Ive been researching for a few weeks and instead of things getting clearer...im more confused. idk what is better. example. lighting. ive read so many articles about different light bulbs and how they have different "colors". idk what is best. i will be growing indoors. i have roughly a grand to spend on my setup. can someone point me in the right direction? idk if i should use soil or hydroponics. right now im leaning towards hydroponics...but again...theres soooo many different ones ive seen online....ranging from a few hundred to thousands. should i built my own? buy one already built? HELP !!
$$$1000 to start up. No expierence. HeLP!
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in the long run isnt hydroponics cheaper? or am i just stupid
DontTaxMeBro
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DontTaxMeBro
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Keep it simple.
This is what I did when I started. $1000 budget is good.
1) Metal Halide ballast and Bulb for Veg
2) MPS ballast and bulb for flower
3) two small grow tents one for veg one for flower
4) 4 small 7" fans (2 for veg room and 2 for flower room)
4) Happy frog soil (no need for additional aftermarket additives)
5) Pots
6) Fox Farm nuetrients
7) A nice seed genetic from the Attitude seed bank.
Done. This will get you growing nice plants. Everything can be found on ebay and will cost you around $1000. The soil and pots can be bought locally. As you grow you will become more experienced and can tweak your grow from there. The great thing about this list is its also organic
DontTaxMeBro
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Hydroponics is cheaper in the long run but I would start with soil. First See if this is something you want to do long term. Its not that much more expensive to shift from soil to hydroponics. You already have more than half your equipment.
Hydroponics is a little more advanced.
welshsmoker
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take your time and learn slowly, im still learning after twelve years and still spending stupid amounts on better gear, but it does work. good luck
dbkick
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just start in hydro, I'm tired of reading all this shit about first time growers should start in soil, fuck soil.
welshsmoker
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hydro costs shit loads more than soil to set up i think mate, or you could tell the OP how to do it cheaper.
dbkick
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I suggest you not go the cheap route of dwc unless you wanna do a lot of work changing each bucket , although there are advantages to having individual reservoir/grow chambers its much more work. I recommend a CAP ebb monster or if you don't want to grow them real big just get the ebb and gro( it has smaller buckets than the monster version), you can configure it to do ebb and flo or rdwc . You can buy just the control bucket and build your own system on that or buy the entire system and use it like that. The ebb monster is a little over 5 bills with 6 buckets, you can add 3 more buckets for a total of 9 without adding another reservoir(included 55 gallon drum).
dbkick
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you aren't telling me anything I don't already know. Hydro CAN be done real cheap man, my first grow was in dwc with home depot buckets and shittly little air pumps. the cost of that was near to nothing.
welshsmoker
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what about lights nutes ph meters and the rest?
dbkick
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you basically have to have those anyway don't you???
welshsmoker
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you wont if your just setting up, sorry mate read thread start up costs..
welshsmoker
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show us how then mate.
dbkick
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have a little looksy.......the first grow was real low budget except for the nutes, I used AN. https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/346967-my-first-grow.html
sorry if this sounds stupid but whats dwc ?
welshsmoker
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deep water culture mate, a right fucking pain.