hell yeah man!!!!! i got out early october and wasn't sure if i was gonna get back into growing or not so i didn't really come straight to the forums but i got a little job helping with a dispensary grow and its really gotten me back into it.. i pulled out my seed collection and started checking it out and the bug bit me right away.. theres no way i can not get back into it!!!
so glad to see people still remember me and growers/breeders that i look up to still think about me, thats amazing. thanks everybody!!! thank you symbiote for keeping me alive and flowering some of the beans i sent you, that headlock looks top notch.. best feeling ever to see something i made look so good. nothing beats that.
heres a little background to my story.. i was just a drug dealer and got into growing mj for a profit, another way to make more money but the plant changed my life.. i fell in love with it and all i wanted to do was breed and collect strains and share it with others.. my grower friends would have huge grows where they pumped out all og kush and made a lot of money and they used to look at me so weird cuz i wasn't interested in just growing for money.. i did it for the love, they'd be like why the fuck do u grow so many different strains and have males laying around and collect seeds??? why don't u just pick one and fill all your tables with it??? they didn't understand.. i lost so much money because it was my hobby.. i was more into making soil mixes and finding crazy males from seed runs and collecting clones haha my grows barely paid for themselves but i didn't care cuz they made me happy..
i got to send clones that were only available in california to people all across the country free of charge to them, i got to make thousands of seeds with a lot of these hard to find clone onlys and send them to people that otherwise would never be able to get their hands on them or didn't have enough money to pay $100 for a pack of seeds and that was what kept me going.. thats what made me happy.. not the money.. i never charged anyone for seeds i sent or clones i sent, not even for the postage.. theres people here that can tell you i spent hundreds of dollars making sure they got clones and seeds.. and i was happy to do it..
i loved seeing all the different strains.. all the different flavors and smells and highs.. this plant is limitless.. but unfortunately i had to keep selling drugs and other things to support myself and my grows and it caught up to me.. i got popped in an investigation and sentenced to 4 years (which in california you only do half of) so i ended up doing 2 years and lost everything except my seeds. and i still have some of the equipment luckily.
before i had 2 grows, one with 14 lights and another 8.. it was a lot to handle for one man and very expensive.. i can't get right back into it like that again cuz i don't have the funds and I'm not ready yet but after pulling out the good ole seed collection and reminiscing i can't help myself, i gotta put some in dirt and see what happens. i think ima set up this extra bedroom we have with a couple small lights just to grow some of these seeds and chuck some pollen.. theres still a few ideas i have for strains that i really want to make happen. i don't really care for a lot of these clone onlys and ogs, what i do care about is whats in these seed packs.. that was always my thing.. finding a new strain that can hold its weight to any of these kushes.. and thats still my goal. cuz there is some real fire out there that can compete with the cookies and the ogs, its just in a seed waiting to be popped haha.
the worst part about it is the things i forgot.. i used to be such a wealth of information and knowledge.. i knew all the genetics and the lineage off the top of my head.. i knew soil mixes and what did what.. i knew everything.. now it seems like i forgot most of it but as i read through these forums its all coming back to me. i guess i just have to get my head back into it and it will all come back cuz its not gone its just lost in my brain somewhere.
feel free to pm me everybody.. I'm curious to see where everyones at and what i missed.
thank you cannarado for keeping me in your thoughts, one of the seed bags i found that i HAVE TO work on is from you I'm pretty sure.. its vietnam black x aliendawg?? is that one of yours?? most of the seeds Im gonna grow are my crosses but i really want to find a male in the veitnam alien dawg.. like really bad.. and hit it to some kushes. even before i left thats what i wanted to do.
i don't know who a lot of these seed packs are from and the parents to a lot of them but ill do some investigating and find out..
ok so thats about it for now but like i said, the bug definitely bit me again so I'm not going anywhere, you'll all see a lot of me around.. just wanted to touch base and do some typing about where my heads at for the people that care.
thanks everybody.