Make jokes all you want. I'll be smiling in the end
Hey man. Alls I can say is your enthusiasm is fairly typical for many noobs. They wanna go all out and hit a big time homer one uppin everybody else in the world. My first grow I built a really nice cab complete with PC exhaust fans, stained on the outside and painted white inside, bottom shelf with holes for passive air intake and even an upper shelf under the raisable hood for the timer and exhaust. I spent several $$ and did it myself. I was so proud of myself. I used it one time. lol
My first light I took an old grill top painted it with silver paint and bought commercial/adjustable light fixtures and the housing to hold them, soldered my connections to run 4 ginormous 65 actual watts for a total 230 actual watts of CFL. Those bulbs alone cost me more than $100. Had to replace one that I broke. I have an electrical background and that stuff was legit safe. I used it once. Still use one of this CFLs in garage and sometimes for supplemental.
I found an old humongous microwave in the trash and took out the bottom with the plate rotator motor and built a frame under it and put a 120 cord on it calling it a sort of "light mover". It worked and I was so proud of myself. I used it once. For maybe 5 minutes. It would not work in a soil grow after watering, the pot for to heavy.
I still got all of that junk I was so proud of.
My first grow I had enough common sense to get a hardy auto seed "Dinafem Roadrunner" that you can't hardly screw up. I used MG soil and MG ferts. I ferted that thing from early on and had a very slight burn on the tips of my leaves and grew a nice bush. It was the most solid plant I've grown so far. I did have a few bugs though.
I've done hydro, with a powergrower from GH and it worked excellent. Thing is, you gotta PH that thing every day cause my PH creeped. Not a lot of work, but I like set it and forget it much better which is why I do Hempy now.
Keep in mind I'm a one plant conservative type grower so, just trying to get me a little med for myself. Don't use much anyway. O lasts me a long time.
Anyway, if your gonna do hydro, I can't express enough about buying you a good Drip/DWC system. Maybe that 4 bucket system or GH Water farm type with reservoir. They come pretty legit and that's why they been on the market so long. I like LED cause I don't have to worry about heat. Not because it will do better than HID. Conservative. In the future I plan to go with GH nutes using Lucas Formula. Cause it seems so easy and effective. Now I mostly use GH Flora series 3 part. It works fine.
Anyway best of luck and don't take the joking around to harsh. Most of us been a noob.
