What's your worst yield? Post your most embarrasing failure.

phxazcraig · Mar 22, 2022

I see all kinds of posts where people are holding these huge fat nugs in front of a whole room containing pounds more in perfect condition. Makes you feel like a failure when you don't get 2 pounds of premo bud out of a 4x4 grow tent.

But that doesn't always happen. Sometimes you just f*ck up.

My first grow in a 34x4 tent, with a 600w LED display and 4 autoflowers growing in soil in big fabric pots yielded....

3 ounces.

One plant was so stunted I got about 1/4 ounce off it, so really got about an ounce per plant except the worst one. I overdid everything to achieve this mighty result. Drowned half my seeds, then overwatered the 4 survivors. Overlit and scorched them. Fed them RO water pH'd with a pen that turned out to be completely inaccurate, through I didn't find that out for two more grows.

Dried them too fast (first plant bone dry in 2 days). Didn't have enough to give proper cure as I was smoking the output after week 1.

All in all, a series of mistakes. In the same tent with the same lighting I got 18 ounces in soil from the second crop. Using photo periods and five plants. (Also took 5 months).

freezeland2 · Mar 22, 2022

I’m right in the middle of flowering my worst. Think it mosaic virus actually.

Garbage_bear · Mar 22, 2022

freezeland2 said:
I’m right in the middle of flowering my worst. Think it mosaic virus actually.

Iv'e had some genetic mutations where one half of the leaf is yellow or white but it looked quite a bit different that what you have going on there. That looks no bueno.

steamroller · Mar 22, 2022

I'll hope my first was my worst .
It was all good by me, but we always expect to do better or at least comparable .
I try to remember as soon as you think you can predict mother nature altered by your influence you should always be grateful and aware .

freezeland2 · Mar 22, 2022

Garbage_bear said:
Iv'e had some genetic mutations where one half of the leaf is yellow or white but it looked quite a bit different that what you have going on there. That looks no bueno.

The strain is Iceberg. I have 4 plants growing from seed. The other three are ok and I took clones from them. Some of the clones are showing some of the same leaf traits though but to a far lesser degree. I’m going to finish them although I did consider trashing the entire grow.

mysticepipedon · Mar 22, 2022

My first indoor grow was in a closet under a whopping 160 watts of T-12 fluoro lighting magic, using bag seed. After 3.5 months, I reaped 21 grams of wispy bud.

Moshmen · Mar 22, 2022

phxazcraig said:
I see all kinds of posts where people are holding these huge fat nugs in front of a whole room containing pounds more in perfect condition. Makes you feel like a failure when you don't get 2 pounds of premo bud out of a 4x4 grow tent.

But that doesn't always happen. Sometimes you just f*ck up.

My first grow in a 34x4 tent, with a 600w LED display and 4 autoflowers growing in soil in big fabric pots yielded....

3 ounces.

One plant was so stunted I got about 1/4 ounce off it, so really got about an ounce per plant except the worst one. I overdid everything to achieve this mighty result. Drowned half my seeds, then overwatered the 4 survivors. Overlit and scorched them. Fed them RO water pH'd with a pen that turned out to be completely inaccurate, through I didn't find that out for two more grows.

Dried them too fast (first plant bone dry in 2 days). Didn't have enough to give proper cure as I was smoking the output after week 1.

All in all, a series of mistakes. In the same tent with the same lighting I got 18 ounces in soil from the second crop. Using photo periods and five plants. (Also took 5 months).

No failures - only learning opportunities

jguit · Mar 22, 2022

I aborted a grow 3 weeks into flower because i knew it was going to be a waste of utility bills.

I try to find a failure in every grow only to make things better the next run.

Kanzeon · Mar 22, 2022

Pfft. I've killed so many plants in flower for doing things I don't like. My worst yield is zero.

jguit · Mar 22, 2022

I've tossed a few harvests as well.

SofaKingHigh · Mar 22, 2022

Worst thing I ran into was salt buildup and nanners. Always a crappy day to find nanners 5 weeks into flower lol. I limped this grow to finish and actually smoked fine just had seeds and not the biggest buds. But it’s all great knowledge learned and come back strong with the next grow.

Moshmen · Mar 22, 2022

I think if you just wAter everyday with a double dose of calmag you will never have any issues ! Lol

detroitjoe · Mar 22, 2022

Ive never had any failures.

"what can go wrong, will go wrong"

phxazcraig · Mar 22, 2022

Here is my evidence. My first grow in my 4x4. This was right before harvest.

Cashmeh · Mar 22, 2022

My OG kush last grow got one ounce dried/trimmed lol. . I think it was about 30g actually. Took 4 months to get that lol. The grow before that I had Orange Cookies/nicole and it got 3 ozs dried and trimmed, it was my lightest up until last grow. Im running the same OG kush again, and its still in a bad spot in the room. My hoods are junk and its in the middle of some larger plants. I think it will get more this time lol. . but idk how much more.

TryingToGrow · Mar 22, 2022

Do I have to pick one?

I call her nacho cheese, see curly in the back something else bottom left that should be in the trash

collection of fails

how’d you like to smoke that?

looks good to me

that’s not all but all for now

Blastfact · Mar 22, 2022

Most pathetic good stuff I ever grew. Had emergency call out at work one day as the grow was finishing. I knew I would be gone at least a week, so I turn the lights out and took off,,,,, had to go! Somebody found the tent dark thinking the lights got turned off accidentally after 5 or so days. And they turned the lights on and started flooding them with water. Plants responded and a few days later I came home to this. It smoked up a lot better than it looks.

the rrock · Mar 22, 2022

Left 30+ plants stranded outdoors during evacuation from CZU fire 2020, after 29 days only one plant survived about 3ozs of BSHWx NL5xHAZE the hardy local strain 30years in the making called UZI

bookstrap · Mar 5, 2025

Shoot... I grew cannabis next to a window.. with ground up potpourri on top of the soil.. didn't check ph or anything fancy... Got maybe a quarter lb... It was actually very good though. Way better than the shit I bought... I changed the name to something like wet panther.. very good smoke....was in AZ with the window facing west

bookstrap · Mar 5, 2025

my first hydroponic grow is off a bit rocky though... I'm thinking it's just my nutrients .. when it came in the mail the the packaging was all wet on the inside.. and u could squeeze one bottle and hear air and sprits... It was practically full.. but I'm concerned one nutrient or another was floating.. and now it's off .. but they aren't to bad huh . Little over three weeks in

What's your worst yield? Post your most embarrasing failure.

What's your worst yield? Post your most embarrasing failure.

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