#colorchallenge Green Medicine Golden Pineapple #newbieresteemday

kimmysomelove42 (58)in #colorchallenge • 6 years ago

This medicine, Golden Pineapple strain is from my last year's grow in my backyard. Second time in my life, I have been able to grow my own pain medication without feeling like I was going to go to jail for my beliefs and medical needs . Here in Oregon, we are allowed to grow 4 plants for recreation now in our back yards.

It has been extremely liberating and educational. I spent the most amount of time learning about bugs and pathology. I'm completely 100% NON GMO gardener my entire life! So, learning healthy alternative organic treatments took a lot of time and love and research.

Our local county sprays russet mites to control weeds and last year they came in a super dumped them on all of us backyard Oregon growers. Totally lame! My plants were twice as big and healthy and in one day russet mite invasion took out a large portion of one of my strains. This plant you can see is a bit stressed and super slooow growing, it is that kind of strain, however the mites put it in overdrive stress.

So these tenacious critters got me going, as a great teacher, I bought a microscope and pulled out my pathology books from my old college stash and went to town looking at everything under the sun.

Warning microscopes make for serious science nerds! This is 1000x. These pics show the milky cream color trichomes... if you harvest when clear to milky more of a up buzz and when amber/red/browish higher thc and more mellow buzz.

These are some pics of harvest day, the one part of process that I will go into in future with a few dyi. videos is that I washed all of it in luke warm water a tiny tiny bit of Hydrogen Peroxide and then hung to dry outside for several hours then moved inside with dehumidifier and a dry room.

This picture is the final stage of hanging in doors. I had never even heard of Golden Pineapple strain. Out of the 4 different strains I grew last year it is by far my favorite.Has lots of turpins and super sweet tasting, just like a good cured wine, the best, takes time..