I wish that were true but it isn't. Cannabis is still a schedule 1 drug and as such has no actual legal standing. So how legal Cannabis is depends on who you bump into. If it's the DEA or any Federal officer then no it isn't. If you watch the shenanigans going on right now in CA it becomes obvious that Cannabis is only allowed if you behave VERY quietly. It is so sad but I digress.
I have waited so many years hoping for full legalization while my pain continued to eat my life away until now I have very little of any life left. Hence my decision to engage in using to try and gain some bit of what is left of my life back. An extremely kind person has stepped in and helped me and I can not express my gratitude. I sincerely wish I could say how good, real and compassionate this person is but I would never put someone that kind into any potentially compromising position. I just hope he reads this and knows I am able to sit here and use my computer ONLY because of his help.
the feds wont do anything to you. unless you were growing a ton of plants or selling it. you have what sounds like a very legitimate reason to use it, and you are only growing for personal use. im not saying you should flaunt it or anything. just saying they have better things to do, like go after big grow ops that are for profit. most of the busts in cali are on dispensaries. the majority of dispensaries arent even following state law anyways because they make a profit.
Anyway due to the current legal climate I am going to try to learn to grow so that I have a back up plan of some type. I think it is insanity that I have to even attempt to do something like this but based on the climate I must.
what do you mean by backup plan? growing is a very fun hobby! they become like your children
So to that end I have acquired a few Aurora Indica seeds and am allocating a spare bathroom. I plan to attempt to grow 2 plants through each stage, seedling, vegetative and flowering in a perpetual arrangement.
perpetual is usually done with clones. i dont think ive seen anyone use seeds for perpetual, except at the beginning to find a good mother. seeds are a pain because some turn out male(which you must throw away, unless you want pollen and/or your females filled with seeds), and they take longer to get started.
id suggest germinating some seeds, and vegging them a bit. after they get big enough, cut a clone off each and flower the clones after they get some roots. make sure to tag each one!! this will reveal your males, and if you let the females grow, will also reveal which female is the best of the batch. after this, you go back to that mother you took that best clone off of. this will be your mother plant for use in the perpetual. or you can use one of her clones as a new mother too. there are more than a few cloning threads on this site.
im guessing you didnt ask your doctor about a higher plant limit since you are talking about 6 plants. if you have a condition requiring a lot of mj, you can get a recommendation for a higher plant and/or possession limit.
I am hoping you all can help me with input on how to do this and keep me from murdering these few plants. I have some older equipment I purchased in 1998 when I first thought I'd try it, grew a few tomatoes (boy were they good), using NFT technology and then chickened out on a MMJ grow.
So here's what I have, 2 6" PVC tubes with several 3" holes drilled into it, net pots, pellets and flora grow/bloom/micro (I probably need new this is so old) I plan to put 1 tube in the tub and 1 tub in the closet. That way I can flip flowering/vegetative areas between tub & closet by moving the light fixture.
so the 3" holes are drilled in the side of those tubes all in a straight line, right? are you just using the tubs for reservoirs? thats a good idea to have 2 separate areas like that. much easier to move the lights than the plants. you will need to think about how to move air around as well. if you switch the lights, but the new flowering area(which used to have a smaller MH light) isnt ventilated enough, it can cause a ton of problems, including fire. in my old grow box, i used a thermostat connected to a relay, which caused the fan to turn on when it rose above a certain temp.
I will keep the seedlings and any mother plants I may get out of this on the bathroom counter under flourescents.
sounds good. are they going to be hydro as well? you need to think of a way to stop light from leaking from the mother are into the shower/closet. whichever is flowering needs total darkness during night.
I have one 250 watt metal halide and an old magnetic ballast. I need to purchase a flourescent for the seedlings and an HPS for the flowering.
do you have a ph/ppm meter? those are kind of important with hydro.
Here is the area I plan to use:
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The room is roughly 11' by 6.5'. Only my hubby and I live here so there is little chance of anyone coming it and it does have 1 external wall and of course the roof.
does the hubby know electrical and how to cut holes in walls without destroying it?
i do see a window in there. that will be nice for ventilation. maybe black out the top part, and put a box of some sort in the window sill. this will contain your fan(hidden from the outside), with a carbon filter on the interior side. so the fan is sucking the air through the filter. im not too sure on how to hide a big box in your window. maybe if you made it look like an ac unit or something.
does it happen to be on the second story? that would be nice.
How best to set this up? What type of fluorescent fixture would be best for seedlings, vegetating mother?
look up T5 and T8 bulb fixtures. i think those are the ones most often used. theyll have slots for like 6-12 bulbs. not sure which ones are most effiecient. and i dont remember if the diameter of the bulb gets bigger or smaller as the number goes up. i think they get smaller as it goes up.
Can I use the same fluorescent fixture for the seedlings as the mother initially?
yes but after a while your mothers will be getting big, and may need to switch to the MH. this will make her grow faster anyways. you could also use an MH for the seedlings as long as it doesnt get too hot or too close. if you just keep one mother(which is the best seed of the batch, as mentioned earlier), using a whole MH just for her seems like kind of a waste. id say just get the MH and use that for both. some ppl like to use 24/7 light on seedlings though, and not the mother.
Will the 250 watt metal halide be ok for vegetative growth or do I need more wattage?
how big do you want them to get before you flower them?
i just realized you will also be using the MH to veg the clones taken from the mother too. but id say 250 would be an adequate size. 400 would be better probably, but if you dont want to spend money on more electricity get the 250. just know you will get less growth.
What to get for the flowering? Should I remove the shelves in the closet?
as big as you can go. i used a 600w HPS in my bedroom closet. it worked beautifully. it got a little hot sometimes and the light kept me up at night, but it was worth it in the end
i used the shelf in my closet. since the plants werent that high, i used the shelf to hold the light. i drilled a hole in the shelf. then put an eye screw in the hole. i took 12 gauge insulated wire and tied it to the screw and the other end to the light. if you use a long enough wire, you can adjust it as the plants get bigger, or when you put a new small batch in you can lower it.
as for the front end of the light, i did this. if you have an attic up ontop of the closet, take a piece of wood in the attic. i laid the piece of wood across 2 beams in the attic. i drilled a hole in the middle and took 12 gauge insulated wire and ran it through, and tied it off on the top so it wont fall back down through the hole. then i ran the wire through the ceiling, and tied it to the end to the light. this will easily support the light and is also adjustable.
Anything else?
Thank you,
Annie
yeah. if you want to do multiple quotes in a message like i just did, highlight the text you want to quote. then click this icon
. it will wrap the text in a quote. this way you can respond to certain parts of the text as opposed to just the whole thing in general.
also! have you smoked much yet? where did you get it from? how was it? do you like it?
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let us know how your first smoke session goes! oh that reminds me... only take one or two hits and wait about 10-15 minutes. sometimes it takes a little big to kick in fully. smoking too much can cause some undesired effects. nothing serious, you just feel anxious for a while. you cannot die, so dont worry 
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