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While looking over the many threads here, I'm seeing a couple of trends that I've noticed and wanted to see what people think and consider themselves as far as being "Farmers".
I probably should have included the frenzy factor. Growing, to me, is like a slow blues song or even mellowish hip hop...I just kind of let things go their own way with as little intervention as possible. Others seem to be like a Rave party with a thousand things, beats, and characters going on at once...Ph, Rh, Nutes, Addendums...that type of thing. I'm typically happy with a good overall result, but I don't necessarily go for the latest and greatest choices, even though they are amazing compared to the old strains. Tripled filtered vodka VS homemade Italian red type of thing...both great!Great topic choice mate!
Old school with new school not being ignored as technology changes for the better in regards to farming! So so never obstinate on new stuff! Always respect old school while embracing new school. Each has its merit! And a smart farmer will use every advantage he or she can find!!
Yea I’m with ya on that! I’m a kinda like that ain’t broke! No need to mess with it kinda guy but I do experiments to see the value and very slowly adjust while keeping a bit of the skepticism in check. As some do get all bent out of shape if you question them lol. I’ve got some growers at the farm that would swear this bottle is the best and fail. Meanwhile my old methods pay the bills. Sometimes you let the young uns fail to bring them. Back to level so that now they will listen and heck combined maybe, maybe we can do something betterI probably should have included the frenzy factor. Growing, to me, is like a slow blues song or even mellowish hip hop...I just kind of let things go their own way with as little intervention as possible. Others seem to be like a Rave party with a thousand things, beats, and characters going on at once...Ph, Rh, Nutes, Addendums...that type of thing. I'm typically happy with a good overall result, but I don't necessarily go for the latest and greatest choices, even though they are amazing compared to the old strains. Tripled filtered vodka VS homemade Italian red type of thing...both great!
Growing to me is likeI probably should have included the frenzy factor. Growing, to me, is like a slow blues song or even mellowish hip hop...I just kind of let things go their own way with as little intervention as possible. Others seem to be like a Rave party with a thousand things, beats, and characters going on at once...Ph, Rh, Nutes, Addendums...that type of thing. I'm typically happy with a good overall result, but I don't necessarily go for the latest and greatest choices, even though they are amazing compared to the old strains. Tripled filtered vodka VS homemade Italian red type of thing...both great!
Hell yaGrowing to me is like
Good question.
I’m very new to cannabis farming. I grew up in a house with a big garden. Our landlord at the time was an old man who loved gardening. He grew tomatoes, cucumbers, flowers, peppers, all the usual stuff and a couple of fruit trees. My first gardening experience was mending this garden with him. I was 6-7 years old and we lived there until i was about 15.
In the meantime, i was going out to my fathers hometown, which is basically an little mountain village, to spend my summers with my grandma (rip) and grandpa (rip). They were farmers too. I spent my summers on their field working with them.
We grew corns, beans and some local fruits. There was also a lot of nut trees they grew. These were mostly cash crops eventho they would also survive the winters with what they have grown.
So for me, starting to grow cannabis was an easy choice as i could see i had a way with plants since i was a child. I believe the greenthumb thing is real. Now, this doesn’t mean that the ones don’t have it can’t grow. It just means some things come easily for me. The plants i grew seem to enjoy being grown by me, most of them at least :)
I firmly believe in organic farming. I’m not gonna talk shit about chemical farming. That works too. It just that when i think about farming, i thing about fertile lands. Both on the surface and deep down. This is just what i envision. Growing plants is useful for humans but it can also be useful and beneficial to many more life forms.
I grow in peat mix, indoors. Using leds. I’m trying to conserve as much energy as i can at every corner and try to get away with minimum amount of usage. This is mostly because of my environmental concerns tho i believe “the planet is fine, the people are fucked.” RIP George Carlin :) Another aspect of me not going with hydro is again this environmental concerns. Too much water and electricity consumption imho.
I try to make my own nutes using different techniques like composting, fermenting or lately dabbling in bokashi. Since i’m not legal i’m trying to run 0 waste. All the leaves stems and garbage is either being composted or fermented and gets put back into the cycle. Make specialised nutes myself at home like potassium rich fpes or enzyme rich fpes which are used at some specific points to encourage specific responses.
So all in all, i don’t know where to put myself as my mentors in agriculture was always the elderly but i’m currently implementing techniques that they didn’t so not old school, but to my knowledge all these techniques are very old so not new school either :D
I don’t use any recipes for my soils or any other aspects of my grows. I like experimenting alot. That means there are more failures than success but its just how it is. You get used to it and you learn so much from it. :)
Now that's some good music right there, I let my plants listen to it all the time:DGrowing to me is like
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