Medical Growing: A Garden of Peace

Medical Growing

A Garden of Peace

Written and Photographed by

By Daniel P. Boughen

Foreword by Joe Pietri

Medical Growing: A Garden of Peace

Copyright © 2012. Daniel P. Boughen, All Rights Reserved.

Presentation Copyright © 2012 TrineDay.

Photo Art by Van M. Bigelow

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2012935024

Boughen, Daniel P.

Medical Growing: A Garden of Peace—1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliography.

Epub (ISBN-13) 978-1-936296-97-2 (ISBN-10) 1-936296-97-7

Kindle (ISBN-13) 978-1-936296-98-9 (ISBN-10) 1-936296-98-5

Print (ISBN-13) 978-1-936296-96-5 (ISBN-10) 1-936296-96-9

1. Cannabis. 2. Marijuana. 3. Cannabis – Growth 4. Cannabis – Handbooks, manuals, etc. 5. Marijuana – Handbooks, manuals, etc. 6. Cannabis – Propagation . 7. Marijuana – Propagation I. Title

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I dedicate this book to those persecuted and incarcerated by the War on Drugs, to my Father, who was organic before there was a movement, to Mum, who told me to Write what I know, and to my love, Penny.

One has a Moral Responsibility to disobey unjust Laws.

— Dr. Martin Luther King

This handbook will take you straight to the finished product in the shortest possible time with less power and effort, yielding healthier, happier plants, productive crops, and the best Cannabis you ever had! I hope you enjoy it.

Daniel Boughen

Table of Contents

CoverImage

title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Cannabinaceae

Foreword

Introduction

A Little About Myself

Cannabis is Good For You!

Cannabis is Not Toxic!

Cannabis’s LD50 is estimated at 1:40,000

What Cannabis Will Replace

What else has the government lied about?

Cannabis Therapy

Using Cannabis for addictions withdrawal:

In our own hands

Why You Should Grow Cannabis For Your Personal Health

Legalization Models and Concerns

The corporate model

Another legalization model

Cannabis and Its Place in Society

Are we setting a good example for our kids?

Successful and historical tokers

A 12-1 Revolution

Cannabis Indica

You may already know how to grow Cannabis.

Cannabis Sativa

How to grow Cannabis Sativa:

Females

Females:

Famous Strains & Hybrids

Males

Males:

The star-shaped mature male flowers open to reveal pollen pods:

Tools and Supplies

Pots and trays:

The Growing Environment

Nutrient-rich top soil:

Soil conditions in a pot:

Mycorrhizae Soil Bacteria:

The Ideal pH for Cannabis

Lighting Spectrum

Seasonal lighting:

Lighting for seedlings:

From Adolescent to Mature plants:

Bringing on the autumn:

Photo-Periodic Control Lighting

The natural cycles

Six Schedules for Growing Cannabis

Seedlings: (Four-week period) 16 hours on, 8 hours off

Vegetation: (optional length period, as short as 4 weeks, or up to 6 months) 12 hours on, 5 ½ off: 1 hour on: and 5 ½ off: cycled over a 24 hour period.

Cuttings: (Two-week period, Rockwool cubes, #2 rooting powder) 16 hours on, 8 hours off

Flowering: (Half the normal flowering period for the strain) 10 hours on, 14 hours off

Finishing: (Half the normal flowering period for the strain minus 20%) 9 hours on 15 hours off

Regeneration: (Its after flowering and you want clones) 18 hours on, 6 hours off

Air

What happens when it rains?

Water

Nutrients for Cannabis

When and how to fertilize:

Seeds

Carefully select your seed

Cannabis seeds.

Landraces and hybrids.

Deciphering Seeds and Strain Crosses

P1 Landrace:

F1 Hybrid:

F2 Hybrid:

The Dark side of F2 seeds:

Breeding and crossing for seed progeny

Subject P1 progeny: Purebred African and Purebred Hawaiian

Subject: Cross cloned genetics to preserve an SVG –OG cut

Result: OGKK 99.5% ± traits and characteristics to the original mother

The Super-Start Box

A Micro-Grow Model

Fertilizer schedule:

Plan your systems:

Growing your own:

Lighting schedules:

Combining light schedules for rotating crops:

Building Strong Roots

Clone Propagation

Troubleshooting

Symptoms and solutions

Check your water

Spider Mites

Maturation and the Vegetation Stage

Flowering Stage

The bloom schedule

Short period flowering

Conclusions

Circadian Rhythms

Harvesting

Trichomes and Ripeness:

Trichomes

Checking trichome ripeness with a digital camera:

Curing and Storage

Curing

Trimming Method:

Butter and Baking

Making Canna butter!

Ingestion

Twisted Krispies

Modern Methods of Hashish Production

Making Ice-water Hash in your Kitchen

Basic Tools:

Materials:

The method:

Medicinal Oils

Extracting the medicinal oils.

