How to start growing at little to no cost for the modern day Anarchist or broke dude!

[80mg]

Hello! I am still fairly new to this site but I am growing at e moment with a setup that was less than a hundred dollars! I got 3 plants, one that is going too be a monster. So, how did I do it with such little money?? It's easy!

Indoors-
Here I will give you all the steps and equiptment too grow 3 decent sized pot plants.

Step one, seed germination. You are going to need seeds. For a first grow I suggest you use bagseed too get your technique down. Bagseed are very easy to come by. If you have some laying around, there you go. If not, ask one of your buddies next time you smoke! I'm sure they wont have any reason not too. Take these seeds, place in wet napkin (you can get the napkin and water from a fast food place if your THAT broke), put in a dark place, check time to time to see that the napkin in wet and when seeds start sprouting, it's tim for step two.
Total so far: $0

Step two, pots. - If you are really broke you can go to ANY fast food chain, ask for a cup of water, and now you got your beginer pots. You will have to transplant later but I will help you on that.
Total so far: $0

Step three, soil. - This can be free. Find an area with feritle soil, take shovel, dig up, put in cups.Take your germinated seeds and put in tail down at about a half inch dow, gently put soil over.
Cost so far: $0

Step four, lights. - This is where some money may have to be spent. If you are good at stealing (not suggested but if your a true Anarchist...you may feel obligated too), then do so. If not, luckly you can get 3 68W 2700k lumens CFL lights at home deopt for about 40 bucks. You can get outlet adapters and one of those long multi outlets for ten bucks all together.
Total cost so far: $50, $0 if stolen

Step five, location. This is that hardest. finding a good post in your home. Now if your homeless I don't suggest you grow marijuana indoors (but you can out doors!).
You wana choose a place with white reflective walls, space, and discreet. Alot of people like me choose there closet.
Total so far: $50

Step six, ventilation. - If oyu have a fan laying around, great, if not you can get one at your dollar stor for about five bucks. Place this fan next to the plants about two feet away at a low setting. If you have one closet door open like me you dont need an outake fan.
Total so far: $55

Step seven, nutes. - Three words. Miracle Gro Organic. Seven dollars.
Cost so far $62

That's about it for getting started! For advanced techniques feel free to messege me. This grow can be done with as shown under a hundred bucks, under 70 actually! If you stoled it, it was free! And YES it's VERY real! I have it right now! Too see this grow in action click my first grow in my signature below!

Now I'm going too teach you how to grow outdoors for even LESS than this grow iin my next post! (damn school =/)

Till next time!

For more great tips, resources, news, visit my site
http://growisland.webs.com/

Keep up the fight!
-80

 

[DB&ST]

That's nice and all..
But there could come up some serious problems that will get you spending some more money..
pH kit, other wise your kinda in the dark about what's going on with your soil and water..
The soil you just dug up might have mites in it so you better boil it.. and it still may not be that suitable for growing MJ..

I guesss you can grow for almost nothing but you will have troubles along the way the less you spent.. and the outcome might be a bummer..
also if your buying 2700K i suggest just going 12/12 from seed..

 

[80mg]

That's nice and all..
But there could come up some serious problems that will get you spending some more money..
pH kit, other wise your kinda in the dark about what's going on with your soil and water..
The soil you just dug up might have mites in it so you better boil it.. and it still may not be that suitable for growing MJ..

I guesss you can grow for almost nothing but you will have troubles along the way the less you spent.. and the outcome might be a bummer..
also if your buying 2700K i suggest just going 12/12 from seed..

Well even if the PH kit is added into the equation it's still way under a hundred bucks. But I've never used one! And I'm goin on 3 years outdoors and my first indoors. You think thousnds of years ago farmers had ph kits?

I mean I guess it's nice to have but I've never used one and really don't plan on it with soil grows. When I move on too hydroponics I plan on it. But yes it's very possbile too grow with this budget, I'm doing it right now. And no, not all the lights combined are 2700k there 2700k each so you can veg

Oh and idk how that plant is now but the one you have as your advatar is very dialated.

 

[NLXSK1]

Total cost so far: $50, $0 if stolen

Or a shoplifting charge on your record accompanied by a large fine... Not really worth it to grow some bagseed.

