I missed 4:20am but the p.m. is coming! Not sayin I won't practice a little between now and then (I need an emoji with a very sly wink).

Have a good one, Emile!

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AK time!

Happy 420 Backatcha!

As soon as this shoulder surgery is over, I will be celebrating!

When I found out that I had to add ibuprofen to my “can’t take that drug” for pain relief. It raised my BP and wouldn’t let me sleep. Coming home so I could have my preferred pain relief finally allowed me to rest. I can’t take any opioids for pain. I have the same reactions.

Unless I have cannabis to take with them. Then, I can handle the meds. Happy 420!

As I pass a roach. *cough cough* Lol

I don't indulge, but I'm trying to grow it for my daughter. Last year my son bought seeds to start plants, just to see if he could still do it. (He can't indulge because of his job.) Only one plant turned out to be a female, but my daughter said it was very good. She brought me seeds from it, so I germinated a dozen. I just don't feel like they're doing well. They're on a heat mat, and under their light about 18 hours a day. They seem "leggy". I'll see what happens. Hopefully they'll keep going until I can transplant them outside.

Last year that one plant became VERY aromatic, so I can only imagine how strong the aroma will be with a little crop. It'll likely be the only thing I try to grow this year. I don't think I really have a green thumb.

Happy 420!

Will produce a rather stringy next generation,, especially if they came from a plant that was grown from hybrid seed.

I have seeds from years back that I plan to grow this year to see what comes out. They weren't the kind of hybrids of today so they should be interesting.

Good luck!

My bf gave me some seeds of his from plants from a couple of years ago, and they seem like stronger plants Only three of the ones he gave me actually sprouted. He grew a pretty substantial crop back then (before I knew him), but my daughter said it's not that great. He still has some, so maybe it's just not so good because it's old. He rarely indulges himself, and just gives it away to friends. If I do end up with a good amount of product, I'd like to try to make some edibles.

Thanks for telling me that about the hybrid strain seeds. It makes me feel like not quite as much of a failure. I'm not giving up on it. If all else fails, I'll just plant some of the seeds in the ground when it gets consistently warmer. I seem to have no problem growing regular old weeds, so maybe this weed would take off outside too.

You just never know until they grow.

Yesterday I started ten tomato plants, seeds indoors, and some moon flower seeds. Gardening starts late around here, southern Montana. But I scored some Walla Walla live starts And might put them in the ground this weekend.

Back in 2018 and 2019 one of my buddies tried to grow CBD hemp. The first year he just threw the seeds out to see what would happen, didn't invest much in the seeds. The seeds he got were from some lab in Canada, there were so many different looking plants that we deduced they must have swept up the lab floor and sent that. I didn't get involved until he was beginning to harvest that crop. The next year he made me foreman and i was out there plotting the irrigation ditches with the civil engineer and planting seeds myself. It was a major course in agriculture on a seven acre plot! Holy cow. The crop was unbelievable. Looked and smelled like high grade marijuana, the plant became huge trees with more kolas than you could count, yellow, pink haired buds. Hard to believe it wasn't pot. I also learned that in a crop setting, you can removed all the male plants you can find and the next day, there's a whole shitload more. Why? Because cannabis will change sexes all by itself. Those girls will grow pollen pods right above the buds and pollinate themselves to produce seeds! You can imagine our dismay when this discovery was made. We had considered it a possibility but when it proved to be real, we were not happy farmers.

The experience was more than I expected but enriching all the same. And I got to spend all my days in one of the most fantastic places on the continent as well. I made friends with two pair of Merlins who nested on the property and learned that deer don't like the really strong stuff, they stopped eating it after it was knee high. And don't sleep in a tent in bear country, even with bear spray... though I already knew that.

Anyway, hybrids don't reproduce well if at all, it's the nature of their creation so to speak. If you can get a few plants to go a generation or two, you might be able to come up with more viable seeds in a third gen seed. That may work but it might not, too.



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I want to go camping this year, but I absolutely won't sleep in a tent anymore. Between bears and mountain lions, I know I wouldn't sleep a wink.

That sucks about the plants changing sexes. I was pretty disappointed when only one of my son's five plants turned out to be female. It kinda hurts to yank out a perfectly healthy plant.

Reading your posts, I suspect I'm probably just too ignorant about weed to successfully grow much. Last summer I just took over my son's one female plant when he moved out of state. Honestly, I don't want to make too big of an investment, dollar-wise. I bought some heat mats and lights, and some good potting soil. That's probably about as much of an investment as I'm willing to make. Last year we went to a nursery and I bought some tomato and squash plants. I got a few delicious tomatoes, which I ate right off the plant, and I got one squash. ONE!!! I mean, who can't grow squash??? Well, the answer is apparently me. I also had some peppers, which were comically small. I live in Pueblo, Colorado, and we're known for our chile peppers here. We have a big Chile and Frijole Festival every fall! I should have been able to grow a plant or two. Nope. Not me.

That nursery plants don't yield much. I have, for a few years in a row, compared nursery tomatoes to seeds planted in my apartment and had far better yield from the seed plants. I got four or five tomatoes from the nursery plants. So I planted some seeds yesterday, I'm north of the 45th parallel at ~ 5,000ft.

I bought some seeds from an organic provider who is from my area and started a seed collection company. Seeds trust, they have seeds for every growing zone, lots of variety. So I bought a "can of seeds" from them several years ago and still have most of them. If stored properly seeds will remain viable for quite some time, organic seeds that is. I have a cache of seeds that I maintain so that I will always have a main ingredient for a food source should I need one. The tomatoes are called "Siberian tomatoes" and by gum, those plants give off roughly 20+ tomatoes each! And they taste great. One of my summer joys is a tomato sandwich with garden fresh tomato.

Anyway, It's not you so much as the quality of the plants you buy at the nursery, not what you think you're getting these days.

Once you get a really good "mother" plant, clone from that.

Made his living that way, back in the day.

I just don't know if that'll ever happen.

I feel a bit defeated.

Also, you can put them in the sun during the day and back under the lights at night. Also, you can transplant them to a slightly larger pot and bury lots of the lanky stem.

Trim off the lower leaves and plant it deep

I usually find weed culture to be lame, but, I always like to toke it up on 420. It’s like our national holiday. lol

Has it totally legal now so I celebrate with thanks that I can partake at anytime in the privacy of my home. No paranoia, no sneaky purchases. I hope that it becomes legal nationwide soon.

A serendipitous set of circumstances finds me in a state 3 hours behind my hometown time zone. My eyes popped open a short time ago, so I checked DU and this OP reminded me of today’s date. I’m enjoying wake & bake with an innocuous disposable 🖊️ as I write this. How fortuitous that business and pleasure bring me to a state with recreational cannabis on this date.

While we’re on the subject…my next task is finding local events that will undoubtedly ensure my flight home will be high AF.

Happy 420 to you , and to everyone who celebrates or just acknowledges the day.

Enjoy!