Coming right along!

My little medicine plants are doing fairly well after 17 days of life. These 8 Reclining Buddha seedlings will be nurtured about another 5 or 6 weeks, then allowed to begin flowering. The females (hopefully about 4 of them) will end up in my back yard to get nice and big over July, August, and September. For now, they're sitting on my spare washing machine under some simple lightbulbs.

That's the most impressive and healthy one so far. They're now filling out their second set of real leaves, and beginning a third. (I will probably snip off that third set of leaves to cause the seedlings to branch out, but we'll get to that another day.)

This side view lets you see the cotyledons (lowest set of "leaves") and the true sets of leaves that have been added since then. The spacing between these nodes is beginning to widen, which is good and normal, but for these indoor plants I'm trying to not stretch them out too much.

The plants are fairly well-formed and have good colour.

Here's another seedling. You can see how the first set of real leaves has a single finger, while the next set already shows three. Cannabis plants put more fingers on their leaves the happier and healthier they are. It's normal for the first couple nodes to have less fingers, but after that they should begin having 5 or more (the classic leaf we all recognize).

There's the whole gang. Not a runt in the pack! Some are less perfect-looking than others, but at this point they're still all contenders for being transplanted out into the yard in June.

So far, the plants have been grown in plain potting soil and given only water. That's how I grow my medicine - 200% organic. No products of any kind, not even fertilizer. You get less yield, but it's pure.

As for legality, growing these plants remains illegal under Canada's "legalization" in 2017. I could get in big trouble (which is ridiculous and shameful). I am growing them in protest of unjust laws, such as the Cannabis Act, which creates a corporate monopoly and continues cannabis prohibition. The USA just rescheduled cannabis as a low risk substance, but even there, it remains illegal to grow (they call it "manufacture"). It's time to free the weed! Decriminalize growing, buying/selling, and using this safe and peaceful plant.

Thanks for visiting my little indoor medicine patch. Until next time!

Grow in peace.
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