Instruction Manual - Grow Assistant
Instruction Manual - Grow Assistant
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<strong>Grow</strong> <strong>Assistant</strong> Ver 4.X<br />
<strong>Instruction</strong> <strong>Manual</strong><br />
Geeky<strong>Grow</strong>er Products
The <strong>Grow</strong> <strong>Assistant</strong> -- Medical Marijuana <strong>Grow</strong> Operation Software Ver 4.X<br />
Table of Contents<br />
Logging in for the first time. 2<br />
Introduction 2<br />
Initial Setup 3<br />
Plant IDs 3<br />
Strains 3<br />
Getting Started 4<br />
Designating your Mothers 4<br />
Adding Clones to a Plant 5<br />
Time to do some plant some clones! 6<br />
To find a Clone 6<br />
Planting a Clone 6<br />
More Detailed information about Plants 10<br />
Harvesting a Plant 13<br />
Special Cases 13<br />
Mothers 13<br />
Backing up and importing your data 13<br />
Backing up your data 13<br />
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Importing Your Data (Registered users only) 14<br />
Registering your Software 14<br />
Using the Finance Tracker 15<br />
Document Library 16<br />
Advanced Features 16<br />
Logging in for the first time.<br />
When you log in for the first time you will not be asked for a log on password, However you are able to set a password in<br />
the program but your username will remain “grower”.<br />
Introduction<br />
The purpose of the <strong>Grow</strong> <strong>Assistant</strong> is to help maintain large unruly grow OPs. from 1 to over 1000 plants. it will help<br />
track your plants through their generations always keeping track of who the mothers are and where their genes are. It<br />
will allow you to attach Pictures, Notes, Height and girth, and Tasting information to every single plant in your operation.<br />
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Initial Setup<br />
Plant IDs<br />
The <strong>Grow</strong> <strong>Assistant</strong> is designed to work with several different type growing scenarios. It is designed to handle plants<br />
using “Plant IDs” One way to use Plant IDs is to just to use plastic stick type labels from 1-100 (These are your IDs) then<br />
you just stick this in the planter, use the ID throughout the plants life and once you harvest pull the ID stick and throw it<br />
back in the pool of IDs. You of course do not have to use numbers and can instead use names or whatever you like.<br />
Each plant is tracked via a serial number given to it by the program. This number is not usually seen by you and there is<br />
no reason to worry about it. It’s just used to tie together the plant’s information and it’s notes, pictures etc. The Plant ID<br />
is the way that you can link the plant in the program to the actual plant in the grow room.<br />
Strains<br />
Strains are a very important part of growing. The <strong>Grow</strong> <strong>Assistant</strong>’s Strain Bank Is used to hold this information. It is a<br />
good idea to start by putting in the strains you have early on. When you clone any mother, her strain information “along<br />
with other information” will be copied to the daughters.<br />
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Getting Started<br />
For the purpose of this manual we will assume the following.<br />
You have two Mother plants.<br />
When you clone you use a cloner that has it’s own numbers. (like a square container with 20 holes in it, labeled 1-20)<br />
This of course can be a multitude of different setups.<br />
Designating your Mothers<br />
1. Click the New Plant button on the main screen<br />
2. Specify the Plant ID, Generation, and Plants Mother<br />
• Plant ID - What ever ID you have given the plant<br />
• Generation - Since this is a mother plant the generation will be 1 or Mother<br />
• Plants Mother - Normally you will not enter this value because you will use the cloning function to plant your<br />
clones which enters this in for you. If this plant is a mother then this value will be entered by the program and will<br />
duplicate this plants “Plant ID”<br />
3. Answer Yes to the “Is this a mother” dialog box<br />
Now you will see that you have created a new plant.<br />
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Adding Clones to a Plant<br />
1. With the mother plant you want to clone FROM selected click (Make Clone) button<br />
2. Enter the clone number/designation, notes about the clone, and the number of clones to make into the resulting<br />
dialog box. (keep in mind that the clone number referenced here is the number that you want to temporarily<br />
assign the clone ‘usually the position inside your cloner’ Once you plant this clone the program will ask<br />
what permanent Plant ID you want to assign to the plant.) You can also select a cloning date that is not the<br />
current date. This is good in cases where you cloned a day or two ago and forgot to insert the data into the program.<br />
3. After you have added the clone you can click on the clones tab to see the clones you’ve added (I added 24 for this<br />
example)<br />
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Time to do some plant some clones!<br />
Once you have taken your clones and they are ready for planting you first need to find the clone.<br />
