Where didn you learn?

[Snow_grown]

I came to this forum 13 or 14 years ago with absolutely no knowledge of growing. I had just ruined my first attempt by running a plant at 12/12 from the moment I started it, hahaab as you can imagine,the plant did not do well, it did flower, but not even enough to roll a blunt! So I came here,hat in hand, and just began reading and reading through forum after forum! I quickly learned where I went wrong with the lighting schedule, hahahaha
As I read and learned here I began gaining more confidence, but was still making many mistakes, so I finally started posting and asking questions. And the people of this forum showed up like best friend with their last joint when you're out! I asked annoying question after annoying question, but always got solid answers! Well mostly always!
But honestly I owe where my growing skills are at today to this forum. Anytime someone asks me how I grow so well,I always bring this place up!

 

[WeedHopper]

I learned a lot when I joined over 15 yrs ago. At that time I was living in Florida.
When I joined my handle was Cowboybudsky

 

[Oscarzuma]

I worked in a nearby greenhouse for my first job when I was ten. Learned a lot about growing flowers and vegetables. Learned about fertilizer and light schedules. I also worked in greenhouses during my late teens, Learned about cuttings and cross breeding plants.
Thirty-five years ago, I was gifted an exceptionally potent mother plant. I turned a basement room into a cloning room and by spring had about thirty girls ready to go outside. Somehow, I knew they needed phosphorus during flower. That was the only fert used other than basic MG and dead fish. It was a spectacular crop.
I had to take some time off when the kids were at an awkward age, being in an illegal state. F*ck the D.A.R.E. program. I became a lurker here ten or fifteen years ago under the handle Jessegro. I didn't post but a time or two due to too much policing going on around my home. F*ck police helicopters, too.
Only this past year, with growing weed now legal here did I try to bring my gardening up to more modern levels. I had great success some years, but also some disappointing seasons. I studied here and on YouTube, along with the Cervantes grow bible. I still don't know a lot, but my crops indoors and out were damn good this year. I hope to grow more consistently in the future.

 

[Snow_grown]

I learned a lot when I joined over 15 yrs ago. At that time I was living in Florida.
When I joined my handle was Cowboybudsky

Hahah what a name!! I won't lie,I like this one much better

 

[Snow_grown]

I worked in a nearby greenhouse for my first job when I was ten. Learned a lot about growing flowers and vegetables. Learned about fertilizer and light schedules. I also worked in greenhouses during my late teens, Learned about cuttings and cross breeding plants.
Thirty-five years ago, I was gifted an exceptionally potent mother plant. I turned a basement room into a cloning room and by spring had about thirty girls ready to go outside. Somehow, I knew they needed phosphorus during flower. That was the only fert used other than basic MG and dead fish. It was a spectacular crop.
I had to take some time off when the kids were at an awkward age, being in an illegal state. F*ck the D.A.R.E. program. I became a lurker here ten or fifteen years ago under the handle Jessegro. I didn't post but a time or two due to too much policing going on around my home. F*ck police helicopters, too.
Only this past year, with growing weed now legal here did I try to bring my gardening up to more modern levels. I had great success some years, but also some disappointing seasons. I studied here and on YouTube, along with the Cervantes grow bible. I still don't know a lot, but my crops indoors and out were damn good this year. I hope to grow more consistently in the future.

Wow,that's impressive. Wish I could found interest in growing plants at such a young age!pretty cool you have stuck with it this long!
And i feel you,I'm from Oklahoma, so I definitely took breaks anytime I felt nervous! A joint could get you 20 years here. But now it's legal and im all licensed up,so no worries, even grew a 14 footer this year on the side of my house...on Main street,hahaha

 

[Hippie420]

I learned from books I bought back in the early 70's from Touch Boutique in Flint. Grew, fine tuned, and used a lot of common sense. The plants did the rest. It is just a weed, afterall.
This place always comes in handy if you've got problems, but the trick is not to get to the problem stage.

Have to giggle when I see the old books again. Still got 'em. One was by a guy that is looked upon as a God in the marijuana world. He said that you'd kill a weed plant by putting it on a 24 hour light schedule. Proved the God wrong many times.

 

[WeedHopper]

Hahah what a name!! I won't lie,I like this one much better

Me too

 

[greenmobster440]

I started in 98. Tried it on my own and failed miserably with a big fat hermie and tons of worthless seed. I thought I'd hit the jackpot...then I joined a grow forum and they laughed at me.. mercilessly..lol

Old growers on Overgrow back when it was just cranking up took me in and guided me towards more successful grows.

Oddly I learned to grow using scrogs and flowering clones. I'm happy to say those habits still are a big part of my style today.

I sometimes give a silent thank you to and old Australian grower named @Feral. Eccentric old guy who had a gold plated toilet. I imagine he's gone now but he is not forgotten and his style lives on through me.

 

[CrashMagnet]

Considering about half the stuff I try ends in disaster, I'm not sure I really do know how to grow. Most of what I do know came from MP, but I do like to experiment : )

 

[WeedHopper]

Nobody here laughs at growers trying to learn,,and if they did it wouldn't go well.

 

[superpsy]

I saw this thread pop up and memories came flooding back to me. And a few tears. I'm a Arkie/Okie Boy. I have lived other places in my life, but my roots and soul are here. Ate up with stump jumper and redneck. I was lucky and got a mentor early in life. Bought my first sack of weed in the fourth grade and had my first grow the summer between 5th and 6th grade.

I grew up in gardens, composting all that stuff. So growing weed was in the cards. Well buying that first sack of weed introduced me to Ray, my mentor. He lived out in the Arkansas River bottoms outside of Lavaca Ar. I lived in Barling Ar. so it was a long bicycle ride out to his place for a kid. He knew the area I lived in so we looked over maps for a good grow site. He gave me a handful of sativa seed and I was off and running. Had to get onsite compost going off of a couple of Boy Scout backpacks full of compost from my dads pile. Having to find the best soft soil in the area I was going to grow in. It was a lot of work but Ray helped me through it and kicked off a lifelong activity.

Got busted for trading seeds in the 8th grade. Remember I'm in draconian Arkansas when it comes to weed. Didn't stop me,, kept on growing. Got busted in Oklahoma in the early to mid 1980 for a indoor grow and they wanted to put me away for 40 years. Found out money can buy freedom so I paid and did some county time and kept growing.

In my part of the world it was even hard to get a copy of High Times. One could get on mailing list for grow newsletters. But like High Times the postmaster would take them. And sometimes turn you over to the pigs, state and feds. So you were on your own or risking jail. There were no books to be had. There were a few head shops around. With the Funky Candle being the big one in my area. But there was no printed material to be had. And to this day I think it was ran by the Pigs. No matter what happened the Funky Candle was always open and nobody really knew who the owner was. Strange to this day.

Ray taught me so much and I knew him the rest of his life. And he was all for crossbreeding indica with indica and sativa with sativa. But he went to his grave swearing the euro and cali boys are ruining weed crossing indica with sativa. He wouldn't allow that **** weed to be grown on his land. It's been one hell of a adventure! And I'm grateful to have known Ray,,, My mentor.

 

[KGB]

I ordered seeds from a company out of Amsterdam 25 years ago. They delivered them hidden in a CD case. I grew them out but reading about when they were ready was confusing. I mistook the pistils for the trichomes and when they started turning red I harvested. Needless to say it was pretty….but worthless.

Now I have a year and a half of experimentation and am cranking out awesome weed due to journals here and YouTube videos