As someone who is completely unable to pass a bookshop without getting
withdrawal symptoms, yesterday I spent a happy hour mooching through the
stock of the big Waterstones store in Nottingham.
There, in the Gardening dept, I was utterly floored to come across a big
display of a specialist book on growing and processing CANNABIS of all
things !!
I couldn't believe it !!
It was about 20mm thick, beautifully printed and illustrated, very
professional, and it covered everything from sourcing seeds, propagation,
heat, light and ventilation requirements, setting up growing systems in
domestic or commercial situations, hydroponics, harvesting and processing,
pros and cons of different varieties etc, etc.
In fact everything one needs to know about running a (illegal ?) cannabis
nursery business.

Its a mad, mad world........and its getting scarier as each day passes.

capstan.

Too naive for this century.

"capstan" wrote in message
...
As someone who is completely unable to pass a bookshop without getting
withdrawal symptoms, yesterday I spent a happy hour mooching through the
stock of the big Waterstones store in Nottingham.
There, in the Gardening dept, I was utterly floored to come across a big
display of a specialist book on growing and processing CANNABIS of all
things !!
I couldn't believe it !!
It was about 20mm thick, beautifully printed and illustrated, very
professional, and it covered everything from sourcing seeds, propagation,
heat, light and ventilation requirements, setting up growing systems in
domestic or commercial situations, hydroponics, harvesting and processing,
pros and cons of different varieties etc, etc.
In fact everything one needs to know about running a (illegal ?) cannabis
nursery business.

Its a mad, mad world........and its getting scarier as each day
passes.

capstan.

Too naive for this century.


You certainy need all your strength about you capstan.

Your Full Strength, if you weant to lead a healthy lifestyle.


michael adams

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"capstan" wrote in message
...
As someone who is completely unable to pass a bookshop without getting
withdrawal symptoms, yesterday I spent a happy hour mooching through the
stock of the big Waterstones store in Nottingham.
There, in the Gardening dept, I was utterly floored to come across a big
display of a specialist book on growing and processing CANNABIS of all
things !!
I couldn't believe it !!
It was about 20mm thick, beautifully printed and illustrated, very
professional, and it covered everything from sourcing seeds, propagation,
heat, light and ventilation requirements, setting up growing systems in
domestic or commercial situations, hydroponics, harvesting and processing,
pros and cons of different varieties etc, etc.
In fact everything one needs to know about running a (illegal ?) cannabis
nursery business.

Its a mad, mad world........and its getting scarier as each day passes.

capstan.

I live in Holland.........there was an ad in the local paper for a new Garden
Centre. I went to look......turned out they only sold paraphernalia for growing
hash !
Jenny

"capstan" wrote in message
...
As someone who is completely unable to pass a bookshop without getting
withdrawal symptoms, yesterday I spent a happy hour mooching through the
stock of the big Waterstones store in Nottingham.
There, in the Gardening dept, I was utterly floored to come across a big
display of a specialist book on growing and processing CANNABIS of all
things !!
I couldn't believe it !!
It was about 20mm thick, beautifully printed and illustrated, very
professional, and it covered everything from sourcing seeds, propagation,
heat, light and ventilation requirements, setting up growing systems in
domestic or commercial situations, hydroponics, harvesting and processing,
pros and cons of different varieties etc, etc.
In fact everything one needs to know about running a (illegal ?) cannabis
nursery business.

Its a mad, mad world........and its getting scarier as each day passes.

capstan.



About five years ago a plant sprung up in our garden which we weren't
familiar with. It turned out to be cannabis. We don't do the stuff, but one
of our daughters did at the time, and all her friends came round to admire
it. We were really cool for a while, I've never had that much cred before.



We were going to let it flower, just to see what it was like, but one of
the admiring experts suggested harvesting the 'budding', ie the tips just
before flowering. We did, and after drying in the airing cupboard, it
fetched £100! At that I think we were probably ripped off, but we couldn't
really go to trading standards about it. Not bad for one plant though,
obviously I'm in the wrong business.


