Happy 4/20 - Starting a new crop of Reclining Buddha!

drutter (69)in #cannabis • 19 days ago

Happy 4/20! To celebrate, I'm starting a new crop. I haven't grown cannabis in 3 years - my last crop finished up on 4/20 in 2021. Now I'm taking those seeds out of storage and starting new life!

Reclining Buddha is a heavy-hitting Indica - high in THC, moderate in CBD - known for mind-altering effects and uplifting sedation. The strain is a cross of mainly Super Skunk and Holland's Hope, two iconic Dutch cultivars. It was bred by Sensi Seeds. I got this strain from a subscriber in the Netherlands about 10 years ago. When I could finally grow the seeds out in 2021, about half of them germinated, and I was able to produce several dozen seeds along with some really nice bud. This backstory makes having these genetics even more special to me, and I'm thrilled to be continuing this line.

It's time to grow out the next generation of these Reclining Buddhas!

Those are the seeds I decided to germinate.

I'm using the classic paper towel method. Simple, quick, effective.

That was 48 hours ago (April 18th). Here they are now:

At least 3/4 have sprouted! They're looking healthy.

Tomorrow, they'll go into little cups of soil. I plan to grow them inside until the weather's nicer, then put them outside in larger pots, and transplant the females into the ground once they've flipped into flowering mode in a couple months.

It's very nice to be growing again. I'm losing count, but this will be approximately the 9th crop I've grown completely on the blockchain, publishing every step of the way. I was doing it back in 2017, before "legalization" here in Canada, and I continue to use the same free market grassroots techniques I learned from master growers in the underground British Columbia cannabis scene. This will be my first crop on the Blurt blockchain.

4/20 is mixed for me this year. I'm living far away from the activism and culture of Vancouver, where I was for many years. Now I live in a small Northern BC town with no public cannabis activism or culture. My wife @MediKatie and I are still celebrating, home by ourselves, but it's not the same as it used to be. Also, we've lost some of the friends we made in the scene, such as my close buddy and prolific activist Bert Easterbrook, who died in 2022. And much of my cannabis activism is slowly being erased and hidden - I remain deplatformed by Meta (FaceBook and Instagram) and heavily shadowbanned by YouTube. My magnum opus Cannabis Cures Cancer was just removed for "medical disinformation", 8 years after upload, having helped many people and been credited with saving lives.

It was a compilation of more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific journal entries on studies that show cannabinoids safely destroy cancer cells in the human body. This has been known and understood quite well since the 1990s, but even after recreational "legalization" around the world, prohibition of medical knowledge still continues. The trillion dollar a year chemo/radiation industry cannot be challenged, so big pharma's lie must continue. Now it's gone forever, along with many powerful testimonies in the comment section.

For more information on the lie that is cannabis "legalization", please see my 45 minute documentary here.

Prohibition continues, just in a slightly different form. Big pharma's attempts to control cannabis have accelerated under the "legalization" model, which brought about a corporate monopoly of the industry. Censorship continues unabated, and cannabis activists like me continue to be silenced. Let's celebrate 4/20, but remember there's still much more work to be done before the weed is freed.