The Oregon Weed Thread -Grows, News and Laws and Whatever

[OregonBorn]

The mites are here in Oregon for sure. Hemp russet mites, several types of spider mites, and more recently broad mites. Broad mites are a real problem now as they thrive on blackberries. Actually all types of cane berries, including raspberries and blackberries. Wild or cultivated. I know of no place in western Oregon, Washington or California that does not have the three types of wild blackberries, including indigenous dewberries, invasive Himalayan, and invasive European cutleaf.

Spray spray spray, and then spray again.

 

[Dawgfunk]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xcStqFOegGc

Singing and playin this for the babies this morning...I think they like Jerry! Hope everyone has a grateful day!!!

 

[jwm]

gorge greenhouse grow

gorge greenhouse grow

Original blueberry from https://premiumseedmarket.com

Very fast to crack w/ 100% germination.

Decided on a small (5x5x6.5) greenhouse this season because i'm tired of fighting the relentless winds, better cover from weather and neighbors and more importantly when the weather starts to turn in Sept. I'll be able to finish.
And this is also my first year using a 'super soil'. So far I absolutely love it. The quantity I bought was designed to be enough for 5 five gl pots or enough to treat 25 gl of soil. I instead used it w/ only 4 five gl pots. I've only added water thus far.
Early flower I'll start molasses and will top dress w/ worm castings if necessary.
Anything I can do to simplify is good. I got to hate the measuring and applying of a bunch of different nutes. Not to mention the cost. Super soil isn't something new and my friends used it years ago. I just always blew it off as a fad...The end results will tell but so far so good.

I chose a strain w/ a relatively early finish date to see how it goes.
If this works out I'll do a sativa dom next season.

I'm new to growing in a greenhouse and learning how important it is to control humidity.
We're getting into warmer nights now so it's a bit less of an issue but come fall w/ warm days and cool nights it will be.
Thankfully the gh I bought has doors at both ends so venting isn't an issue.
I've installed a thermometer and hygrometer and have a battery operated fan that I'll run off my portable charger when needed.

 

[jwm]

Going strong even w/ our less than ideal weather of late.
They recommend to top blueberry to 'bush' them out but I prefer to let my plants grow naturally.
These are regular seeds. I'm undecided if I'll let the males stay to make seeds.
Sold on greenhouse growing.

 

[jwm]

Plants are flourishing even w/ our less than ideal weather.
Sold on greenhouse growing.

 

[PDX Dopesmoker]

Going strong even w/ our less than ideal weather of late.
They recommend to top blueberry to 'bush' them out but I prefer to let my plants grow naturally.
These are regular seeds. I'm undecided if I'll let the males stay to make seeds.
Sold on greenhouse growing.

Those look good and healthy, but as big as they are already you're probably gonna need to do something to keep those under 6.5'. Are those 3-5 gallon sized container or bigger?

 

[jwm]

5 gallon pots.
At 3.5' they prob appear taller than they actually are.
I'm hoping they don't reach 6 5'...My understanding was that blueberry didn't get that tall?

 

[PDX Dopesmoker]

5 gallon pots.
At 3.5' they prob appear taller than they actually are.
I'm hoping they don't reach 6 5'...My understanding was that blueberry didn't get that tall?

Give it a whole summer's worth of sun and water and they might get to be that big. This is a picture of mine from last October, the one on the left is a 3 gallon container and the others are probably a bit over 4. That one on the right ended up over 8' tall at harvest including the container height, the one on the left is about 5' in the photo, they all started as seeds last May and grew in fairly restricted conditions all summer. The big one at right was in a 2 liter container until late July.

Of course I've never grown real BB before, maybe it takes up less space.

 

[Dawgfunk]

I was talking to a girl at the card services the other day, had a real nice convo and she brought up synthetics are gonna be banned in oregon...I’m guessing they’re talking about spice etc., but I was reading the breeding section of the medical growers guide and they started talking about synthetic varietals...this probably makes no sense whatsoever, but couldn’t help but have that convo run thru my head again...they wouldn’t be talking about synthetic varietals, would they? That would result in open pollinations, I’m wondering if they’re tryna do away with breeding altogether. I’m not that skeptical, my mind is just always connecting dots even when there is no connection. Take it with a grain of salt. Anyway, anyone heard about this thru the grapevine??

 

[Dawgfunk]

hehehe...

 

[CO_Ken]

Of course I've never grown real BB before, maybe it takes up less space.

