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[Scrappy4]

With Stan talking about "opiated" weed and y'all talking about incense and sweet aromas brought back a memory of what we bought 25 plus years ago up on Haight St, some of what was promoted as "opiated hash". Now, I have no idea, but it was hash - extremely "perfumy", sweet smelling, almost like incense from India. I do specifically remember that it gave us weird dreams if we smoked it at night.

Anyone remember this?

J

Why yes, I do. It was a popular diversion in san fran and came right off the boats and was hawked around fisherman's warf. There was another local (midwest) gooey hash that i think may have had cough syrup in it, it was real sweet and very gooey. Both had the opiate type effect.......scrappy

 

[ClackamasCootz]

I do specifically remember that it gave us weird dreams if we smoked it at night.

Sounds like opium to me......

 

[Gascanastan]

Yeah...smoked a bunch of it...opiumated hash....Seattle...1985-ish to around 90. Tasted like hash mixed w/opium.
The few things I've bought on the Haight...were as strong as the sun and as mellow as a bowl of yellow curry.

 

[ClackamasCootz]

Scientists Unlock Some Key Secrets of Photosynthesis

New research led by chemists in the Baruch '60 Center for Biochemical Solar Energy Research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is seeking to detail the individual steps of highly efficient reactions that convert sunlight into chemical energy within plants and bacteria.

The new research focuses on the first of two photochemical reactions that plants use to convert solar energy into chemical energy that takes place within photosystem II. Specifically, the researchers studied the binding and activation of the substrate water molecules in the catalytic site of photosystem II. Photosystem II is a protein complex in plants and cyanobacteria that uses photons of light to split water molecules. This is known as the solar oxidation of water. The protons and electrons resulting from this split are then used by the plant to fuel the remaining systems in the photosynthetic process that transforms light into chemical energy.

"Photosystem II is the engine of life," Lakshmi said. "It performs one of the most energetically demanding reactions known to mankind, splitting water, with remarkable ease and efficiency." One of the difficulties in studying photosystem II is that conventional methods have not yet been able to deeply probe the photosystem II complex, according to Lakshmi, and the mechanism of the photochemical reactions must be fully understood before bio-inspired technologies that mimic the natural processes of photosynthesis can effectively be developed. In the new research, the scientists investigated the catalytic site of photosystem II, referred to as the oxygen-evolving complex. This is part of the system that breaks down the water. It does so in five distinct stages.

Only the first two of these stages have been investigated in any detail, according to Lakshmi, because the remaining stages are relatively unstable and quickly change. To understand the more unstable stages of the process, scientists need advanced scientific tools that can probe these complex systems at the atomic level. For this research, Lakshmi and her colleagues trapped three different species of photosystem II in one of the more unstable stages of the process – the third stage in the oxygen-evolving complex called photochemical S2 intermediate – by using low-temperature illumination of photosystem II. They then analyzed the system using an advanced spectroscopic technique called two-dimensional hyperfine sub-level correlation spectroscopy. The tool detects the weak magnetic interactions in the catalytic site to uncover the structure and activation of the substrate water molecules in the S2 intermediate of photosystem II.

The technology, found in few labs in the world, according to Lakshmi, identified four important groups of hydrogen atoms arising from substrate water molecules within the oxygen-evolving complex. This is a significant step in determining the fate of the water molecules in the solar water oxidation reaction that occurs within photosystem II, Lakshmi said. "Water is a very stable molecule and it takes four photons of light to split water," she said. "This is a challenge for chemists and physicists around the world as the four-photon reaction has very stringent requirements."

 

[ClackamasCootz]

Gascanastan

Last weekend I made a trade for a few grams of 'Purple Kush' and it was stressed that this 'kush' was from B.C. - he stated that at least 3 times. It appears that it meant far more to him than it did to me.

Anything familiar like that up in The Emerald City?

CC

 

[Gascanastan]

Being that BC built such a cool rep on chemi-hydro....a lot of folks proly thought that shit was pretty cool. I can proudly say I've never bought a bag of Canadian beaster or even triple A's for smoke...but I sure as hell made my share off the junk. Lots of people smoked that stuff man.

Strange that down in PDX yer getting Canadian herb...there's a shit ton of local outdoor dry.

 

[BlueJayWay]

Current crop outdoor NorCal poppin up in SoCal, cheap cheap I hear, bumper crop anyone?

 

[RanchoDeluxe]

That NorCal outdoor is making it out to Montucky. 2500lb delivered 10packs at 22.

 

[ClackamasCootz]

Gas

This "Purple Kush" was grown in Portland, i.e. it was the cut that came from B.C. supposedly.

The boys of summer should have done well in Oregon & Washington this year with over 80 days running without any measurable rain - at least in the Portland area. Not sure what the maniacs down in Grants Pass had for weather this year.

