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Finshaggy

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This one is super cropped


This one is being kind of loosely SCROGed by splitting it into dfferent areas






This one has lots of tops


This is the one I bent and it will have multiple upwards branches
 

Finshaggy

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I know everyone knows this, but I feel like everyone thinks this is a lot more difficult than it really is. Eggs become Chickens. Like, Eggs at the store.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_egg_oven






http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_%28sheep%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastocyst
Dolly the Sheep was cloned in 1996 and was born of a Surrogate mother. Before Dolly was cloned it was thought that when DNA chose the different between Bones or Skin or Muscles that there was such a complex process happening that we would never understand it, but once Dolly was born it showed that all it really takes is the introduction of cells, not necessarily a sperm or egg, just any cell. Some people have declared that Dolly breaks the laws of Nature, but she actually reveals the laws of nature to all of us. They tried 277 times, so if Dolly was a chemical she would be called Dolly-277, ie LSD-25.

The word "Clone" comes from the Greek word for "Twig". When you skin a plant you reveal the "Stem Cells", Stem Cells are also the cells that make up a fetus. Stem cells are the part that we thought "We would never understand", but it turns out that Stem Cells just happen to be able to turn in to anything, there is no complex code that says what will be what. It just kind of happens. For example, the exposed Stem Cells of a plant can become Roots, or they can become a Grafting, or they can have a smaller plant with exposed stem cells inserted in and that smaller plant will become a branch. And there are many species of Tree that will be cloned easily just by putting a stick in the ground. Any plant can be cloned by cutting, and it does not harm to the plant. This is the best way to spread a new plant in an area, so that they do not have to start from seed and risk the seedling stage.



There is even research that is going in to helping same sex couples reproduce via the Dolly method, but instead of adding 1 persons cells, they would add both.
http://www.academia.edu/1763101/Stem_Cell_Research_and_Same-Sex_Reproduction

I am not sure if anyone noticed in my Beer and Wine post, but Yeast breeds almost as if it is a male/female organism, but it is a bacteria. This is called "Horizontal Gene Transfer" and not only that, but yeast can create entirely new Chromosomes if given the right genomic material. Amino Acids I think is all it needs, I watched Craig Venter talk a while ago on TV and he said that it was so simple he didn't want to actually say what the genomic material was, but I am pretty sure it is amino acids.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeast_artificial_chromosome
 

Finshaggy

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Coco Coir. Coco coir is Coconut shell fibers. It looks and works like soil, but it does not retain moisture like water does, so it allows your plants to grow to Hydroponic sizes using soil. So Coco gives you the best of both worlds.




Mylar. This will help you in Veg Cycle and Flower Cycle. People claim "If you have white walls you will be ok" or "If you put up paper you will be ok" but Mylar seriously helps. If you just have white walls you will lose a LOT of light, but if you look up "Space Blanket" on amazon you can get a pack of Mylar for cheap and you will see the difference. Or if you just do it from day 1 you will be set. If you get a grow tent the Mylar is usually built in.




Also for anyone just starting, when the "Veg Cycle" cycle is referenced, this means after your seedling is over like 1 inch tall and is past the "Germination" stage and has its first little leaves. Veg Cycle means you turn the light on for 24 hours a day or 18 hours a day, you get to pick this one. People claim plants can only absorb 18 hours of light, so most people choose 18. During the Veg Cycle is when your plant does the most growing. Veg Cycle usually lasts about 2 months, you can do it shorter or longer. If you buy a clone you get a jump start on Veg since you don't have to start with tiny leaves that hardly gather any light. Veg Cycle does not grow nugs until it is switched to flower.



For Veg Cycle Lights, you want to use CFLs or LEDs, these will produce more light of the right spectrum without running up the light bill like a regular bulb. CFLs and LEDs also won't get as hot as regular bulbs. Try "125 Watt CFL Hood" as a search on Amazon. You can also use Metal Halide bulbs which do get hot and don't save money on electricity, but they work very well.



