1st Grow - 25 Plants - HELP PLEASE! Plant Cluster Placement??

I have a 12x12 sealed bedroom, lined in Mylar, dedicated to this grow. I know this probably seems obvious but I’m brand new and haven’t found this reading in the beginner’s section…

In a room this size is it better the spread the plant groupings apart as far as possible to give the plants maximum room or is it better to cluster all the groupings together to take advantage of any reflected light from the adjacent clusters? In other words should I compact all the plants into one end of the room butting them, one cluster to another? Or use all the room to spread out. The entire room is 144 SF but I only need 80SF (according to the rule 1000Watt = 4X4SF) Should pack them all together? Or take advantage of all the space in the room to give them as much room as possible between each cluster?

If having the clusters together is preferable, I do have a smaller 9X10 room available - would I be better off switching to the smaller bedroom, rather than the 12x12?

Necessary Info: 25 plants (Indica - OG Kush), soil grow, well ventilated, (5) 1000Watt HPS Lamps, CO2 generator.

Thanks in advance for your help!

- Jeff

you posted in three areas general/newbie/grow room use the newbie threas you started

if you are going to keep them in clusters try lollipopping them, to allow maximum airflow through the vegetation it will also help a little with light penertration, but then again them lower nugs are only popcorn. are you going to use screen??? it might be better to spread them apart a little wrap a cage round them an pull bud sites through holes in the cage see these vids check out all his vids oregonkush is user http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmOrWmvqamY&feature=related this what i mean peace

25 plant under 5 1000 veg up right will fill 12x12 real fast use the 12x12

My grow is similar. 10 X 10' room. I have 30 plants. large sea of green. Check out the link.. https://www.rollitup.org/seed-strain-reviews/403885-nuken-godbud-x-kish.html

nothingtodeclare said:

if you are going to keep them in clusters try lollipopping them, to allow maximum airflow through the vegetation it will also help a little with light penertration, but then again them lower nugs are only popcorn. are you going to use screen??? it might be better to spread them apart a little wrap a cage round them an pull bud sites through holes in the cage see these vids check out all his vids oregonkush is user http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmOrWmvqamY&feature=related this what i mean peace

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THAT'S IMPRESSIVE!!! Thanks for the link. I'm not sure I totally understand how to accomplish this, but I'm gonna study up on it! Doesn't look like OregonKush explains much on his videos... I'm gonna need to look up "lollypopping" too lol. From some of the responses I've gotten, I'm thinking about getting a light mover and then I can just arrange them in rows. Is that preferable?

NW Marijuana said:

My grow is similar. 10 X 10' room. I have 30 plants. large sea of green. Check out the link.. https://www.rollitup.org/seed-strain-reviews/403885-nuken-godbud-x-kish.html

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Damn, nice grow room! Thanks for the response. If I can come anywhere near that, I'm gonna be ecstatic...how do you have your room laid out as far as lighting, ventilation....etc. You might have this all listed out, but I'm new just fumbling around the forum. Is is hard to get in there to tend to the plants?

light mover would be good for what you want you could also put them in groups of say 12 plants an use the light mover only thing is you would have to run four lights you can get 2 arm ones but as you said you might be better off running 2 straight rows of 12 using jupiter2 light rail you could get 2 light rails as one goes up the other comes down so your plants would not have to wait to long to recieve light also i would run 2 x 600w.
The object of lolli poppin is this you trim all the shit from the bottom half of the plant all the small bud sites leaves etc and then your left with 1 2 or 4 main colas depending on how many times you top the plant peace

the reason for trimming the bottom half of the plant and removing all the popcorn bud is so the plant puts all its energy into producing the phatt colas
and it improves air circulation around the plant