Growing is EASY

[dontcopnone]

Reading some of the posts on this and other grow forums I'm amazed at how often people fail in their grows. First off, I feel a lot of it has to do with unnecessary complexity that people incorporate into their grows. Complexity + intoxication is not a recipe for success. Besides that let me list some things I've done wrong (sometimes intentionally) in my first grow.

Germination - Did not provide warm environment at first, and the seeds did not respond. When I did provide warmth and got results I did not pay attention and the taproots got well over 2" and the paper towels got uncomfortably dry.

Seedling - Saw some stunted growth that was surely due to overwatering. Did not make humidity domes for my plants, probably never had better than 30% humidity.

Vegging - Saw slow growth continue and finally wised up to the overwatering, growth improved.

Flowering - Thought I was going to have to move soon & decided to flower early. Underwatered, lowest foliage died. Used too sharp/thin of a string to LST on one plant which started cutting into the stem - removed & replaced - no apparent lasting damage. My LST is probably too high stress as I have little to no internode stretch - CFL lighting and overwatering has produced super compact plants - if I untie them they're probably no more than 8" tall. I've also busted off fan leaves a time or two. I also have never had any active ventilation in my dr60 tent, which sometimes has put me over 90 deg F. I use the guess method when adding nutrients, although to my credit I started on the weak side and have been increasing it at each watering with no visible damage to the plants. Heck I regularily get my leaves wet during waterings at the start of their day and I've never seen signs of damage from light burn.

I don't have a camera to show how well my plants are doing, but despite all my neglect they are doing quite well. I am finally getting an exhaust fan, but only because I need to control the smell. I've been watching carefully for signs of the plants going hermie, as they are G13 Labs stock and besides that I've been inducing a lot of stress. Absolutely no signs of balls yet.

It seems like no matter what I do wrong, they just keep thriving. All that said, I'm no master botanist and this is going to be a very small harvest due to the size of my girls. All I ever wanted from this first grow was proof that my setup would work while staying stealth - mission accomplished so far. The hardest part has been my paranoia which has been totally unfounded.

The question remains...how do people screw this up so badly?

Edit: I'm pretty sure I'm going to pick up a camera in the next few days and show some early bud porn. Stay tuned for a new thread.

 

[Nocturn3]

The question remains...how do people screw this up so badly?

I think you answered your own question. You were lucky. Some people are unlucky. Your plants could have easily died from some of the treatment you have given them.

You shouldn't be so cocky just because you got away with sloppiness so far. No offense.

 

[Night Claptoman]

A lot of people fail on the basics - good soil, proper lightning and PH stuff.
I'm running through my first grow and had a lot of problems. Problems with PH, overwatering, underwatering, overfeeding, underfeeding, underlightning, light-burns, severe root binding, unintentioned topping of a main cola at week 5 of flowering with my favorite plant, unintentional pollinating (just found a seed yesterday :X but most aren't seeded), overheating, underheating. And severe misunderstanding of how high sativas can grow.
Well I made almost any mistake possible.
But I got the basics right:
1. Mostly proper lightning and temps.
2. Had proper ventilation.
3. Had great soil.
4. Had fairly good seeds.

And I always found out what my problems are and fixed em. (except the temp thing I can't efford solving)
You can see my grow, its ain't that bad, but far from great.

 

[LUDACRIS]

A lot of people fail on the basics - good soil, proper lightning and PH stuff.
I'm running through my first grow and had a lot of problems. Problems with PH, overwatering, underwatering, overfeeding, underfeeding, underlightning, light-burns, severe root binding, unintentioned topping of a main cola at week 5 of flowering with my favorite plant, unintentional pollinating (just found a seed yesterday :X but most aren't seeded), overheating, underheating. And severe misunderstanding of how high sativas can grow.
Well I made almost any mistake possible.
But I got the basics right:
1. Mostly proper lightning and temps.
2. Had proper ventilation.
3. Had great soil.
4. Had fairly good seeds.

