is there anyone out here already doing a perp grow and willing to share your schedule/setup. im redoing my grow area which is my basement from scratch so i have a blank sheet to work with. looking to do roughly 3 elbows a month if possible. i have a nice starting point. i have about 11 diff strains to work with. right now and about 60 clones. all suggestions welcome
need help setting/planning a perpetual grow
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appreciate the response merlin. i def want to do hydro. coco if possible as ive been gradually experimenting with that. been im fairly seasoned with my aero setup. as far as room design. im open for suggestions. right now i have 2 flowers and 2 veg. but would like to get that down to maybe 1 flower and 1 veg.
plants that i have right now:
GDP
sage n sour
purple haze
cheese
sour D (but i think the genetics are weak and prob wont do another grow with it)
time wreck 1,2,3,4
blue og
strawberry cough
blue dream
black jack
Chrystal
as far as harvest id say prob smaller more frequent as i'd really like to limit the amount of wattage i'd need to the absolute min.
currently i have just 1 light controller wired for 240 and capable of carry 4k watts. i also have my 4ft 8 bulb t5 and 1 ft 2 bulb i use for veg. currently im only running 3 600's as stated b4 i reeeeallly dont want to push the wattage amounts to the max (stealth). if i can get away with doing this with 2400/3kish that'd be fabulous though not sure how realistic
Merlin34
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Well your going to be hard pressed to get 3 lbs out of 4k a month perpetually. Your going to have to grow trees. Your light footprint isn't going to be large enough to have plants ready to harvest every two weeks, considering the size of plants necessary to pull that weight. If you want to start perpetual just put a certain amount of plants into flower and two weeks later do it again etc... But without more watts I think your going to run out of room to get 4 sets of plants into flower. I'd say lower your expectations of yield to say a pound, pound and a half and it becomes a more reasonable goal. The other thing is I see that about half your plants could be 10 weekers. This complicates the harvest times.
Sent from Northern Colorado.
Sent from Northern Colorado.
thnx for the reply. so wattage wise what do you think i need to pull it off?
Rico Dynamite
Member
here is my perp, schedule. I have a 400 watt ceramic veg and 2 1000 watt flower. I just dropped a 1000 watts and got a gavita on a light rail. (so far, results are good,still comparing)
My schedule is to ALWAYS have plants in veg. when plants finish, plants come out, that many go back in. I control canopy with supercropping and topping.
My schedule is to ALWAYS have plants in veg. when plants finish, plants come out, that many go back in. I control canopy with supercropping and topping.
what are you yielding?
Rico Dynamite
Member
depends on the strain. But a good inica or hybrid is usually 3-5 zips. Under a hortilux 1000. yields with the gavitas should be higher
yeah i think i have close to 3x the amount at the moment. hence why i was trying to set it up while they are all still young.
Growing101
Member
try going with coco, 20gal pot, in veg considering you have one 1000w and 400w light available you can veg12 plants or more, they should veg until at least 30in. Flower 2 plants- 1 plant per 1000w guaranteed to get at least a pound per light if you feed according to the nutrient feeding schedule along with knowing your plants limits. Flush weekly. Using BLUE DREAM AND CHEESE
so your saying do just 1 20 gallon pot per 1k watts?
Merlin34
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A pound per 1000 with one plant is very doable, though I'd do 2. I don't like all my eggs in one basket. If you did one or two per light and had 3 lights, so 3 stages of flower, with a harvest every three weeks, I'd say a pound or more a month is achievable.
Sent from Northern Colorado.
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