How to Grow Marijuana
How to grow Marijuana courtesy of the Jolly Roger
MARIJUANA
Marijuana is a deciduous plant which grows from seeds. The fibrous
section of the plant was (has been replaced by synthetics) used to make rope.
The flowering tops, leaves, seeds, and resin of the plant is used by just about
everyone to get HIGH.
Normally, the vegetable parts of the plant are
smoked to produce this "high," but thay can also be eaten. The axtive ingredient
in marijuana resin is THC (tetahydrocannabinol). Marijuana contains from 1 - 4
per cent THC (4 per cent must be considered GOOD dope). Marijuana grows wild in
many parts of the world, and is cultivated in Mexice, Vietnam, Africa, Nepal,
India, South America, etc.,etc. The marijuana sold in the United States comes
primarily from, yes, the Uniited States.
It is estimated that at least
50 per cent of the grass on the streets in America is homegrown. The next
largest bunch comes actoss the borders from Mexico, with smaller amounts
filtering in from Panama, occasionally South America, and occasinally, Africa.
Hashish is the pure resin of the marijuana plant, which is scraped from the
flowering tops of the plant and lumped together. Ganja is the ground-up tops of
the finest plants. (It is also the name given to any sort of marijuana in
Jamaica.)
Marijuana will deteriorate in about two years if exposed to
light, air or heat. It should always be stored in cool places. Grass prices in
the United States are a direct reflection of the laws of supply and demand (and
you thought that high school economics would never be useful). A series of large
border busts, a short growing season, a bad crop, any number of things can drive
the price of marijuana up. Demand still seems to be on the increase in the U.S.,
so prices seldom fall below last year's level.
Each year a small
seasonal drought occurs, as last year's supply runs low, and next year's crop is
not up yet. Prices usually rase about 20 - 75 per cent during this time and then
fall back to "normal." Unquestionably, a large shortage of grass causes a
percentage of smokers to turn to harder drugs instead. For this reason, no grass
control program can ever be beneficial or "successful."
GROW IT!
There is one surefire way of avoiding high prices and the grass DT's:
Grow your own. This is not as difficult as some "authorities" on the subject
would make you believe. Marijuana is a weed, and a fairly vivacious one at that,
and it will grow almost in spite of you.
OUTDOORS
Contrary to
propular belief, grass grows well in many place on the North American continent.
It will flourish even if the temperature does not raise above 75 degrees.
The plants do need a minimum of eight hours of sunlight per day and
should be planted in late April/early May, BUT DEFINITELY, after the last frost
of the year.
Growing an outdoor, or "au naturel", crop has been the
favored method over the years, because grass seems to grow better without as
much attention when in its natural habitat.
Of course, an outdoors
setting requires special precautions not encoun- tered with an indoors crop; you
must be able to avoid detection, both from law enforcement freaks and common
freaks, both of whom will take your weed and probably use it. Of course, one
will also arrest you. You must also have access to the area to prepare the soil
and harvest the crop. There are two schools of thought about starting the seeds.
One says you should start the seedlings for about ten days in an indoor starter
box (see the indoor section) and then transplant. The other theory is that you
should just start them in the correct location. Fewer plants will come up with
this method, but there is no shock of transplant to kill some of the seedlings
halfway through.
The soil should be preprepared for the little devils by
turning it over a couple of times and adding about one cup of hydrated lime per
square yard of soil and a little bit (not too much, now) of good water soluble
nitrogen fertilizer. The soil should now be watered several times and left to
sit about one week.
The plants should be planted at least three feet
apart, getting too greedy and stacking them too close will result in stunted
plants.
The plants like some water during their growing season, BUT not
too much. This is especially true around the roots, as too much water will rot
the root system.
Grass grows well in corn or hops, and these plants will
help provide some camouflage. It does not grow well with rye, spinach, or
pepperweed. It is probally a good idea to plant in many small, broken patches,
as people tend to notice patterns.
GENERAL GROWING INFO
Both the
male and he female plant produce THC resin, although the male is not as strong
as the female. In a good crop, the male will still be plenty smokable and should
not be thrown away under any circumstances. Marijuana can reach a hight of
twenty feet (or would you rather wish on a star) and obtain a diameter of 4 1/2
inches. If normal, it has a sex ratio of about 1:1, but this can be altered in
several ways.
