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&IRST OF ALL A BIG HAND FOR A GREAT PAPER ) WOULDN T HAVE STARTED GROWING MY OWN MEDI CATION IF IT WASN T FOR YOU GUYS !NYWAY THIS IS A RANDOM PLANT TYPE AS ) GOT THE SEED OUT OF A BAG OF WEED ) GREW HER UNDER 7 #&, AND A 7 (03 IN A 8, "UDBOX USING THE (ESI .UTE 0ROGRAM 4HIS IS AFTER WEEKS OF LIGHT AND ) HARVESTED WEEKS LATER AND GOT OZ OF DRY BUD FROM HER .OT THE STRONGEST BUT NICE TRIPPY BUZZ !PART FROM THE BUDBOX AND W LAMP ) GOT ALL MY EQUIPMENT FOR FREE AND AS ) SELL THE "IG )SSUE AND LIVE IN A SQUAT THE MORE FREE STUFF THE BETTER ) ALSO USED THE 3OFT 3ECRETS 'ROWING &OR $UMMIES AS A GUIDE WHICH WAS INVALUABLE ) WOULD RECOMMEND IT TO EVERYONE STARTING TO GROW (ESI WAS GIVING AWAY SAMPLE PACKS OF NUTES AT THE 5+ (EMP %XPO SO ) GOT A FEW OF THEM AND THEY SEEMED TO WORK FINE !NONYMOUS 4HE 3OFT 3ECRETS @'ROWING &OR $UMMIES 'UIDE IS NOW A FIRMLY ESTABLISHED RESOURCE FOR NEW GROWERS 9OUR PLANT REFLECTS ITS BAG SEED SATIVA ORIGIN IN ITS PROFILE AND THE FLORAL DENSITY 7E OFTEN SEE NEW GROWERS STARTING ON BAGSEED BEFORE MOVING ON TO MORE CONSI STENT AND RELIABLE SEEDS FROM ESTABLISHED BREEDERS 3OFT 3ECRETS WOULD HOPE YOU CULTIVATE THESE SEEDS WITH THE SAME LOVE AND ATTENTION ONLY USE SLIGHTLY LESS NUTRIENTS DURING THE FINAL STAGES OF FLOWERING TO GAIN THE BEST RESULTS

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-ARCIN IS THIS AN !UTOFLOWERING VARIETY 3KUNK X 6IKING /R JUST A PLANT THAT GREW SMALL .EXT TIME PLEASE PROVIDE US WITH SOME INFORMATION ABOUT GENETIC LINEAGE AND THE CULTIVATION TECHNIQUE YOU HAVE USED 7E CAN SAY THAT THIS IS A FROSTY PLANT IN PEAK CONDITION BUT SADLY THAT S ABOUT ALL "Y INCREASING THE VEGETATIVE PERIOD YOU WILL IMPROVE THE YIELD

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TED THEM INTO HOLES IN THE SOIL PUTTING A LITRE SACK OF "IOBIZZ INTO EACH AND A HANDFUL OF 'UANOKALONG BAT DUNG AT THE BOTTOM 4HE PLANTS GREW STRAI GHT SHOWING A CONSOLIDATED PRESENCE !ROUND MID *UNE ) WASHED THEM THO ROUGHLY WITH POTASSIUM SOAP TO ELIMINA TE ANY POSSIBLE PLAGUES AND EGGS )N THE LAST WEEK OF *ULY ) FERTILISED WITH "IO 'ROW AND 4OP -AX 4HEY SOON BEGAN SHOWING THEIR MARIJUANA AT FIRST JUST A FEW PISTILS THAT THEN JOINED TOGETHER TO FORM THE MARIJUANA AND THEN THE TIPS 4OWARDS MID !UGUST THE MARIJUANA HAD ALREADY BEGUN TO FOLD THE PLANT S BRANCHES DOWN UNDER ITS WEIGHT ) PRO CEEDED TO STAKE THEM AS WHEN THE RAIN SOAKS THE MARIJUANA ITS WEIGHT NATURALLY INCREASES LEADING TO A RISK OF ANY BRAN CHES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN TIED BREAKING ) CONTINUED TO FERTILISE FOR THE WHOLE MONTH %ARLY 3EPTEMBER THE PLANTS WERE ALREADY SHOWING AN INCREDIBLE MARIJUANA CROP ) LEFT THEM TO RIPEN AS FAR AS POS SIBLE BUT BY THE END OF THE MONTH THEY WERE READY AND THE THREAT OF RAIN WAS PERMANENT SO ) CUT THEM AND REAPED A GENEROUS HARVEST )T TOOK DAYS TO DRY

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COVERED WITH RESIN FEATURING A PENETRA TING SWEET AROMA WITH A TOUCH OF HONEY 4RANQUILISING EFFECT BUT WITHOUT LEAVING YOU DOWN A SORT OF STATE OF ACTIVE RELA XATION ! HARVEST TO BE REMEMBERED

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AND SO ) SET OUT ARMED WITH A GREAT DEAL OF PATIENCE AND GAVE THEM AN EXTRA GENEROUS DAYS GROWTH 4HE PLANTS DEVELOPED AT THEIR OWN TIME

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FLOWERING WAS VERY QUICK IN JUST A FEW WEEKS DARK MODERATELY RESINOUS MARIJUANA FORMED 4HEY WERE ALL FAIR LY HOMOGENOUS FEMALES SHOWING NO SIGNS OF HERMAPHRODITISM !S THE MARIJUANA DRIED OUT IT PROVED TO BE VERY DENSE AND AROMATIC WITH

FLORAL CLUSTERS THAT GAVE OFF A STRONG AROMA WITH HINTS OF MUSTY CHEESE ) WAS ASTONISHED BY THE GREAT HOMO GENEITY OF AROMAS OF ALL PLANTS )T PRODUCES EXTREMELY LARGE CENTRAL MARIJUANA SURROUNDED BY A QUANTITY OF PERIPHERAL MARIJUANA THAT IS ALSO LARGE AND GOOD QUALITY 3TARTING FROM THE FIRST MONTHS OF FLOWERING ) FASTENED AND STAKED THE PLANTS AS THE WEIGHT OF THE CENTRAL MARIJUANA TENDED TO PULL THEM OVER OR INCLINE THEM RUNNING THE RISK OF BREAKAGE 4HE MARIJUANA DEVELOPED A DENSE LAYER OF TRICHOMES 4OWARDS THE EIGHTH WEEK OF FLOWERING THE MARIJUANA WAS ALL GOLDEN IN COLOUR AND SHOWING THE EXPECTED DENSITY AND HARDNESS &INALLY ) HARVESTED WITH NINE AND A HALF WEEKS FLOWERING

HYBRID VIGOUR FROM THE VERY START OF GROWTH ALLOWING FOR A CHANGE TO THE FLOWERING PHOTOPERIOD JUST DAYS AFTER GERMINATION &OR THE FIRST DAYS OF FLOWERING GROWTH ACCE LERATED AND THE INTER NODE DISTANCE INCREASED AS THEY RAPIDLY REACHED A GOOD HEIGHT 3TARTING FROM THEN THE PLANT BEGAN TO DEVELOP GOOD SIZED

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WITHOUT DOUBT ITS NEW FLAVOUR THAT INUNDATES THE PALATE WITH ITS FULL FLAVOURED HUES OF MUSTY CHEESE AND SPICES !S CONCERNS THE EFFECT WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT WE ARE FACED WITH THE SUM OF TWO WEIGHTS WEI

PLETELY INFECTED BY MOULD 6ENENO ENDURED ALMOST WITHOUT SHOWING ANY SYMPTOMS OF BEING AFFECTED )N INDOOR GROWS TOO IT IS HIGHLY RESISTANT TO PLAGUES AND EASY TO GROW $IFFERENT GROWS PROVIDED US WITH HIGHLY PRO DUCTIVE PLANTS BOASTING BRANCHES WEI GHED DOWN WITH LARGE HEAVY MARIJUA NA AND A GREAT QUANTITY OF RESIN WITH A VERY PRONOUNCED FRESH FLAVOUR

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WHICH ARE CONSIDERED PEAK SPECTRUMS FOR PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTION %ACH WATT LAMP WILL BE GIVEN AN ADDITIONAL WATTS OF COMBINED RED SPECTRUMS ) ESTIMATE THIS APPROXIMATELY DOUBLES THE AMOUNT OF RED LIGHT THE PLANTS RECEIVE ) THINK THAT THE PLANTS WITH ENHANCED RED WILL BE CONSIDERABLY LARGER THAN THEIR SISTERS UNDER UNENHANCED (03

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AN OPAQUE CURTAIN 4HEY WERE HARVESTED EIGHT WEEKS AFTER FORCING BEGAN &AR RED LIGHT CAN SUBSTITUTE FOR THE CURTAIN TOSSING )N .ORTHERN #ALIFORNIA WHERE 0ROJECT (AIKU TOOK PLACE *UNE IS THE LONGEST DAY AND SHORTEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR THE GARDEN RECEIVED ? HOURS OF LIGHT AND ?

OF DARKNESS 4HE SHORT DARK PERIOD PREVENTS FLOWERING #HEMICALLY THE INACTIVE FLOWERING HORMONE IS TAKING ITS TIME HOURS WORTH TO CONVERT TO THE ACTIVE FORM 4HE PLANTS ARE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE FLOWERING HORMONE FOR ONLY ? HOURS SO THE PLANT REMAINS GROWING VEGETATIVELY 7HEN THE PLANTS ARE hSPRAYEDv WITH FAR ! STRIIP OF BLUE ,%$ S

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0ART ) ) DISCUSSED CRITICAL DARK PERIODS THAT INDUCE FLOWERING 7HEN THE PLANT REPEATEDLY RECEIVES AN UNINTERRUPTED DARK PERIOD OF THAT LENGTH FLOWERING IS INDUCED 4HE PLANT MEASURES DARKNESS AS THE ABSENCE OF RED LIGHT 4O STOP A PLANT FROM FLOWERING INTERRUPT THE DARK PERIOD WITH RED LIGHT SUCH AS THE LIGHT FROM AN INCANDESCENT BULB HALF WAY THE DARK PERIOD AND THE PLANT WILL CONTINUE TO GROW VEGETATIVELY 7HEN THE RED LIGHT ENDS IT TAKES THE INACTIVE FORM WHICH DOESN T PROMOTE FLOWERING ABOUT TWO HOURS TO CHANGE OVER TO THE ACTIVE FORM 4HIS CAN BE SPEEDED UP CONSIDERABLY BY FAR RED LIGHT 9OU CANNOT SEE FAR RED LIGHT BUT YOU CAN FEEL IT AS HEAT )NCANDESCENT BULBS EMIT ABOUT OF THEIR ENERGY AS VISIBLE LIGHT 4HE OTHER IS EMITTED AS FAR RED LIGHT 7HEN THE LIGHT HITS A SOLID OBJECT THE ENERGY IS CONVERTED TO HEAT 7HEN FAR RED LIGHT COMES IN CONTACT WITH THE INACTIVE FORM OF THE FLOWERING HORMONE THE HORMONE IS IMMEDIATELY CONVERTED TO THE ACTIVE FORM 4HE FAR RED LIGHT DOESN T HAVE TO REMAIN IN CONTACT WITH THE PLANTS LONG JUST A FEW MOMENTS WILL DO

! FIXTURE AT A HYDRO SHOW EMITTED SEVERAL SPECTRUMS OF BOTH RED AND BLUE LIGHT

0HOTOPERIODISM IS A LOCALIZED EFFECT )F YOU HAD A PLANT WITH TWO BRANCHES AND ONE OF THE BRANCHES WAS GIVEN A FLOWERING LIGHT REGIME WHILE THE OTHER WAS GIVEN CONTINUOUS LIGHT THE FIRST BRANCH WOULD FLOWER BUT THE SECOND WOULD CONTINUE TO GROW VEGETATIVELY "ECAUSE THE EFFECT IS LOCALIZED ALL PARTS OF THE PLANT MUST BE REACHED WITH THE FAR RED LIGHT 4HINK OF APPLYING FAR RED LIGHT AS YOU WOULD THINK OF SPRAYING WATER ON THE PLANT 4HE ENTIRE PLANT AND ALL ITS VEGETATION MUST BE DRIPPING WITH WATER WHEN YOU ARE DONE )T IS IN THIS MANNER THAT YOU HAVE TO SPRAY THE PLANT WITH INVISIBLE LIGHT 4HE SPRAYING SHOULD TAKE PLACE EACH EVENING AFTER DUSK OR AFTER THE LIGHTS HAVE BEEN TURNED OFF

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4HE PLANTS IN THIS GARDEN DIDN T DEVELOP THICK BULKY BUDS

RED LIGHT THE HORMONES CONVERT OVER TO THE ACTIVE FORM )F THIS IS DONE DAILY AT DUSK IT GIVES THE PLANTS ANOTHER TWO HOURS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE ACTIVE HORMONE EACH DAY 4HIS IS A LONG ENOUGH PERIOD FOR THEM TO BE INDUCED TO GROW BUDS AND START FLOWERING 3O IF A GARDEN WAS FORCED IN -AY IT WILL RIPEN IN *ULY ! *UNE FORCED GARDEN

SUCH AS 0( IS HARVESTED IN !UGUST 4HE MAIN PROBLEM WITH USING FAR RED LIGHT IS THAT IT SOMETIMES INDUCES STEM STRETCHING 4HERE IS A SOLUTION SPRAY THE PLANTS WITH BLUE LIGHT "LUE LIGHT HAS BEEN USED FOR DECADES IN A FEW COMMERCIAL NURSERIES TO KEEP PLANTS COMPACT AND PREVENT STRETCHING 0LANT PHOTOPERIODISM IS NOT AFFECTED BY THE BLUE SPECTRUM !FTER THE PLANTS ARE SPRAYED WITH FAR RED LIGHT A SPRAY OF BLUE LIGHT KEEPS THE STEMS SHORT AND STOCKY

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4HE PLANTS IN THIS GARDEN DIDN T DEVELOP THICK BULKY BUDS ! FEW GROWERS HAVE FIGURED OUT THEIR PLANTS CRITICAL FLOWERING TIME AND INCREASED THE LIT PERIOD BY UP TO AN HOUR AND A HALF )NSTEAD OF SPENDING OF THEIR TIME IN DARKNESS THEY SPEND ONLY -ORE IMPORTANTLY THEY LUXURIATE UNDER THE LIGHTS FOR ANOTHER OF THE TIME 4HAT S AN

INCREASE OF MORE THAN OF THE LIGHTED PERIOD ! CORRESPONDING INCREASE IN YIELD SHOULD FOLLOW 5SING AN FAR RED LIGHT SPRAY FOLLOWED

BY THE BLUE LIGHT CUTS DOWN THE NEED FOR AS LONG A DARK PERIOD AS PLANTS ARE NORMALLY GIVEN )MAGINE IF YOU COULD

REDUCE THE DARK PERIOD BY HOURS

MORE THAN OF THE LIGHTED PERIOD )F BOTH TECHNIQUES WERE USED THE LIGHTED PERIOD WOULD TOTAL UP TO HOURS THREE AND A HALF MORE HOURS EACH DAY FOR CREATING SUGARS AND ENERGY FOR GROWTH 4HE FINAL RESULT "IGGER BUDS AND MORE OF THEM

