The grow I enjoyed the most wasn't my first grow, but it was the first time I got to really do it right. It was the first grow after I got my Med card. I grew 4 Sour Queen from Rez, 4 bogbubble or bogglegum(cant remember which it was had both at the time) and 4 train wreck that I got from my a very good friend of my families that has lived in Nor Cal and been going to the private harvest fests down there since the mid 70's. I Vegged them under a flourescent shop light that had 4 bulbs in it and vegged them for about 3 weeks before they went into flower. When I say vegged for 3 weeks I mean I grew out the seeds and sexed them then took clones from the females. I then let the clones veg for about 3 weeks after they had got roots going and then put them in flower. Of course that wasnt need with the TW cause I got clones of it. They where flowered under 2 1000 watt plantstar HPS air cooled lights in 4 gallon pots and used Fox Farm ocean forest soil. Used earth juice, liquid karma, and pure blend for the ferts. I used a little dark energy, and b'cuzz bloom 2 time during bloom. When they where done I let them hang to dry for justunder 3 weeks then they went into jars for the final cure. I cured them for almost 2 monthes in the jars and wanted to go longer but just couldnt wait any long. I had found a VERY special sour queen and I saved almost all of it for myself, even though EVERYONE wanted to get some of it when they tried it. When I was down to less then ounce the friend that I had gotten the TW clones from had decided to pop out of the mountains again to visit and I let him try the train wreck and sour queen, they where all that was left. Seeing the look on his face when he tried the first hit through a clean bong was great. He told me he was VERY PROUD of me, threw in some shit about "your training being complete young jedi" in his best Yodi voice or someshit like that and asked if he could buy the rest of it so he could take it back down to Nor Cal and show all his buddies what his trainiee could do, which I of course just gave to him. Ever since then I have got some REAL nice stuff from his group of friends and it just really made me feel like I had done it right.

Sadley DG, there are not many responses with essays on this comp. DG.
Perhaps peole dont like to do creative writing? :-(
Pity because everyone writes quite well - there are millions of posts to prove it.

Well the deadline is today. And you only have 10 stories to choose from.

Would it be of any help if we all nominated, then in a few days time or when ever- you can count up the nominations and you have a winner... because its a hard to choose, they are all good stories...

Anyway if this suggestion helps then I nominate OHenry...

Thanks Ronley

Ohenry you write nicely...

[Bigmone357]

In the beginning this was the first time ordering from seedsdirect & I bought the nirvana line for the first time last spring to make sure it was legit like all the other companies I bought from i got the low-priced strains ww,wr, & a bunch others nirvana strains for my first seedsdirect "test"grow none of the seeds sprouted from the dirt !40!!! seeds "Killin em' with kindness even the greenest thumbs make mistakes" under my hot beaming lamp. I was very upset after with all my years of experience in growing being it was my first purchase with SD so I sat them on the cold fall porch November in the pot seeds & all after 14 days of trying to germ .I went to a gas station got a calling card called called seedsdirect & I talked to a lady told her my problems then she in turn put a man on the phone he said "hi can i help u" in a humble tone of voice with an accent of a cool youthful brit. I told him the situation on non germination He said"that's rubbish ( I was dying laughing when he said rubbish as i am american-lol)not to call u aliar or any thing but those seeds always have good germ rates"that they must've been irradiated etc, etc none germinated he said "my name is Gypsy Nirvana you're talkin to him" I was Bm357 <- Being kind (But I was angry) this is so cool I told him !!!he said he has never had a complaint like this where none of the seeds germed out of that many packs of that brand & he said It could be my(Bm357's) fault but u poor unlucky chap then he proceded "send the packs back to me GN with a letter & I would send you Bm357 "Something special" with the next order of 20$ or more I sent it got a bunch of good seeds & little by little the seeds that wouldn't grow began to appear days after I got off the phone seeds where already on the way to late to call him with the good news as baby sprouts came up outside in god's conditions THEY MUST'VE LIKED THE TEMPS 20 celcius pretty coold germers I coudn't believe my eyes I grew 3 female out to maturity & made a few seeds for the ones I lost with my best females & males & I lived happily ever after & i think it's the best bud I ever smoked I will always give you my buissness thanks again for these great genetics DG & GN u make it possible to smoke world - Class strains of connoisseur grade marijuana flowers. THE END By:Bigmone357

I was writing a post for 1 hour. Now i lost it. I hate myself.

[Dutchgrown]

Always a good idea to write a lengthy post such as an essay in a
word document, then paste it into your post.

I've learned the hard way too many times
I know the feeling, you have my sympathy.


dg

Okay, so here is the second try. I am preety pissed right now. But hey... I will smoke a joint at the end to reward myself.

Learning to grow

One sunny day, I was smoking a joint on balcony and throwing away seeds.... and than BHANG in the head. Hey Tic, plant a seed! Why not. I've puted one seeds in a pot on balcony. And it grew. I had no idea what am I doing at the time. I got like 5 grams from the plant. It was week but nice taste. Next year, I rememmberd to put a seed in soil at the right time. Three flowers came out and they were growing. I wanted to make better and more buds so I found OG. I didnt know for IC at that time. I was happy with what I got. It was for free, and it was all mine! Real homegrown... I was so pround on myself and dediced... I need a indoor place to grow. And it happend. I made a closet and I grew inthere with 110W HPS. 4 plants. Unknow strain. I got freaky lucky. I got some pure indica and some pure sativa. Plants were so strange then to me. I grew them and I soooooo badly wanted to smoke I harvested 2 week too early. Ofcoure I have regreated that later on, but that is life. With time, I managed to collect enough money, to buy cheap 400W hps. I was planing new place to grow and looking on OG for some ideas. Than I noticed "Hydroponics" forums. I said... WTF? I was so thrilled about idea that I started to read about that so much, I understood everything. I said to myself... ' Tic, if you can do that, you are tha man...' So I decided. I was collecting money for hydro (ebb&flow, didnt know any other exist at the time ) few motnths to buy nutes and other things. I even got my first bought seeds. A pack of 10 Nirvana Northern Lights. I feelt in love in that strain. I coulnt wait for more time that I make hydro. I just germed them and put them in soil. 3 of NL were growing under 2x CoolWhite 60cm... each one giving 2200 Lumens.. In a week or two I manged to burn 2 NL plants with nutes..... Had no PH or PPM meter. After a month I finaly assembeld hydro. But untill then one NL died and I prepared two younger ones. So here I was. I had hydro system infront of me and nutes. No ppm or ph meter or no info how much ferts should I use. I just mixed 2ml/10L....


