The You Know Your A Grower Thread

[shnkrmn]

59. You look forward to winter so you can fire up that 2nd ballast...

AND it wipes out your spider mites!

 

[jas6118]

you cant afford a hps because you started this obsession too early...so you spend $140 on CFL'S

 

[EsmeWeatherwax]

You once had friends, now you talk to your plants and post on RIU.

 

[hardroc]

ahahahahahahahaa

 

[don2009]

Dedicating songs to your plants! Like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNnn6W5esyE

 

[Sr. Verde]

you cant afford a hps because you started this obsession too early...so you spend $140 on CFL'S

lol i didnt spend that much but I know what you mean

 

[IAm5toned]

64. You are pissed that both Home Depot and Lowe's carry HID lamps, but not ballasts....

 

[gogrow]

65. When you religiously turn off lights behind family members, and flip the breaker on the water heater every morning/evening in an attempt to lower the electric bill

66. When more than 70% of your real life friends were met through a website such as RIU

 

[Delux83]

64. You are pissed that both Home Depot and Lowe's carry HID lamps, but not ballasts....

yeah no shit that did piss me off was all excited for nothing

 

[hardroc]

When you first get outta bed you check on your girls and talk to them before your old lady

 

[bobsgreen]

when you first found riu and you didnt see your family for days.

Lmao got me there

 

[guitarabuser]

67ish. When your neighborhood experiences daily brown-outs that last exactly 12 hours for 8 weeks.

 

[IAm5toned]

68. Every spring you go to town buying nutes, soil ammenders, soil, pots, all this crap, and always have to talk about the garden your growing, yet come fall, you never have any veggies to show for it and half the town thinks you couldnt grow an ingrown hair lol....
69. You have spent 40 hours modifying a cabinet that took 30 mins to put together out of the box

 

[Hydrotech364]

70.Youre driving around in youre truck with 3 bales of peat and 6 cf of perlite in march.

 

[dukeofbaja]

When you own more than 8 thermometers
When your circadian rythym wakes you up at lights on time, no alarm needed
When you always have that sneaking suspicion you left the door open, and the cats got in there
When you walk out of the grocery store with planting pots, perlite, soil test kits, distilled water, and nothing else. In mid winter
When you do your own apartment repairs, even over $20, just to avoid calling maintenance
When you go to get your mail in the middle of the night, just so you can see if there are any light leaks
When you have declined sex to attend to urgent horticural matters <-----(has not happened to me yet, but I imagine this is when I will know for sure)

 

[IAm5toned]

78. You have found out the hard way what a 100 yr flood zone is.

 

[dukeofbaja]

79 When you gently dropped bags of trash into the dumpster at 2:30 am after grinding clippings to dust, placing them into wheat thins box, and stuffing the wheat thins box into the middle of the trash bag (and I am legal!)

 

[ImTheFireMan]

80. when you have your friends from different parts of town come by to pick up garbage bags full of clippings and rockwool cubes in exchange for dub sacks so they can take them to their part of town to dispose of them.

 

[dukeofbaja]

81 You frequent baby name websites to name your plants

 

[jammin screw]

82 when u can't pay attention to ur peepz talkin to u cuz your daydreamin of ur stash! N they ask where r u??? Lol if u knew lol...