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Don't forget garum! Fermented fish gut sauce. You have to use the guts for their flora.

"Pliny the Elder was one of the first to define garum — which he called an “exquisite liquid” — as “a choice liquor consisting of the guts of fish and the other parts that would otherwise be considered refuse.”

Apicius, also known as De re culinaria or De re coquinaria (On the Subject of Cooking), is a collection of Roman cookery recipes, which may have been compiled in the fifth century CE,[1]
This as the translated from Latin cookbook where the roman fish sauce is used maybe I saw some earlier


Im already there with you as a home chef and a gardner the virtues of fish sauce
A purveyor of fine things now I see we have also a similar interest in medicine

Hippocrates: “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”


Hiroyuki Terada - Diaries of a Master Sushi Chef

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Katsuobushi - Wikipedia

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The most common form of dashi is a simple broth made by heating water containing kombu (edible kelp) and kezurikatsuo (shavings of katsuobushi – preserved, fermented skipjack tuna or bonito)

Dashi - Wikipedia

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Never did I read this before - Traditional production process
thanks for reminding me to make fried rice

 

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Just here as a note crs...

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Frank_Afghani1 Landrace F1_Calaveras County_CA_1980

Frank_Afghani1 Landrace_Sonoma County_CA_1979

-Mel Frank (aka...a friend)

 

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Frank_Skunk 1 under HPS_Mt Washington_Los Angeles_CA_1997

 

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Mel Frank Greenie Baby Hybrid under HPS, Mar Vista, CA, 1995

 

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Would love to try the Mel Frank afghan. Looks similar in structure to my Sativa Candy Chunk IBL. Wonder what the terpenes are like. Do we have a description for it?

 

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Disproportionation​

A disproportionation reaction is one in which a single substance is both oxidized and reduced. For example, thiosulfate ion with sulfur in oxidation state +2 can react in the presence of acid to form elemental sulfur (oxidation state 0) and sulfur dioxide (oxidation state +4).

S2O2−3 + 2 H+ → S + SO2 + H2O
Thus one sulfur atom is reduced from +2 to 0, while the other is oxidized from +2 to +4.[8]: 176 

 

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Would love to try the Mel Frank afghan. Wonder what the terpenes are like. Do we have a description for it?

"Well, at that time, a local grower gave me an Afghani, it was actually an original Afghani landrace, and I bred to improve it. It became Afghani 1 since it was my most potent Afghani. I grew Congolese, Nigerian, South African, Nepalese, Pakistani, Thai, Cambodian, besides the usual Mex and Colombian. I also met [legendary cannabis breeders and Hortapharm founders] Dave Watson and Rob Clarke at that time, this was in maybe about ’78, ’79. They came to see me and pretty soon we were trading seeds. Dave Watson gave me Haze, he gave me some South Indian, he gave me a Nepali. I don’t think he gave me Skunk #1 at that time as I don’t remember growing it. I gave him the Afghani 1 and my Durban Poison."
MF

When We Were Criminals_ An Interview with Mel Frank.pdf

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Cultivators Choice Description​

Pure Afghani, never outcrossed. Grown in california 6 years coarse, very resinous, dense, heavy buds. High is very very strong, physical stone. Almost like narcotic. Taste is almost medicinal, thick and greasy. Some plants turn purple with cold at harvest.

Height: 2-2.5 m.
Yield: 200-300 grams
Harvest: Oct 15-25

(Info from 1985)

Sam got this 78-79'
Skunk #1 is a three-way hybrid, initially an Afghan and Colombian cross. It was a late-maturing plant, so
Sam the Skunkman crossed it with an Acapulco Gold.

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When We Were Criminals, the gallery’s first solo exhibition from Mel Frank. Frank, the pseudonym of James J. Goodwin, is the author of three books on cannabis cultivation which have sold more than one million copies. His Marijuana Grower’s Guide Deluxewas the first serious manual on cannabis cultivation, and has been called by the New York Times “as accessible a study at this high level of seriousness as one is likely to find."

In addition to growing and instructing others on how to grow, Frank has also been documenting the process visually for more than forty years. When We Were Criminals features images from the late 1970s and early 1980s, when marijuana use was popular but far less acceptable than it is today. His images are playful and sometimes sly without being coy, seductive and fecund and sometimes almost nerdy. In one image, a grower’s face is concealed behind an iconic digitate leaf; in another, a grower seems to be disappearing into a dense stand of fully-grown plants. The hidden identities are no doubt a reflection of the plant’s illegality, yet they can’t help but recall a newly self-aware Adam and Eve in Eden, hiding behind their fig leaves.

