Unpopular Opinions – Homegrown Edition

Hey friends! How are you doing?

Thought I’d stir the pot a little — what’s your unpopular opinion when it comes to homegrowing? Maybe you think autos are underrated, flushing is overrated, or plastic pots beat fabric ones. Let it out!

No judgment here, just curious to hear what goes against the grain in your grow world!

@Budzbuddha would say to use your urine

Yes, that - plastic pots beat fabric ones - in certain conditions.

I went from air pots and a lot of fabric pots back to simple plastic pots. I grow in small spaces, and my experience has been that plastic pots are simply lower maintenance in those, and with healthy plants I've found the root pruning to not make such a big difference in relation to that.

So, for nursery & veg as well as for flower in phenotype hunts at least, I'm back to plastic all the way from starter cup through 0.75L to 2L. Although I still use a big fabric pot in my main stash grow (a single one as large as I can fit in the tent, which is 10gal) where I skip the 2L stage.

Also, I realise LEDs pretty much completely dominate the space nowadays, but personally I went from LED (AC Infinity S22) back to CMH (Sun System LEC) for my main stash grow. Pulled the big old thing out of storage after 5 years.

Grow runs slightly warmer by a couple of degrees than with the LED for what I guess are not that many more photons, but the spectrum seems nicer somehow, can't quite quantify it (so it might be purely in my head but then again so is the high etc.pp.). I also have this weird belief my cultivars taste ... more somehow ... when CHM grown than if LED grown. Again, I can't quite quantify it, but it seems there is just more expression of things going on. This is purely subjective and not scientific at all other than I'm growing a clone of the same cut I've grown for years through different methods. The difference is likely very small but enough for me to spend the extra few watts.

The tent for phenotype hunting still uses LED but I've added UVA to them to lean more closely towards the CMH's spectrum.

High humidity isn't responsible for bud rot it's a plant health issue that's the cause, healthy plants in high humidity won't get bud rot in 99% of cases on the other hand with problem plants in low humidity bud rot is a real threat.

Fans blowing directly into plants could be the biggest mistake growers make?

Leaf surface @250x magnification ±

Fans too close, fast or too many fans especially in dry environment's can/will strip that moisture away at rate that's detrimental to the plants health
(Aka windburn)
In turn weakened plants dead and dying leaves can allow mould to take hold.


That obvious raise in the humidity is with switching on a fan that I've went out my way to limit the performance by pointing it at the roof.

I don't even want to think about fans blowing directly onto my plants and how much moisture it would blow into the air increasing the humidity further...while drying out leaves!!

Fans blow

I like seeds over clones. I don't know if that constitutes an unpopular opinion or not.

Funkentelechy said:

I like seeds over clones. I don't know if that constitutes an unpopular opinion or not.

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It is slightly but it's changing I think more people these days are starting to see seeds are more fun

Funkentelechy said:

I like seeds over clones

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Topping is far better from seed so to me that's best, each to their own who clone though

Star Dog said:

Fans blowing directly into plants could be the biggest mistake growers make?
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Leaf surface @250x magnification ±

Fans too close, fast or too many fans especially in dry environment's can/will strip that moisture away at rate that's detrimental to the plants health
(Aka windburn)
In turn weakened plants dead and dying leaves can allow mould to take hold.

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That obvious raise in the humidity is with switching on a fan that I've went out my way to limit the performance by pointing it at the roof.
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I don't even want to think about fans blowing directly onto my plants and how much moisture it would blow into the air increasing the humidity further...while drying out leaves!!

Fans blow

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Great info I had a medium sized fan on floor blowing at wall for circulation and thought it would be good everything was moving,the big tops swaying and noticed and couldn't figure out why my leaves until harvest we're always felt dry. Live and learn I guess

Dboybudz said:

Great info I had a medium sized fan on floor blowing at wall for circulation and thought it would be good everything was moving,the big tops swaying and noticed and couldn't figure out why my leaves until harvest we're always felt dry. Live and learn I guess

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Thanks bro, fwiw removing excessive moisture from the leaf surfaces can have a knock on effect of raising your ec more than it'd normally rise, with felt pots excessive air movement will pick up lots of moisture from the surface affecting the ec further, air movement for sure but applied indirectly.