ONE WAS TRIED 4HERE ARE AFTER ALL VERY FEW WEEDS THAT WILL LEAVE YOU STONED FOR HOURS AFTER TRYING THEM

9ET ANOTHER OF THE MANY "IO VARIETIES

)T WAS OFTEN THE CASE THAT THE EFFECT MERELY CONFIRMED WHAT ) HAD ALREADY SEEN UNDER THE MICROSCOPE 3O ON THE ONE ) WOULD SEE LOTS OF SHORT FAT MILKY TRICHOMES WHILE ON ANOTHER ) D SEE LONG THIN AND CLEAR ONES WITH LITTLE HEADS ON THEM ) D OBSERVE THAT MILKY TRICHOMES INTERSPERSED WITH A FEW AMBER COLOURED CRYSTALS GIVES A LOVELY

WELCOMING HIGH COMBINED WITH A RELAXED PHYSICAL FEELING !LL AMBER TRI CHOMES PERHAPS EVEN A LITTLE WRINKLED BECAUSE THEY WERE A BIT OLDER THESE YOU SEE ON WEED THAT MAKES YOU FEEL STONED "UT THERE WERE ALSO VARIETIES AMONG THE RANGE THAT HAD CLEAR TRICHOMES AND THEIR EFFECT WAS VERY REFRESHING 3O SMOKING LIKE THIS ) CAME ACROSS AN EXCEPTIONAL CATEGORY (AZE 4HIS

LEAPT OUT FROM AMONG ALL THE WEEDS ON ACCOUNT OF HER CHARACTERISTIC ODOUR 7HAT AN ABUNDANCE OF GLITTERING CRYS TALS SOME VARIETIES HAD 3OME BUDS SHIMMERED UNDER THEIR WEIGHT OF CRYS TALS 4HERE WAS FRESH (AZE SWEET (AZE AND SPICY (AZE 4HE VARIETY AMONG THIS CATEGORY IS HUGE 4HE DIFFERENCE IN HIGHS WAS ALSO VERY NOTABLE 3O IT WAS NOT JUST ABOUT THE SMELLING AND TAST ING ) ALSO HAD TO RESTRAIN MYSELF FROM SMOKING THE WHOLE SAMPLE IMMEDIATELY IN ONE EVENING (AZE IS A VARIETY THAT IS SEEN AS THE MOST POTENT 3ATIVA EVER CREATED 4HE LONG BLOOM PERIOD IS OFTEN FORGOTTEN IMMEDIATELY BY MANY A GROWER ON FIRST SMOKING THEM AND EXPERIENCING THE WONDERFUL CLARITY OF THE HIGH .OT FOR NOTHING IS (AZE A VERY POPULAR PLANT

AND IT IS PRETTY LOGICAL THAT SHE IS GIVEN HER OWN CATEGORY !MONG THE (AZE VARIETIES THERE WERE ALSO ONES WITH A RELATIVELY HIGH #"# AND #"$ LEVEL IN RELATION TO THE QUANTITY OF 4(# THEY HAD 4HE EFFECT OF THESE WEEDS CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A GORGEOUS FEELING OF WELL BEING SPIRITUALLY ACTIVATING IN SHORT A @(AZY "UZZ -ANY (AZE VARIETIES THANKS TO THE UNIQUE COMPOSITION OF THEIR CANNABINOIDS ARE ALSO VERY USEFUL MEDICINALLY ) ALSO TESTED A NUMBER OF VARIETIES FOR THEIR 4(# LEVELS AND THE HIGHEST READING ) FOUND WAS BUT ALL THE WEEDS WERE NOT FAR UNDER THIS !FTER A COUPLE OF WEEKS OF TESTING ) FELT LIKE A DIFFERENT PERSON COLOURS AND SOUNDS WERE EXPERIENCED MORE INTENSE LY %VERYTHING SEEMED MORE FRIENDLY AND MY APPETITE WAS GREATER THAN EVER ) FELT HAPPY AS ,ARRY !LL THE DIFFERENT WEEDS AND HASHES HAD DONE ME GOOD NOT JUST IN TERMS OF HIGHS BUT ALSO FROM THE VARIATION BETWEEN ALL THE DIFFERENT VARIETIES

WHICH REALLY MAKES IT A 6ALHALLA FOR SMOKERS "UT AS WITH ALL GOOD THINGS SO TOO THIS SUPER CANNABIS EXPERIENCE CAME TO AN END THE LAST OF THE SAMPLES WERE IN SIGHT AND ) WAS LEFT WITH THE THOUGHT THAT IT WILL BE AN EXCITING (IGHLIFE #UP IN &OR NOW STILL HIGH AS A KITE HERE

SMOKIN ONLY THE FINEST AS THEY SAY

KEEPING IT REAL THOUGH PEACE OUT

$O NOT GET THE IMPRESSION THAT AS A (IGHLIFE #UP JURY MEMBER ) SUDDENLY SPENT ALL DAY EVERY DAY GETTING HIGH

BEING CREATIVE WITH SKINS SINCE THAT IS WHAT ) DO NORMALLY ANYWAY !S A *URY MEMBER IT IS EXPECTED OF YOU THAT YOU GET SERIOUSLY SMOKED UP AND THEN GIVE YOUR HEARTFELT OBJECTIVE JUDGEMENT ON THE EFFECT "UT BESIDES THE EFFECT PART OF YOUR JURY DUTY IS ALSO TO JUDGE THE APPEARANCE OF EACH SAMPLE .ATURALLY YOUR EYES HAVE TO GET THEIR OWN PIECE OF THE ACTION !ND BECAUSE PRETTY MUCH EVERY ENTRANT HAD DONE THEIR UTMOST BEST FOR THE #UP AT FIRST SIGHT THEY ALL LOOKED PRETTY DAMN GOOD 3O ) PLONKED EACH SAMPLE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE AND GAVE EACH ONE A GOOD LOOKING AT BEFORE MAKING MY JUDGE MENT BASED ON APPEARANCE AND VARIATION IN THEIR TRICHOMES

