Quote Originally Posted by PottyBear
OK, honestly, I HAVE to ask. Am I just getting REALLY damn old or does $200 for ANYTHING, particularly a simple hobby-type grow like this, sound absolutely RIDICULOUS? Am I the only one? Anyone? Bueller?
With the $2,000 you spend on enough gear to set up a very very good hobby-sized grow appropriate to about a 5x5 footprint, properly lit and ventilated, that will grow you a POUND of the finest herb you have ever smoked every 2 months...

Yeah. It's cheap. I get fabulous prices for my area and I'm paying $2600 for a pound of Canadian imports. And their medicinal value is debatable... I don't know how they were grown, but I assume in all cases that warehouse crops are treated with floramite.

If you go through a pound a year, which is 1.2g a day, or about a quarter-ounce a week, you get your investment back probably close to ten times over the first year. If you are averaging about $350 an ounce for medicinal grade stuff, you're throwing money away by not growing your own.
Your FIRST HARVEST under a 1000w lamp should yield you, CONSERVATIVELY, 600 grams, or 21 ounces. That's at the 0.3 multiplier; experienced growers use 0.5.

21 zips. for which you'd be paying $350 each, are worth $7350 when you're done, or if you are buying QPs at a time, you MIGHT end up spending $5k on the pile. If you're lucky.

Subtract out the $2000 you spent on your lights, media, fans, and nutes, and you realize that you have saved between $3k and $5k- JUST FROM ONE CROP.

"Bueller" says... it's worth it. Good gear is the difference between a failed harvest and a bumper crop.

It's called investment, but what do we know about that?
Originally Posted by PottyBear
I know - you're a bunch of stoners, I should not expect much in the way of comprehension, right?


I'm finding the rants entertaining, BTW.
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