Removing the alcohol

Cold water rinse

Dosing Medicinal Oils

Building a Green-Hut

Tools Needed:

Molded PVC Parts List:

Miscellaneous Parts:

Walls:

Gables:

Wall Assembly:

Harvest Quality Report

PHYSICAL EXAMINATION

PHYSICAL EXAMINATION COMMENTS:

SMOKE TEST COMMENTS:

FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS

EXTENDED MEDICAL SURVEY (optional)

Week One: Germinate

Week Two: Plant your beans!

Week Three:

Week Four:

Week Five:

Week Six:

Week Seven:

Week Eight:

Week Nine:

Week Ten:

Week Twelve:

Week Thirteen:

Week Seventeen:

Week Nineteen:

Week Twenty:

Week Twenty-One:

Webliography

Foreword

Canna in ancient Greek meant cane, sativa in ancient Sanskrit meant easily grown, hence Cannabis Sativa – cane easily grown. Cannabis has grown around us since before written history. Prior to prohibition in 1937 Cannabis plants were grown for medicinal as well as commercial purposes, the recreational use of Cannabis had always been secondary. Though prior to prohibition it is estimated that there were only 55,000 smokers in the US, there were millions of people who used Cannabis-based medicines. Cannabis was sold at the pharmacy in two natural forms as whole product or as resin, as well as tinctures and dozens of concoctions that were Cannabis based. Some of the major pharmaceutical companies like Lilly and Parke Davis made their initial fortunes on Cannabis based medicine. Parke Davis sold raw Cannabis to pharmacies that was imported from India at around $1.80 a pound wholesale in 1908. Most folks just grew their own Cannabis in their vegetables gardens. You see Cannabis was an ordinary thing, only prohibition made it extra ordinary.

1840- 1940 were the golden years of medical Cannabis. It was legally farmed for the pharmaceutical industry and grew in many gardens. Farmers would feed it to livestock who went off their feed, as the munchy effect would make the livestock ravenous. It was a common herbal remedy for many ailments.

1940-1990 were the glory years of medical Cannabis. Many risked their lives to supply Cannabis to human beings who had been using Cannabis as medicine since before recorded time. All Cannabis use is self-medication.

1990-today is the Weed Greed era, in which control of Cannabis information and a tightly controlled Cannabis media would be the envy of Joseph Goebbels. It’s as if they created a year zero for Cannabis and everything since 1990 has been designed to get us to spend more and grow less. Much of the Cannabis today is grown for recreational use, and is not medical quality, as the medicine has been bred out and THC bred in. The ditch weed that grows wild in Kansas has more medical value than most recreational Cannabis because it can have a very high percentage of CBD: as much as 2-7%, with very little if any THC.

The importance of this book is that it is the first written outside of the Cannabis Industry and that true technique is taught. There is no separate botany for Cannabis. Here flower industry standards which have been left out of all Cannabis grow books taught, making medicinal Cannabis easy and inexpensive to produce.

Prior to 1990 most Cannabis products were imported from third world countries, they were cheap and good and grown organically, today the price of Cannabis is inflated due to backward technique. The Cannabis industry has not made one improvement in the processing of Cannabis, and in many cases actually diluted not only the medicinal quality but original ol skool recipes in order to sell bogus products based on fraud technique. Obsolete methods are taught that only enrich the status quo and dilute your medicine. They have genetically modified Cannabis and have introduced terminator technology, in order to make you a seed junkie one seed one plant. The Cannabis industry decides what you should know and what you should not learn, and spends your $$$ freely for you.

My hope is that this book is the start of a revolution of truth about the growing of Cannabis and the production of Cannabis products.

Joe Pietri

Author, King of Nepal

Introduction

Cannabis will soon be legal. The bigoted treatment and moral wrongs being committed against Cannabis smokers must come to an end in the name of our civil and constitutional rights, our health and environment, and for our peace and humanity. Cannabis prohibition laws are now under attack, and the rest of the world watches as citizens who are now better educated than ever about side effects, drugs and addiction decide for themselves that Cannabis is safe in spite of decades of state propaganda.

With legalization, the production, distribution and regulation of Cannabis could be taken out of the hands of organized crime, where poor product quality and the presence of impurities, violence and association with hard drugs presently makes purchasing Cannabis dangerous. Cannabis must be put back under the control of the people who need and enjoy it.

The billions that the sale of Cannabis generates on the black market could instead pay unionized workers in a legal industry, where the funds will be contributing to local economies and federal social welfare instead of propping up organized crime networks. It would instead support our communities.

We need the unity within the Cannabis community to expand to the general public, and so we must keep providing proper information and publicly calling a bad policy what it is. We must mobilize human rights groups to once again overturn unfair prohibition laws in our respective countries. This is an international human rights issue and deserves to be