!FTER A COUPLE OF WEEKS OF SERIOUS SMOKING ) HAD GOT THROUGH TESTING ALL THE CATEGORIES

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'ROWING OUTDOORS WITH *AMAICAN 0EARL ­«>ÀÌÊ£®ÊÊ 4HE WINTER MONTHS ARE ALMOST BEHIND US AND SO WE CAN BEGIN TO BUSY OURSELVES WITH THE OUTDOOR GROWING ACTIVITIES FOR THE COMING YEAR )N THIS ISSUE THE FOCUS WILL BE ON ANOTHER NEW OUTDOOR VARIETY ONE THAT HAS NOT FEATURED IN ANY OF MY ARTICLES PREVIOUSLY 3INCE WHEN GROWING OUTDOORS ) PREFER TO RAISE PLANTS OF HUGE DIMENSIONS ) OFTEN CHOOSE MY MARIHUANA VARIETIES BASED ON THE EVENTUAL SIZE THEY CAN REACH AND IN DOING SO PRODUCE A DECENT WEED AND IN GOOD SIZED YIELDS 4HIS TIME AROUND ) HAVE DECIDED ON *AMAICAN 0EARL 4HIS HYBRID COMES ORIGINALLY FROM 3ENSI 3EEDS 4HE PLANT WAS CREATED FROM A CROSS BETWEEN TWO OTHER MARIHUANA VARIETIES NAMELY %ARLY 0EARL THIS IS A HYBRID ) HAVE TOUCHED UPON IN THE PAST IN THE SERIES OF ARTICLES ABOUT RAISING GIGANTIC PLANTS AND THE *AMAICAN VARIETY -ARLEY S #OLLIE 4HIS LATTER HYBRID HAS IN THE PAST BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR SOME HUGE SURPRISES *AMAICAN -ARLEY S #OLLIE WON THE 3UPER #UP IN 4HE JURY MEMBERS HUGELY PRAISED THE 3ATIVA TASTE AND THE CHARACTERISTIC HIGH OF THIS PLANT $ESPITE THIS PEDIGREE IT IS ALWAYS A CASE OF WAIT AND SEE WHEN GROWING SIMILAR LOVELY HYBRIDS AS TO WHETHER SUCH GOOD RESULTS CAN ALSO BE ACHIEVED /UTDOORS

WE ARE TO A LARGE EXTENT DEPENDENT ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE WEATHER CONDITIONS 3O A LOVELY SUMMER FOLLOWED BY A MARVELLOUS AUTUMN WILL CERTAINLY DELIVER A TERRIFIC HARVEST "UT THE OTHER EXTREME IS ALSO POSSIBLE SOMETIMES AS A GROWER IT IS NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE TO GET GOOD RESULTS EVEN WITH THE FINEST HYBRID )N SUCH CASES IT IS OFTEN THE FAULT OF THE WIND AND THE RAIN

!LTHOUGH WHEN YOU RAISE GIANT PLANTS A BIG HARVEST IS VERY DO ABLE

BY CONTRAST YOUR LOSSES CAN ALSO BE PRETTY HIGH WHEN CIRCUMSTANCES JUST DON T WORK OUT 4HE PLANTS CAN HAVE REACHED SUCH A LARGE SIZE THAT MOVING THEM IS NO LONGER AN OPTION %VEN BUILDING A HOOD OVER SUCH LARGE PLANTS CAN BE ALL BUT IMPOSSIBLE "ESIDES THE FACT THAT YOU MAY ALREADY HAVE HAD TO INVEST A TIDY SUM IN MATERIALS EVEN ONCE YOU VE MANAGED TO BUILD THEM HOODS THIS SIZE ARE BOUND TO BE THREATENED BY THE WIND TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY EVEN CREATE A FURTHER RISK TO THE PLANTS *UST THINK WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES MIGHT BE IF SUCH A HOOD BLOWS OFF OR SNAPS PARTLY ! WHOLE GROW SEASON CAN QUICKLY BECOME A FIASCO

i Õ iÊ->Ì Û>Ê 4HE REASON THIS TIME ) PLAN TO RAISE *AMAICAN 0EARL IS THAT FROM THE DESCRIPTIONS ) HAVE READ OF THIS HYBRID IT HOLDS A LOT OF PROMISE )T IS A GENUINE 3ATIVA VARIETY AND THE PLANT IS WELL KNOWN AS A SWEET OUTDOOR HYBRID !S WELL AS THIS IT S A VARIETY THAT NORMALLY BLOOMS QUITE EARLY SO