To find a Clone<br />
1. Click the (View Clones) button. (This will open a new window showing all active clones.)<br />
Planting a Clone<br />
3. Click the (Plant) button beside the clone that you want to plane (Move from cloner to the Vegging Room.)<br />
4. Enter the New Plant ID that you want to give this plant in the resulting Dialog Box<br />
Now that you have planted your clone you can look at it by clicking the (Active) button and entering the new Plant ID you<br />
just entered.<br />
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You can also see that on the Mothers clone list that the clone you just planed shows to be pulled<br />
This is important as any clones that don’t show to be pulled will show up in the (At a Glance Clones) windows. When<br />
you plant a clone it will enter the date that you “pulled” it from the cloner.<br />
Therefore if you have a clone that doesn’t survive you MUST press the KILL button in the (At a Glance Clones) window to<br />
stop it from showing up.<br />
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Find Active - Perform find of only active plants (Input<br />
needed to complete search)<br />
Button Definitions<br />
Vegging - Show all active plants in the Veg Room<br />
Flowering - Show all active plants in the Flower Room Mothers - Show all active mothers (Plants with Mother<br />
DELETE - This will delete this plant record and all<br />
associated records (All clones etc.)<br />
selected)<br />
QUIT Button - Quit the program<br />
Arrows - Navigate from plant to plant NEW Plant - Perform the new plant function It is<br />
Make Clone - Use this button when you take a clone from<br />
a mother and put it into your cloner<br />
Flower Plant - Puts today’s date into the Date Flowered<br />
Field and changes the plant from Vegging to Flowering<br />
Bag Plant - Puts today’s date into the Date Bagged fields<br />
and Performs final weighing of medicine<br />
Dry Tags - Opens new window with printable dry tags for<br />
use in certain drying setups<br />
Room Data - Opens new window showing you<br />
information you have entered about the room<br />
Seed Bank - Opens new window showing a seed tracking<br />
system<br />
recommended that you create new mothers this way<br />
View Clones - Opens a new window showing all clones<br />
that need to be planted<br />
Harvest Plant - Puts today’s date into the Date Harvested<br />
field and changes the plant from Flowering to Harvested<br />
Report - Opens new window with a printable “Report<br />
Card” for the plant<br />
New Data - Opens new window for you to enter data<br />
about your room (Data that is not associated with any<br />
plant)<br />
Full Import / Export - Performs import and export<br />
functions to allow you to upgrade your data to future<br />
versions<br />
Password- Use this button to change your password to<br />
something new<br />
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Get Support - Opens the program’s Support forum <strong>Instruction</strong>s - Opens the current online <strong>Instruction</strong> <strong>Manual</strong><br />
Field Definitions<br />
Plant ID - User friendly label for plant Generation - Current Generation of this plant<br />
Plants Mother - Shows who is the mother of this plant<br />
(Only plants who are labeled as Mothers will show up in<br />
this list)<br />
Plant Cycle - This is where you can choose whether the<br />
plant is vegging, Flower, Harvested etc.<br />
Date Flowered - The date that this plant was put into<br />
Flowering<br />
Date Bagged - The date that this plant was put into a bag<br />
or is ready to use<br />
Room ID - For use when using the program with multiple<br />
grow operations<br />
Date Planted - The date that this plant was put into<br />
Vegging<br />
Date Harvested - The date that this plant was harvested<br />
Days in Veg - Date Flowered - Date Planted<br />
Days in Flower - Date Harvested - Date Flowered Harvest on - Date Flowered + Days to Flower<br />
Age in Days - Today’s Date (or harvest date) - Date<br />
Planted<br />
Days to Flower - user defined field with the<br />
“recommended” number of flowering days<br />
Final Yield - The total yield of this plant once bagged Final Height - Total height of this plant once harvested<br />
Daily Gain - Final Yield / Days in Flower Inches Per Day - Final Height / Days in Flower<br />
Plant Position - Position of the plant in room or tray Plant Strain - Strain of the plant<br />
Strain Dominance - shows what is the dominance of this<br />
plant<br />
Plant Designator - Allows you to select this plant as a<br />
Mother or a Father<br />
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More Detailed information about Plants<br />
• Main Screen<br />
The Main screen shows the most used data about a plant.<br />
• Notes Tab<br />
The Notes tab is used to keep notes on a individual plant. To add a new note press the Add Note button<br />
You also have the ability to add multiple notes at one time.<br />
• Height Tab<br />
The Height tab is used to record both height and girth of a given plant.<br />
