Thoughts on first grow

After harvesting and drying my buds which were infested with catterpillars I learned that you don't have to treat the plants like they will break easily, I made the mistake of just looking on the outside of the plants for them and never really digging deeper into my plant because I thought I picked them off. I need to dig into those plants and make sure to look at every inch, without breaking things off or opening buds everywhere.... You know, I thought that they were resistant to everything being a weed and having read that indicas are really resilient to the ENVIRONMENT, but I took that word to literally without doing research on the pests and bugs, while just worrying about growing and mold(if only insects right). It was a huge fuck up on my part, and it is a lesson that had to be learned. I'm glad it happened, it gives me a chance to really reflect on the ammount of time and effort that goes into growing, and how I need to make the time I spend with my plants worthwhile time. To achieve the quality of bud that I want to be growing will definately take me indoors, but all I have is good ol mother earth, some good free compost from a mushroom farm, safer bt, neem oil, a good bunch of people with knowledge online, a passion to grow, sweet amazingly grown buds to accompany me, and for friends that we used to chill with that shared the same love that I do for marijuana but lost their way when things got hard and turned to actual drugs. I thank mother earth every day for growing such an amazing plant that makes living possible.
 
After harvesting and drying my buds which were infested with catterpillars I learned that you don't have to treat the plants like they will break easily, I made the mistake of just looking on the outside of the plants for them and never really digging deeper into my plant because I thought I picked them off. I need to dig into those plants and make sure to look at every inch, without breaking things off or opening buds everywhere.... You know, I thought that they were resistant to everything being a weed and having read that indicas are really resilient to the ENVIRONMENT, but I took that word to literally without doing research on the pests and bugs, while just worrying about growing and mold(if only insects right). It was a huge fuck up on my part, and it is a lesson that had to be learned. I'm glad it happened, it gives me a chance to really reflect on the ammount of time and effort that goes into growing, and how I need to make the time I spend with my plants worthwhile time. To achieve the quality of bud that I want to be growing will definately take me indoors, but all I have is good ol mother earth, some good free compost from a mushroom farm, safer bt, neem oil, a good bunch of people with knowledge online, a passion to grow, sweet amazingly grown buds to accompany me, and for friends that we used to chill with that shared the same love that I do for marijuana but lost their way when things got hard and turned to actual drugs. I thank mother earth every day for growing such an amazing plant that makes living possible.
Sorry to hear that on your grow man....thats the thing with growing outdoors, having to worry about all sorts of variables like pests etc where as indoors you havnt got to worry half as much...i bet its a pain in the ass!
Good luck next time brother
 
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