How to Waste Time For a Year, part 2

It wasn’t all YouTube. I’m almost a little embarrassed to write about this—a friend gave me a marijuana seed, and I germinated it by wrapping it in damp towels and setting in the dark until it produced a taproot, then I transplanted into a pot on my balcony. It quickly sprouted and looked like this:

And that’s the only photo I have. It grew big and tall—so big in fact, I had to replant it into a bigger pot. It was a female plant and produced plentiful buds. I harvested them, and then dried them in my closet. As a result of my farm labor, I had about a year’s worth of very pleasant smoking. I’ve tried to plant another one, but not had any luck so far. And getting seeds is not easy—most pot you get these days doesn’t have seeds in it. (I guess you can order them from Colorado, but if I did that, I might as well hang a sign from my balcony reading, “drug fiend inside!”) I had never tried to grow marijuana before. I normally have a black thumb, so the fact that this plant thrived was kind of a miracle.

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