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Am I the only one who thinks growing weed ain't easy?

alltatup

alltatup

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As I've pondered the process over the past 7 years, I've compiled a list of all the things I have to juggle if I want to produce the best bud I can. I find that it takes constant vigilance. Is it easy for you guys?

Growing
  1. Required equipment for pH
  2. Air circulation
  3. Temperatures
    • Seedling
    • Veg
    • Early flower
    • Late flower
  4. Humidities
    • Seedling
    • Veg
    • Controlling leaf transpiration
    • Early flower
    • Late flower
  5. Understanding strain genetics & growth pattern
    1. Controlling height
    2. When to flip to flower
  6. Nutrients
    • Seedling
    • Veg
    • Early flower
    • Late flower
  7. Roots: hydroponics
    1. Using water chillers
    2. How to treat root rot
  8. Nutrient lockout: preventing/flushing
  9. Nutrient burn: preventing/flushing
  10. Low Stress Training (LST) in Veg and Fl
    • Topping
    • Mainlining
    • Super-cropping: Training colas horizontally
    • Taping a snapped cola
  11. Defoliation: veg
  12. Defoliation: flower
    • 3 week stretch: controlling plant height
    • Avoiding stunted growth
Harvest/Trim
  1. Handling colas properly
  2. Chikamasa clippers: trimming & protecting colas
  3. Baker's teflon sheets for trimming, harvesting keif
  4. Trim Bin & sugar leaf harvest
    • Make hash easy
Drying
21. Humidity, temp control, darkness, air circulation
22. When colas are dry enough to clip buds
Curing
23. When to transfer to jars: keeping buds frosty
24. How to use hygrometers: cheaper isn't better
25. How & when to use Boveda humidity packs
26. Burping jars: Preventing mold
  • first 2 weeks
  • wks 3-8
  • following months
​I have the feeling that I only possess about half the knowledge I'd need to be a genuine master grower; there's so much I haven't studied yet. Another 7 years, maybe...
But here's some of what I've done so far:
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Just grow.

You'll make mistakes. That's fine. You'll grow great buds woohoo.You'll get better at it when you practice.

The perfect grow doesn't exist. Be happy with doing your best.
 
Growing it ain't easy anymore... No it's not the strain, it's the new technologies we have to learn lol
 

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Easy is as easy does. Your list is valid, and each item is important to the "perfect" grow. While adhering to the basic needs of that list, I try to adhere to the KISS principle as much as I can. Keep It Simple Stupid. I have a habit of taking up hobbies and striving for the perfect product, system process, most advanced I can assemble and afford. The problem is that I don't know when to stop. When I brewed beer at home I started simple. I advanced over 3 years to the point that I had built a 10 gallon pico brewery. Select and mash my own grains, full wort boil, fresh hops, tanks, boilers, chillers, specialty extracts, pure yeast cultures stored and grown up for production, mini kegs, dedicated refrigeration with taps for serving, even custom pitchers and glasses. The problem was that it turned from a hobby into a second job. Hours of study, dedication and hard work. I'm not bashing that, dedication to doing what you do in the best way possible is admirable. But when brew day turns into an eight hour dedicated uninterruptible process that has to be coordinated with other steps 2 weeks in advance, and then life interrupts that, it truly feels like work, not enjoyment. I have come to the conclusion that for a hobby to remain enjoyable, I have to refrain from advancing so far that it turns into work. I was told over and over to go full time commercial with the beer, but then it is a job. I almost did. While I admire the people who can make it work for them, I'm satisfied to just enjoy my beer. Same with growing. I limit what I do so I can still enjoy it. Already, after approaching completion of 4 seasons of growing, assembling equipment, studying, I am starting to feel that growing is becoming a chore and I question if I want to continue. This has happened to me with photography, cars, boats, aircraft, carpentry, and more. That is why I try and keep it simple, and enjoyable. Just my perspective.
 
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I like this approach and I don't think changing hobbies and working on something as you do is a bad thing but your right, it can eat at the enjoyment.
On the other hand when you enjoy doing something you often want to do it well. Having fun with it and enjoying it can bring great results and improved results.
I've reduced my flower space from 4 to 2 plants, simplified the lighting further and moved things around to make it easier to manage. I do this also so I can enjoy it more and stress less. It can be too much like hard work...yep.
 
