It turns out that my growing a perky little marijuana plant in my garden has titillated my friends and neighbors to an extraordinary degree. Whatever it is, everyone who visits us insists on a field trip to my secret garden.
My buddy Adam, who had just returned from vacation in Mendocino, even came by with a “baby gift” he and his wife had found: a ceramic garden stake that said “Weed.” Presumably, it would protect my ‘Blue Dream’ cultivar from any overzealous yard man weeding the flower beds.
Yellow leaves, removed from my marijuana plant.
But as he crept off to find the expensive gin, I had to admit he was right: Where once Cutie had sported a strong, central stalk with a profusion of healthy-looking, spiky, green leaves that depended from tender branches, there now were many yellow or brown leaves.
Healthy green leaves on my marijuana plant. It ought to just grow–and, indeed, at the outset, when I’d sought a modicum of online help, I had Googled “growing Blue Dream,” (Cutie’s specific varietal).
I clipped off all the dead or dying leaves from my marijuana plant. The content tends to reside in three types of sites: A lot of it is on old-style, threaded bulletin boards, such as International Cannagraphic and 420 Magazine, where commenters go on and on in a friendly yet informative way.
The second kind of site that proliferates is more definitive, better organized, and built around carefully tended databases.
And finally, at the highest end (ha! ), are clean, well-lit, beautiful state-of-the-art sites (with apps) such as Leafly, which are decently capitalized and run as legitimate businesses.
A multiple-choice quiz for Leafly readers. I found all three kinds of sites useful, and sometimes entertaining, and started to learn some things about being a marijuana grower.
I collected all the yellow and dead leaves. Some yellowing is perfectly normal at this point, since the plant is focusing all its energy on making those nuggets, and the old, mature leaves already have made their contribution.
My marijuana plant is starting to develop buds. I’m getting kind of attached to Cutie and her cola of nuggets.