I need some help planning! SOS

**Onlyoneman** · 10-12-2010, 10:12 AM

I have to figure out how to set up a SOG perpetual grow with a weekly harvest. I cant seem to get a good plan without finding some kind of kink in the schedule somewhere.
What is the best way to do this, and about how much start up time would I be looking at? (meaning how long before I have a harvest every week)

any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

**Hobbes** · 10-12-2010, 10:56 AM

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1 run a 12 bucket flower garden (8' x 3') under a 600 watt HPS and a light mover.

I top and low stress train my plants so the stem is horizontal and the branches grow up like dozens of SOG colas per 5 gallon bucket.

I keep lots of plants in veg and throw out unneeded clones because I run extra plants in veg to be sure that my flower garden is always full. Clones are cheap

I harvest three 5 gallon buckets every 2 weeks; 3 litres of 4 week cured bud per bucket, 60 grams per litre. I'll have my yield up to 4 litres per bucket by Christmas with a few changes.

The details are below in Weed Science and Grow Lab.

1 Flower cage 3' x 8' - 600 watt HPS and a Light Rail

2 veg cages 4' x 4' - 125 watt CFL or 90 watt LED

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"how much start up time would I be looking at? (meaning how long before I have a harvest every week)"

What strains are you gong to run? Are you growing now?

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**KuLong** · 10-12-2010, 11:22 AM

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There are 4 volumes and they are great!

**gobbly** · 10-12-2010, 11:42 AM

one thing to keep in mind, part of the strategy in sog is to have a bunch of roughly uniform plants. Ideally you would have them all cloned at the same time, and harvest at around the same time. If you are set on having weekly harvests there are a lot of SOG ideas that you can apply, but it'll be slightly less of a sea because you'll have to space for varying development.

In your situation and given the requirement of weekly harvests, I would get 8-9 trays. Go with 1/2 gallon or slightly smaller pots, and ideally your trays would be able to hold 10-12 of them. So basically you fill each tray a week apart, and pick strain(s) that will flower in 8-9 weeks (longer flowering times would need more trays). Basically this will lead to harvesting a tray a week. All of this will require a perpetual grow, meaning your cloning and vegging for mothers will have to happen separate from and simultaneous with the flowering.

Again though, a real SoG will be more uniform, so if you don't mind one big harvest (with the same yield), ideally you would just fill your space with clones, grow and flower them, harvest it all, then fill with more clones. This is pretty much what you will have to do if you can't provide a separate veg and flower rooms, as you won't be able to stagger flowering.

**JackpotBaby** · 10-13-2010, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by gobbly

one thing to keep in mind, part of the strategy in sog is to have a bunch of roughly uniform plants. Ideally you would have them all cloned at the same time, and harvest at around the same time. If you are set on having weekly harvests there are a lot of SOG ideas that you can apply, but it'll be slightly less of a sea because you'll have to space for varying development.

In your situation and given the requirement of weekly harvests, I would get 8-9 trays. Go with 1/2 gallon or slightly smaller pots, and ideally your trays would be able to hold 10-12 of them. So basically you fill each tray a week apart, and pick strain(s) that will flower in 8-9 weeks (longer flowering times would need more trays). Basically this will lead to harvesting a tray a week. All of this will require a perpetual grow, meaning your cloning and vegging for mothers will have to happen separate from and simultaneous with the flowering.

Again though, a real SoG will be more uniform, so if you don't mind one big harvest (with the same yield), ideally you would just fill your space with clones, grow and flower them, harvest it all, then fill with more clones. This is pretty much what you will have to do if you can't provide a separate veg and flower rooms, as you won't be able to stagger flowering.

Lulz. What a cute name.