How do you count the days in your diary?

I count from the first green above ground, my wife counts when the guys have tails and go into rock-wool. Does not really matter. There are some people here that do the hard work of growing, learning. Sometimes it takes a while for them to find their stride but for the ones that will go the extra step and educate themselves, its a great place. If you grow in coco feel free to msg me any time, just may take a while to get back. The others I try not to worry over much.

Nothing is really that comparable in Cannabis unfortunately.. You can try to baseline with other people's grows. Same nutrients and lights. But if you live in different areas your gonna get some different results. Some folks like to do "clever" things like start the diary a week or 2 after sprouting and they'd don't specify time frames so it's virtually impossible to judge. Seen lots of inflated or false yields and just some really goofy practices. Not saying all are bad.. But it's better on here to kind of do your own thing and not compare yourself too much to what others are doing. If your looking for science and rational comparable numbers and data it just isn't here.

@GrowerXM00, Thanks for your reply. I sometimes use this to compare the growth to other peoples plants. If person x measures in method 1 and another in 2, they are not really compare-able, certainly not in the first few weeks. Where one's plant is on "day 8" mine be on "day 14" and his might look far further along compared to my "day 8".. So what I am trying to figure out, is what the most common practice is.. ;-)

To not jump the gun, IMO, I would wait for that seedling to shed its shell and see that the 1st set of cotyledon leaves, are well on their way. Anything can happen (and it has) between the first signs of sprouting, and getting that first set of leaves on it. Me personally, I would feel a little shell shocked or sheepish, if my grow diary fizzled out before its first set of real leaves. Bad/marginal seeds will do that to you.

I start my diary’s from the day of sprout, So the day she pokes her head above soil, it’s day 1✌️

Hello, you can write it on a paper for example day 2, the leaves started to get bigger and colorful, day 3, it is developing more leaves etc but you don’t really need to do that but if you want just write the details of what’s appening. Hope it helps. Good grow! ✌️🏼🌱