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)MAGINE YOUR IDEAL GROWING LOCATION WHERE WOULD IT BE AND HOW WOULD YOU PREVENT IT BEING DISCOVERED 4HE INCREASINGLY TOUGH APPROACH OF THE POLICE AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IN THE .ETHERLANDS IS MAKING $UTCH GROWERS EVER MORE INNOVATIVE AND THE POSSIBILITIES OPEN TO THEM ARE EFFECTIVELY ENDLESS )N THIS NEW SERIES ON DREAM LOCATIONS WE WILL BE DESCRIBING HOW THESE DREAM LOCATIONS MIGHT LOOK WHAT THEIR ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES ARE AND HOW YOU CAN SET THEM UP FOR YOURSELF

CONNECTED BRIDGE GROWERS WHO CANNOT COUNT A HIGH VOLTAGE SPECIALIST AMONG THEIR FRIENDS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO TAP THE LOCAL STREET LIGHTING )N CERTAIN CASES THIS CAN EVEN BE A BETTER ALTERNATIVE 4HE BRAVE GROWER USES AN AGGREGATE THE LEAST PUNISHABLE CHOICE BUT ALSO A VERY AWKWARD ONE TO EMPLOY

- 3INCE OUR BRIDGE GROWERS WOULD PREFER TO REMAIN AS UNOBSERVED AS POSSIBLE AS THEY GO ABOUT THEIR WORK THEY DISGUISE THEMSELVES AS ELECTRICIANS BUILDERS OR SOME SUCH PROFESSIONALS &OR THIS THEY MAKE USE OF A DELIVERY VAN AND WORK CLOTHES OF AN ESTABLISHED BUILDERS FIRM )N THIS WAY THEY CAN HAUL HUNDREDS OF KILOS OF SOIL AND OTHER GROWING MATERIALS INTO THE SPACE WITHOUT CREATING ANY SUSPICION 4HE BRIDGE GROWER AFTER ALL NEVER KNOWS WHEN A FISHERMAN OR HIKER MIGHT HAVE THEIR ATTENTION CAUGHT BY ACTIVITIES GOING ON IN THE BRIDGE 4HIS IS ALSO WHY THE GROWERS ALWAYS HAVE A GOOD COVER STORY REHEARSED TO EXPLAIN WHAT THEY ARE DOING HERE AT THE BRIDGE

4HE 7ILLEM !LEXANDER BRIDGE A BRIDGE THAT ONCE HOUSED ONE OF THE BIGGEST GROW OPS EVER FOUND IN THE .ETHERLANDS

/ iÊ `i>Ê 4HIS EDITION WILL BE ABOUT AN INFAMOUS BRIDGE 4HIS LOCATION CAME TO LIGHT IN

WHEN IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT AN ATTEMPT HAD BEEN MADE TO SET UP A GROW OP INSIDE THE 7ILLEM !LEXANDER "RIDGE IN THE $UTCH TOWN OF %CHTELD 4HIS AUDACIOUS PLAN FAILED DUE TO A SHORT CIRCUIT IN A TAPPED HIGH TENSION ELECTRICITY CABLE 7HEN THE GROWERS TRIED TO MEASURE THE VOLT CURRENT RUNNING THROUGH THE CABLE THE VOLTMETER THEY WERE USING EXPLODED 4HIS CREATED AN UNBELIEVABLY LOUD BANG 4HE POLICE STATED ALSO THAT A PATCH OF URINE DISCOVERED AT THE SCENE CAME FROM ONE OF THE GROWERS WHEN HE LITERALLY PISSED HIS PANTS WITH FEAR

4HE IDEA BEHIND THIS FAILED ATTEMPT THOUGH WAS INGENIOUS IN CONCRETE CONSTRUCTIONS THERE ARE OFTEN HOLLOW SPACES THAT ARE NOT USED FOR ANYTHING 3UCH SPACES ARE TO ENSURE THAT THE FINISHED CONSTRUCTION IS LIGHTER AND THEY ALSO SAVE CONCRETE &OR THE 7ILLEM !LEXANDER BRIDGE CAPER USE WAS MADE OF TWO SPACES AROUND FIVE METRES WIDE AND AT LEAST A KILOMETRE LONG 4HIS ADDS UP TO A HOLLOW SPACE OF AT LEAST

SQUARE METRES AND A HEIGHT OF AROUND THREE METRES -ANY GROWERS HAVE TO

MAKE DO WITH JUST A FRACTION OF SUCH A SPACE 4HE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENTS FOR GROWING WERE ALREADY INSIDE THE BRIDGE SPACE OR COULD BE EASILY HAULED IN ENERGY LIGHT SOIL WATER AND AIR ,ET S NOW TAKE A LOOK AT HOW THE GROWERS CAME BY THESE ELEMENTS

iÀ}Þ "RIDGE GROWERS KNOW THAT BRIDGES ARE USED NOT JUST FOR THE TRAFFIC THEY CARRY BUT ALSO FOR CARRYING PIPES AND CABLES OVER A RIVER 4HIS IS OF COURSE CHEAPER AND SAFER THAN RUNNING THEM UNDER THE RIVERBED OR OVER THE RIVER ON HIGH TENSION CABLES 4HE HELICOPTER PILOTS WHO IN MANAGED TO KNOCK OUT POWER TO THE TOWN OF :ALTBOMMEL AND THE SURROUNDING DISTRICT KNOW ALL ABOUT THIS "RIDGE GROWERS TAP THE POWER PRESENT IN THE BRIDGE 3INCE THEY KNOW FULL WELL THAT THIS IS A LIFE THREATENING OPERATION THEY TEND TO HIRE IN SOME PROFESSIONAL HELP 4HIS IS USUALLY A GOOD CONTACT FROM THE POWER COMPANY OR AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER WITH HIGH TENSION EXPERIENCE 4O PREVENT CREATING AN EXPLOSION IN THE ELECTRICS THE GROW OP IS EQUIPPED WITH A TRANSFORMER THAT STEPS THE VOLTAGE DOWN ,ESS WELL

6IA THIS CROSS SECTION THE SPACE USED IN THE BRIDGE IS CLEARLY VISIBLE

7>ÌiÀ 0LANTS CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT WATER AND UNDER THE BRIDE THERE IS PLENTY OF THE STUFF 4HE BRIDGE GROWERS USE A POWERFUL PUMP TO SUPPLY ALL THEIR REQUIRED WATER FROM THE RIVER 4HEY HAVE A HOSE PASSED THROUGH THE CONCRETE THAT ENTERS THE RIVER BY THE LEGS OF THE BRIDGE 4HEY CHOSE A BLACK HOSE AND ATTACHED THIS TO THE PILLAR IN A PROFESSIONAL LOOKING WAY TO MINIMISE SUSPICION "ECAUSE THE QUALITY OF THE RIVER WATER IS NOT AS GOOD AS THAT FROM THE MAINS THE GROWERS REGULARLY CONTROL THE P( AND %# VALUES OF THE WATER AND IF NECESSARY MAKE THE APPROPRIATE ADJUSTMENTS TO GET THE WATER AT THE RIGHT LEVELS STORED IN A VAT

À 7ITH A BRIDGE GROW OP MANY OF THE MOST COMMON PROBLEMS WITH A TRADITIONAL OPERATION ARE SIMPLY NOT AN ISSUE 4HERE IS BARELY ANY SMELL NUISANCE THANKS TO THE AIR CIRCULATION IN THE BRIDGE 4HANKS TO THE RAPID TRANSIT

THE SMELL WILL NOT BECOME NOTICEABLE TO TRAFFIC USING THE BRIDGE AND THERE IS USUALLY LITTLE OR NO HOUSING NEARBY !S WELL AS THIS THE AIR IN THE BRIDGE SPACE IS MUCH LESS WARM THAN FOR EXAMPLE THE ATTIC OF A HOUSE 4HE GROWERS DO THOUGH HAVE TROUBLE WITH MOISTURE IN THE AIR 3INCE THEY WANT TO REDUCE THE

CHANCES OF BUD ROT THEY DECIDED DURING THE BLOOM PHASE TO SUCK AIR OUT ONLY IF THE OUTDOOR AIR WAS DRY ENOUGH 4HE AIR THAT WAS REMOVED WAS DONE SO VIA A SLIT IN THE CONCRETE TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD

6 Ã Ì ÀÃ "ESIDES THE FOUR ELEMENTS THAT NEED TO BE PRESENT IN A GROW OP THERE IS ONE OTHER FACTOR THAT NEEDS TO BE TAKEN ACCOUNT OF UNWANTED VISITORS 4HE GUERRILLA GROWERS AMONGST US KNOW FULL WELL THAT EVEN IN THE MOST ISOLATED SPOTS SOMETIMES PEOPLE CROP UP UNEXPECTEDLY )N A BRIDGE THIS COULD BE A TRAMP LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO CRASH FOR THE NIGHT OR A WATERWAYS INSPECTOR DOING HIS CHECK UPS )N THE .ETHERLANDS AT LEAST ALL @ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCTIONS SUCH AS BRIDGES AND VIADUCTS ARE INSPECTED SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR 4HIS IS MOSTLY TO DO WITH THE ROAD SURFACE AND THE OUTSIDE OF THE CONSTRUCTION 4HE BRIDGE GROWERS THEREFORE DO AS MUCH AS THEY CAN TO KEEP UNWANTED VISITORS AWAY FROM WHERE THEY ARE GROWING 3O FOR INSTANCE THEY BUILT AN EXTRA FALSE WALL WITH A DOOR IN IT 4HEY ALSO INSTALLED AN ELECTRONIC SQUEALER DEVICE THAT WOULD SEND A MESSAGE BY 3-3 IF THIS DOOR WERE EVER OPENED 3INCE THIS SQUEALER IN THE BRIDGE HAS NO REACH

THE ANTENNA IS PACED OUTSIDE )N THIS WAY

THE BRIDGE GROWERS KNOW WHETHER IT IS SAFE TO RETURN TO THEIR OPERATION

V ÕÃ .OT JUST BRIDGES BUT ANY LARGE CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION IS A POTENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR ESTABLISHING A GROW OP INSIDE OF ! LONG SEARCH IS USUALLY NEEDED TO FIND SUCH A SUITABLE CONSTRUCTION IN WHICH TO BUILD /N TOP OF THAT A LOT OF RESEARCH IS NEEDED TO ESTABLISH THE CHANCES OF DISCOVERY AND HOW THEY CAN SAFELY GET AT A POWER SOURCE AS WELL AS PROVIDE WATER AND LIGHT 4HE BRIDGE GROWERS TEND TO BE HANDY GUYS WITH A PRACTICAL BENT /N TOP OF THIS THEY MUST BE PREPARED FOR A CONSIDERABLE INVESTMENT TO ESTABLISH THE GROW OP 4HIS INVESTMENT WILL CERTAINLY REPAY ITSELF SINCE THE LOCATION WILL BE USABLE FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME 4HE CHANCE THAT THE OPERATION WILL BE DISCOVERED THANKS TO THE FALSE WALL IS MINIMAL 4HE CHANCE THAT IF IT IS DISCOVERED THE GROWERS WILL BE CAUGHT IS EVEN SMALLER SINCE BESIDES THEIR VISITS THERE IS NOTHING TO CONNECT THEM TO THE PLACE 4HE BRIDGE GROWER CAN EXPECT A YIELD OF TO GRAMS PER SQUARE METRE PER YEAR &OUR HARVESTS PER YEAR ARE CERTAINLY ACHIEVABLE

2IGHT UNDER THE NOSES OF UNSUSPECTING TRAVELLERS WAS AN ENORMOUS PLANTATION

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PHOSPHORUS 0 POTASSIUM + MAGNESIUM -G AND ZINC :N nARE ABLE TO TRANSLOCATE MOVE FROM ONE PORTION OF THE PLANT TO ANOTHER AS NEEDED &OR EXAMPLE NITROGEN ACCUMULATED IN OLDER LEAVES TRANSLOCATES TO YOUNGER LEAVES TO SOLVE A DEFICIENCY 4HE RESULT DEFICIENCY AND EXCESS SYMPTOMS APPEAR ON THE OLDER LOWER LEAVES FIRST )MMOBILE NUTRIENTSn CALCIUM #A BORON " CHLORINE #L COBALT #O COPPER #U IRON &E

MANGANESE -N MOLYBDENUM -O SILICON 3I AND SULFUR 3 nDO NOT TRANS LOCATE TO NEW GROWING AREAS AS NEEDED 4HEY REMAIN DEPOSITED IN THEIR ORIGINAL PLACE IN OLDER LEAVES 4HIS IS THE REASON DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS APPEAR FIRST IN THE UPPER NEW LEAVES ON TOP OF THE PLANT (EAD THIS PROBLEM OFF BEFORE IT GETS ANY WORSE BY FLUSHING THE PLANT CONTAI NERS WITH THREE TIMES THE VOLUME OF WATER TO THE VOLUME OF SOIL &OR EXAMPLE

POUR GALLONS OF WATER THROUGH A GALLON CONTAINER OF SOIL 4HE WATER WILL LEACH OUT ALL THE BUILT UP NUTRIENTS THAT HAVE ACCUMULATED IN THE SOIL /NCE FLUSHED OUT THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED

-Ìi à ) HAVE A LITTLE MORE THAN GRAMS OF STEMS THAT ) HAVE BEEN SAVING FOR QUITE SOME TIME ) HEARD THAT YOU CAN USE THEM TO COOK WITH OR CAN EXTRACT THE 4(# FROM THEM )S ANY OF THIS TRUE )F SO WHAT PROCESS DO YOU RECOMMEND 'UDRUN 3WEDEN 3TEMS CONTAIN LITTLE IF ANY 4(# POTENT RESIN 2ESIN DEGRADES WHEN EXPOSED TO LIGHT AIR OXYGEN AND HEAT 4HE FACT THAT YOU HAVE BEEN KEEPING THE STEMS FOR hQUITE SOME TIMEv GUARANTEES THAT ANY RESIN THEY MAY CONTAIN HAS BEEN BIODE GRADING WHICH WILL DIMINISH WHATEVER RESIN THEY CONTAIN ) NEVER EXPECT TO GET ANY RESIN FROM MY HARVESTED STEMS -Y ADVICE IS TO GRIND THEM UP AND TOSS THEM IN THE COMPOST PILE )N FACT IT IS A BAD IDEA TO KEEP THEM AROUND BECAUSE ACCORDING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT IN MANY 3TATES IN !MERICA THE WORTHLESS BUNK YOU ARE SITTING ON IS hPOTENT HIGH QUALITY CANNABIS v

*ULY IS A DRY MONTH FOR DESCENT BUDS SO ) DECIDED TO SHOW YOU WHAT TO EXPECT IN A FEW MONTHS 4HIS SUGARY BUD TO DATE HAS ON NAME BUT THE GROWER IS THINKING ABOUT CALLING HER h&ROSTY v

iÃÊ vÊ iÃÊÊ ) HAVE ALWAYS MADE MOTHER PLANTS FROM SEED ONLY !LL MY FRIENDS TELL ME ITS /+ TOO MAKE A MOTHER FROM A CLONE ) CAN T SEE HOW THAT COULD BE /+ )T WOULD BE LIKE CLONING OFF A CLONE AND CLONING OFF THAT CLONE ETC 4HIS CAN T BE A GOOD PRACTICE !PPLESEED "UDAPEST & PLANTS GROWN FROM SEED HAVE THE ADDED ADVANTAGE OF HAVING hHYBRID VIGORv WHICH MEANS THAT THIS CROSS WILL GROW ABOUT PERCENT BIGGER AND STRONGER THAN CUT TINGS (YBRID VIGOR ALSO MAKES PLANTS LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO PEST AND DISEASE PROBLEMS #LONES TAKEN FROM & MOTHER PLANTS TAKE ON A PART OF THIS HYBRID VIGOR "UT

