Wanted to say a little for people who are new to this and aspiring to do good with their grow, without goin too deep, or starting any discussions here.
1st of all:
Cannabis really is an exceptional plant that can be pushed very far compared to other species in terms of light intensity, no doubt about it!
It can take pretty insane amounts of light, but the right conditions
have to be met.
After all it's just a plant it grows by itsself, can't be that complicated right?
Sure, but considering today's expectations in yield, quality + potency, you really have to do your homework if you wanna achieve great results each component becomes a critical point as it influences the others.
If you are lacking or have huge excess in some of these components it can have a really dramatic impact on your plants and that's what people underestimate heavily.
What does a plant need to thrive?
The right amount of
- Water
- Light
- Air / Co2
- Nutrients
- Medium / Container (not taking NFT systems into account here)
To give you a pretty simple analogy:
If you wanna run a marathon and do really well, you gotta train, eat well, take care of your body, run on the right track and have the right weather conditions and equipment.
Knowing your parameters and keeping a good healthy balance is the key.
Stress:
A certain amount of stress will stimulate your plants in a good way, excessive stress will harm them.
No stress at all will cause under development over time in some way shape or form.
It's not rocket science, what's really hard to figure out at first is how fast your plant really reacts to stuff you do and how to read 'em visually.
All I wanna add to this at this point, so we don't go into too much detail are some tips and advice.
1.) Keep your setup as clean as possible. Man I've seen some filthy grow spaces in here! So c'mon guys you see what your wife does to keep your home clean it's not the greatest thing to do, I get it but taking a wet towel and wiping down a little or sweeping a little here and there never killed anybody.
2. ) Have the proper tools for your measurements and use them. (temp, moisture, ph, ec is pretty important)
3.) Sometimes less is more. Rather underfeed / underwater your plants maybe have a little slower growth. I'm not saying its better than giving it the right amounts, but see it like this: lost time you can make up for but never for lost quality. Same goes for the amount of light. You don't quiet have enough? Yeah, it will take a little longer. You fry and burn your plants and you will not enjoy your bud in the end as much as you could and that's a fact. So this is something you should really consider if you care about your bud.
4.) Get a chart where you have good pictures of deficits and make sure they are deficits and not lockouts. That's why you should learn rather from underfeeding not overfeeding. The same for the water practises. Overwatering once it does the damage it's hard to reverse. Same with the lights once you realy do burn dmg it's hard to reverse.
5.) A really good sign that you are using too many nutes are really elongated tips, waxy shiny looking plants and burnt edges plain and simple if you can't see those signs, you should really pay more attention.
6.) Talk about frying your plants: If everything seems to be fine and yet your plants really look fried for some reason, it might be your PH meter that needs to be recalibrated. Happens... stings... :/
7.) Read or watch videos on youtube, the internet has all the information even tho it can get a little tricky at times figuring out what is right for you or sometimes if it's even correct at all. But overall the good people in here are rooting for you and trying to help you out so it's always a good idea to ask. You might ask a stupid question, but giving a stupid answer is not much more intelligent, if you know what I mean.. So ASK don't be shy.
Just be careful where you get your information.
8.) Keep it simple, balanced and try to be consistent. Your goal pretty much is to be in that window of not having to make up for anything you did wrong in your last watering. Your goal is to to keep em overall healthy and react accordingly and correctly to whatever your plant might show you over time. That of course also applies to input changes: If you are turning up your lights you have to see how the plants and their metabolism changes.
9.) Co2 can actually be a very limiting factor once everything's dialed in. I guess this is certainly something alot of people underestimate. I'm not fiddling around with added co2 personally and I'll stay out of any discussions also. This is merely to remind people of the fact that co2 is indeed a very important factor.
Yeah not sure I'm not gonna delete or heavily edit this post, but so far I think that's a good statement to be made here.
Also: I'd greatly appreciate if people have any questions, comments or anything else to discuss about this journal, please don't reply in this thread rather contact me via pm. I like my journal to be clean. Thank you, I really appreciate it.
Kind regards, sh0
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