What are the signs of mildew?

harvest them each one by one and hang them in your drying room.

Drying

As the buds dry, you will notice the thick resins and oils the flower produced even more. It is very sticky, and is perfect for making extracts and oils. The thick layer

of crystals is amazing, and can actually be scraped off tip leaf. After 5 days, the smaller buds will be dry, the bigger buds should be dry with a week to 10 days. At this stage the cookies are good to go, and you can smoke them if you wish. But to cure the buds for a week at least will really bring out that fruity sweet flavour.

FINAL RESULT

My yield varies from Auto Colorado Cookies depending on what light I use to grow it. I have found I will get the frostiest buds under my LED, but get a better yield under HPS, but this is standard for any strain. But no matter how I have grown it, Auto Colorado Cookies has never disappointed me, always brings a good yield, and a very high standard of buds when its finished. The final flavour is intense, fruity, sweet, but has a slight mixture of all flavours. With its deep relaxing Indica high, it is a daytime smoke for only the hardcore smokers, and should be enjoyed lightly by regular by people who do not smoke often. The amount of crystals on the buds and leaves is amazing, and if you’re looking

for an auto to make edibles with, I could not recommend Auto Colorado Cookies enough. Even the trim after harvest can be used to make a good amount of extract.

FOLLOW MY GROW

If you want to see Auto Colorado Cookies growing, then come and check out my grow diary that will begin soon on percysgrowroom.com I am going to be running a sponsored grow with Invisible Sun LED, and grow 2 Auto Colorado cookies, with Canna Nutrients. If you would like to join me, and grow some of your own Auto Colorado Cookies, then message me in the cannabis growers forum at Percy Grow Room. We can talk you through your grow step by step to get you to the best harvest.

A Better Tomorrow?

By Dr Dee

While the rest of the UK chews at its collective neck around Brexit, in Scotland, the SNP unanimously voted at its annual conference to decriminalise possession and consumption of all drugs.

The delegates also called for powers around drug policy to be devolved to Edinburgh in order to enable this. This is crucial, as currently drug policy is controlled by Westminster, who block absolutely everything related to the reformation of the drug laws.

The SNP have a track record for this kind of enlightened and pragmatic thinking, as three years ago in 2016, they backed the decriminalisation of cannabis for medical use. The move was blocked by the government in London.

The naked fact of the matter is that in Scotland in 2018, we had 1187 deaths directly related to drug use. That’s three times higher than the UK, and the highest rate in the EU.

We’ve set up various task forces, had a lot of “talking shops” and all the rest of it. Evidence has been presented by a whole range of parties, from drug specialists through to user groups. I attended a couple of these committee hearings to present evidence a few months ago.

It’s become clear to me that the idea behind these initiatives is to attempt to “tackle” the problem of drugs and drug deaths, but without actually changing anything, because Westminster won’t allow it. In my view, this makes the whole thing a pointless waste of everyone’s time.

It has been proposed that safe consumption rooms be trialled, as evidence from elsewhere indicates that these spaces work extremely well in harm reduction terms, and beyond any doubt they save lives (and ultimately, they save the Health Services a significant amount of money). The Home Office refused to grant permission for the trial.

It has also been proposed that hard core, problem users be provided with heroin, as again, this has been shown to save lives and save money. Again, the Home Office bluntly refused permission.

And this is where we’re at in Scotland. We’ve a government with a lot of very good, progressive and humane ideas, but lacking any meaningful sort of power to be able to enact these.

This is a source of ongoing and intense indignation and frustration.

Nevertheless, there may be a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel here, as Scotland voted pretty convincingly to remain in the EU, and we’re now being dragged out of it against our will.

In 2014, we had a vote for Scottish Independence. Unfortunately, this resulted in Scotland staying as a part of the UK. However, one of the big points the pro-remain groups made was that Scotland could only remain as part of the EU as part of the UK: if we chose independence from the rest of the UK, then we’d no longer be a part of the European Union.

This point appeared to affect how a lot of people voted.

Jump forward five years and here we are, on the point of leaving the European Union, in spite of all of all that was said and promised in 2014, and all because England and Wales are in a state of collective madness and cognitive dissonance. These countries have a collective population of around 58 million people, compared to Scotland, with a population of just over 5 million, so this is never going to change: what England wants we all get.

So now it looks very much as though the issue of independence is going to be on the table once again, and this time there is significant urgency attached. It’s hard to know what’s true and what isn’t these days, but it appears that the EU have indicated that Scotland would be welcome back into the fold as a partner.

Perhaps all of the current chaos and uncertainty will result in something better. I certainly hope so.