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No really. I grow peppers.

AJ Drew

AJ Drew

I am so very confused.  We have a farm ID.  We work with our extension office and Department of Agriculture.  The plastic on our green house is clear.  Hell, our insurance is threw the Farm Bureau.  Had a friend, a middle class housewife, offer to 'move my product'.  She was not talking about peppers and I had never heard her use such Breaking Bad terms.  When ever I buy potting soil or trays at Lowes, the cool hippie chick there gives me the wink wink nod nod.

Honest question: Is it the way I look?

If I am being profiled, I would imagine being the local moonshine hook up.  It seems to me the weed hook ups are skinny.  No idea why cause it makes a person want to eat.  Now shine, that kind of makes you wanna sit down after a good Irish jig.  Just like the anesthesia they use during dental surgery.  Trust me, I know and the nurse was frightened.
 
 
Well you have a farm and you look slightly disheveled (mainly the massive salt and pepper beard and long hair).  The first word that come to mind when I see massive beards and long hair is "hippy".
 
No offense  :)
 
ajdrew said:
 'move my product'.
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With legal pot only a matter of years in Ohio and Ky, you should do your homework to see if you can get in early on the legal growing. I would consider it if I already owned a farm, which I don't. 
 
Mind you, I haven't smoked that stuff in almost 25 years, but there is a profit to be made if you get in early.
 
I'm sure it is more lucrative than peppers. Have you seen what htey charge for seeds on the internet? :eek:
 
Jeff, naw.  Even when legal, marijuana would not be the thing to grow for my lifestyle.  Too many people would want to steel it.  I think it belongs with the more commercial folk who dont mind things like security.
 
ajdrew said:
Jeff, naw.  Even when legal, marijuana would not be the thing to grow for my lifestyle.  Too many people would want to steel it.  I think it belongs with the more commercial folk who dont mind things like security.
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Exactly.  The land and the inclination are one thing.  The added security and jumping through legal hoops are another.  The demand is certainly.. uh... high...  But the supply side of things is a real pain in the ass.  
 
ajdrew said:
Jeff, naw.  Even when legal, marijuana would not be the thing to grow for my lifestyle.  Too many people would want to steel it.  I think it belongs with the more commercial folk who dont mind things like security.
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no one would know if you grow four or five rows of corn around the property and the gold would be hidden in center. Just don't tell anyone.
 
Aj you would fit right in at my home town of marble hill/Scopus we have lots of guys that look like him being rule an all etc
Otherwise known as Bollinger County Rednecks I am sure they been profiled like you a lot of them are farmer,hunters & just good old country folk that like duck dynasty etc
I have it figured out that your really Santa Claus & you grow hot peppers etc in the off season so just give them a lump of coal when Christmas comes around.
I love your profile pic by the way
 
Lovepeppers, I am in the manage the pain phase of something.  So if it were legal to grow for personal use, I imagine I would experiment because I hate the opiates they prescribe.  They do let me do things, but damn I ought not to be around people when I take them.  Thing is, once it is legal I imagine the paper work will be stacks high.  Not my thing.  Besides, I got kids.  Tell me they wouldnt be bragging that their dad grows weed.

Smokefire, amen.  I make jokes about wanting to open a single store that sells alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives so that I could save the ATF from multiple trips.  I don't think I could imagine so much oversight.  Not that I would cheat, I would just screw up some book keeping and wind up in prison.

Besides, once it is no longer a niche the Walmarts of the world will take over and run the independent out.
 
Plantguy, ye that is why I thought people would think making moonshine before growing weed.  I should try buying a bunch of copper pipe and seeing if I get the wink, wink, nod, nod.  Have thought about trying a solar water heater to circulate water threw beds, so who knows.

On the profile picture: the kids are why I do what I do.
 
I don't think you are being profiled. I think it is the not so casual way that people who grow peppers get obsessive about their hobby. I get weird looks all the time at work when I talk about buying grow lights and planting seeds in the middle of winter. They all think I am growing weed. 
 
If anything it is probably because you are a male. Hobby gardening is aimed at middle aged women, not men. So if you are a guy, you must be growing something to get you high. Because what guy in their right mind would want to garden? 
 
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When I go into the hydroponics store I do not look like a weed grower (I am not), but I always think the other people in there are.  :lol:  If it were ever legal in Virginia, I would 
grow a few plants,  that would make my brother very happy.
 
Roper, I am guilty of doing the same thing.  Have nothing against folk growing the stuff, so I dont feel bad for thinking that is what they are doing.  It does make sense that one would think such a thing cause bringing the sun indoors can be expensive.
 
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