Smoking Pot

[Ninurta]

Yup and we got the same rules over here. 4 plants per person. Illegal to sell but you can buy at dispensaries. Climate is crap though, have trouble curing, last time I tried to grow my own the flowers got all moldy and I threw it away after a week

I reckon I wasn't too clear - here it's 4 plants per household, rather than 4 per person. So if, for example, you have a 4 person household, you can't extrapolate that to grow 16 plants.

But that's just this state. Other states allow 6 or so plants per household, and one I think goes up to 12 plants. Like I said, the laws are all over the place about it, no standardization. So you have to really, REALLY know the laws in your area here, both state and federal - which are also different, often at odds and contradictory. It's a mess.

Humidity can be a killer for curing it. High humidity is where the mold gets to grow. Here, outdoors, humidity varies drastically I don't know what the low is - probably around 30% - but the highs often get to 100%. Indoors, in the summer it usually hovers around 70%, which is high enough to let the mold grow, but in the fall it drops to around 60%, and in the winter, 44-45%. Drying should be around 60-65% humidity, and once dried, curing should be around the same, but inside sealed glass jars which you have to "burp" - every couple of days for the first week, twice a week for the second week, then down to once a week for a couple of weeks, and then don to once every two weeks for a couple of weeks,and then it's done.

"Burping" the jars just involved opening them for 5 minutes or so to allow for air exchange.

When it's done, you just seal it up and forget about burping it, an store the jars in a dark, cool place.

The key is to dry it in a climate-controlled place where the humidity is only around 60% to prevent the molding. creative use of heating and air conditioning can control the humidity, but you got to keep an stye on it to keep it constant for the week to two weeks that you're drying it. Not always as easy as it sounds. Once you've got it jarred up for curing, it's a bit easier.

This year, out of 4 entire plants, I got a grand total of about 84 grams which cured down to about 42 grams. Hardly worth the effort for someone looking to make a financial killing, which luckily I'm not. To be fair, one of those plants was a male, so doesn't count for buds. I keep a male around to create seeds. Like I said, they're hard to get otherwise. A pretty high proportion of that 42 gram cured weight was seeds. But, if I produce my own seeds, I don't have to fool with the outside markets, buying enough bud that I won't smoke just to get enough seeds for 4 dinky little plants.

I shook down and mashed out the seeds, and gave the buds away. Got about 1500 or 1600 seeds off the 4 plants, so I ought to have enough for my 4 plants next year if I even decide to grow any again, with a bunch left over I can give over to the other "farmers" around here. Have to give those away, too, because again you can't sell them here. On line, they go for about 5-15 dollars PER SEED, so if I could sell them, I could finance my next year's entire garden handily.

I think seed production would be where the real money is for growers. For example, off of these 4 plants, only 3 of them females, I got around 250 dollars worth of buds at local market values, but around 15,000 (between 7,500 and 22,500) dollars worth of seeds at those same market values. I don't mind just giving that stuff away, though. You can build up a lot of good will that can be drawn on later by just giving crap away that cost you nothing or next to nothing to get in the first place..

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