Okay folks, so we all know, Fred does not know a whole lot about growing shit. He knows how to grow but only the basics, and, considering the basics is all we do here let’s do them together.
What we grow together, especially the first couple of things, is a beautiful process as we get to watch what we consume develop from seed, spore or sapling to something completely psychedelic.
Literally, some of them will be completely psychedelic. In fact, two of the easiest things to grow fall into this category. Cannabis and mushrooms.
Moist
Cannabis, as all of those smoking it should know, is psychoactive. While not being commonly attributed to it she still definitely is a member of the psychedelic family, just not officially. Correcting myself here too, once said it is classified into the the family when it isn’t. She is a beautiful healing tool when used correctly, jump over to Apples and bananas to find out more.
Cannabis is a cannabinoid where psychedelics are generally tryptamines or phenethylamines. Psychedelics generally bind to seratonin receptors in the brain. Seratonin is responsible for a bunch of behavioural things, have talked about it elsewhere. Cannabinoids bind to cannabinoid receptors in the endocannabinoid system. The cannabinoid system being very important in homeostasis (the bodies balanced state).
Like, we start with info because step one to growing cannabis is germinating the seeds, it is not exciting. Basically watching grass grow before there is any grass.
There are multiple ways to germinate seeds, here we use the paper towel version as we get to see the germinating when it germs. Pretty sure that is all correct terminology.
Seeds, cannabis seeds, nice and plump and with a bit of a tiger looking strip ideally. Am smoking cannabis which has lots of seeds, the cannabis is good and the seeds are pretty good quality, it was free too. Have heard this particular plant is a hermaphrodite, which means it has both female and male reproductive organs, and therefore can self-pollinate. As a result it will always produce seeds.
Yeah, plants have organs folks, just like you and me.
This is the reason it is important to separate plants when they are young, especially cannabis.
Cannabis, the plant we want is the unaltered, unedited, unpollinated female virgin, she produces the big beautiful buds we all love. Yeah, buds, she’s got big buds and I cannot lie. But, when she is pollinated she produces a bucket load of seeds too.
The seeds may/do diminish the quality and the strength of the cannabis. Plus, they are just a pain in the arse to pick out.
Male plants are just pollinators, they do not produce smokable flowers (buds). Stills contains THC but at very low quantities compared to his wife.
Step one in germinating using the paper towel method, follow the instructions;
Place seeds on moist, not saturated, paper towel, place another moist sheet on top, spray occasionally and wait until she germinates. If she does so. Keep them somewhere comfortable and without a heap of light. Comfortable, like pants and a t-shirt sitting on the couch neither warm or cold comfortable.
Moist, is this a thing elsewhere than Australia? Everytime it is said comes with teenage schoolgirl giggles, from me too. Pretty sure it refers to a females box being a little excited. It’s the part I don’t get, why do we celebrate it just being a little wet? To me, the celebration should come when it is saturated wet. Shows me that what I am presenting am presenting quite well. Have a bloody good track record in presenting!
Anyway, random shit, my journal, will write what I want, fuck off!
To put it out there, growing these plants in Canberra, it is legal to grow four in a household of two or more adults. As you can see there are about 15 seeds here, they are not plants yet, they are seeds. Start with heaps of seeds if you can, just get yourself into phase two, give yourself the best chance at success.
P.S. Use grey lead pencils to write the note rather than a pen, ink runs. The pencils, which are actually graphite rather than lead, do not. Learnt this from Matt, ex-navy officer. Navy officers are issued three pencils for mapping; drawing lines to plot course and navigate to, all that jazz. This way when a ship goes down the maps stll stay in tact with writing and all for as long as the water will let them. Gives the map time to be recovered and their fate have a starting point to its full story, is kind of like the plane’s black box.