A Gram Per Watt? How?

Budley Doright

Budley Doright

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Kevin the Great said:
Right, right, I should have clarified that I have 2 flowering cabinets that handle 2 plants each. Each at various stages of flower. Let's say 1, 3, 5 and 7. The week 1 and week 5 are together and the week 3 and week 7 are together. I actually veg in 2 spacebuckets which are pretty handy for veg.
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Got it, yes you've clarified, and it makes sense, when you are basically running three rooms :o.
 
TJ baba

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@RM3
I have a strain that will yield 8~9 oz's on a 3 foot plant in a 5 gal pot, if I stick 6 of em under my 1000 watts of light I can be a GPW champion 8)[/QUOTE]

What strain is this? This sounds perfect for me!
Edit oh I see, stop the pain I got you. That's awesome right there lol
 
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ryan1918

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Carolina Dream'n said:
Until your operation gets bigger and you see the money wasted in running lights and ac for 18 hours a day.
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I run 24 plants(4 were small in 32 oz cups) and still room in a room that is like 7 x 9 under 1 600 and 1 1000 and veg them all under a 600 I don't run any ac nor will I ever need to run any and I don't run my lights for 18 hours a day lol shouldn't always assume!
 
Budley Doright

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HydroRed said:
I think they mean that the plants being brought from the veg room to the flower room are staggered 2 weeks apart. They are vegged ahead of time in another room in preparation for the flowering room. This way when you pull out the row that has been flowering for 8 weeks and is ready to harvest, you put in a new row that is 2 weeks behind the last set you put in and so on. Then you will be harvesting every 2 weeks. You can stagger them any way you like though. I have mine set up on 4 weeks to allow for a longer veg time in the veg room before they go in the flower room. I have 2 sets of plants- 2 @ 4 weeks in flower and 2 that were just brought out from veg room and put in flower. 4 weeks from now, I'll pull the 2 that are ready to harvest, put the other 2 that are now at 4 wks flower in place of the ones I just harvested and bring another 2 from the veg room and put them into the flower room. Continuing like this allows me to Harvest 2 plants every 4 weeks once the schedule is established :)
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If I veg for a month from clone my plants are now to tall for my set up. That's why I'm working this all out now. The strain I have going has a short and tall pheno so I need to see if the short one has the same potency and run that one exclusively. Or change my setup to individual plants that can be moved seperately instead of the big ass trays lol.
 
Dr. Who

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Michael Huntherz said:
Some interesting thoughts on a marginally ridiculous topic. Thanks, you guys, for making it interesting!

Grams per watt is a tiny datum that may be accounted for alongside other data, but never alone. That's my stance on it.

Other factors to compare: Grams per area, or volume, of grow space. Total Cannabinoid counts, retained moisture (how dry is dry?), time to harvest, growing methods, growing environment, strain specific attributes, trim tolerances aka how much stem and how much leaf is left on the "dried" flowers, all of these are among the data that augment or diminish the qualitative value of a simple gpw calculation. Without context it is a useless number.
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I SOOO agree! GPW is fucking meaningless.........It's a type of dick slinging contest at best!

Someone poured DEW on it and it took off to stupid land!
 
HydroRed

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Budley Doright said:
If I veg for a month from clone my plants are now to tall for my set up. That's why I'm working this all out now. The strain I have going has a short and tall pheno so I need to see if the short one has the same potency and run that one exclusively. Or change my setup to individual plants that can be moved seperately instead of the big ass trays lol.
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Just top the plants while they are in veg and keep them the size that you want. I've kept mommas for years under the same light in the same bucket. The same can be done for vegging plants about to go into the flower room.
 
Budley Doright

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HydroRed said:
Just top the plants while they are in veg and keep them the size that you want. I've kept mommas for years under the same light in the same bucket. The same can be done for vegging plants about to go into the flower room.
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I do top them but they just get to large, Momas are different in that your cloning/ trimming them and feeding less. I don't want to slow growth but yes height is an issue. Topping while great for individual plants is ok, my trays tend to get too bushy lol. The tray I have flowering now has 6 plants (to many I know lol) and it's now a 6x6 foot print and pushing 5' tall :(. They were cloned on Feb 11, vegged 30 days (had to wait for others to finish) then flowering now since March 12. (All dates are appr.) There is a thread called Dr Greenthumb I started a while back that shows two runs of this strain. The first run was a disaster that had me rethink hydro lol. And also this will be the last indoor run of this strain so when I start back up in the fall new strain, different growth rate and times lol. I'm on a strain hunt :).
 
Budley Doright

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FYI I kept 5 blueberry Momas for 7 years once but lost them to a power failure that lasted 14 days :(. They were my pride and huge money maker :).
 
Carolina Dream'n

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Gquebed said:

What!!??

I usually veg to 18" or so and by the time stretch is done the plants top out at around 30" to36".

So how does a clone get so fn big???
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I searched for a pheno type that fit my growing style. So I picked on that stretched and stacked hard. Perfect for SOG.

Oh, my rooms are about 82-86 degrees and 65-70% humidity (lights on) during the stretch (first 21 days). That helps more than anything. Proper environment.
 
Aeroknow

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Carolina Dream'n said:
I searched for a pheno type that fit my growing style. So I picked on that stretched and stacked hard. Perfect for SOG.

Oh, my rooms are about 82-86 degrees and 65-70% humidity (lights on) during the stretch (first 21 days). That helps more than anything. Proper environment.
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Do you get away with growing only one strain?
If so, I'm jealous :-(
And don't tell me, its probably a huge yielder like bluedream huh? Lucky! :-)
About the never going back once doing SOG: i actually kinda did the reverse. For the most part, When I got serious about growing indoors many years ago, it was sog(not 36 a light though) and nowadays I'm usually doing 10 per 4x8 tray. I also still do some sog's though.
10 plants like this:
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Yeah, i need some decent sized veg rooms at my grow spots, but it's all good. It works out. And my power is .35 cents a kwh:-(
 
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Carolina Dream'n

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Aeroknow said:
Do you get away with growing only one strain?
If so, I'm jealous :-(
And don't tell me, its probably a huge yielder like bluedream huh? Lucky! :-)
About the never going back once doing SOG: i actually kinda did the reverse. For the most part, When I got serious aboit growing indoors many years ago, it was sog(not 36 a light though) and nowadays I'm usually doing 10 per 4x8 tray. I also still do some sog's though.
10 plants like this:
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Yeah, i need some decent sized veg rooms at my grow spots, but it's all good. It works out. And my power is .35 cents a kwh:-(
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Yep, only one strain. It is blue dream. Picked a good pheno that people haven't seemed to get tired of after 6 years. I grew out a few other strains over the years, but when they yielded 25-50% less and I got the same price per lb, I ran back to blue dream.
 
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