Stoney McFried
Well-Known Member
LOL!I've had moments like that, too many.
Newbs tend to panic when something is off...I know I did.This grow is teaching me patience.If somethig looks weird, I try to sit down, get some opinions, read a little and deduce what's up before I take any action.Oh, and I'm STILL not full strength on miracle grow...I don't think I will be.
You're right...leaving them alone is half the battle.I'm a quick learner.I screwed up my first grow(I also think it was bad genetics)and I'm really happy with this one.But I leave her alone.I open the door every day to circulate the air,water her every two days or so,nute every third water, molasses every couple of weeks.That's it.I do turn the pot once a day, just so she doesn't lean from only getting exposed to the fans on one side.I don't under any circumstances interrupt her dark period.Sometimes that's hard...I store my weed in the same room she's in,lol.That is funny. I had a friend who was doing somethign about fleas on her back porch. I forget those details, but . . . anyway. She lives in the country, but the neighbors are still close enough to see what's going on if they happen to be looking out back. Well, she locked herself out of hte house by the back door, where she was. And get this, for this flea treatment, she had wrapped her head in a plastic bag, was wearing old doc martins, some weirdo capris pants, all stuff to cover herself up from the poison, I guess.
Then she realized: Crud, door's locked, gotta go gotta go gotta go right now . . . and had already stripped out of the clothes. So, kinda like Petticoat Junction style, recall that show on reruns? She put her pants up like a curtain around herself to go around the front of the house to get in . . . but the guy next door saw her and just waved like he was saying hello any other day.
Her husband described her outfit like this: You look like you coulda been an old, old lady out checking on the okra plants!
The plastic bag around her head; now, that's the part I wish someone had gotten a picture of.
Oh, this neighbor? When I go over there and they're not home? It always seems like I gotta go gotta go gotta go right now! So I gotta go and I do. Last time this happened, I just said, ya know, if I can't have a key like you have to my place? Can I at least have an outhouse built for me?
Answer: The guy next door loves it too much. NO KEY!
Some friend, eh?
Newbs tend to panic when something is off...I know I did.This grow is teaching me patience.If somethig looks weird, I try to sit down, get some opinions, read a little and deduce what's up before I take any action.Oh, and I'm STILL not full strength on miracle grow...I don't think I will be.
When I tell newbs to not use MG its because if they don't know what problems to look for/or fix when, they can get screwed, and lots will nute when nutes are already in soil mix... lots like vette and others use MG with great results from square 1... where the problem is they(newer growers) tend to feel the need to DO SOMETHING which usually ends up giving them problems.... nute OD/flush/water OD..etc.. ..
Its a good understanding of problems...not what you used..
Like when I was a GM mechanic...I knew the "what to do"..but its the "what to do if bolt breaks/weed dying" then its the "what to do " at the defining moment .its how one deals with something you're not knowledgeable in what to do if it goes to hell thing..