When/what was your first grow?

[jonezin]

I figured this might be interesting. Maybe this has already been done too but I couldn't find a thread like this so...

What was your first grow? How old were you? Was it successful?

The first one I remember of mine was in 1988. I was 14. I started 3-4 plants in small pots and took them outside every day for a while, but they didn't do very good. They were just bagseed. I don't remember what I used for soil but it was either crappy potting mix or just stuff from in the yard or driveway. When I brought them in the house I hid them in my closet with an incandescent bulb in there. They never really took off and I ended up killing them. I was too paranoid anyway and was clueless about what I was doing. I lived with my dad and he has smoked for as long as I can remember but he probably wouldn't have liked me having plants, especially taking them outside and sitting them in the yard every day since we lived right in the city. I was always worried that neighbors would see them. Looking back it was pretty gay.

Shortly after that I bought a brand new Phototron IV but I never ended up growing any plants in that. To be honest with you I don't even remember what ever happened to that thing (too many joints). I either sold it, or someone that I pissed off took it and decided to keep it because of something I did that they weren't too happy about. I'm pretty sure the latter is what happened to it.

 

[TwoOhSix!]

We bought a few seedlings from this kid for 20 bucks each and started them under flouros in my friends closet at his moms house. We transplanted outside and one survived to become a fat 7 ft tall monster....male. I think we were 17

 

[TheCheeseMan]

i tried growing in a small cooler lined with tinfoil using one incandescent buld when i was like 14. The seeds sprouted and lived for a few days



later that year in the spring i planted some seeds outdoors and successfully harvested in the fall Bagseed, but good taste

then it was back to indoors

 

[FrankRizzo]

This is a cool idea

 

[humble1]

my first grow was outdoors. i must have been 15 or 16, and i was living in a shack in the back of my stepmom's property. my buddies would come over and we'd have a good old time, discarding seeds from 8ths and dubs as we found them. in the back of my mind there must have been a concept of plants eventually showing up from this practice, as I usually asked my friends to throw the seeds in a particular spot in the yard.
one morning, after a long rain the previous night, i stumbled out to take a leak next to the lemon tree. Looking down I was surprised to see about 10 seedlings poking their tiny heads through the soil line. Days passed and my hopes that these seedlings were cannabis, and not just some random weeds, came to fruition. The first true set of leaves confirmed it as cannabis.
my stepmother (it's not just in fairytales that they are wicked) in a misguided attempt at parental control stepped in to inform me that either she or I would be culling my young plantlets. even then i was up for a challenge, and tired of wasting my pittance of an allowance on dealers, so i looked for places to relocate my girls. at least i hoped that they were girls.
butting up against the side of my shack sat an arbor covered in antique roses. i forget the cultivar, but it had thousands of small pink blooms. every so often birds and squirrels would alight at the top and disappear into the foliage. that gave me an idea.
my knowledge of plants and soils at the time was rudimentary at best. from the research i carried out reading jorge, ed, and mel i knew that our soil was inadequate, especially in terms of drainage. i also had extremely limited funds, so a McGuyver type operation was my only choice. i took a discarded water jug (from a water-cooler/dispenser) and cut off the flat bottom. turning it upside down left the mouth open, and i didn't want my dirt to flush out, so i stuffed it full of fine mesh and steel wool. my dirt mix consisted of topsoil and a half full bag of potting soil my stepmother left lying out in the sun. i added 2 or 3 cups of dolomite lime, also a remnant of her neglect, and mixed well.
the placement of the jug in the arbor was key to my mission's success. i wanted the plantlets to receive as much sun as possible without being visible from our rear porch. to achieve this i wove the rose branch around my jug in a protective screen. placed at the apex of the arbor, my jug of love could only be seen if you knew what to look for; perfect!
quickly i transplanted three of the strongest seedlings and informed her that they were all dead. i knew that if i didn't play it up she would be suspicious, so i sulked for another week. meanwhile i took the hard lump of blue miracle grow, smashed it up into a coarse powder, and sequestered it in my room.
one was male and culled. the second was overpowered by the early growth of it's sibling and was culled. the final survivor started to bloom. i'd feed from once a week, to once every other watering, with the miracle grow at half strength.
i know nostalgia makes everything better, but i swear that my first plant was the gooiest, stickiest girl i've ever grown. she only got to 2 feet, but it was all bud, and dripping with resin. even after a good dry and cure she could barely be ground up in a grinder. the high was classic stupefying indica, and the flavor/smell although good was not so memorable.
climbing on the roof of the shack every day to water a plant hanging 15 feet in the air is not my idea of a good time now, but then i was in heaven. one time, near the end of flower, the winds got so violent that my jug shook loose and fell to the ground. i was sure that i had been discovered, and my plant was either dead or gone (or both). she pulled through, and after a more secure placement in the rosebush she thrived. that first plant cemented my love of cannabis, and i'll never forget her. much better than my first sexual experience, to say the least.
my stepmom never found out. my dad found out only after i told him, years later. his reply: "well, no wonder you were up on that damn roof so much! i knew you weren't just sunbathing...." my buddies were and still are amazed. stickiest. bud. ever.

