What to buy ?

swedsteven

swedsteven

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I cant make that easy 3500 is enought for a winter grow !15pound

Promix as the medium pretty cheap

Nutrient dynagro cheap and complet 1ml a litter .

8 Hps light build them ur self with simple hood 1000 $

Find old stuf big ass turbo fan

-72 5 gallon pot


Find clone if u want a succed or strain u no . Cheese is so stable i order from different seedbank and always add good result my opinion

Good luck
 
Michiganjesse

Michiganjesse

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Greenfella1 said:
In all honesty I didn't buy any of that and it was just me throwing some seeds to reap some weeds .... I just wanted to see if I could keep the plants alive and diagnose any problems that came up . I'm putting all my time and money into this and I'm fine starting small , but I wanna cover my electric usage at a minimum and I would like to for sure harvest monthly . Can you help me at a minimum get a 4 week perpetual harvest going ? I'm thinking I'm going to buy 1 T5 , 1x400 watt MH. 3-4 X1,000 watt MH. 3-4 x 1,000 watt HPS . zenhydro is where I am getting them it won't let me post link .

Also I have been looking at soil and soilless mixtures , I have the 6" fans and duct work and air conditioners and I am buying a dehumidifier and some gas heaters which should help with C02. I'm thinking of having three rooms and setting it up where the air in each room is exchanged every 60-90 seconds , two fans in each room vented outside . I have the time to be in there for 8 hrs a day 7 days a week if necessary .
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Try CMH light's keeps cost down better spectrum.
 
Michiganjesse

Michiganjesse

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
i personally prefer the homemade bubble cloner, i do go to amazon and buy 2 inch neoprene discs and baskets, they make things so much easier than trying to rig some pool noodle crap. otherwise go to home depot or w/e, buy a 5 to 10 gallon tote, a couple of fish pumps, and 3 or 4 airstones. also a 2 inch hole saw. go home, measure out a grid on the lid of the tote, drill some evenly spaced holes, and you're in business.
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You can buy a bucket cloner $50 htg the Wal-Mart of growing they are local here but have online works great for me
 
Michiganjesse

Michiganjesse

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Greenfella1 said:
im solid on the electrical . I won't burn it down , overloading the circuit breaker is what would cause this but only if you use wire to big for your breaker size .... say 12-2 can be used with a 20 amp breaker and even a 15 amp breaker .... but you cannot use 14 with anything bigger than a 15 amp breaker due to the wires rating . When people put a 20 amp breaker or bigger on 14 gauge wire you run a risk of fire due to the wire not being rated for up to 20 amps .

Thank all of you guys for the help seriously
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Might just not handel the load popping breakers.
 
SoOLED

SoOLED

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I don't think you could do the electrical and room prep alone with 3500.

that's a lot of work for ONE person.

I mean you could buy a bunch of used gear and throwing whatever under it, and get some results .

but I'm guessing you want 20lbs to supply medical patients. which even on the low end I would say 75k (more like 225k) for something of that size, if you hope to keep up the quality. its seems like a lot but you would be in the black in 90 days for that investment. given you have the knowledge and help.

operating cost would be 3500 a month if not more.

this is in not including any legal.

750sfx3 is about 1500sf of canopy...that's huge. we are pulling close to 2lbs(or more) on 16sf...
 
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Greenfella1

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SoOLED said:
I don't think you could do the electrical and room prep alone with 3500.

that's a lot of work for ONE person.

I mean you could buy a bunch of used gear and throwing whatever under it, and get some results .

but I'm guessing you want 20lbs to supply medical patients. which even on the low end I would say 75k (more like 225k) for something of that size, if you hope to keep up the quality. its seems like a lot but you would be in the black in 90 days for that investment. given you have the knowledge and help.

operating cost would be 3500 a month if not more.

this is in not including any legal.

750sfx3 is about 1500sf of canopy...that's huge. we are pulling close to 2lbs(or more) on 16sf...
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What do you mean by room prep ?

Also what about the electrical?


And I bought

10x 1000w lights dimmable with hoods and timers and ballast and two bulbs one MH and one HPS

1x 600w light dimmable with hood and timer and ballast

6x 6" fans

1x T5

100 5 gallon fabric pots



And a bunch of other shit and didn't spend 3500$ I still have about 1,000$ left .

I'm sure the set up for 20lbs would be drastically more but 75k seems totally unbelievable .

3500$ a month for operations makes sense


Also how do I get 1500 sqft of canopy in a 750 sqft room?
 
Michiganjesse

Michiganjesse

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Greenfella1 said:
I built these rooms and wired them , I have multiple circuits on two different panels that have 200 amp mains . I have the electrical capacity to run it all .



The CMH lights , are they drastically different than HPS ?
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Nice I weird my whole house new with 200amp main all 18 circuits I added in my house have 12 Aug wire dedicated circuits I'll never blow a breaker lol. CMH love it better spectrum my 315 lights the same area as a 600 hps half the power cost. They make bigger CMH also but I only grow for me and my wife so I'm small time flower 3 to 6 plants at a time depending on size I veg them. I would listen to some of the guys here as for pounds getting started is going to be hard. So many problems can occur lots to learn. If plant count is not an issue more small plants is easier to tend to than a few big ones
 
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