ok sorry about missing that one, but do you have a seperate res for each table, what kind of nutes are you using, I'm using flora nova grow/bloom with overdrive at the last three weeks of bloom. because I could setup a flood and drain very easily but just need o know about the res and a few other variables, thank you for you quick response, very much apprecieated.

I know a little about this, probably like everyone else, I've read a bit on it.
In fact, this is exactly what NGT and I were talking about a while back, except tailored to soil, I think you could get by with 6" square pots using soil, which would give you 4 plants per sq ft.
You know, from where I sit, the square pots are hard to find. I may go to home depot today and look. I know htg dosent have them.
I think I messed up by not taking cuttings earlier in my grow, so now i have to do another grow, and take cuttings earlier, so I can maintain a mother.
I wonder using this method, and a 430 watt hps if I could maintain 16 plants? 4 plants at each interval, and I could harvest a qp every two weeks?
Of course if that works, I'd end up needing to improve on it too! lol
Peace.

kind of what I was thinking was to build 4 separate f@d tables all with the same size lid and just swap the lids to each table every two weeks, do you think that would work with say four to six plants?

Hey i was thinking of cloning my plants too, but i was wondering if u need to give the mothers any special treatment after u cut them?

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even still this is one of the most informative posts i've read on all the forums out there, cant say for o.g. because I was never on that forum but I do check with pretty much all of them, been laid off for two months have had a lot of time on my hands, but even for such a short thread it is very informative. Thanks all

how many plants do you have at one time?


i was planning on doing something simular to this

well normally between 6 and 8 in a dwc but I built an aero setup that I was planning to use next grow but undecided about doing a sog or doing an aero grow next, have been wanting to do a sog for a long time but hesitating to do a sog because of no experience with it and would hate to have a fucked up grow possibly, times with no weed suck, only thing making me want to do it this time is I'm probably going to get a good yeild this round, plus I also grow at my neighbors place as he wanted a setup, believe it or not I grow better at his place, cant figure that out, we dont fuck with the plants there as much as I do at my place and the yeilds we get off those plants(PPP) are just unreal, I dont know what I'm going to do next grow but whatever it is I really appreciate all the info on this thread

Yes, 1 tank per tray. Each tray is about 4' square, holds ~20 8" dia pots. Trays flood to about 3" (150mm) deep. Each tray does have its own tank so the nute mix can be suited to a plant in a specific 2-week time band in the flowering cycle. Tank/tray 1 is mixed for just-rooted cuttings, from week 0-2. Tank/tray 2 is for week 2-4 and gets a slightly stronger mix than #1. Also gets a dose of Canna PK-13-14 in wk 3.

Tanks are a little bigger than they actually have to be to keep the pumps submerged while flooding the trays (could probably be as small as about 70 litres) but I use 125 litre tanks, just plain old plastic storage containers.

The mothers are in a very small tray (about 1' x 4') with a 35-40 litre tank.

Canna Vega Substra for the mothers, Canna Flores Substra for flowering, Canna PK-13-14 phosphorus additive in wk 3-4. Pathogen control with hydrogen peroxide (50% strength) @ 1ml/litre every 3-4 days when topping up tanks with plain tap water... and nothing else. No wacky magic sauces, no crazy beeswax and brewers yeast additives or other silliness.

I even find I have no general need to adjust pH after mixing up with Canna nutes- pH is always right on 5.6. pH may bump a little after a couple of top-ups but rarely goes above 5.8.

Not mentioned in my setup data is the ventilation system. Veg and flower have independent air systems which can change the whole air volume in each every 2-3 mins. With 2kW of lights in the flowering area, this is about the minimum needed to keep temps stable without using aircon.

There's oscillating circ fans in every corner of the flowering area and a fluorsescent UV ioniser (with light trap) which runs 30min on/30min off all hours- keeps scent and mould well in check. A second ioniser in the area outside the room istelf guarantees no stray scents escape.

yes my flower area is about 34" deep by 49" wide by about 5 1/2feet tall and my veg area is same but diff height, if I was to do a sog do you think that there is enough room to do it perpetually? if so how many plants per harvest? Dont like to ask so many questions but other than trial and ERROR thats the best way to learn