plant lights

Jane, your message made me laugh so much. :-) I've led a naive life. I
was nearly 40 the first time I saw marijuana, and I still haven't seen a
live plant nor smoked pot. But anyway, I've had indoor plant lights for
something like 8 years now and can not tell you how many (stupid) neighbors
have made (stupid) comments about what I was growing. (I've lived here 17
years and one neighbor has only spoken to me once, just to ask me if I was
growing pot. Ugh.) They'd be disappointed, no doubt, to see my vast
collection of Smithiantha, Sinningia, Primulina, and Streptocarpus plants.
LOL.

I am vaguely aware several native plants in my garden are smokeable &
mind-altering, but I've never been remotely tempted to try it. I'm
convinced native Americans tried to smoke/drink just about everything.

By the way, just to stay on topic, the LED lights I bought at Christmas are
miraculous with Sinningia (which often grow in full sun in Brazil). In
just 2 months the LED lights induced bloom in a Sinningia that hasn't
bloomed under fluorescents in 5 years. I highlyl recommend the LED
fixtures with dual-dimmers for vegetative growth & bloom.

Dennis in Cincinnati

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net>
wrote:

When marijuana was legalized in my state (Oregon, USA), people who had
been growing their own often decided it was easier to buy it at legal
shops, and used plant lights became readily available for sale. I bought a
very nice array from a neighbor (a retired engineer) and now use it to keep
my few tender plants in the garage over winter. At the same time, the
numerous shops formerly devoted to growers of "hydroponic vegetables" are
starting to offer a wider range of general gardening products; the one near
me has fruit trees on offer in its parking lot now. If this is a gateway
drug into serious gardening, welcome all!

Jane McGary

Portland, Oregon, USA

On 3/7/2017 8:15 AM, David Ehrlich wrote:

Back in the 60s, when I lived in San Francisco, Iplanted a marijuana seed
in a pot in a window that got afternoon sun. The plant seemed happy
despite the limitedlight. I only grew it out of curiosity,although
eventually, curiosity satisfied, I did smoke it. A curious thing about
marijuana is that althoughdioecious, its sex is not genetically determined:
mine started off as male, producingstaminate flowers, but later it became
female, producing pistillate flowers. This is not a particularly rare
phenomenonamong dioecious plants, (Sequential hermaphroditism) but it does
explain how moderncultivators can manage to have whole harems of female
plants. One wonders whether marijuana can be selfed –collect and freeze
the pollen when it’s male, and use that pollen to fertilizeit later when
it’s female.
David E

From: Diane Whitehead <ldiane.whitehead@gmail.com>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 6, 2017 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: [pbs] plant lights
Back in the early 50s Thompson and Morgan had cannabis seeds listed
in their catalogue for 2 shillings 6 pence, to be grown for its decorative
foliage.
I thought about it, but preferred pretty flowers.

Diane

On 2017-03-06, at 6:38 PM, Jane Sargent wrote:

In real life, marijuana wants to grow outdoors in the sun, where it
is a weed, largely unkillable.

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