OK funny story.
mid 90s. Was at local brick weed kingpin's pad. Never seen a triple beam in use outside of chem class, started helping him weigh out sacks. Whatever was left on the table, I could keep. Had to help him do breakouts - Ps to QPs to Oz, mostly QPs. It all intrigued me so much, the whole "we are using grams to figure out oz for drugs" type of shit lol. Later I would find out that a true oz is 28.4g (rounded slightly up), and he always rounded down to 28, so his P's were 448, and a few years later the GOOD SHIT from Humboldt always weighed at least 454. Oh these early revelation moments we have when learning about the industry.
So I look to the backyard and see a plant in a clay pot. Looking in retrospect, a 2-3 gal pot. About a foot tall. I ask, "How much will that plant make?" He said, "About 2 lbs" (bullshit lol). So I did quick math in my head and said, "How much?" he said, "$50" so I went for it, based on $50-60/oz or $450/lb at the time for brick. Seemed to be a no brainer! I toted that plant everywhere lol. This was around May. It had seen multiple spots, within big conifer trees at my GF's parents' house, knocked over by her dad while he was landscaping the side, he didn't notice (and he was military drill sarge), wtf lol. He had even killed some mini pot plants from the neighbor kids who were Lagwagon fans lol. Even to where I had a friend keep it and she put an incandescent bulb on it, cuz we didn't know any better. It just kinda stayed stagnant, a little growth, but I didn't know any better. The guy I bought it from, his GF said, "Yea it woulda been a bigger plant but his little nephew, cut the main (now we know that as topping) to roll up n smoke, cuz he didn't know no better." ? Then finally, around Sept or so, I had no more spots, so I brought it to my mom. I played the fact that my mom WILL NOT KILL A PLANT if she can help it.
Mom: "What is this?" ?
Me: "Indian Fern" ?????
Mom: ? ok I'll see what I can do
Me:
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A few weeks later the plant chunked TF out all super lime green. I was reading Mel Frank's Marijuana Grower's Insider's Guide at the time. He mentioned about the earlier harvest time having a "speedier" high. I wanted to see what that was like because everything I've ever had was "down" or "sleepy." Down she went.
My first pot plant. And my Greenthumb mom nursed it back to health. She finally found out what it was when she walked into my room and said, "Why do you have those branches hanging from the curtain rods??" ???
I also inadvertently attempted my first re-veg, not knowing wtf re-veg was, by leaving a tiny bit on the plant. It worked, but winter killed her.
Her entire garden, which spreads all over the front and back yard, is absolutely gorgeous, especially during bloom time. I visited her today and here are a couple of pics. I will try to grab more when I can.
