Hey guys,
So I've got a 6' box that I'm in the process of turning into a perpetual scrog or sog (not sure which route yet)
Flower chamber is 4' high x 2' x 1.5'
Mother/clone/veg chamber is just 2' high x 2' x 1.5'
Right now I have an Area 51 RW-75 in the flower chamber. I had planned on getting 4x Cree floodlights, the 3000k 18w ones and sticking them in the corners. However, I am unsure of what angle to get, I believe you can get 27 or 47 degrees. Any suggestions on that front? What about mixing in a 2700k bulb as well? I am willing to get better supplemental lighting if necessary.
For veg I had planned on sticking with CFLs, but my new LED mania has me wanting to replace all lights with LED. So I am pretty unsure of what to do for that tiny space.
My original plan was to go perpetual SoG, but I am leaning toward perpetual Scrog now, although I'm not sure. Scrog plan is to simply to keep a bonsai mother in there, take a clone about once every 30 days, veg it under a scrog screen and slap it in the flower chamber (veg chamber would be partitioned off so the bonsai doesn't get all the veg light). There would basically be 3 scrog screens, each one 1 foot wide, so 2 scrog screens/plants are in the flower chamber at all times, 30 days apart, and one vegging in the bottom chamber.
I'm at a loss of what to do for veg. My immediate thought was to partition the veg chamber and give the mother a low wattage LED, enough to stay healthy and produce a clone a month. The other side I would add as much light as I could fit for the upcoming Scrog. I wanted to use the new Cree bulbs at home depot, but I'm really not sure which ones to use, or how many watts to keep that bonsai healthy but not growing too fast, and an appropriate bulb(s) for the veg chamber.
What do you guys think? I know veg space is really tight and I don't know how far away these Cree bulbs need to be. My other thought was to NOT keep a mother plant but stagger the clones. So I would clone my plant, veg it under the screen, then take a clone from this plant before going into flower and veg that, just keep cloning the clones essentially. OR I can just keep a bonsai mother in there and take a few extra clones and go for a SoG. I was leaning away from SoG mostly because I thought I would get a better yield with a nice horizontal canopy than vertical colas with LED.
So, any help with the supplemental lighting in addition to my RW-75 in flower as well as any suggestions on what to do for my veg chamber and the appropriate LEDs.
I've really only got one grow under my belt, it was a scrog grow in a box that was 3' high x 2' x 1.5 (basically half my current box height) and got about 2oz from a Northern Lights plant using a 150w HPS + 2x 125w CFLs.
My main goal is to yield about an ounce a month, if that is doable. Strictly for personal medication.
Any help would be highly appreciated! There are multiple different Cree bulbs, watts, etc, I just don't know what would be best. Thanks so much guys. Sorry for the wall of text!
edit: Here's a quick pic of my unfinished box so far, but these are the base dimensions.
P.S. that horizontal fold in the panda film on the back wall, if you can see it, that's about how far my canopy needs to be from the RW-75 (it can get a couple inches closer, though, I believe) if that helps anything
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