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ABANDONING THE ENLIGHTENMENT
There is difference between Holland’s history and the history of virtually every of the country in the world -except, perhaps, ancient Egypt. When you look at the geology of the U.S., Romania, Kenya, Japan or almost any other country and see the splendors and vistas that the land offers, you may be tempted to exclaim [...]
ASK ED MARIJUANA GROW TIP #45: THE BOTRYTIS SOLUTION
There was a slight attack of botrytis due to humid conditions and stagnant air—circulation was minimal with only passive ventilation during part of the day. We immediately went into protective mode—using Ed Rosenthal’s Zero ToleranceTM Herbal Fungicide diluted by 25%, and adding Serenade concentration at half the recommended dosage. Our reasoning was that the ERZT [...]
ASK ED MARIJUANA GROW TIP #44: SUPPORT YOUR COLAS
The buds were too heavy and they were flopping over. As a result, they weren’t using the light efficiently and some buds were shading others. We decided to use YO-YO Plant Supports to hold the buds upright. Small nails were used to fasten the supports overhead to a crossbeam. Then we attached the small hook [...]
Harborside Harrassment
Try as I may, I just don’t understand the Obama regime’s antipathy to medical marijuana. You would think that since medical marijuana is more popular than he is, that he would embrace it as a vote-getter. It would also re-enthuse the young PayPal-savvy posse he gathered four year ago. So why doesn’t he do it? [...]
Celebrating Ginsberg
I was in New York for the Ginsberg Festival—held at Tompkins Square Park on the lower East Side. I got there too late for the Ginsberg show but the Low Life Festival, which was part of the program, had come on. The Park was rife with paintings and posters depicting Ginsberg or images that were evoked [...]
ASK ED MARIJUANA GROW TIP #43: DEALING WITH POWDERY MILDEW
POWDERY MILDEW: As you can see from the first photograph below, my plants were suffering from powdery mildew. I sprayed the plants with a solution of Ed Rosenthal’s Zero Tolerance Fungicide diluted slightly with 1 quart of water to a gallon of the fungicide, and added an ounce of Serenade® concentrate to the mix. I used a [...]
Ignoring the Big Donkey in the Room
A couple weeks ago, Mitch Jesserich, the host of Letters & Politics, a Pacifica radio show, had author Paul Dickson as a guest. Dickson is an historical non-fiction author and was discussing the 1932 presidential election between incumbent Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt (FRR). On the show, the author mentioned that during the election FDR espoused more [...]
ASK ED MARIJUANA GROW TIP #42: SPRING HAS SPRUNG
In the San Francisco Bay Area dawn arrived today at 6:01 and dusk fell at 8:17pm. The total daylight period was 14 hours and 16 minutes long. In two weeks it will be a total of 14 hours and 48 minutes. For most hybrids, especially most Sativa-Indicas the dark period is not long enough to [...]
Richard Lee, Oaksterdam and the Feds – HAPPY 420!
Probably everybody who is reading this blog has seen the Kony 2012 video that went viral, amassing 28 million hits in its first day. When we say “viral”, we think of something spreading instantaneously over a wide swath of demographics. However, some things spread more like cancers. They don’t necessarily infect a large swath of people, [...]
