Colorado Legal Recreational Grow - 6 plants max

indooraloka

Member
Hi everyone.

I was hoping to get some good input on what the best setups would be for a legal recreational grow in Colorado.
6 plants total, only 3 can be flowering at a time.

The best perpetual plan I've seen so far suggested that one mother plant be kept for cloning. One clone would be taken every 3 weeks or 1/3 of the total flower time so you would have one plant vegging at a time, then it would be moved to the flowering room which would have 3 plants in it, all at different stages. So, as you move the vegging clone into the flower room, you would also be harvesting the oldest plant in there. Using this method would provide a harvest of one plant every, hopefully, 3-4 weeks. You would have a maximum of 5 plants at any given time and only 3 flowering, all at different maturity levels. Since the 3 flowering plants are all at different maturity levels, it will provide additional space for the most mature plant. Assuming this worked out and provided a harvest every 4 weeks, I would need at least an ounce off of every plant, and I would hope for 3-4. Not sure if that would be possible using this method though.

About 5 years ago I put together a room but had to move so never started the grow. All the stuff has been in storage, which is dry but not heated or cooled. I have a 600w bulb with hydrofarm 6" air cooled hood in there. I also have a fill and drain table that i believe is 2x4 or 2x3. I can't remember the exact size. I have hydroton and everything else. I would like to use the light and table for the flowering room, do you think I can pull a couple Zs off a plant using the method above and this hardware? Any suggestions on what medium to veg in so that I can move them to the table easily when ready? Any tips on keeping a mother plant? Any tips on dealing with 3 separate rooms, should I get rid of the hydro table and go soil, that would be a lot easier than dealing with two or three separate hydro systems. My biggest issue with soil would be bugs, I don't mind dealing with them but I don't want to end up smoking bugs instead of buds.

The site that had the perpetual method also suggested that if you have access to purchase clones, you should just buy 3 at a time, veg them, flower them, buy 3 more. I imagine in the long run your would end up producing the same numbers. I don't have access to clones though.

Oh yeah, do you think the bulb that has been in storage is still ok to use or should I just scrap it? Do you think there could be any issues with the ballast being in storage for so long? I'm sure the nutes are toast.
 

Kush Killington

Well-Known Member
1 mom
1 clone
1 per 3 week perpetual as yu suggest for a total of 5 BUT clone and veg a 6th. Let the 6th on get crazy in size so and than rotate it into flower. That way every so often, yu have a plant that was vegged out without breaking yur cycle or going over yur limit!!
Just a thought :)

Sir KK
 

indooraloka

Member
Great thought. Can you eventually flower your mother plant too? I'm not sure how but I seem to have posted this thread twice.
 

JackTheBongRipper

Well-Known Member
If you have enough space and you have a few clones coming along nicely you can absolutely flower your mother. Then just make one of the clones the new mother until it gets too big. Repeat. :bigjoint:
 

indooraloka

Member
Can you eventually flower your mother plant? Is this a joke?
I realize it might sound stupid, I assumed that you could. But for all I know keeping it in veg for so long could screw it up in the head, or maybe feeding it for so long could create such an abundance of nutes and salts in the plant that you could never properly flush it and it would not be good smoke. Can't you keep mothers for years? Relax, I'm new.
 

FreeRangeZombie

Active Member
You can keep a mother for years if its not an autoflower and has 18-24 hours of light as I just make clones of a clone. Flushing depends on the methods you use and how much medium you have.
 
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