I can get behind that idea. It’s mostly an argument of cost per year to me rn as the cost per grow difference itself for myself personally rn is negligible. Maybe in a few years once I’m comfortable enough during my grow that the only questions I ask is about odd issues, but that’s pretty much where I’m at now.
While 15 a month is nice I’m on my last jar now and I’m a bit away from my next harvest. I’m trying to find my zone where I can keep myself medicated as I need to, so that I’m not living off ibuprofen while I wait on more weed. I’ll have to deal this time, but I’m trying to plan for the future. I go through a hour a month apparently and honestly I’m at 10g left to last me until harvest.
Tbh all of this is from me freaking out that I’ll have to go back to Tylenol to move around without my back grinding itself to dust or at least feeling it do that.
When I went into the diy mindset to get the pound I need between grows I’ve been seeing that it’s way more expensive than I can afford to pay for. I was raised to be as frugal as humanly possible when calculating long term cost, but I’m trying my best to listen to logic instead and at the wattage I need to achieve the yields I need it’s currently prohibitively expensive at 600-1k per light that I don’t have, but I could manage to buy a 1000w HPS/MH for 100-200. My problem is the electric bill will be too much with the cooling costs. If this summer when I just had my 150w HPS running is what you all deal with on average with a 1000w that’s really enough to deter me from that.
Sorry about the wall, but I just had to put it in words to understand what I’ve been told. Part of my disability I guess. Sometimes I can’t process something until I ask someone and that’s enough to Kickstart my thought process in the right direction. Again sorry for the trouble.
Something I just realized through all this is that you’re all using 200w or so to compare to the performance of a 1kw HPS with tastier bud?
Also what about CMH? I’ve heard amazing things about it compared to old tech hid.
Can someone show me the thread where @Palindrome is doing the Chinese cob stuff? I’m thinking ATM that’s where I’m most comfortable even if they don’t compare to solstrips or luminous cobs unless someone can recommend a good build for me.
I’m a total noob here and I’m just trying to figure out what’s best for me. I’m not trying to argue in favor of hid lights. I’m just trying to find the better investment and my learning disability combined with my anxiety attack made it very hard for me to understand what I was told.
I’ve smoked since as I realized after awhile that I was stuck in a cycling rant I couldn’t seem to break out of. Again sorry about that. I try not to as often as possible, but occasionally one finds it’s way out the cracks by surprise.