Selecting a Mother

[oldmac]

Hey now you young whippersnapper, you better respect your elders. (I had to look at your profile before I was sure you are that young)
Got to admit tho, you're probably right. It's funny, I live in samll town usa, and the generations seem to get on better in the rural areas then most, IMHO. When I see those retirement villages in Florida I really get a nervous feeling.....you know they lock old people away in these gated prisons! Or worst more like soylent green.

My housemate, Tonto, is a proud Mohawk indian who did high steel work all his life. Walking on steel beams 40-60 floors high with no safety equipment. He believes mj is sacred, a gift from the gods. He has used mj before in his life, and has been using it medically and spiritually for the last 12 years. He's lived with me the last 11, stage 4 cancer the entire time...yet he keeps on tickin'.

[oldmac]

OK, I promised a class picture. Room is so small tho I can't get back far enough to show thier full height. Such tall girls, here they are the original 10 plants from seed, in bloom.

And since it's July 4th....Happy Birthday America!:thumbsup:

[crabbyback]

adult crowd its a darn senior center in here pretty soon youll be asking me to find the remote

does your roomy remember the pre prophibition era, and did he puff back then stuff from the pharmacy?

My sister (my MUCH older sister) remembers our grandfather getting mj pre-rolled in a package from the drug store. He worked in the SC textile mills, was said to be asthmatic but probably had brown lung from cotton mill dust. He supposedly smoked to help him breathe better (expectorant properties of mj?)

[phatsesh101]

i had a roomate who would always call me to help him find his remote, just a memory that popped into my head with all the old talk. couldnt get him to smoke though, would have probly helped him greatly. my gma could probly benefit also but the look in her eye when i mentioned it, but her ten year younger bro darn 60s :hippy: nobody knows for sure but i knows, lived in humboldt since the 70s:wtf: so isee what your sayin bout the outlook by generation.

in my safety class ive seen footage of high steel workers early 1900s and that is some crazy stuff especially after a liqiud lunch, no elevators just climbing I beams people falling daily, takes balls.

i help some of the elderly around my area that come to the meetings, with meds and growing their own since their medi-medi wont cover mmj and the cost of meds is insane. i hear stories of years past and have yet to actually speak to anyone who remembers being able to purchase cannabis or hemp at a drug store.

you guys seem fiesty so i joke but i know ill be ther in another 50 years, i do have to quetions your age cause you seem to be able to handle the internet and a digital camera rather well happy fourth

[oldmac]

Hey phatsech,

I really hate to admit this.....but I've just had a "senior moment", I was sure I had posted a reply yesterday to you, but I don't see it now! LOL It was a good one too. Maybe it was the home made corn squeezin's from yesterday, sorta a 4th of July thing with me, I make it once a year just because I'm not suppose to. BTW, This fiesty group seems to have a very good scence of humor so joking around is encouraged.

I commend you for helping out people in need with mmj, that's what I've been doing for abt 20 years now, long before people even used the term medical marijuana. But I've always called it my medicine!

Yo crabbyback,

I guess I'm not old enough to remember pharmacy dispenced mj, heard of it but never knew anyone who had used it. The first year I was on the farm in SC I had three asthma attacks and had developed a bad wheeze. My aunt took me to the docter who recommended I smoke "corn silk" to help clear my lungs, also an expectorant I guess. So at age 11 is was rolling dried corn tassles to smoke, but progressed to adding "wildwood weed" to it by age 12. Not sure it helped my asthma or wheeze but it sure made the walk to school and back easier.

[oldmac]

While I'm in the shit and giggles dept, I mention earlier in the thread I started some auto flower stuff.
I already said I've been disappointed by the LR2xsanta maria; only 4 of 5 beans popped, and none showed "auto" traits (or short size) so they went into the bloom room where a few weeks later 2 went hermie. Oh well.

But the 3 LR2xAK47's are doing very well in the veg room with 20hrs of light a day. They are getting nice size buds and look very promising.

So here's a pic or 3 of some nice autoAK47.

[headshake]

the auto AK doesn't look too shabby. what size pot do you have that thing in mac?

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[oldmac]

6" diameter pot (abt the same ht). Don't know what it holds, I know alot of you go how much volume it holds like by 1/2gal or 1 gallon or even 5 gallon.

I didn't have anything smaller.

[headshake]

it's all good. i'm just trying to get a feel for pot size/plant size (yeah i know the general 1' of stem per gallon of pot size), transplanting, finishing pots and overall plant size. you know, that type of stuff. (if that made any sense?)


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[oldmac]

I don't subscribe to that 1'/gal theory, unless you are growing in a soil with organic material and nutrients built in.

IMHO if you are using liquid nutes, in a medium devoid of nutrients (like pro-mix), the size of the pot does not really matter. As long as the plant gets what it needs to grow, it will grow as big as you let it. I've grown and flowered 4'-5' plants in 4" square pots and if you looked at them from stem up, you could not tell they where in itty-bitty pots.

Now I don't really reccomend that big in such a small pot because it causes other problems. Like needing a watering at least once a day or more and when they get that big they want to fall over 'cause their feet are so small, get very top heavy you know.

(I can hear nashing of teeth, and an angry mob headed to thier keyboards)