That's how I started growing in the mid-1970s with those 4' fluorescent tubes. They started to sell like "burple tubes" pretty early as grow tubes. More like kinda pink if I remember? It all started in my basement bedroom closet when I was 16!
Covid added another twist this year. But because I also have a home in Sacramento and I'm old, I vacated my place on the farm for the trimmers. I have a hella good crew that took over. Many of the trimmers stayed busy trimming for my neighbors between our pulls from the greenhouses and outdoor. My farm was ground zero for trimmers this year. The good thing was I always good first priority. So my stuff always got trimmed first. I had an extra porta-potty brought in because I have a small septic system on the farm. we are off grid...
I paid $150/unit if they bucked their bin..$120/unit if they were working with a bin that had been bucked..my best trimmers did 3, even 4 units per day strain dependent..so yeah they made bank..$450-$600 for a days works (18hours)
I don’t pay a hourly wage I pay per unit (pound). If I paid a hourly wage nothing would get done..it’s 150/unit if they bucks their bin 120/unit if they pick a bin that’s been bucked..
That's what healthy capitalism is all about. These are the people that actually buy shit and stimulate your local economy rather than park it off shore in tax-sheltered investments that a wealthy person would do, instead of circulating it back into the economy. Not to insult Reagan of course with "trickle downs"... errr hemm.
I don't have an issue with that. lol
I just wanted to reply to this to bump the Radio Shack mention. RIP
Nobody usually does but the guy that takes 8 hours to trim a 1/4 pound and then doesn’t show up after the 3rd day..for most people if you trim 5 pounds you will become pretty efficient..
When you harvest is up to you..even the state of the trichomes is somewhat preference (percent of milky vs amber)..what I say is unless you have bud rot or some other issue, when you think your ready to harvest, your probably safe to go another week..going another week will most likely bulkem up a little more and *maybe* even be a little more potent.
I bet. Heck when I did the tobacco thing back in the late 1970s working for a farmer, most newbies didn't make it. I'd say half of them didn't last 3 days depending on the task and stage of growth or harvest. It was sometimes brutal work, and fun at the same time in retrospect in ways I shall not go into here.
This is my theory with clones, I take small cuttings because I believe if the root mass is small and there’s too much plant material, the plant will grow slower..but if you take a small cutting and root it, the growth will be faster and I’ve tested this out and I have seen how the little clones take off compared to larger ones with the same root mass..
Same with trees too. I've seen here in the suburbs people planting trees with a backhoe, and myself plant a little whip. 6 years later, my whip is larger than their tree which is just hanging onto life.
Seller specs. But to each his own. If it ain't broke. And a broke clock is right twice a day on this subject.
Well this would be terrible. How else are experienced growers going to show off to newbies if we don't post photos of huge swollen ripening colas and say we're only in week 4 of flower? This ruins everything! /s
