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What to do with $10,000?
- Thread starter themessiah710
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your grow space is 10 sq ft or so
50 watts of hps/sq ft is usually quoted for good results, maybe a touch more
500 watts or so, that's pretty small
not saying green light, but most here wouldn't consider 500 watts to be very risky
still, it is florida
themessiah710
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Hm I'd probably need two then if I was trying to make a decent profit assuming I was getting around .5g per watt. If I could be assured enough that I wouldn't have to worry too much about getting raided because of a high electricity bill I would like to have closer to 1500-2000w total.
a grow cabinet is pretty stealth overall
as you get into the KWs, that's where you get into the grow room size
the risk will go up, how much? no way to be 100% sure
a number often mentioned is about 1 KW per bedroom is pretty safe
but every region is different
Move to Los Angeles and produce your first epic porno film.
porn don't pay so good any more ,,nina Hartley had to get a second job.....yeehaw
CoCoSativas
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Milf porn is a niche market... too bad for Nina. She was hot in the day. She's getting a little to old for me 40s is where it ends for me haha...
I like older women. They are a good time if they take care of themselves.
CoCoSativas
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Another thought with the 10 grand you can buy a handgun and some crack and make some quick cash if you aren't scared of taking a few bullets or letting some fly if you have a unruly head...
I'm joking I've been wanting to joke that all along but I wanted to wait for the serious answers before I posted jokes...
I'm sorry
I'm joking I've been wanting to joke that all along but I wanted to wait for the serious answers before I posted jokes...
I'm sorry
themessiah710
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Thanks yamabushi
TM710- I have ran 3k in a bedroom, and it was one of my favorite grows. Good yields and convenient at the time becaue I was learning a bunch and needed to be close to the garden. The heli's are looking for LARGE light footprints for mega cropping, your good man. Don't stress it.
heavy outdoor smell and thieves at this point is your only enemy, the electric companies got bigger fish to fry, and so do the police, no offense.
FOCUS ON VPD LEVELS!!
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=300255
I highly recommend reading that thread front,back,inside, and out if your serious about making $.
DJM is the man when it comes to making the most out of the space ya got....I learned so much from him.
Cool that makes me feel a little bettee. Might as well just sart small anyways and get some practice before the laws here change.
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I once told my buddy in FL years ago: "save up 10 g's and come out and grow with me or do a season trimming" as I lived there two years before moving back to Cali...how funny it would be if you were him...
Your state desperately needs it. People smoke moldy cartel schwag, dont get high, and turn to pills. Its sad. I had to buy weed from a gangster. He once accidentally threw coke in my car and I didnt even know about it until the next morning when my parents found it...lol
From what I understand about that dreary wasteland of neverending raids and corruptasfuck cops your best bet is doing a few plants in a Already Established Greenhouse or a very high powered magnet to slow your usage down. I would be so sketched out having a few kw on 12/12 there. At least do 11/13 and perhaps start even smaller than that. Good luck.
Your state desperately needs it. People smoke moldy cartel schwag, dont get high, and turn to pills. Its sad. I had to buy weed from a gangster. He once accidentally threw coke in my car and I didnt even know about it until the next morning when my parents found it...lol
From what I understand about that dreary wasteland of neverending raids and corruptasfuck cops your best bet is doing a few plants in a Already Established Greenhouse or a very high powered magnet to slow your usage down. I would be so sketched out having a few kw on 12/12 there. At least do 11/13 and perhaps start even smaller than that. Good luck.
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Sometimes the most lucrative isnt the most obvious choice. Like some mentioned the milf niche... look for niches...
CoCoSativas
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In the words of stoned trout YEEHAW!
CoCoSativas
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Connoisseur market bro! Sick niche market where you fetch high prices. My stuff dosent yield as much but I can get more for mine than anything local if I want (I'm actually in the middle price unless it's a really low yield) but it can be tough breaking into that market. Finding customers with cash and competition can be fierce. Maybe you only have one guy to compete with in your city for that market but what if he's one of the best going and we'll established...
Selling dope can be tough depending on who you are, who you know and where you are
themessiah710
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Being able to get it all off wouldn't really be a problem. I'd be more worried about being able to produce enough consistently without getting caught.
CoCoSativas
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Well I just pulled 2 zips a plant with a bunch of connoisseur sativas in my 4x4 with a 600. I sell for 200 a Oz I could easily get 250 for it all day. Anyway I finished 7 because 2 testers from the other variety Hermed. I got a Oz of each so I actually pulled a pound out of it with all different strains I've never ran, from seed, pulled a week early lightly seeded and fighting thrips and gnats the whole grow and I still came out with this
I grew them all in 1 gal pots of coco. Now I have a fair amount of experience growing but with the right strains, and technique you can pull a dope yield with lots of shit. I hit my target under difficult circumstances which means under ideal conditions I would have yielded more with a bunch of stuff that isn't really meant to yield.
