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SPEES WITH CEES!
- PART 1: Santa Maria , thrifty Dutchmen and more! -
A new column… a new point of view! Why I got the honour to share my green experiences with the readership of EssensiE, is not on me… but oh well… it flatters me, and hopefully you guys learn from it or perhaps it gives you some new inspiration. Important is that I will do my best to get the readership of EssensiE more closer to the little plant, to share my grow experiences and to bring some more light in the darkness called the revolutionary ‘female seed’ happening. Seed, cloning, soil, genetics, nutrition, lighting, watering, selection, flowerings, rinse, flush, drying, supplies, etc. etc. We go for plane talk and go for Spees with Cees!
Today seven received clones permanently potted in (earthenware) pots of 10 litres. Six of them were in top condition. Santa Maria is the name of these rapidly branching females, which have a special property as I can see at this moment. A while back a book was opened about this mysterious super-weed and I was happily surprised when seven clones were trusted to me.
As for the shape of the leaves, they look like a Special, I would say. But they feel much softer and more elastic, almost like silk. Frankly speaking, this silky feeling was new for me. I already had seen breeds from other growers which attracted my attention because of the soft and elastic leaves, but never as strong as with these seven Holy Virgins! Also the fact that they shoot up enormously, like some Sativa’s do, is luckily not included. Tying up the plants was never my favourite job. They grow nicely broad as well as up, the lamp rather high. They grow almost instantly a nice wide trunk and build up just a bit more leaves than the average Special-breeds. Interesting: the right crossbreeding between an Indica and a quite early Sativa, should bring in theoretically the highest yields under your lamps! Many internodes, not too broad a leaf, wide branching and consequently many tops. But also not that ‘slow’ and in the beginning with a lot of leaves growing plant, like the pure Afghans. Not that there is something wrong with those Afghans, on the contrary, they are still the foundation for a large part of the best Dutch weed. But oh well, we are Dutchmen, so we want more and better!
Attention hikers
The strange thing with these Santa Maria’s is that one hour before putting out the lights they let their leaves hang, like if there’s something wrong! Fortunately, I discovered that this behaviour belongs to this breed. Because when the lights switch on again, the plant raises its leaves in no time like it’s proud, its leaves almost begging and full of desire, aiming straight at the lamps. I also have the idea that they need more humidity than the average breeds. When the air gets a little too dry they are immediately very sensitive to the light of the lamp! For now, my first impression is that this is not a breed for the home grower who just started growing. The Santa Maria’s are real attention hikers, you really got to keep an eye on them. Fact is that the seven received clones are growing very fast at this moment. Probably because I’m enriching the soil with CO-2 tabs. I think it’s real strange that people pay large amounts for CO-2 installations!? It’s real simple and inexpensive to give some extra carbonic acid gas to the roots by putting it into the water. Just go to the aquarium shop and read those instructions from Velda, dear growers, and let your sane mind speak. And don’t you forget that tropical fish are even more vulnerable than our beloved plants.
Roots
But what I really wanted to write about, goes back in time, back to the roots! Why do I still meet people who always talk nonsense about ‘the plants’? I want to lead the young generation of growers back to the roots of our beloved little plant. A long time ago the plant grew in an area at the northwest of India, close to the Himalayan. Scientists gave the plant the official Latin name ‘Officinalis’, because of its proven beneficial effect and/or its wholesome effect. This was the case for the native breed; Cannabis D’Indica! (Therefore it is not understandable that these days a discussion rules about rather there must be or must not be medicinal marihuana at the pharmacists!) The original home base of this plant, is the only place where the plant can reproduce itself. There is practically no area on earth where Cannabis can reproduce itself, without human help. And therefore Cannabis is depending on people who have to sow its seed. Even when the adaptation to different soil and climatologic circumstances will be quick and will the Cannabis quickly be able to reproduce itself in some areas, it won’t be an Indica anymore! You would be talking about a Sativa!
