The Oregonian has created a new strain of marijuana

By Teresa Mahoney

I write this entry the morning after a long night of harvesting and wet-trimming our two indoor marijuana plants. My socks in the hamper have cannabis leaves stuck to the bottoms and peel off like tape. My jacket and camera straps still reek of pot.

So, how did harvest go?

Jeremy Plumb, commercial pot grower and my growing mentor, hadn't seen the indoor kiddos for over a month, except for photos I'd been texting him, incessantly asking, "Are they done yet?"

He originally anticipated it would take around eight weeks for the plants to reach full maturity under a 12/12 light cycle – which means 12 hours of sun and 12 hours of uninterrupted darkness during a cannabis plant's flowering period.

But, it actually took closer to 12 weeks because the light intensity just wasn't as strong as it could've been, even though we used a T-5 and...

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