GibbsIt89

But, you say, small plants don't yield much. That's true; grow more of them. They are small and you can fit 20 in the space of one big tree. If each of those 20 give you 1/2 an ounce that's ten ounces. I've grown plenty of indoor trees and never yielded that much. Right now, I'm getting close to an ounce per plant and harvesting ten to twelve plants every 5 or 6 weeks, depending on my cloner cooperating. Eliminating 2 to 4 weeks of useless veg time that just gives you big plants that can't optimally use the light you are giving them is a total winner. 1200 watts = 12 ounces or 1200 watts = 4-5 ounces from one flowering mother. It's just a no-brainer.

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Lemme give you the zero-veg philosophy. First, the longer and larger you grow a plant, the more likely you will have problems with it; pests, nutrition, environment. So, young plants on the whole are healthier. Second, HID lighting can only replace the sun to a degree. The sun, after all, is the sun! So indoor lights of any type are going top be rapidly less effective the farther away the target plant material is; so if you want big rock-hard buds, don't grow tall plants unless you have plenty of side lighting which give you new problems with heat plus more electrical consumption.


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My mothers (I had 5 of them) got to be 5 feet tall by late June this year. 600 watters will not penetrate far enough to give you good bud on the lower branches. I tried flowering large mothers like that last summer, and they 1) grew up to the ceiling 2) got mites because it was a hot summer and it's hard to treat large plants for pest infestation 3) and 4) I ended up with a huge amount of popcorn buds off the lower branches; nobody likes that and it's a ridiculous amount of work to trim. Mothers are just mothers; if I kill a plant that I've gotten maybe 40 cuttings from, I count the yield of those cuttings as the yield from the mother. That makes it totally easy to kill them.


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You should definitely master cloning. Makes everything neat and uniform and you skip weeks of useless vegging not to mention the pesky seeding stage. That said, I just killed all my mothers. They got too big and I have new strains I want to try so I took one more batch of cuttings and threw the moms on the compost pile.

LoL. I saw you were checking my shit out. I've kind of stopped documenting things ever since I got it figured out. I checked out your setup. You're doing ok, but having plants in so many different size containers and at so many different stages of growth can get out of control. I'd lose the blue tarp too. It's not doing anything but trapping heat, ya know?