I have a buddy who grows ogs. He's like me he veges his shit into trees the whole time something flowers that way the next round is big. Otherwise the stuff we grow wouldn't yield well. Our varieties require bigger plant size to get big buds. My super lemon haze is a terrible yield small but vegged so it's already well branched it yields...
You may need to figure out if what you want to grow needs let, maybe a screen or you could do like me and do a sea of green. I do it with plants you would usually last but it's part of my techniques to control plants. I'm able to grow what would otherwise get huge and keep them smaller than myself which is a miracle... I rely heavily on rootbinding to control my plants size otherwise I'd fit maybe 4 rather than 9. While I'd probably yield similarly I like variety so that's why I grow like this. More numbers is more variety...
If plant numbers is a concern grow big plants dwc...
There's a guy I know pulling over 20 zips with green crack and a screen. Gc is certainly connoisseur grade.
Lots of ways to make it happen. I don't mind longer flower because lots of them are so big and yield so well grown right... I'm really into sativa dom hybrids right now and they are treating me right. I'm finding lots of 70 day good yield plants that please my need for a sativa experience.
I grew them all in 1 gal pots of coco. Now I have a fair amount of experience growing but with the right strains, and technique you can pull a dope yield with lots of shit. I hit my target under difficult circumstances which means under ideal conditions I would have yielded more with a bunch of stuff that isn't really meant to yield.
I have a buddy who grows ogs. He's like me he veges his shit into trees the whole time something flowers that way the next round is big. Otherwise the stuff we grow wouldn't yield well. Our varieties require bigger plant size to get big buds. My super lemon haze is a terrible yield small but vegged so it's already well branched it yields...
You may need to figure out if what you want to grow needs let, maybe a screen or you could do like me and do a sea of green. I do it with plants you would usually last but it's part of my techniques to control plants. I'm able to grow what would otherwise get huge and keep them smaller than myself which is a miracle... I rely heavily on rootbinding to control my plants size otherwise I'd fit maybe 4 rather than 9. While I'd probably yield similarly I like variety so that's why I grow like this. More numbers is more variety...
If plant numbers is a concern grow big plants dwc...
There's a guy I know pulling over 20 zips with green crack and a screen. Gc is certainly connoisseur grade.
Lots of ways to make it happen. I don't mind longer flower because lots of them are so big and yield so well grown right... I'm really into sativa dom hybrids right now and they are treating me right. I'm finding lots of 70 day good yield plants that please my need for a sativa experience.
Have you positively identified the "gnats" and you're sure they aren't root aphids? Between thrips and fungus gnats they shouldn't give you any trouble at all with the right stuff to battle them. Monterrey's Garden Spray (Spinosad) for thrips and Microbe Lift BMC for fungus gnats. They are organic biological controls and work very well for what they're intended. I highly recommend them both.
CoCoSativas
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Have you positively identified the "gnats" and you're sure they aren't root aphids? Between thrips and fungus gnats they shouldn't give you any trouble at all with the right stuff to battle them. Monterrey's Garden Spray (Spinosad) for thrips and Microbe Lift BMC for fungus gnats. They are organic biological controls and work very well for what they're intended. I highly recommend them both.
I'm not a bug expert but they were not aphids they flew well.
I found pH problems and thrips damage... classic signs of thrips and gnats...
In canada we don't have access to azamax or other spinosad products it seems. No azamax anyway... I've never heard of the others so I'm guessing we aren't in the same region/country
I used predatory nematodes. Put them in my mix eater. Bye bye buggies and I laughed my ass off cause this time I wasn't fucking around I hit them so hard the water was tinted with nematodes. .. I wondered if the food bothered the nematodes but if it did who cares they ate the fuck out of all the Nast shit living in da coco!
I did a final weight out my one really small plant yielded about a Oz. .. so because I had a tiny pheno I fell a little shy but this is sativa bud I'm talking about. Oz is huge...
Both those products should be easy to get, if not I don't see why you couldn't order them. I would also encourage you to use yellow sticky traps hanging around to catch flying adults and then you can positively identify them. Root aphids and fungus gnats look similar without any magnification but once you know the difference they are easy enough to spot. Fungus gnats fly slower and kind of buzz around. They are easy enough to swat or smash mid air. Root aphids are noticeably faster and fly more erratically. They are harder to swat or smash with your hands mid air and they anticipate you coming in for the kill if they are on a flat surface or leaf.
http://www.amazon.com/Ecological-Labs-AEL20036-Mosquito-Treatment/dp/B007UTE55A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1449767674&sr=8-1&keywords=microbe+lift+bmc
http://www.amazon.com/Monterey-Garden-Insect-Spinosad-Concentrate/dp/B002BP12LI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1449767727&sr=8-1&keywords=spinosad
Cashew
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You could start your own business and grow big.The business would serve as a cover for the high electricity bills and could be used to launder money.Then after you multiplied your money you could do some research and look in what states you fetch the most mula for your bud and repeat the process