Flower cycle is when you turn the light on for 12 hours a day and off for 12 hours a day, this makes the plant think that Winter is coming and it starts growing Buds, so that bees will pollinate it so it can make seeds. Some of your plants may be males, to check if you have a male during Veg so you don't get surprised during flower, what you do is make a clone and put the clone in the dark for 24 hours and see if it grows male parts or female parts (cloning is described lower down). ONLY FEMALE GROW BUDS, and males will make your females get seeds. If you don't want seeds, kill the males. Males are only for breeding. Flower Cycle lasts about 2 months, sometimes it can be 7ish weeks or 10ish weeks depending on the strain. You can also look up "30x Scope" or "100x Scope" or "200x Scope" and get a hand held Microscope that will allow you to see when the Trichombs are amber, when they are amber they are done, some people like to harvest at different colors though.




Flower Cycle Lights can be CFL or LED, but it is best to Flower with HPS or Metal Halide. HPS is best, it gives off the perfect light and it makes big frosty nugs. You can do a mixture of LED and HPS or CFL and HPS to get the best results, since HPS are expensive and also do not save on wattage. You can get everything for 100 Watt HPS to 1000 Watt HPS on Amazon.

Lollipopping is where you cut off all the bottom branches. Normally in a grow the bottom branches don't get enough light and end up being loose buds, and usually not much bud at all. Some people work to make the bottom branches SCROG to the top, but other people Lollipop, which just means cutting off the bottom branches so that the top branches get all the plants attention. This way no water or nutrients or light is used up on the small loose buds.



If you are wondering what Nutrients to use it is ok to use anything that works with other foods that are meant to be eaten. Miracle Grow is made for Tomatoes and it works for Tea or Dream Herbs, but most Marijuana Growers use a brand known as "Fox Farm". They have Nutrients for the Veg cycle and the Flower cycle.



Supercropping is where you take the Vegging branches of your plant and Snap them gently. Do a Youtube search for "Supercropping" if you are worried about exactly how much to snap it, but the idea is to snap the branch without breaking it or busting open the skin, so even just a hard hard hard pinch will work. You make each branch bend, but DO NOT break them. What this does is allows the plant to grow scar tissue that will make the branches stronger and allow for bigger flowers. It will also spread out the branches so that light can better reach the bottom.



Topping is where you cut the top off of your plant, and it will grow 2 more tops. You can do this over and over to get as many tops as you want.




Bamboo sticks allow your plant to have extra support. If you use the SCROG method you probably wont need Bamboo sticks, but if you just grow a regular plant then you will probably want to get some, just so your plant can support larger flowers and grows to be a hardier plant.



Cloning is when you Cut the top or a Branch off of the plant, then skin it with a Razor blade to expose the Stem Cells, then plant it in the dirt/coco and let it grow roots.



Grafting is when you use the root system of one plant to grow another plant. If you want to Veg your plant indoors then grow it outside for Summer until it flowers in Fall, then you can either plant it directly in the ground or you can cut the top off of a large bush or a small tree, and replace it with the Tea or Dream Herb. This would allow for the Marijuana plant to get bigger than usual since the other plant would have probably been there for a longer period of time and has larger roots.





Cold Pressed Neem Oil If you have problems with Bugs or think you will, rub your leaves with Cold pressed Neem oil or mix it in water and spray. Don't get processed Neem oil because they take out the main ingredient and it won't work, it has to be Cold Pressed.


There are still more things to learn if you are new, like Organic Growing and Microbes and Phenotypes and Feminized Seeds and stuff like that, but this list should get you started.
 

Finshaggy

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If you would like to make plant extractions (Pure extractions are called "Absolute"), the best way is to get a chemistry still to distill things, you just make a tea and boil the tea away to the other side. You can use this to boil Banana peels, Lemon peels, Cinnamon, Lemon Grass, Roses etc and get essential oils. The super Chemistry way to make Absolute is to do an extraction in a non-Polar Solvent, then do a wash with a Polar solvent. Or Polarization (Using 2 opposite polar solvents) , Winterization (Freezing to separate) and Filtration. This would be done by using a still then a separatory funnel. both are shown below.



