I would like some info from some old heads on how things were done in the late 80s and early 90s.

I'm currently writing a book and I want to know alot about the 80s and 90s. Where you bought equipment. Where you bought seeds. How you reached people on the internet. Maybe even an address for a forum off the top of your head.

It's a story about a guy who goes back to his kid body and is going to build a weed empire. I've already grown weed in the book.

The next step is getting a high times and ordering a catalog from Super Sativa Club, The Seedbank and sketchy high times ads.

In the book I'm going to just buy regular streetlights from an electric supply. Then make custom reflectors out of flat white painted wood. The hillbilly cousin of Agrotech Magnum.

I'll get a copy of one of Rodale's Organic Gardening books. They have how to make your own potting mix.

I need info on the earliest forums. As the main character is going to share 35 years of research on it.

I'm still on 1989. I'm writing it by the year. I just celebrated Halloween. It's 1989. Any strain or catalog suggestions, or even magazines. I know Positronics was big then. But where would you get DJ Short Blueberry in 1990? Those kinds of insights would be great.

I'm going to do organics in peat based super soil and fertilize with guano tea. Fortified with some good quality ingredients.

What was the place to order organic fertilizers at that time?

I personally have been growing since 2004. I was 18.

People gonna get grow bibles, feminized seeds, clones, shatter and rosin in the late 80s and early 90s.

Even in the 00s you got some sketchy and basically retarded advice. Cloning especially. You use no fertilizer and it roots faster. Don't worry about the yellow leaves and necrotic leaves. It's the best way.

1/2 strength bloom fertilizer when you soak your rockwool cubes or peat plugs. Never a yellow plant and I get 100% rooting.

The Internet didn't get into most homes until the mid 90's . Mel Frank and Ed Rosenthal first published The Marijuana Growers Bible in 1975 I believe , that was were many turned to for info . Things were much more personal from the 70's until at least the end of the 90's , there was distrust of internet and ordering seeds from Europe could get you busted .

My little 4 man growers mafia emulated much of what we saw on shows like I Spy , The Man from U.N.C.L.E , Mission Impossible ...
It may sound corny but we grew our asses off and got through a few tight situations over the decades .

Unga Bunga said:

The Internet didn't get into most homes until the mid 90's . Mel Frank and Ed Rosenthal first published The Marijuana Growers Bible in 1975 I believe , that was were many turned to for info . Things were much more personal from the 70's until at least the end of the 90's , there was distrust of internet and ordering seeds from Europe could get you busted .

My little 4 man growers mafia emulated much of what we saw on shows like I Spy , The Man from U.N.C.L.E , Mission Impossible ...
It may sound corny but we grew our asses off and got through a few tight situations over the decades .

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I'm going to breed with 6 Strains. A 100% Sativa. Durban Poison A 100% Indica like Afghan or Hash Plant. Cross Durban and Afghan, 50/50 Hybrid. Cross with either parent from the 50/50 and get a 75/25. Then cross the 75/25 with the other 75/25 and have a different 50/50. Haven't decided on names yet.

I'll sell seeds of those strains as well as clones.

I'm having fun writing this book. It's about to get real dark real fast, lol

The equipment we started using was liberated from poles on a nearby campus. My sincere apologies to all inconvenienced.

plottingon said:

The equipment we started using was liberated from poles on a nearby campus. My sincere apologies to all inconvenienced.

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That's not stealing, that's repurposing. You used their lights to grow weed to sell to their students. No sane jury would convict you.

Lol yep, my first grow light was an hps fixture that you'd mount on the side of a building. I remember going into the store with a hat, sunglasses, and paid in cash. Buying equipment and/or seeds was really paranoia inducing at the time.

I vaguely recall some of the websites, like the old OG site. Loved reading stuff on there, but NEVER posted anything for fear of the FBI kicking your door in.

MtRainDog said:

Lol yep, my first grow light was an hps fixture that you'd mount on the side of a building. I remember going into the store with a hat, sunglasses, and paid in cash. Buying equipment and/or seeds was really paranoia inducing at the time.

I vaguely recall some of the websites, like the old OG site. Loved reading stuff on there, but NEVER posted anything for fear of the FBI kicking your door in.

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The weed I bought back in prehistoric times was loaded with seeds, the Columbian gold was at least 1/4 seeds. What I wouldn't give for 1/4 of those I threw away at the time.

raratt said:

The weed I bought back in prehistoric times was loaded with seeds, the Columbian gold was at least 1/4 seeds. What I wouldn't give for 1/4 of those I threw away at the time.

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No shit ! We were getting bales of Chocolate Thai in the early 80's that blew you away . Only a few seeds here and there but man do I wish I had some now .

raratt said:

The weed I bought back in prehistoric times was loaded with seeds, the Columbian gold was at least 1/4 seeds. What I wouldn't give for 1/4 of those I threw away at the time.

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Hell, yeah. I remember using open double record album covers on which to break up the weed, and have the seeds roll down the crease for easy disposal. Such a nasty taste/smell when you smoked a seed, so bitter.

tyler.durden said:

Hell, yeah. I remember using open double record album covers on which to break up the weed, and have the seeds roll down the crease for easy disposal. Such a nasty taste/smell when you smoked a seed, so bitter.

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Worst thing was getting that last hit off a roach and inhaling the flaming hull. I had a round burn mark in my throat more than once.