dr gives up

and the doctor is out

mayors to the feds

leave us alone!

kind of a gimme

1%... yeah you...

if you did not know already

things we should know

it only takes one endangered animal

just what they have been waiting for...

going deeper

We are coming to a time in the rehabbing girls lives that I will be starting some proprietary techniques and different nutrient regiments. I would love to share with you what my experience and knowledge can bring to them and I would love to be able to go into detail about what it is I am doing, perhaps also allowing you to ask me any questions or give some tips! I really cannot do this kind of detail and have my blog be completely public. So that is why it will soon be member only. There are a lot of things I have learned and techniques I do that are not quite the norm and I would love to be able to share them with you. Becoming a member lets me know just how serious you take growing, or how serious you are about learning. It also keep the riffraff from tormenting and trolling the blog. Let's keep this smart, comfortable, and fun. I truly hope you join and become more involved in the nursery blog. Any comments, tips, or just hellos are always welcomed and I hope to provide a safe place to share and come together. 

roots

I had to do it! Look at this mass!! This is not a mother. This is just one of the girls. That is what you want to see. Roots just swallowing hydroton pushing their way through every cranny they can get through if the buckets could budge they probably would! if they didn't improve the plastic the buckets would have too! This is beautiful. I will be sure to post more of these as they will continue to get better and I will be able to point some things out on the not so healthy girls. All in all I would have to say this one was very healthy you can see the root system remained white and solid throughout. No rot, breakage, or anything really. This is a prime example of a great established root system. 

 

instabummer

My phone was blowing up my inboxes flooded this morning. Instagram took down my account. It says I violated terms of service to which I did not. I have a sneaky feeling it is my ex boyfriend being oh so adult with his games. But liars do as they do unfortunately. So I suppose instagram is no more for the nursery. All well and good really. You can find me on tumblr and here of course. I will soon be going member only so if you would like to keep up please join when the time comes. I want to be able to go farther in depth with what I do nutrient, water, and rehab wise. I am not comfortable giving such details to the masses but for those willing to join the blog it might be beneficial to all those involved! I hope to get some conversation going but we shall see! So until further notice, if I hear back from instagram (I am on there as goherbal, yet I am not sure how much I will be putting up), merriejayne is not on instagram. Sad as it is to say.

update

So happy with the ladies in rehab, they are responding well!! You can see with the new growth they are now coming out of some sort of toxicity. They seem to have grown out if their previous issues deficient wise and now we are dealing with residual toxicities left behind in the plant. Hopefully with enough patience and the right balance I can get them to where they should have been in the first place, well hopefully pretty close to it. I had expected the older root system to be discolored and more sickly looking if not close to dead and wilted but I am happy to see they are white and seem to have regained some of their vigor. Since they locked up so early in their growth they will not plump more than they have but it seems they have developed new fingers along their sides which is a great happening. There  is new growth starting to peek out you can see has the characteristic fuzz and is plumper as it goes closer to the stalk. The new development is sturdy and healthy and should be on it's way to a true stage of establishment. Transfer should be no problem at this point and they will be encouraged to go further into establishment once in their home bucket. Not anticipating residual toxicity it seems I will have to wait on diagnoses of any possible genetic disorders. Perhaps they won't even show up until later in their lives. Perhaps they will show themselves soon. We'll see. 

I am gradually raising the strength of their nutrients allowing them enough time to adjust to the raise. They should be up to full strength soon so the transfer with the rest of them will be good as the entire system will be on full strength. I am considering holding them back a bit more as further establishment in the containment they are in would not hurt them in the least. 

bubba blast

Today I decided to run the bubba kush (circa 1995) into bho. I acquired this strain from her original owner and have been logging her and running her ever since. she has maintained her potency and I have not allowed degeneration so she is just as she was in 1995. Each time I have run a bho I have tried a different finish. It is interesting to play around with different styles and techniques of purging. I do not own a vacuum chamber or anything but I do have a food saver and the last run I did I shoved the glass pan into a food saver bag and vacuumed and sealed it. It worked pretty well! I was surprised so I am going to be playing with that a little bit more for sure. This time I filled the tube as normal, ran two cans through it into a warm water bath, I don't allow my water to go over 195 (I use a water pot I have had for years bought from a Japanese market! It really does the job!) I am doing a warm water purge and one initial whip. The photos below are after all this. From here I will allow it to set for an hour or so then run another purge. One pan will go into the food saver bag and continue the purge in that way. the other I will slow purge with warm water as I cannot fit the glass pie pan into the bag!! I am contemplating purchasing a vacuum chamber. They aren't unreasonably priced and if I keep running this I am sure it will become imperative to the process! 

h2oooooohhhh!

I just love water extracts! I ran some bubble bags the other night, I have a 9 bag system but I really only use 5 bags. The end result this time came out beautiful! It is strong and potent, smooth and light in flavor. It isn't heavy or have that weird "all over mouth" taste some hash gets. No aftertaste and it is more potent as you sit! I enjoy water extracts a lot. Lately the request has been for the bho but playing with the bubble bags is always worth it. Consistency and patience, as with most of this field, is key!

outdoor ordinance

back up before the board

advocates are pissed

lashings

the battle of fed and state

how to end the battle