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How would you rate your note-taking skills? Documenting your grow is one of the essential skills to levelling up your cultivation. Documenting a cultivation has evolved. The good old-fashioned pen-and-paper tradition has shifted to digital journals designed for storing data and multimedia about your grow.

Google Sheets

Google Sheets is an exciting tool to bring your grow notes into the digital world. Here’s what’s making this a handy grow log for growers of all levels.

• Simplified note-taking
• Better organisation
• Easy saving and storage
• Remote accessibility

Documenting your grow in a journal is the first step. Reviewing your notes is where it truly becomes an effective tool. You can’t remember everything that happens during a grow, so these notes are helpful to recall your previous experience.

What to document in a grow log

We all know the feeling of staring at a blank page and not knowing what to write. Knowing what to document helps ease the transition to making it a part of your daily routine. Documenting consistently provides an accurate overview of your cannabis plant at each stage of the growth cycle. If it’s your first time making a grow log, here are a list of categories to include:

• Strain – type of cannabis seed
• Watering schedule with nutrients
• Light schedule
• Temperature
• Humidity
• Nutrients delivered
• Leaf colour
• Leaf position
• Plant height
• Trichome amount
• Bud size
• Low-stress tests
• Special activity (e.g. topping, de-leafing, etc.)

These categories will start you off by noting relevant information that will be helpful in future grows. Update each category every day with the current state of your cannabis plant. Daily recordings help reveal patterns in plant growth, deviations from the optimal climate, and even remind you if you have already watered your plant today or not.

A benefit of using Google Sheets is its multimedia capabilities. Now, you have a place to store and organise all the plant photos you’ve saved on your phone. Additionally, video clips, time-lapse videos, and other visual elements.

How to Setup Google Sheets

Google Sheets is perfect for a grow log. Digital note-taking unlocks a host of new ways to write, review, and interact with your notes. It’s a web-based application, similar to Microsoft Excel, that lets users take notes on their phone or computer and access them anywhere they have internet access.

Start a new grow log entry for each new cannabis seed you plant. Most data-driven entries begin during the seedling stage:

Step 1: Visit Google Sheets
Step 2: Login to your Google account (create one if you don’t already have a Google Account)
Step 3: Click “Blank spreadsheet” to start your new grow log
Step 4: Click “Untitled spreadsheet” to rename your grow log
Step 5: Set up Categories vertically down the spreadsheet:

• Strain – the type of cannabis seed
• Watering schedule with nutrients
• Light schedule
• Temperature
• Humidity
• Nutrients delivered
• Leaf colour
• Leaf position
• Plant height
• Trichome amount
• Bud size
• Low-stress tests
• Special activity
• Daily photo
• Video clips

In the horizontal cells, put the dates. Each day, fill out the data in each cell. Google Sheets automatically saves, so you don’t have to worry about it.

Accessible Your Grow Log

Create a folder on your Google Sheets homepage to store grow journals from each cannabis plant. Include a date in each file name for easy recall when searching for a particular journal.

Another benefit of Google Sheets is its searchability. Need help finding notes on a particular growing issue that you previously took? A simple search will help you find it much faster than combing through pages of old journals.

Google Sheets is available as a mobile app for your smartphone. From setup to note-taking, you can manage your entire grow log right from your phone. Our phones rarely leave our sides, so it’s always within reach for quick notes or reviewing your journal.

Tapping the Power of Artificial Intelligence in Your Grow Log

Did you know Google Sheets is now integrated with AI? Google Copilot seamlessly integrates with Google Sheets for an AI assistant. Ask Google Copilot to fill in the formula for Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD). Identify patterns in plant height when giving it nutrient supplements versus not. Tell it to find notes from a previous grow to help resolve a current issue. Using Google Sheets for your grow log allows AI access to all your notes, helping to provide suggestions on improving your current cannabis plant.

Get started with Google Sheets on your next grow

We recommend all growers keep a grow log. Google Sheets is the perfect companion for taking detailed notes that are helpful in improving future grows. Once your sheet is set up with the dates and categories, it’s as simple as jotting the data every day to track progress. Digital note-takingalso supports voice notes, images, and other multimedia.

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