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AK time!
Happy 420 Backatcha!
I don't indulge, but I'm trying to grow it for my daughter. Last year my son bought seeds to start plants, just to see if he could still do it. (He can't indulge because of his job.) Only one plant turned out to be a female, but my daughter said it was very good. She brought me seeds from it, so I germinated a dozen. I just don't feel like they're doing well. They're on a heat mat, and under their light about 18 hours a day. They seem "leggy". I'll see what happens. Hopefully they'll keep going until I can transplant them outside.
Last year that one plant became VERY aromatic, so I can only imagine how strong the aroma will be with a little crop. It'll likely be the only thing I try to grow this year. I don't think I really have a green thumb. 
Happy 420! 
My bf gave me some seeds of his from plants from a couple of years ago, and they seem like stronger plants Only three of the ones he gave me actually sprouted. He grew a pretty substantial crop back then (before I knew him), but my daughter said it's not that great. He still has some, so maybe it's just not so good because it's old. He rarely indulges himself, and just gives it away to friends. If I do end up with a good amount of product, I'd like to try to make some edibles.
Thanks for telling me that about the hybrid strain seeds. It makes me feel like not quite as much of a failure. I'm not giving up on it. If all else fails, I'll just plant some of the seeds in the ground when it gets consistently warmer. I seem to have no problem growing regular old weeds, so maybe this weed would take off outside too.
You just never know until they grow.
Yesterday I started ten tomato plants, seeds indoors, and some moon flower seeds. Gardening starts late around here, southern Montana. But I scored some Walla Walla live starts And might put them in the ground this weekend.
Back in 2018 and 2019 one of my buddies tried to grow CBD hemp. The first year he just threw the seeds out to see what would happen, didn't invest much in the seeds. The seeds he got were from some lab in Canada, there were so many different looking plants that we deduced they must have swept up the lab floor and sent that. I didn't get involved until he was beginning to harvest that crop. The next year he made me foreman and i was out there plotting the irrigation ditches with the civil engineer and planting seeds myself. It was a major course in agriculture on a seven acre plot! Holy cow. The crop was unbelievable. Looked and smelled like high grade marijuana, the plant became huge trees with more kolas than you could count, yellow, pink haired buds. Hard to believe it wasn't pot. I also learned that in a crop setting, you can removed all the male plants you can find and the next day, there's a whole shitload more. Why? Because cannabis will change sexes all by itself. Those girls will grow pollen pods right above the buds and pollinate themselves to produce seeds! You can imagine our dismay when this discovery was made. We had considered it a possibility but when it proved to be real, we were not happy farmers.
The experience was more than I expected but enriching all the same. And I got to spend all my days in one of the most fantastic places on the continent as well. I made friends with two pair of Merlins who nested on the property and learned that deer don't like the really strong stuff, they stopped eating it after it was knee high. And don't sleep in a tent in bear country, even with bear spray... though I already knew that.
Anyway, hybrids don't reproduce well if at all, it's the nature of their creation so to speak. If you can get a few plants to go a generation or two, you might be able to come up with more viable seeds in a third gen seed. That may work but it might not, too.
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I just don't know if that'll ever happen.
I feel a bit defeated.
Has it totally legal now so I celebrate with thanks that I can partake at anytime in the privacy of my home. No paranoia, no sneaky purchases. I hope that it becomes legal nationwide soon.