AFTER YOU KEEP A FEMALE PLANT GROWN FROM SEED IN THE VEGETATIVE STAGE FOR MORE THAN A COUPLE OF MONTHS THEY TEND TO LOOSE PART OF THEIR hHYBRID VIGOR v /N THE OTHER HAND IF YOU CONTINUE TO GROW MOTHERS FROM SEED YOU MUST BE VERY SURE THAT SUBSEQUENT PLANTINGS ARE FROM SEEDS WITH THE EXACT SAME GENE TIC QUALITIES SO THE CROP REMAINS CONSISTENT

4HIS BUD WAS HARVESTED THREE DAYS AFTER THE PHOTO WAS SNAPPED !S YOU CAN SEE SHE IS MORE THAN A HANDFUL

4AKING CLONES OF CLONES IS NOT A BAD THING ) HAVE INTERVIEWED GROWERS THAT HAVE MADE CLONES OF CLONES MORE THAN TIMES 4HAT IS CLONES # WERE TAKEN FROM THE ORIGINAL FEMALE GROWN FROM SEED 4HESE CLONES WERE GROWN IN THE VEGETATIVE STAGE AND CLONES # WERE TAKEN FROM THE FIRST CLONES # "LOOMING WAS INDUCED IN # TWO WEEKS LATER AND # GROWN IN THE VEGETATIVE STAGE 4HEN CLONES # WERE TAKEN FROM THE SECOND CLONES # 4HIS SAME GROWING TECHNIQUE IS STILL GOING ON WITH CLONES OF CLONES WELL PAST # AND THERE HAS BEEN NO APPARENT BREAKDOWN IN THE POTENCY OR THE VIGOR OF THE CLONE (OWEVER IF MOTHERS SUFFER STRESS THEY PRODUCE WEAK CLONES -OTHERS THAT ARE FORCED TO FLOWER AND REVERT BACK TO VEGETATIVE GROWTH NOT ONLY YIELD LESS THEY ARE STRESSED AND CONFUSED #LONES THAT GROW POORLY ARE GENERALLY THE RESULT OF POOR UNSANITARY CLONING PRACTICES

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> }Ê-ii`Ã (OW LONG AFTER MY MALE PLANTS START SHOWING FLOWERS WILL IT TAKE TO PRODUCE SEED ) KNOW THAT THE MALES ARE LESS POTENT THAN FEMALES BUT ) REALLY NEED THE SEEDS !NY TIPS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED -ARCELLO 2OME 3EEDS ARE PRODUCED ON FEMALE PLANTS /NCE A MALE PLANT STARTS TO FLOWER DEVE LOPING POLLEN SACKS IT WILL TAKE ABOUT TWO WEEKS FOR THE FIRST VIABLE POLLEN TO BE RELEASED /NCE RELEASED MALE POLLEN MUST LAND UPON RECEPTIVE FEMALE PISTILS 4HE MICROSCOPIC POLLEN SLIDES DOWN TO THE BASE OF THE FEMALE PISTIL WHERE IT FERTILIZES THE OVULE LOCATED DEEP WITHIN THE PROTECTIVE SEED BRACT /NCE FERTILIZED THE UNION OF THE POLLEN AND OVULE DEVELOPS INTO AN EMBRYO AND LATER A SEED 4HIS UNION GROWS INTO A SEED THAT IS VIABLE ABOUT FIVE OR SIX WEEKS LATER (ARVEST RIPE SEEDS WHEN THEY ARE WELL FORMED HARD AND FULLY DEVELOPED )N GENERAL SEEDS ARE DARK OR MOTTLED HOWEVER SOME MAY BE TAN IN COLOR "UT IN GENERAL TAN SEEDS ARE IMMATURE /NE OF THE SIMPLE PRE GERMINATION TESTS ) USE TO DISCERN VIABLE SEED IS TO SQUEEZE IT LIGHTLY BETWEEN MY THUMB AND FINGER )F THE SEED IS HARD AND STRONG IT IS PROBABLY VIABLE

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INDOORS AND OUT THAT IS ONLY NOW FINALLY BEING ADDED TO OUR CATALOGUE AND LAUNCHED ON THE MARKET )TS ORIGIN EXPLAINS MUCH OF ITS RELIABILITY AS IT IS A CROSS BETWEEN TWO MUCH APPRECIATED SOLID GENETICS THAT HAVE GIVEN RISE TO AN EXCELLENT HYBRID OF )NDICA DOMINANCE WHOSE SUPERIOR QUALITY HAS ALREADY BEEN PROVEN OVER SEVERAL GENERATIONS 4HE NEW VARIETY SOON TO BE ON SALE IN THE BEST GROWS AND BEFORE THAT IN OUR NEW WEBSITE S VIRTUAL STORE HAS BEEN BAPTISED @7HITE 3IBERIAN )TS ORIGINS LIE IN THE COMBINATION OF TWO OF THE MOST POPULAR GENETIC LINES OF THE LAST TEN YEARS OF THE TH CENTURY ON THE ONE HAND AN )NDICA BRANCH FROM THE @7HITE FAMILY SELECTED BY GROWERS FROM $UTCH SEEDS ON THE OTHER A WELL KNOWN )NDICA ALTHOUGH SHOWING DEFINITE SIGNS OF BEING 3ATIVA HYBRID OBTAINED FROM A $UTCH !+ CLONE KEPT FOR YEARS AND WHOSE GENETIC HAS PROVIDED OUR NEW VARIETY WITH AN UNMISTAKEABLE SWEET AROMA AND RAPID FLOWERING )N ACTUAL FACT THE HISTORY OF EACH OF THE TWO GENETIC BRANCHES THAT MEET IN THIS HYBRID IS JUST AS WORTHY OF ATTENTION AS IS THAT OF THE VARIETY RESULTING FROM THEM !ND BY TAKING A LOOK AT THE INDIVIDUAL HISTORIES WE CAN THEN BETTER UNDERSTAND THE RESULTING HYBRID S MAKE UP AND EVEN MORE SO IF WE CAN HEAR ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE PROCESS DIRECT FROM THE MOUTH OF ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAS BEEN BEHIND THE VARIETY MANAGEMENT FOR YEARS AND WHO TELLS US ALL ABOUT IT IN A FIRST HAND ACCOUNT h/NE OF THE BRANCHES GIVING RISE TO 7HITE 3IBERIAN IS A SELECT !+ STARTING FROM SEEDS FROM WHICH WE OBTAINED AN )NDICA WITH SOME 3ATIVA INPUT SEEN IN THE FORM OF ITS NARROW SHARP LEAVES

AND VERY SPECIAL CHARACTERISTIC SWEET

FRUITY AROMAS 4HE OVERALL APPEARANCE

OF THE RESULTING HYBRID HOWEVER WAS FAR MORE SIMILAR TO THE OTHER CONTRIBUTOR TO THE HYBRID n A CAREFULLYnSELECTED 7HITE 7IDOW THAT GAVE THE PLANT ITS GENERAL LOOK A DEEP GREEN COLOUR AND BROAD FAT LEAVES 4HE FINAL PLANT STRUCTURE CAN BE DEFINED AS HARD WEARING AND RESISTANT 4HIS 7IDOW COMES FROM A CLONE THAT HAD BEEN SELECTED SEVERAL YEARS PREVIOUS FROM $UTCH SEEDS WHEN THERE WAS AS YET NO HINT OF ANY EXISTENCE OF 3PANISH SEED BANKS 4HE CLONE STOOD OUT FOR ITS RELIABLE RESULTS DARK MARIJUANA AND EXCELLENT PRODUCTION WITH A MODERATELY SHORT FLOWERING PERIOD DAYS AND A BLUNT )NDICA APPEARANCE A PLANT FEATURING A DEEP GREEN COLOUR ENORMOUS LEAVES AND A PLASTIC LOOKING EXTERIOR )T IS A VERY SYMMETRICAL STABLE PLANT THAT WITHSTOOD THE COLD OF OUTDOOR GROWS AND YET WAS ALSO APPROPRIATELY SIZED FOR INDOOR GROWS )TS MARIJUANA PRODUCES A MODERATED

RELAXING EFFECT WHILST THE PLANT IS PRODUCTIVE AS MENTIONED WITH A FLAVOUR DESCRIBED AS @CLASSIC REMINISCENT OF HASHISH AND WOOD WITH A FRUITY )NDICA TOUCH BUT FAR LESS SWEET THAN THAT SEEN IN THE OTHER BRANCH OF THE HYBRID 4HE SWEET BRANCH THE !+ SELECTED FOR CROSSING WITH THE 7IDOW GENEALOGICALLY ORIGINATES FROM A CLONE OBTAINED BY $INAFEM GROWERS FOLLOWING THE SELECTION OF A CHAMPION PLANT CHOSEN FROM DIFFERENT SEEDS AN INITIAL SELECTION OF THE BEST WAS MADE FROM WHICH IT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY FOUND THAT !+ NO WAS

THE PERFECT OPTION FOR CROSSING WITH THE 7IDOW PARTICULARLY DUE TO THE RAPID

HIGH QUALITY RESULTS )T HAS SINCE BEEN USED TO OBTAIN THE 7HITE 3IBERIAN !+ NO IS AN )NDICA WITH A 3ATIVA TOUCH n SEEN EXTERNALLY IN THE SHARP APPEARANCE OF ITS LEAVES AND INTERNALLY IN ITS CHARACTERISTIC FLAVOUR )T HAS A REGULAR TENDENCY HOWEVER TO SUFFER MALNUTRITION SHOWING CLEAR SIGNS OF THIS AND YELLOWING IT SUFFERS PARTICULARLY FROM MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY AS IT IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO PROVIDE SUFFICIENT NOURISHMENT TO A PLANT WITH THIS EXPLOSIVE GROWTH 4HE EASE WITH WHICH THE SELECTED CLONE YELLOWS IS NOT A FEATURE HOWEVER THAT HAS BEEN TRANSMITTED TO $INAFEM S NEW 7HITE 3IBERIAN 4HIS OTHER BRANCH OF ITS MAKE UP DIFFERS SIGNIFICANTLY IN ITS PLEASANTLY SWEET FLAVOUR AND POWERFUL 3ATIVA EFFECT

VERY POPULAR GENERALLY FOR MEDICINAL USERS DUE TO ITS CALMING QUALITIES )TS CONTRIBUTION TO THE HYBRID IS THEREFORE SEEN CLEAREST IN THE SWEET AROMAS

PSYCHOACTIVE EFFECT AND RAPID FLOWERING v 4HE FINAL RESULT OF COMBINING THESE TWO POWERFUL GENETIC LINES IS WHAT WE CAN NOW PRESENT YOU WITH $INAFEM S NEW 7HITE 3IBERIAN A HYBRID IN WHICH WE CAN APPRECIATE THE VERY BEST OF THE UNMISTAKEABLE MARK OF THE CLASSIC 7IDOW LINE WITH DENSE

POWERFUL FRUITY MARIJUANA AND A GREAT DEAL OF RESIN THAT COVERS IT FORMING A BRIGHT WHITE LAYER /N THE OTHER HAND THE !+ CONTRIBUTION LEAVES US WITH AN UNMISTAKEABLY SWEET AROMA

PSYCHOACTIVE EFFECT AND RATHER QUICKER FLOWERING THAN FOR THE 7IDOW BRANCH 7E HAVE ALSO SEEN THAT $INAFEM S NEW 7HITE 3IBERIAN IS A VERY GOOD PLANT FOR WORKING WITH CLONES DUE TO ITS EXCELLENT ROOTS AND VEGETATIVE POWER

IT IS GENETICALLY STABLE AND GENERALLY EASY TO GROW AS WELL AS BOASTING GOOD

RELIABLE PRODUCTION 4HE PLANTS DO NOT GROW ABOVE A METRE IN HEIGHT AS LONG AS WE DO NOT OVERDO IT WITH THE GROWTH ENHANCERS MAKING IT THE PERFECT CHOICE FOR INDOOR GROWS YIELDING COMPACT

QUICK PRODUCTIVE PLANTS /UTDOORS ITS RAPID GROWTH MAKES FOR PROBLEM FREE HARVESTING EVEN IN COLDER DAMPER PARTS OF THE PENINSULAR AS IT IS RATHER SENSITIVE TO COLD 7HEN GROWN IN MILDER -EDITERRANEAN CLIMATES WE CAN STRETCH FLOWERING OUT FOR A FEW MORE WEEKS ALLOWING IT TO RIPEN TO OUR TASTE

WITH NO FEAR OF FUNGI 7E CAN THEREFORE EXPLOIT ITS MORE INTENSE AROMAS AND GOOD GROWTH CAPACITY ALLOWING IT TO REACH ITS FULL POTENTIAL BY ENSURING A GOOD CLIMATE AND GROW MEANS TO WHICH IT RESPONDS WITH EXCELLENT QUANTITY AND QUALITY PRODUCTION 3O THIS IS IT IN SHORT A BRIEF PRESENTATION OF THE FIRST OF THE NEW VARIETIES TO BE ADDED TO THE $INAFEM CATALOGUE OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS 7E HAVE CHOSEN TO PRESENT IT NOW CERTAIN IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT IT WILL NOT DISAPPOINT AS IT REALLY IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A HYBRID THAT EVEN $INAFEM S MOST @SPOILT GROWERS ARE QUOTED AS HAVING TERMED IT AS AMONGST THEIR FAVOURITES FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS 3EEDS HAVE THUS BEEN GRADUALLY IMPROVED AND GOOD CLONES PRESERVED

UNTIL FINALLY REACHING THE RESULT WE ARE NOW PROUD TO OFFER YOU THE FEMINISED 7HITE 3IBERIAN THAT COMES WITH THE $INAFEM GUARANTEE OF QUALITY 3HORTLY TO BE AVAILABLE IN THE BEST GROWS AND BEFORE THAT THE MORE IMPATIENT OF YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK AT OUR NEW WEB AS MENTIONED IN OUR LAST 3OFT 3ECRETS ARTICLE AND NOW ALSO FEATURING A NEW FORUM WHERE YOU CAN ALSO BUY THIS NEW VARIETY FROM THE VIRTUAL STORE &OR MORE INFORMATION NEWS OR TO PROVIDE US WITH ANY INTERESTING TITBITS YOU WISH TO SHARE YOU KNOW WHERE TO FIND US AS ALWAYS WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU AT WWW DINAFEM ORG

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END MAKING FOR GERMINATION IN JUST WEEKS AND IN SPITE OF THE ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPERIENCED THROUGHOUT THIS TIME n AS ) SAID DAYS WITH A LOT OF RAIN AND VERY LITTLE SUN !LL IN ALL A PRETTY POSITIVE RESULT

