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 stuckinabeat
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 12 plant max and 1500.00 dollars to spend on a grow room....any advice? 
#471493 - 09/02/10 08:36 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hi everyone,
Just got my card and I can grow 12 plants. This is my FIRST GROW and I"m trying to figure out what sort lighting rig would I need and what method would be the best??? i.e. scrog, topping, supercropping or just growing them out. I am thinking about 2 1000w using coco as a medium and watering myself.
This will be in a basement that is dry and pretty cool. So far I know I will need the lights, coco, pots, some sort of ventilation, ph test and nuts. Anything MAJOR that I am forgetting?
Since i have a large basement I am wondering if i would be better off building a room within a room probably 8x8 or maybe more or if i should just use the whole room?
Also any recommendations on what brand of light and reflector and a place that sels them with good deals? I am thinking maybe the Adjust-A-Wing would be good, but I dont know how hot they are or how to cool.
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Re: 12 plant max and 1500.00 dollars to spend on a grow room....any advice? [Re: stuckinabeat] 1
#471513 - 09/02/10 09:04 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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take $30 bucks of that and buy Jorge Cervantes "Marijuana Horticulture"
read that... then do
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stuckinabeat
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Re: 12 plant max and 1500.00 dollars to spend on a grow room....any advice? [Re: Blackstatis]
#471551 - 09/02/10 09:51 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thanks for the tip! I think I'll take your advice on that.
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stuckinabeat
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Re: 12 plant max and 1500.00 dollars to spend on a grow room....any advice? [Re: stuckinabeat]
#471649 - 09/03/10 10:18 AM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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any other advice?
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TheShroomJew23
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Re: 12 plant max and 1500.00 dollars to spend on a grow room....any advice? [Re: stuckinabeat]
#471663 - 09/03/10 11:15 AM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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You need timers for the lights, heavy duty ones (15 amp min.) and you will want to build a room to help reflect light back into your canopy. It will also allow you to micro-control your climate better. On that note, you will also need a hydro/temp sensor. They monitor humidity and temperature and will be a great help. Since this is your first grow, I would say just try growing with one light first and firgure out what you are doing. It will take a few months but probably save you tons of time and money in the end. Then when you go to finish your 2000w flowering room, you can install a hydro system and grow the best bud around in a much shorter time. Buy that book by the way, he is a genius.
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Stokely627
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I'm a first time grower and I bought hightimes mag. and bought Jorge Cervantes DVD's how to build a grow room and he explains everything from start to finish from grow room construction to harvesting and conserving the leaves for hash. They are incredible, fully detailed and I definitely recommend the investment it will save you lots of time and money.
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grod31
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i all ways thought a certain number of plants is retarded.
they should go by square feet or something similar.
i just dont get it.
12 plants. okay. 12 lil plants with minimal veg time can produce lets say a pound.
1 or 2 large plants say vegged for 6-7 months can easily produce a pound.
so "12" plants is retarded.
there basically saying your allowed to grow about a pound or 6-12 pounds depending on your patients and or skill level.
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Re: 12 plant max and 1500.00 dollars to spend on a grow room....any advice? [Re: Blackstatis]
#479541 - 09/19/10 11:48 AM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
Blackstatis said:
take $30 bucks of that and buy Jorge Cervantes "Marijuana Horticulture"
read that... then do
save the $30 and check this video out!
this is part 1 of 7 ,you will find the rest of the video on youtube ,it is called ready set grow! if you look on youtube there are a few more good videos ,one is called ,the ultimate grow,check em out peace !
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ChillWillis
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If you want to try to skip straight to growing like a pro build yourself a ebb&flow table and also don't just do 1 grow room for all 12 of your plants.
Get yourself a couple good mothers going on and clone them to be flowered. You can harvest every ~2 months
Another great video set (that explains exactly how to do what I described) is called "I Grow Chronic" - it's very good the guy tells you how to build your own grow rooms (much cheaper), and how to do all the growing and shit. There are 7 parts.
Jorge Cervantes' DVDs are also very informative as you already know.
For nutrients I highly recommend Advanced Nutrient
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 maryanne3087
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Quote:
ChillWillis said:
If you want to try to skip straight to growing like a pro build yourself a ebb&flow table and also don't just do 1 grow room for all 12 of your plants.
Get yourself a couple good mothers going on and clone them to be flowered. You can harvest every ~2 months
I think coco pots would be better than a ebb and flow table if he wants to make the most out of his 12 plants.
Ebb and flow buckets could work well too.
If he lives in a med state, why clone from mother plants and not just shell out for 12 clones?
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ChillWillis
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Why pay for something you can provide yourself with for free?
I'd rather have 11 LST'd in flower with a momma. I don't know what clones run you out here but over here they're like $20-40, depending on how well you know the guy.
So that's $220-$440 every two or so months, fuck that noise.
Guess I'm just cheap that way 
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maryanne3087
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I don't know where you live but I think clones in California are $10-15, and $5-8 when you buy in bulk.
Even at $20 a pop that's $240. Lbs are say ~$3000 so QP's are 800bucks. You could easily get a quarter pound a plant in a 3month period. This makes it more economical to purchase clones. Some places have flowering or mature plant counts seperate to clones/vegging plants often determined by height in such a case it would still be economical to purchase clones.
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ChillWillis
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Well it's not legal here.
and $240 is expensive in my opinion especially when it could be $0 or if you want to get technical, the cost of running a few CFLs for 18 hrs a day.
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Tank333
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Well, I suppose it's all a matter of opinion, really. Myself, we have cycling harvests. The plants are vegged in one room and then moved into the grow room when they're too tall.
Instead of keeping a mother, we simply take a clone off the plant we're about to put into the flowering room.
I would think it's better to pay for clones, if you have them available to you. It would also enable you to work off more than one strain at a time as well, and not have to keep two mothers.
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maryanne3087
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Quote:
ChillWillis said:
Well it's not legal here.
and $240 is expensive in my opinion especially when it could be $0 or if you want to get technical, the cost of running a few CFLs for 18 hrs a day.
Well the thread title says "12 plant max" I'm giving the poster information suitable to his situation not my own or your own.
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ChillWillis
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Regardless of legality, $120 that often may be expensive for some people - I'm just trying to offer alternative options.
The only reason I mentioned legality was to help you understand why it's so expensive here...
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