ideal pot size for SOG

i was thinkin either the 3 gallon bags or 5 gallon buckets

tech209 said:

quick ? lets say i clone from my mother about 10 clones and they all make it how many weeks of veggin you think i have so i can pull at least 1 or more ounces per plant????........

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2-3 weeks.................

nice..... cant wait for sum organic hindu kush.....

tech209 said:

i was thinkin either the 3 gallon bags or 5 gallon buckets

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5 gallon buckets are too wide to fit 10, I'm thinking. With such a short veg, you wouldn't need that much root space either.

ccodiane said:

2-3 weeks.................

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Agrees with him .. BUT you CUD take the clones and put them into flowering as soon as they have a good root structure going .. but be carefull when u do this .. sometimes the buds get to heavy for the clones to hold ...so u will have to help it stay up... i.e. viagra... i wish they made that for plants!

ccodiane said:

5 gallon buckets are too wide to fit 10, I'm thinking. With such a short veg, you wouldn't need that much root space either.

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very ture should have known better ( tech209 slaps himself across his face for not known that 1)......

skunkman98536 said:

Agrees with him .. BUT you CUD take the clones and put them into flowering as soon as they have a good root structure going .. but be carefull when u do this .. sometimes the buds get to heavy for the clones to hold ...so u will have to help it stay up... i.e. viagra... i wish they made that for plants!

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Thats why i just got a prescription for Thai-agra

tech209 said:

nice 50 watt per sq foot so then a 5x2 sized closet= 10sq ft so a 500 watt lighting set up would get me by?????.........

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with my closet dimension do u think a 600watt hps plus 10 cfl's would be over kill......reason for askin cuz when i finished my grow with cfl's i noticed the buds were very airy and fluffy ....i hooked my friends up wit sum and when asked for feedback i was told that it burned really quickly and that the buds were as tight as the ones in the medical lab........

after hittin the books im not flowering with just cfl's anymore......found out that lighting does play a real major role and dont skimp with cheap lighting 600watt hps here i come.......

tech209 said:

with my closet dimension do u think a 600watt hps plus 10 cfl's would be over kill......reason for askin cuz when i finished my grow with cfl's i noticed the buds were very airy and fluffy ....i hooked my friends up wit sum and when asked for feedback i was told that it burned really quickly and that the buds were as tight as the ones in the medical lab........

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You can go as high as 100 watts a square foot, if you keep 'em cool. Probably more, I don't know, never tried.

My 3x3x6 foot tent, 600 HPS when closed, first 3 hours every day.

Then I open my ten and turn on my CFL panels, a 1x2 90 watt panel on either side of my 600 and a 1x4 216 watt hanging vertical.
Total is just under a 1000 watts, temps 80 closed 82 open w extra lights.

I just added the front panel a few days ago.

I am just about to start a SOG with in 1.5 liter pots and 2 weeks veg.
Hydroton is my medium so they will stand in a pan for overflow.
I start the 2 weeks when the first root peaks thru the bottom of my 4" Rock wool cube.


Bless,
DZ

6.5liter.

The 4' panel I hung in the front of my tent burned out after 3 days hanging vertically.
in my tent and being on 6 hours a day.

It worked fine for over a year hanging as it was designed.

Bless,
DZ

I'd probably do 3 gallon pots. On the topic though I heard from a Jorge Cervantes video that you should use more cylindrical pots as opposed to pots that taper at the bottom. Tapering at the bottom supposedly causes roots to bound faster. I'd consider bigger plants over many smaller plants. It could save you some legal headache depending on where you live.

What looks like nutrient def in those plants is caused by the lights being too close.

General rule of thumb is that flowering plants need about 4 times the floor space that veggers need. At 4 square feet of floor space per flowering plant you will need an empty warehouse to finish 40 plants. Try staggering your grow by vegging (maybe) 10 plants and then veg 10 more after the first 10 go to flower. This would require 2 different spaces or else hanging blankets.

Good luck, BigSteve.

I use bato 2.9ga square pots. Keeps space nice and tight