Growing For Good

adventures in cannabis cultivation

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It won't be long, now. Composer is done. Sharing is done. Building the storage service now, then you get to #decentraleyes :)

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https://soundcloud.com/vctech/lights-out

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https://soundcloud.com/vctech/sloth-logic-roses-voltage-technician-elaboration

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https://soundcloud.com/vctech/voltage-technician-hybrid-trap-challenge-001-ego-death-headshot

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https://soundcloud.com/vctech/voltage-technician-back-from-detention-dj-mix

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Inappropriately Silent

Due to circumstances beyond my control (cannabis being highly illegal where I am), I’ve had to postpone posting about cannabis cultivation here.

But, this doesn’t mean I’m not keeping everything I’d want to post and won’t be posting it eventually. Because that is precisely what I am and have been doing.

There is so much media I want to share with you all. I just...can’t. Yet.

-Rob

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Got banned from LinkedIn today, and am very happy about that. I have only been posting there to be a drop of poison in their pristine waters. I guess I posted too many evil thoughts and boobies.

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Original Chemdawg. None of that Chem 4, '91...foh. This is original dawg...Nepalese x Thai. Simple.

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There's a bud under all those trichomes somewhere. #mountainspice

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Our Silver Mountain “Mountain Spice” phenotype. A very rare strain, indeed. Still has a lot of time left. She is Super Silver Haze x Appalachia, very sativa dominant and can take up to 90 days to finish flowering.

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Keep it natural, folks :)

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Big Mike the multi-millionaire marijuana businessman

Michael Straumietis, the CEO of Advanced Nutrients, is the acknowledged worldwide leader in developing marijuana-specific nutrients and supplements.

Reminder: This is what this man does with your and, therefore, your patients' hard-earned money.

"Big Mike” is not advancing the state of the art of cannabis cultivation in any way. He finds ways to create yet another reformulated bottle of synthetic goo with a label and logo that appeal to children. Then, he convinces people they can have his lifestyle by selling and/or using his products. He may be an effective infomercial salesman, but his products aren’t necessary.

What actually happens if you use his products is quite different than the promise. Instead of living a lavish lifestyle, you are going to go into debt trying to buy the whole line. Big Mike will use your interest-earning credit card debt to buy another private jet. Or, maybe he’ll use that money to rent more women with fake tits...because those kind of women are into men with stolen money.

You will then try to use all of his products. And, you'll wonder why all your plants are dead. Or, let’s say a few manage to survive the assault. You'll be left to wonder why they look, smell, smoke and taste like shit. So will the people you’re trying to sleep with by growing “bud” instead of cannabis.

Or, if I’m wrong, can someone please explain why only Big Mike is living this life? Shouldn’t you all have at least a private jet by now? You’ve been growing for, what? 10+ years? Where’s your jet?

You see, cannabis is just a plant. No, really. It is merely a plant. Its needs aren’t advanced. They're actually pretty basic. There is a science to growing cannabis. It just has little to do with the pursuits of Advanced Nutrients and their bottles of reformulated goo.

Advanced Nutrients is less of a science and more of an experience like getting addicted to a trading card game. I would know. I worked on Magic: The Gathering. The Advanced Nutrients product line feels more like a game where the hooked grower/player constantly feels like (s)he has to level up and catch them all (a Pokemon reference).

It’s all very unnecessary. Stop the bullshit. Put your plants in healthy dirt, water them and observe. You'll be amazed!

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Scotts Miracle-Gro spent about $130 million for General Hydroponics, its most since 1998 - Columbus - Columbus Business First

Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. spent about $130 million to buy California’s General Hydroponics Inc., Columbus Business First has confirmed.

Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. spent about $130 million to buy California’s General Hydroponics Inc., Columbus Business First has confirmed, marking the company’s biggest acquisition since a European expansion push in the 1990s.

And, as a result, we will be switching from General Organics to Aurora Roots Organics Uprising products. IT’s just that plain and simple to make better decisions every day.

I don’t regret using General’s products even though their CEO doesn’t support cannabis. But, once their CEO sold out to one of the world’s most problematic companies, I’m done. I can’t, in good faith, accept compensation for growing cannabis and turn around to spend that money on one of the most egregious GMO entities on Earth.

I’ve been using Buddha Bloom to supplement General’s product line forever, and have had nothing but great results using Roots Organics Uprising Bloom. Time to switch to the whole program. This inconvenient truth finally got me off my lazy ass to finish the switch.

Done.

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Chronic marijuana use by teenage boys does not appear to be linked to later physical or mental health issues such as depression, psychotic symptoms or asthma, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association.

"What we found was a little surprising," said lead researcher Jordan Bechtold, PhD, a psychology research fellow at the UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER [emphasis: mine]. "There were no differences in any of the mental or physical health outcomes that we measured regardless of the amount or frequency of marijuana used during adolescence."

I wonder if the morons in Harrisburg will even consider this study? I mean, it’s from their own state.

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Some screenshot treatments created using Screenie for Linux. Making a lot of progress on the project. Nearly at the point of plant data entry.

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Science, technology and a bit of art happening in support of nature and healing. This is our Pineapple Express #2. Will edit & elaborate on a desktop later.

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Processing our first harvest of the original Chemdawg. Was grown in Happy Frog soil for 68 days on General Organics BioThrive nutrition with Aurora Roots Organics Buddha Bloom and pH Up/Down. Nothing else was used. Will be hung 7-10 days to dry.

This gave us incredible insight into one of the most noteworthy land race crosses available today: Nepalese x Thai = Chemdawg. And, this plant’s result is just stunning. Will post more photos of the trimmed and manicured end result as we are hybrid trimming this plant.

All shade and most sugar leaves are removed wet. These are big buds, and air flow is more important to us than most other factors. Ultra-close high-detail baby sugars are being left intact for the dry as they genuinely won’t affect airflow much.

These are from a feminized 5-pack of seed (a gift). Four made it, and all four are harvesting pretty much now. Really happy with the initial result. Kept back cuttings from all four, and will be sampling soon to determine which becomes the mother.