What is real BB? I picked up a cut years ago in Bend that I've kept, it's nice and not too sedative, but most all other BB I've seen looks a lot more indica dominant.


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[PDX Dopesmoker]

What is real BB? I picked up a cut years ago in Bend that I've kept, it's nice and not too sedative, but most all other BB I've seen looks a lot more indica dominant.


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I got no idea, you're asking the wrong guy, I've never grown it.

 

[Oregonism]

Has any one seen heard or talked about HB2020 and its effect on outdoor farmers especially hemp?
I just started reading thru the actual bill and its exemption this and exemption that, really cant believe the hardcore support this has with such an empty shell....ok I can.....given a career in environmental science in this state, which is anything but science really........
Know plenty of guys driving tractor over the last few seasons and they seem to be in the crosshairs and many I know support the bill but know nothing about the bill itself....?

 

[OregonBorn]

New Medical update in Oregon

New Medical update in Oregon

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]MEDICAL MARIJUANA INFORMATION BULLETIN 2019-04[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Subject: Grow Site Consent Required in 2020[/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Important information about registering a grow site in 2020.[/FONT]​

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Due to the passing of House Bill 3200 during the 2019 Legislative session, any patient application (new or renewal) or change form (changing the grower or grow site) received by the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP) on or after January 1, 2020 designating a grow site will be required to submit informed written consent from the owner of the property to use the property as a grow site if the patient or the designated grower is not the property owner of the grow site.[/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]OMMP will be updating the patient application to include this new requirement. The new patient application, change form and grow site consent form should be available in December 2019 on the OMMP website. Any application or change form received on or after January 1, 2020 that does not include informed written consent or does not indicate the property owner, will be considered incomplete. The OMMP will give the patient and grower 14 days to provide the written consent form.[/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Please check our website for the new forms in December. For information on how to apply or how to apply online, grower requirements and other program rules, please visit our website at www.healthoregon.org/ommp.[/FONT]

 

[Dawgfunk]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]MEDICAL MARIJUANA INFORMATION BULLETIN 2019-04[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Subject: Grow Site Consent Required in 2020[/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Important information about registering a grow site in 2020.[/FONT]​

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Due to the passing of House Bill 3200 during the 2019 Legislative session, any patient application (new or renewal) or change form (changing the grower or grow site) received by the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP) on or after January 1, 2020 designating a grow site will be required to submit informed written consent from the owner of the property to use the property as a grow site if the patient or the designated grower is not the property owner of the grow site.[/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]OMMP will be updating the patient application to include this new requirement. The new patient application, change form and grow site consent form should be available in December 2019 on the OMMP website. Any application or change form received on or after January 1, 2020 that does not include informed written consent or does not indicate the property owner, will be considered incomplete. The OMMP will give the patient and grower 14 days to provide the written consent form.[/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Please check our website for the new forms in December. For information on how to apply or how to apply online, grower requirements and other program rules, please visit our website at www.healthoregon.org/ommp.[/FONT]

Always adding something stupid to the cannabis laws...they just need to leave medical alone. I can understand their logic, but c'mon...shit's just more smokes and mirrors. This just in-black market's gonna be back at it, bigger than ever in Oregon, with legit turned rogue patient arrests up and steady!!! Sounds like this is just part of that push to end the OMMP... Roll some of that moldy bud up, Oregon...it's about to get rocky...

 

[herbgreen]

What they will find out is that these programs cant even sustain themselves

Because nobody signs up

Make it this hard to be legit you wont have a program funded

They will have to back off the licensing nightmare

People want to be legit but at what cost?



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[Dr.King]

Why are they limiting seed numbers when you can buy them online? Plus the best ones are online anyways lol. You think Oregon would use common sense. Then again it doesn't seem like a lot of people have that nowadays... I have Chronic Lyme disease and it took my doctor over 2 months to send me to a specialist and he is suppose to be the best? . 2 months, I find that hard to believe. Seems like that's not all that is lacking here in my option.

 

[OregonBorn]

Vaping Public Health Crisis

Vaping Public Health Crisis

This came in from the OLCC this afternoon.

