~25 200gal smartie coco grow, woah.

[Green Fields]

Thanks for the kindness folks.

Trinity - Honestly I haven't kept track. My best estimate is that I'm in for around 50-60k thus far. We're just getting started on trimming and I pay $250/lb because it's family and the closest of friends.

5k for one trailer, 5k for another trailer, 3.6k in soil, 1k in bags, 10k for property, 5k for water, 1k for tanks, somewhere around 15k in nutrients/bugs etc, maybe 1k for the dehuey ac lumber and netting for the drying trailer, 6k for warehouse rent (getting fucked), who knows how many thousands in fuel, 2k+ in food for the season, tarps tools stakes mesh hortonova hose fencing...

Trimming will be around 25k

The good news is alot of the bud is the same or better quality than indoor, meaning it's of considerably more value.

Realistically I could have done all this for ALOT less than I did, but I'm not into skimping and keep in mind, this is my first outdoor ever. . I could have skipped the warehouse/trailers, but safety is top priority. I could have dried under a tarp, but quality comes first. I could pay cheaper trimmers, safety and quality are more important..and I'm really into helping friends enjoy a good quality of life.


I guess it would have been helpful to have saved receipts.
The thing is I know it'll be worth my time effort and investment. Economically does it stand up to other methods? Who knows.

There's 210 5gallon buckets full of bucked stinky crystalline bud ready to be trimmed and I'm happy with that

I'll share the actual breakdown of volume when we get there. It'll be a few months.

Cheers

 

[Yes4Prop215]

you gonna run the high water/ high nute formula again next year?? 15k on nutrients is a huge expense!

some of the best outdoor buds i saw out of the 707 this year were grown without any bottled nutrients...just tons of organic amendments and top dressing with standard water out the hose....sometimes i wonder if all the extra work is necessary because i see some quality coming out of K.I.S.S. gardens...

 

[Green Fields]

Matter of fact no I'm not. It was a good fun experiment, the outcome was positive for sure.

In all honesty coco/H&G nutes was a cop out. It's just what I'm used to and I wasn't comfortable switching everything at once. I couldn't have afforded to mix a bad soil n have had problems later in the season. Ive stacked a dozen or so books on soil composition, so next year there'll be a lot of quality soil in place of coco.

The tenative plan is 1/4 of the crop in huge coco pots, the rest are going to be giant raised beds trying various organic mixes.

Also a couple 200 gal DWC trees

I dont at all regret going the route I did, my plants way outperformed everyone elses. The bud is phenomenal. It just seems silly to be doing anything other than organic.

 

[thunderbunny]

Absolutely amazing grow Green Fields!

We actually had to rent a 24 foot u haul truck a few years ago when we did our first swamp crop...watered constantly due to the swamp water and ended up with 10 footers that gave up two pounds each +/-.

There was so much weed that it was hung on a clothesline out in the backyard as we were cutting up the plants. They were all the same strain (Schnazzleberry from Chimera seeds), so they were all harvested within a few days of one another.

Just like you, we ran an extension cord out there and had a couple of fans, a tv, a mini-frig, and a direct tv cable box...took more than a week to trim, day and night, and chemically fueled, but the immense yields made it necessary, there was just nowhere to put it all!

Good Luck

Thunderbunny

 

[Green Fields]

Just like you, we ran an extension cord out there and had a couple of fans, a tv, a mini-frig, and a direct tv cable box...took more than a week to trim, day and night, and chemically fueled, but the immense yields made it necessary, there was just nowhere to put it all!

Good Luck

Thunderbunny

Thanks for the kind words.

Whatcha mean just like me? We did all our trimming in a warehouse...I wish it was outside. Just chopped the plants down 3 at a time and drove em two hours to the spot. Next year we have a trim gazebo where we can enjoy the outside world, just wasn't feasible at this location.

 

[thunderbunny]

Aaaaah Green Fields, your operation is quite larger than ours was. We used 15-100 gallon swamp tubes in standing water.

Sorry about the misunderstasnding, I saw the pics of the trailer before I read the entire thread and I posted too soon. I thought that you guys were trimming inside of the trailer...did not realize that you needed a freaking warehouse! to process that crop. But, looking back on our 22 pound year, with a 3 car garage and a 20 x 10 garden shed filled to the gills with buds, and trimming and final drying done in that U haul truck, I do not even want to think about the amount of time and effort that you guys had to put in with all of that beautiful bud! Enjoy the trim gazebo next season.

Again, Good Luck

Thunderbunny

 

[Green Fields]

Right on, thanks for swingin by

 

[Green Fields]

Been trimmin a little of this and a little of that. We finished one of the Space Queens entirely...and it was just shy of 5#'s...pretty happy w/ that..so that sets the bar pretty much. Prolly gonna be around 5 per plant.

One of the space queens was mad dense, smell-less, and 10% mold...which is a bummer. Shows how much strain selection really matters.

I'm just crossing my fingers that one of these Space Queens will be worth keeping..I'll be really bummed if half the plants were R+D and don't even make the cut

Fortunately the XJ and the Lemon have been happily accepted as indoor, and rightly so...they're BOMB

Cheers, hope everyone's fingers aren't too sore