they can easily double or triple in size during flowering I had a plant that I had to switch up from veg early that started out at 4 inches and is already 14 inches with another 3 weeks left in flower.
Honestly I wouldn't be too concerned about 40oz a day. During the summer when I don't have school or work I have been known to go on a beer and orange juice diet for weeks at a time-I'd have to drink a gallon of beer a day just to not look skeletal,but in that same vein when it isn't the summer...
I want to say that while it's a compelling argument you're talking about a hypothetical grow that really has as of yet to happen outside of the government. With that in mind we can assume that it would most likely be extremely cost prohibitive.
While quite a few people discredit them entirely...
thanks a lot for the quick responses guys + rep for both of you and thanks for the info. It relieves me somewhat to know that especially with all the care, concern, and love ya have to pour into the things.
That was a portion of the problem.
I went over everything and sealed and re-sealed and have seen some pretty nice development over the last week my concern would be that it would finish flowering with tiny buds but be more or less on time if it were to delay it that wouldn't be an issue rather...
I have used LEDs and I intend to do so in the future; however, from my experience I would not use them for flowering. To be honest I tried for over a month and the light just wasn't sufficient-not even with supplemental fluoros. For a single light that would do all that you needed I would side...
So am in the middle of my first grow which was of ice and afghan. I'm kicking myself now for not getting feminized seeds as I lost over half the crop to males and was using LED and CFL until about the 4th week at which point I replaced it with a newly ordered 1000w HPS. I know the 1000w is...
The HPS would definitely out perform the ufo in flowering and considering that most growers aren't in it for beautiful fronds and tiny buds my personal opinion would be with the HPS. My first attempt at growing was using those ufos and I was incredibly disappointed.
I would take back the LED and get the HPS. I was recently using 2 UFOs and 160w of fluoro(sp) and in theory they should've been equal to 1000w hps aprox. The leds couldn't sustain it though and I had to switch to HPS and they have started to thrive again.
Heya guys I'm pretty new here and I have had some experience with dirt and overall I've been really disappointed with it as a grow medium I was hoping that someone would be able to help direct me as how to best set up a ebb and flow system on the cheap. Obviously I don't want to buy a system...