What does your Dream Grow look like?

[Blacklight Botany]

Hey everyone!

This is an imaginative exercise that I thought might be a fun way to connect us all

Here is the idea:
You have all the resources you need and Cannabis is 100% legal everywhere and it’s as common as tomatoes. You’re setting up a grow for your head stash and want only the best! How do you go about it? Regenerative Sungrown in native soil, or double ended 1000’s, rock wool cubes in a sterile temp controlled room?

Feel free to add in how you would set up a post processing area for harvest and/or curing as well as your dream concentrate room.



Here’s my dream grow;

Four 600 watt HPS
Co2, AC, Dehu, out take fan, intake fan and 8 oscillating fans
1% tilt flooring with a tile floor with drainage to the outside flowing to a Re Treatment water catch.
Concrete building shaded by trees
30 minutes from the coast somewhere in between Santa Cruz, county CA and Lane County OR.

Harvest and curing room;

I would dig a cellar into the side of a hill and build it with Mortar and Sod.
Exhaust fan, intake fan, 4 oscillating fans, marble flooring, AC/Heating, 128 OZ glass canning jars, Terracotta trunks for in between hang drying and putting into canning jars.

Stoked to hear what everyone else’s dream grows are!!

 

[Creeperpark]

I would grow outdoors close to the equator for the best weed.

An equator is an imaginary line around the middle of a planet or other celestial body. It is halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole, at 0 degrees latitude. An equator divides the planet into a Northern Hemisphere and a Southern Hemisphere. Google

 

[goingrey]

I would grow outdoors close to the equator for the best weed.

An equator is an imaginary line around the middle of a planet or other celestial body. It is halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole, at 0 degrees latitude. An equator divides the planet into a Northern Hemisphere and a Southern Hemisphere. Google

Oh yeah.

Huge field, high in the mountains, on the equator.

And next to the field a farmhouse where I have an aero grow under a plasma light.

 

[Blacklight Botany]

Excellent choices! I do love my equatorial herb

 

[TheUnknownGrowe]

conservatory like building, with 12 month old plants (kept in veg with artificial lighting) flowered when they are 20’ tall….

 

[Blacklight Botany]

Way to dream!!

 

[Volcanna]

Yeah I think the ultimate is a climate controlled glass greenhouse with a mix of supplemental DE HPS and led.

 

[Blacklight Botany]

that sounds like the best of both worlds to me

 

[El Unico Frijol]

The equator!

 

[Blacklight Botany]

There’s a trend growing here

 

[Somatek]

You’re setting up a grow for your head stash and want only the best! How do you go about it?

If it's pure for personal headstash and I'm not worried about the cost of production/overhead, then I'd design a geodesic dome greenhouse with double walled insulation, and geothermal heating/cooling. Set up a vertical dual root zone aquaponic system using coco, biochar and worm castings as the main soil base with amendments to make sure it's balanced. That sets up a loop where you can throw the waste and harvest the aquatic filter plants as needed for bokashi, then use it to grow black fly larvae to feed the fish with worms finishing the composting. Not to mention fish waste being thrown in to feed fungi as you eat the fish to maintain the balance.

Supplemental LED lighting for cloudy days or when you need to extend the day length between the vertical racks. Grow vertically to minimize the foot print which leaves more rooms for gardens and natural habitat; the more diverse the ecosystem the less pest pressure you have to worry about plus a wide range of plants like burdock to harvest means better compost.

Make biochar for co-generation of heat and energy (not to mention raising CO2 levels) during the winter season when you need to run the lights and add heat. Grow coppiced black honey locust as a wind break around fields as well as supply all the fuel/heating needs in a carbon neutral/negative way. That also supplies lot of ramial wood for ramial chipped wood mulch to build better soil quickly in marginal land. Which is important as I'd probably look at the great clay belt in Northern Ontario looking at climate change models as that'll give me a solid summer to grow food/dope/fish/hunt while still having a solid winter to hibernate through by a fire while enjoying the greenhouse so winter is bearable/not boring white for months. Plus low population density so you don't have to worry about seeing your neighbours unless you feel like going for a drive to visit them.

Drying/post processing/aging would be done in a root cellar, dug into a side of a hill but with a nice window view since temps just need to be kept low teens. I love my dope but ideally would be growing it under ideal, controlled conditions in a carbon neutral/negative way that also enriches the wildlife around; making it just one more loop in a closed loop sustainable system that increase soil depth and fertility, as well as the biodiversity while also providing as many of my needs as possible.