October 4, 2019​

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OLCC Action on Governor Brown’s Vaping Executive Order

Commission Will Meet to Pass Emergency Temporary Rules

Portland, OR -- The Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) will meet next week to act on the Executive Order on the Vaping Public Health Crisis issued today by Oregon Governor Kate Brown. The Governor’s order directs the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and the OLCC to enact a temporary ban on the sale of flavored vaping products, as well as other sources or additives that public health investigators link to the vaping-related illness.
Governor Brown emphasized protecting Oregonians’ health as the primary focus of her action, by removing possibly unsafe products from the marketplace, discouraging vaping by children and youth, and reducing human exposure to potentially dangerous chemicals.
Brown further encouraged Oregonians to stop using vaping products until more is known about the cause of the respiratory illness. The Governor also called on the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to step in to regulate flavored vaping products and additives.
The order directs both agencies to enact a 180-day ban on all flavored vaping products and to develop plans within 90 days to address consumer warnings about the dangers of vaping, vaping product ingredient disclosure, product safety tests of vaping equipment, improved health care provider reporting of vaping lung injuries to OHA, and creating a statewide prevention and education campaign aimed at discouraging the use of vaping products.
The Governor is also asking the agencies to develop proposals for long-term solutions to present to the Legislature during the 2020 legislative session. Governor Brown will include the OLCC in a Vaping Public Health Workgroup tasked with studying the vaping illness crisis and making recommendations to the legislature.
“We will act quickly on the Governor’s directive to address this growing public health crisis,” said Steve Marks, OLCC Executive Director. “The OLCC will utilize the real-time findings of public health officials here in Oregon and across the country as they continue their investigation into the cause of the vaping respiratory illness outbreak. We’ll let scientists guide us as we contemplate taking additional actions with a measured approach.”
The OLCC Commission will act on temporary rules proposing to ban licensed marijuana retailers from selling any cannabinoid (marijuana and hemp) products containing any flavor, including non-marijuana terpenes. In this interpretation the OLCC does not include terpenes derived from marijuana as a “flavor.” The temporary rule will also prohibit licensed processors from manufacturing or distributing those same products.
After the Commission acts the OLCC will provide further guidance to licensees about taking inventory of flavored or non-marijuana terpene-containing products, removing them from retail store shelves and setting those items aside. The OLCC will make compliance checks at licensed processors and retailers to make sure affected product is not being offered for sale.

 

[OregonBorn]

Always adding something stupid to the cannabis laws...they just need to leave medical alone. I can understand their logic, but c'mon...shit's just more smokes and mirrors. This just in-black market's gonna be back at it, bigger than ever in Oregon, with legit turned rogue patient arrests up and steady!!! Sounds like this is just part of that push to end the OMMP... Roll some of that moldy bud up, Oregon...it's about to get rocky...

I suppose I will have to give formal consent to myself for growing weed on my own property next year when I re-up my grow license. More complicated paperwork and copies of proof of ownership, yadda yadda. Then they will want me to certify that I have a legal permitted well, and that my small indoor grow does not impact the electric grid. And a land use impact evaluation, and inspections, odor control, and all that. All for only 6 flowering and 12 immature plants? Might be time for me to revert to rec 4 plant growing here.

I also have some grey mold here on some of my bud. This 'summer' was not. Cold and wet, wet and more wet. I remove any rot that I find in my bud and check the buds with a black light. Never had any issues smoking it. Now or in the past decades. You can drink botrytis wine, but not smoke botrytis herb?

 

[PDX Dopesmoker]

I suppose I will have to give formal consent to myself for growing weed on my own property next year when I re-up my grow license. More complicated paperwork and copies of proof of ownership, yadda yadda. Then they will want me to certify that I have a legal permitted well, and that my small indoor grow does not impact the electric grid. And a land use impact evaluation, and inspections, odor control, and all that. All for only 6 flowering and 12 immature plants? Might be time for me to revert to rec 4 plant growing here.

I also have some grey mold here on some of my bud. This 'summer' was not. Cold and wet, wet and more wet. I remove any rot that I find in my bud and check the buds with a black light. Never had any issues smoking it. Now or in the past decades. You can drink botrytis wine, but not smoke botrytis herb?

Grafting seems like it could be reasonable workaround for variety if you're going to stick with 4 instead of dealing with the hassle of medical growing. You can go up to 8 flowering plants recreationally without risking more than a misdemeanor charge and max fine of $2500 on the plant count violation, 8 is almost as much as 6+4 number.
How long does it take them to nickel and dime you out out of $2500 as a medical grower? If you quit medical, put the money you save on fees and unnecessary red tape expenses in an envelope until it adds up to $2500 and you'll have a get out of jail card in case anyone ever checks on your recreational plant count.