Realistic Yield per plant

moparhomo

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What would be a realistic yield for a table that is 4x4 feet and has 64 plants. Each pot is one gallon soil and measures 6x6 inches. Sea of green method, 600W led plus 2 150W red boosters. Indica dominant hybrid. Veg for a week or two after roots have been established from clones. Yield per plant roughly? Yield difference per soil/hydro? Any imput would be greatly appreciated.
 
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oill

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It is my observation that people who need to ask about their yields are not very experienced growers. Less experience equals greater chance of fuck up. So realistically, I would expect you to get very little per plant. Maybe even zero. Hope this helps.
Let's say you have 50% chance of completion as a beginner.

Then you will unlikely know the plant or your system that well.

That said. I don't like the question. Way too many factors. Between nothing and something is the best answer I would give
 

moparhomo

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This is an existing setup I have been running for 5 years. But I usually grow between 4 to 16 plants per table. I normally average a pound. I was just wondering if a sog would be worth trying. I have 4 of these tables and harvest about every two weeks. I was just wondering if 64 plants would even work on a table this small.
 

moparhomo

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7-14 grams per plant The main factor is genetics.
Thank you for your reply. The strain is actually something my friend and I developed 10 years ago in Oregon. Its most of what I grow nowadays. Every once in a while I will do a table of something new for fun.
 

ttystikk

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This is an existing setup I have been running for 5 years. But I usually grow between 4 to 16 plants per table. I normally average a pound. I was just wondering if a sog would be worth trying. I have 4 of these tables and harvest about every two weeks. I was just wondering if 64 plants would even work on a table this small.
If nothing else changed but the plant count, I would expect roughly the same results. You want bigger yield? More light, more room, etc.
 

moparhomo

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If nothing else changed but the plant count, I would expect roughly the same results. You want bigger yield? More light, more room, etc.
Good point. I have pretty much gotten to a point where everything is constant and predictable. I may just try this for fun because my current mothers didn't make it outside this year and they are huge!
 

The HornyCulturist

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I have heard a lot of people say that the most you can get is 1 gram per watt under HPS lights. I run a 400w HPS for flowering. 4 plants under it always gets me around 350 to 400 grams so it seems right to me. I grow standard though, not SOG
 

moparhomo

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I have heard a lot of people say that the most you can get is 1 gram per watt under HPS lights. I run a 400w HPS for flowering. 4 plants under it always gets me around 350 to 400 grams so it seems right to me. I grow standard though, not SOG
That is a good yield for a 400w hps. Back in the day I would be lucky to get 250gram with my 400w in the closet. It was a small closet though. Ty for the watt to gram ratio. Very interesting.
 

nuevo

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It would be interesting to see if there is some kind of equation that could be used to help estimate yield. Something like this - Yield in grams (Y) = Total wattage (W) x total area of plants in square feet (A) x veg time in days plus flower time in days(T1 + T2). You would need some kind of conversion factor to convert the watts x ft^2 x days to grams. The time factor is always missing when I see growers do their yield estimates.

For my set up, I typically veg the plants to about 18 inches in about 40 days, with another 70 days in flower. The plants are in 8 inch round pots, so I can fit about 40 into a 5 x 5 space. I use a 1000W light. My typical yield is about 30 grams per plant. So in my case W = 1000, A = 25, and T = 110, and Y = 1200. So the conversion factor for this set up would be 0.000436.

Plugging your numbers into the equation and solving for Y would be as follows:

Y = 800W x 16 ft^2 x 84 days x 0.000436
Y = 469 grams

I assumed you flower for about the same time as me - 10 weeks or so. Also did a guesstimate for the total wattage with a composite light system.

Would like to see some other growers use there own numbers to see if there is a fairly constant conversion factor. Obviously, there is going to be lots of variation, but it would be cool to have some idea if an equation like this could be useful.
 
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moparhomo

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It would be interesting to see if there is some kind of equation that could be used to help estimate yield. Something like this - Yield in grams (Y) = Total wattage (W) x total area of plants in square feet (A) x veg time in days plus flower time in days(T1 + T2). You would need some kind of conversion factor to convert the watts x ft^2 x days to grams. The time factor is always missing when I see growers do their yield estimates.

For my set up, I typically veg the plants to about 18 inches in about 40 days, with another 70 days in flower. The plants are in 8 inch round pots, so I can fit about 40 into a 5 x 5 space. I use a 1000W light. My typical yield is about 30 grams per plant. So in my case W = 1000, A = 25, and T = 110, and Y = 1200. So the conversion factor for this set up would be 0.000436.

Plugging your numbers into the equation and solving for Y would be as follows:

Y = 800W x 16 ft^2 x 84 days x 0.000436
Y = 469 grams

Would like to see some other growers use there own numbers to see if there is a fairly constant conversion factor. Obviously, there is going to be lots of variation, but it would be cool to have some idea if an equation like this could be useful.
That was awesome.
 

JimmyIndica

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What would be a realistic yield for a table that is 4x4 feet and has 64 plants. Each pot is one gallon soil and measures 6x6 inches. Sea of green method, 600W led plus 2 150W red boosters. Indica dominant hybrid. Veg for a week or two after roots have been established from clones. Yield per plant roughly? Yield difference per soil/hydro? Any imput would be greatly appreciated.
LB = 14g a piece IMO
 
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