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I am working again with Treating Yourself magazine and I put together a story today that I am submitting thats a bit different than my usual reefer report.
I have actually already done a report on the Killer Queen featured in the story you can view it here
http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/showthread.php?p=635786#post635786
Some of those pisctures will be used in the article.
This has not been edited yet I tend to type fast and let more educated people catch my mistakes so it wont be printed like this.
I wanted some input on the story itself please
A Titanic Killer Queen Incident
By Subcool
Imagine your 18 years old, riding along on a nice spring day on your new Honda CBR 600 sport bike. You down shift to make a sharp right hand turn in the city and run head on into a huge city bus that in your legal lane of traffic. In an instant "BAM" your life is changed forever. This is what happened to my friend "Titan" a few years back. The bus was forced to swing out into his lane and since it was a blind corner, Titan never saw his lane was blocked. In a Coma for some time the legal system rolled right over this young man and he received no compensation other than the insurance that covered some of his medical bills. Paralyzed at the T5 vertebrae with loss of function from his upper chest down my little bro is now confined to a wheel chair for good. The injury did not however dim his amazing spirit or passion for life. Titan is a very accomplished musician and a very exceptional grower. I am sure he faces some heavy demons in the wee hours of the night but to meet him and to see his smile and inner passion that is contagious to all those around him.
I would like for any anti- medical cannabis person to explain why this young man should be denied any form of relief available to him? For sure he faces challenges most of us couldn't even begin to imagine. If a natural plant can give him some pain relief and possibly a good nights sleep, who has the right to prevent him from using anything to get through the day? People that say medical marijuana is just an excuse should be forced to spend a month in Titans chair!
I first met Titan online when he responded to a few of my DIY threads asking me to clarify a few points I had made. He was eager to learn and very respectful so it wasn't long we became pretty good friends.
I learned of his accident and while I watched people complain about the normal challenges of life I saw Titan operating a medical grow op from a wheel chair. I ***** about the work and I can walk on two feet but this young man does everything all growers do only being able to move the top 1/4 of his body. I can't is not in his vocabulary it seems. The next time your having a bad day just deal with it as Titan does everyday!
So in the summer of 2009 we attended the Seattle Hempfest and we invited many of our online fans to come hang out with us. Hempfest in Seattle has been a very safe place for us and one of the best get togethers around. I met lots of cool people who I got as high as I knew how on full melt bubble and in the middle of this commotion of melting bubble and swirling smoke Titan rolled up. Titan is a Rasta has some bad *** duds but what I noticed was an amazing cherub smile. I was in the middle of a conversation with others and I stopped in mid sentence to give my little bro a big hug. He hugged me back and then proceeeded to pull out a jar of Pandora's Box a strain he had grown out from my seed. It was the best sample I had seen at Hempfest all weekend and in the top 5 samples I saw all year.
Regardless if he likes it or not I kinda adopted Titan as my little bro and we have become good freinds over the last year. He showed me pictures of a cutting he grew out and it looked really fire. He told me it was a Killer Queen female he had selected from seed.
I am always on the lookout for exceptional Cannabis, I have said many times some of the best medicine is held by private growers in small gardens all across North America. Because of the variation in Cannabis it common for many growers to have different cuttings of a strain and each to be very different from the other. So while many collectors will run across a strain and after one look decide that its not what they are looking for. I however know that selection is everything and a grower really in touch with the plant will most likely do a better job of selection than someone strictly driven by profits.
Titan and I agreed to swap some genetics and since were both legal its completely safe to trade clones with each other. I am always worried about pest though so I put the two clones he gave me of the Killer Queen through a strict quarantine before transplanting her and then taking cuts from healthy fresh growth.
I pretty much ignored the plant until just before harvest when I noticed her literally dripping with resin. While the plant had a high leaf to pistil ratio every surface was glistening with trichomes. At week 7 I did a sniff test and wasn't all that impressed mainly picking up a G-13 odor, which I am not a fan of. I did a small report on what I saw stating I did not think it looked to be a keeper strain. Only a week later I re-inspected to find a completely different smell. In that short seven day period the fruitiness of the Cinderella-99 seems to come through. Killer Queen is a hybrid made up of G-13 and Cindy99 and according to the phenotype chosen each female can exhibit traits from mom, dad or both. I have grown out a Cindy Dom female before but she was not as potent as this plant ended up being. The first surprize was the ultra white bubble the sugar leaf produced when it was run through a set of Bubble Bags. The water hash came out almost completely dry and was very pure, being the color of sheet rock mud and bubbling completely leaving no residue when burned.
The second surprise was how potent the dried buds are, this is no creeper weed and one hit smacks you clearly between the eyes and sets you back in your seat. For someone whose job is describing the subtle nuances of the smell and taste of weed I struggle defining this one. My back was starting to hurt a few moments ago so I took a break to medicate on some Killer Queen and Jill and myself and one of my card holding friends all took turns trying to describe the unique smell. I smell some sort of exotic spiced tea and Jill said Champagne and Dioxide thought it reminded him of some fancy designer candle with a fragrant smell like artificial pineapple. It is a very pleasant smell to a smoker but its hard to put words to the exact smell and taste.
Titan is coming down to visit next weekend and I can't wait to get his opinion of the buds I grew from his cutting. I am also happy that we put a cutting into our library because Titan lost his due to a outbreak of mites. We will have a healthy clone waiting on little bro as soon as he arrives along with a phat bonghit.
Medical Marijuana has many faces, I wanted to introduce you to one of those faces that has touched my life.
