I got into growing because the weed here is expensive as fuck, im talking 100 dollars for a bag, 3grams. And its not even high quality shit either. Also because my father grows. I been growing since last august.
My biggest challenge is keeping the temps and humidity at optimal range, outside temps really affect inside. Im located in Barrow, alaska, been legal under state law before ballot measure 2 was accepted.
Only tools i need and have are my hands. Lol. Mostly i only use a syringe to measure my nutrients properly without guessing, it came with my nutrients.
Growing well for me is simple, mainly because my father taught me everything, and did a little homework myself. Once i have my tent's dialed in with the proper speed on the inline fan and light properly distanced from my canopy, than its on cruise control and all i need to do is just feed the girls twice a week and rotate half a turn.
I only look into it when a problem occurs or starts and catch it early.
Growing is done daily, i mainly just check up on the ladies and gents when i make my own seeds.
I guess you can call complicated if you're new to the hobby of growing. I dont worry about ph, cause the nutrients does that itself and saves me alot of time really, i do have great lighting(300w led), temps i keep an eye on and keep them at 73-79F, soil moisture i check so i know when to water or know how many days it will be until they are ready for feeding(pretty accurate too), oxygen is an easy one, its everywhere, carbon dioxide..my girls get my breath and thats all they get, i dont believe co2 really helps unless your set up is completely sealed and has to be for it to be working as it should, im in the tent about a 1/4 of the day everyday so thats not an issue for me, salinity levels are not an issue for me either, i use purified water, ro water would be great but our water is basically pure coming from the power plant in town, basically im using pure pure water that reads 50ppm on my tds meter, i have an inline fan in the tent to pull air in from the bottom, its on the lowest setting cause i use led lights, my plants love it, they dont dry out too fast nor stay too moist on the top layer of soil, so all in all it is even pressure, not positive nor negative, i use rope ratchets to hang everything up, works great so far, no issues. Uhm, chloride, i dont really get much of that either if you mean sodium chloride, but the waters pretty pure and i just leave the caps off on the water jugs to let it evaporate out of the water, works great too. I just let it sit out for a day or two til the bubbles are gone, which is a good way to dechlorinating your water if you have "hard water" but we dont have that here, but its not as bad the lower 48.
