List three things you learned from last grow.

medidedicated said:

DTW coco grower.

1. Ph drop test kit is cheaper and easier to use than meter. After a year of using a meter. Its tricky to get just below gold/yellow, 6.0 ph. Hard to determine what shade orange it is if you want to drift from 5.5 to 6.5. Will take practice.

2. Aerocloners with aquarium heater 72-75F water temp will root clones real well, IME better than root riot plugs. So I get enjoy all benefits of cloning.

3. Bud trimmers save sooo much time and do what was complimented as better job than hand trimming. Can trim a pound in a couple hours with ease. Trimming by hand gots to be horrible for them.

Really a list of three tools that made me a better/happier grower.

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What specific bud trimmer? Doesn’t beat up the bud?

Coldnasty said:

What specific bud trimmer? Doesn’t beat up the bud?

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Old post lol that was my first serious run. I learned a couple runs later that budtrimmers mess up hash dumpers. I use my pheno for flower rosin only and found it was taking half the yield basically.

Hand trimming I went from 12% to 15-19%. I had strains that you could do anything to and will still get you high but if it dumps hash it can lose substantial amount of potency.

Them bud trimmers suck. Another thing is I learned to trim them by hand even faster than a bowl trimmer. Just get good genetics of low leaf to calyx ratio which is good stuff anyway.

Now that I harvested a couple pounds by hand its even faster. Like 8oz in 3hrs. What I dont get is you typically trim it a little then buck buds into trimmer but its already mostly trimmed right then and there. So the machine actually takes longer, about 4 hrs for 8 oz where as now its 3 hrs for 8 oz so its slightly faster.

Thats with me moving casually too.

Growers trim baby! Literally though.

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Document everything to allow you to track point failures and to allow you to find problems before they start.
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Being able to reach your plants for maintenance is not optional.
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This tent is too tall said no one ever.

medidedicated said:

Old post lol that was my first serious run. I learned a couple runs later that budtrimmers mess up hash dumpers. I use my pheno for flower rosin only and found it was taking half the yield basically.

Hand trimming I went from 12% to 15-19%. I had strains that you could do anything to and will still get you high but if it dumps hash it can lose substantial amount of potency.

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Ah cuz harvest is upon me again and once again I was hoping there was some cool advancement in auto trimmers but looks like hand trim for life for me being a flower guy. Ty for response

Part 3.

1. Do not overthink your grow - ANY grow.
Its a plant … it doesn’t need special handling or extra supplements. It doesn’t need special water.

2. There are NO cannabis specific nutes.
Stop drinking the koolaid when buying fertilizer.
You do not need an entire line of nutes to grow a single plant. Especially if you are doing simple indoor grows. You can grow an entire run on a simple 5-5-5 general purpose dry fertilizer or for Hydro ( maxigrow / maxibloom for example ) 2 part.

No need for a hundred bottles of fluff. Keep money for better lights , better tent , etc.

3. Patience- Patience - Patience

Plant does not give a shit about calendars or weeks. It is in drivers seat and will finish when it finishes. No amount of “ boosters “ or youtube BS will change that.

Learn basic gardening and you will be fine.

Lastly - enjoy the ride and smoke a shit ton of weed.

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