Man dude that is a crazy amount of work for that amount of people. Running 16 lights by myself right now not including a few t5's and a small male chamber, and it is a full time job for the most part. I am on my 13th day of work with 12-14 hour days. Farming is no joke especially indoors. Having to water coco everyday is one reason I will probably never try it. I have to have days off. You are crazy vag, stack them chips and take a NICE vacation man.
How hard do you work? Grow related.
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I have seen a couple on here in their 80's....so they said-- Really hard to get firm facts..off of an anonymous Site--
it is allot of work. I tend to 30 plants myself im disabled and its rough.. I know 30 doesn't sound like much but for me its to much I have to lower that number by 10 next run so I can give them all the attention they deserve..Its the bending, crawling, lifting, stirring, mixing, Adjusting, transplanting then hopefully you dont have any plant issues to fix. If I did not love it I would have stopped years ago.
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Yankmychain
I do two hours on a normal day but if it is time for cleaning up growth or cloning ect.. Then 4-6 hours easy. I am sure you have a full time job. The amount you sound like you are getting you should be able to hire a few extra hands to get job done.
Tell me about it. In the last year ive gotten crazy black circles under my eyes. Crazy insomnia/ fuckedup sleeping pattern. I sleep a hour, go work. Sleep for 4, go work. No idea what day I am on 90% of the time.
179 lights total. Some places are 9 plants per light, some are 1 plant per light. Some are vertical lighting. Some are in hoods.
Have to check all the AC's, dehueys, CO2 burners, charcoal fans, heat kill switches, ballasts, replace bulbs, fog for bugs and PM...etc
All hand fed. I have been thinking of going back to soil so I can have every 2nd day off. Actually, I am leaning heavily towards it.
TLoft13
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Dude you are crazy. Why dont you consult with Lazyman? Automate your setup and cut your work by half?I just realized today that my GF and I water 1110 plants split btwn 5 grows everyday, 7 days a week, 365 a year.
600 veg plants and 510 in flower.
We have 1 worker who transplants and ties.
Growing is a hard job. To hard sometimes.
I am truly overwhelmed right now.
/End rant.
at least your not watering 2-3 times a day...
you know drippers could literrally cut down your work by half a day... no more watering just maintaining rez's.... still got to be there most the time but takes it all down alot...
in fact you could buy something like growtronix and set it up from your laptop add some camera's and you could probably skip a day....
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SeaMaiden
Have you tried flood & drain or other automation, then? It works very well with coco as long as you pay some attention to not allowing salts to build up (assuming you're using chem salt-based ferts). Not only does my back fucking hurt, but I'm lazy as fuck. I'm not growing that number of plants, but I do use a sump pump for filling the trays. I let the girls sit in the flood solution for a few hours, then drain it off (I feed the leftovers to landscape plants).
The most time for me is spent keeping things trimmed up, but that makes trimming up (the indoor crops, I'm nowhere nearly as diligent with my OD crops) a dream when they're done. Otherwise, I spend more like what wildgrow mentions in terms of time. I really, really like having a life.
The way I see it with a dialed hydro system, the plants do most of the work. Like Fred (DHF) says, "babyshit".
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greenmatter
blumats rock ! i don't think you can ever take the gardener out of the garden but blumats sure make it easier to get everything done.
i wouldn't touch blumats with a 20ft pole if i was growing as many plants as VagPuncher...
WAY too finicky. at every single drip stake there could be a problem. Recipe for disaster IMO... great for personal small grows...
the only thing that comes to mind for huge coco grows is Drip Feed tables... super simple hydro, plus if you can access individual plants and move them, also can be hand watered in the event of pump/power failure....
WAY too finicky. at every single drip stake there could be a problem. Recipe for disaster IMO... great for personal small grows...
the only thing that comes to mind for huge coco grows is Drip Feed tables... super simple hydro, plus if you can access individual plants and move them, also can be hand watered in the event of pump/power failure....
might have to fly a plumber out to build u a drip system , hmmmmmmm
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Drippers!
Like several ppl have said, get some huge reservoirs, some good RO filters depending on your water quality, and thats it. It´ll cut your work in half, plus youll be watering them plants more frequently causing faster growth and better yields. I just run small grow (1.8k), but settin up drippers with coco is the best thing i did. DO IT!
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Like several ppl have said, get some huge reservoirs, some good RO filters depending on your water quality, and thats it. It´ll cut your work in half, plus youll be watering them plants more frequently causing faster growth and better yields. I just run small grow (1.8k), but settin up drippers with coco is the best thing i did. DO IT!
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iampolluted
Active member
love my drippers. saves me well over an hr vs hand watering on my soil vert.....fill a res and set it on a timer. once it's dialed you're good. no worries about gravity fed res's this way.
Haha. You any that won't spend the week just smoking budder and not working?
Hmmmm.
Here is my beef with emitters.
I have used them in the past and it seems to me that the plants only get fed exactly where the emitter is because it goes right through the coco. It isn't water uniformly around the pot.
I have used them in the past and it seems to me that the plants only get fed exactly where the emitter is because it goes right through the coco. It isn't water uniformly around the pot.
I'd be more worried about my crumbling relationship with the woman and my inability to fufill her emotional needs...plants ain't that tough homie! Peace
