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Thread #123216   Message #2710383
Posted By: Genie
28-Aug-09 - 12:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: A little respect for 'weeds,' please
Subject: RE: BS: A little respect for 'weeds,' please
Peace, your plant pic reminds me of another "volunteer" I once had on my property. Back in the late '70s I was renting an apt. here in Portland, and after a while I noticed a frilly-leafed plant, a couple feet high, next to my water meter.   I thought, "Hmmm. That weed looks like, well, weed." A month or two later I noticed there were two of them and the bigger one was about 6 feet tall -- tall enough so that the meter reader would have had to move it out of the way to read the meter.

Later that year I had a party and we ceremoniously "harvested" both plants -- and people tried to 'cure' them using the oven on its lowest setting.
Zip. Nada. Niente.

I know this isn't the preferred method of aging and curing such "volunteer plants," but I suspect they were probably both females (or both males -- whichever one doesn't get you high -- anyway. The scary thing, looking back at that, is that I might have been in trouble with "the man" if someone had reported the plants before I got ride of them.