Day one of this journal but not day one of the ladies who will be the stars of this show. I had originally planned on only growing one variety this summer, I wired a friends grow and part of the deal was access to their genetics. For me, with the position the company I work for gave me, I am very limited on free time, so just letting them know my order before they do their cloning, then picking them up at my convince has been very handy. Now it has been a few years since I spent much time around anyone who the world would classify as a stoner. When I quite smoking weed 30+ years ago, I broke all contact with old friends and anyone I discovered were still partaking. The reason was pretty simple for me. I know me, and I also knew if I was around those kinds of people I would never stop and I would go right back to smoking when ever I could get my hands on it. What can I say, I hate being a quitter. I live in a state where it is not only legal for medical, and recreational to boot. Whats a guy to do, I mean I quite smoking only because I got married then had a kid. I did not feel I had the right to jeopardize my wife or my childs future of the off chance I got busted and spent time in jail. Ok so remember earlier when I said I know myself, well I know 1st hand what being locked up does to a persons head. I got locked up for 3 different times as a juvenile and while the longest visit as only 13 month while the others were 6 months and less. every time I got locked up all my friends continued on with their lives and my life stood still until I got out. First time when I got back It was not very difficult to re adjust to being with my friends, after all it was like being gone for the summer, not that much had changed in their lives, the 2nd time it was not as easy but still doable, but the third time was the longest and when I got out, it was if I did not know these people anymore. Yes I knew their names and I had all kinds of memories of great times with them but my relationship with them was memories, but their relationship with each other had grown. I always felt that I had the absolute worst luck when it came to the law, with everything but one thing. I never got caught anytime I had anything to do with cannabis, but I also knew the kind of luck I have with breaking the law. Another thing I have had very good luck is my wife. Not that I deserve to be so lucky, if I had my way I would have had 2 ex-wifes before I even met my wife, had it not been for the other 2 woman being smart enough to not go through with getting married to me. Early on I had the worst luck with women, it was not that I could not find one, it was for some reason I was always attracted to the crazy ones with tons of baggage. Then to meet my wife,not crazy and no baggage, wholly crap I so did not want to screw that up by doing something stupid like doing time for procession of weed or something just as stupid.
So back on subject, I had originally wanted to grow just one strain this grow and one that was a good producer with a short growing time. I had planned on growing only Raspberry Kush. I like the look of the buds, I enjoy the buzz I get when I smoke it, and it makes doing chores around the house, much more enjoyable because it releases much of the pain that I currently get to enjoy. Christ growing older and have more and more constant pains is not near as much fun as I had envisioned it would be. Well I show up to get my clones and I get the old I know you wanted just one variety but here try some of this, and grab a couple of those oh and here is a new one I just got. Whats a guy to do, I did not want to start cracking seeds. Yeah I have some I could crack but being short on time, I did not want spend the time growing a bunch of plants so I could go through them and pick the ones I wanted to grow, I just wanted to go look at the plants and say , those right there, thats the ones I would like. Well I did get the ones that I felt were the strongest of the clones to choose from but just in more varieties then I would have preferred.
So for those interested, these are the varieties of plants I have:
Raspberry Kush (yep got it but just not as many as I would have liked)
Cinex (good producer with early harvest time)
Thick Wicket (enjoyable smoke, works well on my pains and a good producer)
the 4th variety slips my mind but as I recall they said I should like this one as well
All my plants were given to me as clones, well more like young teens. They were all in 1 gallon pots and it was time to transfer all but 2 of them up into bigger pots. The thick wicket were the babies of the bunch. They had just been up potted into 1 gallon pots when I got them. I transferred them all into 5 gallon pots. Thats where it all started to go down hill for me. I am tired all the time and while I was up potting, i did not pay attention to where I left one of the thick wickets and one of my chickens ate it down to a bare stump. My wife looked at it and said it was a goner but I figured what did I have to loose, I just kept watering it with the rest of the plants and surprisingly it came through just nicely, well it came through that one nicely, now the question is will it recover as nicely this time I screwed up. See While I work 5 days a week the real work gets done on the other 2 days of the week. Last weekend I spent the entire weekend building a greenhouse, removing the top 8 inches of soil in the greenhouse then tilling in 5 yards of mushroom compost. I also amended the soil with Lime, Epson salt, Bat Guano, Bone Meal, Blood Meal, Coconut Coir, and Perlite.