THAT THE FLOWER HEADS IF THE WEATHER IS FAVOURABLE CAN MAKE GOOD USE OF THE SUN 4HIS IS A DIFFERENT STORY WITH LATE BLOOMING HYBRIDS WHEN THE CHANCE OF A GOOD HARVEST IS OFTEN PRETTY SLIM 4HERE ARE STILL OUTDOOR GROWERS WHO CHOOSE LONG AND LATE BLOOMING VARIETIES FOR GROWING OUTDOORS %VERYONE WOULD LIKE TO RAISE A GOOD (AZE CROP IT S JUST THAT THE CHANCES OF SUCCESS IN OUR CLIMATE ARE LIMITED ) SHOULD ALSO ADD HERE THAT THERE ARE ALSO GROWERS WHO CAN MANAGE TO RAISE GOOD PLANTS OUTDOORS FROM ALMOST ANY HYBRID EVEN THE REAL INDOOR VARIETIES "UT THEY ONLY MANAGE TO DO SO BY MAKING SURE THAT THEY BEGIN VERY EARLY THE PROCESS OF SHORTENING THE LIGHT PERIOD FOR THE PLANTS VERY EARLY THANKS TO WHICH THE MARIHUANA PLANTS CAN BE INDUCED TO BLOOM UP TO TWO MONTHS EARLY )F YOU CAN MANAGE AS A GROWER TO GET THIS TOGETHER THEN YOU ARE REALLY SITTING PRETTY BECAUSE THE OFTEN WARM AND SUNNY SUMMERS ARE PRACTICALLY GUARANTEED TO SUPPLY ALMOST IDENTICAL CONDITIONS AS YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO CREATE INDOORS UNDER ARTIFICIAL LIGHT -ANAGE THIS AND THERE IS JUST NO WAY YOU CAN FAIL TO EXPECT A TOP QUALITY OUTDOOR WEED "UT BE AWARE IN ADVANCE WHAT YOU ARE LETTING YOURSELF IN FOR SINCE SHIELDING AN OUTDOOR PLANT FROM THE LIGHT IS A CONSIDERABLY WORK INTENSIVE AND PRECISE OPERATION !FTER ALL CONSIDER THAT EVERY EVENING OR AT THE END OF THE AFTERNOON THE LADIES NEED TO BE COVERED UP COMPLETELY SO AS TO RECEIVE NOT EVEN A CHINK MORE LIGHT 3HOULD YOU NOT DO THIS CAREFULLY ENOUGH AND FOR EXAMPLE FORGET TOO OFTEN TO DO THE COVERING

THEN THE ONLY RESULT WILL BE A BUNCH OF VERY STRESSED PLANTS AND YOU CAN KISS GOODBYE TO ANY CHANCE OF THEM FLOWERING EARLY

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,ONG BEFORE THE SEEDLINGS ARE EVEN POTTED ) HAVE SCOPED OUT A NICE PLACE WHERE THEY WILL BE RAISED ) POUR OUT THE OLD SOIL FROM THE TUBS AND REMOVE WEEDS FROM AROUND THE PLANTING SPOT

4HE TUB IS NOW EMPTY AND READY TO BE FILLED

) WILL NOT BE USING THE COVERING TECHNIQUE ON THESE PLANTS 7HAT ) WILL BE DOING THOUGH IS TAKING A CUTTING FROM EACH PLANT AND FORCING THESE INTO BLOOM EARLY ) LL BE DOING THIS SO AS TO BE ABLE TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER EACH PLANT IS MALE OR FEMALE 4HE SEEDS FROM THIS VARIETY ARE NOT FEMALE SO THIS IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO TAKE ACCOUNT OF "Y TAKING A CUTTING FROM EVERY PLANT AND BRINGING IT IN TO BLOOM BY CUTTING OFF LIGHT TO THE CLONES AND INSPECTING THE FLOWERS THEN ) WILL KNOW PRECISELY

WHICH ARE MALE AND WHICH ARE FEMALE !S WELL AS THIS THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE NEW THIS YEAR "Y CONTRAST WITH PREVIOUS YEARS ) AM ALSO GOING TO BE RAISING ONE LARGE MALE PLANT 4HIS IS BECAUSE ) WANT TO TRY AND COLLECT A LARGE AMOUNT OF POLLEN TO USE THIS FOR CREATING HYBRIDS WITH A COUPLE OF OTHER MARIHUANA VARIETIES )N THIS WAY ) HOPE TO CREATE MY VERY OWN OUTDOOR VARIETY /F COURSE THIS WILL NOT BE AS SIMPLE AS IT SOUNDS 0OLLEN DOES NOT STAY FRESH AND USABLE FOR VERY LONG !ND IN ORDER TO MAXIMISE THE CHANCES OF A SUCCESSFUL POLLINATION

IT WOULD BE GOOD TO HAVE A NUMBER OF FEMALES AVAILABLE WHO HAVE FORMED THEIR FLOWER HEADS AT THE SAME MOMENT AS THE POLLEN FROM THE MALE PLANTS IS RIPE 4HEN MY CHANCES OF A SUCCESSFUL POLLINATION ARE THEIR HIGHEST -OST OF ALL ) AM REALLY CURIOUS ABOUT THE HYBRIDS THAT WILL RESULT ) WILL MOSTLY BE USING PLANTS THAT BLOOM QUITE EARLY AND THUS PRODUCE A GOOD QUALITY WEED

/i « À>ÀÞÊ`>À i } /NE TRICK WITH WHICH PLANTS CAN SOMETIMES BE INDUCED TO BLOOM INCREDIBLY EARLY THAT ) DISCOVERED A WHILE BACK IS THAT SOME OUTDOOR PLANTS WILL ALSO BEGIN FLOWERING IF YOU FOR EXAMPLE LEAVE THEM FOR THREE DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE DARK SOMEWHERE ) HAVE SUCCEEDED WITH SEVERAL VARIETIES IN PERSUADING THE LADIES THIS WAY TO BLOOM EARLY WITHOUT CREATING TOO MUCH STRESS 7HAT WAS NOTABLE IN THESE CASES WAS THAT THE PLANTS JUST CONTINUED TO BLOOM DESPITE THE FACT THAT AFTER THE COUPLE OF DAYS IN THE DARK THEY WERE JUST POPPED BACK IN THE OUTDOOR AIR !S A GROWER YOU WOULD AT LEAST EXPECT THAT THE BLOOM CYCLE OF THE MARIHUANA PLANTS WOULD END AT THE MOMENT THAT THEY ONCE AGAIN WERE EXPOSED TO SUNLIGHT 4HE PLANTS WOULD AFTER ALL BE GETTING THE FULL DOSE OF LIGHT

