I think I have a staring problem

If I am not staring at the plants I am staring at the clocking waiting to stare at the plants First grow going here and loving it.

i know exactly what ya mean, great way to acquire patience isnt it...

gotdamunchies said:

i know exactly what ya mean, great way to acquire patience isnt it...

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Seriously in the begining(10 years ago), I went crazy. I was always looking at my shit. I even installed a green light bulb so I could see it at night. I was a soil grower back in the day too so that shit took extra long. In ten years I am just as excited too look at it, but now I have learned pacience. Ahhh blissful pacience. I wonder how my plants are doing right now. Maybe I should go look? There could be something wrong. They could look better than they did 10 min ago. lol just kidding. Once you get into the science of it you will wish you had more time.

hahaha cloud is too funny. I went to the hydro shop and the lady behind the counter teamed up with my gf and were ragging on me for looking at it every five minutes..... i can also relate to what ur saying cloud..... they proably are different ten minutes later.. if u can't see a difference, then just ask her.... just remember to listen very quitely ok..... LOL, stay up chosen... lol, i mean read a book or somthing. hahaha i dunno what else to say hahaha i just think its so funny.

I think it's normal.. I'm the same way, not using the flowering room, but I keep going in there and moving stuff and changing things here and there... I have the most balanced PH out of anyone you can think of.. that's what I do about 100 times a day... check PH and the babies... is that yellow on the leaf.... no... no.. oh, ok.. hmmm... did I check the lights to see if they were the right height? I just put the fan on them, I should check and see if they can stand up to it... they're ok.. I should check them again in like 15 minutes to be sure.. would hate to not catch it as soon as it happens to fix it..... and while I'm here, I should likely check the PH...

I thought it was just me..

cowell said:

I think it's normal.. I'm the same way, not using the flowering room, but I keep going in there and moving stuff and changing things here and there... I have the most balanced PH out of anyone you can think of.. that's what I do about 100 times a day... check PH and the babies... is that yellow on the leaf.... no... no.. oh, ok.. hmmm... did I check the lights to see if they were the right height? I just put the fan on them, I should check and see if they can stand up to it... they're ok.. I should check them again in like 15 minutes to be sure.. would hate to not catch it as soon as it happens to fix it..... and while I'm here, I should likely check the PH...

I thought it was just me..

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This thread is funny. I too suffer from staring. I contantly thinking about them what they need how can I tie them ect ect the list goes on Im sure once I have a few more under the belt this will go away. But damn Im losing sleep at this point worried especially since mine are in my yard.

Hahahahaha! Right before i read this i was just checking on them I think about it all the time, lol. It really can change in 10 min.

cowell said:

I think it's normal.. I'm the same way, not using the flowering room, but I keep going in there and moving stuff and changing things here and there... I have the most balanced PH out of anyone you can think of.. that's what I do about 100 times a day... check PH and the babies... is that yellow on the leaf.... no... no.. oh, ok.. hmmm... did I check the lights to see if they were the right height? I just put the fan on them, I should check and see if they can stand up to it... they're ok.. I should check them again in like 15 minutes to be sure.. would hate to not catch it as soon as it happens to fix it..... and while I'm here, I should likely check the PH...

I thought it was just me..

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Staring is fine but never screw with them constantly like that it's very very bad with all the chemicals back and forth.

Too much care is just as bad as not enough, just stare and smile that's safer for them.

haha funny shit. I can totally relate. I like to smoke a bowl and then go hang out with my ladies, just chill with them

i spend a lot of my time on this site or just watching the grass grow. hahaha. helps me relax

yea i find its my happy place, its quiet in my grow, and i go there all the time to hide, sit and think about everything and laugh at what im doing is ILLEGAL!!!

Chosen said:

If I am not staring at the plants I am staring at the clocking waiting to stare at the plants First grow going here and loving it.

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LOL - That feeling won't ever go away either. You should see the well worn path to my closet! It's probably even worse at my house, as both myself AND my husband are very involved in the process. It's generally standing room only at the doorway.

hahaha i know what you mean, sometimes I'll stare in there for almost an hour, then when i look away I'm blinded for about 5 minutes cause of the lights, its all good tho

Herbal Healing 420 said:

then when i look away I'm blinded for about 5 minutes cause of the lights, its all good tho

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Ahahaha. I hate that. I started turning off my cfls and turning on my T5 when working or I end up with spirals burned into my vision

Oh yeah, if its anything I hate more its the burned vision. Can't look away from the plants though, they're too beautiful.

Hahaha, this thread is the truth. +rep I remember how much I stepped in to my grow room my first grow... things do change!!!

ROTFLMFAO! seriously...I am there too, I even had a nightmare it turned male with the worse case of seeds ever....anywho, since I grabbed some pics, I find myself just staring at the pics vs going in the yard to stare lol.

its relaxing, therapeutic, money saving, self replenishing, rewarding Christ it just might be the best thing in the world, if only you could bone it

Eh, I kinda got over it. I don't freak out about it as much as I used to. I sorta know what to expect at certain weeks of growth. I do take note of the differences and they are interesting, but for the most part it's the same routine it's always been for the plants.

I do have a bucket in my grow room that I move from the veg room to the flower room so that I can get really high in the afternoon pretty much daily and I can stare and think for about 30 minutes in each room. This gives me the opportunity to "notice" things. I've found that the 5 minute ph check wasn't enough time to notice things earlier on. So I stare at them for about 30 minutes admiring them and then I'll see little bugs that I otherwise wouldn't have noticed. Or a little hole in a leaf, or other signs of pests and problems. Catch mold somewhere, that sort of thing. It takes longer than a glance, but I don't feel like looking at them everytime I'm bored on the couch anymore. Hated that, weeks felt like months, months like years, it was ridiculous in the beginning.

Right now I'm back to buying weed so I'm anxious to get this one finished, but it's not slowing time kinda anxious like the first time.

everyday the first thing i do when i get from work is check on the girls, I'll smoke a cone and happily spend 30-60 mins just staring.
then just before bed i'll have to go check them again (just to make sure you understand) check water levels, heat, humidity etc and whoops another 30 mins has gone by lol. I love my plants