High
In my perception most of the young smokers are badly informed about the true facts of being stoned! Resin isn’t THC. Resin contains THC! You don’t get stoned from the THC itself. The antibodies which your body produces against THC causes the fact you get high. That is why beginning smokers often don’t experience much the first few times compared to what they will experience later on, because their bodies can’t produce the antibodies that fast by direct recognition. And to make it just quite clearer, the resin you see on your weed, is nothing more or less than a natural protection from and for your plant! Against the sunlight, or under a magnifying glass, you can see apparently countless little hairs. These hairs are in fact no hairs, but glands, and each of them secretes a drop of produced resin. Based on the Indica, which has to endure 40 degrees Celcius at day and severe cold by night at natural circumstances, some things will get clearer. At day at 40°C the resin from the glands flows over the plant and especially over the places where they are the most vulnerable as for breeding. At night, when it can be tremendously cold, the resin becomes rock hard and forms a protection layer against the cold circumstances. This happens there, where the plant used to grow naturally.
The core
When you look at a country like for example Morocco, you will get a different story. The summers are less hot, the nights less cold, but the plant will produce and secrete resin. However this resin sticks to the gland like a drop and won’t flow out over the plant. This can look a bit like crystal. A lot of glittering can be seen during a particular phase of blooming. Because oxygen and light give the resin-drop a hard and thin crust, you can sieve the resin after a while. The resin-drop seems to be dry, but when it warms up you will see how resin-like the core still is. The sieved resin-drops can be pressed easily into a compact lump. Because of the heating and pressure the dried drops will break and everything will melt together. In Morocco the time for drying and ripening lasts for over 3 months!
Every Moroccan weed farmer knows that the quality of his to be sieved plants can only get better by drying and ripening them during the winter. Sieving too early gives dope that feels just a bit wild and not ripe, even when it can give a BOOM effect. So ladies and gentlemen, when you go sieve the cutting waste or more, my advise is to keep your weed cool, dry and dark for over three months. And please do not experiment with things like fermenting and other strange drying techniques, that isn’t good for the quality. Keep it clear for yourself and your plants, give them a dry, well ventilated room where it isn’t to warm and keep it dark! Light gives decomposition while there is synthesis and that costs a part of the THC-quality by forming NCB’s. Give them space and time, they will reward you !
Source: No Mercy Seeds
Stay cool, high and take time to fly !
- PART 1: Santa Maria , thrifty Dutchmen and more! -
A new column… a new point of view! Why I got the honour to share my green experiences with the readership of EssensiE, is not on me… but oh well… it flatters me, and hopefully you guys learn from it or perhaps it gives you some new inspiration. Important is that I will do my best to get the readership of EssensiE more closer to the little plant, to share my grow experiences and to bring some more light in the darkness called the revolutionary ‘female seed’ happening. Seed, cloning, soil, genetics, nutrition, lighting, watering, selection, flowerings, rinse, flush, drying, supplies, etc. etc. We go for plane talk and go for Spees with Cees!
Today seven received clones permanently potted in (earthenware) pots of 10 litres. Six of them were in top condition. Santa Maria is the name of these rapidly branching females, which have a special property as I can see at this moment. A while back a book was opened about this mysterious super-weed and I was happily surprised when seven clones were trusted to me.
As for the shape of the leaves, they look like a Special, I would say. But they feel much softer and more elastic, almost like silk. Frankly speaking, this silky feeling was new for me. I already had seen breeds from other growers which attracted my attention because of the soft and elastic leaves, but never as strong as with these seven Holy Virgins! Also the fact that they shoot up enormously, like some Sativa’s do, is luckily not included. Tying up the plants was never my favourite job. They grow nicely broad as well as up, the lamp rather high. They grow almost instantly a nice wide trunk and build up just a bit more leaves than the average Special-breeds. Interesting: the right crossbreeding between an Indica and a quite early Sativa, should bring in theoretically the highest yields under your lamps! Many internodes, not too broad a leaf, wide branching and consequently many tops. But also not that ‘slow’ and in the beginning with a lot of leaves growing plant, like the pure Afghans. Not that there is something wrong with those Afghans, on the contrary, they are still the foundation for a large part of the best Dutch weed. But oh well, we are Dutchmen, so we want more and better!