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!UTO FLOWERING VARIETIES ONLY BROKE OUT ONTO THE DOMESTIC MARKET A SHORT TIME AGO BUT HAVE DONE SO PRETTY SUCCESSFULLY 3EVERAL SEED BANKS HAVE NOW ADDED THIS TYPE OF VARIETY TO THEIR ALREADY LARGE VARIED CATALOGUES $UE TO THE GENERAL INTEREST RAISED BY THESE TYPES OF AUTO FLOWERING CANNABIS VARIETIES WE DECIDED TO ORGANISE OUR OWN EXPERIMENTAL GROW TO FIND OUT JUST WHAT THE IDEAL GROW STOCK IS FOR THESE VARIETIES 7E WANT TO HELP OUR CANNABIS GROWERS DISCOVER EXACTLY WHAT TO DO FOR THIS GROW TYPE &IRST OFF WE NEED TO EXPLAIN EXACTLY WHAT AUTO FLOWERING SEEDS ARE !S THE NAME SUGGESTS THESE ARE PLANTS THAT FLOWER INDEPENDENTLY WHATEVER THE PHOTOPERIOD !S SUCH IN JUST A FEW WEEKS AT LEAST IN THEORY THE PLANTS SHOULD BE READY FOR HARVEST AND SET ASIDE FOR DRYING 4HE SELF FLOWERING FEATURE IS THE RESULT OF A RECESSIVE GENE "ECAUSE THE GENE IS RECESSIVE IT IS NATURALLY LOST WHEN THIS TYPE OF PLANT IS CROSSED WITH ANOTHER NORMAL FLOWERING PLANT AS THE NORMAL FLOWERING GENE IS A DOMINANT ONE AND TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER THE SELF FLOWERING OPTION "EFORE BEGINNING THE STUDY WE NEEDED TO RE PLANT THE GROW ON THE BASIS OF THIS VARIETY S GENERAL CHARACTERISTIC THESE ARE PLANTS WITH A SHORT GROWTH CYCLE !ND GIVEN THE BREVITY OF THEIR GROWTH CYCLE THE PLANTS NEED MAXIMUM POSSIBLE EXPOSURE TO SUNLIGHT AND THE BEST TEMPERATURES POSSIBLE TO HELP THE SHORT PHASE OUT /UR FIRST CONCLUSION CAN BE DRAWN STRAIGHTAWAY n DO NOT GROW THESE VARIETIES IN WINTER 4HEY NEED HEAT AND SUNSHINE TWO BASIC ELEMENTS WINTER CANNOT PROVIDE

h"E QUICK IN ALL PHASES $O NOT DELAY OR DEFER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES AS EVEN A MINIMAL ADJOURNMENT LEADS TO A LOSS OF MUCH OF THE PRODUCTIONv

GROWING AND THE SIZE THEY ARE IS THE SIZE THEY REMAIN 4O PROVE THIS WE LEFT SOME PLANTS IN THE SAME SEEDBEDS THEY WERE SOWN IN /NE AND A HALF MONTHS LATER CERTAINLY NO MORE THAN THAT

FLOWERING BEGAN IMMEDIATELY YIELDING A SINGLE MINI MARIJUANA AND GIVING THE PLANT A RATHER LOLLIPOP LIKE APPEARANCE 7HERE GROWTH WAS INSUFFICIENT

PRODUCTION WAS VERY POOR GIVING JUST ONE GRAM PER PLANT !NOTHER CONCLUSION WE CAN DRAW IS THAT YOU HAVE TO BE QUICK IN ALL PHASES $O NOT DELAY OR DEFER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES AS EVEN A MINIMAL ADJOURNMENT LEADS TO A LOSS OF MUCH OF THE PRODUCTION

7E SOWED DIRECTLY INTO THE SEGMENTED TRAYS ON TH -ARCH IN 3PAIN n ED

WITHOUT ANY PRIOR GERMINATION ALTHOUGH WE PUT MORE THAN ONE SEED INTO SOME OF THE SEGMENTS TO ALLOW FOR POSSIBLE FAILURES )N ALL WE SOWED REGULAR SEEDS OF THE 7HITE $WARF VARIETY !S ) WAS SAYING WE USED X X SEGMENTED SEED TRAYS FOR SOWING AND A SUBSTRATE CONSISTING OF A COMMERCIAL BLEND OF ADDITIVE FREE PEAT PEAT MOSS SPHAGNUM PEAT ORGANIC SHEEP S MULCH AND THE REMAINING EXPANDED CLAYS VERMICULITE PERLITE /N RD -ARCH JUST DAYS LATER AND DESPITE INCESSANT RAIN AND VERY LITTLE SUN THE FIRST PLANTLETS BEGAN TO SPROUT "Y TH -ARCH THE NEW PLANTLETS HAD ALREADY SPROUTED A TOTAL OF IN THE

7E CAN ALSO DEDUCE THAT AS THESE ARE SHORT GROWING PLANTS THEY HAVE A FAR LESS VORACIOUS CONSUMPTION OF NITROGENISED FERTILISERS THEREBY REDUCING COST IN TERMS OF NUTRIENTS AND THE HOURS YOU NEED TO PUT IN &OR THIS @CONTROL GROW WE USED APPROPRIATELY COMPOSTED SHEEP S MANURE AS THE SOLE SOURCE OF NUTRITION

WITHOUT SUPPLEMENTING WITH ANY SPECIFIC FERTILISERS GROWTH OR FLOWERING ADDITIVES /NCE COMPOSTED SHEEP S MANURE IS A FAIRLY BALANCED FERTILISER IN ITSELF 'IVEN THE DIVERSITY OF BANKS OFFERING THIS TYPE OF VARIETIES IN THEIR CATALOGUES WE DECIDED TO OPT FOR JUST ONE BANK GIVEN THAT IT WAS THIS OR ALL OF THEM 7E WENT FOR THE @"UDDHA 3EEDS SEED BANK IN 3PAIN 3ELF FLOWERING INSTALLATION

4HE CANNABIS GROWER CAN HOWEVER TAKE OUR EXPERIMENTAL WINTER GROWS AS AN EXAMPLE AS THESE ARE BASICALLY THE SAME GROW TYPE hSHORT GROWTH PHASE AND AUTOMATIC FLOWERINGv 4HE ONLY DIFFERENCE LIES IN THE FACT THAT HERE WE NEED MORE HEAT AND LIGHT INTENSITY !NOTHER FACTOR TO CONSIDER IS THE HORIZONTAL NATURE OF THE GROW DUE TO THE SMALL BEARING OF THESE SELF FLOWERING PLANT VARIETIES 4HE PLANTS ONLY REACH HEIGHTS OF BETWEEN AND CENTIMETRES AND

IN OUR EXPERIENCE THE TOP FIGURES IN ONLY VERY FEW CASES 7E ARE THEREFORE NOT LOOKING TO DEVELOP A VERTICAL GROW BUT RATHER ENTIRELY THE OPPOSITE A HORIZONTAL GROW AND HERE WE HAVE OUR FIRST MINOR PROBLEM WE NEED A LARGER GROW SURFACE THAN FOR NORMAL FLOWERING CANNABIS VARIETIES /N THE OTHER HAND THE GREAT ADVANTAGE OF OUR GROW S LESSER VOLUME

MAKES IT FAR LESS VISIBLE TO PRYING EYES 'IVEN THAT THESE PLANTS FEATURE A VERY SHORT GROWTH PERIOD WE CANNOT TAKE OUR LEAD FROM THE LUNAR CALENDAR AS ONCE FLOWERING BEGINS THE PLANTS SIMPLY STOP

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7E CHOSE A GREENHOUSE BELONGING TO ONE OF OUR COLLABORATORS WHO OFTEN HELPS US WITH CANNABIS FARMING INVESTIGATIONS 4HE GREENHOUSE MEASURED METRES WIDE BY METRES LONG GIVING US A GROWING SURFACE OF SQUARE METRES 7E SET UP A SINGLE DEEP BED IN THE CENTRE OF THE GREENHOUSE IN WHICH THE GROW WAS ORGANISED

LANDSCAPING IT WITH RECYCLABLE WOOD FORMING A LARGE BED 4HE GREENHOUSE WAS COVERED BY A SHADE MESH

LIMITING EXPOSURE TO SUNLIGHT BUT GUARANTEEING MAXIMUM DISCRETION &OR THIS TYPE OF STUDY GROW SECURITY COMES FIRST AND FOREMOST 4HE GROW SOIL WAS SUPPLEMENTED WITH KILOGRAMS OF EXCELLENT SIFTED SHEEP S MANURE COMPOST PER SQUARE METRE OF GROW SURFACE

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/NCE PLANTS HAD BEEN DEFINITIVELY TRANSPLANTED INTO THE GREENHOUSE

THEY WERE SET UP WITH A LOCALISED AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTED WATERING SYSTEM

WITH THE AIM OF PROVIDING AS BALANCED A WATER SUPPLY AS POSSIBLE 4HE DEFINITIVE TRANSPLANT TO THE GROW AREA TOOK PLACE ON TH !PRIL 4HREE GROW LINES WERE SET UP EACH WITH PLANTS MAKING FOR A TOTAL OF SELF FLOWERING PLANTS HAVING PREVIOUSLY MADE A SELECTION OF ALL THOSE GERMINATED IN TERMS OF EARLY RESPONSE AND VIGOUR 7E WANTED TO DRAW AS MANY CONCLUSIONS AS POSSIBLE TO PROVIDE AS A PRECEDENT FOR SELF FLOWERING GROWS AND TO GIVE THE CANNIBAL GROWER WISHING TO START GROWING THESE VARIETIES AS MUCH INFORMATION AS POSSIBLE !LTHOUGH THE PLANTS WERE SOWN CENTIMETRES APART

BOTH IN TERMS OF ROWS AND COLUMNS

WE COULD IN FACT HAVE SOWN THEM CLOSER AND THEREBY EITHER INCREASED THE NUMBER OF PLANTS OR REDUCED THE GROW SURFACE 7E HAD HOWEVER DECIDED THAT THIS WAS THE IDEAL SITUATION BY WHICH TO ENCOURAGE THE GREATEST PENETRATION OF THE SUN S RAYS IN THE LOW AREAS OF EACH PLANT (AVING PLACED MORE THAN ONE SEED PER SEGMENT DURING SOWING

IN ADDITION TO FINDING OURSELVES WITH THE TRAY SUBSTRATE SOAKED BY THE RAINY CLIMATE WE ALSO HAD TO CARRY OUT VIRTUALLY ALL TRANSPLANTS WITH BARE ROOTS CONSEQUENTLY STRESSING THE LITTLE PLANTLETS !S THE PLANTLETS WERE SO YOUNG IN ORDER TO RELIEVE THE STRESS SUFFERED DURING TRANSPLANT WE COVERED THEM WITH TRANSPARENT PLASTIC CUPS

CREATING A SORT OF MINI GREENHOUSE

AND PIERCING THE TOPS TO ENCOURAGE AN INTERCHANGE OF GASSES BETWEEN THE INSIDE OF THE CUP AND THE OUTSIDE "EING SO SMALL THE PLANTS ALSO RUN THE RISK OF SUFFERING A SNAIL AND SLUG ATTACK WHICH WOULD BE DISASTROUS GIVEN THE PLANTS SMALL SIZE BUT BY COVERING THEM WITH THE CUPS WE ALSO AVOIDED THIS RISK BUT NOT WITHOUT FIRST HAVING SEEN A COUPLE OF THE LOWER PARTS SUFFER

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/N TH !PRIL THE GREENHOUSE CUPS WERE REMOVED BECAUSE THE PLANTS HAD ALREADY GROWN $ESPITE HAVING TRANSPLANTED WITH BARE ROOTS AND HAVING DONE SO ON TH !PRIL A DAY ON WHICH THERE WAS A WAXING MOON ONLY ONE OF THE PLANTLETS FAILED WHICH WAS DULY REPLACED 4HE REST OF THE SURVIVING PLANTS WERE GIVEN TO OTHER COLLABORATORS TO BE GROWN AS THEY PREFERRED TO ALLOW US TO COMPARE NOTES AND DRAW FURTHER CONCLUSIONS SUPPLEMENT IS NECESSARY LESS SO THAN FOR NORMAL FLOWERING PLANTS BUT SUPPLEMENTS ARE NEEDED ! PERFECT GROWTH PHASE IS FUNDAMENTAL TO OBTAINING REASONABLE SIZE PLANTS OTHERWISE THE MARIJUANA HARVESTED WILL BE DERISORY 4HE GROWTH PHASE WAS VERY QUICK %VERY DAY THAT PASSED SHOWED CLEAR GROWTH 3OME OF THE PLANTS BEGAN OVERTAKING THE OTHERS IN SIZE EARLY ON 0LANTS RESPONDED WELL TO THE FERTILISER USED AND TO HIGH P( AROUND P( WATER 7E FINALLY BEGAN SEEING SOME SUNNY DAYS IN !PRIL ALLOWING GROWTH TO PROGRESS TO OUR GREAT SATISFACTION 4OWARDS THE END OF !PRIL SO IN JUST THREE WEEKS WE OBSERVED A STRONG FINAL GROWTH SPURT IN SOME PLANTS MARKING THE START OF FLOWERING 4HE FIRST MALES BEGAN SHOWING THEIR PRE FLOWERS AND AS SOON AS THE MASCULINE PRE FLOWERS BECAME EVIDENT WE COULD ALSO SEE THE CLUSTERS OF THE MALE FLOWERS

MEANING THAT PRE SEXING WAS SIMPLY NOT POSSIBLE 0RE SEXING CANNOT BE CARRIED OUT IN THIS TYPE OF SELF FLOWERING CANNABIS BECAUSE AS SOON AS IT SHOWS ITS SEX IT BEGINS TO FLOWER -UCH LIKE ANIMALS n WHEN A FEMALE COMES ON HEAT FOR THE FIRST TIME SHE IS READY FOR MATING AND SELF FLOWERING VARIETIES ARE SIMILAR ONCE THEY REACH SEXUAL MATURITY AT AROUND ONE AND A HALF MONTHS OLD THEY START TO FLOWER

PRODUCING SEEDS BUT WE WOULD HAVE HAD TO SACRIFICE SOME OF THE PLANTS AND REDUCE OUR EXPERIMENTAL SUPPLY

SO WE INSTEAD CONTINUED WITH OUR INITIAL STUDY ALSO CONSIDERING THAT THE PEOPLE LOOKING TO BUY THIS TYPE OF SEED GENERALLY WANT TO HARVEST MARIJUANA WITHOUT SEEDS AND CONSUME IT 7E ENDED UP WITH A FINAL COUNT OF MALES AND FEMALES SO MALES IN TOTAL !LL THIS CONSIDERING THAT BETTER GROWING CONDITIONS WOULD HAVE GIVEN US A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF FEMALES 4HE MALES REACHED BETWEEN AND CENTIMETRES IN HEIGHT ALTHOUGH WE MUST ADMIT THAT WE NATURALLY DID NOT GIVE THEM THE CHANCE TO GROW FURTHER

TO AVOID THE RISK OF THEIR FLOWERS OPENING AND FREEING UP THE POLLEN !S SUCH WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT SIZE THEY COULD EVENTUALLY HAVE ATTAINED

$URING THE FIRST WEEK OF -AY ALL THE MALE EXAMPLES HAD ALREADY BEGUN FLOWERING !T FIRST WE THOUGHT OF POLLINATING TO SEE IF THEY WERE

7E REPLANTED NORMAL FLOWERING PLANTS INTO OF THE CENTRAL HOLES LEFT BY THE REMOVED MALES SHARING THE GROW 4HE IDEA WAS TO HAVE PROPERLY SETTLED