4HIS IS A TECHNIQUE ) DISCOVERED BY ACCIDENT "ECAUSE A HEAVY STORM WAS PREDICTED ) HAD MOVED A NUMBER OF PLANTS THOSE STOOD IN SMALL POTS INDOORS 4HE LADIES WERE KEPT IN THE PITCH DARK BECAUSE ) HAD PUT THEM IN A GARAGE BOX !LTHOUGH THE STORM TURNED OUT TO BE NOT THAT STRONG ) WAS REALLY BUSY IN THE FOLLOWING DAYS AND ) TOTALLY FORGOT TO TAKE THE PLANTS BACK OUTSIDE ) FEARED FOR THE WORST WHEN ) REMEMBERED THEM AND WAS WORRIED THAT THE LADIES WOULD HAVE ENDURED SO MUCH

7ITH THE AID OF A WHEELBARROW WE FERRY ALL THE BAGS OF SOIL AND FERTILIZER TO THE GROW SPOT 4HIS FORMS THE BASIS OF A GOOD BEGINNING

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STRESS THAT FURTHER GROWING WITH THEM WOULD NO LONGER BE POSSIBLE !LTHOUGH THE LADIES AFTER A DAY OR THREE IN THE DARK HAD BEEN CONSIDERABLY STRESSED ON SOME PLANTS THE LEAVES HAD BECOME QUITE CRINKLED AND OTHERS LOOKED DECIDEDLY LIFELESS ) HAD GONE AHEAD AND JUST TAKEN THEM OUTSIDE AGAIN ANYWAY IN THE HOPE OF JUST MAKING THE BEST OF IT 3O ) WAS PRETTY AMAZED WHEN THESE SAME PLANTS BEGAN PRODUCING THEIR FIRST 4(# THREADS JUST TWO WEEKS LATER )T WAS ONLY THE FOURTH WEEK OF *UNE 7HAT WAS FUNNY WAS THAT THE PLANTS THAT ALL THIS TIME HAD REMAINED OUTDOORS BECAUSE THEY WERE TOO BIG TO HAUL INDOORS TO GET OUT OF THE STORM SHOWED ABSOLUTELY NO SIGNS OF BLOOMING 3O THE INITIAL MISTAKE OF COMPLETELY FORGETTING TO TAKE THE PLANTS OUT OF THEIR GARAGE BOX TURNED OUT NOT TO HAVE BEEN ONE AFTER ALL IN FACT IT HELPED CREATE A SUCCESS 7HEN YOU AS A GROWER MANAGE TO GET YOUR PLANTS TO START BLOOMING AT THE END OF *UNE THEN THE FLOWER HEADS WILL HAVE ALL OF *ULY AND !UGUST IN WHICH TO FATTEN UP WITH THE USUALLY FAVOURABLE TEMPERATURE AND HIGH LEVELS OF SUNLIGHT WHICH IS SIMPLY GOING TO GIVE YOU FANTASTIC RESULTS COME HARVEST TIME

vviÀi ÌÊÛ>À iÌ ià !LTHOUGH PREMATURE DARKENING OF MARIHUANA PLANTS CAN LEAD TO GOOD SUCCESSES WITH THE METHOD WHEREBY ) RAISE MY PLANTS IN LARGE TUBS IT IS NOT PRACTICAL !S HAS BEEN SAID PREVIOUSLY

THE PLANTS WILL SIMPLY BE TOO BIG

'IVEN THAT ) PLAN TO RAISE PLANTS WITH SUCH LARGE DIMENSIONS THE TRICK WILL BE TO START THEM VERY EARLY IN THE YEAR &OR THIS REASON ) TEND TO HAVE AN IDEA WHICH VARIETIES ) WILL BE GROWING OUTSIDE SEVERAL MONTHS BEFORE ) ACTUALLY START !LTHOUGH SOME GROWERS STICK WITH GROWING THE SAME MARIHUANA VARIETY YEAR AFTER YEAR SINCE THEY HAVE ACHIEVED GOOD RESULTS WITH IT IN THE PAST ) CHOOSE A NEW HYBRID EACH YEAR ) JUST FIND IT VERY INTERESTING TO DISCOVER THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE VARIOUS OUTDOOR VARIETIES %ACH VARIETY HAS ITS OWN CHARACTERISTICS AND EACH

) LET THE SEEDS GERMINATE EARLY IN SPRING 4HE YOUNG PLANTS STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE THEY WILL REACH THEIR COLOSSAL SIZE

SEE THAT SEEDLINGS CERTAINLY IF THEY COME FROM STRONG PARENTS WILL HAVE CONSIDERABLY MORE ENERGY AND LIFE FORCE TO THEM 4HE YOUNG SEEDLINGS WILL TEND TO BEGIN QUITE INNOCENTLY

AND ESPECIALLY THE PHASE WHERE THEY ARE GERMINATING FROM SEEDS AND DEVELOPING IN TO SMALL PLANTS WILL SEEM TOO TAKE AN AGE BUT AFTER THAT THE YOUNG PLANTS WILL SPROUT UP LIKE PLANTS POSSESSED AND HAVE EVERY CHANCE OF REACHING AMAZING DIMENSIONS !LSO DO NOT FORGET THAT THERE ARE ONLY A FEW PLANTS AND IN A VERY SHORT SPACE OF TIME THESE WILL INCREASE THEIR SIZE

