Where to start where to end? First of all I have spent 12 hours reading this from start to finish and I have never ever in my 14 years of growing have seen, talked, or been able to find a person that will give FULL and complete disclosure about EVERYTHING that they do in there grow. The pot world is exactly like the hi-performance engine market. NOBODY will give you honest answer to where thier research is at because of the time, and money involved in it. Knowledge is the key and you damn well better be up to date on aerodynamics so you can port a cylinder head correctly.
Sir my hats off to you for the disclosure of your grow. I grow outdoors and after a very recent event that has happened to me I have to make a choice either stop growing or move to a state where it is legal. In my last trip to cali I was told about this forum and its a killer.
I have noticed that you are DYING to get your hands on floramite to go nuclear on the lil sunsabitches! Well I got something for you if I may say "my friend"
Floramite 8oz. Bottle. Legal to sell into California. Miticide / Spidercide
http://www.amazon.com/Floramite-Bottle-California-Miticide-Spidercide/dp/B0052NRTZ4
I am researching a biz plan to see what state I will end up in. I have known about mendocino county and that was the first place I went on my first trip to the west coast to se what condtions there are for a commercial grow. I know now that I will not be going there. this is strictly my opinion and I do not want to sway other people for what I am about to say. This is strictly my opinion and not to be taken to heart. Here it goes. I do not like the fact there is a canopy limit, having to buy a $50 zip tie for each plant, having to have my operation completely opened to law enforcement for routine inspections, and the thing that pushed me over the edge was the fact that it is up to the officers to dictate how much your plant can produce. If they think its producing to much bud you have to chop it down. I do not know 100% if the last statement is true but its the way that I took it.
After reading this I think I will be using your present set up as a model for me to grow.I will still have to do my homework, research out every detail before I make a decision. $100K seems to be a good start. I think in reality its going to cost me $180K to $220K because I have no contacts for genatics so I will proboly have to spend the first year buying and growing seeds until I get the mother plant that I want to clone. I know there is going to be problems, dialing in,ect ect so I think its going to take me a year and a half to two years before I am running hard.
Once again thank you for all of your information especially on nutes. I said previous that I grow outdoors.I mix my own soil and use IRONITE inplace of chemical nutes. Ironite is a mineral based product that has urea in it to get the small amount of N into the product. If you want to know more google ironite msds and all the contents and %'s are disclosed. I do not know how much time,frustraion and money you have saved me with the nute info and to be honest when I started to look into nutes I got lost because there is so much out on the market. Now I know to follow this thread and do EXACTLY what you are doing.
Well my buns are killing me from sitting in this chair for 12 hours now after reading this thread, once again THANK YOU SO VERY VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And that's usually the opposition I'm faced with the few times I've given the slightest hint to my system. It's okay though, a lot of great ideas never took off over night.
