Always hoped for legalization but never really believed in the 60s, 70s, or 80s that I’d ever see it in my lifetime
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Welcome to OG @JohnnyPotseed! Damn, you have some nice stories. I’ll be 65 in a week. We have a lot of older guys here. Man, I want to pick your brain on a few things some time if you’re okay with it. I wasn’t smoking till '71 but never gave it up since. I was never fortunate to be able to grow much since I was young and moving a lot because of a job after the Navy.
I had a really nice outdoor grow in '97 but only got to get back into it around 6 years ago and now live I in southern Colorado and living out the legal dream. I’m like you, I never expected to see it legal in my lifetime. I sure never saw Oklahoma legalizing it so fast. I’m from Alabama originally and lived all over the south.
Mind it I ask which state you guys came from? Another guy on here, @deep_rob, has old school pics and cool stories from him and his family growing in Texas in the early 60’s. He’s out here in Colo now and a legal seed business.
Mind if I ask how that Frankenstein came out? It sure has the genetics in there. I can’t imagine how that must have been trying to manage that many strains and keep track of your progress… lol.
Anyway, hope you hang out with us for a while. We have a nice group of people on here and cover the whole spectrum of experience. We’ll be really happy having another one around who knew the early days.
I’m outside of Trinidad, CO. We used to be the main place for OK peeps to get weed. My town has around 30 dispensaries and a good many commercial grow ops. Now that OK went legal, we don’t see as many OK car tags, heh. If you ever get over this way hit me up. It’s a real laid back town that was dying until they legalized pot and now it’s in a re-birth with money to repair the old place and now we’re in a renaissance. We only have 8,000 population.
Oh, you said something that caught my attention… can anybody sell to dispensaries there? Or is it a “Growers License” what makes that possible?
peace
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Respect…bet you learned a thing or 2 about plants and life. How good it is to find genetics and you cant breed bad genes out!
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Hi GMan, thanks for the welcome and no, I don’t mind answering anything I can from anyone… I’m FROM Virginia, but lived all over the country over the years from Cali to Florida with my real loves being Texas and Oklahoma. I was a ‘rolling stone’, moving around to do my grows. I took my mothers through more than a few ag-checkpoints via a hidden room in the center of a home-made trailer lol usually saying my bitch was in heat when their dogs would go off :)) I had 3 big wolf/malamute that I’d place in ‘strategic’ areas lol so they always said ‘get on outta here’ and passed me on! I stopped for the last years in the Carolina’s, then to Oklahoma and legitimacy. Of course, bringing about 40 good mothers with…
I’m not that far from you and actually have thought about going to Colorado for seeds, just haven’t had time .
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Guess what, @misterbee, it hit me last night that recently, another OG’er sent me a bunch of his work and also included some Ortega seeds from Mr Nice. (nl1 x nl5). That may even work better for me. I was just hoping to find a mother to keep and use in the future so this may be even better. I have no experience growing it so I’m just going by history.
Anybody have any history with Ortega? Everything I read sounds good.
Thanks again for your offer though @misterbee, my southern brother form another mother! peace
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GMan, sorry I forgot to answer that question…the Frankenstein came out, and IS, doing great! There are several strain review sites that say ‘lineage and breeder unknown’ for Frankenstein, but since coming to Oklahoma and legitimacy, my name has been linked to it as the breeder and it always gets rave reviews from others.
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Aside from moving plants with me, I led the same life. After going in the navy and getting out in Washington State, I went to Oregon then back to Wash, and then to Montana for 12 years, but my job had me moving all over the rockies and Texas.
Went back to NC and lived on the Outer Banks 5 years and then over to Asheville area in the mountains. That’s where I did the nice outdoor grows about 22 miles out of Asheville. The damn cops flew planes almost every day over my little village because the locals had been growing in the mountains for decades. One day the plane came over my house and circled abut 5 times and I freaked and pulled them all and hid them in an attic of a garage to dry… heh. They were all stellar plants so I want’s gonna trash them!
After that I left and went down to Bama, and hung around my dad a lot as he died from cancer after a 5 year battle. Moved to west Texas after that near a sister who lost her husband to cancer. After 6 years down there in the oil field I had enough. I was looking for the right place to move since I lost everything I owned waiting on the VA to help me with some health issues but never did in 6 years.
