IF YOU HAD TO GUESS ... how much have you spent on your op?

stumps

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I have about 800.00 into mine. paid off with the first harvest. It has saved me about 3000.00 a year on buying smoke. lol But I spend money every month adding this or that.

400w mh/hps w/ cooltube diy
about 600w cfl/flour
4 fans
pots
3 types of soil
bubble cloner diy
nutes
 

WeSmkDro

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niceeee . 800 isnt too bad. especially if you made it back on the first harvest. how did you make the diy bubble cloner?
 

RedHairs

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I think I have about $6,000 invested. I'm too paranoid to get into specifics; but lets just say I grow both indoors and out, pretty much all year. And to give you an idea, I've purchased $1,500 worth of regular, non-feminized, non-autoflowering, non-overpriced rip off seed. Yes, I also clone, but I like new genetics every now and then. ;)
 

BCBuddy420

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what happens to our money when we think about growing. > View attachment 937644


hmmmm well so far ive spent about 2000 dollars on my first op and im so broke i want to die. i thought growing would cost me around ... hmmm 80 bucks. little did i know 80 dollars didnt even cover the fucking lightbulb. Im well on my way to growing and getting the money back but my god ... what it took to get here. And im not even close to finished : (.

Bro I know the feeling. I'm so fucking shitty ass broke from growing right now it's just plain...sad. The really sad thing is i still need another 400-500 bux to make things go ALOT smoother sighhhhh. Sofar I think i got about $ 2100-2200 into it and I had some shit lent to me too LOL I would be up around the $ 2800 mark gauranteed. I have approx. 6 weeks left of flowering then a week or so of drying/curing then I get my GD money back plus a little hahaha, just sittin around broke as fuk gardening and cursing not having a dollar to my name, thank god for understanding girlfriends ;) I was just like you thinkin it would be about 60 % cheaper, shyte was I devastationally wrong!!! lol oh well, now I guess I know eh? Next time shit will be set up wayyy different, so much easier, my first grow obviously. I like the thread! peace man ~ BCbuddy :leaf:

( oh I forgot to mention honestly how much work it is to maintain, at least for me anyways. Sometimes balancing g-room work with legit work and just plain life stresses me out so fricken bad it's insane! I have too many plants in a small room and it's overgrowing making things damn near impossible to do in there without moving things around every time jeezus, not complaining tho, itl be worth it! :) I just wasn't prepared for this lol )
 

BCBuddy420

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Ok this is my first grow. Spent around £3500 prob like $7000.

Dan:leaf::leaf::leaf::leaf::leaf:
How much space is that room? how many watts? curious it looks similas to mine. Another question, you hydro or pots? if pots how do you water that shit? My room is gonna look like that soon enough and I'm in pots... FML hehe
 

ganjaluvr

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Ok this is my first grow. Spent around £3500 prob like $7000.

Dan:leaf::leaf::leaf::leaf::leaf:

jeeeezus bro!!! You rich or something???... must be nice to be able to just throw 7k on the table and use it all for growing.

the fuck...

Hell, I've got a great setup.. and I have all my receipts as well. (opening up Windows Calculator)... my total amount for all my
equipment including nutes and seeds.. comes out to be exactly $337.21 and that is for all of the following equipment:

Seeds - (i only order feminized seeds)

Lights - (I'm running two 150watt HPS lamp systems from 'SunSystems' for flowering) Then, for veg, I use the same lamp system, but I'll switch out the HPS bulbs with my 150watt MH conversion bulbs. Which lets me run MH/HPS bulbs.. from the same ballast. Which helps with cost.

Soil - 'SunShyne' brand soil with 15% perlite in it

Grow Containers - I use green plastic 1gallon pots (get them from Lowe's Hardware store)

Nutrients - For veg cycles I use 'Schultz Liquid Food 10-15-10' plant food. For my flower cycles, I use 'Green Light' 12-54-6

and the total for all this.. comes to exactly $337.21 for everything listed.

(pretty sure I covered everything that I have bought so far.)


I guess some people like to keep their grow equipment as simple and cheap as possible. I mean shit, if it works.. why not get the cheaper stuff right? Right.

that's my 2cents.

peace.
 

Danthebull

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How much space is that room? how many watts? curious it looks similas to mine. Another question, you hydro or pots? if pots how do you water that shit? My room is gonna look like that soon enough and I'm in pots... FML hehe
2300w COCO pro for medium.
8 x armageddon
8 x white russian
8 x PPP
each sitting in a 9 gallon pot.

CANNA nutrition

approx 5 square m of area to grow in and im using every inch.

I have a 240 liter container for feeding and a 1000 liter container for flushing.
Hoze-lock pump 15 m of hose and a hoze-lock lance.

currently 56 day into flower.

my thread below.

https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/302501-hi-everyone-my-first-grow-post4160545.html#post4160545
 

WeSmkDro

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so people get out hella lucky with prices ... so far ive seen anywhere from 80 bucks to 8 thousand ... can i get a 9k? lol.
 