The male plant dies in the 12th week of growing, the
female will live another 3 - 5 weeks to produce her younguns. Females can weigh
twice as much as males when they are mature.
Marijuana soil should
compact when you squeeze it, but should also break apart with a small pressure
and absorb water well. A nice test for either indoor or outdoor growing is to
add a bunch of worms to the soil, if they live and hang aroung, it is good soil,
but if they don't, well, change it. Worms also help keep the soil loose enough
for the plants to grow well.
SEEDS
To get good grass, you should
start with the right seeds. A nice starting point is to save the seeds form the
best batch you have consumed. The seeds should be virile, that is, they should
not be grey and shiriveled up, but green, meaty, and healthy appearing. A nice
test is to drop the seeds on a hot frying pan. If they "CRACK," they are
probably good for planting purposes.
The seeds should be soaked in
distilled water overnight before planting. BE SURE to plant in the ground with
the pointy end UP. Plant about 1/2" deep. Healthy seeds will sprout in about
five days.
SPROUTING
The best all around sprouting method is
probably to make a sprouting box (as sold in nurseries) with a slated bottom or
use paper cups with holes punched in the bottoms. The sprouting soil should be a
mixture of humus, soil, and five sand with a bit of organic fertilizer and water
mixed in about one week before planting.
When ready to transplant, you
must be sure and leave a ball of soil around the roots of each plant. This whole
ball is dropped into a baseball-sized hold in the permanent soil.
If you
are growing/transplanting indoors, you should use a green safe light (purchased
at nurseries) during the transplanting operation. If you are transplanting
outdoors, you should time it about two hours befor sunset to avoid damage to the
plant. Always wear cotton gloves when handling the young plants.
After
the plants are set in the hole, you should water them. It is also a good idea to
use a commercial transplant chemical (also purchased at nurseries) to help then
overcome the shock.
INDOOR GROWING
Indoor growing has many
advantages, besides the apparent fact that it is much harder to have your crop
"found," you can control the ambient conditions just exactly as you want them
and get a guaranteed "good" plant.
Plants grown indoors will not appear
the same as their outdoor cousins. They will be scrawnier appearing with a weak
stems and may even require you to tie them to a growing post to remain upright,
BUT THEY WILL HAVE AS MUCH OR MORE RESIN!
If growing in a room, you
should put tar paper on the floors and then buy sterilized bags of soil form a
nursery. You will need about one cubic foot of soil for eavh plant.
The
plants will need about 150 ml. of water per plant/per week. They will also need
fresh air, so the room must be ventilated. (however, the fresh air should
contain NO TOBACCO smoke.)
At least eight hours of light a day must be
provided. As you increase the light, the plants grow faster and show more
females/less males. Sixteen hours of light per day seems to be the best
combination, beyond this makes little or no appreciable difference in the plant
quality. Another idea is to interrupt the night cycle with about one hour of
light. This gives you more females.
The walls of your growing room
should be painted white or covered with aluminum foil to reflect the light.
The lights themselves can be either bulbs of fluorescent. Figure about
75 watts per plant or one plant per two feet of flouresent tube. The
fluorescents are the best, but do not use "cool white" types. The light sources
should be an average of twenty inches from the plant and NEVER closer than 14
inches. They may be mounted on a rack and moved every few days as the plants
grow.
The very best light sources are those made by Sylvania and others
especially for growing plants (such as the "gro lux" types).
HARVESTING
AND DRYING
The male plants will be taller and have about five green or
yellow sepals, which will split open to fertilize the female plant with pollen.
The female plant is shorter and has a small pistillate flower, which
really doesn't look like a flower at all but rather a small bunch of leaves in a
cluster.
If you don't want any seeds, just good dope, you should pick
the males before they shed their pollen as the female will use some of her resin
to make the seeds.
After another three to five weeks, after the males
are gone, the females will begin to wither and die (from loneliness?), this is
the time to pick. In some nefarious Middle Eastren countries, farmers reportedly
put their beehives next to fiels of marijuana. The little devils collect the
grass pollen for their honey, which is supposed to contain a fair dosage of THC.
