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Good people spread knowledge here daily, its very invigorating to be able to soak in so much information and good vibes here.
You can call me Potter for now, and if circumstances turn light one day we can bless each other with one anothers presence. I am originally from Houston, Tx. I spent all of my "young grasshopper" days there as a inquisitive boy. I had a want to know why things ticked, what made them go, and just wanting to know something about everything...
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General. *poem - Modern Major General
As life took its course, I transitioned from the student - athlete that would not have thought twice about smoking..
..into a Young Adult failed by the system that he was led to believe in, that would lead him into what is know as the "American Dream." hahaha:( lol fucking loser right???
***(off topic rant)
But from birth we are taught to obey your parents, laws, go to church(or not), GO TO SCHOOL, get a education, start work at 14-16, graduate GO TO COLLEGE, get a degree or 2 or 3, find a job, pay your taxes(lol), kiss every baby you see on the forehead, shake the hands of immigrants, WORK THAT SAME JOB UNTIL YOUR 65, retire, ETC... bs, bs, bs :mad:**END RANT**:mad:
...But honestly how many people do that work for. I am a 1st Generation city kid. Which means my parents grew up in the country. My mom a Country town in Texas that is still leaving in the 40s, and my pops and country town in Louisiana where he didnt attend High School because he had to help his father on the Farm. My grandpa farmed for the Town and surrounding areas.(lol, thats how small it was, but only by population the store and hospital were like 45 mins away from civilization)
Now back at this "American Dream" I was chasing..., well I soon realized it was something I would stay chasing. It turns out that you can never attain a dream that isnt yours. In reality I seen the countless failures and hopes of people that were in the same shoes as me. We all believed in a dream that was never ours from the Go.
SO after losing GOOD jobs(making $17hr at 18 yrs old) after going to jail for a 3.5 of Mexi Bagweed, after being profiled as a "Gun Trafficer"(1st felony evading in a motor vehicle), after getting my car seized by HPD, after selling every possible drug you can think of, friending characters you wouldnt want to spend 5 mins with, cleaning up situations I cant type, losing friends Ill never see again(death or life in prison),going back to jail(for 4 1/2 pounds) basically changing my whole life that i was comfortable in from a child. Making me have to adapt in away as to where I can keep my income, and not be forced to take a minimum wage job because I smoked a plant that is all natural..
One day I just WOKE UP.
I started growing as a experiment in my 1 bedroom apartment. It quickly got out of hand, i went from sleeping on a king size in my bedroom to a futon in the living room. So i needed more space and convinced my sweet GF at the time to let me rent a 3 bedroom house in her name. She agreed of course, lol and thats when i never looked back. I had already ordered my genetics etc, so i just needed the space. The experimenting process was over.
I quickly gathered my material and began to DIY a "ghetto growers paradise". Being in a illegal state i couldnt tell anyone or even move to fast or much as far as building materials. Another reason too, is probably because i only had a two door mercedez at the time to travel in. It played pick up for the weekend, moving 192 cinder blocks and and 30 odd something pieces of plywood(forgot dimensions).. Talk about a lowryder lol the car was riding the cement from the weight.. it took about 4 trips to 4 different hardware stores..
This was also around the same time i started "Forum Surfing" for all my knowledge. After coming home in 2010 I really turned into a loner and put all my energy into learning the cannabis business. But if i wanted to soon join this business I had to learn the proper ways to cultivate it. Dont get me wrong i didnt start growing because of the money, so please do not disrespect my love for this great plant. I started growing because of the situation I was in, and the strikes against me if I wanted to live a "normal life". I was what you would call a AVID smoker looking to capitalize and utilize my love and passions to my advantage. I really dedicated the past 8 years of my life to this plant and all its properties.. I didnt attend college and every business I have started has been with my own research and or funds. Growing in Texas was fun and risky all in the same.. Coming up with stories of where the pot came from and all the crazy connects I have to go through to get it, it was very tickling. But i also learned alot and had to grow up fast. The penalty for over half a pound is a felony, so imagine 300 girls in a house plus mothers and 6 - 10 clone trays going at once. They still will hang you for stealing a mans horse there, I was already dead sleeping on my tile floor with the fire place going because i had know heat or hot water. All the girls needed was electricity and water, my feelings dont matter... Cold showers are a bitch in the winter, you have to time your shower around the hottest part of the day in order to get the heat from the sun warming up the pipes.. also when i would refill my 2 watering tanks..
