Setting up a Perpetual Grow to harvest every 2 months

Padrone

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You should vegg them as little as possible. The point is just one cola pr. plant.
In my experiance medium size cola is around 3 inces wide so you should go for 4 inch pots
then you could fit more into your tent, and you could use the extra height to fit in GOOD
airflow from bottom and up.
 

hempknightt

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I think what Ill do then it build a table about 1'5" up off the ground and cut a bunch of 2" holes in it, basically raise the plants off the ground and have airflow coming from under them.
I kinda ran into an electricity snag so im gonna stay with just 1 600w for now and then when i can fix the electric work ill add my 2nd 600w. So since im using only 1 600w Ill make the table 4x3 also making it easier to water and get to the plants, using 4" pots thats still enough room for 108 plants! So then I could have 18 plants put into flower every 2 weeks. And if im cloning then only giving 2 weeks to veg the plants shouldnt get much taller than 2ft
 

Padrone

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I think this thread you linked there is very good and gives the whole matter a good perspective.
If you can fit 108 plants in 4x3 then you should go for maybe 1/2 that or maybe 2/3 because you will awlays encounter
some unexpected "problems" that you didn't account for in the planing.

I have 4 plants in my 4x3 and I vegge them for 2 months.
Im swaping to topping them and bloom just 4-5 tops on each so I'm putting in 6-8 plants next crop.
 

hempknightt

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I think im going to end up using 6" pots. That way to fill out 4x3 it will be 48 plants which would end up being 8-12 plants for each cycle to harvest every 2 weeks. I think since i dont want to have over 100 plants thats a good way to give the plants more room to grow and they can potentially get bigger buds too.
Also accounting for the fact that theyre all flowering at different times theyll be different heights as well im going to use both my 400w and 600w for flowering, and having to take only 8-12 clones every two weeks I think i can keep my mothers under a t5 track and heres a 2 dimentional diagram of this since im too high to make a 3 dimensional one :)
 

hempknightt

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i have cool tubes which even with reflectors let out a lot of light to the sides so its almost perfect for growing this way. also both are air cooled my plants can almost touch my 400w and not get burned and the 600w can be within 6"
 

Padrone

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I like this setup ... and I think you are on the right track going with fewer plants than craming them in there full ... it's a full time job triming and caring for that

You should check out a torrent ... SeeMoreBuds 1,2 and 3 many ideas there.
 
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