I told you we did not know what we were doing at that time and were kids. It worked for us. I grew hundreds of pounds planting seeds and walking away here in the south. Could it of been done different or better done, no doubt. It was hard work just to get the crop out of the woods to the house or barn. Things grow here easy. It is harder to stop things growing. I did not know anything about growing pot and very few did in those days around here and no information or forums, not even in the libraries. It is easy now days with the information at your fingertips, but many still struggle to grow a good plant. The pictures posted here are often not very impressive plants, but the amateurs seem to think so. I grew pot like we grew corn or turnip greens, except no chemical fertilizers for me, not then or now , on my weed. If you think it can't be grown outdoors from seed very successfully with no watering and just a little tending you must live in a desert or cold area. All my plantings did not work great. But many did and some were fantastic. I lost crops or parts of crops to people, bugs and critters and sometimes to dry spells that occurred right after the plants came up and were young and vulnerable, but that was seldom here in our part of the country. We grow most crops here with no irrigation. though the wealthiest farmers may have some irrigation and it is great insurance for growing crops. Modern tech and methods are not needed to grow plants, us ignorant hillbilly children have been surviving on our crops just fine and often have crops when the modern farmers next door have failures, due often to their choice of modern hybrid seeds that require more fertilizer and rain to make a crop. When left coast techies learn how to feed themselves and survive on their own without high inputs, irrigation, chemicals, grow lights and pumps, you will show me what we and the native Indians learned hundreds of years ago. I have used modern methods as well in my work in horticulture for most of my working career. I abandoned most of that before I retired as unsustainable, added cost and less safe as food or medicine. I was a licensed horticultural chemical applicator, a market grower and also a former health inspector. I abandoned those professions(except market growing) because of the danger and stupidity of modern societies new horticultural practices were abhorrent to me after becoming fully informed about those industries and the practices/chemicals used since Monsanto(and some other corps) took over the worlds crop production. You drop a seed in the soil and provide some organic matter and rain comes and the seed grows. It is that simple here in the wilds of Tennessee. So simple , in fact, that 14 year old kids with no information could grow successfully and have so much pot that we had trouble just finding places to store and work with it after harvest. A hundred pounds of pot is hard for a teenage boy to deal with living at his parents home, without their knowledge. I got shingles from the stress at 18 years old, But we managed it. I was one of the most popular boys in school, partly because I always had weed, a motorcycle and spending money. God protected me and I made it somehow, while others were getting busted around me, but when I got married and had a child, I walked away from that life and became a simple consumer, for the most part. Love conquers all things, Happy growing and God bless you all.