As Titan would say;
Jah Bless
Subcool
I have actually already done a report on the Killer Queen featured in the story you can view it here
http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/showthread.php?p=635786#post635786
Some of those pisctures will be used in the article.
This has not been edited yet I tend to type fast and let more educated people catch my mistakes so it wont be printed like this.
I wanted some input on the story itself please
A Titanic Killer Queen Incident
By Subcool
Imagine your 18 years old, riding along on a nice spring day on your new Honda CBR 600 sport bike. You down shift to make a sharp right hand turn in the city and run head on into a huge city bus that in your legal lane of traffic. In an instant "BAM" your life is changed forever. This is what happened to my friend "Titan" a few years back. The bus was forced to swing out into his lane and since it was a blind corner, Titan never saw his lane was blocked. In a Coma for some time the legal system rolled right over this young man and he received no compensation other than the insurance that covered some of his medical bills. Paralyzed at the T5 vertebrae with loss of function from his upper chest down my little bro is now confined to a wheel chair for good. The injury did not however dim his amazing spirit or passion for life. Titan is a very accomplished musician and a very exceptional grower. I am sure he faces some heavy demons in the wee hours of the night but to meet him and to see his smile and inner passion that is contagious to all those around him.
I would like for any anti- medical cannabis person to explain why this young man should be denied any form of relief available to him? For sure he faces challenges most of us couldn't even begin to imagine. If a natural plant can give him some pain relief and possibly a good nights sleep, who has the right to prevent him from using anything to get through the day? People that say medical marijuana is just an excuse should be forced to spend a month in Titans chair!
I first met Titan online when he responded to a few of my DIY threads asking me to clarify a few points I had made. He was eager to learn and very respectful so it wasn't long we became pretty good friends.
I learned of his accident and while I watched people complain about the normal challenges of life I saw Titan operating a medical grow op from a wheel chair. I ***** about the work and I can walk on two feet but this young man does everything all growers do only being able to move the top 1/4 of his body. I can't is not in his vocabulary it seems. The next time your having a bad day just deal with it as Titan does everyday!
So in the summer of 2009 we attended the Seattle Hempfest and we invited many of our online fans to come hang out with us. Hempfest in Seattle has been a very safe place for us and one of the best get togethers around. I met lots of cool people who I got as high as I knew how on full melt bubble and in the middle of this commotion of melting bubble and swirling smoke Titan rolled up. Titan is a Rasta has some bad *** duds but what I noticed was an amazing cherub smile. I was in the middle of a conversation with others and I stopped in mid sentence to give my little bro a big hug. He hugged me back and then proceeeded to pull out a jar of Pandora's Box a strain he had grown out from my seed. It was the best sample I had seen at Hempfest all weekend and in the top 5 samples I saw all year.
Regardless if he likes it or not I kinda adopted Titan as my little bro and we have become good freinds over the last year. He showed me pictures of a cutting he grew out and it looked really fire. He told me it was a Killer Queen female he had selected from seed.
I am always on the lookout for exceptional Cannabis, I have said many times some of the best medicine is held by private growers in small gardens all across North America. Because of the variation in Cannabis it common for many growers to have different cuttings of a strain and each to be very different from the other. So while many collectors will run across a strain and after one look decide that its not what they are looking for. I however know that selection is everything and a grower really in touch with the plant will most likely do a better job of selection than someone strictly driven by profits.
Titan and I agreed to swap some genetics and since were both legal its completely safe to trade clones with each other. I am always worried about pest though so I put the two clones he gave me of the Killer Queen through a strict quarantine before transplanting her and then taking cuts from healthy fresh growth.
I pretty much ignored the plant until just before harvest when I noticed her literally dripping with resin. While the plant had a high leaf to pistil ratio every surface was glistening with trichomes. At week 7 I did a sniff test and wasn't all that impressed mainly picking up a G-13 odor, which I am not a fan of. I did a small report on what I saw stating I did not think it looked to be a keeper strain. Only a week later I re-inspected to find a completely different smell. In that short seven day period the fruitiness of the Cinderella-99 seems to come through. Killer Queen is a hybrid made up of G-13 and Cindy99 and according to the phenotype chosen each female can exhibit traits from mom, dad or both. I have grown out a Cindy Dom female before but she was not as potent as this plant ended up being. The first surprize was the ultra white bubble the sugar leaf produced when it was run through a set of Bubble Bags. The water hash came out almost completely dry and was very pure, being the color of sheet rock mud and bubbling completely leaving no residue when burned.
The second surprise was how potent the dried buds are, this is no creeper weed and one hit smacks you clearly between the eyes and sets you back in your seat. For someone whose job is describing the subtle nuances of the smell and taste of weed I struggle defining this one. My back was starting to hurt a few moments ago so I took a break to medicate on some Killer Queen and Jill and myself and one of my card holding friends all took turns trying to describe the unique smell. I smell some sort of exotic spiced tea and Jill said Champagne and Dioxide thought it reminded him of some fancy designer candle with a fragrant smell like artificial pineapple. It is a very pleasant smell to a smoker but its hard to put words to the exact smell and taste.
Titan is coming down to visit next weekend and I can't wait to get his opinion of the buds I grew from his cutting. I am also happy that we put a cutting into our library because Titan lost his due to a outbreak of mites. We will have a healthy clone waiting on little bro as soon as he arrives along with a phat bonghit.
Medical Marijuana has many faces, I wanted to introduce you to one of those faces that has touched my life.
As Titan would say;
Jah Bless
Subcool
