Hello everyone, I’m Ohwolfie, and this is what I’m currently growing… First off, a little bit about myself. I’ve been growing since 2013, but have been smoking cannabis since 2000. I was in the 10th Grade, and was supposed to go to a Staind/Korn concert with a friend, and my mom and dad gave me some money for a ticket and something to eat. That day, myself and another friend ended up leaving school at around lunch (skipping lol), and my other friend was supposed to come pick me up later on in the day to see the show. It was about a 2 and a half hour drive, so he’d have to get me by about 5 at the latest to get there on time, and get in the venue. 3:30 comes, 4:30 comes, 5:30 comes, no sign of him. I had about $60 in my pocket, and nothing to spend it on… I’m sure you can see where this is going. My friend who I skipped with was one of those kids my mom and dad warned me about. He was 18 (I was 15) and had just gotten out of boy’s school for punching his dad in the face, and fighting cops. Anyway, he convinced me that buying a bag of "Skunk Bud’ was a good idea. And boy was he right. I got stoned AF, and ate a big ass pizza with my friends (paid for by me of course). That was the start of my cannabis smoking. I’ve been in love with cannabis ever since.
I had always wanted to grow, but convinced myself that it was too difficult. I remember getting ahold of an old High Times issue in about 2003 that had all kinds of grow info in it. But I never put any of it to use. I got ahold of some bagseed from my brother that he’d been saving in 2013, and ended up killing all of the seedlings I had. I left them on my front step with the humidity dome on, and went to work. The sun fried them. He ended up giving me the rest of what he had left. I’ve since paid him back with seeds 10 fold. I ended up having really small plants that year because I transplanted them late, but it was absolute fire. The grow bug bit me, and I was hooked. I grew outdoors that next year, only with Mandala seeds instead of bagseed. My grow partner ended up killing all of my plants but one (because he couldn’t remember where it was) to spite me. So the next year I grew indoors, and have mainly grown indoors since. Though I have put out a few plants for the last few years in the Summer.
I started making my own crosses in 2016. Once again, my real hang up was that I had convinced myself that it was too difficult. I didn’t think I had a good enough eye for selection. But after a close call with the law, and ending up killing my clones in a nervous panic, I came to the conclusion that seeds were the best way to preserve valued genetics. So at first, my aim was just to preserve what I had, rather than trying to improve anything. My first pollination was the F2ing the Bog Bubble seeds that eventually made their way to @Cyr_grow last year. I remember that male well. He smelled like skunky beer, and I said to myself that this is the kind of male that you hope is a female. Meaning, in veg he had the look of what you’d want in a quality female. I ended up killing him pretty early, so I didn’t get to see if that skunky smell developed into a sweet one. A good friend of mine had a male just like that one, and he said that it eventually went from skunky beer to a sweet smell, so I’m assuming it would have been the same with him. I also made a couple of other crosses that grow. Helmand Afghani x Bog Bubble, and an unknown Resin Seeds tester x Bog Bubble. Normally, I don’t make seeds with testers, but I was pretty new, and it was already pollinated before I realized it was too late.
Nowadays, I still like to preserve things that are special, and F2 or F3 them, and I also like to make my own improvements, and see what happens. I now feel that I have the eye for it, the experience, and most of all the confidence. My only real limitation is time and space, like everyone else I guess.