Yet there’s no shame here. Frank’s images are purely celebratory, from the conviviality of a passed joint to a circle of harvesters manicuring buds like a family shucking corn or shelling peas. Details of leaves and flowers delight in the subtle shades of gray and purple amid the textured green, while even more extreme closeups of resin glands have the hallucinatory quality of altered states of consciousness. The overall impact of these images is of harmonious collective activity, cautious but celebratory, and years ahead of its time. As the stigma falls away from cannabis usage and the emphasis shifts from recreation to wellness, Frank’s images acquire new significance in movement to legalize marijuana in the Northeast and the rest of the country.

Significant for this New York exhibition, most of his field shots were taken within an hour's drive from Manhattan. During that time, New York authorities were still unaware of what the state’s fertile fields were yielding, unlike in California where helicopters scoured mountainsides, and the DEA searched the countryside looking for cannabis grows.

It’s been said that if you’ve ever consumed marijuana the plant you imbibed probably has its origins in the horticulture of Frank and his colleages in the 1970s. When We Were Criminalsgives a visible narrative to that evolution.

Mel Frank is the pen name of James J. Goodwin (b. 1944). He served as a shipboard electronics technician in the US Navy from 1963 to 1967 and began growing cannabis in 1968 in his West 78th Street apartment. He received his BS in biology from CCNY in 1975. From his first cannabis growing article published in Rolling Stone's NY Flyer in 1971 through publications of photographs and critical texts in magazines, beginning with High Times and currently with Cannabis Business Times, to his recent career as lecturer and consultant for the burgeoning marijuana industry, Frank has earned the moniker “godfather of marijuana growers.” His life’s work in the field has been honored by two industry Lifetime Achievement awards. His work in photography is as consequential as has been his instruction: curious, careful, comprehensive, and charming.



MEL FRANK
Sep 14 - Nov 10, 2018

https://www.benrubigallery.com/exhibition/617/when-we-were-criminals

When We Were Criminals: An Interview with Mel Frank

Mel Frank [aka James Goodwin], is the co-author, along with Ed Rosenthal, of the 1974 book, The Marijuana Grower’s Indoor/Outdoor Guide, and its expanded 1978 edition, Marijuana Grower’s Guide Deluxe. These two seminal tomes taught countless amateur botanists how to cultivate cannabis and fueled...

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Original Afghani1, 1982, Oakland. MF

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Afghani1, hidden from street view. San Francisco, 1981.

melfrank420 Afghani1, sun and soil, 1979, Sonoma County, CA.

still confused a little... ?

 

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Skunk #1 is a three-way hybrid, initially an Afghan and Colombian cross.
It was a late-maturing plant, so
Sam the Skunkman crossed it with an Acapulco Gold.

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Mexican lines mature faster than lumbo in the states

 

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melfrank420 Original Haze, 1979, Santa Cruz, CA. Skunkman Sam's greenhouse.

 

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Greenie Baby : MF

 

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The quote “You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way” is attributed to golfer Walter Hagen. It appears in his 1956 book The Walter Hagen Story

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Real Treasure this book was

 

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Seeds were harvested from the Sticks
Thunk (SamS - Thai x Haze) MF

 

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You da man! Thanks for digging that up, I dig it!

~Peace!!!

 

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Original Haze 100% Colombian IBL​

You da man! Thanks for digging that up, I dig it!

~Peace!!!

 

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Pollyana was a stabilized early maturing Columbian x Mexican seed line from the Sierra foothills. Rob Clarke described Pollyana as a wonderful early to medium maturation NLD with sweet aromas and a really energetic high.

 

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Early Girl has been a trusted name since the Eighties, known for dependably producing fabulous harvests of chunky, sparkling Indica tops in the short northern summers. Early Girl will flourish when given the basic essentials of cultivation, making her the ideal choice for balconies, roof-terraces or conservatories.

Virtually any household will have enough room for a few of these beautiful, compact Girls - a metre or two of outdoor floor-space which receives sunlight in the day while staying dark at night is enough for this strain to demonstrate just how easy outdoor growing can be. With access to direct sunlight, regular watering and occasional feeding, Early Girl will do the rest herself, producing columns of fat, sticky, hash-flavoured buds with a smooth, long-lasting buzz.

Afghani and north Indian strains give Early Girl her rugged mostly-Indica features and a delicate Sativa influence is inherited from a distant, high-altitude Mexican ancestor. Early Girl makes her largest buds on a single main stem. Most upper branches stay close, allowing their flower clusters to merge into the central cola. When her lower branches are left unpruned, they may reach almost as high as the main stem by the end of the outdoor season, so that their large, dense tops seem to ‘orbit’ the terminal bud.

Short flowering period (50 - 60 days)
75% Indica