Newbie Corner

[Beener]

OK.. I think it might be a good idea to start a forum in which people can post those horrifiying memories of the mistakes made during first grows, as well as what they would not do again (or should have done differently)

This could turn into a chapter in the grow guide under "mistakes most commenly made". I see on a daily basis, the same type of panic questions posted for first grows. I know that I would have been "very" happy to have read a comprehensive guide of this type.

[pinfield]

Mistakes, huh?

Well, last year I had a problem with deer chewing on a few (9) of my 32 plants. I decided to use blood meal around the remaining plants. Unfortunately, I sprinkled the blood meal on the leaves as well, it got really dewy that night, and the next morning I had FRIED/COOKED/DESTROYED 6 more plants. I learned (quickly) that blood meal is also a good source of Nitrogen, which is why my wife uses it on her tomatoes. Water releases the Nitrogen, Nitrogen burns weeks of my hard work humping gallons of water into the woods.

That still makes me mad...

[St0ney]

a whole forum for that? No, a thread in the tiki though.. that would be cool.. or ever sucess stories. Maybe if it turned out good enough it would be made a sticky icky icky.

[Beener]

Ahh yes. Much better. I can tell you that I started the hard way... Though I thought I read alot, apparently I hadn't

(1) I started off with the wrong lighting. I bought "wattage" before I learned "Lumens". Fortunately I corrected that before my first grow. I gave one to my wife, and use two of the little 125W lights I bought as side lighting (8,000 lumens each ) I thought 375W's wasn't terrible, but the total lumens was 24,000 I'm now at 103,000 lumens

(2) I bought a bagged organic soil, and potted my 1st germs without ever checking the soil pH! Well, It was very low. and I chased it for the entire grow

I'll add more later so I don't reminisce my self into depression

[spence]

well i made quite a few in my first grow but as it sounds like every1 has i dont feel so bad now
1) no exhanst fan i was basically pumping fresh air in with nowhere for it to go
2)i had no air movement inside the room so i had alot of the bottom leaves rot
3)my temp was to high as i had no way to get it out
4) dnt go to big on indoors unless u got lots of space i did and it was a waste cos the bottom had no light so of course i had no bud

hope this helps i could rite all nite man i was dumb