Got to thinking about someone else's post and I have not seen a thread where people post their mistakes or hard lessons learned in one spot. Might be interesting and informative. I'll start by saying my biggest mistake throughout my growing career (indoors) has been occasionally resorting to using a pot smaller than usual resulting in root binding, nutrient deficiencies and overall languishing plants. I've since sort of come with a formula that basically goes for every vertical foot it grows you want half that in pot depth. Rule of thumb, not anything set in stone. But it seems to provide enough soil through the whole process so they don't get bound up underneath.
Outdoors my biggest pet peeve/mistake has been when trying to keep a level of concealment underestimating the amount of overhead foliage would appear during the summer months. You know, you find a nice spot somewhere on the edge of a field, plant your babies and then come back a month later and realize the trees are completely shading it over, despite only a little bit of branches overhead when I scouted the area in the early spring. By the time they're established it's too late to move them.
So what are your biggest mistakes as a grower?
Outdoors my biggest pet peeve/mistake has been when trying to keep a level of concealment underestimating the amount of overhead foliage would appear during the summer months. You know, you find a nice spot somewhere on the edge of a field, plant your babies and then come back a month later and realize the trees are completely shading it over, despite only a little bit of branches overhead when I scouted the area in the early spring. By the time they're established it's too late to move them.
So what are your biggest mistakes as a grower?
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