Great update! So psyched to see everything went well with zero intervention. Also, glad to hear the Twilight is kicking ass again. I think you made the right call on the flip. Let the colas grow high instead of the stem. I’m excited to watch this grow.
Thanks Cheese. Appreciate you being here bro! Yes it was exciting to pop the hatch and see the whole room exploding. I give a lot of credit to the temps, which were moderate all week. Perfect growing temps right now, the room goes down to mid-60s at night and peaks in the mid-70s by day.
Any tips you can share on how to vacation with bud? I’m always afraid to travel with any or approach anyone to buy in a strange land.
Glad to.
FIRST...I don't advocate any illegal activity with these tips...oh of course I do. Everyone should have their bud.
Buying weed in a foreign country is risky. I am uniquely brave in this regard, I have often sourced herb in other lands but took some risks to do it. In Jamaica for example, I have always been able to get a huge foot-long bud of crazy good weed from a guy named Linford who works in the tiki village at the Dunn's River Falls. However, I have had some scares too...once I bought a bag from a guy on the beach in Grand Cayman and was immediately approached by a cop. I didn't lie to him when he asked if I had just bought weed, I boldly told him the guy said it was legal here and added I felt I had been taken advantage of. It turned out the cop also wanted to sell me weed. That was weird but turned out cool.
So bring your own. Despite the theoretical risk it's really the easy and safer play.
I fly frequently and when I do I take herb. I do not carry it on my person. It goes deep in my checked bag.
The reason is, airport scanners fall into two categories; full-body scanners and x-ray scanners. If you are asked to walk through a full-body imager it will reveal the contours of your glorious naked body in great detail, despite what the airlines claim about your "privacy"(I always thought talking about your privacy while scanning your entire body through your clothing was patently ludicrous anyway) and it will clearly reveal any small object, metallic or not. So the only way to get a small baggie of something by the machine is to have it stowed somewhere sub-surface...under a roll of belly fat or other unmentionable places. Not doing that...not fat enough.
Not everyone has to go through a full body scanner, mostly it will just be a metal detector but why take the chance? If they see it you are 100% busted. So, the only way to reliably travel with herb is put it deep in your checked luggage.
Why won't they find it there?
Well, they might if it's in a suspicious metal container or you have obvious metal paraphernalia which catches someone's attention since it all shows up nicely on the X-ray machine. Otherwise they won't because
the machine is looking for metal. And they pay particular attention to electronics. Nobody is trying to discern if those three plastic film containers in your shaving kit contain pot because they won't even see them...they don't show up on the image. The weed inside doesn't show up either. So I pack stuff in 35mm film canisters and mix those in with other stuff, in the most crowded bags, and I enclose them in plastic bags, usually a very light opaque wastebasket liner that I just tie off. No smell, no tell.
Flying with weed is all about smell...period. The only real chance of having a modest quantity of weed detected is if it stinks and somebody smells it. That somebody could be an agent, a baggage handler, or less-frequently, a dog. The first two will only smell your weed if it's taped to the outside of your luggage. The dogs are 100 times better sniffers, but even they can't smell through plastic. As long as you seal your weed in opaque plastic it will not be found.
So papers and weed sealed in plastic are what I travel with and it has never been an issue, even the handful of times the TSA left me a little note inside that they had randomly gone through my bag. They do that sometimes but again they are looking for specific items like guns and aren't going to dig deep into your bag of bathroom accessories and razors and stuff to see if you might have a few vials of weed.
Finally, the more bags that have to be opened the less chance they will make the effort so I always have at least three layers of something around my herb and I have found mixing it in with all your toiletries and junk is best, in a bag in a bag. Then I add one more thing: a slightly more powerful smell (such as a couple sprays of cologne somewhere deep inside or a car air freshener stuck inside a pair of socks) to override any random smell "signatures" I might accidentally have on items or the suitcase itself. Nothing too strong or that's a tell in itself...just something calculated to confuse. And erase the last possibility that even Underdog could smell it.
Once more, my official advice is never ever do any of this. And never smoke pot.
Peace, Hyena
