Things You found Out on your own

Most pests outdoors, as well as inside, can be taken care of by natural predators such as lady bugs, praying mantises, etc... What you need to watch out for, when growing organicly outdoor, are caterpillars. Those little fucks will be all over your fucking plants right before harvest. It's a real fucking pain in the ass to deal with. However, I've read that trichogamma wasps hunt down caterpillars. I'm probably going to invest in some in the near future.

althor said:

Haha, I was SO excited my first harvest. I started the cutting and trimming grinning and excited. Fifteen minutes later I was thinking, oh wow this is getting monotonous. Twelve hours later I was thinking, next time I need to include a friend or two.

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i want to either invest in bonsia electric scissors.. or a Trim pro.. i hate trimming large amounts.. a plant or two is fine. but more then that is just a full time job.

...aerocloning is the easiest way to clone.
...panda poly and 2x4's are waaaaaaaaaay cheaper than grow tents, and you can customize them to fit!
...organic buds taste better but hydro buds get bigger
...in hydro, an oversized res makes for easy maintenance.
...co2 isn't worth the investment
...I've never had humidity too low that it has caused problems.

trichome fiend said:

...aerocloning is the easiest way to clone.
...panda poly and 2x4's are waaaaaaaaaay cheaper than grow tents, and you can customize them to fit!
...organic buds taste better but hydro buds get bigger
...in hydro, an oversized res makes for easy maintenance.
...co2 isn't worth the investment
...I've never had humidity too low that it has caused problems.

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So true I wouldn't know about the res and CO2 but everything else for sure, especially the humidity one on the other end of the spectrum I have had humidity too high and that causes issues big time.

Do it right the first time, or you'll be doing it again.
If you want to try something new, don't apply it to everything.
Sure-to-Grow in aero results in EVERYTHING they say it will help prevent.
H2O2 is only a solution if you follow it up with a compost tea.
An ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure (dem teaz).
Be skeptical of everything.
If someone has more experience than you, listen respectfully.
Still be skeptical.
Fuck common sense, your teachers may have gotten things wrong themselves.
If you have a question, find as many answers as you can, and then weigh them, rather than stopping after the first.
If you're not in a basement, make sure anything which vibrates is placed off of a stud, otherwise it will make noise in other rooms.
Wind noise isn't really as loud as it seems.
If something is frustrating, stop and go do something else; the extra 30 minutes usually doesn't matter, and you'll prevent yourself from making careless mistakes.
Blame yourself, but treat it as a lesson.
Keep copious notes, and a calendar.
Turn off geotagging if your camera supports it (or more likely, phone).
Your first instinct is always worth writing down, so four ideas later, you can still go back to it.
Don't take care of your plants, take care of their environment.
The forum search function is useless; Googling site:rollitup.org <terms> is far superior.
Most stoners are exactly that, don't expect much. :/
The more time you spend in your garden, the less time you have to.

Guile said:

That would be exceedingly interesting to me, is there any chance you can point me in the right direction where I might see/read about it. I'm very interested in how/why pot flowers the way it does and this kind of localization is something I have not read much about yet..

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If you haven't found anything about this, it's not unique to cannabis. There are bushes in the parking lot of a school near me which have lamp posts set in them - they never flower where the lamps are, but the rest does. I tried to see what I could find, but nothing really came up.

Banana peel tea provides the perfect organic nutrients during flowering

gqiqdna said:

Banana peel tea provides the perfect organic nutrients during flowering

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yea? how do you make that? lol
I have a heap of fresh banana peels!

smokey de bear said:

Lol Makes sense now lol Yeah thats good advice, ive never tried outdoors yet I may soon but hunting season and harvest season are the same time and I dont trust the hunters around here, and Im sure as hell not wearing hunter orange to go harvest also the fish cops (conservation officers) are in the bush in full force soo it's a good ol time getting into and out of the bush without being seen.

