HOW TO GET A POUND OFF A 600 w hps

theone718

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kmog33 said:
Im usually 1.4 to 2 pounds off my 600, organic botanicare nutes and a decent yielding strain usually do the trick.

And veg time definitely and directly effects yield. Whoever said contrary in one of these comments was wrong.

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What's strain you growing bro? any evidence of that or just talk..
 
theone718

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SoHextracts said:
i get a pound per 600w... almost exactly one pound, sometimes a little over. I do four plants in 10 gallons per light and top/tie them down hard... I usually veg for around six weeks topping about 5x... I think the key is to never let them root bind... if the plants know they were in a 1gallon pot they slow down.... but i dont really notice a huge yield diff between my 600s and the single 1000w i use... I just get more penetration with the 1000w.. In your setup i agree with booms, six plants in 5 gallon pots trained... you can even scrOg out a tent really easily. Tents are all about training to get any yield... since you cant let your plants get tall at all
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Good advice..
 
theone718

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kmog33 said:
Just added an led this round. Cut down one plant and it pulled 10 oz. Have another 1 to chop next week thats bigger than the first. And blue dream this go.

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I'm in soil also for got to say..nice setup what your medium? hydro?
 
kmog33

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theone718 said:
I'm in soil also for got to say..nice setup what your medium? hydro?
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Im doing dwc atm. Had a problems with the roots of one of my plants this go so thats why it lagged almost 2 weeks i think. But got buckets for next round and may throw a small ebb n flow table in also for next round.

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sky rocket

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If ya don't like veg time I would run a sog. No veg times. Just rooted 6-8" clones straight to 12/12. Between 32-36 plants in 2l bottles hempy style. But of course you would need a mother plant to take the clones from.
 
Maine Buds

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I have one 600 watt hps light and I use 5 gallon bucket in a 4x4x6. How many you think I could fit in there and could I yield a lb. I'm running northern lights and an indica dom thai. I do a perpetual ATM but if I could get an lb from one 9 week run then I wouldn't have to do perpetual any more.i smoke about 1/8 a day sometimes more( depending on pain) so I need to have enough to last through the grow and the cure.
 
theone718

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Maine Buds said:
I have one 600 watt hps light and I use 5 gallon bucket in a 4x4x6. How many you think I could fit in there and could I yield a lb. I'm running northern lights and an indica dom thai. I do a perpetual ATM but if I could get an lb from one 9 week run then I wouldn't have to do perpetual any more.i smoke about 1/8 a day sometimes more( depending on pain) so I need to have enough to last through the grow and the cure.
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Exactly how I feel I need a p a couple of Oz ain't shit smoke to much..with the perpetual what the most u yielded..I haven't reach a pd yet..
 
Maine Buds

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It always seems like I have a few weeks to wait. I used to do 3 gall poly bags so I have no idea what I would yield of a 5 gallon girl. I'm hopping 3 zip from each. If that's the case then I could do 6 in there but it seems like it would be a squeeze!
 
BenFranklin

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Maine Buds said:
I have one 600 watt hps light and I use 5 gallon bucket in a 4x4x6. How many you think I could fit in there and could I yield a lb. I'm running northern lights and an indica dom thai. I do a perpetual ATM but if I could get an lb from one 9 week run then I wouldn't have to do perpetual any more.i smoke about 1/8 a day sometimes more( depending on pain) so I need to have enough to last through the grow and the cure.
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I run a 1000w, perpetual flowering tent in a 38inch by 38 inch, and a 24inch x 3 foot cloning/vegging tent, normally 4 plants in DWC/2.5 gallon pots, with with hydroton rock, I clone using a Ez-Cloner...

What I do: Before I put a clone into flower, I take clones from it, and wait 7-10 days, while the clone I just took, roots, once roots show, into flowering the original clone goes. This way if the clones I cut die, I can take more before I start the original clone flowering. This way I ensure survival.....

So into flowering the original clones go....

I then take the clones that are showing roots; and put them in 5 gallon buckets, set their nutrients at "general purpose".. according to "General Hydro", which is the only nutes I use.. I will let them sit in those 5 gallon buckets for 2 weeks, sometimes more...

So then once they get branches going, I will trim them back... and keep trimming them back until I see that the plants in the flowering tent are almost done... When I see I am about a week away from harvest, I take more clones, reset my nutes from "general purpose feeding" on the clones to full strength vegging, (I then harvest) and then put the clones into the flowering tent. I run vegging nutes for the first 2-3 weeks of flowering, and then convert over to "transition to bloom and then full bloom.

(PS. I use shorter 2.5 gallon buckets in flowering, it keeps my plants shorter than 5 gallon buckets... so they fit just perfect under the 1000W, as I don't have a lot of head room, JUST enough, sometimes one or two tips will get a little bleached, no big deal.)

I work in my grow room, about every 3rd day. give or take a day.

I can get a bit over a 1lb in about 90 -110days, but with perpetual I am getting a 1/2 lb every month... however, I don't nearly smoke that much, so I have to keep hitting the brakes on my perpetuity every few months... LOL!

In other words, sometimes I am only budding one plant under a 1000w. and am only getting like 2 zips from that plant, while I wait for my next set to get done. Just about when I am scraping the bottom of the barrel on my 2 zips, the 1/2 lb will come in. Put it this way, I am never without, and haven't been without in over a decade. I smoke everyday....

Hope this helps a little..
 
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Maine Buds

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I used to use soil and I like coco better. I'm gonna be mixing half roots organic and half coco. Coco holds no nute at all. You even have to feed seedlings( I just found out)
 
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