Separatory Funnel

http://www.amazon.com/American-Educational-Conical-Separatory-Capacity/dp/B006580L96/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418961395&sr=8-1&keywords=separatory+funnel


Polar Substances
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_polarity

Winterizing (Freezing to make solids fall and liquids separate)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterization_(of_oil)


Dry Extraction can be done if you have a metal screen. Most hand Grinders have this built in, and the plant material has most of the essential oils left in it after this process. This process is only really good for things like Marijuana that have trichombs you can do things with. You can buy a "Wikka Box" or Sift Screen to do this, or buy your own screen at about 100 Micron and make your own sifting screens. Bubbleman is probably the best at this kind of extraction and you can find his stuff all over the internet if you search.

You can also make "Solvent hash" which is usually more crude, but it has the ability of extracting more. You can actually put plant material in a still, then extract it with solvents and still get things. Solvent extract will usually get plant material too though, which makes the end result less desirable. But this can be used on everything from tree bark, to grass, to leaves, to flowers, to cacti, to fungi. This is usually poured through some type of coffee filter or cheese cloth or even paper towels to keep plant material out. Some solvents can catch fire, so if you do this, don't do it indoors or while smoking. The solvent will have to evaporate, and different solvents evaporate at different rates. The faster the evaporation, the more flammable it is.


This is how (without the evaporation step) Absinthe was made in the past, which was and is a wormwood Thujone/Full spectrum extraction. Some artists would put opium in their Absinthe to give it more of an effect. If you do this with Marijuana, you get a tincture.


You can do a water extraction, then use the same material for a solvent extraction. These extractions are usually done with a Mesh bag with a Micron above 25, but below 300. You can even use multiple bags and get multiple grades. Bubble bags or Wacky bags or one of those are what Marijuana hash is usually made with.




Butter and other oils can also be used to extract things from plants, but again, you can use the leftover plant material in water or solvent extractions still. People use this method to make Marijuana cookies and brownies, and it can be used for other plants as well.
Flowers extracted into Coconut oil

Cannabutter

If you do this with Glycerin you are making vapor oil.
 

Finshaggy

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BHO, Butane Hash Oil is probably the cleanest form of Solvent Hash, but Butane is extremely flammable and evaporates extremely fast, especially if it is in a Hot water bath. This is made by putting plant material in an airtight space, and spraying butane through it. The Butane extracts the essential oils, then comes out through a filter. If you put lemon grass and Marijuana in the extractor, you can get a mixture that allows you to use less hash to get your medicinal effects. Unless you need clinical grade, then that is the opposite of what you need. My brother died because doctors were scared of Marijuana, he was 10 years old and they thought it was too dangerous to give him Marijuana, and now he is dead. But if we had a pure extract in a bottle a doctor could put in a syringe and stick in an unconscious patient's arm, knowing it is clean and clinical grade. What I am showing you is medical grade, not clinical grade.

CO2 is how you make cleaner, safer BHO. Same method, but with CO2 canisters.

If you make BHO, CO2 hash or Solvent Hash, then you can Purge your hash to get it to be the best it can.



Then in India what they do with their Marijuana leafs and stems is let them sit in milk, then strain it out. And drink the milk, and since milk is on the Ph scale, it can extract at a VERY weak rate.

