Newbie questions... please help

what indica/sativa percentage is nirvanas white widow?

when budding a plant, i understand it takes about 2 months. Are you supposed to start counting days right when you switch to 12/12, or when the plants sex is identified?

and when people say they get a .09 gram to watt ratio, does this mean per plant?

thanks alot.

not sure about the others but for flowering you count from 12/12 thats when your letting the flowering start

Drew4312 said:

and when people say they get a .09 gram to watt ratio, does this mean per plant?

thanks alot.

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Can't speak to the strain, but .09 per watt is a weight per power ratio (and not a very good one, I imagine they mean .9g/w). What they are saying is completely independent of plant numbers, size, or any other environmental factor other than light received.

ww is more indica doesnt give a big stretch...its a medium size plant..

you should get a gram of bud per watt of light

gobbly said:

Can't speak to the strain, but .09 per watt is a weight per power ratio (and not a very good one, I imagine they mean .9g/w). What they are saying is completely independent of plant numbers, size, or any other environmental factor other than light received.

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im still trying to understand... so you are saying that the number of plants is overlooked?

no clue on the widow

but there is no set time or days, there is a thread for when to harvest and how to cure read that, pretty easy to see. Read this site every question has been answered a million times.

gram to watt means nothing per plant. grams per watt means if i had a 400 watt light and i got 400 grams (14.28oz's), than you got 1 gram per watt. plant count has nothing to do with it just grams vs watts.

if i get 180 grams off of my 180 watt led light i will have 1 gram per watt. if i have 90 grams of bud off of a 180 watt light i will have .05 grams per watt.

solarguy said:

if i get 180 grams off of my 180 watt led light i will have 1 gram per watt. if i have 90 grams of bud off of a 180 watt light i will have .05 grams per watt.

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i understand that, but does this have anything to do with square feet?

nope just watts vs grams. whether you use 16sq feet or 1600sq feet it depends on your yield...every light is different there are so many variables....soil, nutes, water type, ph of water, temp, humidity...just do your think at the end of the day its a weed and it will do what it wants.

than you can break down your total grams harvested divided by operating costs and you get your price per gram!

so watts/grams doesn't mean shit then with all the other variables.

can someone put a link of hobbes 2.5grams/watts thread please

no watts/grams means exactly what it means. The more watts per gram the more weed you end up with. Adding nutes and taking care of your plants, method of growing SCROG, SOG, NORMAL lol, those things if done properly will increase or your grams per watt. At the end of the day its about how much weed did you get, you can only influence the plant and with every reward there is risk. You could use too many nutes and fuck it up, or you could try and grow too many in one area....so many options what sucks is it takes about 3 months to figure it out...good luck

Drew4312 said:

i understand that, but does this have anything to do with square feet?

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it's not really exact at all... For instance, it would indicate that one plant under 400w of light would yield 400g @ 1g/w. If you had 10 plants under 400w, you'd expect around 400g, or 40g per plant. Again, it's completely independent.

Now in the real world it doesn't work out this precise. Some might get 1g/w, some might get .5g/w, etc, but on average you should see something similar to that figure under good conditions.

Same with a yield per meter square, just a different way to look at potential yields, and of course environment will cause wild fluctuations in any value you could give for yields.

In general grams per watt can be more useful than grams per plant, or per area, just because it reflects the most common limiting factor of light.

Damn, is this guy thick or what?

How many times are you guys gonna explain the same thing, lol.

Enjoyable to read though.

Stop asking for everyone to hold your hand and read for yourself man...I know this is the newbie forum and I'm a newbie too but you're giving us all a bad name...lol.

i didn't understand the whole concept because its fucking retarded. i have 20 plants under a 400 watt light and i don't expect 300 grams just because that's some sort of standard... it has much more to do with environmental factors. I think it should be changed to wattage/sq-ft than it would be more accurate

it has everything to do with square feet. each sized light is only really optimal within a specific square footage. within that square footage plant size and number can differ between grower to grower depending on other factors: some people's grow space is vertically limited while others grow in tall skinny spaces. however that may be the amount of square footage is the same and the bulb is the same so the 1gm/watt is really a loose estimate of what a good grower can achieve within lets say a 4x4 sq ft area under a single 1000W hps. it is a number to strive for and for people new to growing its a number to compare your results to. take notes and fine tune and u will get there.

Trevor Ellis said:

it has everything to do with square feet. each sized light is only really optimal within a specific square footage. within that square footage plant size and number can differ between grower to grower depending on other factors: some people's grow space is vertically limited while others grow in tall skinny spaces. however that may be the amount of square footage is the same and the bulb is the same so the 1gm/watt is really a loose estimate of what a good grower can achieve within lets say a 4x4 sq ft area under a single 1000W hps. it is a number to strive for and for people new to growing its a number to compare your results to. take notes and fine tune and u will get there.

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thank you for clearing that up. i will post my grams / watt when my plants are done