There's a (not very good)picture of the plant on our site, on the last page-

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/steveandmaggiesplot

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:55:32 +0000 (UTC), "capstan"
wrote:

As someone who is completely unable to pass a bookshop without getting
withdrawal symptoms, yesterday I spent a happy hour mooching through the
stock of the big Waterstones store in Nottingham.
There, in the Gardening dept, I was utterly floored to come across a big
display of a specialist book on growing and processing CANNABIS of all
things !!
I couldn't believe it !!
It was about 20mm thick, beautifully printed and illustrated, very
professional, and it covered everything from sourcing seeds, propagation,
heat, light and ventilation requirements, setting up growing systems in
domestic or commercial situations, hydroponics, harvesting and processing,
pros and cons of different varieties etc, etc.
In fact everything one needs to know about running a (illegal ?) cannabis
nursery business.

Its a mad, mad world........and its getting scarier as each day passes.

capstan.

Too naive for this century.

There's a firm in North Devon growing hemp (cannabis) for its oil.
Said to be highly nutritious. See

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodm...342293,00.html

and featured recently on local west country TV.

Google for "hemp oil" for more links.


--
Chris

E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net

capstan wrote:
Too naive for this century.

My great grand father grew it )

"La Puce" wrote in message
ups.com...

capstan wrote:
Too naive for this century.

My great grand father grew it )

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:20:27 +0100, "JennyC"
wrote:


"capstan" wrote in message
...
As someone who is completely unable to pass a bookshop without getting
withdrawal symptoms, yesterday I spent a happy hour mooching through the
stock of the big Waterstones store in Nottingham.
There, in the Gardening dept, I was utterly floored to come across a big
display of a specialist book on growing and processing CANNABIS of all
things !!
I couldn't believe it !!
It was about 20mm thick, beautifully printed and illustrated, very
professional, and it covered everything from sourcing seeds, propagation,
heat, light and ventilation requirements, setting up growing systems in
domestic or commercial situations, hydroponics, harvesting and processing,
pros and cons of different varieties etc, etc.
In fact everything one needs to know about running a (illegal ?) cannabis
nursery business.

Its a mad, mad world........and its getting scarier as each day passes.

capstan.

I live in Holland.........there was an ad in the local paper for a new Garden
Centre. I went to look......turned out they only sold paraphernalia for growing
hash !
Jenny

You dont 'grow' 'hash'. You make it from Cannabis

"La Puce" wrote in message
ups.com...

capstan wrote:
Too naive for this century.

My great grand father grew it )

as did my grandmammy, for medicinal purposes. she explained after she saw a
centerfold picture of an early issue of "High Times" magazine "why lawd
child, that's HERB!!! Women folk took it for "that time" of the month, made
with a tea, and menfolk when they couldn't "do their services" could dry
some and smoke it in a pipe" I was floored! (and this was when I was about
16-17) and by the way, at my local music/cd/dvd used and new shop, in the
books and magazine section, there are 15 books on cultivation, considering
it's illegal. personally, it's better for you and not nearly as bad as the
other REAL drugs........crack, meth, heroin...never heard of anyone
overdosing on smoking pot, or killing someone (some maiming when revenue
agents would happen upon crops around here in the hills would be shot at or
trip a booby trap..............) but mostly, harmless, unless you consider
the horrible after affects of the munchies when you've oversmoked......and
then, heavens! you fall asleep.....yeppers, marijuana is baaaaaad for you!
GBSEG
madgardener skulking off now........................................

In article ,
Mike Lyle wrote:

Way back, a Palestinian friend, who'd trained in agri in Turkey and
lived next-door to a commissioned officer in the Jordanian Police, very
much enjoyed telling the neighbour exactly what he, the neighbour, had
growing by his front door. The ossifer had no idea..!

It's not a rare casual here, and is ubiquitous in hotter climates.
If you want to boggle a parochial Californian gardener, tell him
that Papaver somniferum is a common garden plant in the UK :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Mike Lyle wrote:

Way back, a Palestinian friend, who'd trained in agri in Turkey and
lived next-door to a commissioned officer in the Jordanian Police, very
much enjoyed telling the neighbour exactly what he, the neighbour, had
growing by his front door. The ossifer had no idea..!

It's not a rare casual here, and is ubiquitous in hotter climates.
If you want to boggle a parochial Californian gardener, tell him
that Papaver somniferum is a common garden plant in the UK :-)


I had a front garden full of opium poppes last year - from a dried flower
arrangement I threw out a couple of years ago and I mused on the irony.
There's a chemist round the corner and addicts walk past my house all day to
get their methodone. I doubt any of them know where Heroin comes from ....

Even when I chopped it all down and there was a stack of poppy straw, no one
took any interest ..