In Perfuming there are 3 options. Enflourage, Concrete and Absolute.
Enflourage is plant material extracted in to a fat or oil. Ex: Coconut Oil, Butter, Vegetable Oil, Olive Oil, etc.
Concrete is an extraction that is dried. Ex: You could make strong dark Tea with a plant, then evaporate the water by boiling it all away, and you would have concrete of that plant. You could also let a plant sit in Alcohol or another Solvent, then filter out the plant material. Then let the solvent evaporate. Then you have Concrete also. Dry sifting also makes a form of Concrete.
Concrete can be used as Incense.
Absolute is a more pure extract. To get absolute you can do a few different things. The most common is distillation. This is the same way people make Moonshine. You make a dark tea with the plant, then put it in a Still and evaporate it to the other side. Any steam extraction method with get you Absolute.
This will create a produce Perfume grade stuff.
If you are going to make a Perfume, usually you would get something called "Perfumer's Alcohol" and you would mix your Absolute with that, and other things like Lemonene or whatever Terpene you want in there.
 

Finshaggy

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The Naked Man Orchid looks like a naked man with his junk hanging out, and I can't find any lore behind it, but they are widely distributed around the Mediterranean, so there should be something, they are most likely a fertility symbol of Spring.

The Tree of Life (opposite the tree of Knowledge) in Ancient Egypt was the Acacia Tree. This Tree was known for not being able to catch fire easily, and for a strange development that came along between Acacia trees in Africa and Ants. The tree feeds the Ants with weird little drops that come out of it, and then the ants will protect it while they live on the tree. This was probably extremely important to early human understanding of cooperation and nation.The Bark also contains DMT, which is part of human/animal brains, as well as many other plants apart from the Acacia.

Most people have probably read or seen Harry Potter, and in that movie there was a plant known as "Mandrake" that looked like a baby and screamed, and if anyone heard it they would be petrified to death. This was an real myth about the Mandrake plant in real life. The plant's roots look like a little person, with arms and legs and the plant is like its hair. And in Ancient Europe they actually believed that the plant screamed when it was pulled up and it could give them a curse, so they would tie a dog to the plant while they covered their ears so that the dog would get the curse. Mandrake plants are still grown as part of different rituals by people all over the world, there are even websites that sell seeds and tell you what planets each plant is related to and things like that. People used to grow plants based on Planetary movements instead of the Sun, and different plants do have different cycles that match up with different things.


The Fig Tree is well known from the Bible and other middle Eastern religions, and this is because figs were the first plant to actually be farmed by human beings and it started in the middle east. There is a bug known as a Fig Wasp whose life cycle is based on the fig tree, it lives on the fig tree, uses its fruit and if the fig wasps were not there the tress would die because fig trees do not send out pollen. So Fig wasps may have actually taught us how to farm.

The Ancient Greeks named this flower after a Bumble Bee, and we still call it the Laughing Bumble Bee Orchid.

SnapDragon is a plant whose seed pods look like skulls. For some reason in Western Culture, skeletons are always the bad guys, you never see them doing anything good in anything, but in most places (even Mexico) skeletons are viewed a lot differently, almost even as a celebration of the dead. SnapDragon flowers are said to look like a Dragon opening and closing its mouth, but not as much as the seed pods look like skulls.


The Monkey Orchid looks like a Monkey's face.

The Flying Duck Orchid looks like a Duck, and bugs try to have sex with it.

Aryuveda is the Hindu system of Medicine, and it is not about curing illness but making sure your body is healthy to start with so it does not get sick. Kind of like "An Apple a day keeps the Doctor away". For example, in India every Spring they have the Holiday known as "Holi" where they throw Colored Pigments everywhere, they are all colors and they get all over everyone so everyone is rainbow colored. These Plant Pigments are actually medicine, and they help people not get sick in the coming season by boosting the immune system. They also have all kinds of plants that support healthy urine flow and teas that can help with coughing and all kinds of stuff. They didn't know about Phytochemicals and Terpenes when they figured this stuff out, but they did figure it out. This also gets in to Incense and Perfume, Incense has always been associated with Religion, even Jesus was called "Christ" which means "The Anointed One" as in "Anointed with Oils".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda

 

