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. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/