Splitting up Diaries

[Growmie]

Keeno said it’s fine so it’s totally fine, but it’s really lame in my opinion to have different diaries for different plants in the same room. Just seems like a points grab to me, because it’s not helping anyone who would like to follow the grow and learn from it or trying to help you out with tips. Just makes it confusing and more threads to go through. Everyone else seems to do it with one dairy per tent/room/light.

But if you limited everyone to doing one diary per grow room then there wouldn't be very many diaries and some people would be limited to only doing one diary a year? Some people aren't very lucky in competitions, like myself, so it's nice to be able to put in some work to be able to grow my small seed collection. I do completely get where you are coming from though.

Spam away and game the system for free seeds if that’s why you’re here. I’m just letting you know it’s lame and corny. But, yeah if you only do one grow per year, you would have one diary per year. That’s how it seems to be done on all forums and there seems to be plenty of diaries on them, but you do you.

Well I'm here to learn, have fun and talk to like-minded people, the fact that I can happen to expand my pool of genetics by doing it and potentially helping someone else/providing entertainment/talking material then I don't really see what's wrong with that it's not like anyone is going to be gaining anything substantial?
Each to their own, but noone is losing out from this and isn't the nature of a forum to have posts?
Is it any different to say "three word story" which is literally just for fun?

It's just my opinion and it's all peace from me mate

[TTL]

But if you limited everyone to doing one diary per grow room then there wouldn't be very many diaries and some people would be limited to only doing one diary a year? Some people aren't very lucky in competitions, like myself, so it's nice to be able to put in some work to be able to grow my small seed collection. I do completely get where you are coming from though.

Spam away and game the system for free seeds if that’s why you’re here. I’m just letting you know it’s lame and corny. But, yeah if you only do one grow per year, you would have one diary per year. That’s how it seems to be done on all forums and there seems to be plenty of diaries on them, but you do you.

Well I'm here to learn, have fun and talk to like-minded people, the fact that I can happen to expand my pool of genetics by doing it and potentially helping someone else/providing entertainment/talking material then I don't really see what's wrong with that it's not like anyone is going to be gaining anything substantial?
Each to their own, but noone is losing out from this and isn't the nature of a forum to have posts?
Is it any different to say "three word story" which is literally just for fun?

It's just my opinion and it's all peace from me mate

You get a hell of a lot more points from diaries than posts in other threads, so that comparison doesn’t work. Come be a regular/active member, engage with others diaries and posts, participate in comps, and do all of the stuff every other member besides you has done to earn points. You’ll have enough points to buy seeds in no time, because that’s the way Keeno set it up. People who are regular/active members will get enough points to cover the seeds they need for growing if they don’t want to spend money on seeds. If you can only do one grow a year or only a few small tent grows per year, how many free seeds do you need in your seed collection? They can become pretty hard to germ and get healthy plants from the longer they sit.

[JJ]

I have 2 diff. Mediums,hempy and soil at diff. Start times ,2 diarys

[Growmie]

Spam away and game the system for free seeds if that’s why you’re here. I’m just letting you know it’s lame and corny. But, yeah if you only do one grow per year, you would have one diary per year. That’s how it seems to be done on all forums and there seems to be plenty of diaries on them, but you do you.

Well I'm here to learn, have fun and talk to like-minded people, the fact that I can happen to expand my pool of genetics by doing it and potentially helping someone else/providing entertainment/talking material then I don't really see what's wrong with that it's not like anyone is going to be gaining anything substantial?
Each to their own, but noone is losing out from this and isn't the nature of a forum to have posts?
Is it any different to say "three word story" which is literally just for fun?

It's just my opinion and it's all peace from me mate

You get a hell of a lot more points from diaries than posts in other threads, so that comparison doesn’t work. Come be a regular/active member, engage with others diaries and posts, participate in comps, and do all of the stuff every other member besides you has done to earn points. You’ll have enough points to buy seeds in no time, because that’s the way Keeno set it up. People who are regular/active members will get enough points to cover the seeds they need for growing if they don’t want to spend money on seeds. If you can only do one grow a year or only a few small tent grows per year, how many free seeds do you need in your seed collection? They can become pretty hard to germ and get healthy plants from the longer they sit.

As a new member I am trying to be involved everywhere I can, which includes diaries.
I don't have a large collection compared to some, but I have more than enough for what I need. I was just providing a different perspective on the subject.

As you said yourself, that's the way Keeno set it up, so I wouldn't say it could be considered cheating the system. If anything it's the exact way the system is intended to be used.

