The best thing about growing your own

[JJJ]

I enjoy planning my grows and putting it all together.  It's also exciting to get home from a hard day's work to see how they've grown.

[Guest]

Got to just be the time you get to spend while switched off from the real world.

I get lost doing training and feeding, sometimes it goes in to hours at a time. 

[Guest]

Trimming it..... 

[blackbob]

Hate trimming me.

 

[croftie]

On 18/10/2019 at 0:23 PM, LA LUNA said:

A study in spain has just found similar results, 93% of hash tested was contaminated with faecal matter and faecal bacteria, Sweet !

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2019/04/03/shock-spanish-study-finds-93-of-hashish-is-contaminated-with-bacteria/

 

Another good reason to grow your own !

isn't that the same for door handles and cash machines ? there's shit every where !

[croftie]

I find many parts of growing very stressful but I find the curing very calming. I love popping the jars each day watching and smelling as it cures. I grow outdoors in the UK so normally its cured and ready for Christmas so its a nice present to myself.

 

[highgrower]

No one has actually said smoking it - suppose some one has to?

[Socksnsandals]

I was introduced to cannabis as a teenager decades ago - when my school holiday jobs on the switchboard at an insurance broker, at a garage cleaning the new cars and crappy trade-ins after August, or as a hospital porter earned me £32/week.  We schoolboys smoked hash; Moroccan Gold - which was, by coincidence £32/oz, occasionally Red Leb, and, memorably one of the boys at school had an older brother at uni who scored (as we used to say - is that still a current term?) for us half a block of what in those un-PC days we called Paki black - it weighed about half a pound, was like a thick slab of chocolate, very dark green-black and almost rubbery, with a design rather like a US Eagle stamped into it.  A "special", the retail cost once split amongst us was £80/oz and it was phenomenally potent, almost psychedelic.  I wonder if it had some opium mixed in.  I didn't smoke after my first year at uni (stopped enjoying it and the people I was friends with were not into drugs other than alcohol) and only started again recently, having grown some autos in the garden and appreciating, for a non-smoker, the less lung-busting effects of a dry leaf vapouriser, though I've learned to treat edibles with some caution, having woken one morning totally smashed from a curry the previous evening into which I'd put the residual bud from which I thought I'd extracted nearly all of the THC into cannabutter! 

 

I digress; for me, the growing is just as important as having a supply of weed; like several others earlier in the thread, I enjoy the daily progress of my handful of plants in the garden, watching them grow and develop, fretting about whether to feed etc. keeping an eye out for pests and hermies.  From perusing the site it seems that there is a significant minority of members who have perhaps got even more into horticulture than growing weed.  The inspirational thread from Ratdog, cataloguing his 7 year project with his allotment in the gardening thread for example. I have invested in a greenhouse for next year, in which I plan a few plants - not sure whether to have a couple of autos and perhaps one espaliered photoperiod plant with the potential for large size for interest (one or two 1m high automatics will provide me with enough smoke for the rest of the year)... although the terrible humidity and potential mould problems this year (greenhouse is 83% humidity as I write) are rather offputting but of course last year was fantastic.  Also some unusual tomatoes etc. and the opportunity to think of some other unusual plants to grow in the summer when the subtropical plants I used to move in and out of the house with the seasons, but which now have gone into the GH for the winter, are back out in the garden in the late Spring. 

 

When, last year I took up growing weed again my young adult children were shocked (!).  Although I know that at least one and their partner enjoy some weed from time to time, and have certainly appreciated my efforts, they are all scarred by the death of a school friend at ~15yrs old from taking a few tabs of what was said to be Ecstasy so are generally more conservative about drugs than I am.  One, coming home to the smell as I was decarboxylating some bud in the oven prior to making cannabutter, gave me a bollocking about the drugs trade, murders (cocaine, not relevant to me), exploitation and the modern slavery involved in indoor commercial grows in the UK... I pointed out that buying seeds legally and growing them in the garden means that apart from my (illegal) cultivation there is none of that involved... still, funny to be told off by your children about drugs!   

 

In conclusion - for me the best thing about growing your own is involvement with the plants, trying to master a new skill, researching on sites like this - seeing the amazing grows by others (Asha605 for garden photoperiod, the Aliens for GG... and many others) and, perhaps of lesser import, the final product...

