For between $100 and $200. And another hundred or two for a good light. Box sounds like over kill to me.

..its still too cold to use it as it needs to be 60 degrees in the room I have it in. its huge. way bigger than I thought and came with a three ring binder of instructions and 24/7 support.. who are in my time zone so I wont be crazy calling them in the middle of the night.

...this is a lot of money but ive been working on getting it for 4 years now and shipping was half off. Its really pretty too!

..a nice model in that price range. I decided to go up one notch because this one has a veg room (or mother plant room) and a flower room...each with their own computerized lighting and nutes. Sometimes its the shipping that's prohibitive. This one only had to travel from BC..just a cpl hundred miles and it was still 400$(I got it for 200$ as there was some shipping special). The only thing it doesn't have is the app (I loved that!!) and the camera. We have cams all over our house anyway so we will install one in the box.

I'm forwarding the leaf info to my son in law.

I grow one plant at a time in a small (2x3x5) tent with a 400 watt light.

I grow more than I use.

Pot plants don't need an expensive box. Outside they can fall on the dirt and grow without any help at all.

If I was buying again, I'd go LED.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015FLSOCE/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_68?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1BSXM5KIS5MZE

A good way to start is with a General Organics GO Box. It even has instructions on the side of the box.

You will see a lot of yak, testing devices and such. To start with, ignore it. Focus on the basics, which amounts to potting soil made for pot, careful germination, and avoiding overwatering.

..that's why I splurged on this box. Its got a clone room and a grow room. The first year will be a HUGH learning curve for me. All this chemistry and stuff. It does have LED lights...and 6 months worth of nutes. Ive never done hydro before. Yep its gonna give me way more than I'm allowed to have for sure. I will just bake a LOT of brownies and have them in the freezer for the zombie apocalypse.

Nice light you sent! Once I unpack mine I will see what lights I have. Everything is still packed in the 3 blue rubber tubs full o'stuff they sent. I'm forwarding the Go Box info to my son in law.

I could do three rounds a season outdoors back in Illinois. They are part Ruderalis and bloom by age instead of light cycle. Once seeds pop veg them for 2 weeks and they start showing sex. Like 6 weeks after that they're done. I havent messed with them for awhile but hear the strains have just been getting better and better over the years.
I also grew some in a homemade box for awhile on a stagger crop. Since you can flower at 16/8 you can veg right along with your bloom. Start a few seeds once a week and you will be harvesting a little every week. Very satisfying growing experience.

Here is a grow journal from like 10 years go with the homemade box and staggered autos
http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/showthread.php?p=351355

....and I have a hard enough time getting regular seeds and clones now. They are mostly in Seattle and too snowy on the pass to drive there. I have some seeds coming from a friends own strain to pop soon.

The 'satisfying grow experience' is what I missed all last year...and barely had one the year before.

Ship discreetly. Haven't had any problems. They can even ship clones in containers with leds now. The autos were definitely fun and a lot less forgiving then a 12/12 grow. They come in feminized or regular. I like regular so I can make more seeds. It was easy peasy since they sex so early

...to my house! The roads narrow and curvy and icy. I'm done pulling trucks off my hill that don't make it. Hubby met them in town and got it on the pick up. its HUGE! The size of a 5 ft high chest freezer...all computerized. It even has locking doors on both chambers! Right now I'm storing cases of Costco T-paper on top of it..will probably be ready to fire it up march sometime.

But until then I got 54$ ozs locally.