Post your worst growing disaster

The worst thing I saw was my buddy, who was growing for me at the time, got a spider mite infestation. I never even knew what they were and neither did he. By the time we figured out what they were and how to treat them, they had sucked those plants dry. We had to harvest early and it was a tiny harvet at that. Watch out for spider mites.

Oddly enough, the solution consisted of buying a bottle of predator mites, which we released a few days after treating the plants with Neem oil (I think). Infestation cured, but too late.

I can top that...my very first grow attempt, i was utterly clueless but i was tryin

I go out and buy a floro rig and some 'grow lights'. but my electrical connection isn't grounded right, so the bulbs don't actually come on, they just buzzed a feeble blue light...but i don't know squat, so i just figure that's how they are supposed to work...ultraviolet or something i guessed.

the poor little seed germinates in this cave-like environment, but i can't see scat in the near dark so i get a 15w floro bulb or something so i can see. a day later i go back in and this poor little sprout is trying to grow *around* the shadow of the 'grow-light' rig into the light of the 15watter! it was the saddest thing i have ever witnessed!

i finally got my head and ass together and ended up growing some decent hydro...but lol, what a start!

All my early grows were found and stripped before they ever got anywhere. That was 25 years ago. This is my first time growing that a plant has actually matured.

I hope that little girl made it

Caught my dog eating my grow this last time -- but we've curtailed that. No wonder he was actin so weird.

Beat this..........Its my first grow and 2 out of 7 are female. 1 very small and a bigger one, well my light fell on the bigger on 3 times, breaking the main stem in half twice and braking 2 branches of another time. A lil scotch tape and within 2 days of each disaster she was back to , almost, normal. And YES i do use chains and hooks, but i also use a lot of....oh yea, bad luck. shes still growing and producing more buds each day

i cooked a 2 month old clone in a old freezer in my garage that i thought i vented good enough.put her in to cook at 3pm came home at 11pm n she was all nice an crispy/naked looking.died 3 days later :| AND i would never take a picture of such
a sad event sorry lol peace

how's this? it's from a plant last year. i still haven't quite figured out what was wrong, but it started right as she started flowering. i thought ti could have been inadequate drainage, or a phosphorus deficiancy, or a PH flucuation, but i don't know for shure as the plant died before i could cure it.

I grew some bagseeds from a high light requiring outdoor strain. They took long to mature and needed outdoor light. I smoked the whole thing in one night and barely got high. The were also immature

Probably my first grow but I think most people screw up their first grow. I bought some Shiva Shanti II seeds from Seedsdirect for about £25. I had my setup up and running, lights on, fans on etc and I ended up with one male plant at the end of it :(

ok here ya go...i was growing a polyploid, it was growing 3 leaves at a time instead of 2...i was also growing a regular ol bag seed female that was already budding...i put them in my closet at night to keep it dark, and the clothes basket is right next to that...well, my husband is up getting ready for work one morning, half asleep, and puts his dirty clothes in the closet, however, he made my plants his clothes basket, totally breaking the stem of the polyploid beyond compare, knocked over one of my two buds on the topped plant...

the polyploid got cut down and trashed, and the other plant turned out fine, the broken branch healed after i propped it up...but a rare genetic mutation got killed so i was pissed...that could have been some nice dense buds

Don't give him sex for a long time for that one.

watching helicoptors swoop over and hover,then throw out rolls of tiolet paper
then see cops on 4 wheelers ride up
and cut down the crop and hual it away
just a week or so from harvest
NIGHTMARE come true
and it happened a few times in my life

Stolen is always the worst -- cause you know someone else is smoking you're hard won crop. That sucks. As for the helicopters, if you search around there's a few good articles on outdoor camoflage -- like what plants to grow near and other forms of masking. Try "googling" cannabis camoflage or something like that.

:( This is my first time growing ..and just recently i sprouted about 30 good plants ,and now due to work and other such things as not being home enough to look after my babies ...i'm now down to 22 plants and my Husband trampled my biggest ones last night :mad: undefined

lol damn, "trampled", sounds like such a horrible way to die.

P.S. Hardon, Your a Fucking genious! Peace

Trampled Underfoot - a great Zeppelin tune. And yes, a lousy way for innocent cannabis to die

I had cows jump our fence and eat the top off my prize Pink lady I coulda shot that cow..
i didnt though

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I had cows jump our fence and eat the top off my prize Pink lady I coulda shot that cow..
i didnt though

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See Harddon, Topping is natural :D lol.

