Anyone find your motation goes up and down but you always do the bare minimum no matter what.
I’ve auto pots,big ass red, timers, dehumidifier, fan/ temp on controller ect basically enough automation to close the door for a month. Blue tooth controls and a tablet I can team view in from work and chand things along with a camera to check up
I’m finding recently a lose of interest,then kick myself when things get out of hand.
Any tips or trick to get back in to my super passionate mind set. Like meme where the dude is staring at a seedling
Man so I am on a forced hiatus from growing at the moment. Before this happened I was right where you described. Il tell you what not having my garden going has given me all the motivation I need to keep it at 100% once life permits. Same enthusiasm as when I first stated 11 years ago. Appreciate having a grow going because you can always not have one
Maybe it’s time to get into breeding? Or even just pheno hunting. There are a lot of breeders here that would love to have another person to help run stuff.
I am at the very beginning of my growing journey, but I also have ADHD, so I tend to jump from project to project. Another approach would be to accept that this has ebbed, and maybe keeping it in “maintenance mode” until you’ve gone through some other projects and the spark reignites.
Might also be an opportunity to really dial in variables. Harvesting buds at different maturity, different environmental conditions for growing and drying, different curing techniques, etc. Picking an area to hyper focus and improve might help you then pick up other areas to dig into.
I hope you’re able to get your passion back! I know that frustration in other areas.
I can’t speak directly to Cannabis but can speak to mushroom cultivation. I know I got to a point where I started to run in seasons. I had plenty (sometimes too much and it made me a bit nervous sitting on…a lot) – and would go overboard and then end up creating a serious amount of work for myself. Before I knew it I was harvesting, jarring, running autoclaves, pouring plates, drying grain, etc etc etc with almost all of my free time. I burned out. Now I love growing but limit my runs and that really helped me find joy in it again.
I had another thought. Perhaps finding somewhere you can donate cannabis to would help you feel energized if you weren’t just growing for yourself. I’ve seen folks talk about donating to cancer patients, or veterans, or similar types of groups. I have vague plans to find opportunities like that once I’m actually producing more than I need.
I can give zero concrete suggestions for finding such groups, but if you asked around, you might be able to find folks that could benefit. That might help shift it from “I guess this is a thing I’m doing” to “I’m doing this to help others, so I want to make it the best I can.”
For myself, I seem to run a given style, for few years, and then change up.
Soil, to hydro, to promix, to organics, to salt grows, combinations of them both.
Had Talipa in barrels, for the fish water.
Jumped into LED’s well before the curve…took a lot of grief over them.
Grew in tents and wore them out, over a 15 year period, had them all plumbed together, with 18,000 BTU’s of AC, to keep them all cool.
I love the work of doing as much as I can for myself.
Growing on a shoe string, making as many of my addiments over giving a lot of money, for the same thing, most buy.
It is not a way for everyone, but it is what keeps the growing spark for me.
Felt in a rut myself for the last couple of months
Partially from having a lot of work to do to get things where I need them to be
And partially from having a lot to catch up on at my job / home life / extended family / health, etc. Some days it’s easier to think “I’ll do it tomorrow and deal with what happens” instead of taking small steps towards my long term goals
Goal setting and project planning have never been my strong suit. This has been as much of a lesson in how to speak kindly to myself as it has been about growing plants - on those rare mystical moments it almost seems like the Earth is teaching me something about myself
I too am at the point where it consumes majority of my free time, i am now also going to limit myself moving forward that way i can still have fun and take care of business. Its all about the balance
