A couple of weeks ago I had a power outage that lasted 3 days and several of my nicer mothers were lost. So yesterday I had an appointment with my doctor and was in Spokane, WA and decided to stop in at a few of the dispensaries and see if I could locate some cuttings for about 5 of my favorites; New Holland, Super Skunk X Northern Lights, Bubba Kush, and Bubble Berry and Train Wreck...
The only clones I could locate were from a place on N. Freya, so I went in and checked em out. While I was there I decided to get a couple 20 bags of Train Wreck and Cheese to see how they compared to my own.
Anyway, I went in and they checked to be sure I was legal and all and we went in and looked around.
WOW! I was pretty much SHOCKED!
The place was very poorly lighted and the first impression upon entering was like the images of drug houses like they show on TV. With a few people sitting in a darkened corner smoking weed and listening to some kind of really loud annoying RAP crap music, and a make shift counter/display on the other side of the large room.
I inquired about their clone strains and such and was able to get 4 of the cuts I was after. (Pictures to follow shortly, after my camera battery charges)
I was "invited" to visit their grow room and select my own cuts from what they had.
I wish I could have taken pictures because there is no way anybody would believe that grow room. And I use the term "grow room" very lightly because it was more like a "no-grow room", with 8' cfl's mounted to a frame and hung above a hydro table that was literally covered with clutter and takeout trash. The frame had been designed to raise and lower the lights using a hand crank. Except the cable was broken on 1 end, which had been propped up with one of those yellow mop buckets from McDonalds. Yeah, literally from Micky D's... It even had the M on the side of it.
So the lighting sucked bad, but I picked out 4 of the nicest clones he had, that I was sure I could bring back to life and paid $15 each for em. According to the labels on em they were all cut on January 30.
Last-nite when I got home, I put em inside a rubber-maid tub w/lid and set em in my veg room. This morning I went to inspect the newest addition to my harem. Wisely I had quarantined them instead of just setting em in with the crew. They were infested with the BORG!
So I brought em all out and sprayed em down, then showered so I could work in the veg room. I looked over at my clones and realized that Mine were cut on February 6, and were 3-4 times the size of the 4 I just got.
I stewed over it for about an 2 hours, then I got out my scales and microscope and inspected the 2 bags of bud I had gotten.
Now I can say first hand that neither had the smooth taste that my own does, but neither did they have the potency or even texture and color mine has. But they did have something that mine never has: THE BORG! Tons of dried dead mites impregnated in the buds.
So I called the owner/manager of the place and informed him about his infestation. He promptly informed me that he guarantees his products and if I brought it back then he would give me a refund...
Now I went into that place to buy "medicine", not weed or street pot, but herb which I consume to alleviate pain and help me sleep. What I got drove 3 hours home with was shit that I tossed in the fireplace after paying $40 for it.
Anyway the owner/manager told me that he was sorry, but they were just getting started and were still learning. Now I try and be cool with people and offered my own knowledge, tools, experience etc. to travel back to Spokane with a crew and build a grow op that he could be proud of displaying to his members and the patients who visit the dispensary. All he had to do was cover material and our direct travel and boarding expenses.
I mean wtf? It's a "dispensary". They dispense "medical marijuana".
My grow op is sterile and comfortable. When people visit my garden they feel inwardly soothed and comforted with life and health because everything is alive and thriving and full of color and energy.
This was the first time I had ever visited a dispensary and of the 5 I visited yesterday in Spokane, none of them even came close to meeting my own "minimum standards" for "medical grade marijuana".
I am somewhat discouraged about visiting more dispensaries because of the atmosphere and general feelings I left with after those I have checked out.
Is my experience typical? I mean here in WA or around the USA? My own home and garden are 1000 times more welcoming and healthy than any of the 5 dispensaries I visited.
Because if my experiences are really typical? People we really have a LOOOOOOOONG way to go before mainstream America accepts MMJ as anything more than legal drug dealing.
Okay I promised pictures and I am probably going to do a grow report on these.
First pic is my ghetto garden. It's kinda like my nursery because it catches all the temperamental veggies and sick or recovering plants.
Next are the four new additions, from top left to right is New Holland, Bubble Berry and on the bottom are Bubba Kush and SSxNL
This next pic is one of my clones cut on 2-6, beside the Bubba Kush, the healthiest of the clones.
