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Skybound
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I’m all about finding the best, but I’m also lazy and I know it. That’s one of the reasons why I went DWC in the first place. It’s so easy for me now that I really don’t even think...I just do. You put the science back into the equation for me. I love reading your journals. You’re a freaking scientist...I’m an old dude in a barn.
I just like to over complicate things to see if I can fix things I break on an extremely thin budget. I shaved my costs substantially in recent months, now I wish to shave them the rest of the way and expand (not quit) my grow. As it turns out, to start my small business and survive I will need a bit more funds and with politics getting so much closer to legalizing, I'm feeling a little more brave. I still want to go the CNC route ultimately, but I will need to build a work shop in the basement and also take car of other concerns. That said, I will be ditching hydro and getting into soil. If I understand it correctly, a 10 gallon dirt ball will weigh less than a 10 gallon res which would allow me to bloom 9 medium/large plants instead of my current 3, and the soil is reusable as long as I amend it correctly and give the microbes time to stabilize the media and get to eating out the rocks.
The great part about trying hard to up the brix in hydro is that I learned a lot about organic growing and the various commonly used soil amendments having the same type of elemental ratings I'm already used to working with, I can build my own soil based on other people's experience and shared recipes. Soil uses less water which means less weight, and even though I'll yield less per plant, I'd still get more for not much more effort in a media that's basically reusable for a fair amount of time.