Grower of the Month January 2023

This competition is next level toxic.. 🤣🤣🤣. All the foks who genuinely answer questions my hat comes off to you..(I don't wear a hat but we're gonna pretend for the sake of my statement).. To come back here each month knowing the asshats that come out the woodwork to stoop to such low levels of cheating and name calling for a few seeds with no real money value... It's fucking amazing 🍿🍿🍿🍿. And to the toxic cheating noobs.. if you just were nice you would get free seeds anyway.. fuck if some one asked nice enough I would give them free seeds.. Just put all that energy into growing some great plants.. smoke a joint chill out .. Peace..🤘🏼💚🌿

You know what I love about answering grower's questions? It keeps my brain and my own grows sharper/better than they would otherwise be... and I learn a lot... it reinforces my own knowledge and I truly appreciate that. For example, I often get confused between the signs of a potassium or a phosphorus deficiency - I know the photo that may be presented by a grower is one or the other but frequently have to go look one of them up to remember which is which... SOME day, that will stick... And there are a lot of questions about which I have zero knowledge - like specific lighting issues for example - and so just reading the responses educates me and often makes me go do some more research on the topic. VDP, DLI, PPFD, etc - all those technical issues are things I can't even experience for myself because I don't have the equipment - so reading those questions and answers informs me, teaches me things that I will hopefully recall when and if I have the means of getting that equipment... So, troll-free, I find this activity a great "textbook" for me.... and I want to take the opportunity to thank everyone for their questions and their answers 😊

In the wonderful calm that has descended (to the great relief, I'm sure, of a number of us), I just want to say that from anything and everything can actually come some real good... And the real good, for ME, to have come out of this was to have found the level of caring and support that this community CAN exhibit, CAN give... So many of you were attacked in the rampage - but we all banded together to support each other as the psychosis reached its crescendo. And it can't have been a great experience for anyone just watching the mayhem as one poor grower tried to say inside her question... I wish that @GrowDiaries would institute some simple things that would prevent this type of experience... 1. Keep some sort of record - even if it's on a piece of (gasp) paper (i.e., nothing hackable) - of IP addresses that will never be allowed onto the site. 2. Institute a harrassment policy - one verified complaint = warning; two verified complaints, ouster. It's not enough to issue 7-hour or 7 day bans because there are still areas (contests) where the behavior can continue. 3. When someone is bounced out, erase ALL of what that person has done including everything on contest sites - not just comments. 4. Make folks signing up for an account here read the rules and acknowledge them - and the rules should include the consequences of not following them. It ought to be simple enough surely. And it would improve this site 1000% and make it worthwhile for sponsors to come back (how many have been lost!) But to my buddies, @m0use, @Hashy, @Ezzjaybruh, @Chow_13, @Sciolistic_Steve, @CRiSPeRGrow, @WhiteWizard, @Ernesttwwgg who were either the target of the insanity or loyal buddies rallying to complain and report the behavior, I just want to say thanks.... let's hope we don't have to go through this again any time soon! (OK, @m0use... now it's time once again for your *fart) (And where was @GanjaReaper?? I thought he LIKED a bit of drama! LOL!)

Here's some fun information regarding historical data on GOTM. It only dates back to Nov-2017 using the follow weblink style growdiaries.com/giveaways/grower-of-the-month-%7B%7B%7BTHE MONTH}}}-{{{THE YEAR}}} [Lowest win - 3] [Highest win - 234] Prizes where great pre 2020, stating to taper mid 2019. Lights, Nutrient lineups, massive seeds and merch from other breeders not just fastbuds. Fast Buds was some of the first breeders to give smaller prices when others where giving larger ones. 2017 had contests and no posted results, this was the same for the first two months into 2018. In 2020 there where 4 months straight of 100+ answers each. Not on trend compared to any other month/year. Rumoured this was the time when questions where being asked by robots/scripted. Others have commented about this in the past but it has yet to happen again. Jan 2022 Was also very high but it stretched two weeks into Feb, as such Feb contest was only 2 weeks long not a full month. The 3 win in 2021 Feb was also a growdiaries error in that no new questions could join/be asked. So it was only older/left over questions from the previous months. The best months for placing with less competition are still January & February should the trends continue based on average answers. There has been a few errors where some users have won two months in a row, this was because of an error on growdiraies and the GOTM page. The top comment on Nov 2017 GOTM contest page sums up the reality of this site and how long its been happening with no real solutions 5+ years later. Quote [this site is turning into a joke used to be good with top growers but now its just people forming groups to like each others stuff to win and people making fake profiles to win then you just get people spamming the shit out of stuff to win grower of month no wonder most of the top growers have left its not even about winning cuz most of the top growers dont need/want the prizes as they got plenty of seeds and sponsors but just do it like i do for the love of it . you only have to look at the top 10 growers on here most are only in the top ten from spamming for likes sad very sad get a grip] Results Below: Averages Following Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | 000 | 000 | 008 | 020 | 008 | 041 | 022 | 041 | 021 | 048 | 019 | 038 | ====2018 266 total, 22.2 Q/M Average 060 | 035 | 059 | 033 | 039 | 038 | 080 | 086 | 051 | 044 | 039 | 049 | ====2019 613 total, 51.1 Q/M Average 035 | 021 | 048 | 113 | 138 | 155 | 234 | 127 | 076 | 075 | 086 | 059 | ====2020 1,167 total, 97.3 Q/M Average 046 | 003 | 079 | 052 | 068 | 055 | 054 | 033 | 032 | 040 | 076 | 049 | ====2021 587 total, 48.9 Q/M Average 204 | 062 | 031 | 040 | 054 | 048 | 031 | 072 | 031 | 024 | 033 | 056 | ====2022 686 total, 57.2 Q/M Average 69.0| 24.2| 45.0| 51.6| 61.4| 67.4| 84.2| 71.8| 42.2| 46.2| 50.6| 50.2| ==== Average per month Fun Fun! Lets see what 2023 will bring. m0use

I'm not competing in the competition so I'll systematically remove any score I get from the board. Good luck to all competing. Fart.

Good Luck all you peeps competing!

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This is lame. Copycats that grow shit get selected. Rigged bullshit. Good luck growing boof

Did someone turn on the ventilation here? The smell seems to have gone...

This grower has planted a Human, It starts with a human head. Lets see how it will grow: growdiaries.com/diaries/162732-grow-journal-by-miguel125

🦗🦗🦗 Crickets In Here

So it’s interesting I assume this is 3 packs of 5 seeds but the way they wrote it in there would think it’s 5 packs of 3 seeds. All the other prizes show the quantity next to it (x1, x2, x3) then it says 3 seed packs - x5 so I would assume that’s the quantity 5 of the 3 seed packs.

Have to share this with you guys... this was an answer given by a grower who shall remain nameless: "Looks to me maybe a pest issue. Tough to tell without seeing the actual plant . Could be a nutrient issue also. Tough to diagnose without being able to touch the plant and soil. The soil looks kind of dry" Kind of wanted to let him know he'll never be able to see or touch the actual plant on the questions page.... he just might want to give the whole notion of answering questions a miss... Dear me!

Well this is weird... we've all got the medals but the winners haven't been announced? And over at POTM, the winners HAVE been announced but it says they're still "deciding" ... this poor site is so screwed up...

The race is for 2nd place... c'mon @Ezzjaybruh! Keep it going, @Ernestwwttg!