Well I have shared my soil growing adventures before but I will detail the joy of them here.

2 (i think) summers ago....first grow ever. A friend gave me a TON of bagseed she had been saving for quite a while.

So.....build a nice stealth outdoor setup. (It really was nice....I still have it.) Buy a ton of 3 gallon pots. Fill 50 pots with soil from around my home (WRONG!!) Place 3 seeds in each pot (WRONG!!) and wait for 2 weeks. Nothing. I planted them too deep (about 2 inches down) and they all sprouted and then died because they couldn't find the surface. (WRONG!!)

So plant 150 more seeds....three to a pot (WRONG!!). None of them sprout. Turns out I left the seeds exposed to air (WRONG!!) and since they were already old I ruined them.

SO....PLANT 60 MORE SEEDS (from a new batch of bagseed) this time in rapid rooters so I can make sure they sprout. They DO! Plant them in all my pots. Every single one grows three inches high and then stops. Every single one. Wait a month. None grow higher. Turns out that the VERY crappy soil I used from my garden was way too claylike and wouldn't drain so the plants could not grow through it.(WRONG!!) They were all three inches high because that's how far the rapid rooter would let them grow. Once they hit the clay outside the rr the roots couldn't penetrate. So they all stopped growing at three inches.

So REtransplant (we are now in August mind you) into good potting soil and they finally start to grow somewhat because it's pretty damn late in the summer by this time.
THEN....guess what. A two week "heat storm" with temps topping out at 113F. At the end of the summer I ended up with about 6 females that lived and less than 2 oz total from my grow.

My most recent soil adventures? One seedling I transplanted 3 times because I could not get the pot to drain right....god knows why since tons of holes and perlite. When I got that straightened out not one half hour later I dropped the entire pot into a big bowl of dog drinking water. That was the end of that sad tryst.

Been trying lately too......First seedling popped fine and then I burned it to death with with bug spray. Next two seedlings (one at a time) I germ under too hot a light (400mh....they were too close) and they were both born without any true leaves (burned off I pontificate.) The fourth seedling I popped successfully under a cfl and when she turned 10 days old the cat ate her.

I don't even know what the moral of the story is......don't touch dirt??? :wtf: