Why are so many people obsessed with speed of grow?

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Denofearth69

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As a person who has grown gardens for my entire life, I have to say I am somewhat amazed at this predominant obsession with rapid growth and harvest. If you treat your ladies like the wonderful individual entities that they are, your focus would be more on allowing them to set the pace rather than forcing them into a time schedule which allows for the most rapid harvest. IMO focus should be on providing the ladies with the best life possible, love, care, and respect. Let your ladies tell you when to start flowering, what they want, and when they have come to the end of their cycle. I think you'll find that a little more time and your end results will be much nicer. Using a comparison I'm sure we can all agree on, would you prefer a tomato that was picked green and forced to turn red by applying nitrogen gas, or that tender juicy tomato which was allowed to ripen on the vine?
 
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Denofearth69

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Well sure, money is a concern, but I'm all about superior quality.Many of the dispensaries ( here in CO ) are simply overflowing with buds that would have been so much better had they been allowed to fully mature. I think profit over quality is a disturbing trend in growing and IMO it is sad.
 
mconn333

mconn333

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money is one reason but if most of the suppliers went for quality instead of quantity they would bank more so i agree wit u let them do their thing.
 
Vento

Vento

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Denofearth69 said:
As a person who has grown gardens for my entire life, I have to say I am somewhat amazed at this predominant obsession with rapid growth and harvest. If you treat your ladies like the wonderful individual entities that they are, your focus would be more on allowing them to set the pace rather than forcing them into a time schedule which allows for the most rapid harvest. IMO focus should be on providing the ladies with the best life possible, love, care, and respect. Let your ladies tell you when to start flowering, what they want, and when they have come to the end of their cycle. I think you'll find that a little more time and your end results will be much nicer. Using a comparison I'm sure we can all agree on, would you prefer a tomato that was picked green and forced to turn red by applying nitrogen gas, or that tender juicy tomato which was allowed to ripen on the vine?
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You my friend get + Rep for this post ...i TOTALY agree with you at this point ... love them care for them and give them a great life ...and you will be rewarded .... its amazing to see how many hardcore guys here actualy feel a love for the plant .... its quite touching ...and allso notice ... them same hard core guys all have the BEST looking High yeild crops .... Worth thinking about people !!

Im on my first grow ..and the intent was to learn and then bash them out asap and cycle like this trying to cut time down and down ....But after only a coupler of weeks ...im starting to see this diffrent .....im enjoying this a lot more than i thought ...careing for a living thing is changing my way of thinking ...... I have not smoked bud for over a week .... No kiddin ! .

+Rep OP :)
 
robbzilla

robbzilla

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Denofearth69 said:
As a person who has grown gardens for my entire life, I have to say I am somewhat amazed at this predominant obsession with rapid growth and harvest. If you treat your ladies like the wonderful individual entities that they are, your focus would be more on allowing them to set the pace rather than forcing them into a time schedule which allows for the most rapid harvest. IMO focus should be on providing the ladies with the best life possible, love, care, and respect. Let your ladies tell you when to start flowering, what they want, and when they have come to the end of their cycle. I think you'll find that a little more time and your end results will be much nicer. Using a comparison I'm sure we can all agree on, would you prefer a tomato that was picked green and forced to turn red by applying nitrogen gas, or that tender juicy tomato which was allowed to ripen on the vine?
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You can't really let your ladies tell you when to start flowering. Well tech you can when the nodes/branches start alternating is when they are "mature" but you still have to switch your lights to 12/12. But by switching the lights to 12/12 your telling to plant when its supposed to flower. So how do you figure the plant is supposed to tell you?

And that analogy with the tomatos doesn't make sense. You don't introduce nitrogen gas or any other foreign gas/substance to ripen a bud.
 
Total Head

Total Head

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robbzilla said:
You can't really let your ladies tell you when to start flowering. Well tech you can when the nodes/branches start alternating is when they are "mature" but you still have to switch your lights to 12/12. But by switching the lights to 12/12 your telling to plant when its supposed to flower. So how do you figure the plant is supposed to tell you?

And that analogy with the tomatos doesn't make sense. You don't introduce nitrogen gas or any other foreign gas/substance to ripen a bud.
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if you let a plant veg long enough it will start to show preflowers on its own which signals that the plant itself has decided it's time to bud. the tomato analogy was just about ripeness and how there is a reward for having patience and just letting the plant do its thing.
 
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