 

[NorCalFor20]

I figured this might be interesting. Maybe this has already been done too but I couldn't find a thread like this so...

What was your first grow? How old were you? Was it successful?

I hate to say it but I was on overgrow as a youngin, learning about growing herb. I am now an adult and overgrow was a good resource to me to learn enough to pull off a grow at the young ripe age of 12... started with some bagseed, indoors under fluros, moved them outdoors, grew them out lost some to deer and other critters then figured bone/blood meal not a good idea to use when growing in the woods in the deep south... I learned a lot from those grows, even had decent yeilds growing lbs on my 80 acres every year for a while. Then I decided to try my hand with some real seeds....

(nirvana) Northern Lights and White Widow, some of you may even remember me from OG as Weed2k3 I still have my strain reviews posted from there in the strain guide. At that point I was around 15 and had a few successful outdoor crops by thist time but, growing with genetics really shocked me and me and my friends were smoking the best dank in town.... one of my friends though the northern lights was laced with "crack" lol , until i told him that i grew it.... He said it didn't even look like weed because it was dusted with crack (trichromes) i told him there was no crack on it and that i grew it and nothign to worry about... I remeber getting verrryyy high and by that time i was in love with smoking my own bud that i grew my self so were my friends....

now i live in california and have 3 professional grows under my belt on my 4th crop indoors with HIDS, Hydroponics etc. and I have to say I love the west coast, don't think you'll ever catch me back south again....

 

[mountainNick]

Crazy Strains first outdoor grow

Crazy Strains first outdoor grow

I am doing my first grow, outdoors, and it is going great. A friend gave me some seeds about two weeks ago while on visit to his homeplace, i have three strains; Kali Mist x Chem D, Super Silver haze F2, and Northern Lights 5 x Sour Diesel, I have read some amazing things about the parent strains cant wait to see what the harvest is going to be like.Got some bat guano to mix in the soil for 10 liter pots that i will be transplanting plants in. Been going 5 days since planting this is my best plant, another has just got out of seed hull and has small serrated leaves any advice or tips for outdoor grows? how big could the plants get if planted in ground with these kinds of strains?
Jah Bless everyone and may all of u have a green day

 

[U4ic]

I kinda lucked out, had a bag of some stinky skunk bud in the mid 80's that had some seeds in it. Some friends and I planted the seeds on the edge of a field. Only advice we had was to plant them so they get a lot of afternoon sun..Planted 5 seeds only one survived to mature and produce buds.. Maybe a couple oz's but we where happy as hell..

 

[CANNACO-OP]

way too long ago and bagseed. first one was the best. hidden away from ma and pa, ghetto flouro star wars box style, tubes of lights everywhere, good times, thanks for the thread!