 

[Blacklight Botany]

If it's pure for personal headstash and I'm not worried about the cost of production/overhead, then I'd design a geodesic dome greenhouse with double walled insulation, and geothermal heating/cooling. Set up a vertical dual root zone aquaponic system using coco, biochar and worm castings as the main soil base with amendments to make sure it's balanced. That sets up a loop where you can throw the waste and harvest the aquatic filter plants as needed for bokashi, then use it to grow black fly larvae to feed the fish with worms finishing the composting. Not to mention fish waste being thrown in to feed fungi as you eat the fish to maintain the balance.

Supplemental LED lighting for cloudy days or when you need to extend the day length between the vertical racks. Grow vertically to minimize the foot print which leaves more rooms for gardens and natural habitat; the more diverse the ecosystem the less pest pressure you have to worry about plus a wide range of plants like burdock to harvest means better compost.

Make biochar for co-generation of heat and energy (not to mention raising CO2 levels) during the winter season when you need to run the lights and add heat. Grow coppiced black honey locust as a wind break around fields as well as supply all the fuel/heating needs in a carbon neutral/negative way. That also supplies lot of ramial wood for ramial chipped wood mulch to build better soil quickly in marginal land. Which is important as I'd probably look at the great clay belt in Northern Ontario looking at climate change models as that'll give me a solid summer to grow food/dope/fish/hunt while still having a solid winter to hibernate through by a fire while enjoying the greenhouse so winter is bearable/not boring white for months. Plus low population density so you don't have to worry about seeing your neighbours unless you feel like going for a drive to visit them.

Drying/post processing/aging would be done in a root cellar, dug into a side of a hill but with a nice window view since temps just need to be kept low teens. I love my dope but ideally would be growing it under ideal, controlled conditions in a carbon neutral/negative way that also enriches the wildlife around; making it just one more loop in a closed loop sustainable system that increase soil depth and fertility, as well as the biodiversity while also providing as many of my needs as possible.

This is awesome!!! Really love all the detail you provided. Sounds like a killer cultivation site Somatek, Thanks for sharing

 

[xet]

I would leverage NASA to make me an accelerated biology chamber that grows my plant from seed to harvest in 10 seconds like a it's a frozen dinner in the microwave.

 

[Blacklight Botany]

I would leverage NASA to make me an accelerated biology chamber that grows my plant from seed to harvest in 10 seconds like a it's a frozen dinner in the microwave.

Xet- you’re thinking space age and I like it!

 

[Mars Hydro Led]

i would set up a 8x8ft grow room and use some high efficiency LED grow lights. Because i suppose the yield might be enough for a family use.

 

[Howard715]

60’ light dep green house w heat and supplemental lighting and the same size indoor building.

 

[comfy markoth]

Well, if it was just for me, not a farm where i'm trying to make money, more to find the best plants i could find.... i would just have a small indoor setup with the best LEDs and CMH lights available and a perfect little outdoor space (of whatever size really, not important) to grow the best plants perpetually.

AND

I would have a massive field that i could grow out any and all the crosses i could conceive of, for minimum labor and maximum number of plants to scour through and FIND those special mothers.

 

[alpo]

NYC sky scrapper with smoking lounge and dispensary on the first floor and each floor up is a grow room.

RDWC Aquaponics with the aquarium on the first floor and the top opening on the bottom of the second floor.

 

[exploziv]

My dream grow would be a fully legal one in a fully climate controlled greenhouse.

 

[piramidon]

I would'n't move one inch from where I am right now: Parallel 45, South-East Europe, temperate climate.
Just openly growing like a dozen plants (tops) per year in raised beds with rabbit pellets, worm castings, rotten wood, biochar and whatnot. In local soil, so minimum expenses, just the wood for beds.
Keeping the current micro grow as it is, maybe extending it a bit with extra 2 boxes no more than 2 sqf each, for perpetual harvest.
Considering the manageable yield I'll keep processing and/or extracting in the kitchen while the drying / curing cabinet will keep the same size, location and structure.
Only difference will be the raised beds replacing the trench I'm running outdoor right now and the location of it, which is 1km away. Guerilla outdoor.

Thank you Blacklight Botany, you just made me realise how close to my ideal grow I am!
Now, I better hurry up with those extra boxes...