Chris Jay

Best people who are involved with the farmer/hemp initiative happening now is hemptons.co.za. Send an email from their website and someone will get back to you.

Was just recommended this brand of watering control system, Rain Bird ESP-RZXe, have any of you guys ever used this brand/system before? Made in USA, has a lot of simple features and can automate the watering process easily. This could save alot of time, and is affordable.

Pine Tar Kush from Tom Hill was one of the interesting strains I grew out. Ducksfoot as above is also very interesting. This was my bonsai, Mabombe ( Malawi White Russian / Sweet Tooth 3 / Grapefruit / Congo Nepalese ) from Afropips. This bonsai shared a joint over the coffee table with Mr Howard Marks when he was in South Africa.

Where did you source yours from in those days? You could only really get it in small quantities in Spar/PnP etc and fairly expensive. Its the reason I started buying/selling epsoms to some garden shops in JHB and used to supply Windell/Hortishop epsoms when they first opened up in Randburg. Managed to convince them to put it in their promix soil too. It is amazing stuff that I use for many applications today.

This guy ( not in the pic ) has been doing the rounds for just over a year. Shame on him, and surprised he is not yet banned from FB.

Integrity, but exciting times ahead with the growing cannabis market.

An awesome day had by all. Stoners and growers shared, smoked and enjoyed a 420 afternoon. About 30/40 people attended, we had Nic, a soil expert really going into some great detail about good soil mixes, microbes and growing better weed. It ran so late, I was lucky enough not to speak. So we started off with a relaxed braai, the secrets of soil was amazing and went on for about 2 hours keeping the people glued, 4:20pm I handed out as many kingsize joints as I had ( about 20/30 ) and we all sparked up under the trees. Sadly a beautiful soul was taken that night, the winner of our 420 giveaway died in a tragic car accident on her way back home from Port Alfred later in the evening. Please be careful on the roads guys, there is alot of chaos happening. Witnessed another death last week just outside my place, and a guy driving our tunnel back from East London had an accident on Monday. Too many impatient stressed drivers and also people under the influence. Stay safe.

6-9 August 2021, you can pre-register online, sounds like it has organically grown into a festival. Garden Route Cannabis Festival with support from all local stakeholders along the garden route. Lank amped to attend this event. More information here. #420experience #cannabispromoter can

Just a couple updates. We will be pressing rosin on Sunday afternoon and DJCJ will be making his debut at the Ploughman Pub.

Hey Guys, I will be hosting an event at my local watering hole this weekend, Sunday. Anyone is welcome to come and enjoy. A couple talks about soil and what to do with your left overs, a small 420 giveaway and should be a couple people selling homemade pipes and hemp items.

Getting ready to watch these guys live in studio recording.

Started working 100 dried plants yesterday, and excited about the chilled project.

About 48 hours away from making the material needed to make a brick or 10, and damn now got involved in building an entire pump house. FML, but viva cannabis. Remember hemp? Dagga’s non-narcotic cousin, the wonder plant that was going to alleviate rural poverty, stimulate small enterprises, provide jobs, houses, textiles, paper, food and possibly even save us from global warming and the oil crisis? Well, that’s what we were told when the government launched the National Hemp Initiative back in 1998. So where are all the fields of waving weed? Source How sad is the ANC, been researching hemp for the last 30 years, involved in law suits for stealing hemp genetics from Europe and still nothing to show. What asses. The picture below was from our first hemp trial in SA, planted around 2006, stolen, including the fencing. Since then, nothing much at all, except rotting hemp in warehouses and expensive processing machinery getting rusting. #anclegacy

Awesome video just been published by the Canna Club, education, acknowledgement and good times. Check the birds eye view of this farm. Quiet something. No dates for the Canna Cup are official, but looks like the last 3 days of July are the days to be in Plett at the Canna Club.

I always try and support local and would love to see a quality local rolling paper brand, there was one a year or so ago, I forget the name. Myrtle, one half of the DaggaCouple taught me a lesson, after discussing something once. She said along the lines of support yourself, then your home, then your neighbours, then your community, province, country etc. That lesson stuck in my head and is generally how I try and spend my time/money now. However on the other hand something that finally pissed me off recently is the following. I am a farmer and try my best to support local. I been buying homemade pepper pork pies for 4 years from the same friends, bulk at R25 per pie, plus salami, chops etc. We raise the pigs here and sell them to the butcher to be processed, so its a no brainer to support. Sitting at the pub, a guy asked me about the pies, prices etc, and said he buys bulk pies from a different brand just down the road for R16 per pie. It left a seriously bad taste in my mouth! Its just a lesson before you jump on this journey! Funny enough I am buying a pulled pork roll ( one of our pigs ) tomorrow from the same people. Pig on spit, yum.