And here are 4 of my clones from 2-6 sitting in the same place as the 4 new.
And just cause I love seeing all the veggies blossoming too:
The only clones I could locate were from a place on N. Freya, so I went in and checked em out. While I was there I decided to get a couple 20 bags of Train Wreck and Cheese to see how they compared to my own.
Anyway, I went in and they checked to be sure I was legal and all and we went in and looked around.
WOW! I was pretty much SHOCKED!
The place was very poorly lighted and the first impression upon entering was like the images of drug houses like they show on TV. With a few people sitting in a darkened corner smoking weed and listening to some kind of really loud annoying RAP crap music, and a make shift counter/display on the other side of the large room.
I inquired about their clone strains and such and was able to get 4 of the cuts I was after. (Pictures to follow shortly, after my camera battery charges)
I was "invited" to visit their grow room and select my own cuts from what they had.
I wish I could have taken pictures because there is no way anybody would believe that grow room. And I use the term "grow room" very lightly because it was more like a "no-grow room", with 8' cfl's mounted to a frame and hung above a hydro table that was literally covered with clutter and takeout trash. The frame had been designed to raise and lower the lights using a hand crank. Except the cable was broken on 1 end, which had been propped up with one of those yellow mop buckets from McDonalds. Yeah, literally from Micky D's... It even had the M on the side of it.
So the lighting sucked bad, but I picked out 4 of the nicest clones he had, that I was sure I could bring back to life and paid $15 each for em. According to the labels on em they were all cut on January 30.
Last-nite when I got home, I put em inside a rubber-maid tub w/lid and set em in my veg room. This morning I went to inspect the newest addition to my harem. Wisely I had quarantined them instead of just setting em in with the crew. They were infested with the BORG!
So I brought em all out and sprayed em down, then showered so I could work in the veg room. I looked over at my clones and realized that Mine were cut on February 6, and were 3-4 times the size of the 4 I just got.
I stewed over it for about an 2 hours, then I got out my scales and microscope and inspected the 2 bags of bud I had gotten.
Now I can say first hand that neither had the smooth taste that my own does, but neither did they have the potency or even texture and color mine has. But they did have something that mine never has: THE BORG! Tons of dried dead mites impregnated in the buds.
So I called the owner/manager of the place and informed him about his infestation. He promptly informed me that he guarantees his products and if I brought it back then he would give me a refund...
Now I went into that place to buy "medicine", not weed or street pot, but herb which I consume to alleviate pain and help me sleep. What I got drove 3 hours home with was shit that I tossed in the fireplace after paying $40 for it.
Anyway the owner/manager told me that he was sorry, but they were just getting started and were still learning. Now I try and be cool with people and offered my own knowledge, tools, experience etc. to travel back to Spokane with a crew and build a grow op that he could be proud of displaying to his members and the patients who visit the dispensary. All he had to do was cover material and our direct travel and boarding expenses.
I mean wtf? It's a "dispensary". They dispense "medical marijuana".
My grow op is sterile and comfortable. When people visit my garden they feel inwardly soothed and comforted with life and health because everything is alive and thriving and full of color and energy.
This was the first time I had ever visited a dispensary and of the 5 I visited yesterday in Spokane, none of them even came close to meeting my own "minimum standards" for "medical grade marijuana".
I am somewhat discouraged about visiting more dispensaries because of the atmosphere and general feelings I left with after those I have checked out.
Is my experience typical? I mean here in WA or around the USA? My own home and garden are 1000 times more welcoming and healthy than any of the 5 dispensaries I visited.
Because if my experiences are really typical? People we really have a LOOOOOOOONG way to go before mainstream America accepts MMJ as anything more than legal drug dealing.
Okay I promised pictures and I am probably going to do a grow report on these.
First pic is my ghetto garden. It's kinda like my nursery because it catches all the temperamental veggies and sick or recovering plants.
Next are the four new additions, from top left to right is New Holland, Bubble Berry and on the bottom are Bubba Kush and SSxNL
This next pic is one of my clones cut on 2-6, beside the Bubba Kush, the healthiest of the clones.
And here are 4 of my clones from 2-6 sitting in the same place as the 4 new.
And just cause I love seeing all the veggies blossoming too:
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