2016
I had some vegetable & landscape experience as well as watched high school friends grow & helped a little bit, so I wasnāt going in blind(for those who did, high-five!). I bought the Ed & Mel book many years earlier-- I think before Iād even smoked weed 
and was fascinated. Around then(mid-1990s) Iād popped some seeds but my dad stopped that ASAP. 
I couldnāt find any seeds amongst my smoker friends & hadnāt kept any herm seedsā¦ one connection charged me 5$ for the only seed he had. And it didnāt sprout. 
At this point I didnāt even realize there were seed breeders & retail salesā¦ was getting desperate in the mission to not spend ton$ at the dispensaryā¦ and lo and behold I found a dimebag in front of my house on the side of the road with a bit of shake & maybe ten seeds. 
Way better than the usual empty liquor bottle or hooker debris. 
Got 2 females & I grew these in a couple 20 gallon smart pots with āgardenā soil from the storeā¦ āsuper croppedā them into 4 or 6 branches & got a great yield of what Iām confident was 
Grapefruit Skunk(DNA).
It was fuckin GREAT for a first attempt. I was stoked. Never going back.
And here we are. 
