True story, expect nothing and you will never be disappointed.
Thanks. In that case, am I better off just growing 2 instead of 4?
Focus on making it to a successful harvest. Don’t worry about fancy methods or anything.
Yep. That's what I'm going for! Trying to find a good video on how to tie down. Do I tie down the main stem and all the side stems as well?
Seconded. Just focus on growing healthy plants, and getting your own schedule and discipline dialed in. The simpler you keep things at first, the better chance of a good harvest quality wise.
But why couldn't I do 2 plants and get 135g off of each? (again, in theory, assuming everything went perfectly and I somehow got to 1g/watt) Is there a max out on wattage per square foot a plant can handle?
You can if you want to veg twice as long and get the plant structure perfect. Not sure on max wattage per sq ft of led probably around 50
Either way is good. What @Gemtree is referring to is closer to a SOG (Sea of Green) vs a SCROG (Screen of Green). If you look up the 2 terms you will understand the pros/cons of each way. I lean towards SOG but since I grow in soil I dont like to use too small of pots. So for example in my 4x5 closet I do 12 plants in 2 gallon pots (3 rows of 4 plants). They veg for @ 3 weeks (after seedling stage) til they are @ 18" tall with little training (sometimes I will top once depending on strain). In a true SOG people will sometimes use small pots and flower them right after the clones are rooted. This results in a 'sea' of giant colas. But depending on legality on plant counts (or your concern about them), is the reason most people will just do a few plants, and SCROG them to get maximum coverage in their space.
Latest LED tech like strips or QBs 30-35 is fine. Over 40 is probably overkill.
I think we should not standardize on veg time, but your G per Watt needs to be not on the lighting used not just in flower, but like the entire kWh used for your entire grow.
I know 4 weeks is ok but my past grows I’m still closer to 60 on veg including right now, I like big plants, I never got 2000 grams off my 600w 3 month veg grows, shit I wish man, I got 7 foot plants though..
I think about this all the time when people talk about g/w. That's only half the equation. Hit me with your g/w/hour. Then we can talk!
I like that, total lamp run time and wall watts. Be like a 30 day class and 60 day class haha.
270 watts at 18/6 schedule during veg.
Maybe space, square footage could be a proxy for time, like g/watt/sq. ft. Reason is, you could grow one big plant in a long time, but many small plants in a short time. In the end though the space is filled, doesn't matter how you got there. Then again, maybe you are on the right track with something like grams per watt-hour, where efficiency is (pot out / electricity in), which sounds attractive as a raw efficiency number. Is it really as simple as electricity = pot + heat?