whats a perpetual grow

gunnar&carey

gunnar&carey

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So is it like u always have plants going into flower like two weeks apart from eachother so u can almost continually harvest while always having plants in veg? Im just wondering if its an easy thing to do me and my mentor are making a new grow.box for me and he said if i want to learn to grow better and not have problems i need to be able to have a few plants in different stages so i can watch how they work he wants to make the box with a veg compartment about 12inch and then a flower compartment abour 4 feet as of now i have just my five girls all 2 weeks apart in flower starting from one week to 3 weeks in 12-12 ive had some problems but nothing to bad i couldnt fix, should i try it? Hes giving me a 400 wat hps for flower and i.have a 150 hps for veg with inline and outtake fans and all my nutes. What do u say do it or just continue with what im doing
 
mattypp

mattypp

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Here's what I did to start mine. I grew out my mother plant for 40 days so I could take a bunch of cuttings. I cut 12 clones and moved the mom plant over to flower. Once the clones rooted (10 days or so), I picked out the best 6 of the batch. After 30 days, I pulled one of them out and threw it in flower. Then after another 30 I did the same thing again. This ended up giving me some plants that vegged for a long time, but it allowed me to pull more clones for the next batch. Now at any given time I have 4 plants flowering that finish every 30 days. I keep 4 plants in veg with at least 2-3 clones that are rooting. I've had a few harvests so far and they haven't been huge 1lb harvests, but it's enough for me and I get to harvest 1 plant every month. You can have a quicker turnaround time, you just need to move them from veg > flower sooner than I do. You may have to maintain harvests every 2 weeks though.

A few things to note - I'm really new to this. I didn't look this up on the internet, I just did it. So there may be easier ways to go about getting the same results, this is just what works for me and my setup.
 
gunnar&carey

gunnar&carey

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Cool
mattypp said:
Here's what I did to start mine. I grew out my mother plant for 40 days so I could take a bunch of cuttings. I cut 12 clones and moved the mom plant over to flower. Once the clones rooted (10 days or so), I picked out the best 6 of the batch. After 30 days, I pulled one of them out and threw it in flower. Then after another 30 I did the same thing again. This ended up giving me some plants that vegged for a long time, but it allowed me to pull more clones for the next batch. Now at any given time I have 4 plants flowering that finish every 30 days. I keep 4 plants in veg with at least 2-3 clones that are rooting. I've had a few harvests so far and they haven't been huge 1lb harvests, but it's enough for me and I get to harvest 1 plant every month. You can have a quicker turnaround time, you just need to move them from veg > flower sooner than I do. You may have to maintain harvests every 2 weeks though.

A few things to note - I'm really new to this. I didn't look this up on the internet, I just did it. So there may be easier ways to go about getting the same results, this is just what works for me and my setup.
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Cool man thanks that sounds like the best thing ive heard thanks for the input i bet ur garden looks great
 
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T.H.Cammo

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To make a long story short; a Perpetual Grow just means always having something ready in Veg mode, to replace whatever you harvest out of Flower mode. You do this over and over again. That way you just keep on going without any "Downtime".

A more sophisticated Perpetual Grow might have 8 ,"graduated" (#1 - #8, plants in Veg mode and 8 "graduated" (#1 - #8 plants in Flower mode. Every week the grower would start a new plant in the #1 Veg position and move the rest of them up one place - moving #8 over to the Flowering room. The new plant in the Flowering room, likewise, moves all the others up one position and #8 is harvested. This is really what a Perpetual Harvest is supposed to describe; several smaller harvests (one evevery week) instead of switching the whole growroom and having one big harvest every 2 monthes.
 
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maxbudpete

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Would you put plants in flower room before you've harvested ? I mean say you had 12 plants under 3 600w lights then you had 4 plants in the veg box ready, could you make space or maybe put the veg plants on a shelf or platform to get them closer to the light to try and save down time or would that hurt your yield on either lot.
 
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T.H.Cammo

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maxbudpete said:
Would you put plants in flower room before you've harvested ? I mean say you had 12 plants under 3 600w lights then you had 4 plants in the veg box ready, could you make space or maybe put the veg plants on a shelf or platform to get them closer to the light to try and save down time or would that hurt your yield on either lot.
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I'm not sure I get exactely what you mean. Let's look at it a different way. The whole concept is similar to "The Production Line" in an automobile assembly plant. You keep starting basic frames at one end - they go through many stages and procedures - and eventually, finished automobiles keep rolling of the finish line. This process is "Perpetual" (it doesn't stop).

A "Perpetual Grow" works the same way. You harvest mature plants and start new plants on a continual basis to keep the count steady. You can form a mental image of the plants in a straight line (ranging from new plants to fully mature plants) but how you actually keep them arranged is irrelivent; as long as they are harvested in the correct order. The whole point is to start a new one to replace the one you just harvested.

Yes, you put plants into the flower room before they are ready to harvest. It takes about 8 weeks to flower. So there could be 8 plants in the flower room; one of which has been there for 8 weeks, one for 7 weeks, one for 6 weeks, etc., etc. This style of growing isn't so much about working with what you have on hand - it's all about keeping up with the schedual and planning ahead!
 
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maxbudpete

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Thanks for your reply I understand the perpetual grow meaning. It's just Say the 12 plants under 3 600w which have been in flower for 6 weeks could I squeeze another 4plants in at this stage to start a perpetual, rather than wait till the end of the 1st lots 8 weeks. Or would that be silly to do because the yield from the 12plants wouldn't be as large because of the 4 new plants gone in at week 6 of there flower. I understand that the 4 plantswould still take 8 or so weeks to finish but once the 12plants had been harvested I could then put another 4 in then couple weeks later another 4 so was all perpetual style. Hope that makes sense.
 
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