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"ARE ROOT TRANSPLANT PLANTS IN FULL GROWTH PHASE FOR WHEN IT WAS TIME TO HARVEST THE SELF FLOWERING VARIETY FEMALES 4HE DISADVANTAGE IS THE GROWTH SPEED OF THE NORMAL FLOWERING VARIETIES UNDER THESE GROW CONDITIONS "EFORE THE SELF FLOWERING PLANTS SURROUNDING THE NORMAL PLANTS HAD REACHED MID FLOWERING THEY WERE ENTIRELY SHADED WITH THE CONSEQUENT DECREASE IN PRODUCTION THAT FOLLOWED &ROM THIS WE CAN DRAW ANOTHER CONCLUSION IF GROWING IN SOIL AND IN THE SAME AREA WE NEED TO GROW THE NORMAL PLANTS IN FLOWERPOTS UNTIL THE SELF FLOWERING VARIETIES ARE LESS THAN A WEEK FROM HARVEST 7E CAN THEN SUPPLEMENT THE SOIL WITH NEW ORGANIC AND MINERAL SUBSTANCES IF NECESSARY

OR NOT IF THE SELF FLOWERING PLANTS ARE COMPLETING FLOWERING AS THIS COULD ALTER METABOLIC FUNCTION AND CAUSE OTHER PROBLEMS /NCE THE MALE PLANTS HAD BEEN SACRIFICED THE FEMALES ENTERED THEIR LAST GROWTH PHASE 4HE PLANTS GREW SURPRISINGLY WELL )F TRUTH BE TOLD AT THE START SEEING HOW THE PLANTS WE LEFT IN THE SEED TRAYS WERE BEHAVING

WE THOUGHT THAT THE PLANTS WOULD HAVE GROWN TO AROUND CENTIMETRES OR JUST OVER 3OME EXAMPLES REACHED DOUBLE THE SIZE THEY HAD BEEN PRIOR TO STARTING FLOWERING AND JUST ONE WEEK AFTER HAVING REMOVED THE MALES ALL THE FEMALES HAD BEGUN FLOWERING 4WO GROWTH TYPES WERE NOTED PLANTS WITH A GREATER )NDICA TENDENCY AND OTHERS WITH A GREATER 3ATIVA TENDENCY THAT IS SHORTER PLANTS AVERAGING BETWEEN CENTIMETRES AND TALLER PLANTS AVERAGING BETWEEN IN MORE THAN ONE CASE EVEN REACHING THE EXTREMELY RESPECTABLE HEIGHT OF ONE METRE WHICH FOR THIS TYPE OF PLANT ) THINK IS A REAL ACHIEVEMENT 3O IF WE DO THE MATHS WE END UP WITH AN AVERAGE HEIGHT OF THIS VARIETY OF CENTIMETRES AGAIN HOWEVER ALWAYS CONSIDERING THE GROW CONDITIONS OF THIS STUDY AS EXPLAINED AT THE START 0LANT FLOWERING BEGAN SLOWLY AS IN ALL CANNABIS VARIETIES 4HE MARIJUANA BEGAN TO FEED AS THE CLOCKS TICKED )N THE FIRST WEEK OF *UNE GROW WAS PLENTIFUL WITH ALL THE FEMALES FLOWERING NORMALLY AT A GOOD RATE *UST WEEKS LATER THE PLANTS WERE READY /N TH *UNE IT WAS TIME FOR HARVEST 3OME PLANTS YIELDED MARIJUANA

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MEASURING CENTIMETRES IN DIAMETER AND ONLY A FEW OF JUST CENTIMETRES WHICH WERE THOSE LOOKING THE SLIMMEST .OW AT THE POINT WHERE THE PLANTS HAD BEEN HARVESTED WE ONLY NEEDED TO DRY THEM OUT AND SEE WHAT THE SCALES HAD TO TELL US "EFORE GIVING OUT THE FINAL DATA WE HAVE TO MENTION A FACT THAT PLEASANTLY SURPRISED US AND WHICH WE WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THE TREMENDOUS RESINOUS QUALITY OF THE FLORAL CALYXES AS WELL

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AS THE NEARBY LEAVES AND STEMS 4HE DENSITY OF THE NUMBER OF TRICHOMES AND THE VISIBILITY TO THE NAKED EYE

WAS ALSO SOMETHING WE HAD NOT DARED TO HOPE FOR !T THE START WE THOUGHT THAT THESE VARIETIES WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PARTICULARLY RESINOUS THAT THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN FAIRLY HEMP LIKE 7E WERE THEREFORE PLEASANTLY SURPRISED TO SEE THE QUANTITY OF RESIN PRESENTED

BY THE MARIJUANA UNDER A X FIELD MICROSCOPE .OTHING UNUSUAL IF

/NE OF THE PLANTS GIVEN TO OTHER GROWERS

WE COMPARE IT WITH OTHER RESINOUS VARIETIES OF CANNABIS BUT SIMPLY A NICE SURPRISE THAT EXCEEDED OUR EXPECTATIONS

LAST TWO WEEKS THAT WE BEGAN TO SEE SIGNS OF THE PRESENCE OF TWO OF THE MOST COMMONLY FOUND INFESTATIONS OF THE TIME APHIDS AND WHITE MOULD

)N ADDITION TO THIS HIGH RESINOUS QUALITY WE ALSO NEED TO ADD THE INTENSE AROMA RELEASED BY THE FEMALE FLOWERING TIPS OR RATHER

THE MARIJUANA 4HE AROMA TO THE DETRIMENT OF OUR APPREHENSIVE ATTEMPT AT DISCRETION COULD BE NOTED CLEARLY AS WE APPROACHED THE GREENHOUSE /NE SIGNIFICANT FACT AND SOMETHING WORTH NOTING IS THAT WHILST HARVESTING THE PLANTS THE AROMA COULD BE SMELT FOR A GOOD COUPLE OF ACRES

7HITE MOULD TO THE MISFORTUNE OF EASTERN CANNABIS GROWERS AND THOSE IN SIMILAR CLIMATE ZONES IS GRADUALLY INVADING OUR GROWS MAKING SPECIFIC TREATMENTS A MUST THROUGHOUT DEVELOPMENT CYCLES 7E CAN LEAVE IT NO BREATHING SPACE WHATSOEVER 4REATMENT IS REQUIRED REGULARLY ONCE IT HAS TAKEN UP HOME IN OUR CANNABIS GARDENS !ND DOING SO TOO LATE OR TOO EARLY CAUSES IT TO REAPPEAR 4HE WHITE MOULD ATTACK TOOK PLACE AT THE END OF FLOWERING AND AS SUCH REALLY ONLY DAMAGED THE LOOK OF THE PLANTS )T DID NOT AFFECT A SINGLE CROP OF MARIJUANA 7HAT WE DO NOT KNOW IS EXACTLY WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED HAD THE MOULD ATTACKED DURING THE GROWTH STAGE )T IS A REAL SHAME THAT WE DID NOT HAVE THE CHANCE TO DISCOVER THE

4HROUGHOUT THE VARIOUS PHASES OF THE PROJECT IN THE SAME WAY AS WE DID FOR THE SUPPLEMENT WE THOUGHT THAT THE BEST THING WAS TO TEST THIS VARIETY S RESISTANCE TO POSSIBLE PATHOGENIC AGENTS THAT CAN ARISE

WITHOUT HOWEVER TREATING WITH ANY PHYTOSANITARY SUBSTANCE 7E WANTED TO SEE THE GENERAL HEALTH OF THIS SELF FLOWERING VARIETY AND ITS IMMUNE SYSTEM S NATURAL RESPONSE WHERE NOT STRENGTHENED EXCEPT BY DIET ALONE

CONSISTING OF THE SOLE BASIC SUPPLY OF SHEEP S MANURE COMPOST USED THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT 7E DECIDED NOT TO APPLY ANY PREVENTATIVE OR CURATIVE TREATMENTS 7E WANTED TO LET THE PLANT REACT ON ITS OWN

CONSIDERING THAT THE GROW DEVELOPED DURING A SEASON IN WHICH HUMIDITY

LIGHT AND HEAT CONDITIONS ARE SIMPLY PERFECT FOR THE VARIOUS COMMON PLAGUES SUCH AS APHIDS

7HITE MOULD SHOWS UP DURING FLOWERING

4HE PLANTS INTERACTION FACED WITH THE MEDIUM IN WHICH THEY WERE DEVELOPING

WAS ENTIRELY POSITIVE THROUGHOUT GROWTH 4HIS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A COUPLE OF PLANTS WHICH RIGHT FROM THE START HAD SHOWN SIGNS OF DIETARY PROBLEMS

SOME CONGENITAL WEAKNESS AND WHICH WERE IN THE END THE SHORTER RESULTS AND THOSE WITH LEAST PRODUCTION GIVING CM OF HEIGHT AND A PRODUCTION OF JUST GRAMS DRIED MARIJUANA PER PLANT )T WAS ONLY AT THE END OF FLOWERING IN THE

h)N ADDITION TO THIS HIGH RESINOUS QUALITY

WE ALSO NEED TO ADD THE INTENSE AROMA RELEASED

BY THE FEMALE FLOWERING TIPS OR RATHER THE MARIJUANAv END RESULT AND IF THE PLANT WOULD HAVE BEEN STRENGTHENED PRIOR TO THE ATTACK AND AVOIDED ITS FUNGUS INFECTION OF THE MARIJUANA #ANNABIS GROWERS LOOKING TO EXPERIMENT WITH THIS TYPE OF VARIETY

SHOULD CONSIDER THAT PREVENTATIVE TREATMENT AGAINST CRYPTOGAMIC DISEASES

AND WHITE MOULD IN PARTICULAR IS A MUST !PHIDS HOWEVER ARE ANOTHER STORY !PHIDS OR PLANT LICE ARE INSECTS THAT REPRODUCE QUICKLY BOTH THROUGH OVIPARITY BY LAYING EGGS AND VIVIPARITY FEMALES GIVING BIRTH TO SMALL LIVE APHIDS 4HIS IS WHY FACED WITH SUCH A HIGH POTENTIAL BIOTIC FACTOR AS ARE APHIDS AND CONSIDERING THAT IN LESS THAN DAYS AN INFESTATION CAN BE EXTENDED TO VIRTUALLY THE WHOLE GREENHOUSE

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REACHING VERY HIGH LEVELS IN SOME PLANTS THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE OTHER THAN TO APPLY ECOLOGICAL TREATMENT AGAINST POSSIBLE APHID ATTACKS )N ORDER TO ACT AGAINST BOTH PLAGUES PREVENTATIVELY WE CAN CARRY OUT TREATMENTS WITH DECOCTION OF HORSETAIL MIXED WITH NETTLE PURINE 7ITH THE RELEVANT AIR AND SUN CONDITIONS

THE DRYING PHASE WAS VERY QUICK )N JUST ONE WEEK PLANTS WERE READY FOR MANICURE $RYING WAS PERHAPS TOO QUICK FOR OUR TASTE 7E TEND TO PREFER SLOW DRIES THAT RESULT IN AN END GRASS WITH GREATER TEXTURE PALATE AND AROMA

EXALTING ALL ITS NUANCES $ESPITE THE MARIJUANA BEING A LITTLE TOO DRY

THE PLANTS THAT YIELDED THE LEAST AS MENTIONED EARLIER GAVE US JUST GRAMS OF DRIED MANICURED MARIJUANA PER PLANT 4HE PLANTS PRODUCING THE MOST WERE NOT THE TALLEST BUT RATHER THOSE OF MEDIUM HEIGHT 4HEIR PRODUCTION REACHED GRAMS 7ITH COMPLETE WEIGHING OF EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THE FORTY THREE FEMALE PLANTS HARVESTED THE SCALES REPORTED A GRAND TOTAL OF GRAMS PRODUCED

GIVING US AN AVERAGE OF GRAMS PER PLANT TO WHICH WE SHOULD ADD THAT IF SPECIFIC FERTILISERS HAD BEEN USED FOR THE FLOWERING PHASE WE WOULD HAVE OBTAINED AN AVERAGE FURTHER PRODUCTION OF OR GRAMS PER PLANT MAKING FOR AN OVERALL AVERAGE OF GRAMS PER PLANT n MORE OR LESS THE AVERAGE PRODUCTION FOR QUICK GROWING INDOOR GROWS

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/N THE OTHER HAND AND TO DRAW THIS STUDY TO A CLOSE WE MUST POINT OUT THAT THE REST OF THE SURVIVING PLANTS THAT WERE GIVEN TO AND GROWN BY OTHER CANNABIS

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GROWERS WORKING WITH US ALLOW US TO DRAW A GREAT MANY CONCLUSIONS SOME OF WHICH WE HAVE ALREADY GIVEN YOU 4HE GREATEST SIZE REACHED BY THE PLANTS WE GAVE AWAY GROWN IN PLANT POTS OR DIRECTLY IN THE SOIL WAS NO MORE THAN CENTIMETRES 4HIS WAS THE AVERAGE HEIGHT WE HAD ORIGINALLY ESTIMATED BUT REMEMBER THAT THIS WAS ALSO THE SHORTEST HEIGHT REACHED BY A PLANT IN OUR TEST GREENHOUSE !LL COLLABORATORS GROWING IN WEIGHED SOILS DEFINED THE PLANT APPEARANCE IN THE SAME WAY IT LOOKS LIKE AN ENDIVE 7E CAN NOW TELL YOU THAT THEY ALL MADE THE SAME MISTAKES .ONE OF THEM TRANSPLANTED THEIR PLANTS QUICKLY THEY ALL DELAYED BY A FEW DAYS

WASTING VALUABLE HOURS MINUTES AND SECONDS 7E MUST INSIST YOU HAVE TO BE QUICK WITH THESE VARIETIES 4HE FEW WHO GREW IN THE SOIL DID TRANSPLANT QUICKLY BUT ALSO FAILED TO WORK THE GROW SOIL SUFFICIENTLY LEAVING IT ONLY SLIGHTLY MULCHED AND NOT AT ALL LOOSE 4HEY SAW HOW GROWTH WAS SLOWED

CONCLUDING THE GROWTH PHASE WITHOUT EVEN HAVING REACHED A MINIMUM SIZE !ND THE OTHERS WHO WERE QUICK AND USED MULCHED SOILS OBSERVED THAT THE LACK OF SUFFICIENT LIGHTING DUE TO HAVING POSITIONED THEM OUT OF SIGHT WHEN WITH THIS SIZE THEY ARE OUT OF SIGHT ANYWAY CREATED AN ENTIRELY OPPOSITE EFFECT A SLOWED RUNNING TO SEED AND NO SIDE BRANCHES WITH THE NUMBER OF MALES REACHING VERY HIGH PROPORTIONS IN EXCESS OF AND THE FEW FEMALES HARVESTED YIELDED THE SAME POOR RESULTS OR JUST OR GRAMS PER PLANT AS WAS OBTAINED IN THE PLANTS THAT HAD BEEN KEPT IN THE SEED TRAYS

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2OYAL !UTOMATIC IS A FEMINISED @AUTO FLOWERING VARIETY FROM 2OYAL 1UEEN 3EEDS AND THIS REPORT COVERS THE STAGGERINGLY FAST GROW BLOOM PERIOD OF THIS AMAZING STRAIN &OUR 2OYAL !UTO SEEDS WERE PUT IN @2OOT RIOT BLOCKS AND PLACED IN THE METRE X METRE X METRE HIGH VEG AREA

