600 grams is the result of my parents cultivation activities. After picking and drying the product is finally ready for consumption. Now only I need to find a market :-). Anyone interested in spending a very long time stoned / high / out of this world?
Sinds een jaar of 20 ben ik groot cactus fan. De ideale plant. Als je ze een paar weken geen water geeft is er niks aan de hand. Ik heb verschillende soorten en de meeste zijn als klein stekje ooit tijdens een vakantie in spanje geroofd.
Een van mijn cactussen is een enorme aloë vera plant en daarvan wist ik al dat ie soms in de shampoo zit, maar de spanjaarden wisten mij te vertellen dat deze plant ook als een kleine mini-apotheek gebruikt kon worden.
Inmiddels heb ik de recepten al opgevraagd, dus misschien binnenkort hier medische aloë vera adviezen :-p
If was time. Normally a cannabis plant can be harvested late September or early October, and my plant was no exception. First cut the stems. The cut away all the large and small leaves and only leave the dense tops. Leave these to dry for a month. The result was a storage room with a wall full of marihuana and a bare plant ready for the dumpster.
This weekend I will check if the plants at my parents place are ready. Then I will need to think about what to do with a huge(!) amount of marijuana… anyone interested? The easiest will be to sell everything to wholesalers, in order to avoid any hassle. But it’s also fun to convert everything into tasty cake (or brownies) and by selling these… Oh, I have still a month of drying time to think of something. We shall see.
The plant before harvest:
The plant now, drying in my storage space:
Not all branches are neatly stripped of leaves, because that is a lot of work. Half is done very well and the other half I cut away a bit of the leaves and will clean these up when it they’ve dried. These branches are for experimenting on, and maybe I’ll use them to make some butter.
(the plants history…)
Just a few more weeks and then it’s time for the harvest. The plant looks good .. especially if you look at the very beginning. It is clear where I got my green fingers. The care of my parents for the plants was fantastic which is also evident from the exceptionally happy plant.
This night it was perfect weather and I was a man with a mission. Prevent my father to bake a typical Spanish delicacy while if should be eaten and enjoyed raw. This just had to be prevented. This combination of factors made me bicycle to the emmastraat and what I found exceeded my wildest expectations …
A gigantic plant!!!
Mierzoet ruikt ze. De bloem aan mijn bolle cactusje. Normaal zou het niet het vermelden waard zijn, maar er gebeurt nu toch helemaal niks, dus waarom ook niet. :-p
Tsja, wat doe je op zo’n prachtige dag.. je stuurt wat post naar Chicago, raakt een beetje verbrand door het in de tuin liggen en het fietsen van Leiden naar Noordwijkerhout en weer terug, je verbaast je over de term ‘schuine kast’ en dat naast mijn directe familie niemand weet wat het is.
Maar ik had vandaag toch nog een bezigheid gevonden die de moeite waard was… fototjes maken van de vage, extreem vage plantjes op mijn balkon…
I am very proud of my Cannabis plants. Finally I have a potential profitable situation where I have a use for my green fingers. From the plants I have my plan is to try and sell at least one. Maybe as a raw product, or maybe as a prepared good like a cake.
But I recently found out something… I am not alone. Worst even, in my family I am just an amateur, messing around with peanuts , a muddling fool.
Elsewhere in my family cannabis plants are being grown in large production halls, 250 plants at a time. Maybe it is a genetic thing, that gives me the need and drive to grow cannabis. Maybe next year I need to think bigger. I still have a room that I’m not using and an almost empty storeroom.
Think big!
During my most recent visit at my parents I was quite unpleasantly surprised by what I found. Their plant was over twice as big as mine. My plant reaches around 21 cm in the air, and my parents plant has exceeded my expectations by reaching almost 43 cm in the air. It is over twice as large! Aargh!
But there is also good news. My plant and my families plant just got company. Imported from the Far East (NL) a new plant has been added to my balcony. It is another type but I expect fun and happiness in encouraging it to grow.
Yesterday I did it. My plant was moved from my window sill to my balcony, because the smell began to be noticeable every now and then.
This afternoon I’ll go and check to see how my father’s plant is doing. I had already noticed that it was doing much better than mine. Her trunk was already twice as thick, it is full time in the greenhouse in the heat, and she has a huge(!) large pot with soil. This can only result in unbeatable enormity.