 

[DB&ST]

Well even if the PH kit is added into the equation it's still way under a hundred bucks. But I've never used one! And I'm goin on 3 years outdoors and my first indoors. You think thousnds of years ago farmers had ph kits?

I mean I guess it's nice to have but I've never used one and really don't plan on it with soil grows. When I move on too hydroponics I plan on it. But yes it's very possbile too grow with this budget, I'm doing it right now. And no, not all the lights combined are 2700k there 2700k each so you can veg

Oh and idk how that plant is now but the one you have as your advatar is very dialated.

Im not attacking you, or saying that this cannot work.
It's just that on such a low budget it will get alot harder for most people to make the plant grow big and bushy..

And your right, thousands of years ago they did not have pH kits, but we live in the 21th century.. why not use something that help monitor out plants?
People these days use tap water, and not rain water like a thousand years ago.. when your growing a plant in a non-natural place you have to use non-natural accessories..

 

[grow space]

Cool dude, like these threads, cheap and more or less effective...it does not matter if u are growing with hid or cfls, what matters is that You are growing and enjoying it.Thats all there is..Keep up the good work mann....

 

[80mg]

Now let's go to outdoors. Outdoors is even easier as above. Now steps 1- are exactlrey the same.

Step four, location - Obviously you are using natural sunlight. But you still need too make sure that it is spring in your area or in your area it is habital to grow mj. Now you need to find a spot that gets as much sunlight as possible in the day time. A good way to find out is to go in the early morning and late after noo. If it is light there the chances are that it is light all day long. Also make sure if is NOT legal to grow in your area to find a place that is isolated or MJ friendly.
Total cost so far $0

Step five, transplant - When your plants start to get bigger it's time to move them out of there cups. If your growing outdoors the easiest is to put it in the ground. The drawback to this is worms and bugs. So if you want, simply find a larger pot. If you have some laying around, there ya go. If you can find any large plastic food caontainers or buckets you can use that. If you wanna just buy three pots for three dollars, there ya go.
Total cost so far $3

Step five may have to be repeated again if you do not have a big enough pot (which isnt recmonded anyway because if you havea huge pot you have to give it more water to moist the soil and you come in danger of under or over watering.)

The last step is too kee pup with your plane, kill any males, and just enjoy your grow and harvest! If you choose to smoke it, sell it, both, or just love watching something as beautiful and natural as growing have fun! And this was all done with AT MOST $3 spent for pots!

Now both these guides are for people with limited income or who are cheap like me! If you have the mnoey, yes it is true the more you invest the more bud you may get but people have been growing mairjuana for thousands of years with little materials, and even still in countries like Afghan and Mexico where the poor grow huge fields for pennies and don't even use nutes alot of time!

Please, have fun.

Or a shoplifting charge on your record accompanied by a large fine... Not really worth it to grow some bagseed.

Yeah that's why I say I DONT suggest it. But, if you ar an Anarchist (as I was for a long time) it may be against your belief too pay for it. I have stolen easily hundreds of dollars of food and clothes when I was in my Anarchy fase and I NEVER got caught. No bullshit.

Im not attacking you, or saying that this cannot work.
It's just that on such a low budget it will get alot harder for most people to make the plant grow big and bushy..

And your right, thousands of years ago they did not have pH kits, but we live in the 21th century.. why not use something that help monitor out plants?
People these days use tap water, and not rain water like a thousand years ago.. when your growing a plant in a non-natural place you have to use non-natural accessories..

No one said you cant use rain water if you want too and actually tap water has been shown in alot of studies to obe better than rainwater in PH and in chemicals. Especailly if you live close to an urban area. So there's realyl nothing un natural besides the lights but the plants don't know. And on ones attacking you either I'm just saying I never used a ph kit and had a great harvest last year. And EVEN if a ph kit is added into this equation it is way under a hundred bucks. So it really dosent matter.

 

[bryon209]

farmers didnt have ph kits a thousand years ago no....and there bud was no where near as good as ours...its cool though when people grow stress it keeps the market up on real a grade meds!!! thanx for growing swag bro!!!!