7HEN YOU AS A GROWER MANAGE TO GET YOUR PLANTS TO START BLOOMING AT THE END OF *UNE THEN THE FLOWER HEADS WILL HAVE ALL OF *ULY AND !UGUST IN WHICH TO FATTEN UP WITH THE USUALLY FAVOURABLE TEMPERATURE AND HIGH LEVELS OF SUNLIGHT WHICH IS SIMPLY GOING TO GIVE YOU FANTASTIC RESULTS COME HARVEST TIME YEAR ACTIVE AS A GROWER ) M ALWAYS FILLED WITH CURIOSITY HOW THE NEW HYBRID WILL ACTUALLY DO OUT IN THE OPEN &OR GROWING NEW OUTDOOR VARIETIES ) ALWAYS CHOOSE TO START FROM SEED /UTDOOR PLANTS THAT ARE DELIVERED AS CLONES ALWAYS COME FROM AN INDOOR GROWING ROOM THANKS TO WHICH THE PLANTS AND SO THE CLONES TOO HAVE BECOME USED TO INDOOR CONDITIONS 3O CLONES WILL NEVER REACH THEIR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL BY A LONG CHALK WHEN COMPARED WITH YOUNG SEEDLINGS !S A GROWER YOU WILL BE ABLE TO CLEARLY

!NOTHER WEEK LATER AND THE *AMAICAN 0EARL PLANTS ARE BIG ENOUGH TO BE PLANTED IN THEIR TUBS .OW WE JUST HAVE TO HOPE FOR A GOOD LEVEL OF SUNLIGHT

BY UP TO TIMES OVER THE COURSE OF THE GROW CYCLE ) HAVE REGULARLY SEEN YOUNG SEEDLINGS IN THEIR FIVE MONTH GROWING CYCLE -ARCH *ULY GROW FROM A SMALL PLANT OF BARELY TEN CENTIMETRES INTO A GIANT SIZED PLANT OF THREE METRES OR EVEN LARGER &OR MANY PEOPLE THE EXPLOSIVE GROWTH THAT A MARIHUANA PLANT CAN ACCOMPLISH IS HARD TO REMAIN CONSCIOUS OF %VEN IN MY OWN GROWING CAREER ) HAVE NOT ALWAYS MANAGED TO KEEP CHECK OF THEIR RAPID GROWTH ) THINK THIS IS DOWN TO THE FACT THAT WHEN GROWING YOU TEND TO SEE YOUR PLANTS EVERY DAY

!FTER A COUPLE OF DAYS OF PLODDING THE TUBS HAVE ONCE AGAIN BEEN FURNISHED WITH A GOOD FERTILE SOIL MIX AND ALL THE WEEDS HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM AROUND THEM

)T S ONLY WHEN IT HAS BEEN A COUPLE OF WEEKS SINCE YOU LAST SAW THEM BY FOR INSTANCE TAKING A HOLIDAY THAT THE FULL EXTENT OF THE INTENSE GROWTH OF THE MARIHUANA PLANTS IS READILY APPARENT

À Õ `Ü>ÌiÀÊ iÛi à 4HE PLACES WHERE ) INTEND TO RAISE MY PLANTS OUTDOORS TO THEIR COLOSSAL SIZE ARE CHOSEN WITH A CERTAIN DEGREE OF PRECISION 3O EACH SPOT HAS TO RECEIVE PLENTY OF SUNLIGHT SO THAT A GOOD RAPID GROWTH IS POSSIBLE AND THE PLANTS HAVE TO BE PROTECTED TO SOME EXTENT AGAINST WIND AND STORM FOR WHICH REASON GROWING IN AN OPEN FIELD IS NOT REALLY FEASIBLE AND ON TOP OF THIS THE PLANTS MUST NOT BE GROWING IN TOO PLAIN A VIEW SO THAT THE CHANCE OF THEFT OF THE FUTURE BUDS IS MINIMAL !S WELL AS THESE THREE POINTS THERE SHOULD ALSO BE A TAP SOMEWHERE CLOSE BY 4HE ACTUAL PLACES WHERE ) GROW MY PLANTS ARE ALSO WELL ABOVE THE GROUNDWATER LEVEL 4HANKS TO THIS THE PLANTS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SERVE THEMSELVES AS REGARDS THEIR WATER NEEDS AND THAT MEANS THAT YOU AS THE GROWER WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SUPPLYING THEM WITH CONSIDERABLE AMOUNTS OF FEED WATER .OW THERE WILL BE GROWERS WHO WILL HAPPEN TO HAVE A GOOD SPOT JUST ABOVE THE GROUND WATER LEVEL !NY GREEN LADIES GROWN HERE WILL BE ABLE TO GET AS MUCH WATER AS THEY WANT WITHOUT ALL THAT EFFORT ON THE PART

4HESE *AMAICAN 0EARLS HAVE EVERYTHING JUST AS THEY WANT 7HAT MORE COULD THEY WISH FOR THAN A NICE SECLUDED SPOT A HUGE SUPPLY OF NUTRIENTS SUFFICIENT WATER n AND THE SUN TO DO THE REST

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OF THE GROWER 4HIS IS FAIR ENOUGH BUT THERE IS ALSO A MAJOR DRAWBACK TO GROWING AROUND THE GROUNDWATER LEVEL 3HOULD IT BEGIN TO RAIN HEAVILY AND IT KEEPS UP FOR A FEW DAYS WHICH GIVEN THE EXTREMES OF WEATHER WE HAVE THESE DAYS IS NOT AN ALTOGETHER UNLIKELY CIRCUMSTANCE THE GROUNDWATER LEVEL CAN RISE DRAMATICALLY

