Me too! I’m the plant-obsessed green thumb of my family, so I grow for my mum, and once in a while I have a little RSO to help me sleep or our friend makes an awesome green drink for me.
I love the smell of the live plants and most fresh bud. Some terps are so good they seem too go straight to the top of my skull and I want to roll in them like catnip!
I did encounter an odd difficulty though. I don’t know which terpene the most appealing one is, and it doesn’t smell like something I can compare it to. I found one other rare terpene that I really abhor, and similarly have been unable to figure out how to identify. (Other than by expensive testing).
I used to be, but nowadays Illinois is a med/rec state and we have a growers group and we’re all growing the strains I’ve created 30+ years ago…we meet up every week for growers night at my buddy’s bar in central Illinois…there are 15 growers in 2 counties and 6 different towns…btw, none of us sell our weed that we grow, all of us give it away to the less fortunate because we have so much…life is good folks now that its finally legal in Illinois…
I grow alone. I do most things alone. When I smoke I become very quiet and introspective. A lot of people need noise or action. They dont like to be quiet and want to talk all the time. I used to drink alot and I basicaly lived like a pirate or mountain man ( alcohol and adventure) . Now I smoke weed and live like a buddhist monk. I think now is better.
Wifey takes care of the garden while I’m away, 10yo daughter helps mix the nutes and adjust ph…nobody touches the trimming buds but me though…but wife will come and rip a nice top off of a beautiful bud to smoke, just cause she knows it drives me nuts…lol
Back in thr day there was a saying
No Smell
No tell
No cell
Yes I fly alone and always will.
Folks are lazy and greedy and generally get on My nerves lol
wife doesn’t smoke, but will occasionally eat a gummy for deep sleep, or to relax sore muscles. she likes the CBD salves also. i only got her to try the dry vape once. blue dream. she liked the flavor.
i have tried passing the doob to her several times while we are sitting out back enjoying the morning coffee and convo. she just scowls at me with the “are joo crazy mang?!” look.
our collective cannabis journey had a rocky start. (south americans have a MUCH different outlook on drugs in general due to the cartels) she is a full believer now that she sees how it helps her mom.
to top it off, she is a certified plant murderer. black thumb all the way. she stays away from my garden(s) for the most part…
most of what i grow is for my mother in law’s condition, but i have been known to slip one of my picks in every now and then.
i guess i’m ok with doing it alone, but would be nice to have some help with the trimming. trimming 12-20 plants by yourself at the end of outdoor harvest SUCKS. those plants are pretty big. i am kind of ambivalent about the “trim jail” sentiment as i am always happy to be harvesting what i grow.
Live alone. Grow alone.
Help a few friends out in the spring with gifted cuts for their summer gardens.
Pooch and I keep pretty much to ourselves otherwise.
It’s better this way.
Pretty much been “myself” since my teenage years. Things were “don’t ask, don’t tell” for so long, I never wanted to bring anyone into the “circle”, except my neighbors who are exceptionally cool.
Now that it’s “legal” and moved my step kids from California, I have help, and it’s nice passing down what I’ve learned over many many moons.
Now, I just have to supervise and instruct, and the kids will run the entire season with just a little help. It benefits them too, since they ended up with close to 5#’s for their effort last year.
It’s kinda a don’t ask don’t tell unless you know someone else enough to trust them and them trust you. For me only a couple close family members get an insight to what goes on. I’m a 2nd generation “Tree trimmer” hint hint so it’s a damn close circle. At times it turns into a competition to see who has better at the end of the season.
Sure a lone grower, all my friends who use to consume stopped and I am the one keeping 420 alive from the group so I grow alone and my wife knows but this is my thing, my son have no idea, he is 10 and I’m 39 now.
Ocassionaly a friend pop up and we smoke but not what use to be but I like weed in my life, so why change something that is good?
Also a lone grower, smoker and only one year into learning to grow. It’s at this point in my life that my decade + lifestyle of seclusion is biting me in the ass hard. I’d love to discover some fellow central Missouri growers to have the occasional get together with and share some smoke and shoot the shit with.
Still illegal in the UK (and no sign of a change) so grow alone (Wife is not interested and son is a Policeman - so he cannot know) Trying to hide the smell is the hardest part
Look no further than @MoBilly .
And an incredibly great example of a human being. Did I mention he’s a brother of mine. Not blood but I consider him part of my family.
