Hey, welcome back comrade, congrats on the pHD!

A grab bag of things I'm knowledgeable about and a couple fun tidbits about them:

Growing marijuana:

• cannabis plants are annuals, so they die after they flower
• they're either autoflowering varieties (start producing buds after a set period of time) or photoperiod (start producing buds once they start getting over a certain amount of uninterrupted darkness per day, simulating autumn)
• they can be male or female - female plants produce flowers (buds) while male plants produce pollen
• they can also trans their genders - female plants can naturally start growing pollen sacs, usually in response to stress, and will attempt to self-pollinate
• female plants can be induced to develop pollen sacs by applying colloidal silver to the nodes where the reproductive organs (buds/pollen sacs) grow - this is often done for breeding purposes and the pollen from a female plant produces feminized seeds (guaranteed to be female) which is desirable because female plants are the only ones that get you high
• speaking of getting high, the actual structure on the plant that contains psychoactive compounds are the little hair-like structures that grow on the buds and the surrounding leaves, these are called trichomes
• trichomes are used to determine when the plant should be harvested — they start clear, then become cloudy (peak THCA concentration) and then turn amber (increasing CBDA concentration). You want to harvest when they're a mix of cloudy and amber, though the ratio is a personal preference (more amber gives a more couchlocky high)

I can also talk your ear off about software infrastructure, database replication, queer readings of Taylor Swift songs, ADHD, lesbian representation in television over the last few decades, composting, and cooking, but my adderall just kicked in so I'm gonna not preemptively do that or I'll be here all day lol