Hey brother, I just wanted to point out to you there is no need to spend a ton of money to grow some of the best tasting, smelling bud, with a fraction of the amount of work...
Start learning how to provide everything MJ needs with organic nutrients, and you can get those for free just composting your trash... If you dont have time for that, you can buy 3-4 yards of compost for probably $100-$150 bucks from any landscape supply. That compost alone would be enough to fill your 12x 100gal fabric pots (I bought a 6 pack of them for $65 or something on amazon but talk to
@ganga gurl420 shell help you build any size pot with landscape fabric for basically no cost...
The best parts about growing organically... the smell and taste are far better, you only have to feed water (barely have to feed water if growing 100+ gal because they retain moisture so well Ive only watered a handful of times this year the rest has been rain) -- You can top dress with compost/EWC or feed teas if you wanted to... Organic nutrients wont burn your plants... The soil microbes do all the work... No measuring or paying for nasty bottled nutrients... ever.... and one of my favorites.... you dont have to flush.. But the all time best thing about it is its literally free if you want to put a little bit of easy work and time in... and if not... its still dirt cheap...(
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You can also re amend and reuse your soil mix for years, let worms live in there and they will shit gold all throughout it, eat everything and break it down ready to be taken up by the plants.
I feel like this is one of the biggest misconceptions in growing weed... Its such a marketing ploy that you need all that garbage shit they charge crazy amounts for.... If you need any help building a soil mix, dont hesitate to ask, Ill walk you through it, or Im sure others here will... But Im telling you, you could easily get 12 or more 100 gal fabric pots planted and harvested for a total cost of Id say... $100 - 350... and really you could go cheaper than that if you wanted... If you had the time and started a compost pile right now you could do it next year for free...
Sorry for the ramble, I hate seeing people getting taken advantage of by these companies, and all this unnecessary work... This medicine would be so much more accessible for people with too much pain to put the time "required" into all that bullshit... or are on too tight a budget and believe the one medicine that works is out of reach for them... makes me sick tbh.
This is an awesome response to my post. One thing I've considered is utilizing a local compost farm, I am basically surrounded by farming land and communities. One farm specializes in compost in bulk, (including organic compost) and I can get a sq. Yard, I think? That's like a the back of a pickup truck full, and I'd think plenty, for like $45. I do use a lot of water, just water, in September I may juice 4x.
now my friend uses Emerald Harvest system, and I've heard him in the phone as they tell him to water with these chemicals EVERY SINGLE DAY!. Now, different areas and climates I would THINK, would require different amounts of said chemicals, (it's like 7-8 different bottles with anywhere from 4 to 160 oz. ) Yet Emerald Harvest has a template that is evidently universal.
I'm not sure if these are indoor nutes that can be used outside as well, but I wasn't impressed. I'm fact, the plants seemed to be kind of floppy and although the harvest was ok, in my opinion, but waste of money. Now his indoor grow was more successful, and in the end,.I did convince him that watering with all these different bottles was too much, I think he was addicted to measuring out carefully so many oz. for this, so many of that, it was like chemistry 101.
Now I'm response to the organic approach- I have seen some amazing medicine grown using just dirt and water, no fertilizer whatsoever. The old addage, 'Its a weed, it'll grow anywhere!' while not completely accurate, has some small merit. The impact that organic fertilizers have I do not doubt makes for a cleaner, purer smoke, one would think that everyone would utilize this method. This is where Mega Corporations step in to convince people that their 'Organic' chemicals will meet these standards thus providing a superior smoke.
I'm thinking next year I'm going back to the Indian method, when the shad run, perhaps a fish of appropriate size will provide the nitrogen needed in the first stage of growth. The second stage of growth, in my humble opinion, requires more potassium, I'd be interested to hear an organic additive for the second phase, I have read banana peels could be an alternative:
you have planted the organic seed in my mind, and if I'm going to commit, then I will do it all out. I mean, what the hell, I get to go fishing and eat banannas, can't be too bad... It will be tough to pull me off of my old ways, although I don't have to commit my entire grow to this new method, I can try it on a few plants, it will be interesting to compare the end results.
thank you So much for your time and advice. Oh yeah,
@ganga gurl420 is The Bomb for all things Ganga, lol, I'll HHU for the pots info, ty. May the sun shine brightly upon your day, peace my friend.