Anyone else remember when growing weed was simple?

speedwell68

speedwell68

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Saint Jimmy74 said:
I totally get it. I guess my question is about the necessity of some of this stuff versus it being more of a status type thing. Spend a $1000 to get an extra half ounce. That type of thing.
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Where I am half an ounce would set you back £160 ($140). So if I knew spending $1000 on a piece of kit would give me an extra half Oz every time I would consider that money well spent.
 
speedwell68

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LeastExpectedGrower said:
There's definitely lots of people here who are growing more than they personally need. I have a pound sitting in my basement right now from my February harvest as well as a bunch from when I harvested in October. My 'trim bag' is mostly just flower that wasn't as tight as the stuff I jar...my leaf trim I just dump (Though I know that will pain lots of people here).

I don't smoke (too many people in my family dead from smoking/lung disease, and I'm prone to asthma). So we have a small vape but I mostly make edibles and use in small quantities. I keep asking my wife to give some away to her friends, but so far even that isn't really doing much.

I honestly like fidgety systems oriented things like this and enjoy working out what works and doesn't.
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I always have loads left over. But then I always see my friends right with some at Christmas and things like that. If I only grew what the Wife and I needed I'd probably only do one run a year. I need 6 ounces every 3 months, my last grow yielded 18 ounces and I have identified a whole load of small changes that will get me past 20 ounces. I do it because I like it doing it.
 
LeastExpectedGrower

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speedwell68 said:
I always have loads left over. But then I always see my friends right with some at Christmas and things like that. If I only grew what the Wife and I needed I'd probably only do one run a year. I need 6 ounces every 3 months, my last grow yielded 18 ounces and I have identified a whole load of small changes that will get me past 20 ounces. I do it because I like it doing it.
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Exactly, except that I don't really have a population of friends to hand it out to.
 
JamieThePainter

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Growing weed is as complicated as you want it to be. I remember back in the day I was like a mad scientist measuring all my nutes etc.... whereas these days I just fling it in a bucket and reap the same rewards 3 months later. In my experience (not much, 20 years) the only important thing is the environment. It's harder to not grow weed than grow it.
 
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sshortguy

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back in the 90s, we had an empty closet with the grow light, they grew fine without any nutrients till the time I chopped them down
LeastExpectedGrower said:
There's definitely lots of people here who are growing more than they personally need. I have a pound sitting in my basement right now from my February harvest as well as a bunch from when I harvested in October. My 'trim bag' is mostly just flower that wasn't as tight as the stuff I jar...my leaf trim I just dump (Though I know that will pain lots of people here).

I don't smoke (too many people in my family dead from smoking/lung disease, and I'm prone to asthma). So we have a small vape but I mostly make edibles and use in small quantities. I keep asking my wife to give some away to her friends, but so far even that isn't really doing much.

I honestly like fidgety systems oriented things like this and enjoy working out what works and doesn't.
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Ty for noticing, I noticed it a long time ago on other forums winning lights for the best garden, back in the 90s I grew 1 as a thing to see if it can be done with basic water & light did pretty good without any deficiencies in the leaves through the vegetation stage, now they want you to buy a tent a filter, co2 canisters, etc, what happened to the good ole days when basics were only needed? the rest can be learned after the basics
 
Saint Jimmy74

Saint Jimmy74

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JamieThePainter said:
Growing weed is as complicated as you want it to be. I remember back in the day I was like a mad scientist measuring all my nutes etc.... whereas these days I just fling it in a bucket and reap the same rewards 3 months later. In my experience (not much, 20 years) the only important thing is the environment. It's harder to not grow weed than grow it.
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Well said. This was the point I was trying to make. Just wasn't doing a great job of putting the right words together. Lol
 
Saint Jimmy74

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sshortguy said:
back in the 90s, we had an empty closet with the grow light, they grew fine without any nutrients till the time I chopped them down

Ty for noticing, I noticed it a long time ago on other forums winning lights for the best garden, back in the 90s I grew 1 as a thing to see if it can be done with basic water & light did pretty good without any deficiencies in the leaves through the vegetation stage, now they want you to buy a tent a filter, co2 canisters, etc, what happened to the good ole days when basics were only needed? the rest can be learned after the basics
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Yup yup! Agreed
 
LeastExpectedGrower

LeastExpectedGrower

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sshortguy said:
back in the 90s, we had an empty closet with the grow light, they grew fine without any nutrients till the time I chopped them down

Ty for noticing, I noticed it a long time ago on other forums winning lights for the best garden, back in the 90s I grew 1 as a thing to see if it can be done with basic water & light did pretty good without any deficiencies in the leaves through the vegetation stage, now they want you to buy a tent a filter, co2 canisters, etc, what happened to the good ole days when basics were only needed? the rest can be learned after the basics
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Everyone can draw their own lines. Their situations are all different. For instance some guys bust on 'tents' because they have rooms. I'll never have a room. We own a house, and all the rooms are taken, so I have a tent in our utilities room in the basement. It provides the size I want and also keeps the environment mostly in control. I have lights, fans, humidifier (in tent) dehumidifiers (out of tent). I'll never have AC. I'll never have CO2. They don't work with the space I have or my level of need. I don't want more than a few plants at a time, so no installing splits, etc. Instead I have a humidity controller, a temperature controller, a fan controller and call it a day there. Across a day my plants remain within a window 10f degrees (75-85f), my humidity remains within about 5% or less, my VPD is .9-1.3 All good enough for me.

Some people grow on their windowsills, or in a corner of their basement or whatever. Good for them, if they're getting the result they want in the space they've chosen to use.

People sure spend a lot of time worrying about what someone else is doing or how they do it. ;)

One of my college friends had a pretty extensive home-brew closet/staircase grow and loved it, and had automated as much as he could at that time...and that was back in the late 80's. Tin-foil and all that. He was happy with it then, but again what's available for people to grow has changed, expanded and become more sophisticated. I can't see how more options in any direction are a bad thing.
 
Hiphophippo

Hiphophippo

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sshortguy said:
you know you can add nutrients some use various, it's not too hard to understand once you learn of the balance of the npk ratio
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Yeah I understand that that’s why I said I mix my dirt up like with dry nutes and I add recharge and fish emulsion and Epsom salts and silica to my water and add in my top dressings throughout the grow but overall I keep it pretty simple
 
Saint Jimmy74

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efi2 said:
I live in so cal weather great except smog ( believe there still very dirty air , you just can not see it or smell it or if you leave and come back feel your eyes burning like back in the 70s & 80s). In any a event you could just throw it in the ground and water and it just grew.
I just wondering if genetic of current strains are weaken to the point of having to have to environmental controls . instead of the plant adapting to the environment.
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That's a good question. Hadn't really considered that. I would hope the opposite would be true but with all the genetic work that's happened there has to be a negative to offset the positive traits that are occurring now.
 
Hiphophippo

Hiphophippo

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sshortguy said:
you know you can add nutrients some use various, it's not too hard to understand once you learn of the balance of the npk ratio
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And I think I have my balance pretty much worked out and it wasn’t too hard to understand pretty easy actually
 
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