The Guide To Growing Truely Organic Marijuana

So, marijuana is legal to grow in your state. This is a guide to teach you about organic marijuana cultivation in less than five thousand words.

Modern gardening practices are arduous; much more than they need be. On the other hand, organic gardening is effortless and requires no particular body strength, nor need there be any exposure to harmful toxins that professional cultivators incorporate.

By and large, the most arduous task of your upcoming marijuana grow is reading this piece.
  
Your Plot

If you plan to grow outdoor, the first thing not to do is ravage your plot with a rototiller. Some idiot over 200 years ago began turning soil, releasing carbon dioxide and exposing microbial life to harmful ultraviolet rays. Talk about thick as a brick - this practice of tilling soil became an international standard for plot preparation, and for centuries now cultivators have embraced the technique as the norm.

Dr. Elaine Ingham, a soil biologist, had proven in 2004 there exists a network known as a food chain that exists beneath our soil. These consist of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes and the like you learned about in biology class. These, together with microanthropods, support each other in a dog-eat-dog environment much like our animal kingdom. Gases are trapped beneath soil for a reason: these life forms require carbon dioxide as much as living plants do. Yet, plants through photosynthesis are easily able to absorb what it needs through foliage. On the other hand, soil life cannot replace what was carelessly released through tilling.

A prospective plot may have existing vegetation or be overgrown with weeds, which is just fine. To prepare our plot will take months, so begin staking out your garden during the winter.

To prepare, cover the plot with a waterproof tarp, one that will also block sun from penetrating. Blocking water and sun causes all vegetation to die and eventually compost. Meanwhile, microanthropods and beneficial microbes will continue to grow into a soil food web that, when ready, shall become a robust network to benefit your plants.

Once time has rendered the plot surface bare and devoid of any plant life or weeds, it is ready to grow plants. It is important to begin growing your desired plants immediately after removing the covering, as exposure to sun and water will allow undesired weeds to return. (At the end of the growing season, plot should again be covered to prevent weeds from returning and preserve the plot for the following grow season).

In a healthy garden, weeds will return only sporadically; once the plants are settled into the soil food chain, the microbial network will serve the plants and not undesirable weeds. Therefore, it is important to maintain your garden as though every beneficial microbe counts. Do not practice any gardening techniques that destroy microbial life.

Amended Soil

The best way to begin your plot is by purchasing soil and amendments, and spreading the medium over your bare plot. This will allow the topsoil to absorb and eventually take in all of the new medium, as if it were very slow quicksand.

The medium you provide can be the key to explosive growth. Soil amendments can include anything organic, such as crushed sea shells, green sand, vermicompost  and bio char. The more diverse your soil amendments are, the more successful your garden will be.

Actively Aerated Compost Tea

Next, inoculate your garden by brewing and applying an actively aerated compost tea. This concoction will include a billion beneficial bacteria and fungi that will supercharge the soil food web of microorganisms beneath, providing a fresh source of workers and food to stimulate the entire chain. Additionally, the tea recipe can add new types of beneficial bacteria or fungi not already present in the soil, thereby replacing something that should already have be there. The first application of tea to your garden is called inoculation, and once this is done, you have a proper microbial garden.

However, to maintain your microbial garden in it's current supercharged state, you must take steps to prevent from destroying the abundant life you have so carefully preserved. Keep in mind that pesticides and fertilizers of any kind are destructive to these organic life, and should be used in moderation. Fertilizer application should be followed up with aerated compost tea application, sending in more troops to handle the onslaught of dumped nutrients. Tea applications will not only prevent salt build up or nutrient lock, but foliar application will also fortify natural plant resistances to aphids and mold.

Pesticides, on the other hand, are contrary to our gardening practices; they indiscriminately kill off microbial life, leaving foliage susceptible to pests and disease. It is best not to use pesticides of any kind.

Water Source

Proper water is needed to support a microbial garden. Municipal water sources include chlorine and chlorides which destroy microbial life; therefore these chemicals must be reduced as much as possible. Reverse osmosis water filters remove chlorine, but do little to rid water of chloride content. Allowing your plant water to sit in an open container for a day permits the natural release of chlorides.

Aeration is important for your water in that it keeps the oxygen level high. Aeration also helps with the release of chlorides. Water should be kept at plant temperature, not warm nor incredibly cold. Water temperature can shock your plants, and shocking plants on regular watering cycles can be detrimental to a healthy plant microbiome.

As science advances our understanding of the human body and it's microbiome, botanists too study the plant microbiome.

As has been proven for human life, I suggest that plants have carefully balanced microbiomes that can suffer from irregularities as much as humans do: inconsistent watering and light cycles will produce an unhealthy plant.

Planting

Before you drop your clone into the hole, be sure to toss in a measure of  mycorrhizal crystals, as these are beneficial fungi that boost root growth and can have a huge impact on your start.

By adhering strictly to these practices, anyone can become an expert grower and produce a superior crop to any "professional cultivator" who still uses pesticides and soil tilling techniques.

