Chris Jay

Hey Guys, I will be hosting an event at my local watering hole this weekend, Sunday. Anyone is welcome to come and enjoy. A couple talks about soil and what to do with your left overs, a small 420 giveaway and should be a couple people selling homemade pipes and hemp items.

Getting ready to watch these guys live in studio recording.

Started working 100 dried plants yesterday, and excited about the chilled project.

About 48 hours away from making the material needed to make a brick or 10, and damn now got involved in building an entire pump house. FML, but viva cannabis. Remember hemp? Dagga’s non-narcotic cousin, the wonder plant that was going to alleviate rural poverty, stimulate small enterprises, provide jobs, houses, textiles, paper, food and possibly even save us from global warming and the oil crisis? Well, that’s what we were told when the government launched the National Hemp Initiative back in 1998. So where are all the fields of waving weed? Source How sad is the ANC, been researching hemp for the last 30 years, involved in law suits for stealing hemp genetics from Europe and still nothing to show. What asses. The picture below was from our first hemp trial in SA, planted around 2006, stolen, including the fencing. Since then, nothing much at all, except rotting hemp in warehouses and expensive processing machinery getting rusting. #anclegacy

Awesome video just been published by the Canna Club, education, acknowledgement and good times. Check the birds eye view of this farm. Quiet something. No dates for the Canna Cup are official, but looks like the last 3 days of July are the days to be in Plett at the Canna Club.

I always try and support local and would love to see a quality local rolling paper brand, there was one a year or so ago, I forget the name. Myrtle, one half of the DaggaCouple taught me a lesson, after discussing something once. She said along the lines of support yourself, then your home, then your neighbours, then your community, province, country etc. That lesson stuck in my head and is generally how I try and spend my time/money now. However on the other hand something that finally pissed me off recently is the following. I am a farmer and try my best to support local. I been buying homemade pepper pork pies for 4 years from the same friends, bulk at R25 per pie, plus salami, chops etc. We raise the pigs here and sell them to the butcher to be processed, so its a no brainer to support. Sitting at the pub, a guy asked me about the pies, prices etc, and said he buys bulk pies from a different brand just down the road for R16 per pie. It left a seriously bad taste in my mouth! Its just a lesson before you jump on this journey! Funny enough I am buying a pulled pork roll ( one of our pigs ) tomorrow from the same people. Pig on spit, yum.

Please edit if this is not allowed! The annual Bathurst Agricultural Show has been postponed two years straight. I met with the Agricultural society last week as they still want to run "mini shows", such as the horse show that ran last weekend. They are limited to 250 attendees at any given time and running a mini "informational" show at the end of May and would still like to include cannabis as category. The foot traffic is limited, there wont be many stall holders allowed, so I suggested I sell wall space e.g cannabis companies can rent wall space, place their brand on the wall. I have booked 10 of space already. I think its a huge opportunity for cannabis community to show what we got, so if anyone is interested in purchasing wall space ( the money goes to the societies non-profit ) please let me know. I am meeting with our local cannabis social club in a couple weeks to discuss entering live plants too, hopefully get atleast 10 plants on show, judged and prizes. If you have any ideas, cannabis companies that could be interested, please drop a line. The coverage is huge and hopefully with a bit of luck it will be digital. Cashflow is a little tight, and the first quote for digitizing was 300K!!! Its a big opportunity to get your brand into the farming community.

This is actually an interesting post made by Reeferman on FB about 30 minutes ago, from the perspective of a breeder. Same happened to me here, guys shredding nguni during the massive postal strike several years ago, resent orders twice sometimes, one guy recommending not to buy from nguni and had never bought from nguni himself!!!!! I actually still have a returned seed order, in the envelope, looking forward to opening it one day.

Thats where integrity street cred and past experiences come into play. I personally dont care what packaging my seeds come in. I have received seeds from around the world with alot of difficulty, but I trust the breeders I received from e.g Franco sent me Pure Kush seeds in banky, albeit they were branded bankys. 3 international breeders have used my pictures for their sale sites, no permission asked, absolute honour to me that they chose my pictures and shared them. About 2 months ago I was roadtrippin, went into a store, browsing around, saw a book, picked it up, spent some time flippin through pictures, bang one of my pictures featured. I never received a dime for the work, or even a free book as promised, but it was a good feeling seeing your hard work acknowledged in some way. To have a book publisher or breeder use my pictures, is an absolute honour, go for it. Copy left. Have you guys ever heard the coffee mug story, blah blah, its not the mug but he coffee itself, its in the beans brothers, not the packaging.

