Let me break my last scenario down for you guys...clones at my local dispensary are $10...or if I would to order good quality seeds they are also $10 a piece. Unless I have a mother plant for only clones I cant take clones nor do I have any friends or anyone to hook me up with clones. My little grow tent can handle up to 6 clones...
6 clones - $60
Good soil for grow $20
Good nutrients - $20
Electricity for lighting $20 a month ( 3 month grow so $60 )
Total = $160
Since I'm running a CFL my bud quality isn't as high as the dispensary bud with HPS lighting.
Oz of good weed at my dispensary under HPS $175
Say I were to run HPS like you guys are saying....the power bill would be up to $50-$80 a month..... $240 to produce an oz of middle shelf bud.
If legalization kicks in, Cannabis will be grown everywhere so bud will be even cheaper than it is now. From a financial standpoint, it doesn't make sense to me. Some areas you can't even find bud so you have no choice but to grow.
it's difficult to grow dispensary-quality bud with cfls.
You should be able to stick at least a 400w setup in there, and then your overhead won't be much, a novice grower could pull down a qp on a 400 w setup, four plants an oz a piece, no problem.
And don't take this the wrong way man, that picture of the darth vader?
well, you can do better than that, no problem.
Don't give up, nothing in life is easy.
If you want it bad enough, and if you want to grow better stuff than any dispensary, keep at it.
Genetics are where you want to concentrate, then a good 400w HPS or broad spectrum MH