missnu
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Hey me and my boyfriend with which I love so much grow together, and I was just wondering if anyone else grows with their partner. I have some questions for navigating these choppy waters, where I thought it would be smooth sailing.
Do you argue about techniques?
My bf is an anal type fellow sometimes, and I'm more a try it 12 different ways if it all ends up the same sort of gal...
Like with cloning plants. I like to cut off most of the leaves and cut the large leaves, I do leave, in half. He likes to watch a plant with too many leaves struggle.
His basis being that it's more stress on an already stressed plant. My view being fewer smaller leaves creates less stress because theres not so many water requirements going unmet. Same with transplanting... I like to remove a bit of the larger leaves as I'm transplanting. I think a plant with fewer leaves to worry with bounces back faster...
For example me and a friend took a couple of decorative banana trees from a construction site where they were just being trashed... anyway, one we dug up was all rough looking and pretty ripped up so I cut the whole middle out of it leaving effectively a bulb so she wanted the one that still looked like a plant with a few leaves...
She took hers and planted it, and I took mine and planted it. In 3 weeks mine had 4 brand new huge impressive leaves, meanwhile hers still only had the original 2. Given those 2 leaves were in better condition than when she planted it, but since then I've always cut plants back before transplanting them.
Most of my plants are borrowed from patches I find elsewhere and a plant that you strip down some will always grow back faster than one you just transplanted without de leafing a little. Tomatoes, cannabis, whatever...
Anyway I digress...
Back to my original question. Do you have a hard time getting your partner to be willing to try things a different way? Do you have a hard time agreeing on the means to the same end?
I often feel like pinching his head off... as if plants can only grow if you do this and that just so.
Like I water heavy, less often. He waters sparingly consistently.
I think the sparse consistent waterings lead to malformed roots because they never have to reach and even if they did reach theres no moisture lower for them to reach to...
Anyway I keep getting him to just try things my way and things keep getting better and better but fuck! Talk about an uphill battle. I feel totally unheard sometimes. Or like hes the only person to ever know anything about anything even though I've been at this far longer.
When I show him my old pictures of my grows and stuff and tell him how I managed to do what I did and get what I got he tells me it was just the strain I had then. Because his plants wouldnt do like that even if he tried things my way... and while I do know that different strains grow differently, I also know I grew many different strains and got pretty good results from them all.
I'm not expecting a huge yield from a mostly sativa indoor plant, but they shouldn't be puny.
If they are, then something is going wrong somewhere so let's try this and that and oh no... no no no... we can't water them fully every time they get dry it would be too much water and too much time in between waterings, etc....
I told him we are going to have us some good old fashioned grow offs because I've had about enough of this nonsense.
Do you argue about techniques?
My bf is an anal type fellow sometimes, and I'm more a try it 12 different ways if it all ends up the same sort of gal...
Like with cloning plants. I like to cut off most of the leaves and cut the large leaves, I do leave, in half. He likes to watch a plant with too many leaves struggle.
His basis being that it's more stress on an already stressed plant. My view being fewer smaller leaves creates less stress because theres not so many water requirements going unmet. Same with transplanting... I like to remove a bit of the larger leaves as I'm transplanting. I think a plant with fewer leaves to worry with bounces back faster...
For example me and a friend took a couple of decorative banana trees from a construction site where they were just being trashed... anyway, one we dug up was all rough looking and pretty ripped up so I cut the whole middle out of it leaving effectively a bulb so she wanted the one that still looked like a plant with a few leaves...
She took hers and planted it, and I took mine and planted it. In 3 weeks mine had 4 brand new huge impressive leaves, meanwhile hers still only had the original 2. Given those 2 leaves were in better condition than when she planted it, but since then I've always cut plants back before transplanting them.
Most of my plants are borrowed from patches I find elsewhere and a plant that you strip down some will always grow back faster than one you just transplanted without de leafing a little. Tomatoes, cannabis, whatever...
Anyway I digress...
Back to my original question. Do you have a hard time getting your partner to be willing to try things a different way? Do you have a hard time agreeing on the means to the same end?
I often feel like pinching his head off... as if plants can only grow if you do this and that just so.
Like I water heavy, less often. He waters sparingly consistently.
I think the sparse consistent waterings lead to malformed roots because they never have to reach and even if they did reach theres no moisture lower for them to reach to...
Anyway I keep getting him to just try things my way and things keep getting better and better but fuck! Talk about an uphill battle. I feel totally unheard sometimes. Or like hes the only person to ever know anything about anything even though I've been at this far longer.
When I show him my old pictures of my grows and stuff and tell him how I managed to do what I did and get what I got he tells me it was just the strain I had then. Because his plants wouldnt do like that even if he tried things my way... and while I do know that different strains grow differently, I also know I grew many different strains and got pretty good results from them all.
I'm not expecting a huge yield from a mostly sativa indoor plant, but they shouldn't be puny.
If they are, then something is going wrong somewhere so let's try this and that and oh no... no no no... we can't water them fully every time they get dry it would be too much water and too much time in between waterings, etc....
I told him we are going to have us some good old fashioned grow offs because I've had about enough of this nonsense.
