Downfoemythang
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Hello everyone, new here. Im planning to grow a crop. This will be my first attempt at growing. I have lots of questions my first is about the yield number what does that number represent?
Question about yields
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Downfoemythang
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I was following you until I got to the meter squared part. So a yield rating of 600 means if my plant grows a meter I stand to yield 300 grams?Depends usually seedbank's list meters squared, so 600gm2 would be 600 grams per meter squared, hope that helps
No, a yield of 600 gr/m^2 means that in one square meter of grow space (1 meter long by 1 meter wide) you would expect to yield 600 grams on average
Downfoemythang
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Thanks John. I had one of them ah ha moments and it figured it out an hr later on a drive to the store. Thanks for co-signning my theory.
Downfoemythang
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New Question:
I've read some info on seeds and it'll say, for example, Flowering weeks 9 / 11 weeks. Does that mean after veg I need to flower 9 / 11 weeks? Then I've read on this forum that people have taken 12 weeks from seeds to harvest. So Im a bit confused. Im gonna need some clarifaction. That 9 /11 week flowering was for wonder woman seeds.
haze2
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Every plant has diff flowering times 9-11 weeks would mean within 9-11 weeks in to flower that will be prime time for harvest, that does not include your vegg time. Usuall you vegg for 2 weeks to 4+ weeks and then you have a flower time of usually 45 days on some fast flowering strains up to 150 days or 16 weeks on some breeds of pure sativa. GoodLuck.
Downfoemythang
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Thanks for that response Haze. My plants have been veggin for the same amount of time but are different sizes, I want to veg until they are all big enough to be moved to a 3 gallon pot. My question is the longer I veg they bigger they will get and when they go to flower they "should" give me more to harvest cause there is more plant to harvest, correct?
raiderman
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dont let any plant get bigger than a foot before yu flower ,,gonna have some 4 to 6 footers or higher less thier outside,before its done and yield would be the same if they only got 80 cm or more.jus managing tall plants suk.
haze2
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Put it this way every plant will also grow different rates unless you get an extremely stable plant, they are everywhere. I flowered a pure sativa at 18 inches in flower it stretched to a whopping 6 ft+. usually your plant will stretch about 2 to 3 times the plant height at flower. sativas tend to grow bigger than indicas in this situation. Oh and yes the bigger the plant more the yield but the bigger the plant gets you start having less light towards the bottom of the plant so you kinda have to decide what the perfect height is for your needs.
Brick Top
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That is very sound advice, in particular the last part and more people should pass it on. I have really stressed vegging height with new growers many times over the years. When it comes to vegging many have had the same sort of thought process as a woman . Bigger is better!
　
I always say considering your lighting and your height and then only veg long enough to use all of what your system/setup can actually give you. There is no sense to vegging a plant to a height so when it takes off in flower it outgrows your lighting. What you get for doing so is making your overall length of time from popping your beans to harvesting longer, paid for more electricity usage, paid for/used more fertilizers/nutrients etc, increased your risk for problems of various sorts and all for what? Some popcorn.
　
Whatever number of days or weeks that would be wasted flowering longer than makes sense for any particular system/setup would much better be used in the popping of your next beans and beginning to veg your next crop.
Even when someone has great lighting and top reflective material if they are new or somewhat new to growing they can still have problems judging what height is best in their situation for beginning flowering, that is unless they use some training method to keep their plants low.
　
Many will look at their grow room and see maybe an 8 foot high ceiling and think they have lots of height to work with. I try to tell new growers to remember that from whatever maximum eight the space has you have to subtract the height of the pots you use or the height of your hydro/aero setup and then subtract the height of your light/reflective hood or cfl setup and then subtract the minimum number of inches or feet you need to keep between the top of your plants and the bottom of your lighting and what is left is your maximum amount of usable growing height.
　
So people really need to consider what the maximum height their lighting/reflective material setup can actually provide adequate lighting to and also what actual amount of total height they have to work with and then find a vegging height range that will at least in most cases keep you within the limitations of your setup.
　
Roughly 40% of a yield will come from the outer portions of your plants and those areas can be very difficult to get adequate light to.
If your reflective material is substandard and or if your lighting is not up to the task you give it to perform and it cannot penetrate deep enough, even when combined with your reflective material, and or your lighting just does not cover a large enough footprint then production in those areas will drop off very sharply.