The honey is then enjoyed by conventional methods or made into ambrosia.
If you want seeds - let the males shed his pollen then pick him. Let the female
go another month and pick her.
To cure the plants, they must be dried.
On large crops, this is accomplished by constructing a drying box or drying
room. You must have a heat source (such as an electric heater) which will make
the box/room each 130 degrees. The box/room must be ventilated to carry off the
water-vapor-laden air and replace it with fresh. A good box can be constructed
from an orange crate with fiberglass insulated walls, vents in the tops, and
screen shelves to hold the leaves. There must be a baffle between the leaves and
the heat source.
A quick cure for smaller amounts is to: cut the plant
at the soil level and wrap it in a cloth so as not to loose any leavs. Take out
any seeds by hand and store. Place all the leaves on a cookie sheet or aluminum
foil and put them in the middle sheld of the oven, which is set on "broil." In a
few seconds, the leaves will smoke and curl up, stir them around and give
another ten seconds before you take them out.
TO INCREASE THE GOOD STUFF
There are several tricks to increase the number of females, or the THC
content of plants:
You can make the plants mature in 36 days if you are
in a hurry, by cutting back on the light to about 14 hours, but the plants will
not be as big.
You should gradually shorten the light cycle until you
reach fourteen hours.
You can stop any watering as the plants begin to
bake the resin rise to the flowers. This will increse the resin a bit.
You can use a sunlamp on the plants as they begin to develop flower
stalks.
You can snip off the flower, right at the spot where it joins
the plant, and a new flower will form in a couple of weeks.
This can be
repeated two or three times to get several times more flowers than usual.
If the plants are sprayed with Ethrel early in their growing stage, they
will produce almost all female plants. This usually speeds up the flowering
also, it may happen in as little as two weeks.
You can employ a growth
changer called colchicine. This is a bit hard to get and expensive. (Should be
ordered through a lab of some sort and costs about $35 a gram.)
To use
the colchicine, you should prepare your presoaking solution of distilled water
with about 0.10 per cent colchicine. This will cause many of the seeds to die
and not germinate, but the ones that do come up will be polyploid plants. This
is the accepted difference between such strains as "gold" and normal grass, and
yours will DEFINITELY be superweed.
The problem here is that colchicine
is a posion in larger quanities and may be poisonous in the first generation of
plants. Bill Frake, author of CONNOISSEUR'S HANDBOOK OF MARIJUANA runs a very
complete colchicine treatment down and warns against smoking the first
generation plants (all succeeding generations will also be polyploid) bacause of
this poisonous quality.
However, the Medical Index shows colchicine
being given in very small quantities to people for treatment if various
ailments. Although these quantities are small, they would appear to be larger
than any you could recive form smoaking a seed-treated plant.
It would
be a good idea to buy a copy of CONNOISSEUR'S, if you are planning to attempt
this, and read Mr. Drake's complete instructions.
Another
still-experimental process to increase the resin it to pinch off the leaf tips
as soon as they appear from the time the plant is in the seedling stage on
through its entire life-span. This produces a distorted, wrecked-looking plant
which would be very difficuly to recognize as marijuana. Of course, there is
less substance to this plant, but such wrecked creatures have been known to
produve so much resin that it crystallizes a strong hash all over the surface of
the plant - might be wise to try it on a plant or two and see what happens.
PLANT PROBLEM CHART
Always check the overall enviromental
conditions prior to passing judgment - soil aroung 7 pH or slightly less -
plenty of water, light, fresh air, loose soil, no water standing in pools.
SYMPTOM PROBABLY PROBLEM/CURE Larger leaves turning yellow - Nitrogen dificiency - add
smaller leaves still green. nitrate of soda or
organic fertilizer.
Older leaves will curl at edges, Phosphorsus dificiency -
turn dark, possibaly with a purple add commercial phosphate.
cast.
Mature leaves develop a yellowish Magnesium dificiency -
cast to least veinal areas. add commercial fertilizer
with a magnesium content.
Mature leaves turn yellow and then Potassium dificiency -
become spotted with edge areas add muriate of potash.
turning dark grey.
Cracked stems, no healthy support Boron dificiency - add
tissue. any plant food containing
boron.
Small wrinkled leaves with Zinc dificiency - add
yelloish vein systems. commercial plant food
containing zinc.
