algebraist
Well-Known Member
Here I intend to describe some of the things I've done wrong over the past couple of months while gearing up for and then starting my first grow, in the hope that maybe some of my fellow newbies will be able to dodge some of the traps I walked right into. And also to vent... I should probably go in chronological order, or maybe start with the most costly, but I can't help but begin with today's. It's a doozy.
So I'm transplanting my two little plants from their 4 inch square pots into 7 gallon cloth pots ("Phat Sacks" -- the equivalent, more or less, of "Smart Pots"; it's what they carry at the local shop). I'm no dummy, this will raise the base of the plants up higher than they've been, so in the interest of keeping things consistent I take one plant and place it on the floor next to the pot it's going into, and I measure the difference in the heights of the soil bed. 7 inches. So I go into the closet and raise the lights by 7 inches. It takes maybe 2 minutes.
Did you catch my mistake? While I was in the closet, the fucking dog was eating my damn plant. Ugh. I know to watch out for the dog -- she's never been anywhere near my plants. Until today.
I think it will recover. Anyway, here she is (a little blurry -- sorry about that), with her lovely sister. I'll confess to some of my other mistakes later -- had to get this one off my chest immediately.
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So I'm transplanting my two little plants from their 4 inch square pots into 7 gallon cloth pots ("Phat Sacks" -- the equivalent, more or less, of "Smart Pots"; it's what they carry at the local shop). I'm no dummy, this will raise the base of the plants up higher than they've been, so in the interest of keeping things consistent I take one plant and place it on the floor next to the pot it's going into, and I measure the difference in the heights of the soil bed. 7 inches. So I go into the closet and raise the lights by 7 inches. It takes maybe 2 minutes.
Did you catch my mistake? While I was in the closet, the fucking dog was eating my damn plant. Ugh. I know to watch out for the dog -- she's never been anywhere near my plants. Until today.
I think it will recover. Anyway, here she is (a little blurry -- sorry about that), with her lovely sister. I'll confess to some of my other mistakes later -- had to get this one off my chest immediately.
![DSCN3856.JPG](/data/attachments/2977/2977519-de982cd47ebef4db05084f8b3e043e2e.jpg)
![DSCN3858.JPG](/data/attachments/2977/2977521-8d59d862ec78c2caca6598075ba22a3d.jpg)