An Herb Story.. ;)

**sloth** · 02-09-2007 06:20 AM

Here's a neat story:

I brought home two cell packs of planters one day, filled with soil. I planted two to three plants in each cell. It came out to be over one hundred plants. The seeds were obtained from a wide variety of places across the world/country.
Every plant starts out with three leaves as an infant, but as they grew older, I saw many variations. I had some with three leaves, seven leaves, five leaves, and one with eleven. Some were dark, some were light. Some had very wide leaves while others were narrow.

Then there was the freak.

This one I set aside, because I didn't think it would make it. It hardly grew any leaves. The ones it did grow were all deformed.
As these plants grew older, it was always the runt of the pack. While 'big boy', the biggest of the pack, was up to my knee, this thing was barely three inches tall.

I grew these plants indoors until they NEEDED sunlight, and then brought them outside. At this point the runt was a scrawny thing with probably 15 leaves TOTAL and they were all in three leaf clusters, but there was a lot of other growth that I couldn't identify. It was truly deformed. When I was carrying the runt out to its place in the field I received a shock! I looked down at it, and almost had to shield my eyes. In the sun it looked absolutely marvelous! It was so sparkly that I couldn't make out any distinct features. It was like I was holding a ball of glitter. I was amazed, and I immediately knew that I had mistaken the potential of this poor guy. I set him out in the sun and came back a couple of days later.

On my return trip, I discovered that he had shot up, and he had begun to sweat. He now had four separate branches with many internodes, and one MASS of flowers that seemed to join together. I could smell this plant from a dozen feet away.

I have grown an adult white widow plant. I have seen an Accapulco Gold plant that was the color of that gold that is on your cigarette packaging. ....But I have never seen such a beautiful plant.

I showed it to all my friends. They all agreed. This thing was definately one screwed up plant, but it was absolutely GORGEOUS!! I plucked leaves off and gave them to my friends every now and then, so that they could taste it, and they all agreed that it was one of the best tasting plants they had ever tried.

This plant grew a total of one foot before... the disaster. lol At this point, it had maintained the same composure. Many limbs, but one big mass of buds that fused together... SOMEHOW, and created the weirdest, most deformed... but most BEAUTIFUL plant you'd ever see.

Then there was the critter. I don't know what it was, but it chewed the CRAP out of this plant. I came to check on it one day, and it was mutilated. It was beyond repair. I didn't even try to replant it because I just knew better. The only thing I could do was to invite some friends over, smoke it, and cry. It hadn't reached its full potency, because I hadn't gotten a chance to run a heat lamp over it to make it really sweat, but two hits is all that was needed.

This was a wonderful plant. At least it made for a good story.

The end

-sloth

**sloth** · 02-10-2007 02:43 AM

Hey.. I just figured out how to double post. . . sorta.

**Bayside** · 02-10-2007 03:01 AM

What a shame. That's kind of depressing.... Knowing that you'll most likely never see another plant like it..... I would've loved to have seen some pictures, don't suppose you managed to get any?

**sloth** · 02-10-2007 05:12 AM

Geez. You're right. All I got is some description. I guess that's pretty pathetic, but I was a hillbilly. I didn't own a camera. I didn't have any sort of technology at the time. lol This was around the time I lived in the woods.

**Bayside** · 02-10-2007 05:35 AM

Lol, too bad man, sounds like a beautiful plant from how you've described it.

**sloth** · 02-10-2007 05:57 AM

It was beautiful and deformed...
...uhh..
...beautifully deformed?

**hellopotato** · 02-11-2007 02:37 AM

hahahahahahahahahahaha this is the coolest story ever

did you get high off mr. beautifully deformed plant?!

**sloth** · 02-11-2007 02:57 AM

Two hit high.
It wasn't like accapulco gold. But it was the same potency of the white widow plant that I grew...

Ever wonder why they call it white widow? When you see the plant in person you can tell. The flowers look like little hairy white spiders. Beautiful!

**Abukuchick** · 02-11-2007 05:14 PM

THe first time I grew I ended up with a 5 foot gangley, worthless male plant! Sprouty was cool but total crap! My second go went much better but nothing like yours.....if only I still lived somewhere the smell didn't bother anyone.....at my old apartment it was my landlord who gave me grow tips...lol!

**sloth** · 02-11-2007 05:48 PM

I have an AWESOME growing technique I would love to share with you guys in an IM. I used to grow plants that, by the time they were one foot tall, had over 50 branches. I can tell you how. It's my own design, and it works very well.

**taltho** · 02-13-2007 02:56 AM

I'm disappointed you called her a he.

My most tortured victims where always the best. AND I CLONED...dumb ass.

**sloth** · 02-13-2007 03:23 AM

Okay.. Umm..
...First, What's the he and her thing? What in the hell are you talking about?
Wait, are you talking about my plant, 'big boy'? He was a male plant, dude. I had to throw him out.

...Second, I am fully aware about the benefits and procedures of cloning. Just because there was one particular time in which I didn't, does not make me a dumbass. In order to clone, you must first have a living plant, which I did not at the time.

...Third, What the hell!?

...and finally, What the hell!?

**taltho** · 02-13-2007 03:27 AM

BTW that is a cool story.

I hate to see good plants die and never return to us.

It's disappointing, I'm just upset the plant died that's all ok.

**Conforming Non-Conformist** · 02-13-2007 03:28 AM

tips?

i like tiiiips!

(re: family guy episode: I Am Peter Hear Me Roar)

**taltho** · 02-13-2007 03:29 AM

Originally Posted by sloth

I was amazed, and I immediately knew that I had mistaken the potential of this poor guy. I set him out in the sun and came back a couple of days later.

On my return trip, I discovered that he had shot up, and he had begun to sweat. He now had four separate branches with many internodes, and one MASS of flowers that seemed to join together. I could smell this plant from a dozen feet away.
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Uhh... You called her a he dude.

**sloth** · 02-13-2007 04:59 AM

OH! I guess I did, huh. lol!
No. Mutant was a female plant. She was old enough to produce seeds if she'd wanted to. Besides. All the most beautiful lifeforms are female.

Hope my trick helps you, Conformist. As far as I know, nobody else has thought of doing that. I had plants that were so bushy that you couldn't see the stem. I had full grown, flowering plants that were only three inches tall, and were FOUR inches wide!

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