[Naz007]

15 hours ago, croftie said:

I find many parts of growing very stressful but I find the curing very calming. I love popping the jars each day watching and smelling as it cures. I grow outdoors in the UK so normally its cured and ready for Christmas so its a nice present to myself.

 

how long do you cure for?

[croftie]

9 minutes ago, Naz007 said:

how long do you cure for?

I don't like to touch the main stash until 6 to 8 weeks in glass.

 

[Naz007]

1 hour ago, croftie said:

I don't like to touch the main stash until 6 to 8 weeks in glass.

 

Do you burb it ?

[ratdog]

48 minutes ago, Naz007 said:

Do you burb it ?

 

 

If it's dried properly you don't need to mate

[croftie]

1 hour ago, Naz007 said:

Do you burb it ?

for the first week I do it once a day and after that just once a week but as @ratdogsays if it is dried properly then some choose not too.

 

[blackbob]

Another good thing is you open your top wardrobe cupboard to get a thick jumper out and 5 vac pacs fall out you forgot you had lol.

 

[blackbob]

On 10/24/2019 at 8:12 PM, Socksnsandals said:

I was introduced to cannabis as a teenager decades ago - when my school holiday jobs on the switchboard at an insurance broker, at a garage cleaning the new cars and crappy trade-ins after August, or as a hospital porter earned me £32/week.  We schoolboys smoked hash; Moroccan Gold - which was, by coincidence £32/oz, occasionally Red Leb, and, memorably one of the boys at school had an older brother at uni who scored (as we used to say - is that still a current term?) for us half a block of what in those un-PC days we called Paki black - it weighed about half a pound, was like a thick slab of chocolate, very dark green-black and almost rubbery, with a design rather like a US Eagle stamped into it.  A "special", the retail cost once split amongst us was £80/oz and it was phenomenally potent, almost psychedelic.  I wonder if it had some opium mixed in.  I didn't smoke after my first year at uni (stopped enjoying it and the people I was friends with were not into drugs other than alcohol) and only started again recently, having grown some autos in the garden and appreciating, for a non-smoker, the less lung-busting effects of a dry leaf vapouriser, though I've learned to treat edibles with some caution, having woken one morning totally smashed from a curry the previous evening into which I'd put the residual bud from which I thought I'd extracted nearly all of the THC into cannabutter! 

 

I digress; for me, the growing is just as important as having a supply of weed; like several others earlier in the thread, I enjoy the daily progress of my handful of plants in the garden, watching them grow and develop, fretting about whether to feed etc. keeping an eye out for pests and hermies.  From perusing the site it seems that there is a significant minority of members who have perhaps got even more into horticulture than growing weed.  The inspirational thread from Ratdog, cataloguing his 7 year project with his allotment in the gardening thread for example. I have invested in a greenhouse for next year, in which I plan a few plants - not sure whether to have a couple of autos and perhaps one espaliered photoperiod plant with the potential for large size for interest (one or two 1m high automatics will provide me with enough smoke for the rest of the year)... although the terrible humidity and potential mould problems this year (greenhouse is 83% humidity as I write) are rather offputting but of course last year was fantastic.  Also some unusual tomatoes etc. and the opportunity to think of some other unusual plants to grow in the summer when the subtropical plants I used to move in and out of the house with the seasons, but which now have gone into the GH for the winter, are back out in the garden in the late Spring. 

 

When, last year I took up growing weed again my young adult children were shocked (!).  Although I know that at least one and their partner enjoy some weed from time to time, and have certainly appreciated my efforts, they are all scarred by the death of a school friend at ~15yrs old from taking a few tabs of what was said to be Ecstasy so are generally more conservative about drugs than I am.  One, coming home to the smell as I was decarboxylating some bud in the oven prior to making cannabutter, gave me a bollocking about the drugs trade, murders (cocaine, not relevant to me), exploitation and the modern slavery involved in indoor commercial grows in the UK... I pointed out that buying seeds legally and growing them in the garden means that apart from my (illegal) cultivation there is none of that involved... still, funny to be told off by your children about drugs!   

 

In conclusion - for me the best thing about growing your own is involvement with the plants, trying to master a new skill, researching on sites like this - seeing the amazing grows by others (Asha605 for garden photoperiod, the Aliens for GG... and many others) and, perhaps of lesser import, the final product...

My kids were mortified their dad grew dope they thought i was Tom OFF THE GOOD LIFE  lol.well into their mid 20's now they just think i'm nuts but they love me for being different.