How to not make a million

Quentin Robert Denameland said:

Last summer I rented a room to a guy who turned out to be a burglar. He’s in jail now for 6 years on, surprisingly enough, burglary charges. While I was away one weekend he actually sold my dog, a Brussels griffon, for 500 bucks. He told me she ran away when I got back. His estranged baby mama told me the truth after he was carted away. While he was living with me he and a friend cut a hole in the ceiling of his bedroom and started a grow in my attic. After the cops nailed him his friend, I’ll call her Libby, told me about the grow and asked for help. It was three plants and we got 2 and a half ounces out of it. Not bad for a four hundred watt light and a few bags of dirt. The strain was anonymous, as it too ( I later found out) was stolen. This time from someone else’s grow. She hadn’t taken any clones so we had what we had. I smoked my share and thought, “Damn that was easy.” I had lost my job as a CTO for a manufacturing plant a few months before and the idea (if you’ll excuse the pun) just grew. I talked to another friend and he put up 10 grand and I bought a hydro system, lights and mail ordered some seeds. As Libby told me she was an “expert” she joined us as I rented a house and modified the basement for our physical plant. Libby was fond of dirt grows and I was sold on Hydro so we set up two rooms and the 8x8 room was set up for bagged dirt while the 10x6 room. Her job was to grow the weed and pay half the bills until the system started producing.
I still had a three year lease on my other house so I moved an ex girlfriend in. Her boyfriend’s house was too small for her kids and the guy (drunk) threw them out one morning at 4am. I picked her up and I moved her in (she decided to stay with him so he moved in too). He was told it was her house and if he felt the need to throw anyone out, he can do it to himself. The day after we moved, the cops showed up at the house without warrant and told us they were looking for a pot growing operation. I let them search as I had moved already. Turns out the burglar had tried to cut a deal by turning me in for growing. It felt exciting, one step ahead of the cops and out on the ragged edge… Yeah right. But the new system was doing alright Libby had started some bag seed and was creating mother plants and we were on our way to fuck you money. The system I had purchased was an Ebb and Gro with 24 pots. She gave me 12 small clones and 6 of them were males. Her bag plants were going well though, 18 of them. She was getting annoyed with my questions and my online research was turning up information that contradicted what she was telling me. Two months have now gone by and I was asked to leave the grow alone and let her work. I did for a month or so. I went downstairs one day to ask her something and in the dirt room one of the mothers was in full hermi bloom. Every plant in the house was pollinated. Amazing how many seds buds can produce given time and pollen.

I pointed this out to her and she tried to defend keeping it. I added some pots after the first bag seed harvest and asked for thirty clones full half were male. As she had only paid bills in a sketchy manner I felt justified in getting rid of her. 6 months of wasted time. I set up a smaller grow for her in another house and cut ties. If she drops dime I drop dime, mutually assured destruction. I also promised her a share of the next two crops. I felt safe-ish, but as I was low on money I had little choice as I couldn’t move. The original seeds I ordered died under her care so I ordered more. Northern lights crossed with skunk. Fast flowering and tasty bud. I started them in May as I tried to sort out the males from the females already growing. The bag seed was apt to go hermi and two of the four mothers were actually male. My big room was flowering in thirty pots They were flowering beautifully and I woke at 5 am and there Libby was downstairs with a flowering male in her hand waving it in front of the fan. She had issues with me succeeding when she was failing. I have never been a violent man but if I had a shovel and some lime at that point... I paid her off and changed the locks and talked her son into mellowing her out. In the end I threw away the whole crop. That makes 7 months and little to show for it. Now my new mothers are doing well. I bought a second EBB and Gro with the proceeds of what I could get out of the last crop. This one had only 18 pots but I had enough for it. Goodbye dirt room. I bought an ez cloner and am getting good return on my clones (100% last time). I half filled the system with what clones I could get out of the first and only got a ¼ ounce out of each. I didn’t veg them much at all. The plants that are currently in have been vegged 4weeks and look great. Next harvest in the big room have vegged 6 weeks and are currently looking good. I am hoping next harvest (18 pots in the former dirt room) will net me at least 6 ounces and the 30 pot room will net me a pound. All of which harvest next month. Someone once told me that a new grow will end in jail or tears. I am hoping to succeed. It’s the lure of easy money it has a very strong appeal. Easy… yeah, right…

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