Biggest Growing Mistakes...

[Help_Needed]

A lot of people hear growers say that it's cheaper to grow your own medicine than to buy it off the streets, but they don't realize that it's only cheaper AFTER you've made the initial investment to get started.

So true. I was adding things up at the start of my last grow and realized that I had over a thousand dollars invested in my equipment, and I hadn't had a very successful grow up to that point. I was actually pretty upset that I'd managed to spend that much cash on what was supposed to be a way to get cheap weed.

And then I pulled 4oz off one plant :stoned:. And my current grow is being done for the price of a bottle of nutrients and some electricity .



As for my biggest mistake - I installed a 400 watt HPS in a 4x4 Hyrdrohut without adding any ventilation. My ambient temps the next morning were 104F :microwave:

[Mr. Clandestine]

As for my biggest mistake - I installed a 400 watt HPS in a 4x4 Hyrdrohut without adding any ventilation. My ambient temps the next morning were 104F :microwave:

Haha! Nice use of smileys to illustrate your point... I'll bet things did get warm in there! When I set up my first 400w HPS, I just threw it inside a 3x3 closet, door closed, with only one oscillating fan inside. I didn't add any plants to the closet, I just wanted to see what it would do in terms of heat. I came back in several hours later, and I could feel the hot air blowing from the crack beneath the door. Had I put any plants in there, they'd have been cooked almost instantly.

Nice job pulling a qp off one plant, that's a definite step in the right direction! Yeah, setting up a growroom right can be a chore (and very expensive depending on what equipment you go with), but after those first initial payments, things get a LOT cheaper. Even cheaper for me because I try to buy all my fertilizers in bulk, and so only have to make purchases once or twice per year. Still, even though I'm pretty happy with my current setup, I'm still prone to blowing money every time I go to the hydro shop... regardless of whether or not I need the stuff. :jointsmile:

Thanks for dropping by and lending your thoughts!