Anyways the setup was a 4 tier stadium hand watered SOG as seen on here and other forums.. 4k watts going 24 hrs a day, hung down the middle of the room bare(no hoods). I had a fan blowing up from under each light to keep it cool(the little circle turbo circulators from home depot or the best cool tubes IMO and like $16) I had a ghetto intake to keep air from going stale, and no Co2 what so ever. Never had mites, or lost a crop to aphids, bud rot etc.. Soil mites gave me a serious scare and i spent a crazy amount of money on pesticides i never used. lol got home did some reading and found out about "The Good Mite".. The girls were in a 30% coco, 30% peat, and 40% perlite mix.. and yes i reused this mix over and over again.. Sometimes it would get about a month and half rest because i had so much. But this gave time for all the mychos, acids, and other beneficials to do there jobs and get the mix essential for my crops. I ran organics like hydro and finished off with strictly organics in flowering after the 1st bloom boosters.. Remember i was growing commercially so yield was the most important factor, but i also wanted good tasting meds so this was my way of supplementing giving the girls ass shots and breast implants(steroids or non organic fertilizers)..
I honestly miss my setup, I moved to California about a month and 2 weeks ago. I was blessed to get out of my lease i was in, which is also where i was growing at. I found mold in the house and the home owners were being dicks about fixing it. They bullshitted me for 5 months, and the week before i was to renew they told me they wanted to make repairs before renting it out again. So get ready for the SAD part. I trashed every plant, clone and mother in every room. They were putting pressure on my neck to see the house. lol after 5 months of calling them now i turn into the bad guy. So i did what any smart stoner would do.. Get rid of all evidence incriminating him, pack his bags and prepare to grow again. lol As far as equipment i still have everything except the CINDER BLOCKS and PLYWOOD, go figures. I will let them and there wonderful customer service remove all of the bricks out of the master bedrooms closet.. YES I LEFT THE BRICKS;):rolleyes::p;) But everything else is still in my parents garage..
So after all this and this is not the half, Im now in SoCal not far from the water lol.. I packed 2 bags and every dollar i own, and jumped on the bus from Houston to Cali. Here I am in the flesh, to start the legal part of my journey. I hear so many older growers say how much it is becoming a job.. Well to you Bushy Old Growers(No pun @B.O.G) I really want this to be my only job. Im ready to cultivate so badly, but i refuse to do it on the scale I was doing it on. I have lost 7 people to cancer in the last 4 years. I was able to help contribute through chemo, etc by offering my goods and services. Although it helped them through and transition smoothly, I feel in the right place with the right tools Medical Marijuana can do more than help transition. I was growing this one bag seed sativa for my Uncle. I hated it and thought it was Hemp, but he swore by it saying it didnt make him high it just relaxed him and took his bone aches away. He could function for a longer period of time without feeling the mocking pains of his cancer. He also said it worked but the residual effect of being high never came up. Honestly it didnt work for me, it slowed down my mental and heartbeat which is awesome because im always in 6th gear. But nothing I would push to the market. My reason of saying this is, in the right setting who knows it could have been the next cbd strain that changes lives around the world. But as a ghetto grower with no labs etc it was no way to find out. Now the fact that there are millions of growers out there throwing away seeds and phenos we can never get back is my real fire. It is why we have to continue to fight for legalization and implicate a process to be able to make thc and cbd testers available at patient friendly prices. lol sound like a pipe dream..
In short, Im in a new place, and although I dont want to miss a beat I guess as i acclimate myself to the new environment i must 1st spread my roots along the floor and set my foundation. So forgive me for my long off topic rants, forgive me about living in the past, forgive me for wanting to do what i dedicated my life too for the past 8 years. Forgive me as a human for wanting to GROW; spiritually, mentally, and physically.. But i cant see myself doing anything else for the rest of my life. I am to far to turn back now, I AM 1500 MILES AWAY FROM HOME.. I have my ass in the coco with no where to go but up, AGAIN..
So feel free to send me messages, links to check out, events, etc.. I will also answer all questions to the best of my ability. I have smoked a lot of strains and grown just as many, i wouldnt mind saving you some time and money. As far as friends, Im open to those too. Im in compliance now and look forward to sharing my future gardens with the community. I hope it doesnt stop at gardening, and we can put our minds together and actually make a difference in a community that was once geared in the right direction.. Yes i said it, at one point i use to read about people spreading genetics out of the sake of keeping strains alive. Now its a keep away and take all the money you can type thing.. I mean no disrespect but to "MY GENERATION" these bushy old growers have risked there necks to give us all of this wonderful info at your finger tips. It is up to us not to abuse it and use it for the greater preservation of the beautiful plant.
The right people will find me, the rest will see when its too late.. Either way im HOME California.. and I am here to stay.. Happy growing, stay free, and stay rebel.. #ForeverJunky #JunkyVision
"Rather a diamond with a flaw, than a pebble without.."
-Potter:cool:
**No edits straight off SD card..
Pic 1 is Redondo Christmas Evening..
