Not quarantining new genetics!

My first and biggest rookie mistake was not letting my first Grow go to full term I chopped it at about 6 weeks and it for sure needed a lot more !!!!

Trying to remember after I’ve just finished these a few hours ago lol

Hey Scotty, damn good to see ya, Son

So, as I sit a bake on my answer, cuz there’s a lot. Is it all growing or smoking too?

Cuz I’m sure I got lists for both

Indoor grow, before I had the DGC… I needed to up pot a plant and used a bag of potting soil that was in the shed for a year. Before I knew it I had 3 plants infested with spider mites. Lesson learned, outside things stay outside.

Dang, I’m so baked I can’t work this thing

Growing 6 Foot tall plants in Veg!

Before 1st grow, “Vegas” when shit was scary.

20 or more for a seed “Scary”

Just got my new PhotoTron grow chamber lol more like a capsule lol google it

Just finished slapping it together on kitchen table ( which in this apartments design) was

next to the front door.

I was so stoned, playing with the little florescent lights, that when someone knocked at the door, I didn’t noticed the person standing behind me open the door. (Stupid B#$%#) lots of Cocaine girls in them days. Always around not all there.

turns out the cops show for noise complaint and she flings door open without looking.

Cop standing there just staring at my Tron.

Lights on, Instruction manual laying in there, The box it shipped in saying phototron and a big picture of it on the box. And to top it off,

The how to grow marijuana bible that wasn’t the title but Ed Rosenthal was the guy who wrote it.

Cop saw that, Stepped inside, looks at me and says, yeah right kid lol, we taking all this and keep the noise down.

I’m standing at Attention, Scared stiff, eyes bugging, saying Yes Sir -Yes Sir !!! Picturing the thought in my mind that if he comes in and looks around ( mind you. Back then. If you opened the door, your screwed.) Cuz now their inside. Vegas cops where very scary and corrupt.

Organize people still ran the town. Lots of folks still on the take. And on the back porch was my roommate hitting his water pipe sunning the new seedlings he had so proudly popped with 100% success.

I literally dropped it back in the box and handed it to him. He took it, grabbed the book off the table. He could see how scared I was. Just being out of navy is what saved me.

Lots of Yes sirs I guess saved me. He glared at me, said “Your Lucky” (which we both agreed)

I’m still “Yes Sir”. Then turns and leaves.

I close and deadbolt the door. Run to my roommate and seedlings to get them out of sight. Cop could see them leaving the building.

Almost pissed myself

Turning your light intensity down to work in your grow, only to forget to turn it back up when you leave.

It sucks cuz all my accidents were getting high related 😪 😕 man stuff was scary bad then. Now it’s 1988, before was 85 if I didn’t say ealier.

This was my first idea of a large grow. Room full

1000 watt hsp and mh. Power bill sucked, had to burn daytime due to heat signature at nighttime chopper running termals would spot us. Or at least that’s what they had us thinking.

OK, I’ve just moved into this Hugh apartment two story. Moved in with clones, filled 1 of the upstairs bedrooms with clones and 2000 watts of light. A chicken wire and black plastic with an attic exhaust fan, running 100 ft down the stairs and out the Is balcony sliding door.

Oldschool stuff diy before diy

On the Fly

Got to get by

Lol ( I’m just hoping Scotty reads it) lol

OK, weeks in and clones are 4ft tall in 10×10.

Yup, I has a girlfriend. Korean girl but I trusted. Now I’m not 100% sure on why they were there. I just always assumed it was the exgirlfriend. Cause she had lived there.She knew what was going on and after her bad breakup with me, I just figured it was her.

So like I said, 4 tall two 1000 watt Ballast just humming away. And an attic fan, blowing air, out the room. ( yeah I know now lol)

Suck not blow (the Exhaust fan)

Lots of noise, Vibration Freaking neighbors stick their ear to the wall. They could have heard it.I was too dumb to know butter or even consider it. So, could have been the neighbors who called. Anyway, the old room buddy is over getting baked after work. Girlfriend gone, place to go smoke after work. So we’re sitting there smoking out. Then there’s this loud knock at the door. I go look out thru peephole. I see maybe half dozen, Tanisha brown short sleeved cops standing at my front step. As I see them I look down and me mates left the deadbolt unlocked. I panicked, locked the deadbolt loaded it seemed to me. But yeah, it clicked. And just backed away as quite as I could. Made it upstairs, pulling the plugs on lights and fan. Tip toe back down the stairs walk over to Butters and say, guess what. “What?”

