Wow, thanks for the primer man! I have a plan, of course, and it calls for growing as many plants as I can fit inside two rooms of a house. The original plan called for buying a house and filling the
entire thing with plants. I'm talking the basement, every room, bathroom, etc.. all hydro systems. The goal would be to make $1M in a year and split it 50/50 with my partner. High risk, but huge reward.
The current idea is far more realistic. One room will be the veg room and contain a few mom plants for cloning (in the closet under 24hr light). The other room will obviously be the flower room.
We plan to use at least 2000W of MH lights in the veg room along with some 2500K 26W CFLs, just so there is a more natural light spectrum. I want those girls to be huge when they go to the bloom room, which will also have around 2000W of lights, except they will be HPS and include 6500K 26W CFLs.
Both rooms will be completely sealed in with mylar, especially if the house is a rental. This will reflect a ton of light around and hopefully keep moisture and fungi away from the walls.
The seeds will be started in propagation trays like they are supposed to. I will have PPM meters as well as PH meters and maybe even CO2 meters/generators if I need it. All plants will be grown in soil (for now) using Fox Farms mediums and organic nutes. I may combine this with bat guano and molasses-waterings if it will help substantially.
For ventilation, we will put in some fans + ducts that vent somewhere inconspicuous along with an in-line carbon filter to eliminate the smell. This will get real interesting if the house is a rental, cause the ducts will have to remain within the rooms in case the landlord has to come in the house. At least I don't have to worry about cops driving around with FLIR sensors here. If that somehow becomes a problem, we will simply install refrigeration components in the ducts to dissipate the heat.
I'm not sure whether I will use SCROG, LST or a combination of both. Is it even possible to LST a plant and then somehow force all the branches into the screen? My main goal will be yields, because the stuff I will grow will be better than any of the commercial shit around here anyway. I want 1lb/plant, even though it probably won't happen. I am eying strains like Chronic #1 for that purpose, although I'm sure there are even higher yielders out there.
The hardest part is finding a freakin house to do it. I will be growing with a partner, and he and I will be the only ones that know the house, let alone the grow even exists. We have been through a ton of shit before, and a grow house is really nothing compared to some of the shit we've done. Legally, not much would happen to us even if we were caught. The cops don't even look for growers unless of course they are tipped off, and that will never happen. All the stuff will be sold via my partner to dealers by the pound. We already have customers that know us for getting cheap, awesome weed. They will just think we found a good deal, cause no one will tell them it's grown locally. One of my concerns is whether or not they can tell the difference, cause I don't need gangs or the mob trying to rob my ass lol. Over here, that is way more likely to happen than us getting raided.
Until we can "legitimize" our money, it will be hard to buy a house or take out a mortgage without attracting attention. If we have to do this in a rental, it's gonna suck balls. Any tips on growing in a rented house lol? If we do have to rent, a house is probably a bad idea. A condo or apartment in a large building seems like the better choice, as the landlord/supers never come in your place unless absolutely necessary. Even if they did, the grow would be confined to two bedrooms that will be locked at all times, and hermetically sealed to avoid any smell leakage.
Lemme know what you think about all those plans. Like I said, I doubt I will have to do it at this point, although it won't hurt if I move into a house with my partner anyway.
Here are some pics of the current plant, taken yesterday night:
The fourth pic is pretty clear. Most trichs seems cloudy, and a couple are amber. Looks like it may take another week, God damn! I won't be able to get the scope until tomorrow, and that's if they carry it here. Compare the pics above with this macro of some very pricey sour diesel:
Almost all the trichs are amber as fuck! Did the trichs look that way right before the harvest, or did they just get like that after drying? I am going after that kind of high, so I plan on waiting until the trichs are amber. Interestingly enough, sour diesel is supposed to be 90% sativa. Maybe that's why they wait till the trichs get like that, to incorporate a body stone into the already strong head buzz.
. I can definitely make a lot of dough selling this bud. I can sell .7 $20s and call it "purple haze", or just sell 1/8ths for $70. People will seriously pay that much here and enjoy it too!
. If you are really paranoid, encrypt the hard drive with truecrypt and use tor to secure your web browsing. Google those software titles and you can d/l them all in 2 minutes.
. You obviously can't be doing this with a rental, unless you know the owner will be gone for a year and/or you aint afraid to go to jail. If I didn't have some legit opportunities to look forward to, I'd still be looking for a way to get that mythical grow house. It's certainly a hell of a lot of work which would get repetitive if you did it too long, but it would be fun to do for a year or so. Same goes for the smaller op you and I were talking about earlier, it's still hard but it's fun and you can be high as hell the whole time. If you have a bunch of different strains, it would be heaven, at least for me. I can't imagine smoking the same shit for a year straight, no matter how good.
