I had some unusual situations in my grow that taught me things I never saw anyone talk about no matter where I looked when I was researching for my first growing project and I easily put 150+ hours in researching this (adhd hyperfixiation is a curse and a blessing).
One example is the effects of transitioning from outside grow to inside grow. The different need for nutrients, or how pests are pretty normal and self regulated in combination with natural predators outsides, but can become a real problem when they are already on your plant (but pretty regulated) and travel to an environment where there is nothing to worry about for the pest. Also the long term effects on the plant when getting overwatered.
I hope you get the point of what I said, I’m pretty high right now and have no sense of how much sense I make right now.
If you have questions just ask me.
To come to the point of my question:
What are your unique/niche experiences you had that taught you things you think is not well known/much talked about that might help others who get in a similar situation?
What knowledge did you gain?
What kind of things did you use? (did you find a unique solution?)
Was there a moment in which everyone said that you should toss the plant, but what you did got it to the finish? (what was the situation?)
Be as detailed as you think is necessary to learn something.
Great questions!
I think your discoveries are learned by most eventually. Sometimes the hard way, lol.
As for me, I got one. Humidity.
I live in a dry mountainous climate. My RH is pathetic. I’m lucky to hold 40 in my lung.
Never gave it a second thought really.
Well…
I flowered a bunch of overvegged photos in there once. My RH was off the charts!
I had to go out and get a dehumidifier, lol.
It was all the fat flowers! Buds raise humidity in the air drastically!
I learned something new that year.
Proper spray cycle, especially keeping moms alive long term. I see a lot of people spraying all sorts of stuff, usually with very little rhyme or reason. But I copied the SOP from a really amazing grower. Even running dep greenies half a mile from the coast, I never had PM or bud rot issues. In an area where a big % of the crops resulted in total loss.
It was pretty simple too. An airless paint sprayer, which a daily rotation(in veg/first 2 weeks of flower) of compost tea, regalia, horticultural/essential oil, Neem + garden soap, and FPJ made from nettle harvested on the same property as the ganja was getting grown. Worked wonders, even with 1000s of plants.
I 100% guarantee if you have more than 4 bottles you’re over feeding!!! (TLO company excluded)
My regimen consists of 2 bottles…PBP grow and PBP bloom…and I pull down ½ pound plants in my DWC LED tent. Occasionally I add a pinch of epsom salt. THAT’S ALL YOU NEED!!!
Yeah I use 2 aswell although I didn’t give them grow fertilizer cause I could only buy them too late, but they got flower nutrients and did pretty good for what I expected