I want to give up...

So I get home from being out and about this weekend and I wake up this morning and go out to check my plants like any other morning. So I get to the backyard, and I look over at the patch of tall weeds where I had my two surviving ladies and they were gone. I checked the spots where I planted them and they've been cut. They were not even close to finishing flowering so it's not a case where someone ran up into my backyard and stole them. They were mowed down by the cold unforgiving steel of a Tecumsah powered devil machine! That's right. A lawn mower. I can't believe this. SO much hard work and months of care and maintenance for NOTHING. All the hard work we fine growers put into our hobby can be wasted in seconds.


I'm not really sure how to react to this. I'm sad and angry. I want to go beast mode on someone and kill them. I really hate whoever did this. My first grow got taken down right before flowering started. This was my second grow. Started off with 5 plants. Two survived this long. I was so excited about my first harvest. Now, there will be no fruits or my labor to enjoy when I go to Six Flags for Fright Fest. I'm sick of paying $20 a g for good shit and I'm tired of smoking on mids. The plants can't even be found so I don't know when they were cut down and I couldn't possibly make a cutting now to clone them. So it's back to the grind to make more money just to smoke on some Mary J. God damned over priced, wanna-be hustlers and lawn mowing mother fuckers...your days will come.

hang in there dude - can't happen twice right? find a steathier place or grow indoors next time and enjoy the harvest

so someone came to your backyard with lawnmower and mowed your shit?, did they at least be nice enough to mow your grass?..........................or did you dad find your plant and cut them? lol

Yeah they first started as indoors, and the second time around I had to move it outside after being found out. It was stealthy enough, but if you know what you're looking for back there then that would make me SOL. So it's happened like 3 times. Damn. But yeah me and a friend are planning an outdoor grow once the season readies itself for it. We haven't picked out any strains yet, but I'm looking at a lot of sativas.

natrone23 said:

so someone came to your backyard with lawnmower and mowed your shit?, did they at least be nice enough to mow your grass?..........................or did you dad find your plant and cut them? lol

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Probably my step-dad. But here's the fucked up part. HE'S WAS BORN AND RAISED IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA. He said he's never smoked weed before. I asked my mom if she believed him and she said yes, but I mean come on...his mannerisms....are so.....stoner. Ha ha. But yeah I know that he doesn't want me smoking or growing. Well, really he's just gotten on to me about growing, and hasn't said shit about smoking really.

Whoa .. That must be rough. I would be crying.

Sorry that shit happened..

Sorry to hear that man. Where did you plant it that it got mowed over?

Is this your house and someone in your home mowed the back yard?

you mean someone mowed down your plants in your parents backyard not yours! That's your first mistake buddy! grow off of your folks property and plant in multiple plots and figure about half of them will get ripped or eaten by animals. Don't put all of your eggs in one basket...

It was all in my backyard. I mean, I've lived here long enough to know NO ONE will be fucking with the tall shit we had growing around some trees in the back. It was growing there for forever. I should have figured that my step-dad wouldn't be fooled that easily. Matter of fact, I bet he posts on RIU too damnit. He's watching me! ha ha.

So this time around for GROW NUMBER MOTHER FUCKING 3 STILL WORKING TOWARDS MY FIRST HARVEST, I'm thinking of growing some bagseed 12/12 from seed. Does this usually cause them to finish earlier than if you do 18/6 for veg and 12/12 for flowering?

gangjababy said:

you mean someone mowed down your plants in your parents backyard not yours! That's your first mistake buddy! grow off of your folks property and plant in multiple plots and figure about half of them will get ripped or eaten by animals. Don't put all of your eggs in one basket...

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No it was safe. If i hadn't been told to move them OUT of the house, which is all i was told to do heh heh heh, no one would have suspected it. The only people who even come within the vicinity of the grow area I had were little kids not even 10 years old. They don't know what a cannabis plant looks like...

Starting with the 12/12 schedule will make the veg stage faster.. But you gotta switch it to 18/6 after the plant gets to be a couple inches.

BreatheSmoke said:

Starting with the 12/12 schedule will make the veg stage faster.. But you gotta switch it to 18/6 after the plant gets to be a couple inches.

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Well that's confusing cause I thought it was just 12/12 all the way. But faster veg is better than normal!

Sorry I meant leave the lights on 24 hours until the plant gets a couple inches then switch it to 18/6 ..Where is my brain today .. I keep making dumb mistakes like that..

BreatheSmoke said:

Sorry I meant leave the lights on 24 hours until the plant gets a couple inches then switch it to 18/6 ..Where is my brain today .. I keep making dumb mistakes like that..

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Hey we ALL do it. But that doesn't sounds like 12/12 from seed. I think I'll experiment a little and veg them a little before I throw them into 12/12.

i feel really sorry for you ... its my first grow and im ready to kill for them.
Good luck with your next ladys cuz i know you caint quit

One other thing that was funny about my grow area...Off to the side, there was a clump of potting soil, still shaped like its container. This hasn't been there any other time before. The rain would have made it crumble. I know it's not from where I layed down some soil too cause I dug out bowls in the ground when I transplanted so the shape of the potting soil is completely foreign to me. Where did it come from?

sllik said:

i feel really sorry for you ... its my first grow and im ready to kill for them.
Good luck with your next ladys cuz i know you caint quit

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Yeah if I knew they were in danger I would have done something about it. But you're right. This time, I'm not quitting no matter what! They'll have to kill me first!

You want 24 hour light in seedling, maybe up to a week after they break through the ground. Then switch to 18/6. But if you can't do the 24/0 don't worry, just do 18/6.

But whatever you do don't just do 24/0. For lack of a better word, your plants need to "rest." They do things when there is not light that they don't do when there is light.

im sorry to hear that man,,but quick question. is it legal to grow in japan?? maybe it was a theif if you had em in pots..track your leads and kick some ass!! just a hillbilly theory...

Whenever I've planted germinated seeds they usually sprout through the ground within 4 days MAX on 18/6. I'm always up for new things though, so I'll give this 24/0 a try. Maybe this time I'll keep a grow journal with pictures.