How much will I yield?

[SmokeAlotABud]

Based on this setup any good predictions on my yield?
8 w x 4 depth x 6 ft tall reflective grow tent
two 600 watt hps grow lights
12 plant aeroponic bucket system
regular nutrient feeding
5-8 week veg cycle 24/0
4-8 flowering period 12/12
CO2 generator
total of 12 plants (strains are indica heavy)
Seeds I will be using:
6 Cali hash
6 strawberry DNA kush
Humidity 40-60 %
Temperature: 70-80 F
Just a general estimate based on this setup would be nice.
thanks ahead of time for any constructive criticism. This is my first grow!

 

[Budist]

We don't know... This is your first grow. What you need to do is grow a strain for your set cycle time and get a average from that.

 

[Claude Bawls]

Based on this setup any good predictions on my yield?
8 w x 4 depth x 6 ft tall reflective grow tent
two 600 watt hps grow lights
12 plant aeroponic bucket system
regular nutrient feeding
5-8 week veg cycle 24/0
4-8 flowering period 12/12
CO2 generator
total of 12 plants (strains are indica heavy)
Seeds I will be using:
6 Cali hash
6 strawberry DNA kush
Humidity 40-60 %
Temperature: 70-80 F
Just a general estimate based on this setup would be nice.
thanks ahead of time for any constructive criticism. This is my first grow!

You provided some good info BUT, the most important factors to a successful grow are knowledge and skill. Anyone can pick up a paint brush but few of us ever sell a painting, right? Educate yourself young padawan and Mother Ganja will shower you with herbal love.

 

[Rascality Afoot]

None. You're gonna burn your house down and everyones gonna know what you've been doing in you spare time.
In all seriousness though, those should be fairly high yielding strains. If nothing goes wrong you should be aiming for just over a gram per watt of light. If you screw up as much as I did with my first indoor, cut that in half. A measly 600g harvest, what will you do? (Hint, get really really baked and reflect on the mistakes you've made over your stacks of skrill)

 

[DR. RESINTHUMB]

if 6 0f the 12 are male that leaves 6 femalesx2-3 oz flowered at 8 weeks for 12-18oz....a lb would be a good goal for your first

 

[SmokeAlotABud]

Thanks for the replies. Dr Resinthumb, I'm using feminized seeds so that shouldn't be an issue.

 

[BigBuddahCheese]

12-14 in that space? Probably not as much as your eyes want you to have, after you get the equipment in there that is going to be little to no room for plants let alone you to take proper care of them.

 

[SmokeAlotABud]

12-14 in that space? Probably not as much as your eyes want you to have, after you get the equipment in there that is going to be little to no room for plants let alone you to take proper care of them.

32 square feet and 6ft tall for 12 plants is too small? I have read that one plant per square foot is the standard, and my grow room offers 2 sq feet per plant. What space limitations are you taking about? The buckets are 1.5 ft tall and the lights can be moved up as plants grow to a min of 1 feet from the ceiling. That leaves 4 and a 1/2 feet of room for growing. They are indica plants so I'm assuming there's enough height there...

 

[Budist]

32 square feet and 6ft tall for 12 plants is too small? I have read that one plant per square foot is the standard, and my grow room offers 2 sq feet per plant. What space limitations are you taking about? The buckets are 1.5 ft tall and the lights can be moved up as plants grow to a min of 1 feet from the ceiling. That leaves 4 and a 1/2 feet of room for growing. They are indica plants so I'm assuming there's enough height there...

With indicas you worry about width

 

[SmokeAlotABud]

With indicas you worry about width

How many plants would you advise fitting into this setup then if width could be an issue?

 

[Budist]

Try for 4 if you want a little size to them. I don't know how your strain grows or how you are going to grow them..

 

[Dank Raptor]

8x4 with 1200 watts is perfect for 8 plants in five gallon buckets. I ran this setup for years in a tent. With more plants I yielded the same with smaller buds because of the crowding. I recommend 4 square feet per plant. Unless your doing a sea of green in one gallon pots thats completely different. It all depends on your veg time. Give them a month and a half veg with 8 plants in there and once you get things dialed in you can harvest a little under a pound per 600 watt light! I dont know about aeroponics though. You may fuck your yield with that.

 

[SmokeAlotABud]

Thanks for the reply. I've heard good things about aeroponics which is why I ultimately went with it for my grow. It sprays the nutrient rich solutions directly on the roots which is supposed to be more effective than traditional hydroponic setups. I have a limited time window for operation (~13/14) weeks. The seeds I selected offer flower in the shortest amount of time, but aren't auto-flowering strains. So I'm all for vegging longer but it would come up at the expense of more flowering time. What would be an optimal time split between vegging and flowering given this time window? I know this isn't desirable but there's nothing I can do about it so gotta do what I gotta do...