I'm not surprised they grow poppies in afghanistan ... the self-seeding is
exponential .. and last summer I noticed opium poppies appearing all over
town - I can only surmise that poppy seed must get in with wild bird food
people put out.

..

"gentlegreen" wrote in
message k...

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Mike Lyle wrote:

Way back, a Palestinian friend, who'd trained in agri in Turkey and
lived next-door to a commissioned officer in the Jordanian Police, very
much enjoyed telling the neighbour exactly what he, the neighbour, had
growing by his front door. The ossifer had no idea..!

It's not a rare casual here, and is ubiquitous in hotter climates.
If you want to boggle a parochial Californian gardener, tell him
that Papaver somniferum is a common garden plant in the UK :-)


I had a front garden full of opium poppes last year - from a dried flower
arrangement I threw out a couple of years ago and I mused on the irony.
There's a chemist round the corner and addicts walk past my house all day
to
get their methodone. I doubt any of them know where Heroin comes from ....

Even when I chopped it all down and there was a stack of poppy straw, no
one
took any interest ..

I'm not surprised they grow poppies in afghanistan ... the self-seeding is
exponential .. and last summer I noticed opium poppies appearing all over
town - I can only surmise that poppy seed must get in with wild bird food
people put out.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Papaver somniferum is readily available from all and any seedsme/an.
It is a valuable garden flower and comes in many vars. Single and double.
Once sown it self~seeds with abandom but is never a nuisance. The seeds can
remain dormant for decades as can Nicotiana and of course the 'Flanders'
poppy.. The opium content, in our climate, has been shown to be less than
negligable~ though it might be a good idea not to be seen growing acres with
intent~ and scored heads!!.Would be pointless and asking for attention.
Opium comes from the sap within the green capsule[fruit] and harvested by
cutting score marks. Similar to rubber.

However seed growers must do so but probably not in the UK~~ A large
proportion of all our seeds[from UK stock] is imported from more reliable
climates.
Best Wishes Brian.





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On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:55:32 +0000 (UTC), "capstan"
wrote:

As someone who is completely unable to pass a bookshop without getting
withdrawal symptoms, yesterday I spent a happy hour mooching through the
stock of the big Waterstones store in Nottingham.
There, in the Gardening dept, I was utterly floored to come across a big
display of a specialist book on growing and processing CANNABIS of all
things !!
I couldn't believe it !!
It was about 20mm thick, beautifully printed and illustrated, very
professional, and it covered everything from sourcing seeds, propagation,
heat, light and ventilation requirements, setting up growing systems in
domestic or commercial situations, hydroponics, harvesting and processing,
pros and cons of different varieties etc, etc.
In fact everything one needs to know about running a (illegal ?) cannabis
nursery business.

Its a mad, mad world........and its getting scarier as each day passes.

capstan.

Too naive for this century.


Following up on my comment about hemp being grown in Devon for oil
production, today's edition of On Your Farm (BBC Radio 4, 6.35-7.00)
was entirely devoted to this farm. Go to

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/onyourfarm.shtml

to hear it again.


--
Chris

E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net

In message , capstan
writes

There, in the Gardening dept, I was utterly floored to come across a big
display of a specialist book on growing and processing CANNABIS of all
things !!
I couldn't believe it !!

Its a mad, mad world........and its getting scarier as each day passes.


A swift search on amazon.co.uk gets 72 hits for books on Cannabis, with
growers' guides the commonest subtype.

Growing Cannabis is legal in California, the source of many of the
books. In the UK it's technically not legal to do what the books
describe, but in a landmark court case a jury found that if Agatha
Christie could tell us how to kill people, Cannabis enthusiasts could
tell us how to grow weed.

I'd like some of the ornamental varieties from the Netherlands.

--
Sue ];(

In message , capstan
writes

There, in the Gardening dept, I was utterly floored to come across a big
display of a specialist book on growing and processing CANNABIS of all
things !!
I couldn't believe it !!

Its a mad, mad world........and its getting scarier as each day passes.

I didn't believe what I saw on a TV program about allotments a day or two
ago.

The program was based in Birmingham. Part of it showed the local council's
allotments officer taking possession of a single stray cannabis plant. When
he reported it to the police they responded, immediately, by sending a rapid
response team.

There are a lot of elderly people around where I live (in Birmingham). When
the local hoodies are terrorising them the best the police can manage is to
send someone in a few days - if they bother sending anyone at all.

--
Crazy Dog
(Thinking someone has their priorities very wrong)