It pays for its self many times over after the first harvest.
The most expensive part of the system are the air pumps and stones. 15L "mayo" buckets are the shit and don't cost anything if you know where to look. The nets you can make yourself with a Yoghurt container and a pen if you really wanted too. Its really only expensive if you're impatient and buy everything new from the hydro store like me even then;
2 x 15L bucket = $13
2 x 440mm pot base = $5
2 x 140mm orchid net = $5
1 x 360-400 dual outlet air pump = $20
2 x air-stone and tube = $6
= $49
1 x 400w HPS kit = $140
=$189
Electricity is about $30 per month for a 400w HPS
I spend $200 - $250 on nutrients per grow.
Initial setup and grow to harvest wouldn't cost any more than $470.
I would average a pound from this setup every 6 weeks.
The going rate of weed is on average; $20 P/gram, $300 P/oz, or $3500 P/lb
If you bought and smoked a pound every 6 weeks you would save
$3030.
If you sold it you would make the same after costs also.
Thats an extra
$505 per week on your bottom line.
Thats rent, electricity, food and ciggies taken care of.
I don't know of any growing secrets. I learned most of the good stuff right here on RIU from other peoples journals and tutorials.
With good genetics and a large healthy root system, you cant fail.
I highly recommend the use of beneficial bacteria to maintain a healthy Rhyzosphere. Healthy roots = Healthy plant.
Look to nature for ideas or answers to problems in your grow room
This is the plant I added about 10 days ago. It will be interesting to see its reaction to a hot, mid flowering PK mix. I added another plant to the flowering bay last night so I could graduate another lively looking clone.
I was thinking of ditching this phenotype but I just don't have the heart. It grows really twiggy with small airy buds but at the same time it develops more trichomes than any plant I've grown Its done in six weeks and it smells gorgeous. I will keep the strain going to hopefully breed it. Maybe I could hermie one of its clones and back cross it with the more compact AB pheno.
The buds should be linked in a few days. They are fluffing up nicely with the PK.