Pic 2 is Seal Beach not sure when..
You can call me Potter for now, and if circumstances turn light one day we can bless each other with one anothers presence. I am originally from Houston, Tx. I spent all of my "young grasshopper" days there as a inquisitive boy. I had a want to know why things ticked, what made them go, and just wanting to know something about everything...
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General. *poem - Modern Major General
As life took its course, I transitioned from the student - athlete that would not have thought twice about smoking..
..into a Young Adult failed by the system that he was led to believe in, that would lead him into what is know as the "American Dream." hahaha:( lol fucking loser right???
***(off topic rant)
But from birth we are taught to obey your parents, laws, go to church(or not), GO TO SCHOOL, get a education, start work at 14-16, graduate GO TO COLLEGE, get a degree or 2 or 3, find a job, pay your taxes(lol), kiss every baby you see on the forehead, shake the hands of immigrants, WORK THAT SAME JOB UNTIL YOUR 65, retire, ETC... bs, bs, bs :mad:**END RANT**:mad:
...But honestly how many people do that work for. I am a 1st Generation city kid. Which means my parents grew up in the country. My mom a Country town in Texas that is still leaving in the 40s, and my pops and country town in Louisiana where he didnt attend High School because he had to help his father on the Farm. My grandpa farmed for the Town and surrounding areas.(lol, thats how small it was, but only by population the store and hospital were like 45 mins away from civilization)
Now back at this "American Dream" I was chasing..., well I soon realized it was something I would stay chasing. It turns out that you can never attain a dream that isnt yours. In reality I seen the countless failures and hopes of people that were in the same shoes as me. We all believed in a dream that was never ours from the Go.
SO after losing GOOD jobs(making $17hr at 18 yrs old) after going to jail for a 3.5 of Mexi Bagweed, after being profiled as a "Gun Trafficer"(1st felony evading in a motor vehicle), after getting my car seized by HPD, after selling every possible drug you can think of, friending characters you wouldnt want to spend 5 mins with, cleaning up situations I cant type, losing friends Ill never see again(death or life in prison),going back to jail(for 4 1/2 pounds) basically changing my whole life that i was comfortable in from a child. Making me have to adapt in away as to where I can keep my income, and not be forced to take a minimum wage job because I smoked a plant that is all natural..
One day I just WOKE UP.
I started growing as a experiment in my 1 bedroom apartment. It quickly got out of hand, i went from sleeping on a king size in my bedroom to a futon in the living room. So i needed more space and convinced my sweet GF at the time to let me rent a 3 bedroom house in her name. She agreed of course, lol and thats when i never looked back. I had already ordered my genetics etc, so i just needed the space. The experimenting process was over.
I quickly gathered my material and began to DIY a "ghetto growers paradise". Being in a illegal state i couldnt tell anyone or even move to fast or much as far as building materials. Another reason too, is probably because i only had a two door mercedez at the time to travel in. It played pick up for the weekend, moving 192 cinder blocks and and 30 odd something pieces of plywood(forgot dimensions).. Talk about a lowryder lol the car was riding the cement from the weight.. it took about 4 trips to 4 different hardware stores..
This was also around the same time i started "Forum Surfing" for all my knowledge. After coming home in 2010 I really turned into a loner and put all my energy into learning the cannabis business. But if i wanted to soon join this business I had to learn the proper ways to cultivate it. Dont get me wrong i didnt start growing because of the money, so please do not disrespect my love for this great plant. I started growing because of the situation I was in, and the strikes against me if I wanted to live a "normal life". I was what you would call a AVID smoker looking to capitalize and utilize my love and passions to my advantage. I really dedicated the past 8 years of my life to this plant and all its properties.. I didnt attend college and every business I have started has been with my own research and or funds. Growing in Texas was fun and risky all in the same.. Coming up with stories of where the pot came from and all the crazy connects I have to go through to get it, it was very tickling. But i also learned alot and had to grow up fast. The penalty for over half a pound is a felony, so imagine 300 girls in a house plus mothers and 6 - 10 clone trays going at once. They still will hang you for stealing a mans horse there, I was already dead sleeping on my tile floor with the fire place going because i had know heat or hot water. All the girls needed was electricity and water, my feelings dont matter... Cold showers are a bitch in the winter, you have to time your shower around the hottest part of the day in order to get the heat from the sun warming up the pipes.. also when i would refill my 2 watering tanks..