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Note: to add a new height press the add button. Please note that this feature is designed to work on multiple plants. i.e.<br />
if you want to measure the heights of all you plants in flower you would just press the Find Active button, then select the<br />
Flowering plant cycle. This will show all flowering plants. Then you will go to the height tab, press Add to add the first<br />
recording. Once you are done with the first plant you will see that you are now on the second plant ready to add height.<br />
This makes it fast and easy to add heights for a whole room.<br />
• Clones Tab<br />
The Clones tab will show all clones for this particular plant. Shown are the Clone ID - Date Cloned - Notes about the<br />
clone - age (days in the cloner) - Date pulled - Removed<br />
• Pictures Tab<br />
This tab will allow you to store three pictures per plant along with notes.<br />
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• Totals Tab<br />
The totals tab give a lot of useful information about the plant<br />
Room Data -You can use the <strong>Grow</strong> Room Tracker to keep track of all your room equipment. By entering in the amount<br />
of time you use a piece of equipment and when you started using it the tracker will show you the total time in hours on<br />
the unit. It’s also great for keeping track of your room nutrients and water tanks.<br />
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Harvesting a Plant<br />
To harvest a plant<br />
1. Press Find Active and enter the Plant ID of the plant you want to harvest<br />
2. Press the Harvest Plant Button<br />
3. Enter in a final Height for the plant<br />
This will harvest the plant by inputing a harvest date and changing the Plant cycle to Harvested.<br />
Special Cases<br />
Mothers<br />
Ahh mothers... how we love them so.... A mother plant is just like any other except you specify it’s “plant designation”<br />
as a Mother. Only plants who have been selected as mothers will show up in the Mother Pull down list.<br />
Backing up and importing your data<br />
One of the great features of this software is your ability to backup your data and import it into new versions of the<br />
software.<br />
What does backup do? It will create a list of files containing all the program information and then it will put those files into<br />
your documents folder in a folder called “<strong>Grow</strong>-<strong>Assistant</strong>-Backup-Data”. It puts these files here because we don’t want<br />
them to get overwritten durning an upgrade.<br />
Backing up your data<br />
1. Click the “Full Backup” button on the functions tab<br />
2. After the backup runs you will find your backup files in the folder in the <strong>Grow</strong>-<strong>Assistant</strong>-Backup-Data folder inside<br />
your Documents folder.<br />
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Importing Your Data (Registered users only)<br />
1. Now that you have a backup of your data you can uninstall the program if you like<br />
2. Now your ready to Install the new version of the software<br />
3. Install the new version and register it so that you are able to use the Import button<br />
4. Press the Import button and your data will start restoring<br />
Note: The Import feature will look for backup files inside the <strong>Grow</strong>-<strong>Assistant</strong>-Backup-Data folder of your Documents<br />
folder<br />
Registering your Software<br />
To register your software click the about / register button and then the Register software button. You will be asked to<br />
enter you serial number and be authenticated.<br />
Your name is tied to your serial number. This information is private and is not send out over the internet.<br />
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Using the Finance Tracker<br />
The <strong>Grow</strong> <strong>Assistant</strong> Comes with a easy way to track the income and expenses of your grow room. The Finance tracker<br />
is a very easy to use system to keep track of this information<br />
To use the tracker simply input the information about your grow room and the buyer and start entering in date. The<br />
tracker will keep track of your income less your expenses in a very easy to read manner. You can even print off reports!<br />
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Document Library<br />
This is a simple addition to the <strong>Grow</strong> <strong>Assistant</strong> that allows you to store documents or files securely within the program.<br />
Think of it simply as a document/file library.<br />
Advanced Features<br />
Below is a growing list of feature codes that can be used to invoke hidden features of the program. These codes must<br />
be entered into the Plant ID field. Once you enter the code and TAB out of the field the code will invoke it’s action.<br />
Feature Code Defenition<br />
**clearall<br />
This will delete all records, delete your<br />
serial number, and quit the application.<br />
Useful if you need to dump all your<br />
data in a hurry!<br />
More codes will be added in the future.<br />
Support is offered via support forum - www.growassistant.com or by clicking the Get support in your software.<br />
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