1st Grow - 25 Plants - HELP PLEASE! Lighting Question – Optimal Yield

drgreentm said:

if it where my 12x12 room this is what i would do i would do a full sog grow with 4 4x4 flood and drain hydro trays and do 2 1000's on light rails the trays would be end to end making basically a 4x8 tray out of 2 4x4's on ether side of the room leaving a good 4 foot walkway between the trays light rails skimming over each 2 trays with a 1000w bulb on each side i would go all perpetual 2 week harvesting so first tray is freshly rooted clones to two weeks second tray 2 to 4 weeks third tray 4 to 6 weeks and final tray 6 to harvest

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hellraizer30 said:

hydro would be sick but as a first timmer Id go 1 1000 per every 4x4 area total 4 1000s 6 plants every light through in the 1 plant as a mother somewhere under a t5 tube.
and stay soil, you need to learn the basics first and this is huge already. your going to need vented shields and a bad ass scrubber!!! to vent the heat out, and some sort
of intake pulling cool air in. your going to need a dehumidifier for sure, to control your RH. start with a simple nute program, as for the soil I would use sunshine #4. and get
x2 12 in air king fans, and a 55 gal res tank to mix water and nutes up, rig a pump and a line with a watering wond to make watering simple. some sort of PH test kit and
a blue labs ppm pen to insure you dont burnem. thats all I can think off right off as im kinda stoned

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drgreentm said:

if it where my 12x12 room this is what i would do i would do a full sog grow with 4 4x4 flood and drain hydro trays and do 2 1000's on light rails the trays would be end to end making basically a 4x8 tray out of 2 4x4's on ether side of the room leaving a good 4 foot walkway between the trays light rails skimming over each 2 trays with a 1000w bulb on each side i would go all perpetual 2 week harvesting so first tray is freshly rooted clones to two weeks second tray 2 to 4 weeks third tray 4 to 6 weeks and final tray 6 to harvest 64 plants per tray 2lbs per 2 weeks but if you are trying to keep plant counts low prably wouldn't work for you just my idea lol.

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hellraizer30 said:

hydro would be sick but as a first timmer Id go soil total 4 1000s 6 plants every light through in the 1 plant as a mother somewhere under a t5 tube.
and stay soil, you need to learn the basics first and this is huge already. your going to need vented shields and a bad ass scrubber!!! to vent the heat out, and some sort
of intake pulling cool air in. your going to need a dehumidifier for sure, to control your RH. start with a simple nute program, as for the soil I would use sunshine #4. and get
x2 12 in air king fans, and a 55 gal res tank to mix water and nutes up, rig a pump and a line with a watering wond to make watering simple. some sort of PH test kit and
a blue labs ppm pen to insure you dont burnem. thats all I can think off right off as im kinda stoned if you get this going +rep
but if not +rep for the thought.

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JLewbowski said:

Niiiice! I like the set-up...but yeah need to keep the plant count at 25 to avoid a federal "pound me in the ass" prison. I've been reading the SOG vs fewer bigger plants debate and it seems like the yeilds come out equal in most people's opinion. Although SOG seems like the gift that keeps on giving...whereas fewer-bigger seems like one big harvest then start all over. Am I understanding this right? To me it seems like sea of green is more advanced & multitasking vs fewer bigger plants might be less involved, easier to manage - more suited to a newbie like me. What do you think?

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hellraizer30 said:

wish I could step up to 1000 but for now 600s are working.

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hellraizer30 said:

how many you going to get on one of those 4x4 tray?

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