Well I gotta tell somebody about this crap I've just dealt with.
So a month ago I go to tend my caregiver's plants for a few days and happen to notice he's overwatering them to the point where they're actually dying. These poor tortured plants have been alive since January, were flowered twice when he messed up the light cycle, had never been even remotely tended to. We're talking plants twisted around other plants and plants that are totally dead just left to rot standing next to growing plants.
I spent about 6 hours just doing basic things for the plants, the best I could do to remove dead vegetation, untie and remove plants that had been twisted around each other, everything I could think of. I tell this guy (yes he's a blood relative) 3 different ways he's killing the plants with water, in writing, on the phone, in person. I wrote a little tag and duct-taped it to the pot saying 'Plant is Overwatered'. I'm pretty explicit too, saying 'really let them dry out since harvest is soon', 'marijuana likes really dry, light, airy soil' etc. you get the picture.
I go back two days ago to Harvest with him, and every plant is withered and dead. The only reason they're even standing is because he's got them strapped to the walls. None of the buds are even half-finished, and there's no trichomes visible to the naked eye, no crystals whatsoever. The damndest thing is this guy is happier than a new puppy, like he's just done the greatest thing in the world for me.
I told him the plants were drowned. I spent the next several hours with him explaining every fucking thing I know in my vast pool of knowledge on the symptoms of overwatering, the dangers, the best ways to avoid it, everything. We transplant the new plants I'd been vegging into their 5 gallon buckets with the super soil concoction I got from this forums and I leave.
The dude, the first thing he does after I'm gone, is water those fucking plants. Right before their dark cycle. I don't know how, but I got this sense that something was wrong, and I get there the next day at the crack of dawn to discover the plants he's had for less than 24 hours are already stressed to hell with the exact same fuckery he just got through killing all my plants with after I've done every possible thing I could do or say to try to get him to stop killing my plants with too much water.
Flip out, smash his stupid water can, throw my plants into some bins and take them back. I'da smashed him too if he'da been there, probably. I was angry a little bit. Anyway, it's a hard way to get confirmation of the fact the people who raised who are in fact retarded and there's nothing that anyone can do about it. Stupidity is a cage you can't get free of, ever.
Well it's out of his hands now and they're back where they belong, recovering. Thankfully my LED got here on the same day I really started needing it. Other than all this clownishness detailed here, everything else is going like clockwerk.
