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The main benefit comes from knowing what you have if you grow it vs. buying something that looks like weed from the guy on the street. Also growing it is super
by Abroszka 3y ago
The main benefit comes from knowing what you have if you grow it vs. buying something that looks like weed from the guy on the street.
Also growing it is super easy. If you can grow tomatoes then you are already overqualified.
- ivirshup 3y agoMost Germans live in apartments, and rent. The growing and processing does produce strong odors, which a landlord/ neighbors may not approve of.
- rob74 3y agoThe smoking also produces strong odors, which (as a neighbor) I do not approve of, so I'm not sure if adding the odors from growing and processing to that will make the situation much worse?
- monocasa 3y agoThe growing smells are much more pungent.
- ivirshup 3y agoI was thinking more about timescale. If someone smokes a joint near your window, that smell will probably be gone in half an hour. If there is a plant that's just sitting there, it'll be more subtle, but it's not going anywhere. That said – many people like the smell of Hopfentee (Hop tea), which is pretty similar.
- GordonS 3y agoMany are switching to vaping these days, which produces far less odour, and what little there is dissipates quickly. Vapour also doesn't stick to fabrics, walls etc like smoke does - it's just superior to smoking in every way.
- feoren 3y ago> [Vaping is] just superior to smoking in every way. Is there higher risk of infection transmission? I'm sure those reports a few years ago of serious lung infections from tainted vape oils are biasing my thinking here, but it also makes some sense that a high-temperature flame on a dry medium wouldn't transmit nearly as many microorganisms as a lower temperature vaporization of a wet medium.
- LargoLasskhyfv 3y agoThat usually came from some additive for the desired viscosity of the vaping liquid, leading to popcorn lungs. Only black market things, didn't happen to legally aqquired stuff where it was legal at the times.
- pantalaimon 3y agoWith cannabis you usually have dry herb vaporizers, not liquid based devices.
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- Abroszka 3y agoRight, it does have a strong odor. But if you have a balcony then it's easy even in an apartment. Without a balcony it is a kinda difficult as you need some carbon filtering set up.
- throwaway234591 3y agoCommon misconception. You generally want to grow cannabis in a "grow box" of some kind, because you need decent control over the light the plant receives (there's distinct vegetative/flowering phases for cannabis plants). In that case your enclosed box can ventilate through a carbon filter, which by most reports (see the countless threads on r/microgrowery for example) cuts the odors down to nothing, even late in the flowering phase. Visual guide: https://www.supergreenlab.com/guide/how-to-build-a-ikea-eket-connected-grow-box https://www.supergreenlab.com/guide/how-to-build-a-ikea-eket...
- jpsouth 3y agoYou can do it outside as well, but typically a box is the best with regulated lighting, temperature and humidity. I’m not sure I believe the carbon filter reduces the smell to nothing, in my experience it still stinks while running through an internal AND external carbon filter.
- lqet 3y agoThat may be true, but it is still much more convenient and anonymous to just give someone you trust some money, especially if you live in an apartment, or have small children. I would be extremely hesitant to grow cannabis on our balcony. I am 100% sure neither my landlord, nor my neighbors would approve.
- Abroszka 3y ago> I would be extremely hesitant to grow cannabis on our balcony. Why is that? Just buy a small body, auto flowering seed, some fresh soil and water it every couple days and wait. You won't have a gigantic harvest but that's basically all you have to do and you will have more weed than you know what to do with. When grown, cut it, hang it upside down and wait until it's dry.
- lqet 3y ago> Why is that? Anonymity. My neighbors, my parents, my wife's parents, the parents of children that visit my child, everybody passing our balcony on the street, and essentially every visitor to our apartment would assume that we consume drugs regularly. This is something I could not have cared less about when I was in my early twenties and living in a building full of students. But it is not something you want to be associated with if you have children in kindergarten or school and if you have to face other parents or teachers from your neighborhood on a daily basis. If I would start to consume cannabis, I would prefer to do it in private.
- aqme28 3y agoThat’s true, but I think that of all the drug markets, weed is the least likely to be adulterated in any way
- Blahah 3y agoWeed can easily be adulterated (e.g. by spraying with synthetic cannabinoids), but generally it's trivial to find a supplier who doesn't do that. But also true of MDMA and ketamine.
- monocasa 3y ago> Also growing it is super easy. If you can grow tomatoes then you are already overqualified. That's a little overstated. It's easy to grow very low quality weed. Growing something capable of being on a shelf to be sold is very much a skill that takes time, even for someone with a green thumb; the girls get too stressed very easily, and attract pests like you wouldn't believe.
- Abroszka 3y agoPretty sure tomatoes attract more pests. Also people grow these in the forest on small sunny patches and they do just fine. It's literally a "weed", it grows like crazy. But yes, it won't be premium quality, just some average weed.
- monocasa 3y agoI mean, you can grow "ditch weed" that way. It's not 1974 anymore.
- bongodongobob 3y agoIt really just depends on your seeds. Yes there is fancy shit you can do, but good seeds + light + water is literally all you need to grow perfectly fine weed. The trickier stuff is in curing it, but even that is pretty straightforward.
- monocasa 3y agoEven with good genetics, you can easily run into the problems I've said.
- waffleiron 3y agoSame with the orchids my grandma keeps. Weed isn’t more difficult than (quite a few) other plants people have been growing at home.
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- WinstonSmith84 3y agoSuppose you could have the same argument with all the rest: growing your vegetables is super easy (and then add the chickens and fishes etc.). Well, some people just prefer to go to the supermarket..