 

[grow space]

ph kits , who needs the damn things I can sense the ph with my mf penus, and i grow the dankest stash around

 

[Windsblow]

My initial set up cost me
$15 4 mylar blanket
$20 PVC pipes and elbow
$10 pots
$20 soil/perlite/vermicculite for 6 plants
$40 used metal halide setup.
total= $105

Though this doesn't account for nutes, I got a grow room that works way better than a noob like me thought would.

 

[RIXUK]

I thought I would add as Ive recenty lost all my equipment which would easily been £5k.
Ive had to start out fresh with very limited funds to get started,feel free to edit you original post and place it in there so others can see straight away.

1x 1metre aqua rtay with matching 1m rock wool slab £5-7 for both

Ignore the top rockwool cubes,the matching 1m rockwool slab is wrapped in the white wrapper there sitting on,drip system is a option if you can afford a timer,if not manual feed is fine,watch what I show you.

Water pump £5-7.
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air pump £5-7.

Flourescent light Tube,fixture and bulb £10,go with a 6500k and change bulb to 2500k in flower.I got the 5 foot T8 65w 6500k as it is same lengh as the aqua tray.

Tubing for both pumps,1 metre lengh of each and a air stone £2-3?
PH water colour tester £3 (important).

Now you need like a retrangluar storage containe to use as a resevoir and some thing to leane the other end on (I used a speaker).
You want the tray to sit at a angle so the water can drip back in to the resevoir.
Heres mine,a bit ghetto but its done the job.
[video]http://s640.photobucket.com/albums/uu128/TRIXTSTA/plants/?action=view&current=MOV00499.mp4[/video]

Nutes is another cost but it is OK to go 2 week from seed with no nutes.
Starter nutes are cheap,I used,
Vita link plant starter for seedlings £3 and then I got Vita link max A+B 1litre bottles for £10.

Only thing I can really say with these type of set up,is you could probably do 2 or 3 max for a full grow,keep them small and let roots drip in to reseviour.

This was temparory for me and now they have moved in to this.
http://s640.photobucket.com/albums/uu128/TRIXTSTA/plants/?action=view&current=pooly001-2.jpg
There under the 600w,this willl allow me time to get other HPS lights and bigger buckets.

This is the cheapest I have found and not a lot I would of changed.

Ive bought 7x 10litre buckets for £7 which I will use 6 of,the 7th will be for topping up or reseviour change.I bought like 10cm plant pots for real cheap too,cut hole in lid of bucket and fit them in like this,
.
All I need for them is 4 airstones.
As you can see there is 8 plants,2 will go in 90litre buckets (the one you see in last picture),the rest in 10 litre buckets.

Picture is actually the ready built oxy pots that are like £20-25 each,I basicly made mine for £2 quid!!they do come with a air pump,the poxy £5 ones but that still equas £7 in total if I bought that pump.
I brought a bit of a better pump which will work 8 buckets £15.
I wont be bothering with the water pump but it will come in handy when I do reseviour changes,you could skip the water pump completely if you wanted too and let root sit in reseviour.

I will get a few more 600w HPS lights while these grow under the 1 at the moment,I now have my big fan and filter and all I need is my vita link max bloom A+B and Vita link Buddy for when I go in to fower.
I will add mylar.

What Im explaining is,you donty need every thing at once and you dont have to go big at all.
I will go big with 2 plants in 90 litre buckets and do the rest small in 10 litres.

I dont keep a public journal but I think members can click my account and check my journal.
Hope this helps a bit.
Good luck

 

[NoGutsGrower]

I like your thread OC I mean 80mg! I'm sure there are people that don't have the money to spend on all the fancy stuff! Its true that not all out door soil will be good for growing but there is soil every where! You can take a 5 gallon bucket with you and pull over on the side of the highway where there is stuff growing and fill up! even if you add a ph meter and bug spray his set up is still under 100 bucks! I just made a 20 gallon dwc bucket with 4 5in net pots. got the bucket, 4 nozzle adjustable air pump 20 ft of black air tubing and 4 air stones for $50.48 after tax I didn't have to glue anything! the guys at the hydro shop had an open bag of hydroton pellets and just gave me enough for the 4 pots! I might have to start a thread 400w digital hps dwc grow for 300 dollars!

 

[sso]

so, why did you give up on anarchy?