THANKS TO WHICH THE SOIL BECOMES WAY TOO WET 4HIS IS LESS THAN OPTIMAL GIVEN THAT IF THERE S ONE THING MARIHUANA PLANTS HATE AND CANNOT COPE WITH THEN IT IS TOO WET AN UNDERSOIL 4HE ROOTS OF MARIHUANA PLANTS JUST CAN T COPE WITH IT THE CHANCES OF THEM CONTRACTING ALL KINDS OF MOULD AND ROOT ROT SOAR AND

THE ROOTS HAVE MUCH REDUCED ACCESS TO OXYGEN 4HIS LAST FACTOR IN PARTICULAR IS A HUGE DETERMINANT OF SUCCESS WHEN GROWING OUTDOOR MARIHUANA -ORE AND MORE INDOOR TECHNIQUES ARE BEING AIMED AT INCREASING OXYGEN UPTAKE BY INCREASING THE ROOT SYSTEM OF THE MARIHUANA PLANT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE *UST THINK OF ALL THE AIRY SOIL MIXES AND COCO SUBSTRATES AVAILABLE !S WELL AS THIS YOU SEE MORE AND MORE GROWING SYSTEMS COMING ON TO THE MARKET IN WHICH THE PLANTS STAND IN WATER AND ARE CONTINUOUSLY SUPPLIED WITH OXYGEN VIA A PUMP !NOTHER EXAMPLE OF THIS TREND IS THE WELL KNOWN GROW TUBS FILLED WITH HYDRO GRANULES .OT FOR NOTHING ARE SUCH GROWING SYSTEMS FREQUENTLY ACHIEVING GOOD RESULTS 4HE OXYGEN FACTOR PLAYS A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THESE SCENARIOS

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4HIS LADY WAS SHOWING SIGNS OF WEAR AND TEAR FROM A NUMBER OF HEAVY WIND GUSTS 7ITH THE HELP OF A STRONG BAMBOO STAKE WE CAN SUPPORT HER SO THAT SHE CAN RAPIDLY REPAIR HERSELF

4O RETURN TO THE ISSUE OF GROW SPOTS IN AREAS WITH A HIGH GROUNDWATER LEVEL $URING THE SPRING AND THE OFTEN WARM

DRY SUMMER MONTHS THERE IS NOT A METAPHORICAL CLOUD IN THE SKY AND GROW SPOTS LIKE THESE IN WHICH THE LADIES CAN MAKE FULL USE OF THE ABUNDANT GROUND WATER CAN SEEM LIKE A REAL PARADISE -ARIHUANA PLANTS IN SUCH SPOTS CAN REACH ENORMOUS SIZES ESPECIALLY WHEN THE GROWER MAKES SURE TO KEEP THE SOIL WELL ENRICHED WITH FERTILIZER 5SING SUCH A GROW METHOD IT IS BEST TO USE A SOLID FERTILIZER MIXED INTO THE SOIL 4HINK FOR EXAMPLE OF FORKING SOME WORM CASTINGS CALCIUM PREFERABLY FROM A SEAWEED EXTRACT BONE MEAL

WOOD ASH PERLITE FOR THE AIRINESS AND MAYBE SOME FISH EMULSION INTO THE SOIL 'IVING THE PLANTS LIQUID NUTRIENT IS SOMEWHAT MORE OF A HASSLE GIVEN THAT THE MARIHUANA PLANTS ALREADY HAVE ALL THE WATER THEY NEED AT THEIR DISPOSAL "ESIDES THE FACT THAT GIVING THEM YET MORE WATER COULD CAUSE MORE HARM THAN GOOD THERE IS ALSO THE QUESTION OF WHETHER OUR EXPENSIVE NUTRIENTS WILL EVEN BE USED ONLY BY THE MARIHUANA PLANTS 7HEN GROWING IN DRY SPOTS WHERE THE GROUNDWATER MAY BE SEVERAL METERS BELOW THE SURFACE THE SITUATION IS VERY DIFFERENT 4HE MARIHUANA PLANTS HERE WILL OFTEN BE GASPING FOR WATER AND WILL TRY EVERYTHING TO HANG ON TO THE VERY LAST DROP OF IT )T SHOULD BE CLEAR THAT IN THIS SITUATION GIVING NUTRIENTS MIXED IN WITH MAINS WATER WILL PRODUCE A MUCH BETTER RESULT THAN BY GROWING IN A SPOT WHERE THE PLANTS HAVE A CONTINUOUS SUPPLY OF GROUNDWATER AVAILABLE

iÌÜii ÊÌ iÊ > âi 'ROWERS WHO WANT TO TRY AND AVOID THE RISKS OF TOO WET AN UNDERSOIL IN SUCH AREAS WITH A HIGH GROUNDWATER OFTEN CHOOSE TO GROW A VARIETY SUCH AS 0URPLE 0OWER 6ERY EARLY BLOOMING OUTDOOR VARIETIES SUCH AS THIS ARE OFTEN GROWN IN AREAS WITH A HIGH GROUNDWATER LEVEL BECAUSE THE PLANTS ARE RIPE FOR HARVEST BEFORE THE AUTUMN AND SO BEFORE THE HEAVIEST RAINS ARRIVE 0OPULAR SPOTS WITH A HIGH GROUNDWATER INCLUDE FOR EXAMPLE THE SPACES BETWEEN THE ROWS IN A MAIZE FIELD 4HE SOIL IS

