Time to start the "Things I learned" list!
Things I learned from this grow:
1. Have patience. I believe this will be easier on subsequent grows as much of my impatience was driven by a desire to get on to the next step/phase. Have now been there, done that.
2. Buy good genetics. Still going to have some duds, etc. but chances of success are higher with good starting material.
3. I can grow more weed in one grow in a 2x4 tent than I can smoke in 2 years. I don't have that high a tolerance, and I don't usually vape more than .2-.3g/day.
4. If your canopy is not at one level, results will suffer - top the damn plant to counter apical dominance. Lower tops suffer from being farther away from the light.
5. Clean up the lower sections of the plant. Those shaded bud sites don't produce much, and are not worth trimming. Counterpoint is that the quality of the trim marginally improves, but what happens to the total harvest? Dunno.
6. Leaving some leaves on does slow down drying.
7. Corollary to #1: Let the buds mature.
8. I like the simplicity of growing in soil. My reading indicates that soil is less likely to suffer from wide pH swings due to the buffering ability of the soil. We have a lot of power outages around here due to winter storms, and I'd hate to lose a crop because I couldn't aerate a DWC for a couple of days.
9. Not every leaf is perfect. Don't worry about the odd brown spot, tear or twisted leaf. Monitor, but if the problem doesn't spread, ignore it.
10. Mosquito dunks are effective at eliminating fungus gnats. Just keep putting it in the water.
11. Put way more dolomite lime in the soil for the next grow. I watered with rainwater, and had no calcium or trace minerals in the water. CalMag was necessary with each watering.
12. Soil needs more, and longer lasting, potassium sources than I used for this grow. I needed to supplement with kelp extract quite a bit in veg. Bloom nutrients eliminated the need for other supplemental potassium.
I'm sure quite a few other things will occur to me over time....