no doubt schwag it helps. I can keep my wife and I supplied for most of the year, i have my fuckups and dry periods, i maybe buy 5 quarters a year. i wont add another patient until i can get the meds I want to grow and have it fine tuned where i know 100% what should happen and more importantly, take care of someone's needs that arent family and wont be happy with something else. its my reputation as a grower and producer to get the best out there that I can.
i think of different perpetual grow cycles at work, lol. i have them, all mapped out in my head but when i get home they are gone. o well. work goes by quickly.
Perpetual basically runs itself once you get it going. I flower 8-10plants at a time, one or two in and out each week ideally. Its not spot on as I have many strains with different finish times. I have 4 boxes I like to use as well as a cloning area. It breaks down like this.
Clones - I have a cloning area for clones until they're ready to be planted. Single bulb T5 and a propagation dome.
Early Vegging - Once they're ready they go from cuttings they're potted and go into the "early veg" box. 4 x 4' T5 box.
Late Vegging - Once the plants fill out their first containers they are transplanted into 8 gallon Oregon Breathers with supersoil / Roots mix and move them into the "late veg" box. Here they will spread their root base, mature, and get ready for flower while undergoing training. They will spend 2 -4 weeks here depending on their maturity and vigor. 2 x 180W LED.
Flowering - When a plant is harvested out of one of the flower boxes there is vacancy. I pick the most mature "late veg" plant and take 2-4 cuttings from it. Into the flower box it goes to make fruit.
Chop one down, do it again.
There can be some bottlenecks at times depending on how many strains I try to manage, but it all works out. I am using LED's in my late veg box which seems to be working well. The plants take up less water and grow more slowly as far as I can tell, which is nice because if they grow too fast there could be major bottlenecks i.e. vegging with HID. I reckon if you adopt this method you'll never run out again.