y'all have no idea how true this is
I am a plant mass murderer
You have to try, and fail, and fail, and fail again. You have to try lots and lots of variations of different things until something works.
It's not even just the learning process, though. I'm trapped in an endless loop of: plant seeds or gather transplants-> plants grow-> too many plants-> some of them die of neglect-> need more plants -> and so on.
I usually lose about half my stock to overwintering cause I can never get arrangements for all my potted plants before the hard freezes hit...
I'm getting it under control though. I have lots of plant recipients now that are more skilled and don't kill my adoptees as much.
Right now my trouble is with the seeds. I launched a huge personal seed starting project this winter and I got HUGE success with some species (jack-in-the-pulpit had near 100% germination!) and huge failure with others (Not a single Scutellaria...)
If you plant 100 seeds you gathered from the wild, it's a reasonable estimate to expect maybe, like, 10-20 plants. BUT you might get 100 plants. Or 1 plant. Or none.
You don't want to be like "Dammit! I wish I had planted more seeds!" But you might end up like "FUCK FUCK FUCK WHY DID I PLANT SO MANY SEEDS"