And by understanding the mechanics of soil biology, we gain a step further than the modern grower - who abide by bottled products and feeding schedules - having not a clue to as to how the engine works.

Quite honestly, organic gardening is also cheap. Actively aerated compost tea can be brewed for less than $1.50 per application, and by citicide (killing off the use of -cides), one can stop harming the wallet  as well.

And yes, there is an increase in yield. Otherwise, why do it?

Mother Should I Build A Wall

Even in the most progressive cities across the U.S., it's still quite easy to find ignorant mothers who just want to shield their children from the growing cultural acceptance of marijuana in their communities (Oregonian 9/21).

Ignorance - a strong word - identifies a certain group of people who, for their own prejudices, feel entitled to speak out against the legalization/decriminalization/ recreationalizing of cannabis as an alternative.

Their voice on the matter is null and void because it does not affect them. They don't use cannabis and have a willful purpose in life to stand against it no matter what: and this is because they don't care to understand the growing body of research that supports cannabis use. And why should they?

A Right To Legitimate Business

The fact is, Pot Shops are merchants, and like it or not, they join the same communities that are already congested with other merchants who peddle wares like hard liquor, beer, wine, cigarettes, snuff, vapor pens, hooka lounges, strip clubs and porno.

Did I forget to mention bars, pubs, saloons and ale houses? Also, Portland - as the micro-brew capital of the world - hosts over 60 microbreweries in the metropolitan area alone. It almost seems like most Portland  moms against legalization of pot are actually just drunks with an axe to grind.

We Oregonians celebrate Oktoberfest by way of festivals, and we certainly don't limit beer sampling to the month of October. Portland seems to host drinking festivals once a month somewhere, sometime, in some kind of unique glass.

Dare we shield our children from an entire riverfront of drunks? Nope, we bring home that souvenir beer glass, the only thing aside from a massive hangover. It's a trophy we place in our cupboards for everyday use, up until it breaks. That custom festival glass had once contained intoxicants and an evening of true hedonism was explored - because this is a legal and exotic thing to do.

In fact, alcohol consumption in America is so culturally acceptable that to most it is regarded a civil right. And while virtually no real group opposes alcohol as legal substance to imbibe, there are no legal alternatives for recreational use.

No legal alternatives to alcohol is the crux of the matter.

Mother Will They Drop The Bomb?

Mothers raise their children to demonize what the government condemns. The Feds have condemned marijuana from Reefer Madness to present. Mothers toes the line.

Mothers, your children, they are beautiful, successful, righteous even. But they are violent, are they not? Your pot-hating children usually go on to military service, or college football, law enforcement, corrections officers, security, civil servants or even emergency services. We are so proud of your honorable children, they are the backbone to our society; they provide mental and physical labors that are contrary to what marijuana use fosters.

Marijuana consumption promotes camaraderie, hosts free-thinking and inhibits aggression. These are the very three effects that run contrary to the way these services and leagues operate. A stoned defensive back would get beat to his quarterback, law enforcement would not combat crime as effectively, and the U.S. Military, well...they would laugh in your face.

But let's not play down the true effects if these people were able to partake: NFL players would mitigate their opiate intake, officers would beat and kill less people, and the U.S. Military would reduce their suicide rate by at least half.

Reflecting Compassion as a Voter

Marijuana has been proven to reduce the amount of brain cells destroyed by an evening of binge drinking by up to 40%. Tell that to people who only drink and fear marijuana. This principal pertains to the large group who could partake in marijuana but choose not to. These are naysayers who - possibly by their upbringing, military service or moral standards - have never considered cannabis an alternative for recreational substance.

These are voters who - by lack of compassion for others - have zero moral ground to vote no.  They may abstain, but in the end, a no vote on marijuana in any community, city or state goes on your conscience.

Marijuana intensifies the effects of all others drugs and intoxicants, including alcohol. Don't those fancy drinks cost a bit? As a drinker, one would typically need up to a third less alcohol to reach an inebriated state when consuming marijuana. Most profound is that patients who use opiates to control pain have been able to reduce opiate dosages up to 70% when incorporating marijuana in their medication regiment. The significance of this is that during a 70 marijuana prohibition, patients the world over have been over-prescribed opiates - and millions of overdose deaths have resulted - when drug policy puts politics before people.

The American Disability Act of 1964

Over 50 years ago Congress passed the ADA. This gave unconditional rights to the handicapped, the disabled, the elderly. Of these rights came access, in the form of reserved storefront parking spaces. Without the ADA, these groups would not have their rights. Left to the states, 1964 certainly lacked a majority of compassionate voters.

Fifty years later, the mentally disabled need their rights, too - a right to a powerful plant that has no less that 150 amazing uses and treatments - a plant that we may one day prove contains all the secrets to leading a happy and full life.

But left to voters across red and blue states, here in 21st century we still see a disproportionate group of voters who lack compassion for their fellow human being.

If the ADA were left to these voters today, the disabled would not have their parking spaces.

In this light, how can anyone really oppose marijuana legalization?