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What Lesson Did Your Garden Teach You in 2022

If you weren't schooled in one way or another, you didn't learn anything, You usually learn more from your mistakes than your successes,
 
The last year I’ve realized how much time I wasted each week filling containers with water, mixing nutes, adjusting ph and then watering plants over the years. Last October I finally opened the AutoPot system I had sitting on a shelf and now I spend maybe 15min on Saturday or Sunday mornings filling the reservoirs and adding nutes.
 
I started growing in 2022 so i learned that you can actually grow weed at home :).

I did my first grow ever outside first and mistakes were made where i sprayed for bugs during day and it looked like i killed the plants the next day due to burning of leaves. So i learned to only spray at night.

Now im almost finished with my second grow(first indoor), learning that Live soil really is hands off, just have to water and keep env proper
 
Id love to try mine but my grow area is cold so I’d need a way to heat the water which isn’t an option really so I’m stuck with hand feeding.
 
Since it was my first year of growing then, literally everything. Most monumental to me, 5 gallon pots grow so much more than two or three gallon pots that there's no reason to go smaller.
 
same here did my first indoor grow last year, my OCD was killing plants over watering drowned seeds , over watered seedlings, finally after a month of utter failure ( 6 Acapulco gold seed drowned 4, amensia seeds killed all but one) got my OCD under control and learned that to much love isn't good. Made it to harvest with 2 AG plants, 1 amnesia and 2 bubble gum and was more then happy with buzz and amount I harvested. had whaite widow fem on outside grow and I was just chilling onthese 3 all was well got bud rot in 1 plant ( way to wet august in WNY ) lost most of the top buds and just harvested early. Planning on statrting again indoors in two weeks. I also found it helpful to keep a written journal of my grows.
 
At the same height, a 5 gallon pot will be (only) 1.6 times the diameter of a 2 gallon pot. But if you can't do five's then maybe three's... Point being that larger containers are actually more space efficient.
 
My last indoor grow I took two of 7 plants to harvest, 12 gallon pots.

The canopy size after pruning and training was a huge 5 x 4 (for the two plants) and I had to cut off two main colas as they fell well outside the light they needed to properly mature....at full flower the area was quite cramped and difficult to stop the buds and leaves from touching.

I lost pretty much all main colas to mould but still managed to harvest the medium and smaller buds for a total yield of about 14 to 16 Oz dry.

The grow didn't go well as at about 6 weeks into veg I lost power for a while and could only give enough light to keep them going so continued another few weeks of veg once power restored then flipped....all up the grow went for about 5 months and I barely hit the harvest window, so low THC but still very nice to smoke.

I dont know how much I lost as I threw it out prior to drying but probably double what I did manage to save. I was happy to have saved what I did..it was my 1st successful hydro grow
 
sounds like your scrambling went very well....i have been eyeing the very nice generators our various neighbors have...luckily our hydro loop seems to be more robust...
 
Patience works the new 2023 grow is 3 weeks in started with 3 white widows, 3 Hindu Kush, and 2 super skunks all females seeds. After germination and placing into soil in solo cups I have only lost 2 Super Skunks they came out of the soil with very curly stems and both died within a few days not really sure what caused it as all the other seedling had same conditions and are doing fine.. I replaced the 2 super Skunk with 2 more SS seeds they have sprouted and i have had no issues so far. Just letting all my girls do there thing with some assistance from me.
 
It looks like it was an extremely fruitful year and full of new experiences. I've just recently started researching this field, wrote an essay on police brutality c with examples on https://papersowl.com/examples/police-brutality/ for college, and started preparing a place. Next I want to plant my own little seedbed and start growing my own product already.
 
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90Gizmo Yes! Same problem here...pH runoff measuring quite high and not indicative of what is going on at the roots...draining to waste but salt/mineral accumulation in the drip trays is pushing it up towards 7..I think to get accurate readings it would be too much of a pain..
 
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