Hey RT76 how the hell is it going and how are the ladys? Dropped by your grow log and don't see any updates.
Nope no updates.. Starting at the beginning of July I had nute burn problem and my leaves were looking really ragged from Ocean Forest soil. I transplanted them from Ocean Farm to Light Warrior, put them in a Neem dip, and gave them some water before going to my parents for July 4th.
On July 6th when I got home 2 of the belladonna's and one northern light had completely black leaves and were lying down. I pulled them from the closet and hoped to go with my remaining 5 plants. Then I had a Mg problem from using Canna in RO and Distilled water with inert soil. I had NPK but 0 trace elements. So I had to start adding Cal-Mag to the RO water until I was out and then move to using carbon filtered tap water.
Well pre-flowers formed and of the 5 remaining 3 had nuts. So I destryoed those plants leaving me with 1 NL, 1 Belladonna, and 1 AK. I topped them all to increase yield (4 cola top) and somehow a disease or spore got through my houses 3 micron air filter and the remaining 3 got really sick and died in 3 day between waterings. July was a BAD month for me, probably why I haven't been around much. Work has been kicking my ass, I'm about dry on smokeable herb, and all my plants died.
Throw in that in my part of Tampa I live between 3 hospitals and two sherrifs offices, all of which have Heli-pads, I was starting to get paranoid as the remaining girls got taller and stinkier. I spent most of July sleeping less than 3 hours a night, checking windows, looking for strange cars in the neighborhood, and listening for copters. I have enough anxiety problems without having a grow. Throw in the grow, realizing I can't have friends or family over, and the thought of managaing a grow with a kid (my wife wants a baby) and the cost on my mind and body was just too high.
So I have this wonderfully built closet with everything needed to grow in it and it's all turned off. I'm thinking of starting a crop of real tomoato plants (not the fictional ones that look like MJ) for my wife. Figure out exactly how to have a perfect grow without all the problems, since I can kill tomoato plants and feel proud of killing them instead of depressed about them dying, and learn how to dial in nutes, water, temps etc. (I hate tomatos.)
I also intend to use the times I spent gazing at plants to hand out petitions for Florida MMJ legalization. It may be a battle that only MM and I are seriously fighting, but I really do want it legalized mostly for all of the above reasons.
Between the stress of trying to keep the babies alive and the stress of my paranoia, I decided to pull the plug on the grow until we have legalization in Florida. I'd thought about a lot of things like not having my mom in my house, like trying to explain to a small child why daddy has illegal plants in his office and why that child can tell no one, and finally the thought of losing my house that I waited for 10 long years to afford and buy and decided that it's for the better that my girls bit the dust. I hate the laws and gladly rebel against them, but I'm just not that successful at civil disobedience. Oh well ...
I'm going to keep hanging out here because most the guys here are great to post with, and the live chat has it's good moments when you're stoned in the middle of the night. So I guess it's back to buying for me, oh well. I can afford it, the grow was mostly to 'prove' I could do it.
-RT76
