Archive for September, 2012

Mr Nice Seedbank: Shantibaba explains what happened when a Welshman, two Australian cannabis breeders, and the best selection of old and new world cannabis varieties shared a small room. Howard Marks (Mr Nice) and I (Shantibaba) met during the late 1990’s while I was living and working in Holland. A few years previously (1995), IRead More …

Here are the official results from the HIGH TIMES Medical Cannabis Cup in Seattle – September 14 – 16, 2012. BEST INDICA 1 – William’s Wonder from Greenside Medical 2 – True OG from Only The Best 3 – Jenke’s Kush from Top Shelf Medicine BEST SATIVA 1 – Super Lemon Haze from Fweedom CollectiveRead More …

Here’s how it’s done: Clones and new seeds are always placed into 1 gallon nursery pots without any Super Soil or added nutrients. Use only a good, balanced potting soil that won’t burn your baby plants. They will only stay in these smaller pots for a few weeks while the roots get established and youRead More …

Where’s your head at?  Are you in a mood that you want to be in – or are you in a state of mind that you’d like to get out of? With Brain Shift Radio, created by the Strong Institute, you can choose how you want to feel. The station is based on nearly 30Read More …

If you were asked to select two cannabis strains to hybridise to create a super-potent, easy to grow strain with a sweet taste and massive buds, you couldn’t do much better than AK47 and White Widow. The result, White Russian cannabis seeds, will give you a plant with an open structure that produces huge snowyRead More …

The “oldest window girls” in Amsterdam, Louise and Martine Fokkens, are to release a book about their lives in the Red Light District, later this month. The memoirs of the 69-year-old identical twins will be released in English after having sold more than 50,000 copies in Dutch, reaching number one in the county’s non-fiction bestRead More …

A question often asked by new growers is how to store seeds and how long do seeds in storage remain viable. Essentially the rules to follow are to keep your seeds in a cool dark place using an air tight container. Freezer Some people believe that storing seeds in the freezer is the best wayRead More …

Hollywood is known for being a liberal town, where conservatives like Jon Voight and Chuck Norris seem outnumbered by a cadre of Clooneys and Weinsteins. So when it comes to issues like the Drug War, it would logically follow that the thrust of movies touching on America’s relationship with cocaine, marijuana and any other numberRead More …

The species, known locally as the lesula, was discovered after a young female was seen kept captive at the home of a primary school director in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2007. The young animal resembled an owl faced monkey (Cercopithecus hamlyni) but its colouring was different to that of any known species, theRead More …

It may sound funny, but for smaller (and sometimes even fairly large) outdoor grow operations, growing trees in trees can be a successful method for getting some decent head stash. Humans have been growing plants in trees dot centuries, and for several good reasons. The smartest reason is to prevent the bigger trees from stealingRead More …