PLUS: A NEW CHANCE TO WIN 2000 POINTS WITH YOUR PICTURE

A very good weekend to all of you, and especially to our Californian customers. We have been following the run-up to the Proposition 19 vote with great interest from here... commiserations to all of you who voted for it. We know it sucks, but here's something to cheer you up: On November 19, use coupon code PROP19 to get 19% off EVERYTHING!*.

Also in this edition, we're treating you to another coupon code on Royal Flush seeds, and then there's a new contest, a star review, and new canna-funnies! See you in December, and enjoy!

* This offer is only valid on November 19, Central European Time. It cannot be combined with other discounts or specials.

HIDDEN TREASURES FROM OUR SEED CATALOGUE

With so many mouth-watering strains to choose from, it can be hard to pick the right one. It's easy to go for the strain with the best-known name or the most reviews, but this may mean you miss out on hidden gems!

Hidden gems? Absolutely! We stand behind our strains 100% - all of them. That is why we're inviting you to try some of the lesser-known pearls from the Nirvana Treasury - trust us, you won't be disappointed!

This month, we recommend one of our finest hidden treasures, Royal Flush. This is actually one of our personal go-to strains. Its overpowering aroma of lemon zest is just to die for! We've got a small sample off of the plant on the right sitting in the Nirvana HQ offices, and it's damn hard not to open the jar and take a good sniff every time we walk past. With a happy, warm and energetic high, this is the perfect party strain.

So here's the deal. Coupon code HIDDEN gives you a 10% discount on Royal Flush. BUT - it gets much, much better - our tiered pricing system is still applicable as well! So if you order one pack of feminized Royal Flush seeds, great, you get a cool 10% off. Order, say, 5 packs of regular Royal Flush, however, and watch that discount stack up!!

Yep, this special deal IS valid in combination with other offers. You can find details on our tiered pricing system in the Knowledge Base.

So what are you waiting for? Log into your Nirvana Shop account and order some seeds NOW!! The discount is applied to ALL Royal Flush seeds you have in your cart (feminized as well as regular).

Customer review excerpt:
Miraculous high - happy, not strong, but if you smoke more, it's truely psychedelic, sparkling clear and waves of emotion underneath! What a high!

Tips on how to win

1. Take clear and appealing photos. We prefer pictures of plants that are almost ready to harvest, and that clearly show the flowers.

2. Work that macro button! A nice close-up glamour shot really gets us going.

3. Add some information to the Description field. E.g. how old is the plant, when are you going to harvest, etc. This may be helpful to other growers as well!

4. Upload Nirvana PPP pics only, no other strains!

5. Give your plant a little TLC before you start - can't hurt!

Failing to tag your picture properly or adding irrelevant material to the Contest category will result in disqualification!! You can tag pictures when you upload them by adding words to the field marked 'tags'. The winner of the contest will be chosen by Nirvana. The contest closes on 30 November, midnight CET.

NOVEMBER CONTEST

PPP PHOTOS WANTED!

Nope, we haven't developed a stutter overnight - we just want your P P P P-hotos! Our delightful Pure Power Plant is strong, high-yielding and easy to clone. Will you be the one to take a winning picture of this awesome strain? Join our Newsletter Contest now!

Have you grown PPP in the past, and taken pictures? Or is one of these girls currently gracing your growroom or garden? Take a snapshot for your chance to earn 2000 points!

Also, here's a tip: we're planning to do more contests in the future, so to be safe, better start taking pics of everything, if you're not doing so already!

NEW CONTEST: Share your pictures of PPP (feminised or regular)

Contest rules
To win, you MUST adhere to the following rules:

1. Add a photo of PPP to the Newsletter Contest category.

2. Tag the picture with the strain name, in this case "PPP".

Good luck and have fun!

CANNA-FUNNIES: 10 SURE SIGNS YOU'RE SEVERELY STONED

1. You've just started eating the large triple pepperoni pizza you ordered when all of a sudden the realisation hits you: ME HUNGRY! So you go to the kitchen and make yourself a sandwich.

2. You firmly believe you have been caught in some weird-ass X-files-style time warp, because the past five hours went by in exactly nine minutes!

3. The six-hour re-run marathon of "The life of the common garden snail" is without doubt the most fascinating thing you have EVER seen in your entire life.

4. You've decided that "trumpet" is the funniest word in the history of language. You know this for a fact, because you've been saying "trumpet" for the past 30 minutes and nearly pissing yourself with hysterics every single time.