CC

 

[ClackamasCootz]

Finally - a real pH solution!

ODM-1 is a pH meter that connects to any iOS mobile device. Talk about complete control of this important factor with indoor gardening....

 

[Gascanastan]

Wow...thanks CC...you're the man...ph problems solved!...don't forget to flush!!

If it is a cut of the real PK,what I call 'extinct Purple Kush' from the PNW area that was up here everywhere for nearly 25 years from what I can remember,then dropped off somewhere around 2004,it should be looser than the denser replacement purple kushes. White thrich's and plenty of them..purple in the caylx's and leaves,but also quite green. Super sweet Indica musky/earthy/anise smell...makes some really nice white hash. Last time I smoked this was in Oakland (brought by a friend to one of the first dispenz in Oakland from the PNW 2001-02...I also threw in my DJ/Sag Bubbleberry keeper mom cut from 96) and I oddly last spotted the real PK in Spokane 2003...probably didn't stick around long as far as a productive indoor type,it just wasn't super dense at a time when 'density' was played like the latest trend. I think the real PK didn't yield well...so I never wanted any cut I came across....but I smoked the hell out of my buddies organic PK~

I think it's been crossed out extensively....making a basis for these other denser less potent PK's

LVPK (KKPK) has that real PK smell and greasiness....but it's definitely not as potent as the original PNW type. The original's effect could be kind of freaky when grown correctly...just potent ass shit ya know.

I'm kicking myself in the ass for not running more than 2 plants outside this year. One was some kind of ATF/MTF/NL#5 crossed to some kind of 30 year old Oregon sativa I was gifted that did well...last year was enough to prevent me from any attempt this side of the Cascades.

 

[BlueJayWay]

Dang, I'm going to have to ph something just for fun!

 

[Gascanastan]

Dang, I'm going to have to ph something just for fun!

Some uses for your ph meter after you figure out you don't need it to grow herb:

1. Test your drinking water
2. Test your rain water.....often.
3. Test your urine
4. Test any liquid out of curiosity
5. Test FPE's
After you get bored with that send it to Microbeman.

 

[BlueJayWay]

After you get bored with that send it to Microbeman.

My urine or the pen?

I think I'm gonna dust off the ole pen and test snow melt this winter, see if there's a difference from a pacific Pineapple Express storm vs. a gulf of Alaska storm, oh yah!

 

[Gascanastan]

Test coffee,beer,juices...it's a trip to see what ph's you've been consuming for your entire life.

 

[jerry111165]

What is this "pH meter" you speak of? What is it used for?

J

 

[Gascanastan]

Ph meter....

Often a battery operated device for measuring ph (acidity or alkalinity)introduced to the indoor cannabis gardener by people that really thought everyone should grow cannabis with these new fangled hydro methods in a fantastic new decade known as the '80's'.....and that myth was propagated by the stoner mag culture of High Times advertising these gimmicks from hydro companies in the back pages.....you just simply couldn't grow without one back then according to the big named cannabis guru's and pot celeb's at the time......which still do that silly shit.

Don't forget to flush!!!!......and check that run off too~

 

[DARC MIND]

thrs a decent Garberville Purple Kush cut, kept among small circles in BC...thats the only logic i can find behind some kid stressing kush from canada...

orange,purple,bubba,lemon drop & patricia dominated the socal indica offerings...
once the dank leaves cali,it just gets watered down,slowly forming into cana legends

 

[Microbeman]

Being that BC built such a cool rep on chemi-hydro....a lot of folks proly thought that shit was pretty cool. I can proudly say I've never bought a bag of Canadian beaster or even triple A's for smoke...but I sure as hell made my share off the junk. Lots of people smoked that stuff man.

Strange that down in PDX yer getting Canadian herb...there's a shit ton of local outdoor dry.

Ya sucks. That is what I was up against at first until more people tried mine and word spread....this organic ain't that terrible!

On the opiated hash, there were shipfuls coming in in WA & BC in the early 70s. Black gummy Afghani with white lines of opium. Gram gobbled in the morning, good for the day. Zero pain...those were the days. Kept me feeling good and rich to boot.

 

[Microbeman]

Ph meter....

Often a battery operated device for measuring ph (acidity or alkalinity)introduced to the indoor cannabis gardener by people that really thought everyone should grow cannabis with these new fangled hydro methods in a fantastic new decade known as the '80's'.....and that myth was propagated by the stoner mag culture of High Times advertising these gimmicks from hydro companies in the back pages.....you just simply couldn't grow without one back then according to the big named cannabis guru's and pot celeb's at the time......which still do that silly shit.

Don't forget to flush!!!!......and check that run off too~

SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!!