Please edit if this is not allowed! The annual Bathurst Agricultural Show has been postponed two years straight. I met with the Agricultural society last week as they still want to run "mini shows", such as the horse show that ran last weekend. They are limited to 250 attendees at any given time and running a mini "informational" show at the end of May and would still like to include cannabis as category. The foot traffic is limited, there wont be many stall holders allowed, so I suggested I sell wall space e.g cannabis companies can rent wall space, place their brand on the wall. I have booked 10 of space already. I think its a huge opportunity for cannabis community to show what we got, so if anyone is interested in purchasing wall space ( the money goes to the societies non-profit ) please let me know. I am meeting with our local cannabis social club in a couple weeks to discuss entering live plants too, hopefully get atleast 10 plants on show, judged and prizes. If you have any ideas, cannabis companies that could be interested, please drop a line. The coverage is huge and hopefully with a bit of luck it will be digital. Cashflow is a little tight, and the first quote for digitizing was 300K!!! Its a big opportunity to get your brand into the farming community.

This is actually an interesting post made by Reeferman on FB about 30 minutes ago, from the perspective of a breeder. Same happened to me here, guys shredding nguni during the massive postal strike several years ago, resent orders twice sometimes, one guy recommending not to buy from nguni and had never bought from nguni himself!!!!! I actually still have a returned seed order, in the envelope, looking forward to opening it one day.

Thats where integrity street cred and past experiences come into play. I personally dont care what packaging my seeds come in. I have received seeds from around the world with alot of difficulty, but I trust the breeders I received from e.g Franco sent me Pure Kush seeds in banky, albeit they were branded bankys. 3 international breeders have used my pictures for their sale sites, no permission asked, absolute honour to me that they chose my pictures and shared them. About 2 months ago I was roadtrippin, went into a store, browsing around, saw a book, picked it up, spent some time flippin through pictures, bang one of my pictures featured. I never received a dime for the work, or even a free book as promised, but it was a good feeling seeing your hard work acknowledged in some way. To have a book publisher or breeder use my pictures, is an absolute honour, go for it. Copy left. Have you guys ever heard the coffee mug story, blah blah, its not the mug but he coffee itself, its in the beans brothers, not the packaging.

Hate can be an amazing energy when used correctly and channeled into the right direction. Oh yes best advice with trolls is to block and terminate all contact as quickly as possible. However I have a couple of trolls that one could classify as cyberstalking/bullying. Take JP Ras Victor, he has stalked me for years, 9th of Feb this year, he created a new FB profile, Oliver Visage, to send me messages. He has done this for about 5 years now. My reaction was block and notify friends in common of the fake profile. If you should listen and see some of the conversations, audio recordings you can probably realise how paranoid people can get from this type of behavior online, and worse when its targeted towards children. So as a lawyer, what kind of advice would you give to be people being stalked/bullied online? "According to a 2018 report by research company Ipsos Global Advisor, South Africa has the highest prevalence of cyberbullying out of 28 countries surveyed." "“cyberbullying is when someone repeatedly makes fun of another person online or repeatedly picks on another person through email or text message or when someone posts something online about another person that they don’t like.” Source

Amazing what South Africans are capable of, a paper published on CBD and breast cancer. The study was completed at Nelson Mandela Bay Uni. Had the fortunate opportunity to meet this researcher a couple years ago, Amy well done for getting your first published paper out.

Dem trolls are out, leading me closer to the honeypot. Check this email I just received from NORML HQ: Anyway, they can keep coming, I just hope they will show face oneday, probably not, cause that is what fakes do. If you questioning if NORML is functional, you speaking with the wrong people. On the ground, blazing some serious trails as we have done since 2008.

Hey, so been asked to assist a manufacturer to source some hemp hurd and thought of sharing this fairly easy product/resource to make. The hurd is the core of the cannabis plant, if you remove outer bark and fibre, you get to the hurd. Although a pain in the ass to remove all the bark, the old school method is done by retting the cannabis stems in water, after that it is easy just to pull it off. The manufacturer wants to use the hurd to make a sample of hemp bison boards. Since its harvest season, you might be wondering what to do with all your stems, if you have grown 1 Hectare of cannabis, you should be able to build a house with your stems and a bit of lime!! This is a nice article about the uses of hemp hurd by Hemporium.

Also saw this post from @Futurama Hydroponicswith some products not mentioned above: Treatments such as the EcoBuz Disease Pro Preventative Bio-Fungicide are also a safe and natural treatment for fungal disease and are safe to use during flowering.⁠ We have also just got in the Buddi range of pest control sprays!

Looking great, clean and fresh. Very easy to navigate. Now to market and get your new site out there!!