Captain's Log: Dispatches from Planet Milson

[Kanzeon]

A big chunk of our food comes from family and friends and customers veggie gardens, canned stuff and hunted deer and other game meat from here and colorado.o

and every time anyone buys store weed they complain about quality or price or both.

Yes! That's how it should be. I'm still in the process of making those connections up here though.

 

[MIMedGrower]

Yes! That's how it should be. I'm still in the process of making those connections up here though.

i married into it. My family of more city style folk are useless in this regard.

 

[Kanzeon]

i married into it. My family of more city style folk are useless in this regard.

That's just the older generation of city folk. Us youngbloods are all about fermenting and preserving stuff and urban farms.

 

[MIMedGrower]

That's just the older generation of city folk. Us youngbloods are all about fermenting and preserving stuff and urban farms.

yeah bunch of millennial tree huggers ya!

 

[boatbum850]

Quality & price of legal locally plus current events has pushed me to join y'all . When they set it up in Florida only Big Ag is allowed to grow . Tourism & agriculture are main industries , pols know it too . State didn't do us any favors . Back to lurkin' / soakin' up knowledge .

 

[Milson]

For the gram

 

[Milson]

Science is so cool! Quantum mechanics plus photosynthesis?! Yes please.

"Schrödinger's Bacterium" Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone

A recent experiment may have placed living organisms in a state of quantum entanglement

www.scientificamerican.com

The paper mentioned.

Entanglement between living bacteria and quantized light witnessed by Rabi splitting - IOPscience

Entanglement between living bacteria and quantized light witnessed by Rabi splitting, Marletto, C, Coles, D M, Farrow, T, Vedral, V

iopscience.iop.org

And here is the paper with the original experiment if you are interested.

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com

 

[bellumromanum]

Science is so cool! Quantum mechanics plus photosynthesis?! Yes please.

"Schrödinger's Bacterium" Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone

A recent experiment may have placed living organisms in a state of quantum entanglement

www.scientificamerican.com

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The paper mentioned.

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Entanglement between living bacteria and quantized light witnessed by Rabi splitting - IOPscience

Entanglement between living bacteria and quantized light witnessed by Rabi splitting, Marletto, C, Coles, D M, Farrow, T, Vedral, V

iopscience.iop.org

And here is the paper with the original experiment if you are interested.
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Very cool. I got to have a lot of fun building out infrastructure and tech for a quantum laser lab before I went to the private sector. Architecting with an almost unlimited budget was one of the best professional experiences of my life. I wish I could tell you about the shit they can already do.

 

[Milson]

I wish I could tell you about the shit they can already do.

The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. (♥ Gibson)

That sounds like a badass as hell project btw. I'm sure you set those science boys up nice.

 

[bellumromanum]

The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. (♥ Gibson)

That sounds like a badass as hell project btw. I'm sure you set those science boys up nice.

Imagine having the budget to be given free reign in building the kind of hyperconverged infrastructure required to process the amount of data generated by quantum laser experiments. It still gets me halfway there.

 

[Milson]

So cute.

Panama x Bangi Haze

Golden tiger

 

[Moe.Red]

You are wayy off in the weed with these strains. pun intended.

I wonder how many total phenos have you grown? We talkin thousands?

 

[Milson]

You are wayy off in the weed with these strains.

Haha thanks. It's really just a deep immersion because of what it was replacing in my life. Which is, generally, "amusement" plus pain management.

But no these are only numbers....idk, fifteen through twenty range in terms of strain and into the 30s or so re: plants.

 

[Milson]

Hi guys Milson has some time to actually think tonight and instead he is going to babble on his pot forum thread.

So I have been thinking about nitrogen and plants lately.

My understanding, more or less, is that the plants mostly need nitrogen-fixing bacteria to change nitrogen from water insoluble to water soluble. We can hijack this by providing nitrogen via salts. There are other options in nature, but for the most part the plant doesn't get a chance to actually get at that stuff because it's eaten up by the hordes of other stuff in the soil.

So basically the plant is digesting nitrogen at the soil level in a similar way to how we do in our stomachs: symbiotic relationship with friendly bacteria.

