TFTC: The Moons and the Black Orchids

TFTC: The Moons and the Black Orchids Greetings growers of the great green plant, welcome once again to my abode where you will hear of great quests and wondrous deeds. Tonight we shall begin a tale from long ago but more recent than you would think, here we will listen to “Tales from the Closet: The Moons and the Black Orchids”, but before that it is my pleasure to mark a momentous occasion, we witness the passing of one channel sponsor Mars Hydro, we wish them the best of luck with future endeavours, however, out with the old and in with the new, it is my pleasure to announce the channels new sponsor…. (trumpets blaring).... Zamnesia! I love this company, they have so many awesome things available including blue lotus and other herbal accoutrements to the perfect smoke. More on those glad tidings later, now however, it is time to enjoy tonight's presentation of “Tales from the Closet: The Moons and the Black Orchids”. ======================================================================== There is a prophecy in the land of Ishaka, one that foretells of a great and terrible coming. It was believed that the prophecy was told many centuries ago after the last great clan war, where the Black Orchid clan lost their lavish fertile lands and were forced into the mountains to eke out an existence in a harsh and wintery climate. It was the last Seer of their people who made the prophecy while freezing to death on the ice of the mountain. The remnants of the clan gathered round to hear of what was to be told by this wizened woman, it was said that she was touched by the twin moon Gods Tyl and Cals, that she was a forebear of something momentous. The war that cast them out was caused by the Black Orchid clans desire to expand, they had the best land and were vastly wealthy, so why would they not want to make their borders bigger, it was not one clan that defeated them in the end, but an alliance of several, all led by the White Lilly Clan, the arch enemy who worshiped a single sun God “Groth”. So after fleeing their home land which had been visibly burning behind them for two days and two nights, they had found a mountain valley that could allow life to cling to it. There, after the flight they all gathered round as the seer used her final breaths to give a prophecy: There will come a time for a new ascension, the world will fear the people of night, the night sky will for a time loose its patrons, while patrons touch the mortal soil they will gift two children to their chosen people, in this night of darkness avatars will be born, they will come and bring with them the storm. It will be a time of ascension, when gods come down to touch the mortal flesh, and with that touch they will rend the past and build a new future, through the twins the twins will work their course, to bring unity to this fractured land, to raise up what is trodden down, to bring strength to the broken and wash away the sins of the past. It will be the coming of the tides as the gods of the moons move the land and people back and forward to their whims, and with their great coming will the earth be shattered and remade under a new light. She drew her last breath and with it the prophecy was sealed, the people made their home and for many years they clung to the prophecy as they did to life itself, the land was harsh, with it the people grew hard and harsh, they trained in subtle forms of combat as their numbers were too few for open war, subterfuge would be their method now. Many centuries passed and the clan grew in reputation as well as numbers, they struck back at enemies with raids and assassinations, their position in the frigid mountains meant that retaliation was almost impossible for the low valley clans, and so the clan ascended. Then on one night a peculiar thing happened, the two moons rose for a while and then plunged back to the horizon leaving the land in total darkness, people were in shock and awe since this had never happened previously, there had always been at least one of the two moons to light the sky, however, in the sacred glass chamber of the moon temple, a moon maiden fell down and began to give birth, to twins, each as white as alabaster, one large and one small, they came into the world with eerie silence, and with their arrival the moons ascended once again. ======================================================================== Beautiful congregation of the bud, thank you for joining us for another Tale from the Closet, we hope you have enjoyed this broadcast and do hope you will tune in next time. Thank you Zamnesia for the wonderful sponsorship, we are excited to see what these seeds will do with their great prophetic promise of sexy buds and delicious smoke. 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Furthermore, growers will be happy to hear that plants deliver a superb harvest after a fairly standard flowering period. 550–650g/m² after 9–10 weeks of flowering. ======================================================================== Notes: I came, I saw, I popped the seeds, of the three varieties I am growing currently these were the slowest, honestly I was tempted to do away with them, but god damn it, the pictures give promise of such a beautiful bud that I just couldn’t kill them. Anyway, there is an experiment I am wanting to try, it is supplementing CO2 with growing mushrooms, either trippy or non trippy I do not care, love to eat mushrooms and they produce CO2, also might be some synergy with the microbial activity, after all, mushrooms are no more than Macro expressions of microbial activity. Luckily enough, Zamnesia has everything I would need to start. They were popped in a shot glass with room temperature water, the method was floating on top to allow access to water and air for the seedling, they took a while. In the meantime the soil was prepared with Mykos. One issue, I ran out of soil, so a small experiment will be conducted, one was placed in a plastic cup for transplanting when more soil is bought, the other in the grow bag, from there we will see if it makes a difference.