perpetual growing

superloud

superloud

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So I have a 2.5x2.5x6 ft tent that I plan on kepping two mothers in and possibly using for the first week or two for the clones if there is room. I plan on getting a 5x5x6 tent for flower with a 1000hps and a 4x4x6 tent for veg with a 4ft t5. I'm curent attempting a perpetual with just the 2.5ft tent for veg and flowering in an open room. My strain takes 3mnths too flower so I have to veg for three months to do a perpetual and the veg tent is too small. With the amount of space in the tents I listed would it be better to do 1 plant a month that will have 3 month veg three mnth flower, or 2 plants?
 
I would just run 2 clones from each mother for a 2 week veg (get them nice and vigorous), put the mothers and 1 clone (keeping one clone in veg) from each into flower, take 2 cuttings from the mothers at 2 weeks into flower and root them.

Then veg those monstercropped cuttings for 2 weeks (nice and vigorous again) and make 1 of each strain a new mother. Cloning can go so fast. Add 2 more each month and harvest 2 once a month after your initial 3 month flowering. 2 plants (if you keep replacing mothers) will get you anywhere from 0.5-1 ounce with each clone and 2-3 with each mother every month. So 2.5-4 ounces each month.

My thoughts anyway.
 
Connoisseurus Rex said:
I would just run 2 clones from each mother for a 2 week veg (get them nice and vigorous), put the mothers and 1 clone (keeping one clone in veg) from each into flower, take 2 cuttings from the mothers at 2 weeks into flower and root them.

Then veg those monstercropped cuttings for 2 weeks (nice and vigorous again) and make 1 of each strain a new mother. Cloning can go so fast. Add 2 more each month and harvest 2 once a month after your initial 3 month flowering. 2 plants (if you keep replacing mothers) will get you anywhere from 0.5-1 ounce with each clone and 2-3 with each mother every month. So 2.5-4 ounces each month.

My thoughts anyway.
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I'm realy looking into getting a three part set up mother tent veg tent and flower tent. I think with a three month veg I should get a pretty nice yield.
 
superloud said:
I'm realy looking into getting a three part set up mother tent veg tent and flower tent. I think with a three month veg I should get a pretty nice yield.
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A 3 month veg and you'll only fit 1-2 plants in the flowering tent lol. Vegging for 3 months and then cloning to veg for another 3 months is a slow perpetual grow.

You wind up with nice yields with a longer wait but if you have a problem with a grow it gets compromised. The other way, you pull lesser yields but they are constant, consistent, and easily raised or replenished.
 
Connoisseurus Rex said:
A 3 month veg and you'll only fit 1-2 plants in the flowering tent lol. Vegging for 3 months and then cloning to veg for another 3 months is a slow perpetual grow.

You wind up with nice yields with a longer wait but if you have a problem with a grow it gets compromised. The other way, you pull lesser yields but they are constant, consistent, and easily raised or

With what I'm saying I would eaither be pulling one or two plants every month that have been vegeed for three months. I will put two clones into veg the next month 2 more then two more then the third month the first two would go into flower and two more clones put in the tent. I will have either 6 or 3 plants vegd at three months in flower at all times and 6 or 3 plants in veg at a 1,2,and3 month stage. I'm just wanting to know if I should go for pulling one plant a month or two plants with the room I have
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Connoisseurus Rex said:
A 3 month veg and you'll only fit 1-2 plants in the flowering tent lol. Vegging for 3 months and then cloning to veg for another 3 months is a slow perpetual grow.

You wind up with nice yields with a longer wait but if you have a problem with a grow it gets compromised. The other way, you pull lesser yields but they are constant, consistent, and easily raised or replenished.
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With what I'm saying I would eaither be pulling one or two plants every month that have been vegeed for three months. I will put two clones into veg the next month 2 more then two more then the third month the first two would go into flower and two more clones put in the tent. I will have either 6 or 3 plants vegd at three months in flower at all times and 6 or 3 plants in veg at a 1,2,and3 month stage. I'm just wanting to know if I should go for pulling one plant a month or two plants with the room I have
 
I can also get a slightly bigger tent if need be. I mite end up just building a room with 2x4 and polly
 
I would at least try to get an oscillating fan in a corner just as a preventative. Unless you can get that intake fan blowing across the canopy.

The rest sounds good though.
 
Generally the size of your grow space determines what would be an ideal plant size for that space. In a 5x5x6 tent you will only have about 4 feet of usable vertical space because of lights. Possibly less since you don't want you glass sitting right on your plants. Now plants that are vegged for 3 months could very likely outgrow that space with out careful control of their height.

I would say that typically perpetual grows are done with larger numbers of smaller plants. You don't spend time vegging plants for 3 months, you veg them for 2 weeks, and get them flowering. Yes the plants are smaller so they don't yield as much per plant, but if you have 2-4 smaller plants instead of 1 huge one you are able to yield about the same.

I've been running my garden like this for 6 years now. I take clones about every 2 weeks when they are rooted they go into pots, and veg for about 2 weeks until they are roughly 8 inchs tall and growing vigorously. At this point I've already cut my next batch of clones as well. Once the potted clones have vegged, they go straight into flower for 9-10 weeks depending on strain. Then every 1-2 weeks I have anywhere from 8-12 plants to harvest. I average about 20g per plant, and can fit around 45 plants under my single 1k light at a time.

Though there are many ways to make a grow perpetual, I feel the way I run mine is a good example of a typical cycle. Its done to increase the number of harvests per year, and to decrease the amount of time spent vegging the plants instead of flowering them.
 
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