Plants grew. I was happy. There were some problems with hydro tho. The two buckets were the same size. So when pump was pupmping water from lower tank, the upper one filled, but not enough. So I had to add just a little water everyday or else I made a flood or no water came to the roots. The whole system was developed and made at home with help of my father.
It has been cheap and ghetto but it worked. With no mesurements of any kind. Plants were getting bigger and bigger and I didnt like the idea that I have to add water every day. So I decided to make DWC (deep water culture). It took a while to get the cash for new things. But I made it. When transplanting, plants lost 70% of root mass, but it worked.



For a week. Than my fan gave up on me and when I came to growroom, I look at thermomether and it was screaming 40°C. Ofcourse I got root rot. There is nothing else to explain. Guys on OG told me that plants will not survive. The roots were coocked. So I took cutings and put them in cooler. That way should stay fresh for months. I didnt know what to do next. Than I meet GrowDoc. I must say he changed my life (: We will leave that for later. So, I had no choice but to shut down hydro. There arent good contidion at current space I got. Maybe someday.... somewhere ....

So plants went to soil. They were doing OK. In 14 days time I meet a guy, living 200km away from me. About 35 years old. We met and I gave him my two NL. A gift for first time indoor grower. He was so happy when he got 60cm tall plants. He really threated them with care and love. Unfortenetly one was male and was killed. But from other one, he got 42 grams dry. I say not shabby for a first timer and If he only knew what that plant was trough.... I am really proud on him and I dont regret I gave him the plants.

So where are we? In our pants, yes . When me and GrowDoc met, he has shown me his results in soil and I was amazed. He conviced me to go to soil and so become my mentor, teacher and very good friend. Than "from seed to bud in 55 days project" was getting it's form. GD has sent me some AngelDust and BubbleDust to use in my indoor grow and he tought me lots of stuff. He really is handy dandy tool

So, today is 18th day of project 55. I am writing this the second time and it is bit offtopic. I am high and this is a free country, free forum. Why should I limit myself?

If you have read carefuly, you had to notice few facts. I kept one NL. Now where is she? I can tell you. It is more than 6 months old and still vegging.



My fist indoor:



Ghetto Hydro with no ppm/ph control;












Yes, the fact, I got no home grown buds in last half of year is true. This is because I was learnig and I leared a lot.

Knowledge is the only thing nobody can take away from you.
Remember that.

Now I am tierd. I will roll a phat one an go to sleep. I hope you enjoyed reading my post. I enjoyed writing it... well, at least the fist time :wink:

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I am sory for my bad english, it is my third launguage and I am still preety young.

Dutch...any results yet...I like these contests...Oh the suspense! lol.

[Rabid Peach]

The road I had been marching was a long, arduous one ravaged by land mines and riddled with dead ends.

As I sit here now nestled in the sanctuary of a mexican hammock, sipping a cool mojito, gently swaying in a welcome and mannerly carribbean breeze and stoned out of my gourd on some Flo pheno bleuberry, it is with more than a little fright that I remember back to that rough path.

You see, back then all i had then was some miracle grow potting soil, a copy of a well-respected cannabis magazine and a couple of packs of expensive seeds. I read the grow tips in tha magazine, opened up my seeds and planted them just like I did my tomatoes, cucumbers, and marrow.

They popped up and I knew this was going to be easy for I had picked the expensive seeds and they must be better than the cheaper ones. They grew free and wild in the soil just off the cruel path of deception.

I cracked the eternal beer and watched them grow for six weeks. They were beautiful thick stalked babies. I was quite proud of myself for I discovered that I had "the green thumb of the ages." [read with loud thunderous God-Like multi-tracked voice, occassionally lightning does strike when you read the phrase. please make sure your computer is grounded].

But then the gorgeous plants lost their emerald sheen and were mottled by this barbaric yellow and silver. I vowed to attack and defend my children with supplements and fertilzer and anything expensive looking or sounding. What? Nothing was too much for my babies hummingbird toungue compost? Yes, I'll have three Bags, please!

Nothing worked... they turned silver then brown around the edges and stopped growing and the once glaring-aura filled leaf withered and fell beside the path of deception. I battled every imagined enemy possible: thrips, mites, underfertilization, over fertilization, watering, light, wind, even the dreaded flora syphillis!

What could I do? I set off for the cavern of knowledge-- the land of Google. And only there did I find my angel. The cavern of google led me here, to a place filled by very wise and kind people who guided me off of the crooked path and onto the highway, they even showed me where to get seeds a lot cheaper and quicker. Along the way i picked up many tools. One of the best ones was shown to me by The Puff Master of smoke-- he showed me the power of the pH sword. what a mighty weapon it is.

And now I can quit talking like I play D&D and puff this L and swing in this hammock and chew on a piece of mint from my mojito. Because my worst grow was also my best-- I found knowledge and help and community.

now i could probably even grow a pure haze...