biggest fuck up when learning to grow

[Nosmo King]

Not keeping your mouth shut/taking advice from people "who use to grow"

This is a serious and a "need to know" business. If ANYONE even thinks your growing, it will set their mind spinning. They will think your a baller.

If it's thugs you will be robbed. If it's your landlord you will be snitched out or evicted. If it's acquaintences they will talk mad shit about you.

Go online and do research...'nuff said

 

[usda101]

This is a great thread , should be a stickey and must read for newbs . Talk about learning from other peoples mistakes lords knows i made many .

 

[yerboyblue]

I cosign what Nosmo King said about not taking advice from people who "used to grow." I partnered with someone who "used to grow" because he had a bunch of equipment that I couldn't afford. I quickly found he had barely much more knowledge than me on the subject, and apparently it was his former partner who did most of the day to day work in the grow room.

I still have friends today that get defensive about how they've "been growing for 20 years" when I tell them they are cutting down premature and they need to pH their nutrient.

 

[smoooth]

1. Not paying enough attention to environment/atmosphere control.

2. Don't get sucked into marketing. Do some research first.

3. Trusting other friends who grow to care for a strain temporarily, and then come back and find out you lost one of your keepers...

 

[oceangrownkush]

letting a veg cfl fall onto a 2 month vegging mother of Casey Jones and burn a fucking arm off lol.. ended up shooting 3 legs from that spot and that one plant yielded somewhere abouts a half lb, i didn't take a final dry weight sadly but yeah it was about 5 months of solid toking between me and a few friends. shit was dank as fuck.... my biggest mistake was not growing again for a while after that :'( can't mothafuckin wait bwoys.

 

[1Maconheiro]

Planting my first white widow clones in a mix of just worm castings and chicken manure I burned the shit out of them but I replanted them in organic soil and they recovered but were stunned pretty bad they made it to harvest tho.

 

[944s2]

hiya all, 3rd or 4th grow, nice space, my partner at the time had a thing for rabbits, so we had a very big fat greedy french lop rabbit, i ran my lights during the day, so lights off at 8pm lights on at 8am, rabbit and hutch thingy brought out into garden during day back in room at night, no problem until partner forgot to bolt hutch one night, 7am next morning when i put hutch out side, i go in, that big fat greedy fucker had eaten and damaged 12 bubblegum, no survivors, nothing saved but the rabbit looked happy as fuck, live and learn,,,,,,,,peace s2

 

[headband 707]

1. Over-vegging
2. Not pruning enough (major PM issues for awhile)
3. Over fertilizing
4. Using baking soda and lemon juice as pH adjustments
5. Applying sprays toward end of flowering for mites and/or mildew
6. Using a dehumidifier to 'cure' buds faster

I've come a long way now.
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Well using baking soda and lemon juice is okay lol headband 707

 

[OrganicOzarks]

Over watering

Using store bought soil

Popping seeds in standard soil(not a seedling mix, what a dumb ass)

I lost 14 mom's due to store bought soil

I did learn a lesson, and started down the road of making my own soiless mix though. So in the end I am happy that I had so many issues with different soils that I bought. Although I would love to get back some of those mothers.

 

[anchient]

putting big wooden box next to 10' plant in huracane to hold it up. yea it snapped it off clean! walking around with bag of weed hanging of shirt pocket. and about a hundred other things!

 

[overbudjet]

Taking care of my girls (PH'ing)when i am stone(too much)run hydro at 3.4 ph for a night is a fucking disaster ,almost killed everygirl in room .

 

[ClosetAdvocate]

I've had some good f'ups.

My first year growing outdoor I made a number of fuck ups (in no particular order):
-Had a "buddy" that knew where one of my grows was (ripped 2/6 plants)
-Grew crappy quality bud (bag seed)
-Got impatient (harvested bud too early)
-Didn't pull a male plant (some plants were massively seedy)
-Didn't plan ahead for drying the bud, resulted in subpar dried bud and in one case some mold
-Didn't grow enough plants, I should've had at least 3 more plots (My first year i ran one, 2nd year I ran three)
-Should've grown some more indica dominant strains. The sativas took forever and kept on running but they smelled awesome.

I learned a lot in my first two grows. Unfortunately, most of what I learned was from my own mistakes.

If I had to pick one then it's be a toss up between
not pulling my male plant & having someone else that knew about one of my plots.

 

[d3cryption]

hiya all, 3rd or 4th grow, nice space, my partner at the time had a thing for rabbits, so we had a very big fat greedy french lop rabbit, i ran my lights during the day, so lights off at 8pm lights on at 8am, rabbit and hutch thingy brought out into garden during day back in room at night, no problem until partner forgot to bolt hutch one night, 7am next morning when i put hutch out side, i go in, that big fat greedy fucker had eaten and damaged 12 bubblegum, no survivors, nothing saved but the rabbit looked happy as fuck, live and learn,,,,,,,,peace s2

cannarabbit...... would have been a good meal.... bubblegum added flavor, amongst other things..

 

[yerboyblue]

Well using baking soda and lemon juice is okay lol headband 707

It's okay and worked, but man we had to use A LOT of baking soda. Plus it doesn't keep the pH as stable as the pH up and down solutions. I should have came up with the extra $20 to get a quart of each. Also this was the baking soda I kept in the back of my fridge to keep it fresh lol!

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Using ratios and proportion to estimate cabinet air-flow needs, based on typical, room-size parameters. Woefully insufficient.

 

[Drift13]

I'm still in the process of making them. I'll make a list when I have it all sorted out. That's why I still use bagseed because it would break my heart to waste 'good' seed-stock..

 

[gloryoskie]

Learning never to transplant/switch nutes or otherwise experiment on all vegging plants at one time.

Change one plant to the new conditions, wait for results, then if all is well change over some more.

I lost all my sensi star vegging plants in two days after transplanting them into soil that had an overdose of phosphate. 5 grams per liter is waaayy too much.

Live and learn.

 

[firehound]

2 words MIRACLE GROW 1 word HATEFEST

 

[supermanlives]

1. Not paying enough attention to environment/atmosphere control.

2. Don't get sucked into marketing. Do some research first.

3. Trusting other friends who grow to care for a strain temporarily, and then come back and find out you lost one of your keepers...

3 happened to me once. my pal was an older farmer too. i had pots in trays . came back trays were full of water and most plants dead. man was i pissed off. i was like man your a fucking farmer with acres you cant keep 2 trays alive LOL

 

[supermanlives]

2 words MIRACLE GROW 1 word HATEFEST

i ruined a crop with it as a newbee. totally unsmokable .but i am pretty sure it was my fault . prob over ferted and underflushed . it was a letdown for sure. but it led me to the organic route and i aint looking back.