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The Poet

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Fellow Farmers,

It has been a long road, learning how to grow.

One of my stupidest mistakes: upon planting, growing and harvesting my first seedless crop...
I rolled a joint and almost all the way through it realized that I will have to plant seeds and wait 5-6 months till they grew to maturity and I only had 2 1/2 oz! Whereas if I had planted seeds and grown another batch of plants 2-3 months ago... I would have big plants ready to go int flowering right now!

I learned the hard way.
A very good way to learn but for the waste in man hours and materials.
But thats why it is said to be the 'hard way'.

Then there was the disastrous trip back in the 70's, parking two cars seven miles apart and canoeing for 3 hours between the cars to 'our place'. We got out and planted seeds sure we would be rewarded with a good harvest. We watered them as much as we could, till it got so hot nothing could live in that heat. Came back in the fall and not one plant made it.

Then on this creek, closer to home but...
We would haul water all summer fighting skeeters, spider webs, sicker vines and heat, sweating our asses off. Hauling water up a steep muddy slope all night.
Work all summer and come back to find they had gone to seed. A bunch of Mexican brick, dirt weed.

The only guy I knew back in the 70's -80's who had a successful crop had one giant plant in his back yard. It was just hidden well and bore an unheard of pound!

Ancient history it seems now.
It was too much work an achieved nothing.
Theres easier ways to get exercise.
Makes me tired thinking about it.


Thank you...


The Poet...


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Haha talk about a bumpy road... Thanks for sharing
 
Yes, I've come a long way.
Only today I was at the Hydro store talking to the owner.
The guy who told me that 'rain water' doesn't have any minerals in it,
thereby further steerling my horticultural education in the right direction.
Now not only is garden lime in my soil but I use hydrated lime
{which mixes with water in a flash} to counter the lack of minerals in rain water.
And azomite will be in the next crops soil.
I am becoming obsessed with having minerals in my soil and in the correct amount.

That and my new PH kit!
The same guy {nameless} one day about a year ago handed me a PH test kit
and two bottles of PH up /down.
{I wondered if he was just dumping some more stuff on me.}
Now I am also obsessed with testing the PH of my nutes!
And my crop shows huge improvement.
Wow!

My leaves are all green and healthy and after years of succeeding disasters.
I owe it all to knowing how to keep the PH of my nutrients correct.
Who would have thought it was so important?
But it is important, it is critical in growing plants in pots full of not dirt,
but potting soil from a bag.
Under lights rather than under the sun!

I've grown a garden in the dirt, under the sun for 50 years!
Beautiful gardens full of peppers and tomatoes, {Celebrity & Roma}
okra and greens, carrots and potatoes...
I grew 1400 white Bermuda onions one year.
Good gardens!

Everything I have learned outside was wrong!
And all my instincts are wrong too!
But after many years I am feeling like I have finally learned something.
Maybe my 'indoor' crop problems are over.
{Lets hope so...}


Thank you...


The Poet...


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Entertaining read. I feel your pain.
Good to hear you've figured it out... fascinating and somewhat comforting to know that you are a successful gardener and a grow is still no walk in the park for you.
I've posted in frustration here many times, it's friggin' voodoo to me.
If you're really getting good with your Ph (I suck), you can shoot for 6 - 6.3 in veg
and 5.7 - 5.9 in flower but that'd just be showin' off
 
LOL sopappy, showing off.

Poet, I feel ya. I have been gardening 45 years. No one told me about hemp russet mites, or any of the other many bugs that have come to my backyard for breakfast lunch and dinner. That is just one of the many disasters that I kinda lived through. Thanks for your wonderful honesty.
 

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