Anyway it's late here, so have a good one

[ncrypta.core]

I have thought about splitting mine up but as I tended to update every day before my laptop died and I think I'd find it more of a ball ache updating multi ie clones/mothers etc instead of just starting one when they are in veg, so I would always have 2 going as I have 2 tents a veg one and flower one

[Keeno]

People are welcome to do what they want at GR420, it's a growing forum and we all love reading about growing. I run a few diaries for different strains, systems, lights, etc. I quite like it that way for me as I can go back and see what I did on a specific strain, system, light, etc.

Large amounts of diaries have come up before in discussion regarding points so ill have a chat with the team about maybe restricting it to 5 active diaries that can accumulate points.

To be honest we have thousands of seeds in stock and we won't be running out with more constantly being sent in or being bought for the place. If people want to run multiple it's fine and we will discuss in the mod section about a cap on too many being counted as point earning diaries. I see no issue with a member running a few of them, it's been normal long before the points were ever introduced.

Making sure the points are balanced is tricky, finding the right ways for them to be earned or rewarded, etc. Diaries are one of the fastest ways to get points but there are plenty of other ways. We tried many ways and will try many more. Some ways were heavily abused in the past which is a shame and meant they had to be stopped. All I want is you lot growing for a little cost as possible. Points help do that without the back-breaking work some of the team went through last year.

Lifes to short for stress, everyone is welcome to enjoy the place as they wish as long as it's not purposely upsetting others.

[Point 5]

I run per strain but i'm also not a massive grower who can run 20 strains at a time.

A lot of us that run diaries per stain do it for a reason. easier to see what happened with that plant when you refer back rather than trying to find ti in a multi strain diary.

It also creates content on the forum and having many strain diaries helps us get hits as well.


@TTL Spam away and game the system for free seeds if that’s why you’re here. I’m just letting you know it’s lame and corny. But, yeah if you only do one grow per year, you would have one diary per year. That’s how it seems to be done on all forums and there seems to be plenty of diaries on them, but you do you... you might notice the ones that are here for points and prizes don't stick around long before they get figured out and leave. also Gr420 isn't a forum that does what all the others do so why should be operate the same?

[duke]

hi i only have a single diary as i never remember to update more than one and over on tgc my diary has over 500 pages starting from 2014 to date,maybe the longest unbroken grow on the internet,perpetual see and mostly the same plants i started with still going!
my point is since i been here i have done the same a single diary for everything and have had several packs of seeds with my gr points,one diary is quite enough esp if you have a memory like a sieve!

[Keeno]

hi i only have a single diary as i never remember to update more than one and over on tgc my diary has over 500 pages starting from 2014 to date,maybe the longest unbroken grow on the internet,perpetual see and mostly the same plants i started with still going!
my point is since i been here i have done the same a single diary for everything and have had several packs of seeds with my gr points,one diary is quite enough esp if you have a memory like a sieve!

I do love your perpetual diaries, when i popped onto circle id always have a good catch-up and do here regular with your million pics . Mon the wardrobes

[Finchmad_79]

Being new around here and there being far more knowledgeable/ experienced folks around, I wasn't going to post. Sometimes though, the view of a new guy is a good thing.

I am not taking sides nor looking to create an argument.

I think the point system is a genius idea.

To me, a grow is either a seed/ clone or multiple seeds/ clones, germinated/ rooted, vegged and flowered together in 1 tent/ room. Doesn't matter if it is 1 strain or 20.

If them seeds/ clones are divided between 2 tents/ rooms, that would be 2 grows. 3 tents/ rooms, that would be 3 grows. And so on.

Now if it is a perpetual grow, each time a new batch of seeds/ clones goes into the tent/ room, that would be a separate grow. Don't matter if it's the same strain as previous or your introducing a new strain of 10.

Since this topic was posted, I can see how the system can be played/ abused.

As an example, I grow 1 plant in my tent ( 1 diary ). If I was wanting to play the system, I could germinate 11 seeds ( 1 that I wanted to grow, the other 10 ( possibly freebies ) that I have no intention of growing ). Create 11 diaries ( 1 for each seed ), collect the points for starting the diaries. After a few weeks of collecting points on all 11 diaries, I could cull the 10 I am not planning on growing and concentrate on the 1 seed I want to grow.
Along with having an additional 2000+ points for free, I would be clogging the forum up with worthless/ unfinished diaries.

That's my view/ opinion as a new guy around here and I hope it makes sense.