Grow journalists/mystagogues, do you also write a protocol?

Apostatize

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Perhaps protocols are something to share along with grow journals? Or perhaps they're basically the same thing? I've checked out a few journals, form/formality varies. I'm not talking about a full-blown commercial facilities grow protocol ... some of you keep a really clean workspace and I imagine you have your settings dialed-in pretty close to how you want them for growing particular-sized plants of specific strains (i.e., you have a repeatable process you can put in writing). I just like the caregiver model in states like, well, Maine and Rhode Island, particularly Maine because caregivers there can have an employee. I'm not saying it's a perfect model, I'd just like to be able to have a protocol in place so, eventually, I can train one or two part-timers to complete daily tasks, freeing me up for other things.

Assuming I renew my lease, this winter I'll be reducing strains to one phenotype each (except for green/purple distinctions) and investing in additional equipment like a handheld CO2 laser meter and something similar for moisture -- multiple tents + dry/cure station ... I want to be able to use one good meter/monitor for each environmental factor I'm measuring instead of a bunch of cheap/notso-cheap monitors spread out everywhere that I'll have to replace in a year or end up recalibrating several meters.... Anyway, once I have one pheno per strain, I want to write a protocol for growing each strain (as I'm simultaneously introducing 1 new strain over the winter). I'll record drying times, results, meter recordings ... I guess it takes several months to really write a protocol ... to fill in all the blanks, not just come up with a template. And then, of course, you'll edit it ... it's never going to be perfect and that's ok.

This is all brainstorming right now ... a protocol's like 4th or 5th in line of things I want to do, but I'll come back to this.
 
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