We deliberately grow small plants in SoG; the per plant yield is thus rather small compared to other methods- but we grow greater numbers of plants than in other methods. One plant per 8" circle. This is made possible without crowding by aggressive pruning off of all the branching on the lower 1/3 of the plant. No branches more than about 25mm (1") long are left on a SoG style plant.
However, the buds you get from SoG are
ALL top colas or the very large clumpy lumps attached near the top of the mainstem. They all live very close to the light, meaning no small, fluffy buds, only dense, top quality golfball or bigger nuggies.
I'm doing well to get 3/4-1oz per budstalk under 1000W lighting. Sometimes I do better but rarely worse. Out of my 20-21 plants per harvest, I normally get somewhere between 15-20oz.
This room is still kinda new, only about 6 mos old since a rebuild in a new location, so I'm still tweaking and fixing things. I've made some improvements recently (better ventilation with a new exhaust blower) which are making my buds much denser as I'm better able to keep temps down. Running the flowering area at 25C now- and everyone likes it.
