Grow journal best methods

[MikkaTheEnt]

Hi folks. I've been growing for only about a year and a half now. I've tried different apps I've found for my Android phone to keep track of my grows, but always found them more complicated than they need to be. So I made an Excel (or LibreOffice if you like) multipage spreadsheet to handle what I want to keep track of. I thought if anyone else might find it useful, I'd post a blank one to Google Drive.

It's not perfect and I keep fine tuning it as I go along from grow to grow, but it's infinitely expandable (I just add more detail sheets and link cells to the first overview page). I keep track of nutes, things I see and want to keep track of, on each detail page on each recorded day, as you can see by the two screenshots below.

Overview sheet:

Overview sheet

• MikkaTheEnt
• Mar 29, 2018

One of the Detail sheets:

Mikka's Grow Journal Spreadsheet

• MikkaTheEnt
• Mar 29, 2018
• journal solutions

first page, overview

 

[Jackalope]

Looks good. I'm sure it could be very helpful. To bad I gave up spread sheets when I quit getting pay checks. I have had some truly epic battles with Excel. Even threatened to take a class once. I finally learned enough to keep me out of a "padded" cell

 

[MikkaTheEnt]

I hear you, Jackalope. I had to make and use spreadsheets throughout my career in IT, and though I'm retired now, I find them still pretty useful for a few things. I may end up moving the spreadsheet into a real database though. I want to get this current crop finished off first, though.

 

[Jackalope]

Now that I have cussed Excel for good measure. I will check into what you put together. I know enough about Excel to know what not to f*%k with. I could really use it with what I got going on. I still have excel with this computer so I might try it. Just so know if I do you will be getting messages LMAO

 

[Jackalope]

Never mind I thought you had a down load thing. Do You?

 

[MikkaTheEnt]

Sorry, dropped out for a bit. I will make a Google Drive folder for this spreadsheet and open it up to the public. Look for it tomorrow evening. Thanks for your patience.

 

[SOG001]

I'm using excel for my grow tracking as well I find that the more info I have the better the next grows are I'll look for your post

 

[Electric Shaman]

I just use MS Word. I can write journal entries, keep track of nutrient mixes, put in pictures with comments and use it to cut and paste into 420 magazine journal 1 day a week. My memory is pretty gone so I rely on it from grow to grow to prompt me when things are coming up. And pictures are worth a thousand words.

I keep a general journal and a journal on each plant I cut and paste into.

ES

 

[MikkaTheEnt]

Sorry, 420Mag won't allow me to post the URL of the file.