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BlueNorther

BlueNorther

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Well, first off I would like to say hello to everyone. I have been a long time soil grower and now I think I would like to go hydro but, I would also like to get some good seeds and unfortunately can not do both. So, I was looking for a little advice. Should I get a nice hydro set up and grow bagseed or get some good strains and still grow in soil? I have never grown a "good/name brand" strain in soil only bagseed. So if it were you and you could only get 1 or the other would you get good hydro gear and grow bagseed or good strains and still soil grow? Thanks for any help!
 
polyarcturus

polyarcturus

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how much money you got? i would try to do both, i feel for you but thats how we all start no name, brandx seeds so to speak, and this is how some of the best discoveries have been found. if i where you and you dont have a single legit strain yet, go ahead and buy the seeds. normally i would say gear, but you need at least one strain to make all the gear worth while after you first couple grows with the basic setup/.
 
polyarcturus

polyarcturus

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oh and welcome to RIU,

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get tor browser bundle, learn to delete your metadata, and avoid bridges. GL!
 
yankeegreen

yankeegreen

Active Member
If you are a competent soil grower I say get some quality gear and grow it. My guess is you will be amazed at the step up in quality and can revisit the decision then.
 
BlueNorther

BlueNorther

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polyarcturus said:
how much money you got? i would try to do both, i feel for you but thats how we all start no name, brandx seeds so to speak, and this is how some of the best discoveries have been found. if i where you and you dont have a single legit strain yet, go ahead and buy the seeds. normally i would say gear, but you need at least one strain to make all the gear worth while after you first couple grows with the basic setup/.
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I have around $600 to spend.
 
oakley1984

oakley1984

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more than enough to do both unless you are looking for a large scale hydro setup. eg 10+ 5gal buckets
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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BlueNorther said:
Well, first off I would like to say hello to everyone. I have been a long time soil grower and now I think I would like to go hydro but, I would also like to get some good seeds and unfortunately can not do both. So, I was looking for a little advice. Should I get a nice hydro set up and grow bagseed or get some good strains and still grow in soil? I have never grown a "good/name brand" strain in soil only bagseed. So if it were you and you could only get 1 or the other would you get good hydro gear and grow bagseed or good strains and still soil grow? Thanks for any help!
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Build your own simple 5 gallon DWC with stuff from Lowes and Pet Smart. Less than $35 with a good air pump and all. I have 6 or 7. Very simple to make and operate. Great yields.
 
T

thinn

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Get the set up.......grow bag seed for the meantime and get aquatinted with the new gear. If you got 30$ extra bucks go to attitude or Herbies and hit the pick and mix section and now you have both! Just remember to take cuttings!
 
BlueNorther

BlueNorther

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thinn said:
Get the set up.......grow bag seed for the meantime and get aquatinted with the new gear. If you got 30$ extra bucks go to attitude or Herbies and hit the pick and mix section and now you have both! Just remember to take cuttings!
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Cool thanks for that info man! That was my next question. What seed bank to use.
 
BlueNorther

BlueNorther

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hotrodharley said:
Try this - four 5-gallon buckets. A 600 watt HPS can cover especially if you did a scrog from early on. A 1000 watt HPS would rock. My room rocks.
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Oh yeah man! I always scrog and LST my plants. Small grow area and I think it helps my yield. Sorry for the double reply I didn't see the multiquote button until just now.
 
slightlytoasted

slightlytoasted

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BlueNorther said:
Well, first off I would like to say hello to everyone. I have been a long time soil grower and now I think I would like to go hydro but, I would also like to get some good seeds and unfortunately can not do both. So, I was looking for a little advice. Should I get a nice hydro set up and grow bagseed or get some good strains and still grow in soil? I have never grown a "good/name brand" strain in soil only bagseed. So if it were you and you could only get 1 or the other would you get good hydro gear and grow bagseed or good strains and still soil grow? Thanks for any help!
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My advice is to get good gear from a reputable breeder. in my experience nothing makes up for having a really killer strain. plus ive been tempted by the lures of hydro and i have to say its not that great. sure they flower faster and sometimes the flowers are more dense but its my personal opinion that potency and taste, taste above all, are far superior in soil or amended soilless. if youd like to experiment with using nutients, coco or coco/soil mix is cheaper on nutes than straight hydro and faster flowering than pure organics. What i do is mix FF Ocean Forest with GH Coco at 1:3 ratio and add a lil perlite. then halfway through flower i give them 1/4 strength Advanced Nutes A+B, Bud Candy, Big Bud and my Blue Widows come down in 9 weeks tasting like heaven.
 
BlueNorther

BlueNorther

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OK, so $600 is enough to do both what 3 strains would you guys go with? I don't really know much about any strain really. Never took the time to research them as I have always grown bagseed.
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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slightlytoasted said:
My advice is to get good gear from a reputable breeder. in my experience nothing makes up for having a really killer strain. plus ive been tempted by the lures of hydro and i have to say its not that great. sure they flower faster and sometimes the flowers are more dense but its my personal opinion that potency and taste, taste above all, are far superior in soil or amended soilless. if youd like to experiment with using nutients, coco or coco/soil mix is cheaper on nutes than straight hydro and faster flowering than pure organics. What i do is mix FF Ocean Forest with GH Coco at 1:3 ratio and add a lil perlite. then halfway through flower i give them 1/4 strength Advanced Nutes A+B, Bud Candy, Big Bud and my Blue Widows come down in 9 weeks tasting like heaven.
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Sounds like s good solid plan with reason. I feed bloom nutes only once during flower and that is about midway through flowering. I add cal mag twice generally as a preventative in soil, Fox Farms Beastie Bloomz 1/4 teaspoon in a 5 gallon DWC.
 
Malevolence

Malevolence

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Depends on what gear you already have. I assume you already have lights and mylar and ventilation taken care of and all that... But, if you do have to buy a light, air cooled reflector, air pump, carbon filter, inline fan, tds meter, ph meter, hydro nutes, possibly water chiller, and $150 in misc shit plus $50-$100 of seeds. Good luck with that.

If you already have most of what you need from growing soil indoors, then you can start knocking down the total cost. A little cheaper would be hempy buckets.

I would just get some bomb as fuck seeds and do another soil grow and spend my remaining $500 on whores and coke... it really just matters what gear you already have but you didn't tell us so...
 
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