Anyways the setup was a 4 tier stadium hand watered SOG as seen on here and other forums.. 4k watts going 24 hrs a day, hung down the middle of the room bare(no hoods). I had a fan blowing up from under each light to keep it cool(the little circle turbo circulators from home depot or the best cool tubes IMO and like $16) I had a ghetto intake to keep air from going stale, and no Co2 what so ever. Never had mites, or lost a crop to aphids, bud rot etc.. Soil mites gave me a serious scare and i spent a crazy amount of money on pesticides i never used. lol got home did some reading and found out about "The Good Mite".. The girls were in a 30% coco, 30% peat, and 40% perlite mix.. and yes i reused this mix over and over again.. Sometimes it would get about a month and half rest because i had so much. But this gave time for all the mychos, acids, and other beneficials to do there jobs and get the mix essential for my crops. I ran organics like hydro and finished off with strictly organics in flowering after the 1st bloom boosters.. Remember i was growing commercially so yield was the most important factor, but i also wanted good tasting meds so this was my way of supplementing giving the girls ass shots and breast implants(steroids or non organic fertilizers)..
I honestly miss my setup, I moved to California about a month and 2 weeks ago. I was blessed to get out of my lease i was in, which is also where i was growing at. I found mold in the house and the home owners were being dicks about fixing it. They bullshitted me for 5 months, and the week before i was to renew they told me they wanted to make repairs before renting it out again. So get ready for the SAD part. I trashed every plant, clone and mother in every room. They were putting pressure on my neck to see the house. lol after 5 months of calling them now i turn into the bad guy. So i did what any smart stoner would do.. Get rid of all evidence incriminating him, pack his bags and prepare to grow again. lol As far as equipment i still have everything except the CINDER BLOCKS and PLYWOOD, go figures. I will let them and there wonderful customer service remove all of the bricks out of the master bedrooms closet.. YES I LEFT THE BRICKS;):rolleyes::p;) But everything else is still in my parents garage..
So after all this and this is not the half, Im now in SoCal not far from the water lol.. I packed 2 bags and every dollar i own, and jumped on the bus from Houston to Cali. Here I am in the flesh, to start the legal part of my journey. I hear so many older growers say how much it is becoming a job.. Well to you Bushy Old Growers(No pun @B.O.G) I really want this to be my only job. Im ready to cultivate so badly, but i refuse to do it on the scale I was doing it on. I have lost 7 people to cancer in the last 4 years. I was able to help contribute through chemo, etc by offering my goods and services. Although it helped them through and transition smoothly, I feel in the right place with the right tools Medical Marijuana can do more than help transition. I was growing this one bag seed sativa for my Uncle. I hated it and thought it was Hemp, but he swore by it saying it didnt make him high it just relaxed him and took his bone aches away. He could function for a longer period of time without feeling the mocking pains of his cancer. He also said it worked but the residual effect of being high never came up. Honestly it didnt work for me, it slowed down my mental and heartbeat which is awesome because im always in 6th gear. But nothing I would push to the market. My reason of saying this is, in the right setting who knows it could have been the next cbd strain that changes lives around the world. But as a ghetto grower with no labs etc it was no way to find out. Now the fact that there are millions of growers out there throwing away seeds and phenos we can never get back is my real fire. It is why we have to continue to fight for legalization and implicate a process to be able to make thc and cbd testers available at patient friendly prices. lol sound like a pipe dream..
In short, Im in a new place, and although I dont want to miss a beat I guess as i acclimate myself to the new environment i must 1st spread my roots along the floor and set my foundation. So forgive me for my long off topic rants, forgive me about living in the past, forgive me for wanting to do what i dedicated my life too for the past 8 years. Forgive me as a human for wanting to GROW; spiritually, mentally, and physically.. But i cant see myself doing anything else for the rest of my life. I am to far to turn back now, I AM 1500 MILES AWAY FROM HOME.. I have my ass in the coco with no where to go but up, AGAIN..
So feel free to send me messages, links to check out, events, etc.. I will also answer all questions to the best of my ability. I have smoked a lot of strains and grown just as many, i wouldnt mind saving you some time and money. As far as friends, Im open to those too. Im in compliance now and look forward to sharing my future gardens with the community. I hope it doesnt stop at gardening, and we can put our minds together and actually make a difference in a community that was once geared in the right direction.. Yes i said it, at one point i use to read about people spreading genetics out of the sake of keeping strains alive. Now its a keep away and take all the money you can type thing.. I mean no disrespect but to "MY GENERATION" these bushy old growers have risked there necks to give us all of this wonderful info at your finger tips. It is up to us not to abuse it and use it for the greater preservation of the beautiful plant.
The right people will find me, the rest will see when its too late.. Either way im HOME California.. and I am here to stay.. Happy growing, stay free, and stay rebel.. #ForeverJunky #JunkyVision
"Rather a diamond with a flaw, than a pebble without.."
-Potter:cool:
**No edits straight off SD card..
Pic 1 is Redondo Christmas Evening..
Pic 2 is Seal Beach not sure when..
