Mikedin
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100% agree, first thing a new grower should do… plant 3-4 seeds… try to get one through harvest. Yes, you’re gunna hit some bumps, you’ll ask some questions, but I feel until a person has grown a Plant start to finish, no matter how small, or impotent or fucked up it looks by the end cal defs and all, THAT is a victory. It’s all uphill from there,
This may be up for debate but I feel some of the best growers are those that never got advice, learned from their mistakes, studied the issue and set themself up for higher success the next run. Mind you I said start with 3-4 and try to get ONE through harvest, most can do that easily, others will struggle and say they don’t have a green thumb,… but most of these people never really TRIED, they put a seed in soil and gave it water and that’s it, starving a plant dosent mean you don’t have a green thumb, it means you ignored the signs you were given.
I do think there’s a lot we can do to get people started out on the right foot, a lot of those are probably dont’s
Don’t water daily in soil
Don’t turn your lights up 100% on a 3 week old seedling
Don’t point the fans directly at the plants
Don’t expose plants to lights in dark period
Don’t….
Dont…
Don’t…
while it seems negative, you just took away 4 potential issues they will have through the run
The do’s mostly come with experience over time, it’s hard to suggest a specific neut some don’t have access to the same neuts, be positive and work with people with what they have
What I hate the most is when someone is using a certian neut, someone else comes in the topic and says oh that’s shit, it’s gunna blah blah, and want them to buy the most expensive line out there because “it’s the best” … I suggest to anyone that grows the first time, be frugal, buy what you NEED for a plant to survive complete basics. Don’t try to do a 50 plant run on your first try, see if you can even grow 1 or even 5 at once, some people have no idea the work some of the members here to get these beautiful grows. Gotta start with a Good, basic foundation then build good havits and methods from there.
Sorry… another rant