5 Plants 4000 Watts - Colorado Medical Grow 3 LBS Per Light Dried&Cured.

[Ninjabowler]

I've been having a very hard time finding anywhere to rent that isn't over 900-1000 a month which I can't pay. I want to buy a house, but gotta finish getting my credit straight to do that. One way or another I wont to get out there before everyone else does. I may be coming to CO in for 4/20 come a few days early, and look for housees, and then enjoy the festivities.

You want to be out of town anyway, try checking out smaller towns

 

[Thundercat]

I have been when possible, its though to do online. I look for rental listings, and 95% is in the cities. Its very hard to find a rental in a small town. Especially when then you have to factor in enough room for my family, and my grow.

 

[Ninjabowler]

I have been when possible, its though to do online. I look for rental listings, and 95% is in the cities. Its very hard to find a rental in a small town. Especially when then you have to factor in enough room for my family, and my grow.

Sounds like a road trip is in order

 

[Thundercat]

Already working on it. I'm hoping to come a few days before 4/20 and look for houses, and maybe even try to meet some people to line up a job. Then enjoy the festivities for 4/20 before I come home. I know a bunch of guys on here from Cali, I need to meet some people that work in the industy in CO so I can try to get a leg up. I'm no master grower, but I've been growing quality long enough, and have customer service, and management experiance so I should be able to get some sort of job I think.

 

[zaphrax]

whisky im growing for my first time, have some critical+'s on the way. doing 3 in a crawl with 4 feet of head room and is wide open. Doing 3 plants in 10 gallon air pots, cocco chips, in a triangle pattern with 3 600Hps in between each plant. Read that somewhere that cocco is'nt for the first time grower ' can't imagine it being more difficult to grow in,then soil'' any thoughts. Also any suggestions on vegging, being such a short space to work with, as far as time, height, and training. anything u or fellow groweres could throw my way will be much appreciated.

 

[varanoid]

Any updates on this?

 

[Ninjabowler]

They moved

 

[Scrotie Mcboogerballs]

Good climate is a big part of why I wanted to go to CO, I also figured it wouldn't be as over run with existing businesses since it hasn't been medical as long as Cali. Also now with the new legislation, I would think there should be all kinds of new job opportunities developing.

I would highly educate yourself on colorado's dispensaries before you come out looking to get into the industry. It's nearly impossible to get into if you didn't get a running start years ago.

 

[PurpleBuz]

Coco Croutons, or coco chips. the pot are filled with 100% coconut husks, what you see on top is the same all the way to the bottom. it's called passive hydroponics. Basically all the benefits of hydroponics with out the headaches of pumps and water chillers, and timers.

how often are you watering? Drain to Waste ? Perhaps recirculating 2 or 3 times a day might feed better ?

 

[Thundercat]

I would highly educate yourself on colorado's dispensaries before you come out looking to get into the industry. It's nearly impossible to get into if you didn't get a running start years ago.

Do you have any good "how to" suggestions along those lines? I know I'll be able to get my medical due to an injury, so I figured I'd start growing for myself and my wife who also will be getting a med license. Then I figured as I met people I could trust I would serve as a caregiver to some. I also thought that with the amount of experiance I have with management, as well as customer service and sales that I should be well qualified to get a normal job working for a dispensary,or perhaps a bakery. That's what my wife and I would really like to do is open a small bakery, do custom cakes, as well as gourmet edibles. We are a ways off from all that though gotta start small and gotta start somewhere! I'd like to think in my last 5+ years of growing I have achieved a moderate level of experience, and a fair bit off success to make me a worth while asset to any company in that regard. I'm looking into trying to get a degree in botany, so I have further credentials.

 

[theloadeddragon]

Do you have any good "how to" suggestions along those lines? I know I'll be able to get my medical due to an injury, so I figured I'd start growing for myself and my wife who also will be getting a med license. Then I figured as I met people I could trust I would serve as a caregiver to some. I also thought that with the amount of experiance I have with management, as well as customer service and sales that I should be well qualified to get a normal job working for a dispensary,or perhaps a bakery. That's what my wife and I would really like to do is open a small bakery, do custom cakes, as well as gourmet edibles. We are a ways off from all that though gotta start small and gotta start somewhere! I'd like to think in my last 5+ years of growing I have achieved a moderate level of experience, and a fair bit off success to make me a worth while asset to any company in that regard. I'm looking into trying to get a degree in botany, so I have further credentials.

Sounds more like California Dreamin to me bro.

 

[Scrotie Mcboogerballs]

Well, lets start with the good news. Colorado is looking like it is going to approve pot tourism. Yay! So we know that there will definitely be an economic boost to there. Now the not so good news. Just like when the dispensaries first started, most towns are putting a moratorium on new shops until they can get regulations put in place. Meaning they aren't even accepting applications. Then, you have the dispensaries who have been continuously fighting to be grand fathered into new regulations over the past couple of years who are going to be making the switch from medical, to recreational. At this point if you don't have a shop, it's really REALLY tough to open one. Even if you do start the process, you will be competing against people who have pulled more strings than you could ever imagine with their local government just to stay in business. Competition is a real bitch in tight knit communities.

 

[theloadeddragon]

Yes TC if you are still young as I am... under 30 or so say... than we should practice patience with each other and matriculate in measured steps

 

[Thundercat]

One big key is that I don't want to open a dispensary. I would love to find a position working for an existing one, but I'm not completely hung up on that either. I've worked a non pot related retail management job for the last 5 years, and had other management jobs before that. Ideally I would love to find a small handful of patients that I could serve as a caregiver for and just go about living my life.

 

[bassman999]

Just found this thread and Hopefully you make a new thread Whiskey!

 

[Ninjabowler]

Yes please, we miss you already!!!

 

[Ninjabowler]

I pm'd him hopefully it hits his email and he comes back

 

[bassman999]

This thread has me intrigued, and I might do something like this on a smaller scale.
I wish I knew what he used for fans/exhaust etc...
I tend to let my plants get too big for my hoods and this might be the remedy.

 

[Ninjabowler]

You thinkin about hanging the lights verticaly? Hes also using "passive hydro" as he calls it. Sure works good whatever it is.

 

[bassman999]

You thinkin about hanging the lights verticaly? Hes also using "passive hydro" as he calls it. Sure works good whatever it is.

Yeah I was playing with a 400 hps I had lying around and threw it in with my big lights to see what it seemed like open.
Temps went up just a single degree.
I also looked up that coco chips, but seems like only sold in 5 kilo packs 12x12x5 or something.
Would be really expensive to do it that way.