OneHitDone
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Enjoy Gentlemen
Are cobs worth it?
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testiclees
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No probs , youre welcome. Maybe you can refrain from the psycho, bloated gas bag postings???
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greenhouse\lightdep growers in my area are already getting hit with mites.
for a product with equivalent quality of Tobacco, traditional greenhouses with light dep will be the future.
But for clean meds controlled atmosphere greenhouses using both sunlight+ artificial lighting+light dep is needed.
In the future 100% indoor will fade, since its really hard to compete with less than a 1.00 a gram.
for a product with equivalent quality of Tobacco, traditional greenhouses with light dep will be the future.
But for clean meds controlled atmosphere greenhouses using both sunlight+ artificial lighting+light dep is needed.
In the future 100% indoor will fade, since its really hard to compete with less than a 1.00 a gram.
ttystikk
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As costs associated with growing indoors continue to fall, more and more crops of more varied sizes and shapes become economically viable. Leafy greens are the beginning, there's a lot more coming- almost everything in your crisper drawer.
Greengenes707
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You're a reef guy? coral frags=$$$ right?
The apache guys have some sick reefs.
testiclees
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Micro greens get top dollah in these parts. The tweezer chef brigade considers a few grams of fenugreek or basil sprouts a legit veg garnish.
ttystikk
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There's no place quite like a fully controlled indoor environment to grow them, no variables.
testiclees
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We have a colleague who dominates the very top end micro greens and sprout mkt around here. I'll check in on their techniques. They are organic certified and extremely non-$$grovelling. They also have crazy, high brix carrots that are sought out by local celeb chefs. Their eggs are luscious!
Growmau5
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I'd love to see those someday.
I was a reef guy, until I made a business out of it and had to deal with clients & customer service. After a few years, the passion was gone and I didn't even like the hobby anymore.
as far as coral frags=$$ , its just as trendy as the strain game. One month a rare color morph is going for $60 per polyp, the next month its $10. Shipping live corals never appealed to me, and the overhead of holding tanks and propagation is not for the faint of heart.
this is about the time I started hating working on people's fail ass fish tanks. this guy spent $200k on his and it was a swamp, until I got ahold of it. took 4 months to redo it. (this is a before pic)
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Airwalker16
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That blows my mind.
I used to do reef tanks! lots of $$ took me a while to realize that growing at least pays for itself.
JorgeGonzales
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OK that's basically everybody at this point has done reef tanks. The costs calm down once you get a mature tank and stop adding stock. Then again I just had a shrimp die and an algae outbreak. Annoying. But I have corals that are 15 years old at this point, I wouldn't even know who to trust them with. Certainly not anybody I know, or a local fish store.
@Growmau5 that picture is amazing. It was once my dream to have an in-wall tank. Once!
I custom built a half circle wall tank, a bit smaller than growmau5's, with integrated refugium on the back in addition to the standard one underneath.
But then I got divorced. c'est la vie.
ttystikk
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Lol, like growing weed isn't?!
JorgeGonzales
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The funny thing is how much they have in common, and how caught up in gadgets and temperatures and water measurements and dosers and lighting everybody gets. Beneficial bacteria, nitrate cycles, controlling pests.
But KISS works for reef tanks too, go figure. Provide the basics, salinity, temp, clean water and all the biology sorts itself out by tossing in a couple of rocks from the actual ocean. It's pretty neat. Mind-blowing, really.
since1991
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I remember when Hamilton Technologies got popped in 1989 during the Operation Green Merchant bullshit. They went down and came back strictly reef aquarium lighting amd equipment company. I bought my first 400 watt hps from them. The "Max" reflector. Ordered to my girlfriends grandmas house for security and paid for with graduation open house money. Lol. Good times. Back then they werent playing and if you got popped they treated your op like a meth lab. Much more relaxed nowa days. I was paranoid as hell back in them dark ages.