And I always found out what my problems are and fixed em. (except the temp thing I can't efford solving)
You can see my grow, its ain't that bad, but far from great.

if you said its so easy why have you had so many fuck ups .
as previously said you should not be too cocky as you may just end up with a crop of males or hermies and just because everything seems to be so easy and unproblematic for you now dont think it will stay that way.
LUDA.

 

[LUDACRIS]

not another know it all newbie ???????????
.

https://www.rollitup.org/do-yourself/196061-bdms-plants-wanna-training-master.html

(nice plants NOT).

 

[calibob]

The idea is to thrive not merely survive, I think you have accomplished the latter. First couple of grows I felt growing was easy too, but to do it right takes at least a couple of grows. The only way you get better is to fuck up.

 

[decrim68]

Anyone can grow any plant. Easily.

But it takes time, patience, money, skill and years of trial and error to grow exceptional plants. And shouldn't that be the goal? To grow exceptional plants? Be it tomatoes or cacti or cannabis, etc?

Yeah it is easy to grow a plant, however, it is not so easy to grow exceptional plants. Anyone saying otherwise is obviously very new to horticulture or very experienced.

 

[meofcurse]

you need to fuck up things to learn.i am a new grower too.i fucked my first grow.my lamp was so high that plants stretched and couldnt hold leaves.so here i am again with better ventilation distance from the lamp etc.of course i did a mistake this time too.i didnt water properly but finally i saved them.they are strong bastards!

 

[chemicalsword]

Anyone can grow any plant. Easily.

But it takes time, patience, money, skill and years of trial and error to grow exceptional plants. And shouldn't that be the goal? To grow exceptional plants? Be it tomatoes or cacti or cannabis, etc?

Yeah it is easy to grow a plant, however, it is not so easy to grow exceptional plants. Anyone saying otherwise is obviously very new to horticulture or very experienced.

CS!!


why settle for average when you can grow exceptional....

 

[Night Claptoman]

if you said its so easy why have you had so many fuck ups .
as previously said you should not be too cocky as you may just end up with a crop of males or hermies and just because everything seems to be so easy and unproblematic for you now dont think it will stay that way.
LUDA.

I know I'm very VERY far from being a top gardner, but my plants SURVIVED and budded up pretty nicely for a first grow.
I could have done a lot of things better, but the point is that even with my mistakes I managed to survive, and thats the first stage, ain't it?
The point is that its EASY to grow buds, growing exceptional buds with huge yields is another story. Hope I'll get there someday.
I didn't post to show off my extreme success which exceed EVERY OTHER GROW IN THE PLANET, I did post to point to what I believe to be the funduments of plants to SURVIVE.
Lately I too see a lot of threads with people killing their plants, and to them we adress.

By the way, I had 3 males and one of my plants seems like it produced one male flower although it was a female.
Yeh, its involves some luck, like everythin else, but theres a matter of chance as well.

not another know it all newbie ???????????
.

https://www.rollitup.org/do-yourself/196061-bdms-plants-wanna-training-master.html

(nice plants NOT).

You'r sense of humor is so great.

 

[dontcopnone]

The point of this grow was to screw up. Now to be honest I was creating a lot of these problems intentionally to see what response I would get. The underwatering was 100% intentional - and now I know exactly what to look for. I knew going into this grow that I was going to make mistakes - after all, it is my first grow. If they had died, I would have lost a couple of freebie seeds. I think the important thing to do is quickly correct any problem you're causing.

I'm not being cocky. I have admitted my many mistakes, noted that my yeild will probably suffer for it, and, most importantly, I learned a thing or two. With each grow I will add to my experience. I will never be the person pulling pounds of yeild but that's not really the point for me. I just want to provide myself with personal smoke.

LUDACRIS, you should know from your own personal experience that sometimes we screw up, sometimes plants go hermie. Shit happens. As long as you turn the shit into fertilizer everything will be OK.

The point that I'm trying to make is that the marijuana plant is very resilient. It has to be - Mother Nature has thrown far more at them than I have. Before I started this grow I had serious doubts that I could get as far as I have.

