Alles Gute zum Kiffertag! Germany legalises weed.

Ich kanns kaum noch glauben……!

Still not sure if this is a massive April Fools joke, but it seems not to be the case.

Germany has, as of today, legalised the possession and growing of weed. 25g when out and about, 50g at home and up to three plants at home per individual.

Not quite sure how that’ll work when it comes to harvest time….!

Seems I left the Vaterland too soon.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/01/germany-legal-cannabis-weed-laws-personal-use

Might do something to improve the nations mood.

https://www.dw.com/en/whats-behind-germanys-happiness-index-drop/a-68625609

The southern state of Bavaria meanwhile is testing an online training course for teachers on how to approach the topic in the classroom.

Bavaria is so conservative…. The state’s leader, along with most of his party, has been very vocal from the very beginning that he’s against it.

Saying he’s going to make it difficult for people in Bavaria to smoke….. Drink yourself into oblivion, by all means. That’s tradition.

It is a good move for me, I find a couple of cannabis nights a week have a much lower impact on me the next day, and my general energy levels than alcohol.

I have joined a cannabis club, I don’t think anything will be available until September or October.

Might start growing at home as well, I say as well but once I know I can successfully grow at home I would leave the club, I think 2 or 3 plants at a time would be way more than I could use. I only live in an apartment though, so  a “grow box” setup that would fit in an ikea wardrobe is about a grand, which is kind of more than I had really wanted to spend but isn’t too bad when costing against buying from a club over a couple of years. I don’t expect the costs from a legal club to be much less than the black market.

At first I will be experimenting making edibles, I don’t want to be smoking, or even vaping too much and have always preferred the hit from edibles anyway.

Hopefully the CDU don’t win the next election and reverse it, I think the cat is out of the bag now and the world will move to legalisation.

The sooner we move to a controlled and regulated supply of cannabis in this country the better for all concerned, I’m sure most on here are aware of my situation with severe spinal injuries, spms and my previous life growing cannabis and the benefits I experienced along with the numerous court cases I endured but as I’ve posted/bored you all shitless about it before I’ll not recap the issue.

This is the cannabis I get sent from my aunt (dads sister, age 76 well known artist in Nova Scotia and lifelong cannabis user/grower) and what she brings across for me as she visits every year, very well regulated and clearly marked as to the THC and CBD content. There are various strains/strength’s available for a variety of use scenarios and each batch can be traced back to a specific grow with independent laboratory testing data available to view.

I also get prescribed Sativex on the NHS which is a THC/CBD spray for muscle spasms, it does work but not as well as a joint.

This is how it should be done in this country and I have no doubt it will happen at some point as the UK is one of the biggest exporters of cannabis in Europe, the tories are balls deep in the production of it for CBD use and increasingly for export of THC strains

But I much preferred the experience of growing for myself as below, not able to do it these days (since 2014) due to my spms so I’ll take the “devils weed” prepackaged as above. I am a member and can access cannabis through the Curaleaf clinic but it’s rather expensive (private only, not available on NHS) and I can get better strains from Canada.

Big Buds, wine bottle size are best, you can see my hand/fingers at bottom to give a sense of the bud size.

I’m currently listening to a discussion LBC with David Lammy, the misinformation peddled by piss ignorant callers regarding “Skunk” and how it is genetically modified (selective breeding – every fruit/vegetable on the shelves of a supermarket is selectively bred to reduce unwanted traits and increase the beneficial traits) by chemical treatment and bred to increase addiction, coated with chemicals etc….Arghhhhhhhhhhh, I would phone in but I’m banned after calling Gove a slimy little **** back in the Brexit days.

I need a joint after listening to ignorant myths peddled by idiots.

Still not sure how the Kiffer clubs will work. Not sure I want to be on another list as a known stoner.

Stick them on the balcony or garden with a bit of poly over the top to protect from rain.

You’ll get a up to 100g from a single plant if you look after it.

@somafunk

Nice bud…!

can smell that through the internet

Politicians over here would be squit scared, particularly the LP as they haven’t got a libertarian wing like the Tories and they like strict rules. Those laws completely infanticise people, about kin time too. How many kids have had their futures done over by such petty prosecutions?  Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

can smell that through the internet

My mum loved the smell, every spring she’d take a few of my clones and plant them in her yard in the centre of kirkcudbright, mostly as decoration – they kept the aphids and such away from the other plants, they didn’t really come to much as the mother plant was bred for indoors use but being sheltered they did surprisingly alright. She used to giggle as the tourists walked by within a meter of the plants behind the yard wall as they’d say “you smell that?”.

Interested in an aspect of cultivation.

On the buds, you get small leaves. I have heard that these leaves should be trimmed away during growing, as it allows the plant to put more of its nutrients into producing the buds.

Not sure whether this is a myth or not, but i have heard it from a grower, and also heard it was silliness from others. So just wondering if this is a good idea or not.

TBH it kind of makes some sort of sense. Some nutrients would be used by the plant to grow those leaves,and if they were pruned away then that is something that wouldn’t receive any, so of its finite resources, the more it can concentrate on growing the buds the better.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5NGUECK78q/?igsh=MXJ5ZjBvNjR0MzRtdg==

Crazy!

