overvolt
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Hello all future buddies! How's it going? Thought I'd come say hi and tell you a bit about myself!
How did it all start off? When I was 8... I stumbled into my brothers grow one summer before he started growing seriously. I was doing the usual 8yo stuff by investigating into the forest and came across a clearing with plants growing in pots. I wasn't too sure what it was, looked like tomatoes but why here? As I started to pick the pots up... Or try to, I was sprung on by my bro. He made me promise not to say anything about it to the family. I didn't know why it was so secretive but dismissed it. Later on that summer coming into Autumn I walked into my dads shed he hardly used but where all the garden stuff and summer toys were put, to find these plants hanging up at the back.
Going to festivals and parties as a child with my family I recognised the smell, it was what dad use to smoke at these events and use in the evenings out of what is now know as the bong or vaporiser! I put two and two together to figure out it was what I had to hide if police knocked on the door! Yep it was 'weed'
It was then I started to take an interest, I loved the smell of it and the way everyone treasured it so much. I use to sit on the stairs and listen to parents and friends talk about it when they'd come over to try a different strain.
3 years or so later i found some seeds in my dads tin and thought I'd try grow one.
I ran to the greenhouse found a pot and compost and put the seed in. Now for an 11 or 12yo I did pretty well in the germination and growing!
We had an old Mary Quant edition Mini parked in the back yard and wasn't really on the road as the seats were yanked out to repair the footwells so I put it in there. Over about 6 weeks I'd nurtured it and watered it. It didnt look as well as I get mine looking now, it was a bit starved of nutes but had grown about 3foot.
As I was walking around the side of the house I heard my name being called. My dad was up in the top barn and called me over. As I walked over my dad talked me... 'Whats that plant in the mini?' I denied knowing but he said he'd watched me go there loads of times. I later owned up and he knew exactly what it was. He didnt tell me off... Just said it needs feeding with fertiliser and.... 'Dont let your mum find out' hahaha I was chuffed as!
So off I was on my quest to find plant food! I ran over to my friends place who had a farm and he took me to the barn where fertiliser was kept. He shovelled a handful into a bag and off I went!
I was then on my return... Oddly that I was tackled by my mum. She quizzed me about what was in the mini... I owned up to then be told that I shouldn't be doing stuff like that at my age and to leave my dads tin alone but.... DONT LET YOUR DAD FIND OUT!
Bonus! One way to play your rents but why would I want to? They were both in a way letting me do something naughty. Little did I know the severity of the naughtiness if it were stumbled appon by someone who didnt condone such an activity!
To cut a long story short... I killed my plant by over nuting them with agricultural grade chemical Nitrogen! Gutted! Every year there after I grew a couple of plants getting better and better at it each time.
Here I am 18 years later, 4 different grow rooms later and happy as can be!
I hope I can be of some knowledge as equally as you all can be to me. I love my hobby and like all gardener's enjoy the reward of their hard work. I'm new to coming on such sites but really took a warming to this site as everyone's looking out for every bodies interest here which I find to be really good.
thank you all for the help you've already provided now its my turn to kindly give a bit back!
How did it all start off? When I was 8... I stumbled into my brothers grow one summer before he started growing seriously. I was doing the usual 8yo stuff by investigating into the forest and came across a clearing with plants growing in pots. I wasn't too sure what it was, looked like tomatoes but why here? As I started to pick the pots up... Or try to, I was sprung on by my bro. He made me promise not to say anything about it to the family. I didn't know why it was so secretive but dismissed it. Later on that summer coming into Autumn I walked into my dads shed he hardly used but where all the garden stuff and summer toys were put, to find these plants hanging up at the back.
Going to festivals and parties as a child with my family I recognised the smell, it was what dad use to smoke at these events and use in the evenings out of what is now know as the bong or vaporiser! I put two and two together to figure out it was what I had to hide if police knocked on the door! Yep it was 'weed'
It was then I started to take an interest, I loved the smell of it and the way everyone treasured it so much. I use to sit on the stairs and listen to parents and friends talk about it when they'd come over to try a different strain.
3 years or so later i found some seeds in my dads tin and thought I'd try grow one.
I ran to the greenhouse found a pot and compost and put the seed in. Now for an 11 or 12yo I did pretty well in the germination and growing!
We had an old Mary Quant edition Mini parked in the back yard and wasn't really on the road as the seats were yanked out to repair the footwells so I put it in there. Over about 6 weeks I'd nurtured it and watered it. It didnt look as well as I get mine looking now, it was a bit starved of nutes but had grown about 3foot.
As I was walking around the side of the house I heard my name being called. My dad was up in the top barn and called me over. As I walked over my dad talked me... 'Whats that plant in the mini?' I denied knowing but he said he'd watched me go there loads of times. I later owned up and he knew exactly what it was. He didnt tell me off... Just said it needs feeding with fertiliser and.... 'Dont let your mum find out' hahaha I was chuffed as!
So off I was on my quest to find plant food! I ran over to my friends place who had a farm and he took me to the barn where fertiliser was kept. He shovelled a handful into a bag and off I went!
I was then on my return... Oddly that I was tackled by my mum. She quizzed me about what was in the mini... I owned up to then be told that I shouldn't be doing stuff like that at my age and to leave my dads tin alone but.... DONT LET YOUR DAD FIND OUT!
Bonus! One way to play your rents but why would I want to? They were both in a way letting me do something naughty. Little did I know the severity of the naughtiness if it were stumbled appon by someone who didnt condone such an activity!
To cut a long story short... I killed my plant by over nuting them with agricultural grade chemical Nitrogen! Gutted! Every year there after I grew a couple of plants getting better and better at it each time.
Here I am 18 years later, 4 different grow rooms later and happy as can be!
I hope I can be of some knowledge as equally as you all can be to me. I love my hobby and like all gardener's enjoy the reward of their hard work. I'm new to coming on such sites but really took a warming to this site as everyone's looking out for every bodies interest here which I find to be really good.
thank you all for the help you've already provided now its my turn to kindly give a bit back!
