The Almighty Spliff was my last full essay on weed. That does not mean I stopped paying attention. I have hella notes on strains, but with everything moving across the website, I needed a more streamlined way to communicate what I am observing.
Smoke Field Notes is that vessel. I am no longer interested in simply pumping individual strains through a capitalist system. Some notes will center a strain when it earns the return. Others will follow terpene constellations: chemotype combinations, terpene tings, blending relationships, and what becomes visible through the index. I continue to be amazed by how fully I can meet the needs of my body and my differently abled mind now that I understand terpenes more deeply and have built a whole-plant relationship. Pluto is where that current re-enters.
On Da Left Hand Side of Mushrooms & Roses explores the coexistence of tenderness and rot, grief and bloom.
This terrain honors the cycles of composting that make beauty possible—where what falls away feeds what grows.
A study in living with softness while staying rooted in what is real.
Cannabis + Fungi Tings
✺ ≋ Pluto — Load-Bearing Orbit — Smoke Field Note
Pluto by Pro Gro begins this return to Smoke Field Notes. Gelato 33 × 1991 Triangle Kush, with a reported terpene profile of myrcene, limonene, and β-caryophyllene, becomes a load-bearing orbit after high-stress days: the static clears, the edge curves, and my body finds enough ground to remain present. Still / Still moves toward Deep / Deep.
A strain name tells me what to call the plant. Its chemotype begins to show me what I may be meeting. In Pluto, the reported constellation of myrcene, limonene, and β-caryophyllene matters in relationship; the Six Waters reads how that relationship actually moves through my body.
Pluto arrived across three portals during the same stretch in which I was learning about load-bearing capacity. Mycelial Sankofa lets me read that repetition as relationship without flattening sky, sound, and plant into the same ting. Each one asks the body a version of the same question: what can I hold, and what am I finally able to put down?
A chemotype works like rhythm—not a solo. In Pluto’s reported profile, myrcene, limonene, and β-caryophyllene move as a constellation. The Six Waters reads the pattern that formed with my body: static easing, the edge curving, and Still / Still moving toward Deep / Deep.
Still / Still is not absence or numbness. It is the point where the static quiets enough for the body to settle. With Pluto, that stillness opens toward Deep / Deep: fuller grounding, less bracing, and more capacity for presence.
Limonene does not operate alone or guarantee stimulation. Within Pluto’s reported myrcene–limonene–β-caryophyllene constellation, I experience it as a little space around the mind while the body continues moving toward ground.
A return is data. One encounter offers an impression; repetition reveals a relationship. Mycelial Sankofa lets me notice that Pluto repeatedly meets high stress with quieter static, bodily grounding, and more room to remain present.
I read β-caryophyllene as a structural part of Pluto’s chemotype. In relationship with myrcene and limonene, it helps the experience feel contained: the edge curves, but the mind does not disappear.
These waters are not potency levels or permanent strain categories. They name the states that emerge through relationship between plant, chemotype, body, dose, and context. Pluto enters my body through Still / Still and settles toward Deep / Deep.
A terpene list cannot assign a water by itself. The chemotype offers a pattern; the body reveals its current. The Six Waters begins with what actually happened.
The Watershed asks more than “What does this strain do?” It asks what relationship becomes possible among plant, body, stress, memory, and environment. With Pluto, support does not mean carrying more forever. It means becoming able to set some weight down.
I read myrcene as Pluto’s bodyward current—the pull toward heavier grounding and Deep / Deep. Limonene leaves a little space around the mind, while β-caryophyllene helps hold the experience together.
“End-of-day” is a field coordinate, not a universal label for the strain. After sustained anxiety management, Pluto gives me enough mental space and bodily ground to transition from carrying the day into rest, connection, and presence.
An isolated formation of pale-violet stones divided by a winding ultramarine river with white, branching edges.
Pluto is brought to you by Load-Bearing Orbit™—for when capacity needs a release valve. Clears the static. Curves the edge. Still / Still → Deep / Deep.
Comments