This weekend I got the plants moved into the greenhouse and out of the veg tent. I guess I should not of smoked a few bowls before getting started because by the time I got the last plant in the ground I knocked over the shovel on no less then 3 plants splitting the main branches and severely bringing my day down with a major bummer but thats life so I bandaged up 2 of the plants and am hoping for the best adjust trimming down the 3rd plant. Unfortunately for the 3rd plant that shovel could not of fallen in a more destructive manor, it just exploded the base of 3 major stems on the plants. Nothing could be done for her other then amputate.
Tomorrow I will post a few pictures of my progress with the greenhouse. I still have a few things left to get it up to where I am happy with it, I still have to install the exhaust fans but for the most part I am on track with where I want to be with this grow. Heck I even had time to fence in my front yard and put a chicken tunnel through the garden so my chickens can now roam the front yard as well as the back during the day. Hopefully this gesture will stop them from sneaking into my greenhouse and eating my weed.
Pictures tomorrow,
I will get them uploaded before I get uploaded
So back on subject, I had originally wanted to grow just one strain this grow and one that was a good producer with a short growing time. I had planned on growing only Raspberry Kush. I like the look of the buds, I enjoy the buzz I get when I smoke it, and it makes doing chores around the house, much more enjoyable because it releases much of the pain that I currently get to enjoy. Christ growing older and have more and more constant pains is not near as much fun as I had envisioned it would be. Well I show up to get my clones and I get the old I know you wanted just one variety but here try some of this, and grab a couple of those oh and here is a new one I just got. Whats a guy to do, I did not want to start cracking seeds. Yeah I have some I could crack but being short on time, I did not want spend the time growing a bunch of plants so I could go through them and pick the ones I wanted to grow, I just wanted to go look at the plants and say , those right there, thats the ones I would like. Well I did get the ones that I felt were the strongest of the clones to choose from but just in more varieties then I would have preferred.
So for those interested, these are the varieties of plants I have:
Raspberry Kush (yep got it but just not as many as I would have liked)
Cinex (good producer with early harvest time)
Thick Wicket (enjoyable smoke, works well on my pains and a good producer)
the 4th variety slips my mind but as I recall they said I should like this one as well
All my plants were given to me as clones, well more like young teens. They were all in 1 gallon pots and it was time to transfer all but 2 of them up into bigger pots. The thick wicket were the babies of the bunch. They had just been up potted into 1 gallon pots when I got them. I transferred them all into 5 gallon pots. Thats where it all started to go down hill for me. I am tired all the time and while I was up potting, i did not pay attention to where I left one of the thick wickets and one of my chickens ate it down to a bare stump. My wife looked at it and said it was a goner but I figured what did I have to loose, I just kept watering it with the rest of the plants and surprisingly it came through just nicely, well it came through that one nicely, now the question is will it recover as nicely this time I screwed up. See While I work 5 days a week the real work gets done on the other 2 days of the week. Last weekend I spent the entire weekend building a greenhouse, removing the top 8 inches of soil in the greenhouse then tilling in 5 yards of mushroom compost. I also amended the soil with Lime, Epson salt, Bat Guano, Bone Meal, Blood Meal, Coconut Coir, and Perlite.
This weekend I got the plants moved into the greenhouse and out of the veg tent. I guess I should not of smoked a few bowls before getting started because by the time I got the last plant in the ground I knocked over the shovel on no less then 3 plants splitting the main branches and severely bringing my day down with a major bummer but thats life so I bandaged up 2 of the plants and am hoping for the best adjust trimming down the 3rd plant. Unfortunately for the 3rd plant that shovel could not of fallen in a more destructive manor, it just exploded the base of 3 major stems on the plants. Nothing could be done for her other then amputate.
Tomorrow I will post a few pictures of my progress with the greenhouse. I still have a few things left to get it up to where I am happy with it, I still have to install the exhaust fans but for the most part I am on track with where I want to be with this grow. Heck I even had time to fence in my front yard and put a chicken tunnel through the garden so my chickens can now roam the front yard as well as the back during the day. Hopefully this gesture will stop them from sneaking into my greenhouse and eating my weed.
Pictures tomorrow,
I will get them uploaded before I get uploaded
and number two, it has been a busy couple of weeks.
wish it was as simple as just not posting when I am stoned 
, I will try and follow along for the ride as life tends to keep me busier than I would like to be 
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