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Air layering

karlis — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Will an air-layered cutting be truer to the mother than one that is cut and rooted separately from the plant?

GWS,
Omaha, Nebraska

Most of the time the method used to make clones is to cut a branch tip and then root it. Another vegetative method is called air layering. The advantage to air layering is that the clone grows roots while it is still on the plant, so it doesn't undergo as much trauma as an unrooted cutting.

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Bad timer, two weeks to go

karlis — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

The timer on my light toasted and the light was on continuously for three days. Before the light accident the plants had only two weeks of flowering until ripening. Should I harvest immediately or continue to flower them out?
Webcan Man,
Internet

The accident has set the plants back a week or ten days but it has not ruined the buds. It may have given them a little stretch.

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Bob's purple pot cartoon

karlis — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Bonsai buds

karlis — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Most plants are my own all female cross of NL5Haze/Sweet Tooth by way of Adventure Mix.

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Bubblehash

karlis — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700

The excitement I get when entering a grow room is always that of minor paranoia, mixed with intense excitement. I say this mainly because the rooms I find myself in these days are much larger than your standard closet or basement set up. The room I am referring to in this article will go down in the history of sweetest grows I've ever visited.

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Can't we all just get a bong?

karlis — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700

On February 24, 2003, US Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the indictments of 55 individuals on charges of selling drug paraphernalia. The arrests were based on two federal investigations: Operation Pipe Dreams in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Operation Headhunter in Des Moines, Iowa.
But the scope was "extra jurisdictional." In other words, the busts spanned America. Across the nation, 2,000 federal, state and local officers had swept down on unsuspecting business people.

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Canadian Taser Tyranny

karlis — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Taser barb bruisesRepeated, suspicious deaths from taser strikes have shocked Canada's public conscience even while Taser International claims their product has saved 4,000 Canadian lives. However, at least eight lives have been lost in Canada due to Taser shocks while under the influence of cocaine or alcohol.

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Cannabis and Chemotherapy

karlis — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Recovering brain tumour patientThe most familiar legal justification for medical marijuana is associated with treating the side effects of chemotherapy.

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Cannabis vodka party

karlis — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Ok, so tomorrow I go to the G-spot. How reminiscent is that 5 or so years ago, back in Freddy* Dancing and giddy high on pot drinking Red Bull dropping a tab now and then to go into a frenzy a climactic whirlwind.

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Creating hermaphrodites

karlis — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

I am growing hydroponically using a 400-watt metal halide lamp for vegetating and a 1000-watt HPS lamp for flowering.

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Durban vs Durban

karlis — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Are you getting what you paid for? In pursuit of a true pure strain, we compare "pure" Durbans from two popular Dutch banks, and share the results with you.
SEEDS

It seems that everyone is selling seeds. Lots of claims are made. How can anyone tell the good from the bad?

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Editor's page

karlis — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700

You'd never know it, reading High Times Magazine today, that they once thought I was the great hope of the movement.

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Exclusive Kottonmouth Kings

karlis — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

l to r: Lou Dog, Johny Richter, Christina, Pakelika, D-loc, DJ Bobby B, Heidi, Daddy X"The underlying theme for the Kottonmouth Kings is personal freedom." - Daddy X

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Fertilizer okay

karlis — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

I have a hydroponic system made from a 10-gallon Rubbermaid container filled with water-nutrient solution. An air pump holsters two airstones.
I cut six 4-inch-diameter circles in the top. I grew my plants in soil first until they put out their first set of true leaves. Then I placed them in 4-inch-diameter plastic cups with many holes cut at the bottom.

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Hard times for High Times

karlis — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700

In the retail marijuana paraphernalia business, it's all about pipes, bongs, detox supplies, papers, and lighters. Literature, like marijuana growing books or magazines, such as Cannabis Culture and High Times, are the "window dressing." They call them first Amendment materials, or reading paraphernalia.