BCBuddy420

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wait a bit, I'll get a generator and backhoe a 20x20 ft room under a garage, then we will talk 9k lmao (btw I'm serious) :bigjoint: I don't think I will be journaling this grow though HAHAHA I'll take pics along the way, wait till I move out then post a thread clone-harvest. * dreaming *
 

NLXSK1

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Enclosed grow with A/C, CO2, 2 3x3 trays, resivoirs, etc, fans, 2 1000W lights, 250W light... at least 7,000 I may be your 9K guy :P

Gonna switch to bloom pretty quick on my first grow. It will save me between 4,000 & 5,000 per year... Well worth the investment.
 

RedHairs

Active Member
wait a bit, I'll get a generator and backhoe a 20x20 ft room under a garage, then we will talk 9k lmao (btw I'm serious) :bigjoint: I don't think I will be journaling this grow though HAHAHA I'll take pics along the way, wait till I move out then post a thread clone-harvest. * dreaming *
Exactly. There comes a point where a grow op becomes too large to show ANY pictures of it. It may be a while before I turn the dial down for a small enough grow that I'd feel safe doing a journal on. Right now, I don't take ANY pictures of ANY plants. But it's nothing you've never seen before... Huge sativas in 5gl buckets, home made ebb and grow. Yeild about a pound per plant. Sometimes more. 4,200W of lighting. You get the picture.

I've said enough.
 

WeSmkDro

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I heard a story about a guy who went into my local shop and dropped 13 grand right there ... i guess when you think about how much commercial growers are making in the black market ... thats not a lot. but for someone like me ... i was like WHAAAAAAT!? then i started buying shit ... yeah i could make a pretty nice room with 13 grand. lol.
 

BCBuddy420

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Exactly. There comes a point where a grow op becomes too large to show ANY pictures of it. It may be a while before I turn the dial down for a small enough grow that I'd feel safe doing a journal on. Right now, I don't take ANY pictures of ANY plants. But it's nothing you've never seen before... Huge sativas in 5gl buckets, home made ebb and grow. Yeild about a pound per plant. Sometimes more. 4,200W of lighting. You get the picture.

I've said enough.
;) ;) hehehe, I have 4000 watts and Im journaling it... I got big balls, and about 6 weeks to go *:shock:* adding co2 (exellofiz) to speed it up soon

https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/317378-first-grow-soiless-mix-og-post4118166.html#post4118166
 

WeSmkDro

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Exactly. There comes a point where a grow op becomes too large to show ANY pictures of it. It may be a while before I turn the dial down for a small enough grow that I'd feel safe doing a journal on. Right now, I don't take ANY pictures of ANY plants. But it's nothing you've never seen before... Huge sativas in 5gl buckets, home made ebb and grow. Yeild about a pound per plant. Sometimes more. 4,200W of lighting. You get the picture.

I've said enough.
Sometimes i wonder if the feds are watching sites like roll it up , icmag , gardeners cure , ect . its def possible ... but look at us. roll it up alone is a fucking population. they cant track us all down ... and marijuana is becoming so low priority these days that i doubt they would even try. bigger fish than us now. legalization SHOULD BE right around the corner.
 

StaySmokin206

Active Member
what happens to our money when we think about growing. > View attachment 937644


hmmmm well so far ive spent about 2000 dollars on my first op and im so broke i want to die. i thought growing would cost me around ... hmmm 80 bucks. little did i know 80 dollars didnt even cover the fucking lightbulb. Im well on my way to growing and getting the money back but my god ... what it took to get here. And im not even close to finished : (.

Bro I know the feeling. I'm so fucking shitty ass broke from growing right now it's just plain...sad. The really sad thing is i still need another 400-500 bux to make things go ALOT smoother sighhhhh. Sofar I think i got about $ 2100-2200 into it and I had some shit lent to me too LOL I would be up around the $ 2800 mark gauranteed. I have approx. 6 weeks left of flowering then a week or so of drying/curing then I get my GD money back plus a little hahaha, just sittin around broke as fuk gardening and cursing not having a dollar to my name, thank god for understanding girlfriends ;) I was just like you thinkin it would be about 60 % cheaper, shyte was I devastationally wrong!!! lol oh well, now I guess I know eh? Next time shit will be set up wayyy different, so much easier, my first grow obviously. I like the thread! peace man ~ BCbuddy :leaf:

( oh I forgot to mention honestly how much work it is to maintain, at least for me anyways. Sometimes balancing g-room work with legit work and just plain life stresses me out so fricken bad it's insane! I have too many plants in a small room and it's overgrowing making things damn near impossible to do in there without moving things around every time jeezus, not complaining tho, itl be worth it! :) I just wasn't prepared for this lol )
Lol I second that one.. Also about pc case grows, do people go to harvest in there? Seems like you couldn't get 7 days into veg in those things..

Also probably sank about 500 in so far and much could be added
 

RedHairs

Active Member
Sometimes i wonder if the feds are watching sites like roll it up , icmag , gardeners cure , ect . its def possible ... but look at us. roll it up alone is a fucking population. they cant track us all down ... and marijuana is becoming so low priority these days that i doubt they would even try. bigger fish than us now. legalization SHOULD BE right around the corner.
SHOULD BE, yes. But I'm not the asshole who's about to get busted RIGHT before it does!
 
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