TFTC: The Experiment

Welcome one and all to this evenings episode of "TFTC: The Experiment" brought to you by Zamnesia and Plagron, my friends in the closet, them and the plants. We are coming to a close of this season soon, only three episodes remain, we hope you have enjoyed the show so far... no idea why you would, but if you don't I don't keep my job. On with the show shall we? {--💩===👻---💀===👽---[:(⚪⬜🔺) oO===Oo (🔺⬜⚪):]---👽===💀---👻===💩---} The plants were maturing, after talking to the botanist some more they recommended feeding them water only as the plants are soon ready to cut down. They are magnificent, sometimes I just sit there and look at the plants, nothing on my mind just watching the leaves lightly flutter in the artificial wind. In the camp the tensions were still high, people were beginning to split into separate camps within the community, tribalism had begun and so it would be me to take care of the problem. After looking through my notes and work that I had done on the idea for governing, I rushed the plans and thought there was a solution. A society is an organic function based on the necessity which fuels all evolution, it behaves much like nature does, it structures and restructures when it becomes broken, society evolves as more challenges get put in its place, people yearn for the comfort and safety that society and rules bring. Within this society it will be important to have rules based on consensus (a spoken or unspoken agreement based on a common set of rules and actions). Most ancient tribal peoples had a democratic way of governing as the chief was generally the chief for as long as his people wanted him to be, there were no real levers of control, no standing armies and no police, so when the people spoke, the chief listened. There was once a chief in ancient times, it was said that he had left the tribe to attend a meeting of local chiefs and would be gone for a few weeks, upon returning the people decided to have a celebration and slaughtered a cow to cater the event. During the celebration the chief stood and thanked the people for the welcome home, but “why slaughter a cow when a few chickens would suffice”. The next day his brother was the new Chief and the previous chief earned the nickname “the chicken chief”. Here we will have no chief, just a council. The council will be made up of nine people, three from each shape, the three from each shape shall be split up into three groups, each group of three will have one representative from each of the tribes. Each topic will be given to each group to discuss and then share their thoughts, using this most decisions will be made with a solid form of agreement from each of the three parties, and by splitting them up it will help remove too much of the division. Now, to just present this to the people. Guess I should fashion some sort of celebration or gathering, maybe go with a big fire gathering. The entire week was then spent convincing people to sign up to the council, most people just saw this as being something else that they would have to do on top of all the other things that they had to be doing around the compound. My main winning argument however was that one day someone is going to steal something, make a weapon, fight and possibly kill one another. In effect, if you were to address the issues or use conflict resolution before any arrival, then it is less likely that it will escalate into something catastrophic. This argument also did not work, it was the botanist who was listening in to my conversation, he piped up and said “they will give you weed when it is ready if you go.” All of a sudden everyone wanted to come to the gathering and everyone wanted on the council. We were going to meet, the date was set at the start of the next week, three delegates from Circle, Triangle and Square had been chosen, coming to nine in total. The first discussion was to address the conflict the previous week and create a constitution. Yep, funny little word that people used to quote a lot, nearly every country in the old world had one, a standard set of rights that every person no matter who, were entitled to as part of that country. In this case, we would be deciding the constitution of humanity. This made me think whether the original humans of earth ever had a meeting like this, where they sat down and discussed rules. Or whether they just felt the rules would never need to be made as the earth was full of other things to fear, an endless terrifying adventure of survival. The problem was, people eventually looked over the fence at what their neighbour had and thought “yeah, I’ll sharpen this stick up nice and pointy, stab them in the throat and have his stuff”. Some might think that isn’t what happened as people have common sense, but the sense you speak of is not “common”, it is in fact no more or less than mental programming, your hardware is your genetics, the software is mostly what you experience, some genetics can and will have an influence on who you become: if your genetics give you certain attributes then you will of course be inclined to act that way, but every human is programmed by their environment to think a certain way, it does not take too much for one person's programming to think “yeah, why not, it is stabby time.” These plants are fascinating, the colours, the leaves, the need to create an even canopy, yet a few branches always stand up a little taller. Much of my ideas for the government came from old democracy and from the plant, they naturally try to create a hierarchy, much of this is based off of the need for resources, however, if you give the plant equal exposure opportunities to light and resources, then yes, some will still fall behind, yes you will still take care of those branches, but, the plant does better for it. The plants, if left alone would grow much taller, but it would form a hierarchy, with only the top bud getting to the loftiest heights, while the rest just make do with what they can get. If you create a flatter canopy the entire plant will benefit, some will still be stronger, but over all the plant will produce more. {--💩===👻---💀===👽---[:(⚪⬜🔺) oO===Oo (🔺⬜⚪):]---👽===💀---👻===💩---} Thank you for tuning in this week, we have been enjoying the process and the story, well the last part is a lie, yes, but hey it is what we make it (shit). Thank you again to Plagron and Zamnesia, this was a fun grow and we are learning a lot. Until next week, keep being nasty. {--💩===👻---💀===👽---[:(⚪⬜🔺) oO===Oo (🔺⬜⚪):]---👽===💀---👻===💩---} Notes: Yeah things have been kinda shitty personally. Life happens and you deal with it. Not going to lie, the plants are looking amazing, they have done so well and I am learning so much. QUESTION TIME: This has nothing to do with this grow, just interested who is willing to share their opinions on grow techniques. Currently in the background I am working on my autos, one issue that I am finding is that they are starting slowly, much like sprinting the 100m, if you start shit you finish shit. So give me your opinions on my thoughts. 1. I am using Plagron soil but using biobizz nutrients, would this be bad? 2. I am germinating in those little pod things, but those are quite tough material and might strangle early progress, should I just try direct into soil? 3. Do I just need bigger lights? Will be finding out if this is the case when I get the 100w ts600 from the small cupboard and adding it to the 150w ts1000 after the rando plant is harvested. Give me your thoughts, I am very bad at asking for help, there are many memories of me being ignored or shouted at for asking when I was younger, so help a brother out and give me some advice, love you folks!