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Mafeki
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Large scale commercial aeroponics, pot farm?
#644709 - 11/07/12 09:59 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Would this be practical to start a commercial indoor, several stories, few acres, pot farm using aeroponics or how would you do it?
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Hawksresurrection
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Re: Large scale commercial aeroponics, pot farm? [Re: Mafeki]
#644713 - 11/07/12 10:24 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Wow, uh. That's a pretty big topic. They're are so many ways to go about that type of thing.
First question. How much experience growing do you have?
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Mafeki
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Re: Large scale commercial aeroponics, pot farm? [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#644715 - 11/07/12 11:39 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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non-whatsoever, though I've been interested in aeroponics, I know what it is and how it works. Though, what I figure I could do is get a loan, or figure some investments, or maybe low-budget project this crap, just to get things going, then improve from there. You know one of those high risk, make it or break it deals.
I have some questions, but it's more about during the drying process, I read that when you dry cannabis plants, they'll send all the remaining nutrients it has to the bud enriching it, so my question is could in increase that enriching process by spraying them like aeroponics but not nearly as often so it'll lengthen the drying process making the bud awesome?
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Re: Large scale commercial aeroponics, pot farm? [Re: Mafeki]
#644716 - 11/07/12 11:50 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Wow, everything about that second paragraph is wrong. When you dry pot you kill the plant, trim it, then hang it upside down to dry.
Growing weed isn't as simple as throwing plants in a system and voila! You have pounds and pounds. It takes practice, and research, and patience. I suggest you start out with a light or two at home and go from there.
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Mafeki
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Re: Large scale commercial aeroponics, pot farm? [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#644719 - 11/08/12 12:38 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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I had people tell me that IRL that swear they grew pot before, though I guess that doesn't mean shit. They said when you hang it upside down that's when the bud get enriched.
I'd rather hire someone like you to come do all that for me, any logical business man/entrepreneur would do it, right? I'm only trying to get general insight on it until I'm done with school.
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Hawksresurrection
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Re: Large scale commercial aeroponics, pot farm? [Re: Mafeki]
#644720 - 11/08/12 12:51 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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What they're saying isn't really an accurate portrayal of how drying works.
There are people out there running businesses, where all they do is setup grow rooms.
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Re: Large scale commercial aeroponics, pot farm? [Re: Mafeki]
#644732 - 11/08/12 03:54 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Mafeki said: I had people tell me that IRL that swear they grew pot before, though I guess that doesn't mean shit. They said when you hang it upside down that's when the bud get enriched.
I'd rather hire someone like you to come do all that for me, any logical business man/entrepreneur would do it, right? I'm only trying to get general insight on it until I'm done with school.
Maybe what they meant to say was that proper drying and curing of the bud is what brings the flavor out.
No matter how much you paid for the setup you won't just be able to buy the equipment and expect it to do everything for you. There is much more to gardening than how you feed your plants.
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Mafeki
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Re: Large scale commercial aeroponics, pot farm? [Re: phychotron]
#644821 - 11/08/12 04:21 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Well, I wouldn't ever start a project without knowing absolutely everything I could know, I usually learn about it then start to respect the work involved and will forget about it. So if you guys were to hypothetically start your own commercial pot farm would you grow it in dirt, or what, hypothetics was the purpose of making this thread not literal ambitions.
That's what I would probably do, contract a firm to setup everything for me.
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Hawksresurrection
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Re: Large scale commercial aeroponics, pot farm? [Re: Mafeki]
#644825 - 11/08/12 04:31 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Well I would be growing for at least a couple of years before starting an endeavor like that.
But that's a lot of personal preference. I would be torn, currently I grow in soil. But you need to be able to dispose of it after each grow. Not the same with hydroponics. Just empty the res into your drains. You also need to think about the logistics of timing and watering everything.....Soooo much to get into with this man.
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Re: Large scale commercial aeroponics, pot farm? [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#644852 - 11/08/12 06:47 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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For any large scale operation I would work toward self-sustainability, probably with an aquaponics set up. To echo Hawk, I personally wouldn't want to give up dirt but there would be so much waste.
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Mafeki
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Re: Large scale commercial aeroponics, pot farm? [Re: NameInUse]
#644871 - 11/08/12 08:23 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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I don't get why you guys think person experience is necessary sure it couldn't hurt but I bet there's nothing that couldn't be learn without experience. I'm sure not every doctor has treated every kinds of bronchitis but I'm sure they know how, shit 95% of what doctors know is from textbooks.
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Re: Large scale commercial aeroponics, pot farm? [Re: Mafeki]
#644873 - 11/08/12 08:27 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Because you could end up with whole crops failed. And to start off with that large of a grow, which costs a shit ton to setup, you would be loosing tens of thousands of dollars a month. You need to know how to grow. There's no shortcuts around that.
I've think this way because I've been growing for 8 years. I have first hand experience. I help setup grow rooms and watch people fail, even when they have done their research.
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Mafeki
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Re: Large scale commercial aeroponics, pot farm? [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#644874 - 11/08/12 08:35 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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okay, I guess ill rely on a agriculturist/hydroculture whatever someone knowledgeable.
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Re: Large scale commercial aeroponics, pot farm? [Re: Mafeki]
#644878 - 11/08/12 08:57 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Mafeki said:
okay, I guess ill rely on a agriculturist/hydroculture whatever someone knowledgeable.
hell man, get some books START SMALL once you got it figure out, you'd just be doing it on a bigger scale. because if you were to sink all that money, into a massive grow. only to watch it fail... you'll be like
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Mafeki
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Re: Large scale commercial aeroponics, pot farm? [Re: brainsOplenty]
#644935 - 11/09/12 01:38 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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That makes sense, lets do this!
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Magash
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Re: Large scale commercial aeroponics, pot farm? [Re: Mafeki]
#644945 - 11/09/12 04:54 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've been under the lights since 1985. I have 8 what you would call decent size gardens in Cali, 1 in Colo, and 1 in Hawaii and I can safely say that if you believe this Quote:
I don't get why you guys think person experience is necessary
You're in for a expensive lesson. Very easily 95% or more actually of the people that start growing find out what it's about and give up after the first try. There is a whole lot of growing equipment out-there gathering dust.
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Re: Large scale commercial aeroponics, pot farm? [Re: Magash]
#644949 - 11/09/12 06:04 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Magash said: There is a whole lot of growing equipment out-there gathering dust.
Including my first attempt at growing using aero lol Granted it was all DIY. The majority of my low priced materials were probably offgassing and I spent most of my time battling root rot. Growing in a complicated system that is almost constantly drenching the roots in a nutrient mist isn't a good setting to try learning about the plant itself. Aero taught me a lot but ultimately I don't ever cross contaminate my grow mediums by hand watering like I did with recirculating nutes.
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Re: Large scale commercial aeroponics, pot farm? [Re: NameInUse]
#644950 - 11/09/12 06:10 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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I switched from a complicated system requiring additional timers and pumps that could fail at any moment (not good for a root system suspended in air) running expensive H&G nutrients to organics in dirt. Always KISS
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