PhillyPride
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Late 90's in a fog of Haze going up and down the Turnpike back and forth heavy with the Pif mostly taking orders for others while scraping a few Z's for free. One of my connects told me that he was finally about to go upstate NY with a crew of 4 and was going to Grow the Pif, I froze dumbfounded, in complete shock i thought "The Pif can be Grown in a house?!?!?!" and "IN the the USA" whooa I had long believed the hype/myth that the Haze/Pif came from Brazil/Amsterdam/Hawaii allways a far off locale, so the even hear that it could be grown indoors was a complete shock to say the least. His point in telling me is that he wanted me to be one of his first outlets for their crop at a wonderful ticket of $3000 lb compared to the $5,600-6,200 we were used to I told him I would be patiently waiting. After 4 months of no word he called to say he was back uptown scraping things together after almost losing everything, Their adventure turned up Super Schwag that belongs underneath the garbage. I came to the thought of if he could try why cant we, I had an older friend who told me to take a closet line it with tin foil put 4 long flouros in the corners of the closet, get some dirt and fill up some pots and pop the seeds I learned how to pop the seeds from HT everything else was a disaster no knowledge of PH my old friend told me to water the plants with warm to hot water, and the plants grow best in temps above 100degrees because they like tropical climates and I vegged for 2 months and then after I thought it is time to flower guess what they died from of a multitude of in competences. But hey you have to start somewhere, First 3 harvest were terrible but I never wanted to quit. I have been through fake genetics where someone says "These seeds were handed directly to me by DJ Short in the Dam during the Cup" and then you grow them out and they are complete schwag with no remote resemblance to Blueberry lol Or how about "You can make the plant any strain you want if you want it to be a Haze you have to make the room Tropical, If you want NL it has to be cold, seeds are seeds; they dont know what strain they are until they are grown out" lol
Oh the days of DOOOOOH over-amending the soil with everything lol too much ewc- too much fert- too much heat - Not filtering outdoor air coming in-NO Odor control-using bulbs until they went out-using Home Depot bulbs-Reusing Soil-Not Neem Oiling new Clones and having Spider Mites infest everything-Believing everything I read in HT-Terrible Products that dont work-235 PPM's out the tap-Not knowing how to stake plants and they would just fall over and snap and then I said "OH"
Thank the heavens for Jorge Cervantes Indoor Growing Bible that truly saved the day I read it 4 times and still check back with it Jorge never goes wrong and allways has a multitude of suggestions or methods making him flexible for most every grower Thanks Bro.
Oh the days of DOOOOOH over-amending the soil with everything lol too much ewc- too much fert- too much heat - Not filtering outdoor air coming in-NO Odor control-using bulbs until they went out-using Home Depot bulbs-Reusing Soil-Not Neem Oiling new Clones and having Spider Mites infest everything-Believing everything I read in HT-Terrible Products that dont work-235 PPM's out the tap-Not knowing how to stake plants and they would just fall over and snap and then I said "OH"
Thank the heavens for Jorge Cervantes Indoor Growing Bible that truly saved the day I read it 4 times and still check back with it Jorge never goes wrong and allways has a multitude of suggestions or methods making him flexible for most every grower Thanks Bro.