Finshaggy

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This is random, but here is an Old Werewolf Spell that you can find in some spellbooks and stuff, I don't actually think it turns people into werewolves just like San Pedro doesn't really turn you in to a Werejaguar, but it is interesting, and anyone who might be Wiccan can use it. I am not Wiccan, but here it is

opium, poppy seeds, aloe, henbane, hemlock, parsley, solanine (an extract of night shade), and asafetida (a gum resin). After stirring all the components together , he will allow the contents to simmer (in animal fat or oil or butter). When flames leap up, he will begin his incantation: “Elect of all devilish host, I pray you send hither, the great gray shape that makes men shiver. Come! Come! Come!"
Having removed his clothing and put on a wolf-skin girdle, the devotee now rubs his entire body with a salve (the salve is all those plants boiled into some kind of animal fat or oil or butter).
 
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Finshaggy

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CYP Enzymes (Drug Metabolism, etc)

Induction and Inhibition (Anti-Oxidants, etc)

Cinnamon Bark- CYP2A6 & CYP2E1 Inhibitor (It will deplete your liver's Glutithione) Taken 1 Hour before Allybenzene,

Clove Leaf- CYP2C9, CYP3A4, CYP1A1 & CYP1B1 Inhibitor

German Chamomile- CYP1A2 Inhibitor (Caffeine may also do this)



Also

GoldenSseal & Echinacea purpurea very effectively do the same thing. And people have reported using Vitamin B9 or Almond extract or Star Anise Extract and Tangerine Peels or Extract.

The 4 Oils listed are "AllylBenzenes", here is a larger list, but I am not sure if anyone has ever tried to Oilahuasca these yet, and I do not know if it is safe, so I am not suggesting anyone try these, they are just here for the sake of discussing them so people in the future can be safe.



Anethole, Apiol, Asarone, Carpacin, Chavibetol, Chavicol, Dillapiole, Eugenol, Isoeugenol, Isosafrole, Methyl Eugenol, Methyl Isoeugenol,

Here are the things that you need to make sure the Oil works.



Star Anise Extract or B9 for CYP2C9 Induction



Most important things:

CYP2C9 Induction

Alcohol Dehydrogenase Induction

Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Inhibition

Piperidine and or Dimethylamine Supplementation

Methyl from foods

Exercise or compounds that produce effects like exercise



Less important, but still factors:

SSAO Inhibition (Caffeine, Phenethylamine, Phenelalamine, Tryptamine)

MAO-A Induction

MAO-B Induction

NDMA Antagonism

Prolactin Inhibition

Hungarian Parsley Seed is a better source of Myristicin, just found that out. And the effects of it when activated properly are said to be like Mescaline and MDMA together. The P450 Enzymes CYP1A2 & CYP3A4 are what break this down and need to be inhibited. CYP2D6 could also play a big role.

Elmicin is something you either needs Chromotography type knowledge to get, or you have to buy it in small quantities. When activated properly it is like Mescaline, when activated wrong it is like Melatonin (sleepy). CYP1A1, CYP1B1, CYP1A2, CYP2A6, CYP2C9, CYP2A6, CYP2C9 & CYP2E1 are what are needed to be inhibited to activate this. CYP2D6 could also play an important role.

Safrole is like MDMA when activated properly and like Melatonin when not. CYP2A6, CYP2C9, and CYP2E1 are most important for this. CYP2D6 could also be important.

Methyl Chavicol when activated properly is like a light speedy LSD, when activated wrong it is said to be almost like Marijuana. CYP1A2 and CYP2A6 inhibit it, and CYP2D6 could also be important.

If the CYP2D6 Enzyme is inhibited with all the others, these are possibly visually hallucinogenic Oilahuascas. And the Methyl Chavicol doesn't build a tolerance (the others do) it actually gets stronger for you every time you use it, or you can use less.

Dill seed extract also is said to be able to be used. As one of the main things, like in place of the Chavicol.

And apparently you can turn the main ingredients into 3 different forms, depending what you take:
Dimethylamine, Piperidine and the Pyrrolidine derivatives
Piperidine is said to be the strongest and is made by having Pepper or a Pepper replacement in your system.

