It seems like just yesterday, but I began my lifelong hobby of growing in the spring of 1970.
There were no how to books, no interwebs, a definite dearth of cannabis growing information. For the first few years, it was all outdoors with bag seeds of what was mostly long finishing sativas. NE NJ was not very hospitable for successful cultivation of these seeds outdoors.
Circa mid ‘70s Mel Frank and Ed Rosenthal published their first how to book, which introduced me to the earth shattering concept of growing indoors under fluorescents. A momentous revelation for sure.
I subsequently developed a passion for gardening which has only intensified ever since.