Anyone with advice on that, getting in and out at harvest with the fruits of your labor.

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Normally the time to harvest imo is about a week or so after the first heavy frost. This is normally early October give or take some weeks lol. Hunting season at least out here in the east is archery. Where there's not a orange requirement. I just pick mine up on my way back through the woods. I've also spent at least 20+ of my 27 years in the woods building forts and hunting game. Those are another story though. Check your local hunting regulations Google works great. Get yourself some camo and stealthy move through the woods. If your really paranoid you could get a guilly suit and slowly sneak through the woods completely unseen.

I have learned that there is a lot of wrong information on this site.
Miracle Gro is a great soil (they even have organic).
Marijuana is a really easy plant to grow and all the strains I have grown so far are very forgiving when it comes to mistakes.
Tap water is fine for soil growing.
You can get great results with CFL's.
Add a fan to my tent to keep air circulating and create stonger plants.

d platypus said:

i can remember my mother in law asking if we had skunks around the house when i had my room exhausting strait outside. needless to say there is now a carbon filter.

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That's hilarious!

Last year my wife was trying to convice me that we had a skunk living underneath the boathouse.

I learned that dropping a light fixture on a plant can happen too me,and no longer laugh at others.
a solid wire,two twist ties,and 2 wks=fully healed plant.

half ro and half tap water is better then straight ro. better yet, only tap water is best.

indonesian bat guano will burn the fuck out of plants if you feed more than once every 1 1/2 to 2 weeks.

indoor organic growing requires the use of tea's to break down organic material. If you dont do this your fucked.

dehumidifer's are a must in sealed environments, god damn that mold i had in past grows.(such a noob mistake)

i learned nobody will tell you to use rainwater but its the best stuff you can get for free,

poking holes in your soil mimics what an earthworm does and helps root growth, air flowing to the roots and allows it to air out faster and make flushing less stressful.

also learned how to train without breaking stems by just squeezing the stems and getting them warm and flimsy until ready to bend.

and a small amount of superthrive is great for clones as well seedlings if used in correct moderation.

Da Almighty Jew said:

half ro and half tap water is better then straight ro. better yet, only tap water is best.

indonesian bat guano will burn the fuck out of plants if you feed more than once every 1 1/2 to 2 weeks.

indoor organic growing requires the use of tea's to break down organic material. If you dont do this your fucked.

dehumidifer's are a must in sealed environments, god damn that mold i had in past grows.(such a noob mistake)

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also ive done indoor organics and fed my plants by only putting worm castings and bat guano on my top soil, i recently got into compost tea and it is better because of microbes and the tea will boost the abundance big time, microbes are like steroids for root systems.

althor said:

Haha, I was SO excited my first harvest. I started the cutting and trimming grinning and excited. Fifteen minutes later I was thinking, oh wow this is getting monotonous. Twelve hours later I was thinking, next time I need to include a friend or two.

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It is a pain to trim large amounts. But I have learned to just do it on my own even your best friend will tell his friends. You can get away with murder if you just learn to keep your mouth shut.

bendoverbilly said:

It is a pain to trim large amounts. But I have learned to just do it on my own even your best friend will tell his friends. You can get away with murder if you just learn to keep your mouth shut.

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haha.. the hardest thing to do but so worth it.....

Yesterday I re-learned to ALWAYS pay attention to the bottle you are picking up. I got a mouthful of diluted PH down solution. Thankfully it was that Technaflora crap so it wasn't very strong.

Tastes like really sour lemons without the lemon flavor.

I learned everything on my own......these sites didn't exist when I started growing.....just long boring books that I hated trying to read.

Trial and error is how its done!

I've learned that less is more in most cases. And trial and error is the best way to learn.

bowlfullofbliss said:

I learned everything on my own......these sites didn't exist when I started growing.....just long boring books that I hated trying to read.

Trial and error is how its done!

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I remember those boring books from the 70's. I laugh about them now. I learned everything from on the job training