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Friend growing suspected cannabis plants

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Krayola · 31/01/2024 22:30

My friend is a keen gardener and buys all the gardening mags on subscription. Sends off to gardeners world for seeds etc, attends gardening show at NEC

She often gives me random plants to grow but I’m not very good at it, forget to water them etc and they die. DH often takes over as he quite likes growing stuff too.

Anyway a while ago she split some seeds with us - said she’d got them off her mother in law who had got them off a neighbour. I started growing them in my office upstairs. After they had sprouted DH comes in looking at them with suspicion saying they look like weed. I laughed it off as my friend couldn’t be further from a cannabis growing wrong ‘un.

A month or so went by and DH said “these are 100% cannabis, the whole room stinks of it. I asked friend if her plants had grown and she said they were growing well and she thinks they’re some kind of tomato plant.

DH insisted we get rid of ours saying they were definitely cannabis, absolutely reeked of cannabis, looked like cannabis - they are cannabis.

Friend is still growing hers and now they seem very obviously cannabis to me too. I said to her jokingly “you know those plants look and smell remarkably like cannabis!” And she said she was looking forward to getting tomatoes off them but they didn’t fruit last year!! It’s so funny but at the same time she really needs to get rid of them doesn’t she?! She genuinely thinks they’re tomato plants!

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justasking111 · 31/01/2024 22:46

Tomato plants do stink. I wouldn't have them in the house . The greenhouse smells of them. We had some bird seed once which husband used to give the birds. One day he brushed seed off his hands onto a large planter in the conservatory. They grew. Sons thought it hilarious telling us what they actually were.

Krayola · 31/01/2024 22:46

MrsClatterbuck · 31/01/2024 22:44

Have you tried the app whereby you photograph it and it tells you the namenof the plant. Maybe seeing it in black and white will makechervtake notice. Sorry don't remember what it's called as I don't have it anymore. Not a gardener.

No do they work? I got a dog breed one and it was useless! Kept saying everything was a cross breed husky

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MrsClatterbuck · 31/01/2024 22:44

Have you tried the app whereby you photograph it and it tells you the namenof the plant. Maybe seeing it in black and white will makechervtake notice. Sorry don't remember what it's called as I don't have it anymore. Not a gardener.

Krayola · 31/01/2024 22:35

Boobettes · 31/01/2024 22:32

So she doesn't posses a device that enables her to Google and you haven't shown her photos from Google?

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Of course I have, she keeps laughing it off saying her MIL grew the same seeds and got tomatoes from hers

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Boobettes · 31/01/2024 22:32

So she doesn't posses a device that enables her to Google and you haven't shown her photos from Google?

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