I am doing this for the fun of it and to some extent for the hell of it. A smaller but still pleasant part is that I get super quality cheap weed from it. Actually that is why, in that order, I grow cb. I grow more than I will ever smoke and I have no plan to sell. I enjoy taking care of every branch and leave. To sit with a book an hour in my flowering room and to have something NOONE, not even one person, around me knows I have. If it was tomatoes I would not spare a minute on this hobby. With cb I love it. Strange?

Now, I suspect I don't represent the majority of growers in that respect but it would be interesting still to hear what drives people.

I can easilly get 5-7 ounces/month out of my small operation and I smoke maybe 1.5/month. Easy way would be to just cut down on the number of plants etc but I can't do that. I am going the other way and have a 25 plant cloner and bubblers for my flowering plants on their way here.
Stupid?
Indeed it is. I am growing stuff that can give me jailtime for no apparent reason, lol. It is really fun to perfect things and work out ways to get around problems and generally just become better at this over time. I also run insanelly detailed registers of EVERYTHING I do day by day to the grow. Watering, when, how much, with what nutes. Temp, humidity, light range from plants. Daily general notes and plant by plant notes if something special happened to a plant. I do this in a grow diary I put together in Excel and it takes care of naming systems for every plant, history of every plant in the past, background of every clone and plant back to the original seed etc etc.

My goal in the long run is to become a very good CB grower with good instincts. I would love to breed or grow on a large scale as well but I don't have the space for it so I do what I can with my small areas. Will keep a constant 8 plants in flower fed from 3 mothers of different strains. I am in the process of building up my second strain as we speak and will add the third next month. Hindu Kush, White Whidow an last will probably be Strawberry Cough.

So what drives you guys and are there anyone like me out there?

Puffzter