How many Big Bud plants under 1000w bulb to maximize yield?

MrNobody

Member
I plant on growing the Big Bud variety under 1kw HPS bulbs and would like to get clarification on how many plants each bulb sustains healthily. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 

El Superbeasto

Active Member
Depends how long you veg them for, you can do one monster one, or do a sog style and do 24+. I have about 1000 watts worth of lights, and I do 12 plants.

I plant on growing the Big Bud variety under 1kw HPS bulbs and would like to get clarification on how many plants each bulb sustains healthily. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 

wiimb

New Member
The response is much appreciated but I have no clue what you are talking about.

sorry m8 bit stoned and baffling on lol
i was showing you my white widow x big bud plants so you could sort of get a idea of the size of big bud plant would get.
sorry pal lol
:peace:
 

El Superbeasto

Active Member
It varies depending on what strain I am growing at the time. Never less than 1 pound though for the entire 12 plants. Each one yields differently, I have a few different strains going at once.

Big Bud is a decent yielding plant, I grew it before. If you did 12 Big Buds though in 5 gallon containers under a 1000, you could expect better than 1 pound.

How much do you yield per plant with 12?
 

MrNobody

Member
Here is my overall aim...I want to grow 21 plants total (any more is a mandatory 3 year sentance where I live) and get a big yield but electricity usage is an issue because I want to stay under the radar.
 

wiimb

New Member
I would and this is just my opinion, but i would have all the plants and only veg them for a few weeks from seed/clone, what you using??
and then flip them, during the veg period i would also fimming them, not too much or you'll end up with monsters like mine :)
are you using soil or hydro?

:peace:
 

El Superbeasto

Active Member
You could set up a perpetual system to where you have a certain amount in flower, some in veg, and some as mothers. And still stay under your desired limit.

One thing I have learned with growing and buying seeds, the advertised potential of a strain is just that, their potential. If a strain is supposed to yield 700 grams per m2 in 55 days, it may take 10+ seeds to find one that does that. If you did cloning, you could find that 1 great pheno, and grow a nice uniform grow every time.

Like someone above mentioned, maybe try a Big Bud cross, because BB by itself is not very potent. Check into Critical Mass if you want a good yielding BB strain, that is still potent. Or look into Chimera strains, like Mental Floss, a friend grow that, and it yields huge, way more than BB, and the high is fantastic.

Here is my overall aim...I want to grow 21 plants total (any more is a mandatory 3 year sentance where I live) and get a big yield but electricity usage is an issue because I want to stay under the radar.
 

MrNobody

Member
I would and this is just my opinion, but i would have all the plants and only veg them for a few weeks from seed/clone, what you using??
and then flip them, during the veg period i would also fimming them, not too much or you'll end up with monsters like mine :)
are you using soil or hydro?

:peace:
I am going to use soil
 

MrNobody

Member
You could set up a perpetual system to where you have a certain amount in flower, some in veg, and some as mothers. And still stay under your desired limit.

One thing I have learned with growing and buying seeds, the advertised potential of a strain is just that, their potential. If a strain is supposed to yield 700 grams per m2 in 55 days, it may take 10+ seeds to find one that does that. If you did cloning, you could find that 1 great pheno, and grow a nice uniform grow every time.

Like someone above mentioned, maybe try a Big Bud cross, because BB by itself is not very potent. Check into Critical Mass if you want a good yielding BB strain, that is still potent. Or look into Chimera strains, like Mental Floss, a friend grow that, and it yields huge, way more than BB, and the high is fantastic.
Never even heard of this Mental Floss, thanks, I will have to look into it. What is the high like btw?
 
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