In the morning, Titan woke up to a Vella's wing slapping him in the face when she rolled over. He rubbed his eyes and got out of bed.
After getting dressed, he found Kink in his Office.
"Last night is kind of a blur" Kink said.
Titan sat down in front of him, "Last night, you seemed like you wanted to tell me something but before you had the chance, you passed out. Lisetya had carry you back to your room."
"I figured as much. That's not a problem, since I'll be cooperating with you, you have to be informed of some things. Firstly, you must sign this bloodoath contract. You will not discuss this with outsiders freely." Kink was being cautious, if things got out of hand, he could always walk away from the agreement but disclosure was a big deal.
"As long as it's both ways, I don't have much of a problem with it." Titan held out his hand and pricked his finger. A glob of his blood fell to the contract.
Kink did the same, once the contract was completed, he stored it away. "Now that that's done, I have something to show you."
Kink pulled out a random seed, it was a low level spirit grass seed. Setting in onto the desk, he focused his energies and poured them over the see.
The seed cracked and separated and a small green feeler spread out, roots developed and the stalk began to raise at a rapid pace. Within moments, the grass was fully matured and had even gone to seed itself.
"Holy Shit." Titan's jaw dropped, "Can you do this with any seed?"
"How else do you think I've been keeping my garden's so well stocked? Do you think I send people out hunting for rare ten thousand year old herbs? To even consider that I would find so many, let alone enough of them to trade away and sell away within a single lifetime would be foolish, No.. I grew all of these on my own." Kink tapped his finger on to the Desk. "I'm curious to see what you're objectives are, you said you wanted to prefect your strain but what does that actually mean?"
Titan sucked in some air, he was still coming to terms with what he had just seen but he had explaining of his own to do, "I need to grow many generations and selectively breed them for the next planting. Ten generations is enough to make a relatively stable line but now that I've seen what you're capable of.. I think ten generations might be fairly light in comparison to what is possible."
"Let's go upstairs and see what happens." Kink stood up, "Come with me."
Titan grabbed his hat and stood up, "Okay."
As they were talking up the stairs, Titan took a dab and blew it into the stairwell. "This is a nice place, I haven't gotten a tour yet but I hear good things."
"Funny, you shouldn't hear anything about the interior of Kinky Tower, I'll have to investigate that later. Anyway, we're here." Kink opened a door, there wasn't a whole lot of light inside the room but the room was larger than a big box store.
At one end, a patch of spirit grasses grew and most of the area was completely clear, only soil filled the space.
"Hand sow your first generation. I'll get them entirely matured and then when you're ready, we can start on the second one." Kink sort of understood what Titan wanted but selecting out Cannabis plants was not something he understood fully. He would have to watch and learn as he went.
"Now? Okay." Titan pulled out a bucket that looked like it had been sealed.
"That's a lot of seeds." Kink laughed lightly.
"I'm not planting them all, but I wouldn't be opposed to that either." Titan unsealed it and took out a fist full of seeds. His roots spread out and ever meter, he put down another seed.
"I don't need them to be Monstrous. If they grow to 1 meter squared, they can easily produce enough seeds to provide the next generation in full. Can you control the rate of growth? If Males appear, I'd like to get them the moment that they are noticed. We'll have to select a good male as well. Do you have a formation to keep the pollen isolated? If the males pollinate when we're working, the results will be mixed." Titan finished planting, he had laid down almost a hundred plants while he was speaking.
"Umm.. To tell you the truth, I've never tried to stop. Usually, I just allow the plant to get to maturity." Kink rubbed his hands together and threw his chains out into the soil.
"Your chains, I like them better than my roots." Titan complimented Kink's abilities but Kink didn't say anything. 'Umm.. okay then.'
Slowly, all the plants started to come up from the ground. It was nearly a 100% germination and from their leaflet size and color, the soil was very fertile.
Kink saw the plants start to unravel and spread out but Titan put up both hands and motioned for him to stop. "What is it?"
"Remember, I told you, I have to take out the males." Titan ran into the space and started putting the males into storage quickly. It took a few minutes but not much longer. When he was done, he gave kink the signal to continue and rushed out of the way.
The plants were growing rather quickly and Titan didn't want to be in the way. "When the leaves are about a foot away from the other plants, that should be large enough to stop."
"What do you have to do after that?" Kink looked bored.
"I have to pollinate and impregnate them." Titan pulled out a paint brush and a Jar.
Kink's disappointment grew, "Oh.. that looks like it's going to take time."
"Not really but yes. I have to find the plants I want to use as a building block for the next generation. If we were still on earth, I could use a gas chromatography to help pick out more potent strains but as it is now, It's mostly guess work based on Ideal growing patterns. Look." Titan pointed at the leaflet size of one of the larger females. "This plant has really big fan leaves but it's shorter than the rest. And this one over here." He grabbed one of the branches from the tallest plant in the field. "This one is really tall, it had a huge internodal length, the branches are like a foot apart. That's too far."
"What's Ideal?" Kink threw the question out but he knew very little about growing Marijuana.
"Internodal length should be about 4 inches apart. The plant should be tear drop shaped because it grew proportionally, then up. The wider the trunk, the better. Think of it like a superhighway for nutrient, oh, and if you notice a plant that's turning purple before it flowers.. tell me." Titan walked around the rows and kept looking for the best choice.
"When you've made your decisions, what then?" Kink shook his head in confusion, he wasn't use to waiting around so much within the gardens. Most of the time, he just got what he needed and left.
"When I find what I want, we get rid of the rest and fertilize it. Then, we make seeds and start again." Titan kept eyeballing the plants to look for good traits.
Eventually, Titan found what he was looking for. One of the plants had more than a third of it's leaves and branches turning a vivid purple. Beside it was another that was turning orange and white. "What's up with the soil? I think something's wrong in this spot."
"Nothing should be wrong with the soil." Kink felt offended at the accusation but he had to check for himself. He threw his chains into the soil and rummaged around gently. "I didn't find anything in the soil, you're mistaken."
"That's weird then." Titan flushed around the room and removed the other plants from the garden, storing them away into his ring. "Don't worry about it. I'll mark this spot and we can avoid using it till we figure it out. Now it's time to impregnate them."
'Could you not sound like a perv when talking about plants?' Kink wanted to say something but he held off. Most of the time, he felt like his own comments came off as innuendo.
Titan opened his jar of pollen and stabbed the paintbrush in. He poked the dry paintbrush against the buds that had developed and slowly worked his way around the plant. It took nearly ten minutes to get each and every one of the covered. "Okay, I'm done. Now all you have to do is get it to grow again."
"No problem." Kink sighed, it was a lot more work than he thought and unfortunately, he was the one who had to do most of the labor. Still, it was something he had agreed to. Sinking his chains into the soil directly around the mother plants, Kink poured his energy in and they flourished into magnificence.
Colas grew like cat tails and branches began to weight down. The Center Cola, the Bud at the top of the plant, was larger than Kink's arm. "I think this is the biggest weed plant I've ever even heard of, don't they usually max out at twelve feet or so?"
"Don't call it weed. Honey would be pissed to hear it." Titan threw Kink a reminder.
"Ah.. you're not wrong, I will try." Kink pulled his chains back. "What's next?"
"Harvest seeds, sort them and start again. Repeat till satisfied." Titan gestured like he didn't have all the answers but he had just given them. It was no understatement and there was no omission in his words, the process usually took months to complete and even though they had gone through most of the tedious parts, there were still many things to be done before they started again.
"That easy huh?" Kink stretched, "Well, let me know when you're ready." A lawn chair made out of grasses appeared and he sat down to wait.