Well well well..I guess this is really a two part question..
how did you start smoking and growing...
When I was in 7th grade I was a party and some Older Cats that played in a band pulled out ( get this ), A Coke Can... Yeah thats right we were smoking some shwag out of a fuckin can.. Didnt even really get high... But that was my first exp.. About a month later I went to my good friends house who had a older sister and her boyfriend was saying he had some Mexican Redhair so he rolled us s little joint and we smoked it in the bathroom and got ripped... I mean I was real high... after that we were both in love with the herb and 15 years later we have short term mememory loss.. HEHE..
As far as growing when I was 16 I would smoke half ounces a day with my buddies and we had a ton of seeds. one day we were rolling a dubi in my room with the widow open to toss the stems and I had a thought.. "Wait , this is a plant that we are smoking, and these are the seeds, I wonder what happens when i put some seeds in the dirt.." So I chunked about 10 seeds out my window and watered the soil and that was that.. About 2 to 3 weeks later I was mowing the lawn and saw a plant out by my window that looked real wierd... Low and behold it was a ganja plant.. and this was my intro to what now has become a lifestyle... I cut the rest of the grass and left the plant and took care of it for like a month before my pops found it and reemed my ass.. Anywho I was shipped off to boot camp shortly there after... When i got out in 04 I moved back to texas, bought DJ Shorts book on growing, got some BB, FLO, and Bubble gum seeds ( that ended up being knockoffs ) and got to work... 5 years later and I couldnt imagine life with out gardening...