thanks
first 10 years of my grows was all hydro. Only used botanicare. Then switched to soil when I moved into a smaller place. Ran botanicare and roots organic. For 5 years in the middle I didn't grow after getting busted.. When I went back to growing it was a year of hydro. Then soil. Ran bottled nutes til June 2011. Then started doing no till living soil. I'm still using the same batch of soil I was using then.
takes a while to get dialed in on a method, and even then things still go wrong. i almost always have a fuck up plant or two in my mix, if i get real unlucky it might happen to an entire crop to some degree or the other.
last summer i had a situation where the lights were off for 9 days. in a new room i built recently, apparently mites were around and i got about half yield because i had to keep yanking off leaves throughout late flower.
if you don't run into these situations, you are not a grower of any sort. you adjust and move on.
even skunkdouche and chuck know this. or maybe they don't. i haven't seen anything from them that indicates that they are better growers than you are.