And Apparently Elami oil can be activated by Valerian Root of Chinese origin, Coffee, Almond Extract & Glycerin (the stuff E-Cig liquid is made of), and nothing else. And it is like Mescaline. Someone told that guy that he didn't even need the Valerian root, and if he had added Vanilla or Cumin oil to his coffee, it could have been even stronger. So basically if someone were to drink a Nutmeg, Vanilla, Almond Coffee... They could trip and not even expect it.

Valerian Root, B9, Anise seed are all interchangeable or to be used together
or replaced with:
DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone)
Eugenol (inhibits/induces CYP2C9)
Ginkgo biloba (inhibits/induces CYP2C9)
Licorice (inhibits/induces CYP2C9)
Milk Thistle
Resveratrol (inhibits CYP2C9)
Saint John’s Wort (inhibits/induces CYP2C9)
Turmeric (inhibits/induces CYP2C9)

Pepper tea, with the solids taken out, seems to be the best thing for creating the base base.

L-Lysine is said to really help the pepper.

Vanilla and Cinnamon seem to be interchangable. They are both Aldehydes.

German Chamomile does the best at blocking CYP1A2, but you can use Cayenne Peppers or Tangeretin.

CYP2A6 can be inhibited by:
Almond Extract, Anise oil, Benzaldehyde, Cinnamaldehyde, Lemon oil, Lime oil, Orange oil, Limonene, Tangerine oil, Lemongrass oil, Nicotine

CYP2D6 Inhibition could mean the difference between Psychedelic effects and no effects. Here are the things that inhibit it:
CBD (Cannabidiol from Cannabis), Echinacea Purpurea, Pomegranate, Pummelo, Calamus oil, Kava, Black Cohosh

CYP3A4 is important to inhibit, which can be done with:
Catechin, Clove oil, Dill seed oil, Ginger, Goldenseal, Pomegranate, Cinnamon & Kava.

Kudzu seems to help protect it after it is formed. This can be replaced by Gallic Acid, Soy Isoflavones, Glycerin, Caffeine or Benzaldehydge.

And if anyone were to try these things with Mescaline or MDMA or DMT, they would probably get some awesome effects. I am not sure if anyone has tried it yet, but there may be other versions of Ayahuasca to make, where you take DMT orally and have it made into something else by inhibiting certain enzymes.

Cayenne Peppers promote Endophines and Adrenaline, so they also put things in the body that are helpful.

From what I read earlier, any NMDA antagonist would be beneficial, but not crucial in the mix. This makes sense to me, because NMDA antagonists are things like, Ecstasy or Cough Medicine (Delsym) or MXE. So it would make sense that having something that has these effects would kind of kick the whole thing into a full blown experience.

So, Dextromotphan, that is what is in Cough Syrup and it is legal to buy, posses, etc. It is not any kind of drug. MXE is legal to buy and posses, but you are not allowed to take it unless you are a member of the Church of NeuroScience.

There are also plants that have these effects:
Uncaria Rhynchophyllia
Psychotria Colorata
Huperzia Serrata

Then there is the addition option of Prolactin Inhibition, which can be done with:
Zinc, Ginko Vitamin E, B6, Almonds or Almond Extract & Magnesium
And possibly by anything that releases Dopamine or acts like it. So L-DOPA, THC, and a few other things maybe.
 

Finshaggy

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These are Drosera plants, I recently ordered some seeds and hope to have some plants growing soon. They have sticky trichombs that attract bugs, so any of those little flies that come into a grow sometimes can be killed before they become a problem. I think every grow should have one of these plants.









 

Finshaggy

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If anyone can start farming Hover Flies, or find someone who is. They are basically like Mini bees, but they are less clumsy than bees so they can get things pollinated more thoroughly, and they don't have hives, so they might be easier to spread around. And since bee populations are suffering it could even start like a needed trend in farming and gardening.
 
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