Why I Grow My Own Medicine 2018 Season: Article 1

in #cannabis6 years ago (edited)

Hey everyone, thank you for checking out my garden and reading my thoughts on growing your own medicine or personal use cannabis. This will be a series that will show the progress of my 2018 grow season. From start to finish with pictures and different topics each article. This first article will talk about why i grow my own medicine and what led me to this. From clones through Vegetative growth in this section. Hope you enjoy

I am a disabled Veteran, ex-army. I have back issues, ptsd, and kls. Ive been given numerous pills for pain, depression, and nightmares. Those pills made me overweight and fat, lazy, dull, and dumb with very little to no motivation. A friend of mine re-introduced me to cannabis after being away from it for 5 years. After using cannabis again, I found that it helped in many ways and I no longer needed pills. Cannabis also made me feel alive again and creative. Its like cannabis opened my pathways and connections in my brain again that were being suppressed by the pills i was being given.

Its now almost 8 years later and still no pills. However, many people are still taking pills. The stigma that is associated with cannabis from the brainwashing over the many years of poor leadership has created a haze over cannabis and what it should be used for and how much should be used. I think this is total b.s. We are not cookie cut and we are all different. We use cannabis in many different ways. In ways that help us as individuals and that goes for quantity as well. I feel that if we are able to be motivated and productive, cannabis consumption should not matter at all.
This is where growing your own medicine comes in.

I have been fortunate enough to have an expert grower as a friend and I was given the opportunity to learn from him. From this i want to give everyone the opportunity to grow their own medicine easy and affordable because depending on where you live, the prices vary drastically. This can be expensive if your always going to the dispensary to refill. I learned that while i was living in Hollywood Ca. Now where I'm at in the Emerald Triangle, cannabis grows great and its cheap. Even though its cheap here, it is still beneficial for me to grow my own because i save money still in the long run, i get to chose my strains, I know whats being put into my plants, and its great therapy.

Last season I grew AK-47, Boss OG, Cherry Pie, CherryxDawg, Sour D, Pre-98 Bubba Kush, and Blackberry Kush!
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This season I am growing Blue Dream, Mendo Breath, Barry White, Cherry Pie, Citrus Sap, 707 OG, and Frosting. Ive never heard of Frosting or Frostings but my friend said it may be crossed with 707og and Durban Poison so IDK. Im sure it'll come out great. Last season i didnt use any nutriets or anything until flowering started and then i used some Humboldt Organics flowering and bloom solution. They turned out great so this year i think ill do the same except ill add some krazy kelp with it. Ive used different soils in my pots. Most of them have costco dirt. Big bags that come in once a year up here for under $10 and the plants grow just fine in it. I also have a couple plants in bags i bought from wal-mart. The other pots have my favorite dirt in them, Fox Farm's Ocean Forest. Thats the best stuff in my opinion.

So to grow your own medicine all you really need to do is get some pots, the bigger the better :) get some clones. From a friend if you can, then buy some dirt or use your own compost. Add water when needed. Its that simple. Ive invested a total of $400 into this years grow and ill have enough to last me the entire year :)
Save money & Grow your own
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Thank you, I appreciate it. I will check out those links

Hello there,

I'm glad that weed has been helping you with your health. I was introduced to it recently when I arrived in Vegas last March. I hang out with some people who are heavy pot smokers. We use a vaporizer called Pax 3 which is really great tool for baking the weed instead of burning it. I'm on my 5th month here in the US and I would smoke from time to time even if I'm on a state where weed is not yet legalized. When I go back to my home town, I will miss smoking weed again. You are lucky to be introduced to cannabis and how to grow them in your own garden. I wish I can do that too in the Philippines. Anyways, it's already 10PM here in New Orleans. Gotta go to bed. Goodnight! :)

Hi and thank you for checking out my post. I appreciate your input :) Im happy to here that some good people introduced you properly lol That vaporizer is great, I do prefer vaporizers but I love my bongs and blunts :) Its awesome you have been able to come visit for a long period of time, thats the best way to get a real feel. I have kept up to date of your countries cannabis laws and it is unfortunate that cannabis causes such trouble and controversies all over not just in the Phillippines. Even here in the U.S. there are still people who frown on it because of the decades of brainwashing. Live life and enjoy it the best you can :)

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Wow!
Amazing Buds!
Welcome to steemit by the way.

I made some nice strains from Strawberry Diesel if you wanna check them out. Im a big Soul Diesel Fan. There's actually Blackberry Kush in the strains too.

Bye have fun here!

Hi and thank you! I appreciate it big time.
I just followed you so I'll be sure to check out your posts.
Sour Diesel is big up here and its my buddy's favorite, strawberry Diesel is really nice, ive smoked on that before. BBK is good in my book, never had issues and good smoke.
Enjoying Steemit so far, community is great and I love everything crypto so i feel like its the perfect place for me :)
much love

Damn dude @the-haze , finally i found someone writing about cannabis planting on steemit :D . I live in indonesia, and hmm we have different cannabis, but is hard to get cannabis because of the law :(

i follow you, feel free if you want to follow me right back

Hey whats up? Im glad you found me and i just followed you. Thanks a lot! Yeah i know about your countries laws on cannabis. Its unfortunate to say the least. Stay tuned and ill keep the posts coming

Right on! I hail from Salinas, California. Nice to meet you.

nice to meet you as well. I saw your posts of growing and saw you were in cali so i followed you :) Eureka here

This doesn't belong in the introduceyourself category. Please do not use it for posts like this.

ok, just wondering, why not? i did introduce myself at the beginning and why i do what i do

The introduceyourself tag is used for new users to introduce themselves. Non-related posts just clutters things up and will sometimes get you flagged.

He’s been here 4 days, I know your trying to help , but I feel it’s suitable for an introduction tag. Cut him some slack. If he wasn’t a new steemian, then a flag would be mandatory 👍

Which is why I didn't flag. Just dropped a comment. It's how you learn.

Maybe show him a warm welcome with a nice whale vote😉

Hey whats up? Thanks for the save. Big help! i get what @matt-a is saying but like you mentioned, Ive only been on here for 4 days lol Thanks for noticing, appreciate it. I promise i will not use that tag from here on out. Thanks for vote too

i understand but my introduction post did not get an introduceyourself tag because i was new and didnt know about that tag. This was my first article on what and why i do this, so i figured it was ok.

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