Well hello old farts!!

Been at it 27yrs non-stop an love my WEED seen about every pheno
there is out there.And my favorite old strains Thai,Afgan Columian gold,Mex
Maui, Bermese an more!! Just now starting on the new hybrids/ indoors???

Outdoors has always kicked ass for me, but with 24/0 lighting i now save
lots of clones or moms.And most important the diamonds in the ruff(pheno)
if ya know what i mean!!Maybe this sounds weird but i grew outside and
never read up on REAL BREEDING not just inbreeding, wish i had known???

Had some REALLY ROBUST afgans an HUGE SWEET thai but lost over the years.Made many mistakes inbreeding an mixing bagweed to my gene pool?

Hopefully with the 17 seed pac's ive got ill find some good tasting weed!!!!
Also my new 600 for flower an 250 veg light ill see something good soon!

[mauie]

im just a few years older than that myself ...

i agree with you about the good old standards ... nothin could beat the good old columbian gold ... my hubbyy is buggin me to get growin already ...

this is my 1st inside grow, but like you ive been very successful with my 30 or so years of outdoor growing. what kind of beans you going to grow?

mauie

COOL Mauie!!

My first attempt indoor was Chronic they out grew my light(250) so i got
a 600, but put the chron's outside to finish.And at the same time had some
Blueberry but over seeded them an put them out to finish also. Now i got
some JLP's crosses C99/NYCD lookin great under that 600 flowering now!!

Good to see an here from some OLD SCHOOL SMOKERS keep it up people!!

[radioman]

i first smoked pot in '72. started smoking everyday in '74. my first outdoor plant was in '75. i took the seeds out of a $35 oz. of good columbian my sister brought back from boston. grew it next to my house in a unmowed lot. back then not everybody knew what pot looked like. i tended those plants all summer. since then i have devoted alot of my life's work growing pot as well as other plants.but i'll never forget my first outdoor plant.

[mauie]

radioman ... that could be my story almost ... i also first smoked in 72 - freshman in high school. my first grow was also in my backyard between the houses & it was columbian ... haha.

what ever happened to $30.00 oz's?

[zunny]

$30 bucks?? LOL I remember them going from $20 dollars to $45 almost overnight!

I remember my teenaged attempts at growing: I'd have the whole plant smoked by the third week of flower - Leaves and all! LOL

Now-a-days, I consider myself a Pot Snob.

[...B.H.O...]

Hair on ya dude!!!!

[mauie]

youre absolutly right about the prices jumping overnight. one day were smokin $15.00 lids the next $40.00 oz's. seriously ... what happened? was it the introduction of sinsemilla? cause really i didnt smoke sinse till much later ... always tried to get columbian gold or jamaican and thats the prices that skyrocketed.

and who among us can say that their first attempt (in retrospect) was great ... i think smoking all that green weed - stems, seeds, leaf and all is a right of passage.

mauie

[radioman]

i used to read high times alot in the 70's and 80's. tailed off in the 90's. was up at the library 1 day and looked it up on computer, was taking clones of own breed and just wanted any refresher tips. i was like holy shit they sell seeds on internet. must be rip-off. keep reading around. growing my own. i really only remember sensi seed co. from h.t., winning the cup alot. had old catalog in the 80's, but never ordered. don't know about all these strains on internet, just wanted some good afghani because i know what that is. well it's been a little over a year and over $400 (seed money) later. still really like my own strain, crossed it with one of "mr. nice's" and had a lot of fun. also made alot of seeds from ones i bought. never intended to get that involved.

[mpd]

I guess that went the way of the four-finger bag.

I started schmokin' in 1979. Smoked for four years (big party animal) then met my wife and that was the end of that.

I came back to use it to tame the migraine and cluster headaches about a year and a half ago. Just hit it again. My first really well organized and executed grow. Nothing will ever taste as sweet as this and I'm proud to have some quality meds to share around locally.

I've learned a lot and found I can still buy pot for $35 an ounce - I just have to learn to grow it more efficiently to get that price.