Maxwell's Fluff
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I'm relatively new grower (currently mid flower on my fourth grow) but I've had a surprising experience a while back and it really opened my eyes. I was ready to kill my grow and start anew, but.... Well I thought I'd share the tale and encourage any other such stories - out of personal curiosity and because perhaps it can help new growers as it helped me
During my second grow, 3-4 weeks into veg I booked a last minute vacation and long story short, the day we were leaving I learned my mother in law was going to use our place while we were gone. My wife didn't want her finding the tent (from the fan noise) so in a panic I just unplugged all the power to my grow tent and canceled with my brother from coming over to look after them during the week, minutes before leaving for the airport.
I had given them a good feeding the night before, but they essentially stayed 8 days in the complete dark, in a closed grow tent with no ventilation. When I came back, I opened the tent ready to cut them down and start a new grow. But they were only wilted(?), all the leaves pointing down to the ground, and perhaps a few deficient discolouring (but minor), well I just turned everything back on watered them and at the end of that same day when I checked, they were all back to normal, visually. All in all it offset the harvest "calendar", they came in later but smoking but it was just as good as the previous grow. Yield wise it was the same but I grew them by filling my available area and looking at colas and trics, not by counting weeks of veg or flower (what I refer to as "calendar growing"). So other than the time to recuperate, it's as if they never spent a week sealed in the dark!
All in all, I learnt how tough those babies are, and that for me, choosing how long to veg or flower or whatever else, comes down to looking at plant and to know if it's ready. Not because it said x amount of days on a packaging or online or whatever before I ever even started to grow.
Also, afterwards when I tried topping, trimming, or whatever and stems broke or little things went wrong, I never panicked and knew right away that the plant could fix itself with a bit of time and know how on my part (research!!!).
Share your abuse stories - hopefully with a good ending as well!
Cheers
I'm relatively new grower (currently mid flower on my fourth grow) but I've had a surprising experience a while back and it really opened my eyes. I was ready to kill my grow and start anew, but.... Well I thought I'd share the tale and encourage any other such stories - out of personal curiosity and because perhaps it can help new growers as it helped me
During my second grow, 3-4 weeks into veg I booked a last minute vacation and long story short, the day we were leaving I learned my mother in law was going to use our place while we were gone. My wife didn't want her finding the tent (from the fan noise) so in a panic I just unplugged all the power to my grow tent and canceled with my brother from coming over to look after them during the week, minutes before leaving for the airport.
I had given them a good feeding the night before, but they essentially stayed 8 days in the complete dark, in a closed grow tent with no ventilation. When I came back, I opened the tent ready to cut them down and start a new grow. But they were only wilted(?), all the leaves pointing down to the ground, and perhaps a few deficient discolouring (but minor), well I just turned everything back on watered them and at the end of that same day when I checked, they were all back to normal, visually. All in all it offset the harvest "calendar", they came in later but smoking but it was just as good as the previous grow. Yield wise it was the same but I grew them by filling my available area and looking at colas and trics, not by counting weeks of veg or flower (what I refer to as "calendar growing"). So other than the time to recuperate, it's as if they never spent a week sealed in the dark!
All in all, I learnt how tough those babies are, and that for me, choosing how long to veg or flower or whatever else, comes down to looking at plant and to know if it's ready. Not because it said x amount of days on a packaging or online or whatever before I ever even started to grow.
Also, afterwards when I tried topping, trimming, or whatever and stems broke or little things went wrong, I never panicked and knew right away that the plant could fix itself with a bit of time and know how on my part (research!!!).
Share your abuse stories - hopefully with a good ending as well!
Cheers
