Help with monster plants

Originally Posted by dahman

I am growing using dwc. I want large plants. with max yeild. im doing 12 plants. with a 1000 watt hps and a 400 watt hps. my questions are how tall should a veg these plants? do i need to train or top this type of grow?
I have 8 foot roof. buckets are 5 gallon. big bud strain.

5 gallons = 5 feet. Grow in veg probably around 1 1/2ft - 2 ft max. I'd definently either fim or top, much better yeild!!

i wanted big plant also & wow i got them. im in 14 gal. buckets & have 6 girls under 1000wtt. hps. i veged for 58 days. plants were just about 3ft tall, & now wow footers. check my gallery see my monsters. have any ? just ask. GROW GROW GROW

sweet, yea two foot veg should do it. I dont realy want to go larger than 5 foot. 6 foot tops. Mygirls, wow man super grow you got there. That is what im going for. i guess my questions for you are. spacing. I want my 12 plants to grow about 5 foot high. so about how far apart should they be? and my other question is yeild. did you harvest those plants yet? if so what did you get from them? Keep up the good work! I dont have any pics yet. im out of town. there seedlings anyhow nothing impressive yet. That reminds me one more question. im out of town 5 days a week. then home two days. my dwc is recirulating with a 50 gallon res. should they be ok? what kind of growth rates will i see. when i leave. how far up should i keep lights. i dont want them growing into the lights! Thanks

Originally Posted by dahman

sweet, yea two foot veg should do it. I dont realy want to go larger than 5 foot. 6 foot tops. Mygirls, wow man super grow you got there. That is what im going for. i guess my questions for you are. spacing. I want my 12 plants to grow about 5 foot high. so about how far apart should they be? and my other question is yeild. did you harvest those plants yet? if so what did you get from them? Keep up the good work! I dont have any pics yet. im out of town. there seedlings anyhow nothing impressive yet. That reminds me one more question. im out of town 5 days a week. then home two days. my dwc is recirulating with a 50 gallon res. should they be ok? what kind of growth rates will i see. when i leave. how far up should i keep lights. i dont want them growing into the lights! Thanks

With the amount of lighting your using and how talll your getting I would give a ROUGH GUESS of near a pound if they are all female. If they aren't feminised, figure about half will be male, best case scenario.

Your lights should be no closer then 12" and no further then 22". 50 Gallon should be fine, if you don't look at em but every 5 days, then you will see a substancial amount of growth!!!

The rule of thumb is 1sq ft per plant. Growing that tall/bushy I'd probably recommmend 1 1/2-2sqft per plant.

Hope this was all helpful!

very helpfull, Thanks toolage. I was kinda hoping for at least 2 pounds. what should i do to get closer to my goal? more lights? more plants? less plants with more lights?