Thanks dude. I will proceed
Fertilizer only costs a bunch of money if you choose. You can grow weed with inexpensive fertilizers and end up with the same results as you can get with the expensive bottled nutrients and a bunch of additives. Even in coco I can get through an entire grow for under $10 in nutrients. In soil it's even less.
That's not my experience. You get what you pay for. A 3part system that the company spent millions to develop.
I use the same stuff they dilute with water and put in a bottle. It just comes in dry form and I mix it with water myself. The ingredients come from the same fertilizer factories. I'm just not paying for bottles, labels, marketing, etc... Mine comes in a bag inside a simple plain box. Same stuff in those bottles of GH. I've used GH 3 part and it was no better than what I have been using. One of the reasons I switched was because of cost. I found that there was no added benefit to paying more for the same chemical salts.
I only grow weed 5 months out the year. $250 running cost is ok for stuff that'll sell $15-$20 a gram. What's a pound run? $2500?
So you suggested that someone do the math, but you don't really care what the math says? OK guy. GH is fine, but no better than Jacks 321.
Not where I live.
But you know the value. That's all that counts.
Not worried about nutes. I barely use any
As Biden would say, "Here's the deal", you can spend $100 on GH Floura Trio (or Lucas formula) to make less than 1000 gallons of nutes, or you can spend $100 on Jacks 321, and make close to 4000 gallons of nutes.
wow, what line are you running for under 10 bucks a grow?
Prolly makes his own powder nutes
A local product from the hydro shop down the street. It's similar to Jack's. A micronutrient blend, calcium nitrate, and MKP. But I'm about out and I don't plan on purchasing any more as I'm transitioning over to organic super soil growing and just water only. I'm currently 4 weeks into flower using nothing but plain water.
Of course that's going to depend on the grow size, but for me in flowering I use around half a gallon of feed per plant in a 4 sq/ft (2'x2') space, per day. If you have 4 plants in a 4x4 tent, that's 2-gallons of feed a day. If we do as @Beehive suggested, and do the math, we can figure out how much it costs to feed a 4x4 tent during a full flowering cycle. As previously noted, you can make close to 4000 gallons of Jacks 321 for $100, so that would be $0.025/gallon, but let's round up and call it three cents a gallon. If you are feeding 2 gals a day, that means it costs you six cents a day for nutes. Let's assume a 70-day flowering cycle, with no flush; that would be $4.20 (convenient number) per grow per 4x4 space. Of course that doesn't account for the veg cycle, or any additional supplements that you might want to add, but you get the idea.
