It took to while to find this place. I ended up at real grow labs first and then dude grows site.

I’m really glad I did though.

I’d like to tell you all a bit about myself, I’m an undiagnosed autistic person that has been diagnosed with adhd though. I guess I can’t help but monologue about plants but I think someone here will appreciate it.

I had a lot of trouble with my peers growing up (you can ask for more if you want to know, I don’t want to over share and be weird) and was never able to really find my place. At around 25 I was deep into the Linux operating system, I was a member on a weekly podcast about Linux. I got burnt out on tech and videogames, my love faded and disappeared over time.

So for me to get noticed so quickly by @Dude and something I’m working on plant wise to appear on a coming up show. Oh man you have no idea how that brought back the old me again. I really needed something like that to happen.

Like hey, remember you’re that guy who is unique and puts their own special twist on things. I think I’d forgotten that lately, it’s not shown itself in a while anyways.

I feel like these last few weeks I can make this thing called life work for me, I feel like if certain people let me be me (namely my landlord). Then life can go from being lost to having direction and purpose. Making friends here seems so easy because the connection of having a love of plants is just there. Not an vague interest like most on Reddit, I do like helping people on Reddit with their plants rough.

I feel like I’ve caused some changes in the Reddit communities actually. There used to be a lot of industry growers that tried to gate keep. There is less now.

I show people my plant pictures to teach them what their plant is telling them.

My first plant was leggy and stunted. My second plant was stubby and stout. What did this teach me? A lot about the signs of light deprivation in cannabis.

Everything other than nutrient deficiency that could go wrong Including me poisoning the plant at the end of flower with worm castings tea that went anaerobic on me. I had thrips, I had spider mites from traded herbs in a plant swap, I got fungus gnats from the SIP bucket I built having too much wicking(I think). I built a second air hole bucket and swapped it into that so there was no reservoir anymore and continued with appropriate top watering techniques.

I screwed up so much on that first plant but I also learned so much. Some people are quick to say get rid of a stunted plant! But I disagree. It’s not that simple. If the person cannot fix the environmental variable that caused the stunting then they are just going to do it again. They should run their plant to see what happens and learn from it. Plant another when you think you fixed the issue and see the results. Then when you approve of the results you can plant more.

Sometimes more is more, but sometimes less is more. I see people who try to do a full run not knowing how 1 plant should grow and all their seedlings are leggy and stunted. I explain the effect this has on the plant. That the energy is going to the stem elongation to try to get the cotyledons energy instead of using it to build leaves and this has a lasting effect on the growth cycle of the plant.

I’ve always been an empath, those that get it will get it… it suck’s when you walk into a store and people are bleak about the weather outside. You can feel it. I’m very sensitive to all that.

What I’m trying to say is a lot of the time it feels like the plant is talking to me. I don’t like defoliating my current plant because she told me if I take leaves she doesn’t want taken she wastes energy on sprouting a new leaf in that area to be bigger.

I know the bud sites need to be exposed so I trim that little amount in the middle to prevent her from blocking herself out. But I may take 5-10 leaves off the whole plant a week.

I don’t know if people know what listening to the plant means but it’s all the visual signs, the smells, the humidity and temps.

But also that something else when you touch the plant and your energies converge as one, it will give you thoughts and tell you what it wants.