Hey Guys,
my name is unpronounceable in English, but I'll give it a try: Teun (with the eu pronounced as the eu in the French Blue) and I'm from Holland.
This is my seventh year of outdoor growing, I prefer Indica strains since I've got neighbors who like to hang over our fence and steal all they can reach. Indica's lay low and therefore are out of grasp of those kids.
I've tried to grow indoors but when you're at your parents home, and you don't have a lot of money it is damn hard to do so. This year I've bought a cat in a sack (if that doesn't mean anything to you: scammed): I've bought twenty Big Bud seeds and ten Afghan Outdoor seeds. All I got left now is 5 afghan seeds, 2 big bud plants (which are doing fine) and 2 afghan outdoor plants that look like friggin matchsticks. The afghan just wouldn't grow and it was a bad summer here in the lowlands, they all should've been autoflowering but the opposite is true. I can say I'm an experienced outdoor grower and like to experiment. This year I found out by experimenting that Vaseline (petroleum jelly, or whatever name you guys have gave it) stops or slows down the growth of fungi.
I've had a bad case of stem rot, but didn't want to chop down half the plant so I disinfected the 'rotting wound' with hydrogen peroxide and rubbed it in nicely with Vaseline, this stopped the growth of the fungi and now I can go on letting the plant flower without any further trouble. This might be useful if you (just like me) don't have a lot to spare and a lot to lose. Stopping the growth of the fungi is more a hyperbolic metaphor by the way; it just slowed it down and now grows at .5mm per month and it isn't spreading throughout the plant.
Oh yeah, I only speak poor English and don't like to calculate! So I'll post everything in centigrades, centimeters, kilometers and meters and you might have trouble reading.
About Holland: it is 'okay' to grow up to five plants outdoor by law. But whenever a cop dislikes you or when someone complains about it, they are allowed to take everything down. Unlike what most people think it is forbidden to have pot on you in The Netherlands, up to 5 grams will be allowed but can be easily taken by a cop if they think you're irresponsible with it. Growing indoors is considered as professional growing and therefor prohibited by the justice system. Still coffeeshops need to buy their weed from somewhere/one and it can't be grown on a large scale, this is a grey area in our system. Just recently all weed with thc percentages above 15% are considered as Harddrugs (like amphetamines, cocaine, xtc, you know the drill) and can't be sold in the shops anymore. This all by a law that has been made up in a day. We are under threat but whenever street sales go up, the law will get adjusted. I presume that'll take about half a year.
That's it for now!
Looking to Learn more on this site and my bother friends lol. Cya Around
. I'm planning on leaving my job and growing full time. Taking a chance to go do what I want to do. It's been a rough decision giving up my kush (pun intended) ADULT internet sales job where I make 80k+ a year. (I'm not posting to brag about income, I'm only saying it's not a bad salary to live on in this economy) I'm going to investing my life savings into this (SCARRY!!!). I hate being behind a desk all day doing something I don't have a whole lot of interest in, sales. So I'm planning my grow room out now, really kinda freaking out as this whole thing is becoming a reality. Really thankful for resources like Rollitup.com. Very excited to meet, and learn from you all!
