Greyskull's take...
My first grow was in a closet. Simple 2x3 turbogarden and a 1000hps. 12 plants.... just shy of an eLBow. That was first taste of growing, but it was 7 years later I decided to do what I do now.
I used to buy medicine from a friend in the emerald triangle for my patients. I wanted to supplement my with my own grown buds. My friend is the man... multiple locations... 10+ lights each... cash cropping it to the max. And his shit was always killer. So I simply asked him some questions, listened intently, and remembered exactly what he told me first, "There is a million ways to do things. But this is what works for me...". The crux of of it was 100% coco in pots ebb n flow about 50% nute strength lights on temp 80 ligts of 70 humidity 40.
So I took that information, and proceeded to build a guitar rig out of grow equipment & technique! I find a lot of parallels & analogies between guitar playing and growing plants that help me understand things how/why folks do what they are doing.
With guitar playing, I always found the best sounds were created with minimal interferece between guitar & amp (ie not a lot of pedals and rack gear processing and synthesizing). Dudes like Jerry Cantrell (Alice In Chains), Adam Jones (Tool), Stevie Ray Vaughn, Angus Young... those dudes have TONE. And they are not rocking huge pedalboards with 200 fucking little boxes to mess with (as opposed to guitar players like Head & Munky of Korn, Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit, who have a million fucking pedals and have no organic "feel" to their tone). And I noticed that most of the best growers used only a few bottles of stuff to get killer killer dank. They are not overloading their res (or guitar signal... hehe) with a bunch of stuff. They
Keep
It
Simple,
Stupid (
KISS).
So taking my friends words of advice, I went the route of maximum results with minimum product.
Here's a little rundown of how I see guitars & growing...
acoustic = soil
electric = hydroponic
semi-hollow = coco
single coil p/u = top drip
humbucker p/u = ebb n flow
filtertron p/u = dwc
coil tap = aeroponic
strings = nutes
cable = tap water
wireless = RO water
george l's cable = filtered water
effects pedals = additives
*tuner = PH up & down
*overdrive = veg stimulator
*wah = bloom stimulator
*delay = sugar/carbs
*eq = enzyme
amplifier = lights
*ac30 = 600hps
*marshall stack = 1000hps
*mesa/boogie = dual spectrum
*fender twin - outdoor
It makes sense, donnit?
here is my signal chain with my favorite guitar:
Noel Gallagher Supernova > George L's cables > Boss TU2 > Fulltone FDII > Tesse Wizard > Ibanez AD9 > Boss EQ7 > Marshall 50w JMP+4x12
seems to flow pretty much with my 4x4 grows:
coco > ebb n flow> filtered water > AN PH down > Canna Rhizo > Canna PK 13/14 >
Botanicare Sweet > Cannazym > 1k
but I am high as the sky right now so if this doens't make any sense I apologize....