USUALLY WELL FERTILIZED VERY WELL AERATED AND THE GREEN LADIES HAVE A GOOD SUPPLY OF WATER !S WELL AS THIS THE PLANTS ARE WELL SHIELDED AGAINST THE WIND AND THEY ARE USUALLY PRETTY WELL CONCEALED AS WELL 4HE ONLY DRAWBACK TO GROWING IN THIS SORT OF AREA IS THAT THE YIELD PER PLANT IS OFTEN RELATIVELY LOW BECAUSE PEOPLE TEND TO GROW IN LARGER NUMBERS ON A SMALL SPACE /N TOP OF THIS THE MAIN MAIZE PLANTATIONS TEND TO ALSO BE KNOWN TO THE POLICE AND SUCH AREAS ARE INCREASINGLY PATROLLED BY LIGHT AIRCRAFT 9OU AS A GROWER ALSO NEED TO BE CONFIDENT THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO HARVEST YOUR BUDS WELL BEFORE THE MAIZE IS READY TO BE CUT DOWN )N SHORT

GROWING IN PLACES LIKE THIS CARRIES A NUMBER OF RISKS WITH IT WHEREBY EVERYTHING CAN BE LOST IN ONE FELL SWOOP .ONETHELESS SOME GROWERS JUST SEE THIS AS A FURTHER CHALLENGE 4HE KICK IS AFTER ALL PARTICULARLY SWEET WHEN WE MANAGE TO PULL OFF A HARVEST SUCCESSFULLY DESPITE THE CHALLENGES INVOLVED WITHOUT ANYONE ELSE FINDING OUT ABOUT IT 3ADLY THE PRICES FOR 0URPLE VARIETIES HAVE FALLEN THROUGH THE FLOOR IN RECENT YEARS THANKS TO WHICH THE FUN OF GROWING IN SUCH PLACES HAS LOST SOME OF ITS ALLURE FOR MANY GROWERS ,AST YEAR ESPECIALLY THERE WAS AN ENORMOUS SURFEIT OF 0URPLE WEED 4HE EXPLANATION FOR THIS IS ACTUALLY VERY SIMPLE GROWING WEED OUTDOORS HAS BECOME VERY POPULAR IN RECENT YEARS )N THE DAYS WHEN ) FIRST STARTED OUTDOOR GROWING THINGS WERE VERY DIFFERENT ) SELDOM HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT OUTDOOR GROWING BACK THEN 4HIS HAS ALL CHANGED IN RECENT YEARS !BROAD TOO GROWERS ARE BOOKING SOME GOOD SUCCESSES 0ARTICULARLY IN 3WITZERLAND IT IS FAIR TO SPEAK OF A VERITABLE INVASION OF CROP FIELDS BY 0URPLE PLANTS 4HE 0URPLE VARIETIES APPEAR IN SOME AREAS ESPECIALLY THE HIGHEST PLACES THANKS TO THE VERY FAVOURABLE LOW AIR MOISTURE CONTENT TO HAVE BECOME ALMOST A MAINSTREAM AGRICULTURAL PLANT 4HIS USED TO BE VERY DIFFERENT A WHILE BACK WHEN PURPLE WEED WAS SOMETHING ONLY FOR THE REAL AFICIONADOS 4HEY OFTEN WANTED A GOOD PREMIUM FOR IT OR WOULD EVEN SWAP IT WITH A LOVELY INDOOR BUD 4HOSE TIMES SEEM TO HAVE GONE FOR GOOD

4HE SAME LADY BUT SIX WEEKS LATER !S YOU CAN SEE SHE HAS BEGUN TO DEVELOP NICELY

4HE *AMAICAN 0EARL IS A GENUINE 3ATIVA VARIETY 3HE PRODUCES CONSIDERABLE AMOUNTS OF FOLIAGE AND WITH THE HELP OF SOME TENDER CARE THE PLANTS WILL EASILY DEVELOP INTO MASSIVE BUSHES

4HIS *AMAICAN 0EARL HAS NOW REACHED ABOUT METRES IN HEIGHT .OW WE JUST HAVE TO KEEP OUR FINGERS CROSSED FOR A DECENT AUTUMN

)N THE NEXT ARTICLE WE WILL BE TAKING A LOOK AT HOW THE *AMAICAN 0EARL PLANTS ARE COMING ALONG AND WHAT NEW DEVELOPMENTS THEY ARE UNDERGOING

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4HE LIVE BAND BANGED OUT TUNES FROM THE SIXTIES THE SMOKE IN THE PREMISES WAS GET TING THICKER AND THICKER AND EVERYWHERE THE BEST WEED AND HASH FROM (OLLAND WAS BEING PASSED ON 4HE (IGHLIFE #UP WAS DONE EARLY IN THE MORNING HOURS WHEN THE FIRST WORKERS ON BIKES WERE SPOTTED IN THE STILL EMPTY STREETS )T WAS GREAT AS ALWAYS 7E HOPE TO SEE ALL OF YOU NEXT YEAR AT THE (IGHLIFE #UP

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)N ONE OF MY COLUMNS OF ) STATED THAT IN THE 5+ IT WAS THOUGHT THAT CANNABIS RESIN ACCOUNTED FOR SOMETHING LIKE OF THE OVERALL DOPE MARKET OF THE REMAINING

HALF OF THAT WAS YOUR BOG STANDARD HOME GROWN DITCHWEED GRASS AND THE OTHER HALF WAS ALL OF THE 3KUNK 3UPER SKUNK *ACK (ERER AND SO ON INCIDENTALLY JUST FOR SAKE OF ECONOMY OF WORDS ) M GOING TO REFER TO ALL OF THE HIGH POTENCY STRAINS AS h3KUNKv FOR THE REST OF THIS PIECE 4HE GOVERNMENT AND THE MEDIA DO IT ALL THE TIME

AFTER ALLx 4HE POINT OF THE COLUMN WAS THAT THERE WAS ALL THIS HUE AND CRY AND FUSS OVER SOMETHING THAT MADE UP AT BEST OF THE DOMESTIC CANNABIS MARKET 4HESE FIGURES WEREN T PLUCKED BY ME OUT OF THE AIR OR ANYTHING THEY WERE QUOTED FROM A PAPER ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE HIGHLY RESPECTED SIC MEDICAL JOURNAL !DDICTION FROM