Hate can be an amazing energy when used correctly and channeled into the right direction. Oh yes best advice with trolls is to block and terminate all contact as quickly as possible. However I have a couple of trolls that one could classify as cyberstalking/bullying. Take JP Ras Victor, he has stalked me for years, 9th of Feb this year, he created a new FB profile, Oliver Visage, to send me messages. He has done this for about 5 years now. My reaction was block and notify friends in common of the fake profile. If you should listen and see some of the conversations, audio recordings you can probably realise how paranoid people can get from this type of behavior online, and worse when its targeted towards children. So as a lawyer, what kind of advice would you give to be people being stalked/bullied online? "According to a 2018 report by research company Ipsos Global Advisor, South Africa has the highest prevalence of cyberbullying out of 28 countries surveyed." "“cyberbullying is when someone repeatedly makes fun of another person online or repeatedly picks on another person through email or text message or when someone posts something online about another person that they don’t like.” Source

Amazing what South Africans are capable of, a paper published on CBD and breast cancer. The study was completed at Nelson Mandela Bay Uni. Had the fortunate opportunity to meet this researcher a couple years ago, Amy well done for getting your first published paper out.

Dem trolls are out, leading me closer to the honeypot. Check this email I just received from NORML HQ: Anyway, they can keep coming, I just hope they will show face oneday, probably not, cause that is what fakes do. If you questioning if NORML is functional, you speaking with the wrong people. On the ground, blazing some serious trails as we have done since 2008.

Hey, so been asked to assist a manufacturer to source some hemp hurd and thought of sharing this fairly easy product/resource to make. The hurd is the core of the cannabis plant, if you remove outer bark and fibre, you get to the hurd. Although a pain in the ass to remove all the bark, the old school method is done by retting the cannabis stems in water, after that it is easy just to pull it off. The manufacturer wants to use the hurd to make a sample of hemp bison boards. Since its harvest season, you might be wondering what to do with all your stems, if you have grown 1 Hectare of cannabis, you should be able to build a house with your stems and a bit of lime!! This is a nice article about the uses of hemp hurd by Hemporium.

Also saw this post from @Futurama Hydroponicswith some products not mentioned above: Treatments such as the EcoBuz Disease Pro Preventative Bio-Fungicide are also a safe and natural treatment for fungal disease and are safe to use during flowering.⁠ We have also just got in the Buddi range of pest control sprays!

Looking great, clean and fresh. Very easy to navigate. Now to market and get your new site out there!!

That is too funny. I dont always get the munchies, but when I do its scary. Unfortunately we dont usually keep junk food at home, or fast food. I did hound out local baker at 7pm one night for some more chocolate brownies. Our munchie food of choice is usually pancakes with whatever is available, cinnamon, sugar, honey always on the shelf.

I agree, and FB/IG is not for that either. But please dont remove the topic, consider closing it. 420%, but what is ironic, they not earning the money either. Not from my part, I usually block trolls quickly on all platforms. But when you are threatened, insulted, stalked you have to draw a line somewhere, and also share for the benefit of the greater cannabis community.

I dont really give two hoots, I would like a peaceful life though for myself and others. But my advice will hopefully help you guys focus on your goals and dreams, without interference from trouble. Damn, some of the best people I have met in life, best times, and some of the worst, but always fun, good laughs and memories with more to come. Going to an amazing hippie now, the real old hippie type. Literally building new roads with some shale she is sharing.

I can totally agree, but if you go through Evans posts aimed at me you will realise different. I am not offended, it takes alot to offend me. Actually asked him to make a better res one so I could use it as a profile picture. I agree about the younger generation, but you know like racism, and the difference between subtle racism. Insinuating on multiple posts, I am cooked, repeating do you know what the definition of insanity is, no proper input, just one liners, you get my drift. I still find the avatar humorous and thank you. And on a side note, Sometimes things need to be said and done, regardless. i cant share info on here, but I have taken a women out a very dangerous place/situation for her and family, only getting the end of the stick and being accused of multiple things in the long run. I have recently done something out of my character and made someone close come clean of his schnarfing habit after he tried screwing me, tears hugs and all that drivel, he is a compulsive liar but he has also stopped smoking too. I have stopped police beating a robber they could not catch and they wanted to arresst me for getting involved after catching him. I tried assisting a wankster with life after him begging multiple times, was fingered by his mother as a ring leader when he got to deep in his own shit. He eventually served time, went to rehab. Some lovely stories in life, and I think most are on to better paths today, except for the cops. My jobs in corporate I knicknamed myself cannon fodder, I used to resolve issues in companies, difficult customers, thieving customers , bad employees, hiring, training and firing, company take overs and buyouts, fighting Telscum detetives way before skype was invented. I was employed for my unique skills. Some of the guys I used to work with still call me Daddy today. I am laughing right now what I did last week, I sold something I have been holding onto for 18 years to a pastor, it was dirty. Damn mates that got married and settled could not keep thier dirty deeds at home, so who better to hand over the dirty deeds to. Sorry guys for my entire life I have sat with alot on my shoulders, alot of dark situations, thanks for listening/reading and letting me share. Personally I think you have to worry about the ones watching bad things happen around them and doing saying nothing. The quiet ones, the ones who follow like sheep flaming others, throwing subtle insults at others. Those are the real bad cray cray "influencers", and there are many snakes in the veld.

