has growing changed how you live your personal life?

I was a sexual deviant before and and now I'm still a sexual deviant. No real change.

I don't chase yields anymore. I haven't weighed my pulls in years.

superhigh3 said:

Nice. Some of you are lucky. Im in my late 20s and the people in the know about me growing is only my parents n siblings (none of which know where I grow) and my wife .

No one else has any clue and only my wife actually knows where I grow. Kinda sucks in some ways but being this reserved about it has been a blessing in disguise.

Call me a nerd but I like it that I spend all my free time with my wife. She was always my best friend even before we moved past the platonic stage of our relationship so I really don't feel im missing out on much lol

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Hang in there, you won't be in your 20's forever. Your words reminded me of my first grow attempt: I was fresh out of the Navy and glad to not have to run around the ship trying to find a place to smoke some rope... In my first apartment I tried growing some Mexican Red Hair (10 dollars a lid - A "Lid" was a baggy 4 fingers high and about half an inch wide). I tried growing with 2 flood lamps using plastic sockets that cracked from heat. Then I tried growing in the attic in two large plastic trash bags. The heat would have killed them in the end, but I didn't know enough to put holes in the bags for drainage so they got root rot after 6 weeks...

Smart to keep your growing quiet - you will sleep better when they get close to harvesting. Good luck!

growing became my passion I have always picked up hobbies then stop but this one I hope I can do for awhile I have one friend that is trust worthy don't bother talking to no one else go to library to grab a few books just to get the brain going although you hear or see movies with tons of people hanging with their friends many of those friends sad to say screw em over unfortunately I have had my fair share and leave myself to family living this secret life besides ain't that what you guys are for cheers!! Rollitup!!

just looked at my plants


they are plants

Trousers said:

That sucks. The smell gets on your clothes and hair. I hang my clothes outside and take a shower after trimming.
What I hate is focusing for so many hours, it makes me go a bit crazy.

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you know... what I do... and i'm weird so keep this in mind..
Is get some good stand-up comedy, or "auditory" amusement, like "family guy" or "south park" or whatever, something you don't need to watch to enjoy, and then I get three paper plates, the big thick ones, and have the untrimmed nugs on one, the trim on the other, and the finished nugs on the last plate, I lie down, and put the plates on my lap, and trim while listening to the comedy..
Keeps it a little more doable.. also sports works well too, well sorta, i'm a sports nut so I end up watching tv...
Either way... trimming is my sole reason why I don't go commercial.

Saving money number one reason

mo841 said:

the only differance it has made is in my wallet. I dont smoke, my wife does.The cheeper I can get weed the better. My electric and water bill is a lil higher but its still way cheeper than buying the shit off the street. I needed extra money for a trip recently so I just sold an oz and was good to go. Other than watering, I dont spend much time messing with the plants these days

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Growing definitely has saved me money. Big time. I use to sEll but that's years ago when I first started growing. I did pretty well for you kid growing in a 8x10 room bit only using half that space with 2 600s and a big 4ft t5 in a walk in closet for veg.

It was definitely go big or go home. Lol.

I was comfortably living off marijuana only for a good while through my college years. All I did was study n grow.

The trimming was the worst. I use to just sit down and do marathon trims (like 4 plus hrs until my fingers were worn out)

I ended up having to move (unrelated to marijuana or growing) so I quit growing for almost a year. Once I got into a place I could grow I started back up but just for fun/myself /the wife

These days I still grow just for myself and it's much better this way. Less paranoid. Plus I can grow what I really want instead of considering a buyer's opinions/needs/wants.

I use to grow a strain at a time by the lb. It was sucky having only 1 or 2 types of bud to smoke for months on end.

Now I try to grow only 1 plant per strain and fill in my space with a good variety of buds. All I grow with now is 1 600w and a small 2ft t5 for veg/experiments.

At most I have 6 going at once. Two under the t5 and 4 under my 600w hps.