What was your most painful "Self-induced" grow mistake?

Well I was changing bulbs one day and was smoking some goooooood shit. So not really paying attention I grab a 200watt heat bulb(used in bathroom sonars lol!). So I put it in and turned it on. So pic this, I'm in my grow room sitting on a bucket smoking my herb just watching this bulb litterally cook my girl 7weeks into flower. Did good damage to the main cola. Growth halted for maybe a week or two. After I trimmed all the dead leaves n burnt buds off, it beganto regrow and bud again. The bottom bud sites were very heavy in trichs.
 
puffdatchronic said:
dna genetics pot snob?.. one of the best companies. Who do you go with if you are let down by them?
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They and there second company Reserva Privada are some of the better I agree . I grew out the La Confidential and found no winners along with La Woman , the packs were not impressive either as I am used to hand selected seeds verses mass produced ones . Og #18 , well I will not even bother after seeing what the packs shared wound up like . I gave 4 out of 5 away and all were very unstable and not what they were put out to be :(

Myself and a few others have dabbled in there Land Race Afghani stock as well and it is more New World than Old sad to say . Nothing against Don and Aron as I like what they do but they went commercial and that is the problem in a sense for me and my likes .

Now if I had seeds of theres made and passed on by them it would be a different game , not even sure if the ones we buy are made by them or outsourced like the majority on Attitude .

To answer your question about beans and my sourcing , I have always grown old world land races and old school american genetics and I like to selectively breed and collect from others who practice the same
 
Oh I see, you must like mandala then? .. never tried them myself though. I have grown 1 dna strain myself just the lemon skunk and it was a winner. Though I do agree that they are way over commercialising now, everything is a kush hybrid of 2 of their other kushes or a non kush and a kush and then they are even making kush hybrids out of kush hybrids it seems ,it's getting ridiculous ,so I could well believe quality is getting compromised.
 
One of my biggest mistakes was listening to the hydro shop employees with their mythical bullshit and lack of grow room design knowledge.

I got sold a 5" 280m3/h or 130CFM fan to cool and filter a 600w cooltube. Fucking muppets. Lol.

The owner of the grow shop now actually asks me for advice on his own crops.

So the lessons learned are dont believe the myths eg, 72 hours darkness, 36hours darkness, switching to bloom nutes too early, always overspec ventilation for summer running, don't buy the dearest bottle of nutes on the market thinking it will make you a great grower.

Learn with the basics and advance from there.

My biggest improvement I ever made was having almost total control of my environment. The only thing I don't control is Co2.




J
 
puffdatchronic said:
Oh I see, you must like mandala then? .. never tried them myself though. I have grown 1 dna strain myself just the lemon skunk and it was a winner. Though I do agree that they are way over commercialising now, everything is a kush hybrid of 2 of their other kushes or a non kush and a kush and then they are even making kush hybrids out of kush hybrids it seems ,it's getting ridiculous ,so I could well believe quality is getting compromised.
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Yes I am a fan of Mandala , Mike and Jasmin are breeding with a passion and selling with compassion . I like the fact that they are educated and well diversified in the land races . And you know it , the Poly Hybrids tend to get old and are often prone to problems when not tested properly for combining factors :)
 
ProfessorPotSnob said:
Yes I am a fan of Mandala , Mike and Jasmin are breeding with a passion and selling with compassion . I like the fact that they are educated and well diversified in the land races . And you know it , the Poly Hybrids tend to get old and are often prone to problems when not tested properly for combining factors :)
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Satori will get a muthafucka wrecked! thats the good shit. my new favorite weed. period. ive never got so fucked up off weed vefore. thats the killer shit.
 
jondamon said:
So the lessons learned are dont believe the myths eg, 72 hours darkness, 36hours darkness, switching to bloom nutes too early, always overspec ventilation for summer running, don't buy the dearest bottle of nutes on the market thinking it will make you a great grower.
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Great concept. Too bad a lot of the members here can't resist them. They will drive rusty nails through their stalks trying to "stress" their plant into producing more. They pour all sorts of snake oil into their plants, thinking they have discovered some cosmic secret that no grower or master gardener has ever thought of. They let their cat piss on their plants, fuss over details that do not mean jack and totally ignore the fact that this is a f'in plant, that it's not from another planet brought here by aliens.
 
potpimp said:
Great concept. Too bad a lot of the members here can't resist them. They will drive rusty nails through their stalks trying to "stress" their plant into producing more. They pour all sorts of snake oil into their plants, thinking they have discovered some cosmic secret that no grower or master gardener has ever thought of. They let their cat piss on their plants, fuss over details that do not mean jack and totally ignore the fact that this is a f'in plant, that it's not from another planet brought here by aliens.
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Exmuthafuckingactly!!!
 
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Absolutely the worst thing that can happen...PERIOD!!
 
jondamon said:
Lol been there!

Done that!


Got the T-shirt

And the cup!


Come out the other side and still growing. Lol.




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lolz i been their like three times lolz and jumped out the fucken back and ran my fucken ass off...

then i got cuffed sucks!!!!

but i grow slow now.. LESS IS MORE i have learned the WORST THING I CAN THINK OF IS PARTNERS NEVER EVER FUCKEN EVER PARTNER UP... EVERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!
 
Realize it might hurt to say this stuff out loud, but thanks everyone posting. Starting out, I would rather learn from your mistakes and minimize the dumb things i'm sure to do.
 
I think consensus is that it's important to get the basics right and not screw up. Everything else comes second.
For example, my guys actually did a great job of cutting that tree down!
 
I learnt the hard way that moving my light/hood requires both sides of the pole that it hangs from to be grasped before it is moved. Pushing from one side alone is really asking for some serious trouble. I also learnt from that experience that the hassle of moving the plants out of the tent is nothing compared to the hassle of moving the light/hood off of big lush plants 5 weeks into veg after it has fallen on them from a couple of feet above.

That was such a facepalm moment. I wasn't concentrating properly on what I was doing, and was far too stoned. Pushed one side and it just titled the pole, causing the other side to fall off the tent frame it sits on. The entire air cooled hood with the light on within it dropped onto the canopy of my plants that I was ready to flip to flowering. In fact thinking back now as I tell the story I think my reason for moving the light was because I'd just changed from MH to HPS for flowering.

I walked away, in slight shock. But came back quickly, wanting to survey the damage and rescue what I could. I ended up with the hood resting on my legs, with the 600W HPS on inside, as I tried to sort out the pole and lift the hood all in one motion, whilst trying to stop the glass - which miraculously had not broken - from falling out of the already loose fitting. I remember sitting myself back down several times having exerted myself massively for several minutes, after failing to get the light back up. The entire time I was trying to not look at or acknowledge the plant carnage that was underneath my field of vision.

I ended up managing to move the hood onto a mattress, and switch the light off eventually. I think I was very lucky tbh. Five of the seven plants were very aggressively topped, with several side branches unceremoniously ripped off. I did some surgery however and they all ended up growing out ok. Did put the grow back by about 4 weeks though, and made me very cautious every time I move the light or change the bulb (something I always do now having moved the plants first and put a mattress on the floor of the tent - as grateful as I was for their sacrifice, I would rather save the hood glass with a mattress than cannabis plants lol).
 
One big one to avoid.
NEVER have anything electrical on the floor. It should ALL be wall mounted or hung.
Water obeys the laws of gravity.
Electricity doesn't.
 
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