dont worry i know M4k isnt ignoring me. i just hope he isnt spreading himself too thin.
that is basically what brought me down, just taking on too much and spreading myself too thin. my business really took off and i kept taking on more and more work, which meant tons of travel and long hrs. on top of that due to being a tester for gage i was pushing my garden larger than i ever intended, i kept finding cuts i didnt want to lose so i was struggling to maintain mother plants on top of all that. eventually i just couldnt keep up and something had to give. i think i had somewhat of a nervous breakdown.
a tolerance break and a skiiing holiday later i was feeling good but i just couldnt bring myself to fire up my garden until now. im so glad i did.
as for the beaver yeah that was my last successful run, after that i ran a pack of cherry puff f2's which gave me all kinds of trouble. extremely finicky, slow growth, deformed plants and when i finally did hit flower i had herms everywhere. i dont know if it was a bad batch or if it was just a result of where my head was at at the time but that was it for me that was the nail in my coffin. growing had become a chore instead of something i enjoyed.
anyway im back now and i have completely changed things up. im now running a fairly automated hydro system. its only a 4 site system so no more testing but at least this way i can fit some growing into my busy schedule with minimal stress.
i built this new system which im fairly proud of its a hybrid undercurrent/drip feed system using 5gal buckets
that was the day i first put it all together so theres nothing in it yet but it curently has 4 little seedlings in it doing very well, once they are big enough i will take cuts, then switch the system to flower to sex them. then i will remove the mothers and fill all 4 sites with female clones. its a bit of a pain running regs in a system like this but i checked out the fem market and there isnt much on offer so regs it is