I found this little town and everything fell into place for me. I was able to get a better truck from a good job with a friend back down in the oil field, and I found a house for real cheap and a sister financed that for me. So, I’m still financially challenged but I have a house and a nice truck and live in a cool place a few miles out of town and grow like a fiend! I’ve never been so happy and grounded in all my life… We have a lot of people our age here, too. Lots of people bought and retired here because of the cost of living, and most everybody smokes or could care less.
How are the average Oklahomian farmer type rednecks handling the legalization? Around here, it seems like it greased the wheels for both types of people to come together and really get along good. It just seems to have relaxed everybody and made us all happier people. It’s a beautiful thing. We all get along great. The cops are even really nice here and are right there with us at every little parade or street party we have. That’s the way it should be. No judging at all.
Just see your post about the Frankenstein! Thanks! That sounds really cool. Thanks!
If I ever get the chance to go back to Bama to see family, I’ll hit you up. It’d be right on the way going through OK. peace
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Damn, I must be too high or something. The other question you asked me about selling to dispensaries here… no, anyone can’t sell to them. You must be a licensed grower in Oklahoma and have the full compliance test done on any batch to sell to a dispensary or processor.
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I figured. At first I thought I read it different, but then I remembered the license. thx.
Hey, I just googled and Frankenstein is definitely a well known strain. Very cool. I may have to try it sometime after reading it’s favored by people with high tolerances… raises hand.
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As a Canadian, I admire the service, dedication, loyalty, patriotism and love you mericans have for your country. I hang a Canadian flag, but dont see as many as you guys hang…was in north dakota recently and the houses that proudly display the flag is awesome.
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GMan, it does sound like we lived our lives on similar tracks. lol, the rednecks I found usually smoked just about as much as anyone else, no matter where they were. In the Carolinas I lived around the Lumbee tribal seat, Pembroke (the wife is full-blood and I’m a half-breed, all family members are registered tribal members) in Robeson County, NC
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Tappy, I’ve always loved my flag/country (while fearing my government) Nowhere else I’d rather be!
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Are you talking aboriginal or just born and raised? I’m metis myself! Don’t speak any ojibwe or cree…which is a shame.
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Frankenstein, when grown right, tests in the mid 20s, usually 23-27% BUT… unlike other strains that you build up a sort of immunity or become inured to, it ALWAYS performs… day after day, year after year! Never failing to get you as messed up as it did the first time. The wife, myself, our kids and friends who’ve smoked it daily for years will testify to that!
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born that way, Tappy always considered to be Native American Indian (got ran out of white folks restaurants in the 50s)
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actually had a cop at a sobriety checkpoint look at me and ask…“what’s that ‘I’ stand for?” under ‘race’. I just looked at him for a minute then said “intelligent” he got a bit upset then I said well think about it man. how many races start with an ‘I’. He looked like he could feel the donkey ears sprouting then said ‘oh, you’re an Indian?’ I said ‘Bingo’! lol
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What an awesome story. What were the strains like when you started out with your gramps? Was it sensi or did the buds get seeded?
Also have you tried many modern strains? I’m curious what you think of some of the newer genetics out there…
Frankenstein sounds killer by the way!
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Hi beacher, I recall my grandpa would do a cross now and then if he found something he liked. Growing outdoors, there’d be seeds sometimes but not often, and not in all the plants (a few hundred) The genetics were probably a bit more landrace and not as potent as today’s. But, that being said the stuff he grew would still knock your ass in the dirt. Here’ a story for ya… I had grown up with him, my dad, and uncle with, along with me and a cousin, doing a lot of hunting. My cuz n me would sit there by the fire at nights while they got high, listening to how he ‘started smokin at 6’ and my dad and unc at 8. Sooo, at 8 yrs of age I went into the den where grandpa had his big ol easy chair and pipe-rack, alongside of that was a big wooden humidor he kept full of his weed. After a day in the fields, he’d come in and pick from about 30 pipes depending on the type day he had.The ladies would shoo us out of the rooms when grandpa was ‘relaxing’. I picked a deepbowl corncob and packed it, then went out behind the barn… As I slid down the side of the barn with that pipe held between my knees up under my chin, to this day I have two memories that’re like it happened yesterday. 1) no wonder they want us smokin and 2) i gotta get this pipe back in before its missed…and I was paralyzed! couldn’t budge.
I eventually did manage to get it back in before it was missed btw
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Hey there TheShowMeHomie…I’m afraid I owe you an apology. Sorry if it seems I wents way offthread and/or highjacked your original thread. I’m not into the grow community sites and wasn’t very aware of certain ‘unwritten rules’. Again, I apologize bro
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