bluedreambaby
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Trousers--
Like I said, I'm a complete newb, but I'm having a pretty darn decent first grow, and the bulk of what I think I know about growing comes from the Cervantes book. I'm not saying he is right, or whatever the heck the Cannabible guys name is, or anyone else, especially bmeat. I was just saying what they said as another perspective from someone I've had good luck with.
However, I think with this first grow, the thing I've learned most is to just listen to the plants, instead of an 'expert'.... It seems to me that the girls will tell you exactly what they need if you shut up and listen. Watching these girls grow has shown me how to do that, and to meddle with them as little as possible-- to bump them back in line if something goes wrong as gently as possible (kind of like raising children), but other than that, to respect them not just as a plant, but as entities of their own, that know far more about the nature of being a sacred medicine plant that any person ever will, just because that's what their nature is, and ours isn't.
That loops into the bit about me objecting to feminized seeds on a moral ground. I just have a feeling that tossing what is in essence, poison at a medicine plant to make it do something that is not in it's nature to do, can't be a healthy thing, for either the plant, or the consumer. Nature makes these plants sprout up female, male and hermi for a reason, and it's a reason that has been working well for the plant for a very long time. History shows that when humans turn up with their technology and ideas and start fiddling with stuff, it rarely works out well for either the plant, or the people.
I feel that the process of creating feminized seeds is rather disrespectful to the plant- it forces it to do what is not in its nature to do, and it stresses it out, and makes it sick. It assumes we know more about the nature of that plant than it does. It forces it to bend to our will. It just feels like that isn't right. Feminized seeds might be more convenient for growers, but 'convenient' does not necessarily equal 'better'.
That could also be just me being a stoned-ass hippie. Who knows.
Like I said, I'm a complete newb, but I'm having a pretty darn decent first grow, and the bulk of what I think I know about growing comes from the Cervantes book. I'm not saying he is right, or whatever the heck the Cannabible guys name is, or anyone else, especially bmeat. I was just saying what they said as another perspective from someone I've had good luck with.
However, I think with this first grow, the thing I've learned most is to just listen to the plants, instead of an 'expert'.... It seems to me that the girls will tell you exactly what they need if you shut up and listen. Watching these girls grow has shown me how to do that, and to meddle with them as little as possible-- to bump them back in line if something goes wrong as gently as possible (kind of like raising children), but other than that, to respect them not just as a plant, but as entities of their own, that know far more about the nature of being a sacred medicine plant that any person ever will, just because that's what their nature is, and ours isn't.
That loops into the bit about me objecting to feminized seeds on a moral ground. I just have a feeling that tossing what is in essence, poison at a medicine plant to make it do something that is not in it's nature to do, can't be a healthy thing, for either the plant, or the consumer. Nature makes these plants sprout up female, male and hermi for a reason, and it's a reason that has been working well for the plant for a very long time. History shows that when humans turn up with their technology and ideas and start fiddling with stuff, it rarely works out well for either the plant, or the people.
I feel that the process of creating feminized seeds is rather disrespectful to the plant- it forces it to do what is not in its nature to do, and it stresses it out, and makes it sick. It assumes we know more about the nature of that plant than it does. It forces it to bend to our will. It just feels like that isn't right. Feminized seeds might be more convenient for growers, but 'convenient' does not necessarily equal 'better'.
That could also be just me being a stoned-ass hippie. Who knows.
