SAN FRANCISCO 2009 GHETTO GROW

The Dilemmas of a First Time Grower; or
How to Keep it Green, without Killing the Frog

A researcher was in his lab conducting an experiment with a rather large bullfrog. He placed the bullfrog on the lab table and marked the spot. He then said, "Jump frog jump." The bullfrog jumped 4 feet. He marked that spot.He then took the bullfrog and chopped off its front legs, placed him at the first spot he had marked and said, "Jump frog jump." The bullfrog jumped 2 feet. He marked that spot.He then took the bullfrog and chopped off his back legs, placed him on the first spot once again, and said,"Jump frog jump." The frog did not move.Again "Jump frog jump." The bullfrog still did not move.The researcher sits down on his stool and writes some notes in his log.He seems to be quite pleased with his findings, and states them as follows:

" If you cut off all 4 legs of a bullfrog, he can't hear!"

The thuth is , the frog bled-out , the reasearcher lost his position because, like good marijauna seeds, good frogs aren't cheap either. No matter how much reasearch you do, untill you are doing it, and are dealing with all the multiple variables - not only those required, but the ones you create -you will likely continue making false assumptions.

I'm doing this grow with no PH meter, no Marijauna bible, no timers . Seeds, dirt, water and the sun.

 

From time to time, I find a seed in the meds I pick up and save them. I've read you should never use them because they are more than likely Hermies. And hermie seeds make hermie babies. But what the fuck. I want to try my hand at growing. So 10 days after I turned 58, I finaly choose my Life vocation and drop these 6 seeds in a cup of water. Wow! I'm a fuckin farmer. And it feels good. 2 weeks and a day and later they look good to me. I do research all day on the net and the amount of info is mind bogling. And just like the researcher who killed the frog, I'm writing down everything I'm doing and checking the list of the things that I have chosen to be of importance, and have already made some false assumptions.
This is 3 weeks from dry seed. I've deceded to trellis or tie-down to keep it low and even. 6weeks and their vegin good.
2 mo and showing girl hair 10 weeks and I got colas, maybe 2 dozen

3mo. from seed and how they became this is not that probbable to say the least .I germinated 6 seeds My first fuck-up was breaking off the last 1/4in. of the root tip on 3or4 out of the 6. They were so hearty, in 2 days, they cork-screwed through the paper towels, the seed pods were off and the seed or embryos were flattened and spreading apart. So they broke. Don't laugh, it gets worse.

From the time I flipped the light cycle to 12/12 on May 27, this window is all the light they get. The sun shines on the plants for less than 4 hr. a day from around 3:00pm to 7:00pm.If it's cloudy, thats all the light they get. And so as my ancesters did before me. I pray to the gods for sun. And I feel helpless and mortal.
3 months to the day. I have not found even one male pollen sack, So my Hermies are not acting queer;so to speak. They're starting to plump up.
And now the girls are going to expose their loveliness.
 
7/3 09  
transplanted at 93 days into 12 " pots 4 days later all pistols were shriveling up
week after transplant same day 7/19/09
and the very next day the sun stopped shining.