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The more time (and money) you spend planning your grow before you even put seeds into dirt (or hydro) the less time you'll have to spend during the grow trying to figure out what's wrong and how to fix it.
You can "just get some dirt" and plant seeds, water them, feed them some fertilizer, and so forth and get good results. Or you can set in motion a nightmare of problems with almost no diagnostic ground to stand on.
You can also have problems even if you use nothing but the best of everything, but if that's the case the problems are usually far easier to figure out and correct.
This is good advice here. Get out to places that specialize in what you want to do. Even if you don't get all the best stuff, the cheap stuff at those places is still going to be better than the best stuff at Home Depot or whatever.
I've got a very uncommon car. In a city of half a million people I've seen one other car of the same model. I could pull into any repair shop to get a problem fixed, but I don't. I go to the only shop in town that has mechanics who actually specialize in this kind of car and worked on it when it was new. (The dealership doesn't even carry the repair manual for my car anymore, but you can bet the service department empties out to look at it if I pull in.)
I spend more money to get the car fixed at the place I take it (but it's actually cheaper than what the dealership charges), and I have not a single doubt that it's worth every penny I spend. It looks, runs, and drives like new because I don't cut any corners and if it acts out in the least I check it myself and if necessary take it to my mechanic.
I don't go quite that far with my growing, but the concept is there. Like the saying goes, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".
Don't cut corners on soil, nutrients, or anything else important. Don't spend any more or any less than you can afford.
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