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 [...]
MOCK TRIAL
To listen to the TV pundits or read news accounts of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s “trial”, you would think that he is some kind of nut. He’s violent, cunning, ruthless and dangerous, because he’s not nuts. The U.S. is producing a mock trial. All the rights of defendants guaranteed by the Constitution are being denied in [...]
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, [...]
Ask Ed Marijuana Grow Tip #41: Spring Has Sprung
Has spring sprung in your area? Do the evenings stay above 50 degrees and does it get up into the seventies during the day? If it does, you can start a spring crop. You’ll grow the plants vegetatively for a month or two, and then place them into flowering. The plants won’t be very large [...]
