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Hi all,
With my first grow I want to get a plant to harvest on a $250 budget for materials. Hopefully I'll learn a lot and don't impede myself too much by setting such a strict budget since I know quality of some of my items will be lower.
Items already owned - drill, box cutter, screwdriver, measuring tape, duct tape, scissors, power strip, zip ties, temp/humidity meter, seeds.
$13 - 4 5gallon buckets x $3.25- I rigged together a space bucket over the past week using four 5 gallon buckets. It sits about 30 inches tall. As much as I wanted it to be a super clean fancy bucket, but I realized quickly I don't have the tools or skills needed yet.
$13 - pc fans - exhaust fan and fan to circulate air.
$8 - timer- will put bucket on 18/6 schedule
$8 - set of 5 3gallon fabric pots - Using a 3 gallon fabric pot that I needed to fold down a little bit so that I have a few more inches to work with. I should be able to use the pot as an anchor for lst. I'm thinking I should have gone with 2 gallon pots, but I'll see how this goes.
$40 - 216w UFO LED - 72 3w bulbs, actually wattage pulled is probably 60-75. I didn't feel like spending half the budget on a higher quality light, but there was a 300w growstar light that I think I could've spent the extra $28
$24 - Bushdoctor Coco Loco - I should've done more research here and just got a brick of coco. This potting mix seems more like coco coir with organics mixed in, but I'll run with it. Fox farm customer service suggested no nutes until week 2/3 just keep an eye. It was 2cu ft of potting mix so I imagine this is going to last me a ton of grows as I will do 1 plant at a time.
$27 - AN coco bloom A+B - not sure if I need to go to regular based on the potting mix. I plan on following @TaNg easy auto feeding schedule with adjustments as needed.
$12 -calmag - coco specific nutes supposed to help for this issue but you never know.
$8 - pH up and down kit - tap water looks to come out over 8 while water from the fridge is looking to be more towards 4.5.
I've got about $100 of the budget available at the moment. Here's what I probably need:
$20 - pH and tds meters
$20 - AN overdrive and carboload
Anything else you can think of?
I dropped a blue cush and kush autos I got as freebies from seedsman, hopefully one pops her head up. If they both do, I think I might turn one into a cup grow and get some CFLs on it. If neither do, I'll drop some more.
Pics will come as things progress!
Thanks all.
With my first grow I want to get a plant to harvest on a $250 budget for materials. Hopefully I'll learn a lot and don't impede myself too much by setting such a strict budget since I know quality of some of my items will be lower.
Items already owned - drill, box cutter, screwdriver, measuring tape, duct tape, scissors, power strip, zip ties, temp/humidity meter, seeds.
$13 - 4 5gallon buckets x $3.25- I rigged together a space bucket over the past week using four 5 gallon buckets. It sits about 30 inches tall. As much as I wanted it to be a super clean fancy bucket, but I realized quickly I don't have the tools or skills needed yet.
$13 - pc fans - exhaust fan and fan to circulate air.
$8 - timer- will put bucket on 18/6 schedule
$8 - set of 5 3gallon fabric pots - Using a 3 gallon fabric pot that I needed to fold down a little bit so that I have a few more inches to work with. I should be able to use the pot as an anchor for lst. I'm thinking I should have gone with 2 gallon pots, but I'll see how this goes.
$40 - 216w UFO LED - 72 3w bulbs, actually wattage pulled is probably 60-75. I didn't feel like spending half the budget on a higher quality light, but there was a 300w growstar light that I think I could've spent the extra $28
$24 - Bushdoctor Coco Loco - I should've done more research here and just got a brick of coco. This potting mix seems more like coco coir with organics mixed in, but I'll run with it. Fox farm customer service suggested no nutes until week 2/3 just keep an eye. It was 2cu ft of potting mix so I imagine this is going to last me a ton of grows as I will do 1 plant at a time.
$27 - AN coco bloom A+B - not sure if I need to go to regular based on the potting mix. I plan on following @TaNg easy auto feeding schedule with adjustments as needed.
$12 -calmag - coco specific nutes supposed to help for this issue but you never know.
$8 - pH up and down kit - tap water looks to come out over 8 while water from the fridge is looking to be more towards 4.5.
I've got about $100 of the budget available at the moment. Here's what I probably need:
$20 - pH and tds meters
$20 - AN overdrive and carboload
Anything else you can think of?
I dropped a blue cush and kush autos I got as freebies from seedsman, hopefully one pops her head up. If they both do, I think I might turn one into a cup grow and get some CFLs on it. If neither do, I'll drop some more.
Pics will come as things progress!
Thanks all.
cant wait to see what you can do in such a small size space 
