1 Oz /Week possible in limited space?

Some months ago, my dealer got busted and I had to struggle to get the one thing that keeps me sane. Thought of growing my own, spent a lot of time on weed forums, got thoroughly confused... meanwhile my dealer got out and was back in action.

Now he is busted again, and apparently so is every other dealer in the city. Started looking to grow my own again... this time I got interested in hydroponics... DWC seems somewhat simpler to me and more viable in my situation than the options I was previously looking at. So I did some research - nutes, lighting, aeration, air pumps etc., and it was going down pretty smooth, as I have some experience with planted fish tanks, which use some of the same techniques.

Now I'm stuck with something, and I am too tired to go back and start afresh. It doesn't seem like I can generate enough weed from the space I have (30" wide x 18" deep x any reasonable height).

Me and a friend have a combined consumption of about 1 Oz/week. I will need a friend in on this, because I live in a particularly hot Asian country, and it doesn't seem to be justifiable to run round the clock air conditioning for one person's weed need.

So - with the space I have available - is there any way of generating 1 Oz/week, without it being obscenely expensive or tedious? A few broad pointers and clues will be good, happy to do more research, just need some direction... There are so many ways to approach this, and to have any reasonable understanding of one approach itself takes substantial time...

I think I can organize a supply of feminized autoflowering seeds from a friend in Amsterdam. If a sustainable solution can be had, I think we would be willing to spend up to $1000 on the setup.

Thank you.

I don't think its possible to produce an oz per week in a 2.5 x 1.5 ft box. Thats only .33 of a square meter. Even if you could produce 500g per square meter (which is very high) every 14 weeks thats still only just over 10g's per week.

Just doing some simple math it's impossible no matter which way you look at it.

Maybe if you were very experienced and set up a genius vertical grow system you might have a chance.

Wait, that's an ounce a week of dealer weed, right? I promise, what you grow your own will be orders of magnitude better. You won't need to consume that much, I bet.

Otherwise, I totally agree with Kush on the possibility of an ounce per week from that space.

Only way to even come remotely close to the production is to have HID lighting, which would make that small of a space in the right temps extremely hard. Also to get 1 oz a week on perpetual, you would need like 1 plant being harvested a weel. Even switching to 12/12 from seed, you would need like 9 or 10 plants in 1 gallon containers (minimum and more realistically 2 gal pots) to get 9-10 oz from that grow. You just dont have the space.

With that type of budget, I would look into a tent if you could find a place to put one.

I knew a dude that grew weed at his work place. hmm he got fired. I wonder why.

My friend owns the property and the business. Nobody is going to fire him.

That is good. How many employees are there. even 1 will have
an opportunity to discover your secret.

picnicoflove said:

So let me approach this from a different angle... what would be the most efficient way of growing enough to produce 1 oz/week? The quality of weed is, at this time, secondary, as long as it is reasonably potent. We can raise our standards, one step at a time. Many small plants? A couple of big plants? Hydroponics? SOG? I need direction for more research...

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52 ounces a year is not that much in indoor growing terms, not quite a couple of pounds. You as a beginner can easily do that with a 400 HPS. I've maxed out my 400 HPS at 4-5 pounds a year using an average yielding strain, but I know what I'm doing. You as a beginner should be able to yield half that in your first year, probably a lot more.

This space, about 250 sqf, is my first perpetual harvest. I yielded almost a QP every 21 days or so using LST supercropping, the way the plants are grown in the last two pics. Tied up and bushy are the bast way to grow plants under a light the size of a 400 HPS and smaller.

The second pic is the flower room in the first pic, in back on the right. Three of those plants were ready every three weeks, then I would rotate another three in from the central growspace in the first pic. The left side was where my mother and cloning was done.

mr smokinrav

that is exactly what i'm looking for. i wish i could shake your hand and thank you in person.

i will put some time into your pointers and report back.

thanks again,

You know, I have arthritis real bad, throughout my body and am in a great deal of pain whenever I move......anything. For that pain I'm on hard codein based drugs and THC. Sometimes I shouldn't post when I'm buzzed out on both my pain meds. My excuse given..........my math two posts above is atrocious. I mistook grams for ounces and thought there were 28 ounces in a pound. There are 16, and 52 of them is 3 1/4 lbs a year, still doable with a 400 HPS.

Hey, you're welcome. I'll keep following along if you have questions.

hmmm .. so its hot ther .. and space is littel .. may I ask how high is your space ?

if you can use 1K $ you could go a logn way ..

as some say .. you might not need a hole once a week if you can grow quality weed ..

and even if you cant grow enough .. it might just be now and then you have to go and buy some extra (do it when he is out of jail and have some nice stuff and keep it)

lets say you got enough space to make shells and make two rooms ?

then use T5HO .. use autos .. keep em low .. 2 shels with 2" T5HO tubes (6-8 tubes depending how many you can fit ?) use mostly 2700K and one or two 6500K tubes ..

with T5HO you dont have to strugle so much with heat and I think thats a major plus since you have hot temps in your part of the world (Im in Denmark and I have a hard time with heat with my 600W HPS dont even want to imagen how it is in Asia)

but the idea is to keep heat low .. keep the grow low and fast and sure DWG would be a good option .. boath if you have basic knowlegs and the fact that you can go with smaller pot/s and since you are limit on space it is also logic to grow what schould give best yild ..

just a idea tho .. but you can go a long way with 1K $

sumthing like this:




2 foot and I belive 1-1½ foot wide 4 tubes .. T5HO 11K Lumens ..

if you have ceiling hight ? you could buy 3-4 of them and grow 2 autos under each .. make 3-4 shels and and nice ventilation system with a good carbon filter at the top as out take and a passiv intake at the bottom (maybe with some AC added) .. small clip on fans in each room ..

6-8 Autos who yild 1-2 OZ each evry seccon month .. dunno to stond to do the mat .. you do it and tell me if it is possible ?