Indoor newb growers, like me, may appreciate this high-dea, which is what we call these things in our house. 
Most of you probably have a way to take digital photos. You don't have to let the world see them, but they come in handy.
If you take a few photos of your plants every day with the lights off, using the flash or in natural light, you have a photographic timeline to refer to if things go sideways. One plant or 20 - a photograph or two every day when you check on them (you're checking on them every day, right??), can help you to diagnose a problem when you finally do notice that you have one. I've seen a lot of "Omg, what did I do to my plants?". If you're keeping a detailed notebook, that's good, but having a series of photos to compare side-by-side can really help. Sometimes my shorthand leaves a little to be desired, lol. "WTF is this?"
I have twice been able to go back and look at photos and figure out exactly when an issue started. No "Well, I think it was a week ago Tuesday", but I can get it down to a 24-hour period when things were okay and then went to not okay.
(I skipped a day and that was the day I would have been able to keep things from getting worse...)
Those pictures you take will also provide you with a way to get help right from the outset instead of spending days playing 20 Questions with the experienced growers.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...
Most of you probably have a way to take digital photos. You don't have to let the world see them, but they come in handy.
If you take a few photos of your plants every day with the lights off, using the flash or in natural light, you have a photographic timeline to refer to if things go sideways. One plant or 20 - a photograph or two every day when you check on them (you're checking on them every day, right??), can help you to diagnose a problem when you finally do notice that you have one. I've seen a lot of "Omg, what did I do to my plants?". If you're keeping a detailed notebook, that's good, but having a series of photos to compare side-by-side can really help. Sometimes my shorthand leaves a little to be desired, lol. "WTF is this?"
I have twice been able to go back and look at photos and figure out exactly when an issue started. No "Well, I think it was a week ago Tuesday", but I can get it down to a 24-hour period when things were okay and then went to not okay.
(I skipped a day and that was the day I would have been able to keep things from getting worse...)
Those pictures you take will also provide you with a way to get help right from the outset instead of spending days playing 20 Questions with the experienced growers.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...
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