Confess Your Bonehead Mistakes in MJ Growing

Ok, I'll start. I may not have done anything so dumb (yet) to ruin a whole grow, but I just did something pretty damn stupid .

As I was getting out the Sweet Deep Grapefruit seeds from the breeders vial, I dropped the whole thing and all 5 seeds dove into the carpet. None were visible to my naked eye . So I get down on the seed-colored carpet and crawl around on my knees in search of rescuing said Grapefruit seeds. I found one. After being on my knees for 20 minutes and sweating, I start to feel like it's a lost cause . I paid good money for those beans.

So I then get out the hand vacuum, spend another 5 minutes mashing the front end of the hand vacuum into the carpet by the suspected area of seed droppage. I picked out all of the container-crud in search of the seeds...nothing . Nothing but hairballs from my dog.

So I get the upright vacuum cleaner, clean it out, and hope that I will be able to find the seeds after I vacuum again. Ok, I get back 1 more seed, but that's it. So the rest is a goner. I'm contemplating watering the carpet area so that perhaps they will germinate in said carpet. I'll be careful though. I will make sure the pH is good.

Also, when I plugged in the vacuum cleaner and turned it on, the 400w MH bulb blew out. Ok, now I'm really pissed at myself. I kept plugging and unplugging the light in 10 minute intervals, since the unit delays the light for 10 minutes after being unplugged or turned off. The bulb flickers on and off for 20 minutes, then goes out again. I took the bulb out to see or hear if the filament had been blown or something, but it all looks intact. So I retrieved my 600w ballast and light, and replaced the 400w with the 600w MH.

I then take the 400w back to my room and test it, and she fires right up! WTF! By now, the 600 is cooking up my grow room, so I decide to bring the 400w back and hang it over my plants. It's now 3 hours later, and the 400w MH bulb starts to flicker, but not like before. It went 25 minutes without a flicker, then it did it again.

I have been checking the light bulb in its socket, and it is tight. Anyway, I still don't know what's up with it, and tomorrow the hydro shop is closed, and I don't have a backup 400wMH bulb.

Moral of story: Never handle seeds near seed color carpet.

<---reenactment of said flickering MH bulb while in its "on mode."

Miracle Gro.

over nuted... burnt the shit out of my girls... stay high

I waited too long this year to top my plants. Really regret that.

Hepheastus420 said:

Miracle Gro.

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Haha, I used a Miracle Gro potting mix this year for my outdoor grow. i can't remember exactly what it was, I'd have to go look at the bag and it's upstairs and I'm feeling lazy. I'm pretty sure it was like a 21-something-something (21-11-11 maybe?) mix, lol. But my one girl is fucking thriving outside right now; thus, no regrets so far.

smok3h said:

Haha, I used a Miracle Gro potting mix this year for my outdoor grow. i can't remember exactly what it was, I'd have to go look at the bag and it's upstairs and I'm feeling lazy. I'm pretty sure it was like a 21-something-something (21-11-11 maybe?) mix, lol. But my one girl is fucking thriving outside right now; thus, no regrets so far.

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I'm sure it works fine with big plants.. But I put my freshly germinated seeds in some.. Nute roasted lol.

Hepheastus420 said:

I'm sure it works fine with big plants.. But I put my freshly germinated seeds in some.. Nute roasted lol.

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Haha, damn. How disappointing that must have been.

This is my first grow attempt, and thus far no mistakes. Thinking about starting a journal here one of these days. Only two plants though so I don't know how exciting it would be for people.

I got a mushroom/mj one. I once spawned a bunch of quart jars to some fox farm instead of the coir/casting bulk substrate i had prepped. I got a few of em that grew off it.

i was emptying my dwc buckets and i poured all the remaining stuff into one bucket and thought what the hell there must still be plenty of nutes in that , bout 9 litres of liquid, fuckin fried an absolutely perfect plant id been super cropping for about two months. stone fuckin dead, probably lost over 5 oz.....what a fuckin wanker!!

put a plant into my actual closest when i was like 16 or some shitand put like lamps in my closest
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then i didnt get high one day and realized i would probably set my closest on fire

lolnot really a mistake morelike pure ignorance on the subject

forgot to spray and turn fans off when pollinating, open pollination followed, full crop of about 16 ounce of seeded bud. gutted. but at least the seeds are viable!

I listened to some advice on the forums lol. I had my plants too close to my CFL's, or did I?

i'll add to the list as the fog periodically lifts but here's a few;

i tried bubbling buckets back in the 90s. flipped them into flower, nuted, went to work. when i came home, the whole crop was fried. it looked like someone took a blow torch to the plants. i went back to soil.

i was using so many additives and i'm always high when i work with the plants so somehow my wires got crossed and i kept using something into flower that should only have been used in veg and the leaves were seriously damaged and the buds were sickly. by the time i figured it out, the damage was done. it was a small crop. i keep it simple now.

i ended up in the hospital for a few days. turned out to be nothing thank god.

the plants were in veg and i decided to just turn on the closet light instead of having the 1000 watt going for an indefinite time which would have dried them out too soon.
when i got back, i turned on the 1000 watt and went to work. when i got home the plants looked terrible. they dying. after reading a lot, i came up with light shock. might be bullshit but i couldn't find any other reason. they all looked so shitty, i tossed them and started again. I had to buy reefer. so embarrasing.

i stopped growing for a few months and when i started up again, i used soil that was too hot for seedlings. the seedlings looked like shit when i was about 6 weeks in. i ended up tossing them all and starting again. this was a good reminder that i'm a pot head and it's good to read up on the basics every once in awhle. i got lazy and lost 6 weeks of growing.

that's it for now.

I was out of seeds and I had one mystery free seed (got them from a shit company so they didn't say what they were). I cloned the fuck out of it cause I didn't wanna get any more seeds. Turned out to be an auto. I literally had 8 little 2" plants budding, at least they all rooted, but.... god damn it.

My first attempt was a fail due to my tunnel vision.

I ignored all things Not MJ. Friends, family, neighbors, etc life in general.

The garden was growing beautiful. Then one day Real Life came knocking at my door
and I had to shut down fast 1 week to build and I tore it down in 15 min.

made a few mistakes in my 1st grow. used MG as was told by a mate it's got all the nutes you need and get some seaweed feed. they like that. fair enough went along with it and nute burns was enevatable. spent about 2 weeks trying to sort that.
also thought if i move the lights closer to the 400w hps it might grow better, still being about a ft away from light. came home from work and the leaves were like leather.