Bursto's el cheepo $10 lights and grow

So i was at the tip dropping off a load of rubbish, and some dude had given up growning weed and thrown out his old lights, an old 400w hps and a 400w Metal Halide. Cost me ten bucks for both, When i think of how much I've spent on lights over the years and leds when they first came out, i thought i might start like an el cheepo kinda grow. it might be kinda slow going at first because we going into summer here, So i expect heat issues

Rules : no fancy equipment just seed coco a fan and a light

i usually like using my cooltubes, so here's what the $10 buck lights look like

well i spose it could be in like used clay balls if i just make an extra dwc System for say under 50 bucks, but then it will be the 60 buck grow

Do it!

Bag of perlite and a bucket for hempy is like 20 bucks.

So update, Today I spent 12 bucks on some rubber grommets and fittings. Then i found two buckets that i had lying arround and did my best make a DWC two pot system. plus i spent an hour or so cleaning up some old clay balls from a previous grow,

So, so far $22.00

Oh yeah i chucked in some beans i just pulled off a Skunk/bigbud cross that i crossed with a Satori male

the beans free from my last grow
Satori x Skunk/bigbud a kinda Sativa grow.
with the chance of some colours from the Satori if im lucky not sure as skunk and big bud are green plants

this might take a while to get going as it is a sativa and i'm still sprouting the beans so dont expect any timelapse photography

ok i do have a problem my new tent is busy atm and i do have and old 1.2x 1.2m tent but the front zip is beyond repair so it kinda just swings arround open all the time , its ok when veging but in flower it looks like a bug disco.

i need a way of patching it up with a new door or something

update i kinda fixed the tent at the top zip, but the base is still broken, i set up dwc, but i think ill have to go with coco so i dont run in to dramas

so heres what i came up with, and old res tank, and the two pots, oh and the halo rings so we upto about 50 something bucks
I'm not counting the buckets or clay balls because they were paid for and used years ago, and were just lying arround, not being used

I try'd to run lines and have a seperate res tank, but it didn't drain fast enough so i took it apart, and just put the pots in the res tank

hope it works

so do you guys think i should run both the mh 400 and the ol 400hps in the same tent if im planning to add two more girls in coco/perlite,

i also havent thought much about ventilation, because one grow is hard enough to sort out, but two grows generates heaps of heat

i might need to research requirements for growroom ventilation, as i only have a couple small fans and a carbon filter, which is being used allready,

any links you guys found usefull on growing 2/3 rooms in a container type grow, would be great i spose if i get this up n running i will have to get a second carbon filter and centrifugal fan

a couple of pedesal fans and a flappy tent door, aint gonna cut it

Zkittles 2nd one to pop

i suppose an update would be good

had to go coco first in here

as it cools off ill take cuts n go dwc

so went to the tip again found this cool fan made by some guy called john back in 04

this is zkittles now under the 10 buck
Mh 400 and sometimes the 400 hps as its getting bigger

ok so i been i bit busy doing make overs and finding new lights at the tip again

ten dollars for these two 70w Mh lights plus the original 400w Mh =540whatts
so it looks like this now

day 17