 I only live in an apartment though, so  a “grow box” setup that would fit in an ikea wardrobe is about a grand, which is kind of more than I had really wanted to spend

Isn’t all that only necessary if you’re growing in an attic though?

I had a decent degree of success on a bathroom windowsill in Derbyshire (about 25 years ago officer!).

I don’t know, a grow tent in a wardrobe just keeps everything stealth keeps the smell down and maximizes yeild.

But doing the maths over the weekend, with the costs of getting everything set up, and the electricity use, I am not sure it is worth it. I will probably just see how being in a cannabis club works out. And then if the cdu look like they will win the next election I will look at setting up a stealth home grow tent.

grow tent in a wardrobe just keeps everything stealth keeps the smell down and maximizes yeild.

That’s the whole point now…. You don’t need to be stealthy about it.

Find a corner of the garden or balcony with sun or a windowsill and away you go. Protect them from rain when they’re budding.

I will look at setting up a stealth home grow tent.

A tall fridge would be better. it seals so would easily contain any smells.

Always avoid doing any sort of growing in a loft space.,. The local cop helicopter uses heat imaging flyovers looking for hot lofts.

MSP is in the Vaterland….

But doing the maths over the weekend, with the costs of getting everything set up, and the electricity use, I am not sure it is worth it.

They grow lettuce in this kind of setup now, I can’t understand how that is economic but with weed it’s well worth it. (I’m told)

I don’t think it is economical, “vertical farming” looked to be the next silicon valley investment opportunity and billions were raised, but it currently looks to be another bubble that is already failing as the economics and power requirements just don’t add up.

I don’t think it is economical, “vertical farming” looked to be the next silicon valley investment opportunity and billions were raised, but it currently looks to be another bubble that is already failing as the economics and power requirements just don’t add up.

Hydroponics is so last year.

Aquaponics is the way to go.  Although I’m not sure what kind of fish goes best with edibles.

Grow 100g of lettuce, its what £2, 100g of weed best part of a grand, I know not all is equal, but i think that might be the difference 🙂

The smell is a major issue to deal with along with strict temperature control as when there is more than a 8 degree swing between lights on vs lights of then you can suffer from stem elongation amongst a raft of other disorders.

I had two Ruck 8″ extractor fans with a max combined capacity of 2000m3 extraction capacity per hour drawing through two 8″ activated carbon filters to control the smell from the room then out to atmosphere through silencers, my room was built double skinned and sealed to enable negative pressure so intake was able to be passive induction but the incoming air was filtered through 4 hepa panel air filters as you do not want bugs inside the room.

All controlled with my own design and build with a bank of Siemens PLC controllers and switching hardware that took care of lighting schedule whether in vegative stage or flowering stage (lights on 18hrs to 20hrs/off for 4hrs to 6hrs for vegative stage vs 12hrs on/12hrs off for flowering stage), PLC control also took care of feeding schedule and reported any swings in nutrient PH values or CF values as well as internal air temps/humidity and outside temp/humidity sensor to monitor incoming air quality as this fed in to the central control unit to determine fan run times, PLC control of Humidity, CO2 injection and measurement for dense bud growth as 1500ppm of co2 was really beneficial for growth, and movement of the lights on an electric servo controlled light mover as there were sensors hanging in the canopy that determined any hot spots and moved the lights up/down or across the canopy accordingly, along with room heating for winter months.

Quite a lot to set up but I figured there was no point doing it unless I could do the plants justice and grow the best I could. All of this talked to my PC downstairs at the time and I could remote access if I was away from home to see what was going on.

Really interesting hobby and I set up quite a few small grows all over the country for folks that suffered from disabilities so that they could have access to the joy of growing their own, I initially got into this as 50% of my crop was given to what was known as the Medical Marijuana Co-operative to hand out to folk who needed it such as spinal injury/chemotherapy/eating disorder/pain management/MS and nerve disorders.

Also asked to help set up/advise hydroponic grows for a few commercial fruit/veg growers around Scotland and this led me to the Agricultural college at Ayr, I was going to do their Hydroponics course but the lecturer who knew of me from my “work” said it would be an utter waste of my time as I knew more than what the course actually taught, by this point I was exploring the use of beneficial mychorrhizal fungi into the root ball and nutrient solutions to aid in plant vitality.

I miss growing but these days my main concern is managing to get to the bathroom in time before I piss/shit myself 🙂

All that guff up there ^ aside, at the end of the day it’s a weed and will grow anywhere given half a chance.

@MSP

OBACHT!

Kiffer club data leak.

https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/kontraste/cannabis-clubs-daten-100.html

The small. Many people who decide to grow their own can hardly smell it. But it is extremely pungent, and a simple tent is going to do absolutely nothing to contain that.

Friends of family who were dedicated puffers(in highly educated and paying jobs), with kids decided to grow their own and bought one of these tents.

Apparently you could smell it standing on the doorstep.

Another thing to take note of is cost in electricity. Having powerful lights on 20h a day for the couple of months it takes to grow is going to add up to a rather large power bill.

On that note I remember reading something on people using led’s of a certain wavelength(or whatever that stuff is) which was considerably cheaper, but the down side was that the weed it produced was not as potent as grown under high powered lighting, or so I’ve read.