 

[SmokeAlotABud]

8x4 with 1200 watts is perfect for 8 plants in five gallon buckets. I ran this setup for years in a tent. With more plants I yielded the same with smaller buds because of the crowding. I recommend 4 square feet per plant. Unless your doing a sea of green in one gallon pots thats completely different. It all depends on your veg time. Give them a month and a half veg with 8 plants in there and once you get things dialed in you can harvest a little under a pound per 600 watt light! I dont know about aeroponics though. You may fuck your yield with that.

Also I'm going from seed to plant so I don't have any experience with the strain so I'm not running a SoG or ScRoG setup this time around.

 

[willhmx04]

I have a similar setup. Dual 600 watters in 4x8 tent with inline fan and air-cooled hoods. It gets waaaay hot in there so I had to use a window a/c unit. Before the a/c, the temps were around 87 at night (only a couple of nights). Now the temps stay right around 75-79. Oh and Im flowering from 7pm-7am. I have mostly indica dominant strains (AK48, Afghan Kush x Yumbolt). I also have 4 Green Crack from seeds. They look mostly indica as well, even though I believe Green Crack is a sativa dominant strain. I have twelve plants in the 4x8. Ten are in 3 gallon containers that I cut the bottom out and added another gallon of soilless mix. Two are in small 1 gallon containers. IMO they all fit nice. I moved them all toward one side of tent and move my clones in and out before the lights go out. Heres a pic from vegging on 4-4 which was 5 days before I Started flowering:

 

[phishtank]

i say 1 million pounds man....

 

[Nukebisket]

f you need to cut back on veg time do like I do and fill that 8x4 space up with 32 plants, veg for 4 weeks and 12/12 for 8 weeks. Only cut back on plant numbers if you have a plant limit you need to stick with, I see no point in a long veg with few plants

 

[SmokeAlotABud]

I have a similar setup. Dual 600 watters in 4x8 tent with inline fan and air-cooled hoods. It gets waaaay hot in there so I had to use a window a/c unit. Before the a/c, the temps were around 87 at night (only a couple of nights). Now the temps stay right around 75-79. Oh and Im flowering from 7pm-7am. I have mostly indica dominant strains (AK48, Afghan Kush x Yumbolt). I also have 4 Green Crack from seeds. They look mostly indica as well, even though I believe Green Crack is a sativa dominant strain. I have twelve plants in the 4x8. Ten are in 3 gallon containers that I cut the bottom out and added another gallon of soilless mix. Two are in small 1 gallon containers. IMO they all fit nice. I moved them all toward one side of tent and move my clones in and out before the lights go out. Heres a pic from vegging on 4-4 which was 5 days before I Started flowering:
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Nice setup and plants.
I'm worried about my temp's too. It gets really hot here during the summer in general, and then plus the 2x600 watt lights....I don't know if I can get a window ac unit but I'm pretty sure I can run ducting from my ac vent down into the tent (with an inline fan pulling ac air into the tent) and run ducting outside (with an inline fan pushing heat out). Hopefully this will help keep my temp's down. I'm waiting about another week before I get my whole tent setup so I'll have to wait and see.

How long did you/ (are you) veg/(ging) these plants for? I have a limited time window so I'm trying to decide what the optimum split between veg and flowering time is

 

[tharoomman]

I see no point in a long veg with few plants

How exactly did you come to that conclusion? My SDG is gonna have hard buds all over her. Why? She's been flowering under a 600 watt MH by herself for a month. The only buds thats gonna be worth a damn if you put 32 plants in a 8x4 are the tops.I suppose in truth its 6 one and 1/2 dozen the other.

Btw, OP, you could pull 16 oz from that. 2 oz x 8 plants, as others have suggested.IMO that will be the best way.

 

[willhmx04]

The seeds popped Feb.1 and I flipped the switch on April 9. So roughly 60 days of growth. I had a couple nutrient lockout setbacks mostly with too much calcium in my tap water. Since then I've switched to strickly distilled and he plants love me for it.
Currently, all 12 plants are in flowering day 31. They've been drinking up a storm so I waited for them to get thirsty and gave them 1 gallon each big pot. For the 1 gallon containers I drenched with a half gallon of mild nute water. This was all done a few days ago and they are, at most, a couple days away from being dry. I'm high and just re-read what I just typed and have no idea where I'm going with this...