Quote Originally Posted by MerriJohn
Hello my friends MerriJohn here, After three different designs changes I have come up with 4'x3' veg and mother room out fitted with 400watt hps with passive hydro system. My flowering room is roughly 8'x10' with 1000w hps and 400 watt hps with full spectrum bulbs. The room is sealed and walls mylared. My plan all along has been to grow using the sea of green method, however my local hydro store explained that a beginner growing reaping 1 gram per wattage of light every two months is doing well with his grow. I am starting with Joey Weed's blue widow and an amsterdam white widow. He also suggested going with a ten-twelve bucket system rather than going with the sea of green because end harvest is essentially the same. The overall cost for the equipment is not a factor anymore I shredded my budget two months ago. Is my guy right and if so with so few plants why not do it passively and save the costs of pumps and timers. Plus I want to interact with my girls as much as possible I really want the bud but I need the therapy of the growing. Any thoughts or opinions would be helpful. I will be starting germination on monday so I have sometime before the flower room has to be running.
Thanks for all the guidance so far
MerriJohn
I been growing the sea of green method for 4 years and I like to use 16- 20 plants per lamp. Caution, Like this it is important to only give the plants between 7 & 10 days veg growth before flowering otherwise you will end up with tall spindly plants. If you leave them too long and they get too bushy, you'll need to remove the lower branches so you only have main stem and a few upper side stems.
It is important to make your clones uniform in size. make all your clones the same size as each other. It is also more sucsessfull when using only one strain.
According to some dutch friends, commercial growers in holland are now only using 12 plants per lamp.
Either way the general rule is the more plants per lamp the less veg time needed.
Hope this helps.