Three week perpetual harvest cycle blueprint

[spek9]

I've done some math and created a blueprint that everyone can use for just starting up. The blueprint below will have you harvesting every three weeks when the plants hit week 9/day 63 on the button. Also included is your cloning and planting schedule.

This is a 3 phase 8 plant schedule, for a total of 24 plants in flower at all times; increase or decrease as you see fit. Enjoy!

- day 1: (phase A) place 20 clones in the cloner
- day 14: (phase A) pot 8 best clones and put them into flower tent
- day 21: (phase B) place 20 clones into cloner
- day 35: (phase B) pot 8 best clones and put into flower
- day 42: (phase C) place 20 clones into cloner
- day 56: (phase C) plant 8 best clones
- day 63: (phase D) place 20 clones in the cloner

Perpetual starts below, harvesting 8 plants, and starting 8 plants every 21 days:

- day 77: (phase A's day 63/wk 9 from flower) HARVEST!
- day 77: (phase D) put 8 best clones into flower
- day 84: (restart phase A) put 20 clones in cloner
- day 98: (phase B's day 63/wk 9 from flower) HARVEST!
- day 98: (phase A) put 8 best clones into flower
- day 105: (restart phase B) put 20 clones in cloner
- day 119: (phase C's day 63/wk 9 from flower) HARVEST!
- day 119: (phase B) put 8 best clones into flower

-spek

ps. About my setup:

Strains:

- White Widow (not currently growing in this setup, I just keep Mom's happy and a couple clones at all times)
- Chemdawg (works spectacularly for this setup)
- Jack Herer (works very well for this setup)

Flowering:

- 2x4x5' tent
- 440 CFM inline running @35%, pulling air through 14" carbon filter and pushing through cooltube
- 400w HPS
- all plants planted in spray painted 2L Coke bottles with tops cut off
- a mixture of mediums; soil, 100% Hydroton and 100% perlite
- two Oasis Claber 8053 auto drip systems. The 8 largest plants run on one system with two drippers each. The other system feeds the 16 smaller plants with one dripper per plant

Mom & clones:

- 1.75x3x2.5' mylar coated space under my breakfast bar
- 5 43w CFLs (4 6500k and 1 2700k), with Y's, fixed into a custom aluminum hood
- 25 site aero cloner
- two Mom's per strain, with 1-2 candidate Moms just in case
- hand watered

 

[hexthat]

have you tried flowering in your 25 site cloner yet? a sea of green works fantastic in ezcloners, just trim the roots so they dont clog misters.

 

[spek9]

have you tried flowering in your 25 site cloner yet? a sea of green works fantastic in ezcloners, just trim the roots so they dont clog misters.

No, I haven't, but honestly, it has crossed my mind a few times.

I am eyeing an aeroponics system for my flower area though... something a bit bigger than the cloner. However, I may buy a second cloner, load it up with 10 or so clones, and put the whole thing next to my plants in the flower tent as a test.

What I've been looking at is buying/fabricating something like this: http://www.amazon.com/General-Hydro...F8&qid=1383318443&sr=8-15&keywords=aeroponics

That's an example only. I'd probably do one with ~30 sites. Obviously I'd need to move from tent to a room, but that's ok.

I'm at the scale now where I want to get out of soil completely, and have much more automation.

Thanks for the input!

-spek

 

[urabus2005]

can you show pics of your flower tent? id like to see how the 24 plants look in a 2X4 tent.

also how much dried bud are you getting?

 

[spek9]

can you show pics of your flower tent? id like to see how the 24 plants look in a 2X4 tent.

also how much dried bud are you getting?

Go through my 12/12 thread in my sig. I haven't hit my first harvest using this method yet. My first harvest will be in about 14 days from now. I was keeping a 2 week schedule but scrapped that for the more mathematically workable 3 week just yesterday.

After a rough start on the first two phase beginnings, I'm getting well underway now, and I expect to yield about 13-15 grams per plant.

-spek

EDIT: I will take some better pics tonight after work that show the entire tent more clearly.