Hi All, I hope every ones 2010 has been stellar thus far.

This evening we harvested a few mature plants. JTR, NL & BB. We are very much looking forward to our seeds arriving so that we may begin that process. It is not unheard of for the process to take 6 months depending on many different factors ranging from genetics to environment through out the process.

We are going to mature any males we get and save the pollen, we are in the midst of planning and building a "male room" to accommodate this process. I can't wait to have a freezer full of pollen and live seeds of which I personally know the genetics. Maybe some Madison Valley Chronic will grow from this breeding endeavor :)

Well fingers are still mega-sticky so I had better go scrub them again with mechanic's goo :)

I was talking to a patient today and was told that they truly felt thankful to have cannabis in their life. They said their family had noticed a tremendous difference in their overall well being and general mood since incorporating cannabis into their medical regiment. They had reduced their opioid intake by 50% to date and that may continue to decrease as we continue working together to find the right strains that work for this specific patients physiology.

The last strain I had dispensed was a nice dense trichome covered Blueberry strain harvested at about 5-10% amber trichome coverage. This coverage of amber trichomes provides a more cerebral head high. If I had let the amber trichome percentage increase to 50-60% at harvest it would have produced a more couch lock, body high. Which we do at times as well.

The patient really enjoyed the Blueberry and we're now testing a couple other sativa/early harvested strains to lock in the ones that suit them best for their day-time usage.

It is truly wonderful to hear from patients the benefits they receive from cannabis.

We'll just finished harvesting the newly named #4 rack, all but the NL#5 looked nice and ready in the Jakks eyeclops scope :) We harvested 2 Jack the Rippers, 3 blueberries and 2 mental floss. For the cultivation system we use, one of the JTR's got as big as a soil grown one would have, just amazing.

Trimmed/pulled all the large fan leaves off and hung them to dry whole. We have such low humidity here in SW MT that I normally have to have my humidifier on high to keep my relative humidity between 46-55% but with winter I don't have to run it as often so there is no chance of drying to fast with these ladies.

Tomorrow I'll check the NL#5 again with the scope and see what the trichomes look like then.

We'll post some pictures tomorrow as well.

Until then - :)

We recently harvested a very petite purple urkel, two actually, but one is so petite I do not believe we will get more then a couple grams from it (a primary reason i am no longer carrying this strain).

We also harvest and just finished final trim on a nice Blueberry plant, very dense buds with a lot of trichomes (trich·ome pronounced: trik-ohm, trahy-kohm)

In the next few days we will harvest the remaining few plants in the #1 unit. The remaining plants include Jack the Ripper, Mental Floss, NL #5 and another Blueberry, her trichomes were not cloudy enough for me so she wasn't harvested with her sibling last week. The humidity this time of year is nice from the summer. I haven't had to run my 24 gallon humidifier at all in the last couple weeks as compared to filling it daily in the summer, I'll save that for another post :)

All in all this harvest is looking very nice, I will post pictures of the JTR when I harvest it, it is enormous, especially if you take into consideration my aeroponic/NFT cultivation system that utilizes no growing medium and just lets the roots grow into a root mat in the net pot rails. I'll blog about my specific operation shortly as well to educate folks interested in growing a perpetual supply for their own, or their patients, medicinal cannabis needs.

A dedicated caregiver stops at nothing in their attempts to grow perfect medicine, one grow at a time.

Trichomes, Sugar Coating, Coating, Powder, Sugar-Donut, whatever you call it, it is what matters most to the patient, as it contains the medicinal attributes of the cannabis plant.