To those of you out there who think you can't do this:

Jump in, the water's fine. Just don't do anything too stupid and you won't drown.

 

[Cpt Jack]

A ganja plant is a thistle and we all know how tough those sods are. they will take a lot what you throw at em, however plants are like people. all different so should be treated so. if proper plant selection is done then ya shouldnt have to worry about hermies and all the rest unless you cause it unecessary stress for no reason. of course if your gona harm it its gona react, normally by repairing the problem which may cause a bit of a growth spurt and you might think you see lots more trichomes produced but just think of the few days youve put your plant back and what it could of naturally produced in that time. probably nearly the same if not more. just grow it how youd like to be grown. i know i wouldnt want anyone dog leggin me or shovin nails through my body ya know. just my thoughts and experience. im currently pullin 14 dry oz per plant without any stressing/bending or breaking. dont try to do too much. often its too much.

 

[stilljonzen]

Wait until a spider mite and 7 billion of his friends visit you. You might not be so cocky after that

 

[Masswhole]

Reading some of the posts on this and other grow forums I'm amazed at how often people fail in their grows. First off, I feel a lot of it has to do with unnecessary complexity that people incorporate into their grows. Complexity + intoxication is not a recipe for success. Besides that let me list some things I've done wrong (sometimes intentionally) in my first grow.

Germination - Did not provide warm environment at first, and the seeds did not respond. When I did provide warmth and got results I did not pay attention and the taproots got well over 2" and the paper towels got uncomfortably dry.

Seedling - Saw some stunted growth that was surely due to overwatering. Did not make humidity domes for my plants, probably never had better than 30% humidity.

Vegging - Saw slow growth continue and finally wised up to the overwatering, growth improved.

Flowering - Thought I was going to have to move soon & decided to flower early. Underwatered, lowest foliage died. Used too sharp/thin of a string to LST on one plant which started cutting into the stem - removed & replaced - no apparent lasting damage. My LST is probably too high stress as I have little to no internode stretch - CFL lighting and overwatering has produced super compact plants - if I untie them they're probably no more than 8" tall. I've also busted off fan leaves a time or two. I also have never had any active ventilation in my dr60 tent, which sometimes has put me over 90 deg F. I use the guess method when adding nutrients, although to my credit I started on the weak side and have been increasing it at each watering with no visible damage to the plants. Heck I regularily get my leaves wet during waterings at the start of their day and I've never seen signs of damage from light burn.

I don't have a camera to show how well my plants are doing, but despite all my neglect they are doing quite well. I am finally getting an exhaust fan, but only because I need to control the smell. I've been watching carefully for signs of the plants going hermie, as they are G13 Labs stock and besides that I've been inducing a lot of stress. Absolutely no signs of balls yet.

It seems like no matter what I do wrong, they just keep thriving. All that said, I'm no master botanist and this is going to be a very small harvest due to the size of my girls. All I ever wanted from this first grow was proof that my setup would work while staying stealth - mission accomplished so far. The hardest part has been my paranoia which has been totally unfounded.

The question remains...how do people screw this up so badly?

Edit: I'm pretty sure I'm going to pick up a camera in the next few days and show some early bud porn. Stay tuned for a new thread.

I like to keep thing simple. I plant the seed in the dirt in the center of whatever size container she will be raised in. No handling the seeds twice, potting twice or three times. Water only when the container is very light or leaves droop a little also. KISS system " KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID"

 

[PurpleHazerBlaza]

Anyone can grow any plant. Easily.

But it takes time, patience, money, skill and years of trial and error to grow exceptional plants. And shouldn't that be the goal? To grow exceptional plants? Be it tomatoes or cacti or cannabis, etc?

Yeah it is easy to grow a plant, however, it is not so easy to grow exceptional plants. Anyone saying otherwise is obviously very new to horticulture or very experienced.

+1, that basically summed up what I was gunna say.

Its like anything, we all make mistakes.. we learn from them!

On another note of growing, it is simple... its not all about money though and fancy lights and nuts e.t.c