craggin
Active Member
As a relative newbie on this site, thought it would be cool to share a bit of nostalgia. This was only my 2nd grow back in 1981. Some fun facts:
- ALL your equipment was DIY. This was a hydro system I built from an Igloo, a square mop bucket, an aquarium sump pump, and a bunch of hand-crushed lava rocks from the landscape store, and plastic tubing/connectors from the hardware store.
- There were very, very few choices for lighting. These were ( 8 ) 4' (I think 40W) fluorescent grow lights from the garden center.
- Cannabis-specific nutes were non-existent. I used agricultural grade hydroponic tomato fertilizer (as it was called back then), and had to lie to the commercial supplier as to my credentials and commercial grower's license.
- Clones weren't available, so the only way to start a grow was from bagweed seeds. Hell, that was the only weed to begin with! This girl was from a variety we called Kona Gold. No one used the term strain yet.
- There was no internet to learn or exchange ideas from. Heck there were very few books available, and those in print were hard to find. I still have my trusty old & tattered edition of Marijuana Grow's Guide ~ Deluxe Edition ~ (c) 1978 mel frank & ed rosenthal -- hee hee
- While this grow of a single plant was in the realm of super-cropping and I definitely applied LST, techniques like lollipopping, mainlining, etc were either unheard of or not invented/perfected yet.
- I recall a High Times magazine edition that featured some wise 'ol looking Jamaican dudes standing in front of something we'd not yet seen, and heard very little of - Indica! No joke. All we had access to was Sativa. I both marveled and drooled over such short, yet extremely bushy marijuana plants.
- No air scrubber, so I was pretty paranoid when unwanted or unannounced house guests arrived.
- Cell phones didn't exist, and neither did digital cameras. We sure as hell weren't going to take awesome photos with a 35mm, have 'em developed at the local photo lab, only to have the cops come knocking. Hence the lowfi pic from the trusty 'ol Polaroid!
Cheers &