Ok, need some advice from you experienced folks. I have a few grows under my belt I have been getting great quality but lower yields than desired @ only about .3 GPW. I think there are many reasons for this lower yield some my fault some not, either way; I will be retooling my set up for several reasons, one being to improve quantity so I'd like some opinions. I have 1 critical requirement which trumps all: a strict limit of 49 total plants and/or rooted clones up at any one time.
Room Plans:
2x600HPS in a 6x4 Flowering area
1 or 2x400MH for moms and veg
Floro for rooting clones
Moms - E&F for moms
Clones/Veg - Aero buckets
Flower - Fence post Aero/NFT or pure NFT
Only 6.5' total vertical space for plants, gap, lights and base.
Grow plans, 49 plants as follows:
2 week Perpetual @ 8 weeks total
4 Moms (Euforia, Cheese, W.Rhino, Chocolope)
12 Clones, best 8 into flower, 1 to rotate out a mom, 3 discarded
32 in flower
All comments welcome, but here are my questions.
1. With the limit of plants a true high denisity SOG seems out, so should I reduce the # of plants in flower and veg longer? I.e Go for less but bigger plants. (I'm worried about hieght on this idea) or maybe FIM?
2. Is 14 days from cutting to flower allowable realistic? Would it allow for any veg time?
3. Am I being too ambitious going for 4 strains?
4. If the plan as outlined seems good should I bother to lolipop given that my plants are likely to be small due to limited veg time and the density is 1.25 plant SQFT. which looks to be about a good bit less then Stinkbud or Al B.'s grows.
5. Can FIM be done effectively right as the plants for into flower or do the need some veg time to recover?
Any other ideas? Thanks in advance.
Room Plans:
2x600HPS in a 6x4 Flowering area
1 or 2x400MH for moms and veg
Floro for rooting clones
Moms - E&F for moms
Clones/Veg - Aero buckets
Flower - Fence post Aero/NFT or pure NFT
Only 6.5' total vertical space for plants, gap, lights and base.
Grow plans, 49 plants as follows:
2 week Perpetual @ 8 weeks total
4 Moms (Euforia, Cheese, W.Rhino, Chocolope)
12 Clones, best 8 into flower, 1 to rotate out a mom, 3 discarded
32 in flower
All comments welcome, but here are my questions.
1. With the limit of plants a true high denisity SOG seems out, so should I reduce the # of plants in flower and veg longer? I.e Go for less but bigger plants. (I'm worried about hieght on this idea) or maybe FIM?
2. Is 14 days from cutting to flower allowable realistic? Would it allow for any veg time?
3. Am I being too ambitious going for 4 strains?
4. If the plan as outlined seems good should I bother to lolipop given that my plants are likely to be small due to limited veg time and the density is 1.25 plant SQFT. which looks to be about a good bit less then Stinkbud or Al B.'s grows.
5. Can FIM be done effectively right as the plants for into flower or do the need some veg time to recover?
Any other ideas? Thanks in advance.