Oh cool. Yeah. been tryna figure out what the number is. 1 at a time was not fun. 8 was better… but yeah. idk. Depends on the gallery number, and the grid layout. like 3x in a row? like 20 total? sounds like a fine post limit… if we gotta have limits… Like. a grow diary, and you get 1 pic per post. not fun.
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Would it make a difference how many plants/ separate strains that people are growing? I’m personally growing 11 different plants right now and if I showed an above picture and a side picture of each plant that puts me in the 20+ category. Would it be easier to read if I did a group shot and maybe some pictures of odd growth or cool flowers? I always worry that I post too many pictures. Would it also matter if someone posted weekly or daily? I feel there’s a big difference between 20 a day and 20 a week
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Guilty. It brings excitement to me when I see the pucks in folks photos. I’m a kid like that about seeds. -but totally respect the thought process here. 
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As a general guideline, I’d avoid posting an update until I notice some visible changes in the plants. This applies to specific plants as well, post pics if there are noticeable differences.
Posting updates daily seems a bit like obsession 
See also here: 🎬 Guidelines for Photo Upload
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As a newbie (3 yrs indoors) and even newer to OG…some of us are excited and uneducated to the process and protocol and eventually get i to the rhythm of how things flow nicely
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@LemonadeJoe How is this format for posting grow journals? I culled ten plus photos to get down to seventeen.
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@SEMOActivist, I love this format! You have put the grid layout to the best use! Nice concise post.
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Thanks to everyone for participation! Time to count the votes!
Based on the poll results, the most popular choice is to include up to 5 photos in a post (39% votes). The second most favored option is between 6-10 photos (35%). Together it’s a significant majority of 74%. 26% of respondents would like to see more posts.
Currently, the batch limit (the number of uploads you can upload at once in a batch) is set to 12 which offers a safe margin.
You can always post more but you need to divide to more batches. Keep in mind that majority of our readers prefer to see no more than 10 photos.
Additionally, be aware that 82% of readers would prefer you to include at least a basic description for the photos (and 8% would like to see descriptions mandatory).
Tip: By using the [grid] layout, you can automatically create thumbnails and make your post more concise, helping to keep the content organized and easy to follow.
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Looking at my threads and the posts contained within them, I’d say that I average around 5-10 per post. Some lower, and many are higher if something big that day such as planting or harvesting.
I usually batch upload and then sort on the big screen. I sort out doubles or choose best of 3 or 4 similar down to 1. Also love to sort by flow. Do the photos and their order make sense and look “right” as youre scrolling through them.
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I noticed lately that you can’t just post a picture without shrinking down the pixels? It’s rather frustrating especially when I still don’t fully understand how to shrink it down I’ve done it a few times but before this was never an issue. But recently it’s a thing. Just want someone to explain to my dumbness I’m not a huge tech guy so when it comes to all the technical stuff I get frustrated I wanted to share a picture of my breakfast empanadas I am making simple good food
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Maybe you’re confusing an image thumbnail with a high-res, zoomed-in photo.
A zoomed-in photo is actually just fine for screen viewing (which is the intended purpose, unlike, say, large prints).
For example in this recent topic I see photos at a resolution of 2560x1920, which is sufficient.
Downsizing takes place in the browser and is automatic, so you shouldn’t need to do that yourself before upload.
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if you’re on a windows computer it’s as easy as opening the picture in paint and resizing it by 50%. for android you need to use the google photos app or the gallery. it doesn’t do it as easily as paint, but you can still crop or edit the images. google has the closest one to paint i think where you can change the aspect ratio to get it smaller, but the gallery only has the crop feature i think.
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As I mentioned above, there’s no need to downsize the photo before uploading. Everything is automatic. Save yourself time and don’t bother doing that (unless you want to tweak the photo: rotate, adjust levels or contrast, crop detail, etc.).
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I use to post few photos just because I’m a bad photographer.
For registering purposes, one or two is enough. If you are an artist or grows exotic rare cultivars or with exotic techniques, please post more pics.
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The vote is long over but, I prefer the 5 or less pics per post. A pic is worth a thousand words and, 5,000 words is sufficient for a term paper… IMO, a term-paper’s worth of content per post is way more than enough, especially when the pics are contextless, blurry and, without any description.
Topics may be focused on the one or more plants being grown but, I find it annoying to need to scroll back through sometimes weeks of posts - some rife with blurry pics - to find the date the plants were flipped to scrape together the context myself: Most seedlings and plants look the same so, extra pics arent helpful in any way-- Especially the veg or seedling pics, except as a point in time representation of a grows current state: I do like to see how large one’s plants are when flipped, but I find a group pic is sufficient, I dont need multiple angles of every plant, especially nkt if they have been posted anew every day. After a few such pics, I just skip over the rest, I (and I understand I am a minority here) want to see buds, not seedlings nor vegging plants 
There are lots of grows occurring and, it is impossible to remember all the details of any one particular grow unless you only read one topic, so a description of the posted pics is most helpful. I believe a smaller picture upload limit would keep topics cleaner because, being limited, I would like to believe that people would embrace a lower number picture limit and post better quality pictures, with descriptions, instead of continuing to dump an excessive number of blurry or redundant pics.
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As long as the image is below 10 MB, you shouldn’t have an issue.
Where can I find pictures of these delicious sounding breakfast empanadas?
I will upload a picture here soon