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Pretending You Don't Grow

FirstTracks

natural medicator
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The situation comes up once in a while where people are talking about growing You don't want these people knowing you grow, because they obviously can't keep their mouths shut where ever you are that you'd rather not advertise to the general public that you might happen to grow a few flowers here and there.

In those situations, I try to just shut up and sit quietly. Sometimes though, it just gets to be too much. I can't correct them because then they might put it together that there may or may not have been some herb growing in the past or present on my part. :whistling:

Sometimes the conversation just gets too humorously full of errors for me to handle and I have to add to the mayhem.:pirate:
Other times, especially when obviously red eyed and slowed down/smiley, people directly ask once in a blue moon if I've ever grown weed.

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What kinds of things do you say when asked directly if you grow/smoke when you don't want to advertise it to everybodyaround you?

or

if something funny comes up where you can just add something humorous to a conversation about growing but can't come across as knowing how to grow?


Some examples...

"I'd never even be able to figure out how you grow that stuff. I'd probably destroy it. I heard you had to grow it in buckets of water or something. .....yea....under the water....how would that even work?"

and

"The only reason people in California can grow so much purple weed is because they have all the grapes out there...(explain) I heard if you grow your buds in jugs of grape juice, they'll turn purple and taste like grapes, and their grapes are the freshest."
 

m314

Active member
ICMag Donor
Veteran
I used to correct people when they'd make crazy claims about growing. "Hydroponics will double your potency over soil". Lol. I'd tell them the truth about growing in organic soil since I couldn't keep my mouth shut, then try to play it off like I had read about it somewhere.

I haven't had to worry about that since I moved to California. I tell everyone I know that I grow if they're interested. It's nice not having to pretend anymore.
 
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willyweed

every person you tell,you are giving them the power to totally destroy you,and lets be honest ,how many people do you trust with your arse? i hope you can only count them on one hand ,only using your thumb,and including yourself on that list!
golden rules of grow club
1, never tell anybody
2,never forget rule one
it is hardly ever the person you tell that lets you down,its the people they tell ,lets say you tell your best mate,thats fine ? one day your best mate tells his girlfriend,6 months down the line they split up real bad ,so to get back at him she calls the cops and you go to prison! and spend every day trying to keep your anal virginity, wishing you had never told a sole ! and keep telling your mates you think weed would grow real big if they planted it in elephant shit!
good luck and all the best willyweed
 

bombadil.360

Andinismo Hierbatero
Veteran
one solution is to stop hanging out with people who are supposed to know how to discern a truth from a lie but can't.

people without any ability for discernment and independent thinking, like an educated adult should have, are nothing more than a waste of time to be around.

find new friends, intelligent people, and get yourself out of those weird situations where you feel surrounded by a bunch of ignorant little kids even though they're +30 yrs old.

peace
 
I believe in keeping things as lowkey as possible. Ill talk general plant care, aquaponics, hydroponics, etc but I wont talk about herb specifically. I volunteer on an urban farm that has all these things so it gives me good cover for the knowledge. Maybe Im paranoid but I believe you have a core group of informed people and thats all you need. The less external factors you have to keep track of, the better youre off in the long run. Its all about hiding in plain sight....
 

One Love 731

Senior Member
Veteran
"Obviously none of you have heard its a gateway drug and by smoking or growing it you are supporting terrorism" works just fine for me. Stay safe out there peeps.1:ying:
 

Dirt Life

Well-known member
Veteran
I treat my growing like the first rule of "Fight Club"...

Well, except here. ;)

But, the internet provides the illusion of anonymity, so I feel relatively safer, even though I'm not.
 

mrcreosote

Active member
Veteran
I try to convince myself that I don't grow so I won't slip up.


The problem is I don't believe myself because I'm such a lousy liar.
 

supermanlives

Active member
Veteran
if they are making statements that I should be laughing at I add to the confusion . I make up a few things to add to the ridiculousness.
 

maryjanesdad

Active member
i just sit quietly and snicker to myself.

I recall once while taking college courses the topic of cannabis came up with the class. The class was full of 20 somethings and im the only one who is in their 30's and a full time grower. Some kid says that the best weed is in jamaica and goes on and on how strong it is and that most of the weed around comes from out of the country....:laughing:

I waited for him to stfu and i blurted out "actually the best weed is NOT from Jamaica and most of the good weed comes from local indoor grow spots". The class didnt really take notice of what i said and i continued doodling a pair of tits.
 

Fly by Night

Like a Wing
Veteran
Bust out some yak

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Scottish Research

Senior Member
ICMag Donor
Veteran
I was standing in line at the ice cream truck that showed up at our school today, and they had a frozen item on a stick called Sour Power... I had a chuckle and almost said to the mom next to me that Sour Power is also the name of an incredible marijuana strain, but I held myself in check, because this is certainly not a liberal type school. I probably would have been lynched in the play ground by all of the Christian moms.

My family knows what I do, and they have tried to stop me, but I feel like I'm on a mission from my higher power to grow the best weed possible; I just can't stop. It's all that I think about; it has consumed me...


R.Fortune
 

floralheart

Active member
Veteran
i just sit quietly and snicker to myself.

I recall once while taking college courses the topic of cannabis came up with the class. The class was full of 20 somethings and im the only one who is in their 30's and a full time grower. Some kid says that the best weed is in jamaica and goes on and on how strong it is and that most of the weed around comes from out of the country....:laughing:

I waited for him to stfu and i blurted out "actually the best weed is NOT from Jamaica and most of the good weed comes from local indoor grow spots". The class didnt really take notice of what i said and i continued doodling a pair of tits.
Once you short circuit and say Skywalker OG, Yetti OG, Fire OG, it's over. I can start a drooling conversations that puts all the girlfriends and wives to sleep.
 
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