5. You've discovered a mouth-wateringly scrumptious new dish! And while at the time, your gourmet concoction of smoked salmon, re-fried beans, maple syrup, capers and deep-fried Mars bars spread on wholegrain toast and sprinkled with Kool-Aid powder looked finger-licking good, the next day you find that what remains on the plate closely resembles the result of nuclear holocaust.

6. You invent a toaster-cum-stapler to solve the utterly aggravating issue of runny cheese dripping out of your grilled cheese sandwich. Then you decide you can't be arsed to actually build one, and would much rather just sit and pick the hairy, gritty strings of cheese off of the carpet and eat them.

7. You've written the last two movements of Schubert's unfinished symphony, but in colours instead of notes! It is a stunning piece of heartbreaking poignance... if only you could remember it.

8. In the throes of a attack of the gigglies, you become convinced that you can control your hysterics by breathing slowly and deeply. While this seems to work from your perspective, all your friends see is you wheezing and cackling like a deranged asthmatic on crack.

9. You decide to drink two litres of "herbal tea" and then order some personalised business cards. You proudly send round your design to your buddies. One of them decides to prank you, and switches two digits of your phone number around. In your dismay, you frantically start rattling off an e-mail to the printer to correct the mistake. Then your friend decides to come clean and show you what he did.... but after initial relief, you discover that you *also* switched two digits by accident originally!*

10. An utterly brilliant idea has just struck you that is sure to win you a Nobel prize at the very least, and possibly even solve all problems that ever existed in the history of the world. Quickly, you grab a pen and paper to jot it down. The next morning, however, you'll find that what you have actually written down is "alien tuna bunker!!!".

* Which just goes to show that even Nirvana Team members make mistakes. And that you should only ever order online from Nirvana Shop when baked! :-)

STAR REVIEW: WHITE RHINO FEMINISED

This was such a great grow. My first plant only took exactly 70 days. I used a 1 gallon pot with a single 400w HPS light that the plant shared with 3 other plants. I vegged for 13 days with 4' flouros and flowered for 8 weeks with the HPS. Total weight wet weight was 8.64 oz with stems still on, and total dry weight was after stems removed a solid and exact 3.00 oz. I cant wait to see what kind of weight i can get with a 3 gallon pot and 30-45 days of veg and not sharing the 400w HPS with any other plants.

The high is sensational. Deffenatly a two hit and quit plant. The high has different levels. Starts out with a nice couchlock, then comes on a steady and heavy head high. When you think thats all it has to give, the couchlock comes back even stronger. The high just gets stronger and stronger. People that i have smoked up with this stuff, i have to warn them not to smoke more than two hits. The ones that dint heed my warning end up wishing they had, because the high is very intense.

Also thats not all, the pain killing qualities are radical. First time in years ive been pain free, and the painkilling doesnt end when the high does, even though the high stays strong for over 4 hours before it seems to diminish at all. I recommend this plant to anyone looking for treatment of pain, depression, anxiety and sleeping disorders. I suffer from all of these things and they seem to disappear and stay away even after i wake up the next day. waking up feeling relaxed and refreshed.

The plant has a pleasant odor, much like sweet lemon grass and the smell was hardly noticable unless your right on top of the plant. Tastes great. has a very indica taste and smell when being smoked. the only issue i had with this plant was that its smoke is very harsh, but i knew that was going to be the case from reading reviews.

The genetics were awsome and the plant was very hardy. most people say its a lil bit of a harder strain to grow for begginers, but i found that it wasnt hard at all even though this wasnt my first grow. i think it should be the training standard for beginners. Again, i cant stress enough how well a job nirvana has done to breed an excelent plant from white rhino, and how much of a yield this plant produces. Do yourself a favor, and try this plant out. You will thank yourself after you try it. ---Joshua

Thanks for your wonderful in-depth review, Joshua! We hope it will inspire our readers to try their hand at reviewing too.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

We've been really busy in the past month to work on a variety of surprises and specials for you. In order to be able to help you more quickly, Alice will have assistance in the customer service department on a more regular basis. We needn't sing Alice's praises to those who've had the pleasure of dealing with her before, but we hope that all who are helped by Samuel or Charlie will feel treated just as well.

We're still doing our best to further improve our quality control process and making sure to send you only the highest quality of cannabis seeds possible. On a sad note, we've had to adjust the amount of points that can be earned on Weedportal Share. However, we've been working in secret to make this part of our portal service a lot more exciting, and hope to be able to unveil the improved version soon! All in all, as the year slowly draws to an end, we're working harder than ever to enter the new year on a HIGH note! Hope to see you again next month, when our December edition is sure to contain many delights and surprises!

Peace,
The Nirvana Team