One can learn by over time gathering bits of info and retaining that info. One can find a mentor and work hands on and learn. I just gave another source where you can pick up info that is mostly right on for our type of work. I for one would not have the personality to learn online,I am a touch/feel/smell kind of guy. But I offered that option. I have leaned the most but stepping in my own shit. I have been stepping in shit for a long time.
There are those that want everything right now,not willing to put in any effort. They feel they deserve to own a room with the best cuts and plants that put out 3 lbs every time. So they buy 30 lights, jerry rigg an a/c in the room not know what is does for them,and then blame the world for their 4 oz plant that tastse like someone's ass. Or they might actually take someone's years of work with plants and grow them out and actually have something to smoke. They then show pics and say I'm the best look at me. Then next cycle they have some disease and fade away because they were not smart enough to deal with it. I hear and see a lot of that with a rdwc unit some people use.
The profit in our crop allows for huge mistakes and spending money on things that do not work. So go out and buy a line of nutes and make the fat mikes have a pile of funtickets. I see no problem with that. Mixing your own nutes just gives you a freedom to play a little,learn a lot. I have done this , killed a lot of plants testing their envelope. I did it because I was curious. I have found some things that worked for me,ppm/pH levels,when somethings work better in week 2 and others week 4 or 9. I have put out the numbers that work for me,most of the salts I use.Still people want me to mix and give them a product. I did that about 10 years ago and got bitched at by people who claim i burned up their plants or they got screwed following my ppms and that is why their crop lacked. That is why I do not get involved. I gave out good base mixed pre-made for them by haifa or nutritech,pennies for the gallon. and still farmers want more and offer nothing. So that is why I posted this site.It is a great place to learn,Davis and other universities offer classes but I understand there are people who shy away from institutions. So if this place does not help you Sat Nam I tried. There are a few of you I see wanting to put out some effort,so I did. I just tried to pass on what I learned. I have no background in chemistry, never had upper division courses in botany,or even lived on a farm my first 40 years or so. So I do not understand why some feel I want others to think I had. I have always claimed to be a hack grower compared to some. I have just been blessed with 2 girl friends who are master gardeners(another course for growers) and a man who runs a fertilizer factory. He noticed some pics of tomato plants I had grown in a krusty type system and we started communicating. I learned a salt is a salt as long as the purity is the same. timing is more important then most formulas. So enjoy learning to mix your own and feeling confident you know why you are using that salt in your formula. Or go buy a 3 part from grow more that is a cheap copy of GH 3 part. I had some of my best harvest using those. They are just limiting....
coffee buzz is over ciao,JK