Young leaves become deformed, Molybedum dificiency -
possibaly yellowing. use any plant food with a
bit of molydbenum in it.
EXTRA
SECTION:
BAD WEED/GOOD WEED
Can you turn bad weed into good weed?
Surprisingly enough, the answer to this oft-asked inquiry is, yes!
Like
most other things in life, the amount of good you are going to do relates
directly to how much effort you are going to put into it. There are no instant,
supermarket products which you can spray on Kansas catnip and have wonderweed,
but there are a number of simplified, inexpensive processes (Gee, Mr. Wizard!)
thich will enhance mediocre grass somewhat, ant there are a couple of fairly
involved processes which will do up even almost-parsley weed into something
worth writing home about.
EASES
1. Place the dope in a container
which allows air to enter in a restricted fashion (such as a can with nail holes
punched in its lid) and add a bunch of dry ice, and the place the whold shebang
in the freezer for a few days. This process will add a certain amount of potency
to the product, however, this only works with dry ice, if you use normal,
everyday freezer ice, you will end up with a soggy mess...
2. Take a
quantity of grass and dampen it, place in a baggie or another socially
acceptable container, and store it in a dark, dampish place for a couple of
weeks (burying it also seems to work). The grass will develop a mold which
tastes a bit harsh, a and burns a tiny bit funny, but does increase the potency.
3. Expose the grass to the high intensity light of a sunlamp for a full
day or so. Personally, I don't feel that this is worth the effort, but if you
just spent $400 of your friend's money for this brick of super-Colombian,
right-from-the-President's-personal-stash, and it turns out to be Missouri weed,
and you're packing your bags to leave town before the people arrive for their
shares, well, you might at least try it. Can't hurt.
4. Take the
undisirable portions of our stash (stems, seeds, weak weed, worms, etc.) and
place them in a covered pot, with enough rubbing alchol to cover everything.
Now CAREFULLY boil the mixture on an ELECTRIC stove or lab burner. DO
NOT USE GAS - the alchol is too flammable. After 45 minutes of heat,
remove the pot and strain the solids out, SAVING THE ALCOHOL.
Now,
repeat the process with the same residuals, but fresh alchol. When the second
boil is over, remove the solids again, combine the two quantities of alcohol and
reboil until you have a syrupy mixture.
Now, this syrupy mixture will
contain much of the THC formerly hidden in the stems and such. One simply takes
this syrup the throughly combines it with the grass that one wishes to improve
upon.
SPECIAL SECTION ON RELATED SUBJECT MARYGIN:
Marygin is an
anagram of the words marijuana and gin, as in Eli Whitney. It is a plastic
tumbler which acts much like a commercial cottin gin. One takes about one ounce
of an harb and breaks it up. This is then placed in the Marygin and the
protuding knod is roatated. This action turns the internal wheel, which
separates the grass from the debris (seeds, stems).
It does not
pulberize the grass as screens have a habit of doing and is easily washable.
Marygin is available from: P.O. Box 5827
Tuscon, Arizona 85703
$5.00
GRASS
Edmund Scientific Company
555 Edscorp Building
Barrington, New Jersy 08007
Free Catalog is a wonder of good things for the potential grass
grower. They have an electric thermostat greenhouse for starting plants for a
mere $14.95.
Soil test kits for PH - $2.40
Al test - $9.95
Soil
thermometer - $2.75
Lights which approzimate the true color balance of
the sun and are probably the most beneficial types available: 40 watt, 48 inch -
4 for $15.75.
Indoor sun bulb, 75 or 150 watt - $5.75.
And, they
have a natural growth regualtor for plants (Gibberellin) which can change
height, speed growth, and maturity, promote blossoming, etc. Each plant reacts
differently to treatment with Gibberellin...there's no fun like experimenting -
$2.00
SUGGESTED READING
THE CONNOISSEUR'S HANDBOOK OF MARIJUANA,
Bill Drake Straight Arrow Publishing - $3.50
625 Third Street
San Francisco, California
FLASH
P.O.Box 16098
San Fransicso, California 94116
Stocks a series of pamphlets on grass, dope manufacture, cooking.
Includes the Mary Jane Superweed series.
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