Shit We Learned in 2015 Thread

[DuskrayTroubador]

Post your fuck-ups, your facepalms, and lessons learned this season for all of us to benefit from.

To name a few of mine off the top of my head:

Be wary of putting plants touching native plants; I noticed that my plants hit heaviest by blight were the ones touching/within a foot of the surrounding native plants that had it. My other ones didn't get it at all.

Don't wait for a problem and then react. Spray for everything preemptively and rotate fungicides.

Check your ass crack for ticks.

Stay on top of pruning to keep sufficient airflow.

If you're going to bury bottles to water below the surface of the soil, bury multiple and bury them before you put the seeds/plants in so that the dirt has time to harden and secure them in place.

Everything takes longer than you think it will.

 

[Foreverfamily]

Put a inner cage around plants in june

 

[Rolling Stoner]

Genetics, genetics, genetics...I gotta be more selective and not settle for something that I'm not sure about.

 

[Planes]

Do more work myself. Rely less on others.

 

[Betterhaff]

Grow more.

 

[wrapface]

deers are real bitches

 

[St. Phatty]

Old HID lights don't just lose intensity, they also change frequency - to a section of the spectrum with very little PAR.

 

[DuskrayTroubador]

deers are real bitches

If you put some chicken wire around young plants and zip tie the wire together at the top (to create a dome) the deer will bother them no more.

Grow more.

Yep. Next year is gonna be quite the project.

Do more work myself. Rely less on others.

If you want something done right...

Genetics, genetics, genetics...I gotta be more selective and not settle for something that I'm not sure about.

Yep. Fuck freebies. Well, maybe not altogether, but this year I wish I wouldn't have wasted holes on them.

Also, I can't fuck around with strains that don't have top marks in vigor. Lots of strains will finish, but not that many will perform well all around.

Put a inner cage around plants in june

Yep. Had to pick a couple plants off the ground this year due to having no support in place to hold them upright.

 

[Oakhills]

Redwoods roots are way more invasive than I thought, taking nutrients from the garden... No more raised beds or go with some serious root blocker....

 

[NeDank]

Check your ass crack for ticks.

I'd revise this one to ball sack because man does it hurt trying to pull one off of there!

 

[aridbud]

Redwoods roots are way more invasive than I thought, taking nutrients from the garden... No more raised beds or go with some serious root blocker....

ANY roots like to suck up an ample water source!

 

[NorCalLurker]

more topping, bending, supercropping, lollipopping. I always do more than the previous year but I could still do more

 

[sacramental]

Better prepared for harvest!!! We didn't have our drying room down so we rented a big storage container. Shit dried a bit too fast but what can you do.

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[Noonin NorCal]

For us is cutting out the middleman...

 

[NewAgeGenetics]

harvest before 2 weeks rain comes in October... lol

 

[NEW ENGLAND]

Brady can throw TD'S no matter what the PSI is.lol

 

[Robrites]

You are not crazy
If you talk to yourself

You might be crazy
If you talk to yourself
Out-Loud

 

[Noonin NorCal]

You are not crazy
If you talk to yourself

You might be crazy
If you talk to yourself
Out-Loud

I do both and even in a third person, so I'm freaking nuts

 

[Pinball Wizard]

hempy pots solved my problems.. mostly..