Tell me about it.. These big ass electric bills r killin' me 2 it sucks.. My ship is about 2 sink cuz of the mega high bills plus nutes & everything els that goes in2 growing.. I fuckin HATE this part.. Sometimes I think it's not even worth it.. I'm super broke & hungry but I got 2 spend 100's on shit 4 my plants 2 keep them happy & well feed.. But it's takin a toll on me I don't got shit but happy plants.. My stomach is rumbling cuz I'm hungry.. But the plants r happy.. Sometimes I don't even care & I want 2 close shop & hide under a rock.. Cuz with all the money I'm spending on these plants I could eat super good & have a gang of good shit.. I could of went 2 the clubs & bought my dank.. Well I'll stop my Bitching on ur thread I'm juss sad & super mad cuz I'm super broke.. Oh well this is life I guess.. All I no is this Dog can't ever catch a break I'm always Fucked some way or another.. It's got 2 get better some day I hope sorry bout the long post on ur thread..
Look... this may just be a middle-aged woman speaking here, but I'm going to speak honestly with you, as if you were my own son. I have two and they can both break my heart because they, like you, DON'T have their priorities straight.
PLEASE, please tell me you're not doing this to make a living. Please. This is like trying to make a living slinging aquarium fish. I speak from experience here. You can
not make a living selling aquarium fish. Unless you can move pounds of weed at a decent price per month, you're not going to be able to meet basic needs, let alone make what could be considered 'a living.'
You can grow dank plants and not be hungry. You can at
least save money on nutrients, at the very least. I have a strong opinion about indoor growing and its impact on the environment, but I'll keep that to myself. But the other side of that opinion has to do with the bills, and those bills are why my husband and I have chosen to go solar. But see, he's got a full time job that pays well, we can afford it. We can afford to develop our property so we can grow our own food, to feed ourselves.
If you were my son I would ask you to scale it back, find other ways to feed the plants (it can be done, I swear!) that won't mean that YOU go hungry. I feel you have your priorities switched around here. The plant grows for us, not the other way around.
Save your mother, family and friends some grief and heartache worrying about you, ok? Use lower wattage lights, supplement those with CFLs or fluoros. Reduce that energy bill. Using lower wattage lighting also means that energy won't be spent on reducing the heat energy that's a significant portion of the energy lighting is consuming. Environmental control is a bitch, isn't it?
Just, please, feed yourself first. This makes my heart so sad to think people are going hungry just to grow pot. That's too convoluted, it's wrong.
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To answer the original question, I've shut down my indoor for now. I cannot morally reconcile the issues inherent, not as long as I'm fully on-grid and reliant upon what I currently view as a truly evil company (that being PG&Evil), nor could we
afford to pay for an extremely energy-consumptive endeavor. When we've got sun shining, for free, every day, during summer at least?
I had these same issues with keeping miniature coral reefs, and I no longer do so. Almost *all* animals are collected from the wild, with little compensation for the fisherpeople, and those orgs experience exceedingly poor handling conditions, and therefore concurrent death rates, for the organisms in question. Freshwater fishes that are easily bred, especially within the states, are another thing entirely. But, I digress.
Because we could, because we qualified, my husband and I decided to go entirely solar for energy, but are remaining on-grid (logistical and cost factors). We could not come up with the cash to do this on our own, we qualified for a government program that was an offshoot of the federal stimulus program. Once it's up and running I plan on re-examining growing indoors. However, it won't be dedicated to cannabis, we'll be overwintering food plants as well.
Indoor cannabis growing has got to be one of the most wasteful endeavors I have ever witnessed. We cannot just blow this off, not if we are to be conscientious human beings. We are obliged to address this problem head on, take responsibility, and correct it.