WHICH HAD JUST HAD SOME NEW SHINY -YLAR PUT ON THE WALLS 4HEY SAT UNDER A WATT - (ALIDE LAMP FIXED TO A FRESHLY POLISHED CURVED ALLOY REFLECTOR AT A DISTANCE OF INCHES &OR THE NEXT DAYS THIS WOULD BE THEIR HOME ALONG WITH VARIOUS CUTTINGS THAT WOULD COME AND GO OVER THE NEXT TWO MONTHS 4HE PLAN FOR THE GROW WAS THIS THREE OF THE PLANTS WERE TO GROW IN A BASE OF " #UZZ KILOMIX AND WOULD GROW IN A NORMAL @CHEAP TOMATO GROW BAG MIXED WITH 0ERLITE IN A RATIO OF "Y DAY THREE ALL SEEDLINGS WERE UP SO ) PUT THEM IN THEIR BASE MIXES IN INCH POTS AND WATERED IN WELL /VER THE NEXT TEN DAYS THINGS WENT WITHOUT A HITCH AND ) MOVED THE BABY PLANTS PROGRESSIVELY CLOSER OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS UNTIL THEY WERE ABOUT INCHES FROM THE LAMP /N DAY ) GAVE A ML DOSE OF .ITROZYME AN ORGANIC GROWTH ENHANCER TO TWO OF THE PLANTS IN THE " #UZZ MIX /N DAY ) NIPPED THE TOP OFF ONE OF THE PLANTS IN THE " #UZZ MIX AND RE POTTED ALL FOUR PLANTS INTO FIVE INCH POTS ) ALSO GAVE THE @NIPPED OUT ONE ANOTHER ML OF .ITROZYME 4HE REASON ) DIDN T POT STRAIGHT INTO THEIR FINAL TEN INCH POTS IS BECAUSE OF THE RESTRICTED SIZE OF THE VEG AREA AND THE FACT THAT IT WAS AT THAT TIME @BURSTING WITH SOON TO BE MOVED CLONES $AY AND THE @NIPPED OUT PLANT WAS SHOWING HER FIRST FLOWERS WHETHER THIS WAS DOWN TO THE TWO DOSES OF .ITROZYME OR NOT ) CAN T BE SURE "UT THE OTHER PLANT ) @DOSED WASN T FLOWERING JUST GETTING TALLER 4HE THIRD ONE THAT HAD HAD NOTHING WAS LOOKING THE SEXIEST IN HER GROWTH STRUCTURE AND THE ONE THAT WAS IN THE CHEAP MIX WAS DOINGxIF ) M HONEST BADLY $AY AND THE TALLEST PLANT STARTED TO FLOWER $AY AND THE THIRD @SEXY PLANT STARTED TO FLOWER 4HE ONE IN THE CHEAP MIX JUST SAT AT FOUR INCHES TALL DOING NOTHING MUCH AT ALL BUT SHE WAS STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE "Y DAY THE TEMPERATURE IN THE ROOM HAD GOT QUITE HIGH DUE TO A REAL HOT SPELL WE WERE HAVING 7HEN IT GOT CLOSE TO DEGREES ) HAD TO ADD ANOTHER INCH FAN TO THE TWO THAT WERE ALREADY IN THERE AND ANOTHER INCH FAN BLOWING AIR IN FROM ANOTHER COOLER ROOM 4HIS RESULTED IN A GRAND TOTAL DROP OF DEGREE 3O ) MOVED THE LAMP IN THE VEG ROOM UP SIX INCHES

THIS CREATED A TEMPERATURE AT THE TOP OF THE PLANTS OF ABOUT DEGREES MUCH BETTER "Y DAY ALL FOUR PLANTS WERE FLOWERING

TWO OF THEM THE .ITROZYME ONES WERE

FLOWERING REALLY WELL AND THE THIRD WAS A BIT SLOWER !S FOR THE FOUR INCH HIGH ONE IN THE CHEAP MIX IT WAS LOOKING COMPLETELY BIZARRE ! MINIATURE FLOWERING @POT PLANT VERY WEIRD 2OUND ABOUT THIS TIME

THE PLANTS START TO SMELL QUITE STRONG

ESPECIALLY WHEN THE LIGHT IS OUT $AY AND ) POT THREE OF THE FOUR PLANTS INTO A FRESH MIX OF " #UZZ IN INCH POTS "Y DAY IT WAS BECOMING VERY APPARENT THAT THESE PLANTS WERE GOING TO BECOME A PROBLEM BECAUSE OF THEIR SMELL THEY REALLY STINK ) VE HAD SOME STINKERS IN MY TIME BUT THESE WERE SOMETHING ELSE ) DON T HAVE FILTERS ON MY VEG ROOM BECAUSE WELL BASICALLY ) VE NEVER NEEDED THEM %VEN THOUGH SOME PLANTS CAN SMELL A BIT IN VEG ) HAVEN T FOUND IT TOO MUCH OF A PROBLEM )T S NOT JUST THAT ) HAVE @BUDDING @BABES IN A PLACE THAT ISN T SUITED FOR @BUDDING SMELLS IT S THE FACT THAT THESE FOUR PLANTS SMELL LIKE $AY AND THE SMELL IS OUT OF CONTROL !LL FOUR PLANTS ARE DOING REALLY WELL EVEN THOUGH ONE IS JUST A FOUR INCH BUD ON A STICK 4HE @FAN LEAVES ON THE PLANTS WERE

TURNING A SLIGHTLY LIGHT YELLOW GREEN AS YOU WOULD EXPECT TO SEE AT THE VERY END OF A BLOOM EXCEPT THIS WASN T !S ) HAD NO IDEA WHAT SORT OF FEEDING REGIME TO FOLLOW WITH THESE PLANTS ) DECIDED EARLY ON ONLY TO FEED THEM IF IT APPEARED NECESSARY AND AS IT DID ) OBLIGED THEM WITH A ML DOSE OF #ANNA 4ERRA &LORES ) ALWAYS THINK IF YOU DON T KNOW THE PLANT STRAIN YOU RE GROWING THEN BE AS @STINGY AS YOU LIKE WITH THE NUTRIENTS AND ONLY GO FOR HIGHER DOSES WHEN YOU VE GOT TO KNOW THE PLANT STRAIN BETTER "Y DAY THE SMELL WAS SO STRONG THAT ) COULD SMELL IT OUTSIDE IN OUR GARDEN SHIT %VERY ROOM IN THE HOUSE STINKS THE SMELL IS IN FACT BLOODY LOVELY A REALLY HEAVY COFFEE SPICE HASH SKUNK SMELL )F YOU RE GOING TO GROW THIS STRAIN ) CAN T STRESS ENOUGH THE IMPORTANCE OF A FIRST CLASS FILTER SYSTEM $AY AND ALL THE PLANTS ARE FLOWERING LIKE MAD INCLUDING THE @BONSAI 4HE RESIN PRODUCTION WASN T HUGE AT FIRST BUT NOW SEEMS TO BE FLOWING WELL !ND THE

SMELL IS AS STRONG AS EVER $AY AND THE LEAVES ON ALL THE PLANTS ARE SUGGESTING ) SHOULD HAVE FED THEM MORE BUT AT THIS LATE STAGE ) VE DECIDED TO CARRY ON WITH JUST WATER AND NO NUTRIENTS $AY AND ALL THE PLANTS ARE AT THAT @FATTENING STAGE 4HE FLORAL @RUSH OF THE LAST FEW WEEKS HAS SLOWED AND NOW THE INDIVIDUAL FLOWER BASES ARE SWELLING LIKE MAD AND GLISTENING RESIN CAN BE SEEN SPREADING 4HE SMELL IS NOW AT IT S PEAK ) CAN HONESTLY SAY ) HAVE NEVER SMELT ANYTHING THIS STRONG ) M WONDERING IF THE - (ALIDE IS CONTRIBUTING TO THE PRODUCTION OF THE @ SMELL ) DO KNOW THAT DIFFERENT RANGES OF THE COLOUR SPECTRUM ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR AMONGST OTHER THINGS RESIN PRODUCTION AND SO PERHAPS ALSO SMELL )T WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF THEY SMELLED AS MUCH GROWN UNDER A 3ODIUM $AY AND ALL THE PLANTS ARE SWELLING WELL 4HE LOWER BUDS ON TWO PLANTS THE .ITROZYME ONES ARE ALREADY STARTING TO BROWN A LITTLE !S THIS IS A NEW STRAIN TO ME ) OCCASIONALLY CHECK THE ROOTS ON THE

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PLANTS )T APPEARS THAT THIS @AUTO STRAIN DOESN T PRODUCE MASSES AND MASSES OF THICK @HAIRY ROOTS SO IT LOOKS LIKE THE INCH POTS WERE BIG ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE THESE FAST FLOWERING BABES $AY AND ALL FOUR PLANTS LOOK READY TO FINISH 4HE BIGGER LEAVES AND SOME OF THE SMALLER ON ALL PLANTS BY NOW HAD TURNED A LIGHT YELLOW GREEN SO ) TOOK MOST OF THEM OFF 4HE SMELL FROM THE PLANTS HAD NOW SUBSIDED THANK 'OD $AY AND ALL THE PLANTS ARE READY TO HARVEST 4HEY WERE ONLY COVERED WITH BROWN @HAIRS BUT LOOKING AT THE RESIN GLANDS THROUGH A X MAGNIFIER

) COULD SEE THAT QUITE A LOT HAD ALREADY TURNED AMBER MILKY -ANICURING THE PLANTS WAS A DODDLE AS ) HAD ALREADY TAKEN OFF MUCH OF THE LEAF ) HUNG THEM IN A DARK CUPBOARD WITH A SMALL FAN BLOWING THROUGH THEM ) COULD TELL THEY WOULDN T TAKE LONG TO DRY AS THEY FELT HARD HEAVY AND DRY !FTER DAYS IN THE CUPBOARD ) PUT THEM IN A JAR MINUS ITS TOP AND PUT THEM IN ANOTHER DRY AIRY DARK CUPBOARD !FTER FIVE MORE DAYS THEY WERE GOOD TO SMOKE

!S 2OYAL !UTOMATIC DRIES YOU GET THAT SUPER PUNGENT SMELL WHICH FADES AFTER FIVE OR SIX DAYS 7HEN THE BUD IS DRY IT DOESN T SMELL OF MUCH UNTIL YOU BREAK IT OPEN 7OW 4HE SMELL IS A DEEP COFFEE SPICE CHOCOLATE SKUNK 7HEN YOU SKIN UP YOU CAN SMELL IT ALL ROUND THE HOUSE WITHIN MINUTES AND THAT S BEFORE YOU EVEN LIGHT IT 7HEN YOU DO LIGHT 2OYAL !UTOMATIC YOU ARE INSTANTLY ENGULFED IN MASSES OF THICK BLUE SMOKE THAT SMELLS LIKE VERY EXPENSIVE CIGARS MIXED WITH !FGHAN "LACK WITH THAT SPICY COFFEE SMELL CARRYING IT 4HE STONE IS AT FIRST @HEAVY GIVING WAY TO A MORE SOCIABLE @UP STONE 4HE MORE YOU SMOKE IT THE MORE @SOCIALLY STONED YOU BECOME !FTER A FEW JOINTS YOU GET @DRY EYE SYNDROME /VERALL THE STONE IS LONG LASTING AND @UP Y IN A @MASHED SORT OF WAY )T DOESN T LEAVE YOU WITH A DULL FUZZY HEAD IN THE MORNING AFTER A HEAVY NIGHT SMOKING IT 4HE YIELD WAS SURPRISING AS THE WHOLE AFFAIR WAS OVER IN JUST DAYS 4HE HIGHEST YIELDER WAS THE TALLEST PLANT IT DIDN T LOOK THE MOST BUT IT HAD SUPER DENSE BUDS GIVING JUST OVER GRAMS

3O ARE !UTOMATICS THE WAY TO GO 7ELL

THEY DO SEEM TO GIVE YOU SUPER FAST GOOD QUALITY BUD WITH A FAIR YIELD CONSIDERING THE SHORT TIME PERIOD AND YOU CAN GET THEM FEMINIZED AND THERE ARE AN EVER INCREASING NUMBER OF VARIETIES BECOMING AVAILABLE SO THAT S GOOD "54 GROWING WITH !UTOS INDOORS IS LIMITING )F YOU HAVE A PLANT THAT IS MAYBE A GREAT YIELDER ORDINARILY YOU COULD TAKE CUTTINGS EVEN IN FLOWER OR WHEN ITS FINISHED YOU CAN FLIP IT TO OR AND PUSH IT BACK TO IT S VEG CYCLE "UT NOT WITH !UTOS ONCE YOU VE PLANTED THEM THEY ARE SET ON THEIR !UTO CYCLE !LSO IF FOR EXAMPLE YOU WANT MORE YIELD YOU WOULD PERHAPS WANT TO GROW YOUR PLANTS IN @VEG FOR LONGER 4HIS ISN T POSSIBLE WITH !UTOS AS THEY WILL FLOWER REGARDLESS OF YOUR LIGHTING REGIME !LSO

YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER THAT IF YOU ARE LIMITED FOR SPACE MAYBE HAVING JUST ONE AREA YOU USE FOR @VEG ON LIGHTING AND THEN BY FLIPPING THE LIGHTS TO FOR BLOOM YOU CAN ONLY GROW !UTO VARIETIES

AS YOUR LIGHTING REGIME MUST STAY FOR FULL EFFECT ON A MINIMUM OF !ND ANY @NON !UTO VARIETIES WILL JUST REMAIN IN @VEG GOOD FOR MOTHERS ) M NOT SAYING !UTOS ARE A BAD THING FAR FROM IT ) MEAN ODD DAYS FROM SEED PURCHASE TO SMOKING IS JUST AMAZING !ND EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE RUNNING THE LIGHTS FANS ETC ON A MINIMUM OF ALL THE TIME INSTEAD OF THE SIZE OF THE PLANT IS NEVER HUGE SO YOU CAN REALLY @CRAM @EM IN WHICH RESULTS IN A LOT OF BUD VERY QUICKLY ) M CERTAIN YOU COULD

GET X NINE INCH POTS IN A METRE X METRE SPACE 7ITH A WATT LAMP THAT SHOULD GIVE A MINIMUM OF GRAMS BASED ON THIS GROW EVERY ODD DAYS )N THE PAST ) VE WAITED DAYS FOR A ROOM OF 3ATIVAS TO FINISH AND GIVE ONLY MARGINALLY MORE 3O EVEN THOUGH THERE IS FAR LESS CONTROL OF THE GROW AND ITS OUTCOME WITH !UTOS COMPARED TO @NON !UTO VARIETIES IT MUST BE SAID THAT SOMETIMES THAT OUTCOME WITH NON !UTOS IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT WE D HOPED FOR WHEREAS !UTOS AND ESPECIALLY

IT SEEMS 2OYAL !UTOMATIC ARE HARDY

DURABLE SMELLY PLANTS THAT DO EXACTLY WHAT IT SAYS ON THE PACKET !S FOR A FEEDING REGIME FOR !UTOS IT WOULD APPEAR THAT 2OYAL !UTOMATIC NEEDS TO BE FED A BLOOM MIX FROM WHEN IT STARTS TO SHOW FLOWER ABOUT DAYS ON SOIL MAYBE IN HALF DOSES FOR THE FIRST WEEK OR SO AND CAN PROBABLY BE FED AT LEAST WEEKLY IF NOT WITH CARE

