So I know religion is touchy but I hope no one is offended.
I gave my hubby a high-dea to look in the Bible for growing tips... He was so blitzed he stared looking. He got sad when it was all alcohol references... So, being an ex Catholic school girl I searched my mind. I remembered Luke 5:37-39 (quoted below) talked about aging of wine. I gave it to Mr. Universe in terms of marijuana high-dealology
Text (it's not a Catholic translation, but I'm not Catholic anymore. My father made it abundantly clear when I married the mister that I was now a "filthy protestant"):
“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the new wine would burst the wineskins, spilling the wine and ruining the skins. New wine must be stored in new wineskins. But no one who drinks the old wine seems to want the new wine. ‘The old is just fine,’ they say.”
Luke 5:37-39 NLT
I explained it as this;
No one mixes a new harvest with an old harvest because the hydration levels and curing age of the crops are not the same. The new crop might end up popping open the jars, contaminating supplies, destabilizing the humidity, or worse, causing both the new and old crop to be ruined. The new crop should be placed in clean jars for proper curing and aromatic development because the old, unclean jars will exchange the last crop's smell on to the newly harvested bud. Finally, the people who smoke their old "go to" bud (like me) won't get to experience the joy of a new aroma/flavor/high/etc from the newly cured bud because they don't have to, nor want to, try something else. Eventually, those stuck in their ways (me and my hubby before I started autos) will be forced to try a new strain only when the old disappear.
Put it another way... No one will accept marijuana until the alcoholic, just say no and anti-pot generations are all forced to see marijuana for its true positive effects. And, because of big alcohol and big tobacco, that won't trully happen until a lot of us are dead.
That being said... it's a high-dea and one that's a bit touchy, but this is the live chat thread and I wanted to talk. Plus it might be a way to use some ancient knowledge to help remind me that I need to use different containers for the different strains I'm growing. Plus, since many in my family believe wine was just sparkling grape juice without alcohol, I'll also remember to relax when they doesn't understand marijuana... They (my family) don't believe me that ancient manuscripts in Hebrew, Latin and Greek use (or describe) the word "wine" to mean the intoxicating adult drink. They argue the words stand for a glass of plain old, "family friendly", grape juice.
Here's the most common words for wine in Hebrew, Latin and Greek along with their translations, definitions and transliterations as needed.
Hebrew transliteration: yayin (meaning to boil/bubble up or to age/ferment a fruit or veggie (usually grapes to wine). It Can be applied roughly to curing process during the curing phase as the curing process loosely resemble an ancient fermentation process used in wine making)
Latin:vīnum Or merum (meaning fermented grape beverage or unadulterated, high proof intoxicant respectively. Merum, extremely (and I mean extremely) loosely can be argued to be a substitute word for any intoxicant. The argument is that the writers were making the books easy to reference generations later and/or alcohol at the time included multiple intoxicants (much in the same way absinth is brewed with wormwood, some argue cannabis was included as a flavor enhancer and potentiator in some ancient wines))
Greek: oinos (fermented grape drink. Definitely means wine, but again the flimsy and unproved argument is that the word oinos may be a slang term for any intoxicant including alcohol or liquid cannabis)
I gave my hubby a high-dea to look in the Bible for growing tips... He was so blitzed he stared looking. He got sad when it was all alcohol references... So, being an ex Catholic school girl I searched my mind. I remembered Luke 5:37-39 (quoted below) talked about aging of wine. I gave it to Mr. Universe in terms of marijuana high-dealology
Text (it's not a Catholic translation, but I'm not Catholic anymore. My father made it abundantly clear when I married the mister that I was now a "filthy protestant"):
“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the new wine would burst the wineskins, spilling the wine and ruining the skins. New wine must be stored in new wineskins. But no one who drinks the old wine seems to want the new wine. ‘The old is just fine,’ they say.”
Luke 5:37-39 NLT
I explained it as this;
No one mixes a new harvest with an old harvest because the hydration levels and curing age of the crops are not the same. The new crop might end up popping open the jars, contaminating supplies, destabilizing the humidity, or worse, causing both the new and old crop to be ruined. The new crop should be placed in clean jars for proper curing and aromatic development because the old, unclean jars will exchange the last crop's smell on to the newly harvested bud. Finally, the people who smoke their old "go to" bud (like me) won't get to experience the joy of a new aroma/flavor/high/etc from the newly cured bud because they don't have to, nor want to, try something else. Eventually, those stuck in their ways (me and my hubby before I started autos) will be forced to try a new strain only when the old disappear.
Put it another way... No one will accept marijuana until the alcoholic, just say no and anti-pot generations are all forced to see marijuana for its true positive effects. And, because of big alcohol and big tobacco, that won't trully happen until a lot of us are dead.
That being said... it's a high-dea and one that's a bit touchy, but this is the live chat thread and I wanted to talk. Plus it might be a way to use some ancient knowledge to help remind me that I need to use different containers for the different strains I'm growing. Plus, since many in my family believe wine was just sparkling grape juice without alcohol, I'll also remember to relax when they doesn't understand marijuana... They (my family) don't believe me that ancient manuscripts in Hebrew, Latin and Greek use (or describe) the word "wine" to mean the intoxicating adult drink. They argue the words stand for a glass of plain old, "family friendly", grape juice.
Here's the most common words for wine in Hebrew, Latin and Greek along with their translations, definitions and transliterations as needed.
Hebrew transliteration: yayin (meaning to boil/bubble up or to age/ferment a fruit or veggie (usually grapes to wine). It Can be applied roughly to curing process during the curing phase as the curing process loosely resemble an ancient fermentation process used in wine making)
Latin:vīnum Or merum (meaning fermented grape beverage or unadulterated, high proof intoxicant respectively. Merum, extremely (and I mean extremely) loosely can be argued to be a substitute word for any intoxicant. The argument is that the writers were making the books easy to reference generations later and/or alcohol at the time included multiple intoxicants (much in the same way absinth is brewed with wormwood, some argue cannabis was included as a flavor enhancer and potentiator in some ancient wines))
Greek: oinos (fermented grape drink. Definitely means wine, but again the flimsy and unproved argument is that the word oinos may be a slang term for any intoxicant including alcohol or liquid cannabis)
