The worst mistake I made was in the taking of cuttings. My first time I cut some leaves with a stem attached and couldn't wunderstand why they didn't root. Now let me tell you this: I researched, read, participated in forums here and at OG for two years before starting my grow. I just 'knew' this was going to be easy. Unfortunately I had NO practical experience with growing of any kind( except my lawn). So I start out with some Afghani seeds and got started. Seeds germed fine and plants vegged for 4 weeks and looked perfect so I said to myself "damn I'm going to be good" at this.

Went in 12/12 and again all is good. Within 2 to 3 weeks they started to look like shit and it took me a year to solve various problems related to lockout, salt buildup, nutrient def.'s and ph problems. For me I've never experienced a problem before flowering. Just goes to show vegging is the easy part. Once into 12/12 the plant shifts into overdrive and it's needs become paramount in the first 2 weeks of flower.

Anyway, the clone issue I had was simply no understanding of what a cutting should be(duh, you need nodes dummy). Growing is no different than any other endevour. You can have all the knowledge but without experience you can't do shit. Another example is when you graduate from college. You could major in accounting and not be able to do shit until you get some experience. HANDS ON experience isthe answer and why many long time growers state "It took me about 5 years to get a handle on all the facets of growing".