You're very welcome and thank you for taking time to look and to post.
I'm proud of what I've been able to do to this point. Thank you! I'm also pretty excited I've gotten this far without completely screwing it up, but it wasn't for lack of "trying".
Those are good questions. Hmmm.....
The most surprising thing to me is how much I have enjoyed doing this. Don't get me wrong - when I'm tired and just want to lie down and sleep or do something else it's still work. I'm working on good medicine and the end result of that should help my boy so I take great pride (largely because of that) in all the work I've put into this. Growing anything at all is almost completely new to me. I grew some watermelons and okra and a few other things once or twice and that's about it and I depended mainly on luck (and we had great soil naturally in our yard) for any success I had with that. That's the other surprising thing - that I haven't killed every plant!
I was really worried going into it though I had a small measure of confidence because of my research.
So those things have exceeded my expectations. So has the help I've received and the interest of others in what we're doing. Speaking strictly of the plants, they have been more resilient than I expected (OMG, Westley!). I think when we get to harvest there will be more possibilities to exceed my expectations. Since I'm new and therefore stupid I don't really know what to
expect from harvest but I've been hoping to get a pound, total, since that's close to the middle of 0.5 to 1 gram/watt at 630 watts. If it's less I'll learn something and if it's more I'll be stoked.
Nothing I can think of has really disappointed me. It has been exciting to learn and be able to apply what I've learned in multiple ways, including ways that occasionally help others.