Hello everyone!
For those that aren't aware, I collected a human a few years back and he's stuck with me through my struggles with mental health. I call him John. He's an amazing human, the best I've adopted to date, and I love him.
We're both very broken people under the surface and together have found a mutually safe place to work on rewiring our brains. His healing, however, has been hindered by a life-long pathological tremor. Imagine a constant vibration in your arms and chest...and imagine trying to focus while experiencing that physical cacophony. It wears him down and affects his mood. Recently we've been through some stressors, the political climate of the US hasn't helped, and we've had some not-so-good experiences with doctor-prescribed meds.
This grow will be my first that will be geared towards producing a specific medicine to attempt to help him.
Strains:
Trainwreck:
Sativa Dominant Hybrid - 80% Sativa / 20% Indica
THC: 18% - 25%
Dominant terpene: myrcene
Snowcaine:
Sativa Dominant
THC: 25%-31%
Dominant terpenes: Myrcene and Caryophyllene*
*Snowcaine is a bit of an unknown for me. It was developed during the Michigan Phenohunt Challenge in 2020 and resulted from a Sour Snow x Mimosa cross, as well as what I think are some back-crosses between similar phenos from the same hunt. Looking into its parent strains we find that Mimosa has a ton of myrcene. Sour Snow is a Sour Diesel x Snow cross. Snow was a strain created by 20TwentyMendocino and remained clone-only so I have little info on it. We all know Sour Diesel and while its main terp is Caryophyllene, it plays well with both our brains.
I spoke to both Seed Cellar (a brick and mortar bank right near where I live) and the Homegrown Cannabis Co. boys in my search, as well as fellow growers like @Trala, before I felt comfortable with my choices. According to my research I'm looking for high THC with large amounts of myrcene if I want to treat anything neurological. I'll also have to turn the plants into RSO/hash oil. Why? Sweet baby jesus I only vaguely understand this BUT:
Ok, you know the whole 'eat a mango thing 30 minutes before smoking and your high will be more epic' thing? Mangos work like this because of myrcene. When myrcene enters the bloodstream it opens the pathway in the blood-brain barrier, allowing THC to enter more easily.
I'm also looking for lemonene due to similar effects.
A sweet bonus comes from Trainwreck's pinene which also crosses the blood-brain barrier easily where it acts as an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor. Acetylcholinesterase has a damaging effect on the memory-storing potential of the brain. Maybe it'll help with me being an utter flake.
How I'm Growing:
Since I'm kinda exhausted and drained after this summer, I'm not in the mood to set up a new hydroponics system so I'll be growing in homemade soil. I'll be stalking all you savvy indoor soil growers soon enough since I've never grow indoors in soil. It scares me. I envision one little mite or gnat getting in, laying eggs, and destroying my plants in an Omen-esque plague of epic proportions. I ordered some of them soil merkins @NuttyProfessor uses to keep his soil covered physically, as well as olfactorily (not a real word). They're these plant fiber discs similar to root mats that go around the stem and can be soaked with all sorts of anti-buggo things like neem and peppermint. Also lots of fans. Can't make babies in gale force winds. Just saying.
My soil is going to be the same that I'm using for my outdoor girls, minus the chicken shit:
Alfalfa pellets
Peat moss
Bagged compost
Dolomitic lime
Gypsum
Meals (blood and bat to start, bone later towards flower)
Nutrients as I see fit
I'm going to use some of my 7 gallon GeoPots and some other 7 gallon-ish fabric container.
I need to get working on the plants so I'll update later. Apologies as always for my rambling writing. I try to be concise but hate how it sounds like a maintenance manual
For those that aren't aware, I collected a human a few years back and he's stuck with me through my struggles with mental health. I call him John. He's an amazing human, the best I've adopted to date, and I love him.
We're both very broken people under the surface and together have found a mutually safe place to work on rewiring our brains. His healing, however, has been hindered by a life-long pathological tremor. Imagine a constant vibration in your arms and chest...and imagine trying to focus while experiencing that physical cacophony. It wears him down and affects his mood. Recently we've been through some stressors, the political climate of the US hasn't helped, and we've had some not-so-good experiences with doctor-prescribed meds.
This grow will be my first that will be geared towards producing a specific medicine to attempt to help him.
Strains:
Trainwreck:
Sativa Dominant Hybrid - 80% Sativa / 20% Indica
THC: 18% - 25%
Dominant terpene: myrcene
Snowcaine:
Sativa Dominant
THC: 25%-31%
Dominant terpenes: Myrcene and Caryophyllene*
*Snowcaine is a bit of an unknown for me. It was developed during the Michigan Phenohunt Challenge in 2020 and resulted from a Sour Snow x Mimosa cross, as well as what I think are some back-crosses between similar phenos from the same hunt. Looking into its parent strains we find that Mimosa has a ton of myrcene. Sour Snow is a Sour Diesel x Snow cross. Snow was a strain created by 20TwentyMendocino and remained clone-only so I have little info on it. We all know Sour Diesel and while its main terp is Caryophyllene, it plays well with both our brains.
I spoke to both Seed Cellar (a brick and mortar bank right near where I live) and the Homegrown Cannabis Co. boys in my search, as well as fellow growers like @Trala, before I felt comfortable with my choices. According to my research I'm looking for high THC with large amounts of myrcene if I want to treat anything neurological. I'll also have to turn the plants into RSO/hash oil. Why? Sweet baby jesus I only vaguely understand this BUT:
Ok, you know the whole 'eat a mango thing 30 minutes before smoking and your high will be more epic' thing? Mangos work like this because of myrcene. When myrcene enters the bloodstream it opens the pathway in the blood-brain barrier, allowing THC to enter more easily.
I'm also looking for lemonene due to similar effects.
A sweet bonus comes from Trainwreck's pinene which also crosses the blood-brain barrier easily where it acts as an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor. Acetylcholinesterase has a damaging effect on the memory-storing potential of the brain. Maybe it'll help with me being an utter flake.
How I'm Growing:
Since I'm kinda exhausted and drained after this summer, I'm not in the mood to set up a new hydroponics system so I'll be growing in homemade soil. I'll be stalking all you savvy indoor soil growers soon enough since I've never grow indoors in soil. It scares me. I envision one little mite or gnat getting in, laying eggs, and destroying my plants in an Omen-esque plague of epic proportions. I ordered some of them soil merkins @NuttyProfessor uses to keep his soil covered physically, as well as olfactorily (not a real word). They're these plant fiber discs similar to root mats that go around the stem and can be soaked with all sorts of anti-buggo things like neem and peppermint. Also lots of fans. Can't make babies in gale force winds. Just saying.
My soil is going to be the same that I'm using for my outdoor girls, minus the chicken shit:
Alfalfa pellets
Peat moss
Bagged compost
Dolomitic lime
Gypsum
Meals (blood and bat to start, bone later towards flower)
Nutrients as I see fit
I'm going to use some of my 7 gallon GeoPots and some other 7 gallon-ish fabric container.
I need to get working on the plants so I'll update later. Apologies as always for my rambling writing. I try to be concise but hate how it sounds like a maintenance manual
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