and a merry xmas to you u bend and all your sheep......................
dude, I think you have it backwards. It is the sheep who would follow the likes of you. Sheep are people who just do as they are told and never know why. Or there are the rams who are no better but insist they are leaders, really they just leave a false trail no more. So like you they are just sheep leading sheep.
If you would take the time to notice senior growers with many years of experience nearly always explain why some things should be done or should not not be done
and why. They have garnered
wisdom and in doing so they have found it is
learning and teaching that is important, not the leading of sheep as is done by your type based on a need for outside affirmation to support a huge ego.
Children like you (regrdless og age) who think they know it all simply just repeat things they read or mimic things done by others but never learn why. When they do pick something up alledgedly expaining why or why not it is usually just ludicrous things garnished from comoic book grade growing books or some old myth heard in growing forums that only applied to soil growing methods of decades ago. Have you ever tried using Google scholar. I thought not.
That is why sheep leaders have so little worth in growing forums. You just regurgitate worthless info and in doing so leave a trail of sheep poop to follow. Or lead a pack of sheep by leaving a trail of sheep poop as a guide. Same difference. Your kind do not teach or share wisdom, just play follow the leader or regurgitate what you hear from someone else and expect credit/acknowledgement for regurgitationg things you know little or nothing about and therefore try to be a sheep leader.
Uncle Bens followers are not sheep they are learners. You ought to try it some time. Learning, I don't think you have the ability to lead anything but sheep.
Nothing personal, just my opinion after having read a lot of posts, obtaining a broad education in the sciences and grwing pot for over 35 years.
Merry Christmas.