Bandit420
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You ever do something for your room, cab, tent, outdoor plot where before you did it you thought it would be a huge upgrade and then it goes just about as horrible as it possibly could?
Additionally, you ever do or buy something you thought would be good but then it changed everything about how you grow and was the best idea you ever had?
I've had a few of both....
The best idea that quickly became the worst idea ever for me might've been a CO2 generator. In particularly this fucker right here
This was before affordable CO2 monitors were around and there were only CO2 controllers with starting prices at $300 up to a couple grand for the fancy do it all units.
I have a natural gas line in my room and Green Air came out with this NG fueled, air cooled CO2 gen.
"Brilliant!" I thought to myself. I'll be able to gas my ladies and the air cooling won't add a single BTU of heat to my room was my reasoning for this buy.
$500 later and some work on install it was up and running. Hell yeah!
I close up the room and go to work. Excited all day to get home and see how my plants love the new toy.
I get home and walk in and they're cooked. Temps are at 170*F and this thing is roaring like a damn fully stoked fire place. The air cooling on it was absolute ineffective garbage. I coulda made BBQ in my room.
Very pissed off the next day, it was out of the room, and listed on ebay.
I dabbled with CO2 a couple times after that fiasco. Those Exhale bags loaded with compost? Yeah had that and it was garbage. Tried a tank system but quickly dismissed it after emptying a tank in under 2 days.
Needless to say my CO2 wanderlust is deader than dead now and am fine with whatever is there.
Another bad idea but was ok really, just awkward to manage indoors was this one.
Coming in at #2 of my worst ideas and buys was the Geopot 4'x6'x2' PVC framed raised bed
Yeah a raised bed indoors.
Most would balk at the idea but not me. I had convinced myself it was a great idea and it was in the end a pretty bad one.
First of all it was expensive AF to fill with good soil. Next it was near impossible to keep adequately and evenly watered.
So after two grows it was out but not all was lost. The bed was set up outdoors and was used for about 5 more years until it fell apart from wear and some of the original soil is still in containers today. The PVC frame became a shade cloth frame for my peppers yesterday so it did have some reuse and recycle qualities but was just impractical to set it up indoors.
Another thing about the raised bed was the misleading advertising pics. That's not what they look like at all. That soil is dry and those plants are babies so it's staged for that photo.
What actually happens is the fabric expands and bloats off the frame and the frame bends. So what you really get is a sort of oval shaped swollen raised bad of dirt, not that nice and orderly thing in the picture
Quite possibly the single best thing and buy I ever did for growing my weed was getting into airpots.
Circa 2010 a lady in Florida was using airpots to show her exotic plants at plant shows. They intrigued me. She bought them in England and agreed to sell me 3 in different sizes. This was a couple years before they were widely available in the USA.
This move would change the way I grew pot forever and what bumped me out of hydroponics and into organics.
Since they came out there's been some copycats but nothing as good as the original. IMO they are the best container to veg soil plants and it's not close. If there was something better, I'd be using it. 13 years later they are still my go-to container and I'll recommend them with confidence to any grower looking for a game changer container.
To understand exactly what they do and how they do it, here's a video that explains it much better than I ever could. Everything she describes is 100% legit and spot on
Additionally, you ever do or buy something you thought would be good but then it changed everything about how you grow and was the best idea you ever had?
I've had a few of both....
The best idea that quickly became the worst idea ever for me might've been a CO2 generator. In particularly this fucker right here
This was before affordable CO2 monitors were around and there were only CO2 controllers with starting prices at $300 up to a couple grand for the fancy do it all units.
I have a natural gas line in my room and Green Air came out with this NG fueled, air cooled CO2 gen.
"Brilliant!" I thought to myself. I'll be able to gas my ladies and the air cooling won't add a single BTU of heat to my room was my reasoning for this buy.
$500 later and some work on install it was up and running. Hell yeah!
I close up the room and go to work. Excited all day to get home and see how my plants love the new toy.
I get home and walk in and they're cooked. Temps are at 170*F and this thing is roaring like a damn fully stoked fire place. The air cooling on it was absolute ineffective garbage. I coulda made BBQ in my room.
Very pissed off the next day, it was out of the room, and listed on ebay.
I dabbled with CO2 a couple times after that fiasco. Those Exhale bags loaded with compost? Yeah had that and it was garbage. Tried a tank system but quickly dismissed it after emptying a tank in under 2 days.
Needless to say my CO2 wanderlust is deader than dead now and am fine with whatever is there.
Another bad idea but was ok really, just awkward to manage indoors was this one.
Coming in at #2 of my worst ideas and buys was the Geopot 4'x6'x2' PVC framed raised bed
Yeah a raised bed indoors.
Most would balk at the idea but not me. I had convinced myself it was a great idea and it was in the end a pretty bad one.First of all it was expensive AF to fill with good soil. Next it was near impossible to keep adequately and evenly watered.
So after two grows it was out but not all was lost. The bed was set up outdoors and was used for about 5 more years until it fell apart from wear and some of the original soil is still in containers today. The PVC frame became a shade cloth frame for my peppers yesterday so it did have some reuse and recycle qualities but was just impractical to set it up indoors.
Another thing about the raised bed was the misleading advertising pics. That's not what they look like at all. That soil is dry and those plants are babies so it's staged for that photo.
What actually happens is the fabric expands and bloats off the frame and the frame bends. So what you really get is a sort of oval shaped swollen raised bad of dirt, not that nice and orderly thing in the picture
Quite possibly the single best thing and buy I ever did for growing my weed was getting into airpots.
Circa 2010 a lady in Florida was using airpots to show her exotic plants at plant shows. They intrigued me. She bought them in England and agreed to sell me 3 in different sizes. This was a couple years before they were widely available in the USA.
This move would change the way I grew pot forever and what bumped me out of hydroponics and into organics.
Since they came out there's been some copycats but nothing as good as the original. IMO they are the best container to veg soil plants and it's not close. If there was something better, I'd be using it. 13 years later they are still my go-to container and I'll recommend them with confidence to any grower looking for a game changer container.
To understand exactly what they do and how they do it, here's a video that explains it much better than I ever could. Everything she describes is 100% legit and spot on
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