Thank you MSquared.
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There is another matter that I forgot to write about last night. When I started my post one of the things I wrote was "I have been growing for a few years..." I had intended to elaborate on that a bit at the end of the post, but I got too stoned,
like ya do, and I completely forgot about it.
Yesterday was May 16th. If you look back to page one of this journal, you will see that I began this journal on May 16th, 2009. For three years I have tried to document everything I have done in enough detail that someone else could copy my grow well enough to succeed in growing as I have. I have grown somewhere north of 30 pounds of usable cannabis in that time and most of it has turned out far better than I ever would have though possible.
I have never had anything like a green thumb. I think my wife was unsure what to expect when I started talking about growing. She had seen the occasional attempt on my part to grow a basic houseplant over the last 20+ years we have been together, and I don't think she had high hopes for this project. I can't blame here, either. I killed a lot of plants.
But I had a mentor, and I had 420magazine.com. I had been a member of overgrow.com for a year or so when it went down, and that being the mythical place it was I had always thought I would have a grow journal there. It wasn't to be, and I just kind of dropped the journal idea after that. But someone I know on another forum suggested I should throw a journal up here. I won't mention who it is for security reasons, but they know who they are, and to them I say "Thank you for sending me here."
My mentor was a lot of help getting me going, and I have bought and read almost every book available on growing pot indoors, but it was 420Mag and it's members that really made the difference for me. My mentor was often not around, and the books disagree as much as they agree. 420Mag was always here with answers and encouragement. 420Mag also kept me honest. If I didn't post my activities on time I felt like I was letting someone down, and that kept me posting on time (mostly [noparse]
[/noparse] and kept my posts accurate and complete.
So I should also say thank you to all of 420Magazine.com. Thank you for being the awesome community you are.
That said, I have decided that at this third anniversary of this journal it is time for a change. I have decided to stop posting all the gory details. I will still keep everyone updated on the grow as I expand to twice my previous numbers. I will still post pictures, and I will still describe what I am doing, and explain my procedures in great detail. However I an going to eliminate the "feed report/action report" format and I am going to limit the full details a bit. For instance I won't give actual numbers of plants or their unique names. I'll simply refer to them by strain and group. I may also stop giving actual yield numbers and let the photos speak for themselves.
I am doing this partly because I think I need a little more security, or at least to feel a little more secure. I trust 420Mag members, but not the nameless authoritarian visitors that doubtless infest our forum. I am also doing it because I doubt many are using that level of detail, and for those that do there are three years of reports to work with. I will still share what I learn, and based on my recent pH 'epiphany' I still have plenty to learn. But I have decided this is the right course of action over the last three or four months, so I'm pretty decided.
Please don't leave though. This journal is not over. It is just entering a new phase with a new approach to the same task - sharing what I do. I will also be posting in other journals, at least as much as I already do anyways. I'm not going away and I value every reader of my journal.
Thank you all.
Aberration
P.S. - Three years! Wow!
s are on me folks. Toke up!