Maybe you should moooo-ve your crop furthur away

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See Harddon, Topping is natural :D lol.

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ROFLMAO I remember that thread lol.

Did the cow at least leave you some good fertilizer? I hear cow poo mixed with sweet leaf is da bomb. Mixed with dog poop it's totally useless

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Don't give him sex for a long time for that one.

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trust, he was punished :D

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Trampled Underfoot - a great Zeppelin tune. And yes, a lousy way for innocent cannabis to die

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;) It's ok i made sure he slept outside with the cows and horses :cool:

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Maybe you should moooo-ve your crop furthur away

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lol she's fixed now mate..


I Added an extra 2 feet Of barbed wire to the top of the fence.

this is only my fault. but on my first grow i only had one female that i topped growing in a large pot. i got cocky and showed one too many people.. this budding 5 ft monster was stolen halfway into flowering...i was fuckin destroyed...NEVER TELL ANYONE!!!!!!!!!NEVER!!!

i think i have all u beat, by far..... even though i skimmed through this thread. About a year ago, i had a full grow room with over 30 dynamite plants, plus an additional 30 that was mixed, primarily citrus skunk, lemon skunk, dutch treat, and fruity buds. I had a 265 cfm carbon filter, 1000 watt hortilux hps, a light track, fans, air pumps, water pumps, nutrients, ph & ppm pens, plus a bunch of other bs. With about 3 weeks left to go, my whole entire grow got robbed, every single fucking thing. My equipment cost over $1300, plus the best fuckin plants the world has ever seen got stolen with everything else. The only thing i got left with was my water jugs :(. If you can top this, i feel really fuckin bad for you, lol.

this year stands out in my head,
i was around 17 or 18 and had 63 nice plants up in the hills in a single patch
i nicked my ankle with a powersaw the very week summer started and males would show and could not go up to get males out it being so far over big hills,
my brother went for me,with explicite details on what to look for to see if its males
i told him anything with lil balls on it is a male,pull it and anything that aint got any leave it
he brought me 19 female plants back and left the males growing
i only had 3 other plants(luckily not a 100 yards from my house)
and even luckier still they were all females,
real bad luck then a lil good luck i guess,
my bro never quiet got over it untill he jione a church years later he would bring it up and say 'do ya remember that time...."
like i could forget
peace

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i think i have all u beat, by far..... even though i skimmed through this thread. About a year ago, i had a full grow room with over 30 dynamite plants, plus an additional 30 that was mixed, primarily citrus skunk, lemon skunk, dutch treat, and fruity buds. I had a 265 cfm carbon filter, 1000 watt hortilux hps, a light track, fans, air pumps, water pumps, nutrients, ph & ppm pens, plus a bunch of other bs. With about 3 weeks left to go, my whole entire grow got robbed, every single fucking thing. My equipment cost over $1300, plus the best fuckin plants the world has ever seen got stolen with everything else. The only thing i got left with was my water jugs :(. If you can top this, i feel really fuckin bad for you, lol.

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Mate Thats Fucked...

I hope Karma Is Paying them back 10 fold.. :mad:

Your Deffenetly the winner so far (although thats not a good thing.:o :o .)

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Originally Posted by NowhereMan

this year stands out in my head,
i was around 17 or 18 and had 63 nice plants up in the hills in a single patch
i nicked my ankle with a powersaw the very week summer started and males would show and could not go up to get males out it being so far over big hills,
my brother went for me,with explicite details on what to look for to see if its males
i told him anything with lil balls on it is a male,pull it and anything that aint got any leave it
he brought me 19 female plants back and left the males growing
i only had 3 other plants(luckily not a 100 yards from my house)
and even luckier still they were all females,
real bad luck then a lil good luck i guess,
my bro never quiet got over it untill he jione a church years later he would bring it up and say 'do ya remember that time...."
like i could forget
peace

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LMAO did you Slap him..?.

I love thist thread it makes me feel like less of a looser...lol..

How do i get my plants to start off strong with big leaves

when i lived on maui the narc. force was called greenharvest and they would fly with the crop they just busted up and down the beach where alot of people hung out it was hookipa beach park great waves anyway when taht would happen you would 10 - 15 people jump in there cars and go find out if it was theres someone would usually come back pissed.