View Single Post
Old 06-22-2009, 05:14 PM   #4
spike69
2nd Place Plant, and 3rd Place Member of the Month Winner (Oct 09')
 
spike69's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: not mn.
Posts: 582
Blog Entries: 2
spike69 is a jewel in the roughspike69 is a jewel in the roughspike69 is a jewel in the roughspike69 is a jewel in the rough
Re: first real grow,for my brother

[QUOTE=spike69;802467]My brother mover up north to my town from mo.because his seizures were out of control and were gonna kill him.we found 1 of the best medicines was smoke to relax him and his shaking would stop,all around good things.my bro
has traumatic brain inj.(not from war)but from riding a harley- a nurse in a car jut switched lanes and took him out it was on 35w and they were going 60 or so.
Anyway that was 20 years ago but it is with him and the family all the time
he is on disability and cant afford smoke all the time,so I started learning and now its become alot of fun.
I started with 3 bag seeds he had and got some mg organic potting soil and I was off.I started looking at websites and saw I needed some soft wht. cfls.WENT TO HOME DEPOT GOT SOME STRONG 1S AND ALL 3 SEEDS WERE FEMALE.1 by 1 they were smoked alls they got were little red buds,he said much better then the original,so I talked to mom who lives net door she saw the diff. and gave me the use of credit card. thats when the fun started.
more later .I got ahold of some good seeds and started studying like on web sites like this,I got a couple aerogardens but never could make them work right - the nutes were always messed up.
So I had 4 small plants put them in mg organic potting soil and they took off fine.I was still using just little cfls from wall mart soft wht. and I knew we would need better lights,so I got 150 watt hps and 150 watt cfl with alum. hood and some fox farm and humboldt nutes and boy did the gals take off then.4 durban poison growing good,at 14 in. I put them on 12 and 12 and there were 2 males 2 females-the gals are still growing.The males made weed juice,but the girls were taking forever to finish flowering(still haven't)but every now and then I cut a bud check tris and hes not had to buy any since I started the growing,the smoke keeps him calm,he doesn't shake as much and he eats better,I can't believe mn. won't make it medical legal,heres a perfect example.Since durban takes so long I got dwarf ganja and have that going now too.I need more room and lights but in 6 weeks first dwarf is 19 in. tall and full of buds but no false seed pods yet.
I give nutes every other watering and start with humboldt veg nutes and then when start seeing pistels I give first a big dose of fox farm big bloom,and then every other watering reg. dose.so far its all working and the main point he has not had to buy any,Lord knows i have invested enough money and time,but I'm disabled too and as long as I get to have grandbaby now and then and I'm doing what I can for bro. things are good.later for now.spike
spike69 is offline   Reply With Quote