"GENETIC SURVIVAL "

 

 

 

 

I have had to move my mother room quite a few times. Safety and survival are all important. There is also the human factor. I usually do it with the help of some friends. One of my theories is if you want to know if you are really friends with someone, grow some weed with them and check out the power trip, and greed level. If those energies exist, cannabis will bring them out. It is much like gold, there can be a greedy fever surrounding the financial end, and misuse of power regarding who is allowed to have access to it.

Cannabis is about love and sharing, it is about healing and finding new ways to help this planet to survive.

If anyone out there has ever had a favorite cat or dog, that they took the best care of, making sure they always had what they needed, you already know what it’s like to keep a genetic library. To nurture an organic life form brings the mother out in all of us.

As I write this, Ed Rosenthal goes to trial for keeping a cannabis genetic library, and helping sick people have access to medicinal marijuana. Breeder Steve and Paradise seeds have lost genetics in Switzerland, due to law enforcement of the wrong laws. As I said, keeping a cannabis genetic library alive and well in 2003 is essential but not easy.

I urge any of you cannabis enthusiasts out there to start a library of your favorite genetics; the ones you really think heal you when you use them. The future is in need of them, and to really make things change it takes a lot of us.

To make a mother room is not as hard as a flowering room. You only need 400-watt lights and 2 or 3 will do. I keep my mothers in smaller pots and give them food often. This way I am able to keep several different kinds in the same room. You can easily have mothers on tables and clones growing underneath them using fluorescents to light them.

For a cloning area, I place on the floor waterproof plastic and go up 10 centimeters on the wall using a staple gun. Then I put in fine sand, and get it wet. I then place heating cables in the sand attached to a thermostat and cover the cables and sand with another level of black waterproof plastic. I want to keep moisture in the sand so the cables don’t overheat. On top of that goes a layer of hydro-corals (little clay pebbles) that is covered by a piece of felt root cloth. The root cloth is kept moist so as not to dry out from the heat. I use trays of 77 rock wool cubes. After putting my cuttings in the wet cubes the trays are placed on the warm felt root cloth and left under 24 hour light for 2 weeks. For the first week I don’t give the clones any direct water, just water on the root cloth. 2 weeks later and you have fine looking new roots. My success rate using this method is quite high.

 

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Last updated: July 30, 2005