re: Antics Perpetual Learning Experience
I'm going to update this again.
A while back (on page 16), someone had some pretty nasty comments to say about my grow, and my choice of light specifically (which is from one of our
sponsors, Mars-Hydro/TopLED)
Here's what he said:
Hi mate. The only thing you should learn from this grow is that this cheap shitty chinese led panel is crap and there is no way to grow smthing ONLY with this and if u do, will be for 0.5 ounce. Have you thought that maybe is not too intense but too weak or even wrong spectrum? cause i am sure thats the case. i know it's hard for your ego to admit that you tossed 100$ for nothing, but do it and move on. Add your cfl lamps and keep the led at 20'', do what u know and what u did the previous time and you' ll be fine. if you want led, try something more expensive, mars II and above. Good luck
i don't think that i insulted you and didn't have such purposes. Eveybody make bad choices like you at this led. I didn't know you are too sensitive, kid. i just said my opinion. i have seen this panel in action and know it's shit and it's good only as supplemental light. Don't take it personal. I know you can do much better with the cfls. Equanimity, i was not replying to you but to Antics effort.
I don't care to introduce myself because i just signed in to tell you my opinion from my experience with this panel, because i see you are losing your time. I had never nute def, the growth was as it should green and nice, all in check but the plant was growing slow. Again, don't take it personal. i dont know you. Some people are making fun of you and you don't even realize it.. Are you a rocket scientist to know that this led is good and strong and how are you so sure you can have good yields? Again, my opinion. I don't give a shit if this light is from forum sponsor.
And I'll admit, I was pretty pissed off about this. But I kept on doing my best.. In the end, I lost Big Bang, but was able to keep Strawberry Blue alive. It took a while to figure out my problem was a PH issue, due to a cheap/faulty meter.
So this is what I had to look at every day:
And it really gets to you some days. There's only so much Sativa can do to cheer you up when you're watching your grow go down the tubes. I kept thinking how badly I wanted to prove this guy wrong.. .5 ounce? Fuck.. I know I can beat that. But at the time, it didn't seem like it was going to be easy.
But I have nothing to lose on the grow, and plenty more seeds to start over.
So fast forward to today. Am I still annoyed at that guy? A little.. but I'll tell you one thing, when harvest time comes I'm going to be laughing my ass off. I passed .5 ounce a long time ago. The plant currently has a 22" 57.5cm spread, and the pictures will say the rest for me.
Will it be the biggest plant? Not at all, and not even close. But it's definitely going to be MY biggest so far, and quite possibly yield more than both plants combined from my last grow (which was a little over 3 ounces)
And this is only day 6 of flower.
I'm not writing all this to pat myself on the back and show off how amazing I do things. I'm more modest than that... until someone challenges me.
But the reason I'm writing all this, is so anyone out there, who's thinking of giving up on a plant, or giving up on growing, knows, and can see that things can change for the better. It's really difficult to keep going sometimes, when you look at sick plants that look like they could die any time now, but if it might die, you have nothing to lose by trying to save it.
This is only my third grow, and if I can do it, anyone else can too. It just takes determination.
Just do your best, at all times, and listen to advice from these other growers here. The things they do with Cannabis is nothing short of amazing, and without them, and all the growers before them, I wouldn't know what I do now, and my plant most likely wouldn't have survived.
So thank you... to all of you. And keep on growing brothers and sisters.
And for anyone curious, this plant will be used to make a batch of oil for my dog, who is 13 now, has some joint pain, and some tumors that the vet didn't want to risk surgery on.
So I'm hoping for a nice healthy yield.
And thanks to anyone who made it this far in reading!
to that.