Except as animals we have to carry our biome around everywhere and since the plant isn't going anywhere it just kind of isn't as picky about where it begins and ends.

yo what

yeah here we go it's milson time

so i have been thinking more and more about how plants are really wise with this whole "we are just a part of the system of the world" thing and how in the whole "plants vs animals" competition that has been taking place for eons (one of the Great Game of the Universe....who is winning plants or animals? kind of feels like animals have a star player who is very volatile and might drag the whole team down) it feels like plants are way wiser or maybe

listen the thing is about suffering and samsara and how we are so determined to not be a parrt of our environment.

plants are literally building their whole strategy around "haha eat me and destroy me blarghhhh you think you won and are cultivating me but now you literally build entire cultures around my needs hahahaha" more or less and we're over here clutching to life and our bodies like whiny little babies lmao i remember how hard i took it when i found out i was gonna die man that sucked i can still feel the scratchy floral pattern on the 70s couch where i buried my face when my mom told me.

but plants are fighters!

yeah they're fighters but they don't need therapy about their impending fate

(MILSON WHAT IS THIS ABOUT)

idk

But I have been thinking about how the plants communicate with the bacteria around the rhizome in order to get what they want in terms of the mix of bacteria. And how that must relate to creating a protein. Which must have something to do with some kind of RNA. I lose the thread there. But it's essentially a phenotypic variation thing....how the plant expresses whatever it uses to communicate with the rhizome.

In general I think having that be in a range sounds like a more rounded phenotypic expression at a chemical level in a way that sounds healthy and a good goal as a cultivator to me.

This is part of why I have been supplementing with Buddha Grow, which contains a proportionally higher amount of water insoluble nitrogen than my other fertilizer choices and, when combined with the 4-3-4, I am hopeful will provide a good rhizome environment for the plant's expression.

Which is like, basically saying that part of the plant I can influence pretty directly and the plant isn't all like "i get credit" or whatever.

which might make sense and i don't feel like explaining it woooo it's friday.

hopefully that's not quite nonsense.

(kali china & dispensary sour diesel that is reasonably good as those things go)

 

[Milson]

Girl check!

Widow

Fussy Haze

Hungry Haze

 

[Milson]

Girl check!

Widow

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Fussy Haze

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Hungry Haze
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Hungry Haze is going to be a monster yielder but she does not have much frost.

Her plus widow dad for frost? Hmm?

Or fussy Haze, who is much less vigorous but much frostier....

Classic trade-off puzzle haha.

 

[Kanzeon]

Hungry Haze is going to be a monster yielder but she does not have much frost.

Her plus widow dad for frost? Hmm?

Or fussy Haze, who is much less vigorous but much frostier....

Classic trade-off puzzle haha.

It's pretty much trading breeding (frost and frost) and then selecting for vigor vs. breeding (frost and vigor) and then selecting for frost. It wouldn't surprise me if that Thick Widow caught up frostwise in a few weeks, as well.

Or, the way of true chaos: Breed everything together! Kill all but the most frosty and vigorous! And then call it Milson's Haze.

 

[Moshmen]

Quality & price of legal locally plus current events has pushed me to join y'all . When they set it up in Florida only Big Ag is allowed to grow . Tourism & agriculture are main industries , pols know it too . State didn't do us any favors . Back to lurkin' / soakin' up knowledge .

Seed to sale - worst system in the country - not to mention the cost of a card and ya still can’t grow ! Wtf

 

[Milson]

It's pretty much trading breeding (frost and frost) and then selecting for vigor vs. breeding (frost and vigor) and then selecting for frost. It wouldn't surprise me if that Thick Widow caught up frostwise in a few weeks, as well.

Or, the way of true chaos: Breed everything together! Kill all but the most frosty and vigorous! And then call it Milson's Haze.

The widow is already frosty af.

The thick haze is just really starting to frost so we will see. I just....those are some freaking colas man that thing is a monster. Wasn't expecting that. Really looks like horace in female form.

The round like 4 weeks behind them is also starting to shape up....that Skunk is Skunkin' and the big Panama girl I have high hopes for...if I can get her fed right. She is very hungry.

 

[Milson]

It's pretty much trading breeding (frost and frost) and then selecting for vigor vs. breeding (frost and vigor) and then selecting for frost. It wouldn't surprise me if that Thick Widow caught up frostwise in a few weeks, as well.

Or, the way of true chaos: Breed everything together! Kill all but the most frosty and vigorous! And then call it Milson's Haze.

I was thinking about this today and it seems like it would be easier to select for vigor than frost given limited numbers and so the lean is toward selecting for that and keeping the others as another line to then combine down the road if they are useful.