Attention hikers
The strange thing with these Santa Maria’s is that one hour before putting out the lights they let their leaves hang, like if there’s something wrong! Fortunately, I discovered that this behaviour belongs to this breed. Because when the lights switch on again, the plant raises its leaves in no time like it’s proud, its leaves almost begging and full of desire, aiming straight at the lamps. I also have the idea that they need more humidity than the average breeds. When the air gets a little too dry they are immediately very sensitive to the light of the lamp! For now, my first impression is that this is not a breed for the home grower who just started growing. The Santa Maria’s are real attention hikers, you really got to keep an eye on them. Fact is that the seven received clones are growing very fast at this moment. Probably because I’m enriching the soil with CO-2 tabs. I think it’s real strange that people pay large amounts for CO-2 installations!? It’s real simple and inexpensive to give some extra carbonic acid gas to the roots by putting it into the water. Just go to the aquarium shop and read those instructions from Velda, dear growers, and let your sane mind speak. And don’t you forget that tropical fish are even more vulnerable than our beloved plants.
Roots
But what I really wanted to write about, goes back in time, back to the roots! Why do I still meet people who always talk nonsense about ‘the plants’? I want to lead the young generation of growers back to the roots of our beloved little plant. A long time ago the plant grew in an area at the northwest of India, close to the Himalayan. Scientists gave the plant the official Latin name ‘Officinalis’, because of its proven beneficial effect and/or its wholesome effect. This was the case for the native breed; Cannabis D’Indica! (Therefore it is not understandable that these days a discussion rules about rather there must be or must not be medicinal marihuana at the pharmacists!) The original home base of this plant, is the only place where the plant can reproduce itself. There is practically no area on earth where Cannabis can reproduce itself, without human help. And therefore Cannabis is depending on people who have to sow its seed. Even when the adaptation to different soil and climatologic circumstances will be quick and will the Cannabis quickly be able to reproduce itself in some areas, it won’t be an Indica anymore! You would be talking about a Sativa!
High
In my perception most of the young smokers are badly informed about the true facts of being stoned! Resin isn’t THC. Resin contains THC! You don’t get stoned from the THC itself. The antibodies which your body produces against THC causes the fact you get high. That is why beginning smokers often don’t experience much the first few times compared to what they will experience later on, because their bodies can’t produce the antibodies that fast by direct recognition. And to make it just quite clearer, the resin you see on your weed, is nothing more or less than a natural protection from and for your plant! Against the sunlight, or under a magnifying glass, you can see apparently countless little hairs. These hairs are in fact no hairs, but glands, and each of them secretes a drop of produced resin. Based on the Indica, which has to endure 40 degrees Celcius at day and severe cold by night at natural circumstances, some things will get clearer. At day at 40°C the resin from the glands flows over the plant and especially over the places where they are the most vulnerable as for breeding. At night, when it can be tremendously cold, the resin becomes rock hard and forms a protection layer against the cold circumstances. This happens there, where the plant used to grow naturally.
The core
When you look at a country like for example Morocco, you will get a different story. The summers are less hot, the nights less cold, but the plant will produce and secrete resin. However this resin sticks to the gland like a drop and won’t flow out over the plant. This can look a bit like crystal. A lot of glittering can be seen during a particular phase of blooming. Because oxygen and light give the resin-drop a hard and thin crust, you can sieve the resin after a while. The resin-drop seems to be dry, but when it warms up you will see how resin-like the core still is. The sieved resin-drops can be pressed easily into a compact lump. Because of the heating and pressure the dried drops will break and everything will melt together. In Morocco the time for drying and ripening lasts for over 3 months!
Every Moroccan weed farmer knows that the quality of his to be sieved plants can only get better by drying and ripening them during the winter. Sieving too early gives dope that feels just a bit wild and not ripe, even when it can give a BOOM effect. So ladies and gentlemen, when you go sieve the cutting waste or more, my advise is to keep your weed cool, dry and dark for over three months. And please do not experiment with things like fermenting and other strange drying techniques, that isn’t good for the quality. Keep it clear for yourself and your plants, give them a dry, well ventilated room where it isn’t to warm and keep it dark! Light gives decomposition while there is synthesis and that costs a part of the THC-quality by forming NCB’s. Give them space and time, they will reward you !
Source: No Mercy Seeds
Stay cool, high and take time to fly !