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Hay with no potency

karlis — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

At the end of the harvest the weed has a hay-like smell. The potency isn't very good, either. I tried growing several varieties because I thought it could be just bad genes but that didn't help. What is my problem?
I Spy Drama Queen,
Internet

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Hermaphrodite clones

karlis — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

I am an outdoor gardener. I have a strain that I developed by crossing two strains that did well and that were my favorites. I grow it each year using seeds I produced the previous year. Last year the police raided my main patch. I was left with nothing but males and hermaphrodites. I crossed my most vigorous hermies with the best male and have them growing at a new location.

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Homegrown games

karlis — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Do you have a box of old board games hidden somewhere in your storage room? Or do you have kids who used to play clue or monopoly instead of everquest and grand theft auto?

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How many regenerations

karlis — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

How many times can I regenerate the same plant? Is it ever necessary to repot it?
Dave, Chicago, Illinois

Many marijuana varieties, including most sativa-indica hybrids, can be regenerated quite a few times. Anecdotally, one person grew a large plant in the southfacing window of his apartment building and harvested the plant in the late fall.

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Hydropanic

karlis — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

In 1989, the US Drug Enforcement Agency tried to destroy the indoor gardening industry, asserting it was nothing more than a "sleazy front" for marijuana growers.

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Infrared light

karlis — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800

I want to use an infrared camera to keep tabs on my grow room during the dark phase. How does the camera work? Is infrared within the spectrum that the plant can see?
Porcelli Giovanni,
Internet

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Mega grow room

karlis — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

The excitement I get when entering a grow room is always that of minor paranoia, mixed with intense excitement. I say this mainly because the rooms I find myself in these days are much larger than your standard closet or basement set up. The room I am referring to in this article will go down in the history of sweetest grows I've ever visited.

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Not satisfied from yield of six plants

karlis — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

I am a patient with a medical card in Colorado. I use about an ounce of marijuana a week to ease the pain of my spinal cord injury. I am allowed to grow six plants but my yield per plant is only about an ounce so I can supply myself with only a fraction of my need. How can I grow enough marijuana to meet my needs?
James,
Walsungburg, Colorado

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Operation Green Merchant

karlis — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

The DEA believed that High Times magazine, pot seed merchants, indoor pot growers, pot journalists and hydroponics equipment manufacturers were a criminal conspiracy worthy of a nationwide takedown.

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Paypal police

karlis — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700

There it is, on the e-commerce websites of people selling bongs, cannabis seeds, weighing scales, hydroponics equipment, and cannabis cultivation books. It's on the websites of marijuana advocates, left-wing activist groups, environmental organizations, gun dealers, and Bible wholesalers.

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PVC pipes okay?

karlis — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0800

I think the notion that PVC bongs are unsafe is dated and inaccurate. I did a literature search on PubMed and read many of the investigations and reviews written on the safety of PVC devices. In fact, PVC is used for blood-transfusion bags, nasogastric tubes, and artificial airways.

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Quick hash

karlis — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800

I have a screen and I kiefed all the sun leaves and trim. I'm looking at a big pile of the kief. Now I dream of smoking some real hash. I remember beautiful pliable hash leather in a tea shop in Nepal and hazy days at the Bluebird sampling the hashes of the world. Is there a way for me to turn my kief into hash without a press or fancy equipment?
Burning Bruce's Spear,
Edinburgh, Scotland

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Rotting Roots

karlis — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800

I grow in a 6' x 5' area using two 1000-watt HPS air-cooled lights. I use a 40 site aeroflow system. Water temp: 80 degrees. Room temp 85 degrees. One day I went to check my plants and what were healthy lush white roots had become a brown mushy mess. Thick gelatin goo formed everywhere, binding the roots together.

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Seed desk samples

karlis — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800

Summer travel ganja guide

karlis — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

European Dreaming
The unified Europe is good for pot travelers because the Union has eliminated passport controls and formal airport border crossings between most countries. Many cannatourists begin their European vacations in Holland, procure cannabis, and then travel to other European destinations.

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