A lesson in patience...
A few years ago, I was a member of another cannabis site where selling and trading of seeds wasn't frowned upon. I mentioned being without quality genetics, and was using cannabis for my wife's cancer, and my hep-c.
Besides the seeds Reeferman (a well-known breeder) gifted me, (R&D medical strain #1) a very generous member gifted me some realy cool strains. White Widdow, Inca Spirit, and I think Shishka Skunk. After having planted the WW and the Inca Spirit, wife and I had decided to move. Vegas is too expensive.

Anyway, when the realtor started to bring folks over, I had to accelerate the grow, and move the grow into the garage, trying to salvage what I could of the already planted genetics. After 2 weeks waiting for germination, I finally gave up on the WW and Inca Spirit, as nothing was breaking ground.
So I tossed them into the trash.

About a week later, as I was already in the motion of tossing the kitchen trash into the larger trash bin, (where I had tossed the failures) I spotted 5 or 6 plants growing out of the trash. My heart jumped at the thought of re-claiming the plants. Then the trash I was throwing away, landed on top of it.

I sorted thru the trash for about half an hour, trying to save the survivors, of which I was only able salvage one. A lone Inca Spirit. It still had the bamboo marker stake sticking out of it's soil ball. (bamboo stake marked with color-coded twist-tie) Was forced to pollinate a mature Potent Purple with the pollen from, what turned out to be a male Inca Spirit.

I still grow the hybrid today, and since I already have the PP in it's original form, am trying to 'peel' away the Inca Spirit genetics, from the Potent Purple. (selective breeding)
Rusty Trichome Reviewed by Rusty Trichome on . Biggest Growing Mistakes... Thought I'd try to get a thread started where people could talk about some of the silly mistakes they may have made in the past. Maybe if enough people respond, this can become a thread that curious growers can visit to see exactly how NOT to do something. :D I'll start: A few years back, I made a soil mix that turned out to be one of the nasties messes of my then short growing career... I was pretty new to organic gardening at the time, and had just harvested my first semi-successful Rating: 5