One day many years ago I stopped by a friends house on a warm summer day.
We were sitting on lawn chairs in his back yard just chillin'.
I noticed this hedge-looking plant a few feet away. It was under a dome of chicken wire about 4' across & 3' tall. I look around and see about 4 or 5 more scattered around the back yard.
It had leaves that looked just like marijuana leaves, but it was bushy, not straight & tall & x-mas tree-looking, like pot.
And it had yellow flowers and red berries, so I knew it wasn't pot.
I couldn't stop checking it out. I'd seen plants that had leaves that resembled pot before but this was an exact match.
I reached over and tore off a little piece of a leaf that poked out of the chicken wire and smelled it. Damn! It even smelled like pot.
I look up and my friend is smiling.
"Damn" I said "If I didn't know any better I'd swear that this was pot."
"Taste one of the berries" he says.
I lifted up the screen, picked a berry--
It was plastic.
I picked a flower. Plastic.
My friend busted out laughing.
My friend liked pot but he had these nosy neighbors that had two teen-age kids. There was nowhere to grow pot on his prop. that couldn't be seen.
By selectively topping the plant, and training them to grow in a hedge-like shape and then adding plastic flowers and berries he bought at a crafts/hobby shop, he hid his pot in plain sight.
There was netting over the fruit trees in his back yard (to keep the birds off); those bushes under the chicken wire didn't look out of place at all.
He grew pot like that for years, never got ripped.
We were sitting on lawn chairs in his back yard just chillin'.
I noticed this hedge-looking plant a few feet away. It was under a dome of chicken wire about 4' across & 3' tall. I look around and see about 4 or 5 more scattered around the back yard.
It had leaves that looked just like marijuana leaves, but it was bushy, not straight & tall & x-mas tree-looking, like pot.
And it had yellow flowers and red berries, so I knew it wasn't pot.
I couldn't stop checking it out. I'd seen plants that had leaves that resembled pot before but this was an exact match.
I reached over and tore off a little piece of a leaf that poked out of the chicken wire and smelled it. Damn! It even smelled like pot.
I look up and my friend is smiling.
"Damn" I said "If I didn't know any better I'd swear that this was pot."
"Taste one of the berries" he says.
I lifted up the screen, picked a berry--
It was plastic.
I picked a flower. Plastic.
My friend busted out laughing.
My friend liked pot but he had these nosy neighbors that had two teen-age kids. There was nowhere to grow pot on his prop. that couldn't be seen.
By selectively topping the plant, and training them to grow in a hedge-like shape and then adding plastic flowers and berries he bought at a crafts/hobby shop, he hid his pot in plain sight.
There was netting over the fruit trees in his back yard (to keep the birds off); those bushes under the chicken wire didn't look out of place at all.
He grew pot like that for years, never got ripped.