Pissinyourtropicana
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I'm currently doing some planning and I've came across a tricky area for my design and I'm looking for advice and input.
This is where we are at in the short form. Simple lay out 10 1kw hps 9 week strain 1 hps designated as mother flower overflow. I've allocated 1.5kw to mother room.
So I'm attempting to come up with this design that works with my current small scale method. I use soil .75 gallon square pots that are about 4.5 inches. The hood I'm using are projecting on an area of 4.5 feet sqaure. Side note fuck this imperial bullshit! So if my math is right ill fit 12x12 of my sqaure pots under a light. So each week i will need 144 plants. So my mother system will have to feed 144 plants a week. So here's my issue. How many mother should I keep after my pheno selection is fully completed. Cause the idea is to have 3 9 week strains grown from seed alotting about 50 seeds to a strain. Gives a wider spectrum of phenos once the first batch of clones to run their course we can group the phenos roughly and dial in the individual pheno groupings and then keep the top 3 of each 3.
Now that's not a permanent solution at all cant have 150 mother at one the mother over flow would fill too quickly and become useless. Oh yah the mother overflow idea is that once a mother reaches a certain size it's no longer feasible to keep. Would it be better to just cull them from the garden? Thinking generally you can achieve 4 shoots a week off one mom and if I keep 45 moms I'm in the clear. The pots can be deep for the mothers too they will end up beng 1.25 gallon or 1 gallon ones unno. Replace the moms every 3-4 weeks?
Just looking for some input criticisms. I have a smaller scaled version of this very idea but its real ramshacklish and I grow it in a crack den so I will not post any pics of that lol it's a mess. And I'm gunna check those gallons again I can't remember if those numbers are right. I guess I'm looking for answer that speaks more to what's easier. Opinions!?
This is where we are at in the short form. Simple lay out 10 1kw hps 9 week strain 1 hps designated as mother flower overflow. I've allocated 1.5kw to mother room.
So I'm attempting to come up with this design that works with my current small scale method. I use soil .75 gallon square pots that are about 4.5 inches. The hood I'm using are projecting on an area of 4.5 feet sqaure. Side note fuck this imperial bullshit! So if my math is right ill fit 12x12 of my sqaure pots under a light. So each week i will need 144 plants. So my mother system will have to feed 144 plants a week. So here's my issue. How many mother should I keep after my pheno selection is fully completed. Cause the idea is to have 3 9 week strains grown from seed alotting about 50 seeds to a strain. Gives a wider spectrum of phenos once the first batch of clones to run their course we can group the phenos roughly and dial in the individual pheno groupings and then keep the top 3 of each 3.
Now that's not a permanent solution at all cant have 150 mother at one the mother over flow would fill too quickly and become useless. Oh yah the mother overflow idea is that once a mother reaches a certain size it's no longer feasible to keep. Would it be better to just cull them from the garden? Thinking generally you can achieve 4 shoots a week off one mom and if I keep 45 moms I'm in the clear. The pots can be deep for the mothers too they will end up beng 1.25 gallon or 1 gallon ones unno. Replace the moms every 3-4 weeks?
Just looking for some input criticisms. I have a smaller scaled version of this very idea but its real ramshacklish and I grow it in a crack den so I will not post any pics of that lol it's a mess. And I'm gunna check those gallons again I can't remember if those numbers are right. I guess I'm looking for answer that speaks more to what's easier. Opinions!?