MORE UNTIL ABOUT DAY ) M NOT SURE ABOUT 0 + BOOSTERS THE WHOLE GROW IS SO FAST ) M NOT SURE WHEN YOU D ADD THEM OR HOW MUCH )F ANYTHING ) WOULD GET A GROWTH ENHANCER IN THEM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE WHEN THEY ARE YOUNG TO TRY AND MAXIMIZE ON THEIR SHORT VEG STAGE !LSO THEY NEED AS MUCH LIGHT AS POSSIBLE FOR THE FIRST WEEKS

AGAIN TO TRY AND MAXIMISE ON THAT SHORT VEG PERIOD !S TO WHETHER @NIPPING OUT THE TOP IS WORTH IT IT WOULD APPEAR IN THIS INSTANCE TO BE OF MARGINAL EFFECT 3O IF YOU WANT A DIFFERENT GROW EXPERIENCE WITH A PRETTY MUCH GUARANTEED RESULT IN A LITTLE OVER

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JOIN THE POLICE OR BECOME AN -0 IN WHICH CASE TOUGH SHIT IN THE CURRENT CLIMATE OF JOB FEAR SECURITY FEAR AND ALL THE OTHER UNCERTAINTIES THE INDIVIDUAL NEEDS TO KEEP AN EDGE AND ONE WAY OF DOING THIS IS TO KEEP YOUR HABITS GOOD OR BAD TO YOURSELF AND STAY ANONYMOUS 2EMEMBER THE MAN IS WATCHING

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!FTER HAVING SQUABBLED OVER OTHER PROVINCES AND FAIR PAVILIONS THEY FINALLY OPTED FOR -ALAGA S &9#-! 0ALACIO DE &ERIAS Y #ONGRESOS DE -ÈLAGA 4HE CHOICE WAS MADE FOR VARIOUS DIFFERENT REASONS &IRST OF ALL BECAUSE THIS FAIR PAVILION IS A REAL JEWEL OF RECENT ARCHITECTONIC CONSTRUCTION FEATURING THE MOST ADVANCED INSTALLATIONS AVAILABLE TODAY TO THE BENEFIT OF ALL SORTS OF EVENTS AND CELEBRATIONS )TS CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE BLENDS THE -ALAGA MARITIME TRADITION WITH THE AVANT GARDE FEATURES OF THE ST CENTURY )T IS A BUILDING WHOSE SPIRIT REFLECTS THE CONTEMPORARY IN AN ELEGANT YET PRACTICAL MANNER 7ITH M? IT BOASTS AN EXHIBITION AREA OF M? DIVIDED UP INTO TWO PAVILIONS TWO AUDITORIUMS

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#ARLOS 0ALOMINO THE ORGANISER OF THIS NEW (EMP &AIR TELLS US JUST WHY -ALAGA THE #OSTA DEL 3OL S CAPITAL IS THE PERFECT PLACE FOR THIS TYPE OF EVENT h7ITH 3PANNABIS NOW WELL AND TRULY CONSOLIDATED THE TIME WAS RIGHT TO TAKE A CHANCE ON A NEW PROJECT BECAUSE THERE WAS STILL PLENTY OF ROOM IN THE MARKET AS THERE ARE A GREAT MANY GROWERS IN THE SOUTH OF 3PAIN !ND IT HAS TO BE SAID THAT THIS LOCATION IN PARTICULAR WILL BE POPULAR WITH EXHIBITORS ALLOWING THEM TO ENJOY THIS LAST FAIR OF THE SEASON IN A MORE RELAXED FASHION AFTER ALL THEIR HARD

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OF GREAT EVENTS OF ALL TYPES THANKS TO THE GREAT MANY FACILITIES AND SERVICES AVAILABLE !N EXTENSIVE NETWORK OF AIR SEA AND LAND TRANSPORT THE MODERN FEATURES OF A COSMOPOLITAN CITY WITH QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURES COME HAND IN HAND WITH THE FANTASTIC FOOD AND DRINK A WONDERFUL CLIMATE AND GREAT BEACHES 4HE -ALAGA &9#-!

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2ECENTLY MORE AND MORE SEED COMPANIES HAVE STARTED TO PRODUCE !UTOFLOWERING 0LANT 'ENETICS !S A RESULT MORE AND MORE HOME GROWERS ARE NOW EXPERIMENTING WITH !UTOFLOWERING SEEDS IN THEIR GARDENS )N THIS ISSUE 3OFT 3ECRETS THOUGHT IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO COVER THE BASICS BEHIND !UTOFLOWERING 0LANT 'ENETICS FOR OUR NEWER READERS ,IKEWISE WE ALSO THOUGHT IT WOULD BE ADVANTAGEOUS TO COVER SOME BASIC METHODS OF FEMINIZED BREEDING WITH !UTOFLOWERING 0LANT 'ENETICS FOR OUR MORE EXPERIENCED READER

ÕÌ v ÜiÀ }Ê* > ÌÃ !N !UTOFLOWERING 0LANT IS A CANNABIS PLANT THAT GROWS FROM SEED TO FULL MATURITY IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME 4HE VEGETATIVE PERIOD OF GROWTH WHICH IS NORMALLY DISPLAYED IN MOST VARIETIES OF CANNABIS IS ABSORBED INTO THE FLOWERING PERIOD IN THESE !UTOFLOWERING 0LANTS 4HE REASON FOR THIS IS DOWN TO THE GENETICS THAT THE !UTOFLOWERING 0LANTS HAVE INHERITED IN THE PAST !LL !UTOFLOWERING 0LANTS TEND TO SHARE A SIMILAR GENETIC ORIGIN 4HE #ANNABIS FAMILY IS SUB DIVIDED AS A 'ENUS INTO SEVERAL SEPARATE SPECIES OF PLANT INCLUDING #ANNABIS SATIVA #ANNABIS INDICA

#ANNABIS AFGHANICA #ANNABIS CHINENSIS

#ANNABIS FOLLIISDIGTASIS #ANNABIS FEMINA

#ANNABIS !MERICANA AND #ANNABIS RUDERALIS *UST TO NAME A FEW #ANNABIS RUDERALIS IS AN EXTREMELY SHORT FLOWERING SPECIES WITHIN THE #ANNABIS FAMILY THAT ORIGINATES FROM THE STEPPES OF .ORTHERN %UROPE AND 2USSIA WERE THE LENGTH OF SUMMER IS SHORTER AND THE WINTER IS MUCH LONGER /VER MANY GENERATIONS

THE FARMERS FARMING CANNABIS IN THE REGION FOR FUEL SOAP AND TEXTILES HABITUALLY SELECTED THE FASTEST FLOWERING VARIETIES AT PARENT PLANTS EACH SEASON BEFORE WINTER ,ATER OVER TIME THIS SPECIES #ANNABIS RUDERALIS PROPAGATED ITSELF AS A FERAL PLANT AND ROAD SIDE WEED IN THE REGION #ANNABIS BREEDERS HAVE ALWAYS RECOGNIZED THE h!UTOFLOWERINGv TRAITS

DISPLAYED WITHIN #ANNABIS RUDERALIS AS A USEFUL BREEDING TOOL !LTHOUGH COMPARABLE TO THE hDITCH WEEDv WHICH ALSO GROWS WILD IN THE 53! FOR ITS LOW CANNABINOID CONTENT AND FERAL NATURE #ANNABIS RUDERALIS IS IN FACT A SEPARATE SPECIES OF CANNABIS COMPLETELY !S THE SEEDS OF #ANNABIS RUDERALIS WERE MOVED INTO MORE TEMPERATE CLIMATES AND INDOORS IN THE 53! AND IN THE .ETHERLANDS THE SEEDS OF #ANNABIS RUDERALIS CONTINUED TO START FLOWERING AS A SOON AS THEY GREW AND THE CANNABINOID CONTENT REMAINED VERY LOW 4HE GENETICS WITHIN THE SEED WERE THEN FIXED WITH AN INHERENT AND DOMINANT !UTOFLOWERING TRAIT OR CHARACTERISTIC "REEDERS THEN STARTED TO EXPERIMENT BY OUT CROSSING VARIETIES OF #ANNABIS RUDERALIS TO OTHER MORE POTENT SPECIES OF #ANNABIS INDICA AND #ANNABIS SATIVA !S A RESULT MANY OF THE OFFSPRING PRODUCED !UTOFLOWERING CHARACTERISTICS AND THE OVERALL POTENCY IN MANY OF THE PLANTS WAS INCREASED

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OBSERVATION AND SELECTION SEVERAL BREEDERS MANAGED TO WORK #ANNABIS 2UDERALIS GENETICS INTO NEW HYBRIDIZED SEED LINES 4HIS PRODUCED SEEDS THAT STILL CONSISTENTLY PRODUCED !UTOFLOWERING 0LANTS IN THE GARDENS THEY WERE GROWN IN REGARDLESS OF THE PHOTOPERIOD OR CLIMATE 4HE MOST FAMOUS OF WHICH WAS CALLED h,OW 2YDERv IN REFERENCE TO ITS OVERALL LOW HEIGHT IN GROWTH AND A SUBLIMINAL REFERENCE TO "IKERS THAT CRUSE THE DIRT WEED ROADS OF THE 53! ON ,OW 2IDER MOTORBIKES 4HE SEEDS OF h,OW 2YDERv AND OTHER !UTOFLOWERING FAST FLOWERING GENETICS FROM OTHER HOME GROWERS WERE MINGLED TOGETHER ON THE INTERNET 3EVERAL BREEDERS THEN STARTED WORKING EXCLUSIVELY WITH !UTOFLOWERING GENETICS -AINLY BECAUSE THESE GROWERS COULD IN THEORY HARVEST SIX CROPS A YEAR BY SOWING SEEDS EVERY DAYS 4HE MATHEMATICS INVOLVED WERE ALSO EXCELLENT NEWS FOR THE NOVICE HOME GROWER THAT WANTED RESULTS FAST

4HESE SEEDS WERE @2EGULAR !UTOFLOWERING 'ENETICS MEANING THE SEEDS PRODUCED BOTH FEMALE AND MALE PLANTS IN ALL OF THE GARDENS THEY WERE GROWN IN 4HIS EARLY !UTOFLOWERING CHARACTERISTIC ALSO MEANT THAT HOME GROWERS COULD -AKE THEIR OWN !UTOFLOWERING IN CROSSES AND KEEP THEIR INBRED SEEDS FOR THE NEXT GROW 3ELECT AN !UTOFLOWERING MALE PLANT AS A PARENT QUICKLY AND INTRODUCE THE POLLEN TO ANOTHER FEMALE PLANT IN THEIR GARDEN TO MAKE A COMPLETELY NEW !UTOFLOWERING HYBRID

i âi`Ê ÕÌ v ÜiÀ }Ê i iÌ VÃ &EMINIZED !UTOFLOWERING 'ENETICS ONLY DISPLAY FEMALE PLANTS &EMINIZED BREEDERS USE VARIOUS METHODS OF SEXUAL MANIPULATION TO MAKE THEIR SEEDS MOSTLY FEMALE 4RADITIONALLY BREEDERS WOULD SELECT MALE POLLEN FROM AN OTHERWISE FEMALE PLANT WHICH HAD BEEN SUBJECTED TO STRESS AND THEN INTRODUCE THE POLLEN TO A DIFFERENT FEMALE PLANT OFTEN A SIBLING 4HE RESULTING SEEDS WERE FEMALE ALTHOUGH THIS METHOD OF USING INSTABLE FEMALES AS A POLLEN SOURCE ULTIMATELY MADE UNSTABLE SEED LINES 4HE OTHER OF THE PLANTS WERE INVARIABLY FULL ON @HERMAPHRODITES MALE FEMALE PLANTS WHEN GROWN OUT IN DIFFERENT GARDENS 4HIS WAS ESPECIALLY THE CASE WHEN THE POLLEN DONOR PARENT WAS SELECTED FROM STOCK WITH DOMINANT 4HAI GENETICS WHICH ARE PRONE TO DISPLAY MALE FLOWERS INHERENTLY ANYWAY -ORE RECENTLY FEMINIZED BREEDERS HAVE HOWEVER STARTED TO USE COLLOID SILVER SPRAY TREATMENT TO INHIBIT THE FEMALE SEXUALITY IN FEMALE PLANTS AND CLONES !S A RESULT OF THIS SEXUAL INHIBITION

A STABLE FEMALE PLANT CAN BE MADE TO DISPLAY MALE SEX ORGANS BECAUSE IT CARRIES 89 CHROMOSOMES 4HE COLLECTED POLLEN IS NOT ONLY VIRILE BUT NOW CONTAINS 88 CHROMOSOMES ONLY BECAUSE THE POLLEN DONOR WAS A FEMALE PLANT 4HE POLLEN FROM THESE TREATED FEMALES IS THEN INTRODUCED TO A SEPARATE FEMALE PLANT THAT ALSO HAS 88 CHROMOSOMES 4HE RESULTING SEED ARE 88 X 88 OR FEMALE WITH THE OTHER ALLOWING FOR @CHAOS THEOREM 0ARENT PLANTS WITH INHERENT AND DOMINANT CHARACTERISTICS WILL ULTIMATELY PASS ON THEIR GENETICS TO THE SEEDS THEY MAKE !UTOFLOWERING FEMALES THAT ARE SUBJECTED TO TREATMENTS OF COLLOID SILVER THEN PRODUCE MALE FLOWERS JUST LIKE MANY OTHER FEMALE CANNABIS PLANTS 4HIS POLLEN CAN THEN EITHER BE INTRODUCED TO ITS !UTOFLOWERING SIBLINGS SISTERS TO MAKE AN IN BRED LINE OF !UTOFLOWERING SEEDS !LTERNATIVELY THE REVERSED !UTOFLOWERING POLLEN CAN BE INTRODUCED TO ANY OTHER FEMALE PLANT TO MAKE A NEW !UTOFLOWERING HYBRID n WHICH AGAIN WILL MAKE THE NEW SEEDS FEMINIZED .OT ALL OF THE SEEDS FROM !UTOFLOWERING FEMINIZED HYBRIDS WILL DISPLAY FULL !UTOFLOWERING CHARACTERISTICS IN GROWTH IN THEIR FIRST SEASON 4HIS IS WHERE THE

SELECTION OF ONLY !UTOFLOWERING PARENT PLANTS BY BREEDERS IS ESSENTIAL BECAUSE THIS WILL ENSURE THE SEEDS PRODUCED ARE ALL !UTOFLOWERING IN CHARACTERISTICS

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FLUORESCENT TUBES METAL HALIDE AND HIGH PRESSURE SODIUM LAMPS 4HE MAIN DISADVANTAGE OF USING !UTOFLOWERING 0LANT 'ENETICS IS THAT THE !UTOFLOWERING CHARACTERISTICS DRAMATICALLY REDUCES THE OVERALL CROP YIELD MAINLY BECAUSE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GROW AN !UTOFLOWERING PLANT IN A VEGETATIVE CYCLE BEFORE INITIATING FLOWERING AS WITH OTHER SPECIES VARIETIES OF CANNABIS 4HE SIZE OF THE PLANT AT HARVEST IS ALWAYS RELATIVE TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS THAT THE PLANT CAN ACHIEVE WITHIN A DAY LIMIT !NOTHER DISADVANTAGE OF !UTOFLOWERING GENETICS IS THE FACT THAT #ANNABIS RUDERALIS HAS AN EXTREMELY LOW CANNABINOID PROFILE AND IS INHERENTLY WEAKER THAN OTHER VARIETIES OF CANNABIS FOR ITS MEDICINAL USES

