Hello all! I bought 2 bigger grow tents and new lights a few months ago and I had my old ones just sitting in the basement so I I decided I'd do a bare bones budget grow for fun to see how it turns out. I'm going low budget on everything so my materials consist of 2 cheap mars 300's, four 5 gallon hardware store buckets with drilled drain and air holes ( ghetto air pots lol) , 3 mbap and 1 skystomper, cheap dollar store soil ( literally $1 per bag !) , cheap miracle grow perlite, miracle grow nutes, and a $50 ebay tent. I hadn't planned on doing a journal but at day 20ish 2 of the mbap and the ss are suprisingly still alive and doing well. The 3rd mbap is on day 3 and still under 6 for $2 cfls with $1 homedepot adapters. Maybe this journal will be interesting for someone without a lot of money to spend that may be thinking about how to get into growing. I'll update with some pics a little later.
. All those months of seed filled joints popping like a mini fireworks show
. Hopefully someone can see this journal and know that it doesn't take all of that to cop some good smoke. I was telling my wife that this $1 dollar store dirt isn't doing too bad at all. I bought some cheap natures care organic miracle grow mix to transplant int if things went south, but the girls are still pushing along in this grave dirt 