I can assure you they have been linked up to this thread. JP might be a bit slower, his last screenshot he sent me, I giggled, it was of my profile on FB and the top it said, only 20mb left. Cannabis community is very small, and most guys are online. IG seems to be the place now, but forums like this do get covered well. They will come like moths to a flame, and I am ready for the minions of followers who I will try their pot luck at me. Sadly not looking for responses, or clicks and views as some suggested. Its about how to handle trolls, tip in the above post. I am looking at sharing valid information about serious dicks in our community. And no, its not a simple keyboard flaming war as some have suggested, I have met both in person. Like JP and others, save the other faces and ego's, they have threatened to come to my farm and hang me from a tree, drop me to my knees and suck thier Khoi dank knobs. The shit seriously gets wicked, I sent them my GPS location, and been getting on with cannabiz life.

Ah Evan, you have tried with me for to long. PS I edited the title of the post from Pot Politrix to Petty Pot Politrix and trolling before you posted, so lets not go that route either. Here is the initial sentence: " Just thought of posting a topic about the pot politrix in the cannabis industry, and to all the wonderful angry trolls out there. Its really a sad affair and screws up what needs to be done. " I think it kinda gives you an idea of what the topic will be about. You are welcome to your own thoughts. I kind of think that you think that to. So you dont need to continue repeating yourself. You welcome to vet all the information I post, you will be wasting your time. Coming from a guy that spent his time graffiting my avatar!!! Thank you for doing the higher res one for me too. Not at all, I am just finishing things others started because it gets tiring. If you have not heard of Bad Rasta, you have not been around for long. Nothing wrong with that, but funny enough he has not been around for long either. My entire life I have stood up to bullies, you are not the first to call me a bully, but honestly you have tried with me, and that is cool to. Look I have started this topic up again, because everyone has been flamed online, and because I have experience with this, I am sharing information about trolls, and more importantly how to deal with it. I can assure it will help alot of people. And on top of that, GRG made my things public first, 3 flame mails Monday morning. JP Rasta over the years has put my number, physical address online too, made false accuations etc, and that was when weed was illegal. its not about getting back at him personally, its about sharing shady characters who speak badly about other canna companies. Watch and learn bud. Oh and the flaming has not started yet. I am setting myself up for serious issues by posting all of this, but I am more than willing to finally go this route, enough is enough. Funny enough my advice to a moderator last night dealing with a couple flamers online: "you are spoon feeding the troll. Rule no 1. Dont feed the troll."

Just think about that statement men? If we had left cannabis, freedom of speech to politicians, where the hell do you think we would be, still buying northern lights seeded zol on the side of the road from a sweaty balled dealers, so sorry dont leave politrix to politicians. I thank you for your concern about the pipe, but in total control of weed and liquor problem I have.

Probably cooked, Evan? You seem to like using that word with me. Most of my life I have been called crazy Chris, I prefer insane Chris, cause everyone is crazy now. And I can assure you I dont do the same shit again and again, I like keeping people guessing. Blazing my own trail.

Its total jealousy, ego, fear, I have analysed this for a long time. The flames usually start on a sunday morning, sometimes on cycles, full moon, change of season etc. Something usually sparks it, take for instance Garden Route Genetics, his mother passed him second hand information after me and him had a nice interaction about stilling liqueur, he came out guns blazing. Met someone else via IG who actually assisted him in the past and rates he is bi-polar and experienced similar outbursts. Funny enough GRG diagnosed me with bi polar ( his mom told me ) which I refuse to agree on, I just dont take idiots/trolls/flamers lightly, especially ones that live at home and not welcome there. Like I said, its big and is going to get bigger. Cyber bullying etc. I have seen it happen to other activists/breeders. It was the reason I got involved with JP Ras Victor, he threatened a female activist who was raided a couple days after his threats. I have also found JP when he went missing to and was given the 1K bounty for finding his whereabouts as cannabis community was worried about him.