7ELL THERE S BEEN SOMETHING OF CHANGE SINCE THAT ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN !DDICTION 4HIS WEEK $R ,ES +ING THE MAIN AUTHOR OF THE PAPER WAS PRESENTING EVIDENCE TO A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE GOVERNMENT S EXPERT COMMITTEE ON DRUGS WHICH IS CURRENTLY CONSIDERING WHETHER OR NOT TO RE RE CLASSIFY CANNABIS FROM A #LASS # DRUG BACK TO THE MORE SERIOUS IN TERMS OF WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU IF YOU RE CAUGHT IN POSSESSION #LASS " $R +ING PRESENTED EVIDENCE INDICATING THAT THERE S BEEN SOMETHING OF A MAJOR TURNAROUND AND NOW 3KUNK HAS A SHARE OF THE MARKET AND HAS SQUEEZED RESIN DOWN TO SOMETHING LIKE !LL IN THREE YEARS WE REALLY SHOULD HAVE SEEN THAT COMING .ATURALLY THIS ESTIMATE AND DON T LET S FORGET THAT S ALL IT IS BUT SOMEHOW ) SUSPECT IT S A PRETTY GOOD ONE HAS BEEN SEIZED BY THE !NTI $RUG 7ARRIORS AS A REASON FOR HARSHER PENALTIES AND RE CRIMINALIZATION OF USERS

AROUND THE CHEAPER IT WILL GETv DOESN T SEEM TO APPLY TO 3KUNK IN THE SAME WAY AS IT DOES TO THE PROPERLY MORE SERIOUS AND HARMFUL SUBSTANCES SUCH AS FOR EXAMPLE

COCAINE &ROM WHAT WE UNDERSTAND THE PRICE OF 3KUNK HAS STAYED PRETTY CONSTANT

FLUCTUATING ONLY WHEN THERE HAVE BEEN hSHORTAGESv 5SERS ARE PREPARED TO PAY THE ASKING PRICE SO THE ASKING PRICE HAS STAYED THE SAME WHICH IS TO SAY EXPENSIVE IN TERMS OF AMOUNT PARTICULARLY WHEN COMPARED TO RESIN BUT PRETTY REASONABLE IN TERMS OF STRENGTH EFFECT AND SO ON 3O IT S NOT AS IF THE AMOUNT THAT LL BUY YOU AN OUNCE OF RESIN WILL BUY YOU AN OUNCE OF 3KUNK OR ANYTHING LIKE IT BUT ONE NEVER CAN TELL SO WATCH THIS SPACE 4HE ABOVE IN TURN MEANS THAT WHILE IT S TRUE THAT WEED IS GENERALLY STRONGER IT S STILL PRETTY EXPENSIVE AND THEREFORE USERS TEND TO SMOKE LESS OF IT THERE S THE OBVIOUS ECONOMIC REASON FOR THIS (OWEVER ANOTHER POINT THE GOVERNMENT SPOOKS NEED TO CONSIDER IS THAT PRECISELY BECAUSE OF THE STRENGTH USERS DON T NEED TO USE SO MUCH OF IT EITHER 4HIS RATHER IMPORTANT POINT NOTWITHSTANDING THERE IS NOW SOME NEW NONSENSE BEING DISCUSSED INVOLVING SPLITTING CANNABIS INTO TWO DISTINCT TIERS ACCORDING TO STRENGTH 7HAT NONSENSE )T DOESN T APPEAR TO HAVE OCCURRED TO ANYONE INVOLVED THAT WHOEVER IS BEHIND THE PROLIFERATION OF 3KUNK 6IETNAMESE 2USSIANS )NDIGENOUS TOKERS 4HAT S A WHOLE OTHER COLUMN IS ACTUALLY DOING OUR CANNABIS USERS A FAVOUR #ONSIDER RESIN FOR A MOMENT THE BIGGEST COMPLAINT ABOUT IT WAS THAT IT WAS SUPPOSEDLY ADULTERATED WITH ANY NUMBER OF POLLUTANTS SUCH AS HENNA SHOE POLISH ENGINE OIL

ANIMAL HUMAN EXCREMENT AND EVEN OTHER PSYCHOACTIVES THOUGH ) VE ALWAYS HAD A PROBLEM WITH THIS SUCH AS $IAZEPAM AND +ETAMINE )F THE TREND CONTINUES WE LL HAVE SEEN THE BACK OF THAT WITHIN A YEAR OR TWO AS 3KUNK MOVES TOWARDS A SHARE OF THE MARKET !ND FOR THAT PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERTS SHOULD BE VERY GRATEFUL INDEED !NY COMMENTS ON THIS WELCOME AS ALWAYS 4HE $OCTOR IS IN AT

7HAT S OVERLOOKED IS THE FACT THAT WHILE THERE IS A LOT MORE HIGH POTENCY WEED AROUND GENERALLY SPEAKING THE ECONOMIC LAW OF hTHE MORE OF SOMETHING THERE IS

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ABOUT MARIJUANA CULTIVATION AND SOCIAL POLICY THAT CUMULATIVELY HAVE SOLD OVER ONE MILLION (IS FIRST BOOK -ARIJUANA 'ROWER S 'UIDE IS THE ONLY TITLE ON MARIJUANA CULTIVATION TO BE REVIEWED BY 4HE .EW 9ORK 4IMES "OOK 2EVIEW !FTER ALMOST TWO DECADES HIS !SK %D ADVICE COLUMN CONTINUES TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ON ALL MATTERS OF MARIJUANA FROM READERS AROUND THE WORLD

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