We are going to jail. “What?!!”

Yep, we are going to jail. Bottled of vodka, sitting there slaming the bottle like they did in the movies. What did I know?!! So we sitting and nothing happening. I picturing then kicking in the doors. Especially since they heard me lock it in the first place Yeah they tried the door after I locked it. Felt like hours went by. Go upstairs and start cutting plants. Stuffing all the into some medium sized moving boxes. Ended up with 2 boxes over 30 pounds each of veg plant with two week old buds on them. Boxed then up, went back and sat down. Waited for the worms to come lol

But nothing. Looked outside nothing. Worst walk in my life…

Carrying then two 30 lb boxes out to the car and dumb them in the 7/11 dumpster.

Putting young plants 🌱 under flower hoods turn all the way up. ( forgot to to turn down after last chop lol) burnt everything

Brings mold into my grow

4’x8′ ebb & flow tables. 6 or 8 inch woolrock cubes cant remember. Cubes came in cases with groups of them held together by a strip of paper. Turns out that paper, in flood table environment, makes black mold. It’s like sheetrock paper. Put the whole flower crop into white fuzzy buds. Made great golden hash.

On the fly

Grew a bunch of seeds in 5 gallon water jug with top cut off so it was like a lid. Hugh a 100 bulb on a cord thru the hole in the top. Worked great like a terrarium.

I used a Pearlite and Vermiculite 50/50 soiless mix and feed it with miracle grow food powder.

Smelled like the cat pissed in it. It was dank

Brother got busted by light escaping nail holes in the barn. It happens sometimes it’s just the stupid shit.

Grabing a hot hps bulb so the glove melts your skin and the bulb together sux.

Starting my grow journey with autoflowers and organics. “the easier way”……😝 Thank goodness for the DGC!

Putting a sulfur burner in your tent

Hmmm where to start. Over water/under water, over feed, improper maintenance keeping salts build up low, no ph, tap water, IPM, not knowing flower time from a bag seed(unknown genetics), harvest a little too early, poor environments etc. I think I hit most but made it to harvest…. My biggest schooling was the Learning process. Learn and grow from your mistakes and set a timer just in case you get too high 🤣.

Take better daily or regular notes with more specific details. 👌

Last winter I was pulling air from outside to cool my hps. It lasted about a week and the duct was completely full of water. Condensation is a real thing.

I’ve had a few! My first one was probably the same as a lot of folks’, I way over watered and drowned a few seedlings. Then I had no idea when to chop my first two plants and took them about two weeks early. They’d get you high but just barely.

Early on I was apparently hell-bent on going broke too. I thought I had the concept of fertigation down and was letting everything go to runoff, not realizing how much money I was pouring in my flowerbeds for a few weeks. The flower beds and strawberries looked PHENOMENAL this last spring though!

Not heeding the warnings that you have to wash and buffer cheap coco. Lost some killer genetics that way.

Most recently I ignored even the breeders admonitions to prune and heavily defoliate a couple of Trainwreck plants. They got huge! I got really lucky. No mildew or mold! There was an amazing yield, my best so far from two plants, but the problem arose during trim… Yeah fuck that! Can’t get lazy!!! It’s fire weed, but it was SO MUCH WORK for old hands and eyes. I’m pissed at myself for not having even more in the bucket and wasting all that energy on leaves. I ended up so frustrated that I bought a bowl trimmer even. The jury is still out on that thing.

The wife grabbed me a label maker because I leave Post Its on things that are quasi-critical, and that has been an improvement as well.

I’m sure I’ll make a few bonehead moves in the future but I’ve had less since journaling my grows and using label reminders.

Getting spider mites at the end of my very first grow because I kept over watering.

Teaming up with the wrong team because you “just really wanna grow”

over watering!!!!!

Being too proud to ask or take advice.