Ckbrew I was exactly that way before retirement and with pretty much the same lists and experiences as you. I'd do it, perfect it (or try to) then move on to something new. But I've already crossed "make an airplane" off my to do list. I'm beginning to admit that I don't have time for everything and that is keeping me focused on what I am doing. Though maybe once I've perfected pushbutton weed I'll have time to make that steam launch I want.
 
When I started growing, I had a list similar to yours and I thought I had to have everything all in place before I could start growing and have any worthwhile success growing. Here's what my personal experience taught me in hindsight, and my best advice is simply to buy some worthwhile quality seeds and buy a light and get yourself some kind of an oscillating fan to get yourself started. Without a doubt you will need a carbon filter after a couple of months with an inline fan, and from there keep an open mind and be ready to make mistakes and start learning from those mistakes along the way. You will never have a shortage of other people ready and willing to stand up and tell you what you are doing wrong or ideas of how to fix the issues and problems you will undoubtedly run into. No matter how hard you try, no matter how much money you spend, you need one thing more than anything.. EXPERIENCE!

I know another grower who lives near me, so I thought same climate, we will share the same issues and I can copy what works for them. WRONG! If I grow in one room, verses another room in the same building that everything obviously would be the same for humidity, temps, etc... again I was WRONG! Even when I've grown the same strains, back to back in the same space, same everything.. they didn't perform the same, each plant is as different as people are, that's something I didn't expect. Everything I kept thinking I knew and understood as soon as it was put into real life situations, I kept finding myself in a learning curve as nothing will ever help you like experiencing it does. The seasons outside, temps outside, whether I'm running a heater, AC, opening windows it all makes a difference inside and the problems you will suddenly find yourself dealing with. I kept having people tell me "You have to find what works for you" and I didn't truly understand that until I started to truly experience that for myself hands on.

Nothing will ever teach you anything like a hands on experience does. Looking back I can laugh at my mistakes, my learning curves, and see what does and doesn't work for me and from my personal experiences I can help others only because I've already made those mistakes and I have a deeper understanding of what happens after that experience taught me. I watched an YouTube video where the grower "Kyle Kushman" was being interviewed and he was saying people think he came up with Strawberry Kush, and he was telling the story of the guy who came up with it and gave it to him, and he is only the person who basically brought it to the public, not the person who came up with the strain. He tells of being brought to some closet growers house, and the guy has this low budget grow going on, and he wants him to try this strain he came up with, and Kyle looks at the setup and since it's not a professional setup he just takes the strain from the guy and doesn't expect it to amount to anything worthy of his time. At a later point he finds the gift in his pocket again later, and decides to try it, figuring it wasn't going to amount to anything.. and to his surprise it was what is now sold as Strawberry Kush. I learned from listening to that story not to judge what you can possibly grow or do based on how low budget your growing area is.
 
I smoke at the same time im growing and i think it is easy but then i just get thirsty and lite another one just like the last one and then eat a banana what is it now, oh its EASY, yea its easy. Its so easy.
 
I made that list not as a guideline for when I'm growing, because I have that knowledge internalized now. The list is for people who'd like to learn and want to see the basics of what's involved. I know what to do and when to do it, but I wouldn't call it easy.

The learning process was quite a challenge for me, because to grow well, I had to learn to keep juggling a lot of balls in the air. That's how I see it: a juggling act. And I see a lot of folks on the forum who haven't read anything at all and don't know what is really happening in their grow, or what comes next. So something goes wrong--or has been going wrong for a while, and they're completely caught off guard.

I think it takes a lot of reading tutorials (if you're not apprenticing under a master grower) and of course, a lot of practice. I do tend to write a lot of things down, cuz that helps me learn better. It helps me to see the big picture.
 
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alltatup It was a lot of fun while it lasted. As someone who then had time to spare it was a manageable intense hobby. When my son was born and I thought I could put him in a swing chair for 8 hours while I brewed lol. That is when I had to take it down a notch or two. My time was spoken for, the beer quality went down, rather than settle for sub standard, I ended that chapter.
 
LOL I am not going to grow in a sealed room ever. Ya know that name of perlite you use......I thought at first i read fat tard LOL
 
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