* Ã Ì ÛiÊ> `Ê i}>Ì ÛiÃÊ vÊ i âi`Ê ÕÌ v ÜiÀ }Ê i iÌ VÃ 4HE MAIN ADVANTAGE OF USING &EMINIZED !UTOFLOWERING 'ENETICS IN THE GARDEN IS THE ABILITY TO LITERALLY SOW SEEDS INTO A SOIL MEDIUM AND BESIDES THE OCCASIONAL WATERING COMPLETELY FORGET ABOUT THEM UNTIL HARVEST &OR HYDROPONIC GROWERS MORE DEDICATION IS NEEDED BUT &EMINIZED !UTOFLOWERING SEEDS ACTUALLY TEND TO DISPLAY PURE FEMALE PLANTS THESE DAYS SO THE LEG WORK IN REMOVING MALE PLANTS AND KEEPING AN EYE OUT FOR HERMAPHRODITES HAS BEEN COMPLETELY REMOVED BY THE hMAGICv OF MODERN FEMINIZED BREEDING 4HE MAIN DISADVANTAGE OF USING &EMINIZED !UTOFLOWERING 'ENETICS IS THE FACT THAT HOME GROWERS CANNOT SELECT MALE !UTOFLOWERING PLANTS TO USE AS PARENTS AND CONTINUE THE SEED LINE -ANY UNDERGROUND BREEDERS DISPLAY CONCERNS THAT THE TREND FOR &EMINIZED 'ENETICS MAY SEE REGULAR MALE GENETICS GO THE WAY OF THE $ODO BUT THAT S ANOTHER STORY !NOTHER DISADVANTAGE WITH &EMINIZED !UTOFLOWERING 'ENETICS IS THAT THEY DISPLAY A SLIGHTLY LOWER GERMINATION RATIO THAN REGULAR SEEDS OF THE SAME VARIETY IN TESTING 4HIS IS JUST ONE ASPECT OF &EMINIZED !UTOFLOWERING 'ENETICS THAT !UTOFLOWERING BREEDERS ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON

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! FEW MONTHS BACK ) RECEIVED A 6ISITING /RDER 6 / FROM (ER -AJESTIES 0RISON (-0 IN THE 5+ 4HE 6ISITING /RDER BELONGED TO AN OLD FRIEND THAT WAS SENTENCED SEVERAL YEARS AGO TO YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR THE IMPORTATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF OVER HALF A METRIC TON TONNE OF CANNABIS RESIN AND CANNABIS FLOWERS 4HE PRESENT (-0 5+ SYSTEM STIPULATES THAT @/FFENDERS INMATES MUST SERVE AT LEAST HALF THEIR SENTENCE CUSTODIAL BEHIND BARS 4HEN FOLLOWING A PROGRAM OF @GOOD BEHAVIOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SENTENCE MAY BE SERVED OUTSIDE ON LICENSE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY )N THE CASE OF REALLY @BAD BEHAVIOR THEN AN INMATE MAY BE FORCED TO SERVE THE WHOLE OF THEIR CUSTODIAL SENTENCE IN FULL !LTERNATIVELY EXTRA TIME DAYS MAY BE ADDED ONTO THE HALF SENTENCE BEING SERVED

#ATEGORY $ $ #AT PRISONS ARE hOPENv IN THE SENSE THAT INMATES CAN ESCAPE FROM THEM AT ANY TIME n SIMPLY BY WALKING OUT THE FRONT DOOR $ #AT 0RISONS ARE THE LAST IN THE LINE OF (-0 FACILITIES THAT LONG TERM INMATES SPEND TIME IN n MOSTLY AS A FORM OF SOCIAL REHABILITATION

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! @6 / IS A DOCUMENT THAT PERMITS THOSE PEOPLE NAMED ON THE PAPER WITH A @VISITING ORDER FOR A SPECIFIC INMATE 5SUALLY A 6 / LISTS UP TO THREE TO FOUR PEOPLE PER VISIT DEPENDING ON THE (-0 FACILITY )NMATES HELD ON @REMAND BEFORE SENTENCE ARE ALLOWED ONE VISIT PER DAY )NMATES SERVING A @CUSTODIAL SENTENCE AFTER CONVICTION ARE ALLOWED ONE VISIT PER WEEK FORTNIGHT OR MONTH AGAIN DEPENDING ON THE RULES OF THE (-0 FACILITY THEY ARE BEING HELD IN 6ISITORS IN PROCESSION OF A 6 / FIRST HAVE TO REGISTER THEIR DETAILS AT A 6ISITOR S $ESK WHEREBY THEY ARE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT

VISITORS THAT WERE PLANNING ON SMUGGLING CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES AND CONTRABAND INTO THE PRISON CAN DEPOSIT THEM WITHOUT ANY FURTHER PENALTY 3EVERAL MINUTES LATER AN AUTOMATED GLASS DOOR SLIDES OPEN AND THE VISITING GROUPS STEP FORWARD INTO A GLASS BOX 4HE FIRST GLASS DOOR SLIDES CLOSED AND ANOTHER GLASS DOOR SLIDES OPEN ADJACENT A FEW MOMENTS LATER TO THE SOUND OF A BUZZER 6ISITORS THEN STEP FORWARD INTO A SMALL HOLDING CAGE MEASURING M X M APPROX 4HE SECOND GLASS DOOR THEN SLIDES FIRMLY SHUT BEHIND THE VISITORS !T WHICH POINT VISITORS ARE OFFICIALLY INSIDE A (ER -AJESTIES 0RISON

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4HIS IS NOW MY FRIEND S THIRD CUSTODIAL SENTENCE VACATION AT (-0 ,IKE MANY PROFESSIONAL SUPPLIERS OF CANNABIS IN THE 5+ WHAT STARTED OUT WITH SUPPLYING A FEW FRIENDS WITH A FEW EIGHTHS OF CANNABIS TO SMOKE MANIFESTED INTO SUPPLYING DEALERS WITH A FEW KILOS !FTER THE SECOND SENTENCE THIS MULTIPLIED INTO SUPPLYING A FEW HUNDRED KILOS TO ANY DEALER THAT COULD PAY FOR THEM 4HAT WAS UNTIL (ER -AJESTIES 2EVENUE AND #USTOMS CAUGHT UP WITH HIS LAST CONSIGNMENT )N THIS SENSE MY FRIEND COULD HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED AS @A HABITUAL CRIMINAL THAT SOUGHT TO MAKE PROFIT FROM HIS ILLEGAL PROFESSION

WHILE TAKING IMPRISONMENT AS A MERE CONSEQUENCE OF HIS LINE OF WORK

(-0 FACILITIES IN THE 5+ ARE CATEGORIZED ACCORDING TO THE LEVEL OF @DANGER POSED BY THE INMATES THEY HOUSE TO THEMSELVES THE PRISON SYSTEM AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY !S INMATES WORK THEIR WAY THROUGH THE PRISON SYSTEM THEY MOVE UP OR DOWN THE CATEGORY OF PRISON THEY ARE HOUSED IN DEPENDING ON THEIR LEVEL OF BEHAVIOR )NMATES CAN THEN SPEND TIME IN MORE THAN ONE PRISON DURING THEIR SENTENCE -OREOVER IT IS COMMON PRACTICE TO TRANSFER TROUBLESOME INMATES FROM ONE (-0 FACILITY TO ANOTHER SO AS TO DISRUPT COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN OTHER INMATES FRIENDS AND FAMILY )N THE CASE OF SHORTER SENTENCES

FOLLOWING AN INITIAL INITIATION AT A CENTRAL HOLDING JAIL INMATES USUALLY SERVE THEIR REMAINING SENTENCE WITHIN THE WALLS OF THE SAME FACILITY

#ATEGORY " 0RISONS " #AT ARE SLIGHTLY LESS DIFFICULT TO ESCAPE FROM AND USUALLY HOUSE MORE MODERATE INMATES INCLUDING PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS HOUSE BREAKERS

DRUG DEALERS VIOLENT OFFENDERS AND FORMER ! #AT INMATES #ATEGORY # 0RISONS # #AT ARE ALSO RELATIVELY DIFFICULT TO ESCAPE FROM # #AT 0RISONS USUALLY HOUSE A VARIETY OF INMATES INCLUDING YOUNG OFFENDERS FRAUDSTERS

PICKPOCKETS PETTY CRIMINALS AND FORMER " #AT INMATES 4HE MAJORITY OF INMATES HELD IN (-0 FACILITIES ARE USUALLY RELEASED BACK INTO SOCIETY FROM A # #AT 0RISON

6ISITS MAY LAST ANYWHERE BETWEEN HOURS AND MINS DEPENDING ON THE ORDER OF THE TICKET GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL (-0 FACILITY 6ISITORS ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO TAKE POUND COINS PER GROUP INTO THE VISITING ROOM TO SPEND IN THE VENDING MACHINES 4HIS MEANS THERE IS PLENTY OF TEA COFFEE

CHOCOLATE BARS AND BISCUITS TO GO ROUND -ANY OF THESE ITEMS IN THE VENDING MACHINES ARE NOT NORMALLY AVAILABLE TO INMATES !T THE END OF THE VISIT A 0RISON 'UARD RINGS A BELL AND THE INMATES SAY hGOODBYEv TO THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY UNTIL NEXT TIME .OT BEING ONE FOR CEREMONIES ) HUGGED MY FRIEND SHOOK HIS HAND AND MADE MY WAY BACK TO THE M X M HOLDING CAGE TO BE BUZZED BACK OUT OF THE PRISON

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PEDOPHILES AND RAPISTS

INMATE WILL BE SAT ON ONE SIDE OF A TABLE AND THE VISITORS MUST SIT DOWN ON THE OTHER SIDE !DULT VISITORS MUST REMAIN SEATED AT ALL TIMES DURING THE VISIT UNLESS USING THE VENDING MACHINES OR THE TOILET AND THE LITTER BINS #HILD VISITORS ARE HOWEVER PERMITTED TO RUN AROUND AND ARE USUALLY ENCOURAGED TO PLAY IN THE @GAMES CORNER

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SEVERAL FORMS OF PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION 6ISITORS MAY BE SUBJECTED TO FINGERPRINTS AND ARE USUALLY PHOTOGRAPHED AT THIS POINT FOR SECURITY PURPOSES !LL VISITORS TO (-0 FACILITIES IN THE 5+ ARE NOW ISSUED WITH THEIR OWN PERSONAL )$ CARD AND )$ NUMBER WHICH CORRELATES WITH A NEW NATIONAL (-0 DATABASE 4HIS CARD IS USED AS )$ DURING THE VISIT AND IS LATER RETAINED BY THE (-0 FACILITY FOR RETURN VISITS &ORMALITIES ASIDE n VISITORS ARE NEXT PLACED INTO A NUMERICAL WAITING SYSTEM BY TICKET 4HEY ARE THEN CALLED FOR IN SMALL GROUPS AN HOUR OR SO LATER %ACH SMALL GROUP OF VISITORS IS THEN DIRECTED TOWARDS THE @-AIN %NTRANCE AND CHAPERONED INTO A SMALL ENTRANCE ROOM 4HIS ROOM HAS LOTS OF INFORMATION POSTERS AND AN @!MNESTY "OX ON THE WALL 4HE !MNESTY "OX IS SO

NUMBER TO BE SEARCHED !FTER A QUICK AND NON INVASIVE SEARCH FOR PROHIBITED ITEMS EACH GROUP ARE NEXT GUIDED INTO A SIDE ROOM 4HE SIDE ROOM CONTAINS ONE PLAIN CLOTHED 0OLICE /FFICER AND ONE UNIFORMED 0RISON /FFICER COMPLETE WITH A 3NIFFER $OG 6ISITORS ARE THEN ASKED TO SPACE OUT AND STAND WITH THEIR ARMS

BY THEIR SIDES 4HE DOG HANDLER AND THE SNIFFER DOG THEN SLOWLY WORK THEIR WAY UP AND DOWN THE LINE 4HE SNIFFER DOG IS TRAINED TO SIT DOWN WHEN IT SMELLS PROHIBITED ITEMS SUCH AS CANNABIS

TOBACCO FIREARMS AND NARCOTICS /NCE PAST THE SNIFFER DOG VISITORS MUST PRODUCE THEIR )$ CARD TO A 0RISON 'UARD BEHIND THE MAIN DESK INSIDE THE 6ISITING 2OOM !FTER WHICH VISITORS ARE FREE TO FIND THE INMATE THEY ARE VISITING 4HE

)N TOTAL MY FRIEND HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO OVER YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR SUPPLYING RECREATIONAL SUBSTANCES TO PEOPLE 4HE TOTAL COST OF WHICH HAS NOW FINALLY BEEN PAID FOR BY THE 0ROCEEDS OF #RIME !CT FOLLOWING HIS LATEST CONVICTION 4HE 0ROCEEDS OF #RIME !CT SERVES THE RIGHT TO CONFISCATES ALL ASSETS INCLUDING MONEY PERSONAL ITEMS AND PROPERTY WHICH CANNOT BE LEGITIMATELY ACCOUNTED FOR AT THE POINT OF ARREST )N MY FRIENDS CASE (ER -AJESTIES 2EVENUE AND #USTOMS TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONFISCATE SEVERAL PROPERTIES MOTOR VEHICLES AND APPROXIMATELY FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING IN CASH -Y FRIEND HAS SERVED TIME IN SEVERAL ! " AND # #ATEGORY PRISONS ACROSS MORE THAN THREE SEPARATE COUNTIES IN THE 5+ (E HAS BREACHED (-0 SECURITY ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS INCLUDING BEING FOUND IN PROCESSION OF MOBILE PHONES

MOBILE PHONE CHARGERS AND EVEN A MAP 4HIS RESULTED IN HIM BEING SENT FROM A #ATEGORY # 0RISON STRAIGHT BACK UP TO A #ATEGORY ! 0RISON WITHOUT ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS ASKED 7HEREBY MY FRIEND WAS PLACED INTO A BOILER SUIT WITH STRIPES ON IT DURING THE DAY SHACKLED IN TRANSIT PLACED IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

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COLOUR WHILST ITS FRUITS TAKE ON LIGHT BLUE SHADES IF GROWN ORGANICALLY AND IN THE RIGHT CONDITIONS DEGREES FOR THE LAST WEEKS OF FLOWERING )T MUST BE STAKED AS IT SIMPLY CANNOT BEAR THE WEIGHT OF ITS COMPACT FRUITS 4HE LAST WEEKS IS WHEN THE FRUITS REALLY HARDEN AND IT YIELDS A GOOD PRO DUCTION 4HE TRICHOMES OF THIS VARIETY ARE COMPLETELY WHITE DIFFERENTLY TO OTHER VARIETIES IT LOOKS AS THOUGH IT IS ENTIRELY SNOW COVERED )TS FLAVOUR AND

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AROMA ARE ALSO UNIQUE 4HIS VARIETY FEATURES A STRONG UNUSUAL FOREST FRUITS AROMA STRAWBERRY RASPBERRY BLACK BERRY ETC WHILST ITS PALATE DIFFERS FROM OTHERS FOR ITS INCREDIBLY SWEET

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