lighting

[thomas2681]

How many plants or pots could I grow safely an healthy with a nice yield under a 400 watt hps light

[Dutch Pimp]

four flowering females is ideal...6 is about the max. in a 4x4 floor space

[Dabs4all]

Without knowing the size of your tent or room it is hard to say but here is a graph and chart I found online so credit goes to the maker ( CaliGrower ) I'm just passing on the info. With these you should be able to figure out the optimal lighting for your room size. Just remember with indoor growing you need to replicate or improve upon the plants natural environment.

[thomas2681]

Without knowing the size of your tent or room it is hard to say but here is a graph and chart I found online so credit goes to the maker ( CaliGrower ) I'm just passing on the info. With these you should be able to figure out the optimal lighting for your room size. Just remember with indoor growing you need to replicate or improve upon the plants natural environment.

It's six feet hight four feet wide an four feet deep

[Dabs4all]

In that case I agree with Dutch 4 would be ideal 6 Max. I am a MMJ patient in CO and I grow 6 plants 3 veg and 3 flower I have ordered a 4x4x8 the extra height is because I prefer sativas and have 9 foot ceilings with one more tent to follow. So with 3 in each tent my girls will have plenty of room to grow and get good light all the way down.

[lipps]

It depends on how you do it, if you FIM and train the plants you can grow a few short wide plants with flat even tops so there is better utilization of the light or you can grow more tall plants with a main cola so less light gets to the lower buds. I like short and wide for the best yield of high quality buds and bigger pots mean bigger roots means more production in the same space.

[Shovelhandle]

I've done 12-16 under a single 400w in 3 gallon bags. Yield over a lb. So that is good in my book.

[thomas2681]

I've done 12-16 under a single 400w in 3 gallon bags. Yield over a lb. So that is good in my book.

I need your recipes to get yields like that from soil to what you feed them I want mine to turn out like that

[Dabs4all]

Damn Shovelhandle not to hijack thomas2681's thread but what method was that? SOG, SCROG, LST??????

[Dutch Pimp]

I flowered 13 females under a 400 watt HPS, my first grow.

but...I had a dark room near by, so I rotated half every 12 hours...for 60+ days :D

[Dabs4all]

I flowered 13 females under a 400 watt HPS, my first grow.

but...I had a dark room near by, so I rotated half every 12 hours...for 60+ days :D


Dedication!!!

[Notrealname]

Want to get picky, depends on strain and method, SCROG vs SOG... hit the books!

[Shovelhandle]

I have a few grow logs here. Some were lost in a shuffle back a couple of years but still plenty of them in the grow log section. Just click on my name and check out 'all threads started by shovelhandle' to find them.

[Shovelhandle]

Want to get picky, depends on strain and method, SCROG vs SOG... hit the books!


well.... those two are about the same thing but sea of green vs trees or bushes is a big difference. how big of a vessel, how long to veg is the key to what's what.

[thomas2681]

well.... those two are about the same thing but sea of green vs trees or bushes is a big difference. how big of a vessel, how long to veg is the key to what's what.


I'm going for a sea of green

[Shovelhandle]

sea of green under a single 400 watt
use roughly a 2' x 4' space, depending on your reflector footprint and pack in 12-15 two or three gallon grow bags.
keep them short, crop (or F.I.M.) the top at the third node and crop again right after they split.

[lipps]

If you use a large container like a 30+ gal smart pot one plant can grow a large enough root system to produce more than the small pots will. The trick is F I M'ing to get maximum bud sites and then training the plant so all the bud sites are in the sweet spot of light intensity, for maximum light exposure use 4 inx4in trellis. The down side is you get one strain the up is you get more product and a uniformed size buds.