Same thing I posted in your journal -
More than I thought. I've been giving them around 5 gallons every third day and I feel like that is on the light side.
Shouldn't hurt the microbe life at all if used at a reasonable amount. More organic is still better than less organic so if you feel you need the floranova go for it.I feel I need it because my buds are growing much slower than yours!! just kidding ... I just feel like my soil may not be strong enough because my plants seems to have hit a plateau. Flora nova bloom is non organic. but my question anyway is mainly if it will hurt the microbe life in my soil since it's partly made of chemical... also i wont be able to say my pot was grown organically
Nope. I let my water sit out several days before use and use quite a bit of aquarium water but I don't bother with RO water nor pH adjusting my water.
4 plant set-up doesn't help me out as much as how much you would like to yield in a given time. I was yielding 1 oz a week with my 388w flower box and 23-60w veg box (450w maximum). If you do things correctly you can pull the same weight with the same wattage. I would run at least 250w of CFL at a time - the journals I have read that run less than this amount generally have stretchy poor yielding plants or have to grow very very tiny plants.
for my first grow I used 4 42w CFL's and 8 26w CFL's......used bag seed and party cups so my yield was terrible. I'm sure if you used 1-2 42w per plant + 2-4 26w per plant, depending on the strain and how much it stretches, that would be plenty of light. √ but as always, 26w will always do the trick.
Eh, I really hate to hope for a particular yield. I would guess that if I had an additional two plants like originally I would have yielded around 13oz. With just the four plants I want to say 8-9oz. If you figure a lb/1kW light than a 600 should yield 9.6oz at the same ratio - and I'm two plants short
I might have... Send me a link? I was just going over a 250w cab grow - guy pulled over a half pound which impressed me a ton until I did the math. Most of these small cab grows that look like they yield super well off single plants are actually doing terrible g/kWh - the one I was looking at had a 100day veg and was over 180days total... After you factored in the long veg even with a half pound from a 250w you aren't doing very well - could have completed 3 shorter grows yielding 4oz a piece, more bud and not a crazy long wait.
i think he probally had close to 1000W between his HPS and all his flouros
any big ScROG with just 1 plant is going to be a long vegg, out of the hobby of it i would prefer the long veg over the short one just because it is amazing what you can do with just 1 plant. granted there probally is a more efficient way of doing it but if your like me and enjoy the hobby side of it then it may be worth it. to others who are just in it for the $$ or a fast crop then its probally not worth it, i guess it all depends on what your in it for. i am in it for the crop and i enjoy growing it.