Quote Originally Posted by bigsby
I hear you with the muffler - get it? ha ha... I have it there as an option that I'll add only if needed.

You should consider the clone box. Dead simple. You keep a few mothers on tap in your veg room and you're good to go or you take cuttings from your flowering plant early in flower and just keep a continuous grow going.

Also, is there any reason for the panda film tent? Why not just drop the $$ on a few real tents and be done with it?
Oh man, that was a horrible joke, but yeah I saw that.

I would do a clone box except for I'm doing LR type 1's, which are autoflowering, which can't really be cloned (unless someone has some factual info stating otherwise...if that's the case, when am I able to do it?). BUT, I can keep a male and a female in a separate area and keep pumping out seeds (potentially see if I can feminize them). But yes, if cloning with autoflowering is possible, PLEASE TELL/DIRECT ME TO HOW TO DO IT!!

The reason for the panda tent is that I'm not exactly growing in areas where a tent would fit...I won't go into detail with it, but trust me, it was just as easy to drop a tent down and use what was already there as it would be to buy a tent...I just saved some money and put a little more DIY into it (plus even if I wanted a huge 6' tent, the ones I looked at were like $500+ as compared to what it cost me to put my tents up...a whopping $40 total).


Now, as far as lighting goes, I looked into it some more (it's like I haven't been doing anything else the whole day...oh wait...) and it seems as if LED's aren't quite up to par in the flowering stage as compared to the HID's (specifically HPS for me). Though, they are apparently STUPENDOUS during veg growth. I'm thinking about getting some LED's in both tents for veg growth and supplemental lighting (during flowering), and I'll keep the main lighting plans I had (t5's in one, HPS in the other) in each tent minus the old lights I was going to use as supplemental light (which actually keeps my equipment cost about the same, but HEAVILY decreases the cost since you're using maybe 400w total as far as lights go for about a month).

I also looked more into LR type 1's. I was wrong about the 95g/plant output for that one guy's grow (touchè, anbesol...touchè), it was 95g for the whole harvest and he had 6 plants = almost 16g per plant. Thus, I might stick with the LR's in Tent 1 (for space reasons) and go with something else in Tent 2 (since I have 6.5' in that tent...may as well use it on some good 3'-4' tall plants). Unless someone else knows of another strain that stays relatively compact (or that I could prune to be about 2.5' tall...remember, I only have a 3' tall area in that tent) yet the yields are fairly well. I would actually prefer other options for the kind of yields I'm looking for (if they're even possible :P).

I'd like to look into something like white widow, a large sativa that I could prune down, or something of either sorts. I would LOVE suggestions on what I should try, but remember my tent sizes: 2.5'(w)x6.5'(L)x7'(h) and 3.5'(w)x4.5'(L)x3'(h), and I want the life cycles on each plant to be no longer than 3 months (germ-harvest, not including drying/curing). Also, I'm aiming for about a 70g-75g output per plant to supply me and my two buddies. What strains have you guys had experience with that grew to these expectations and could potentially fit in the areas I have?

With some modifications and some more money, I could potentially fit 8 plants in the first tent and 10 plants in the second tent. But to start out, it will probably be 4 and 6 until I can get the money.

OH YEAH!...I just remembered a question that I had a while back and could never find a straight answer to. So after the veg cycle, I know the plants will grow a little more during flowering, but the question is about how much more should I expect them to grow (again, just give me a general idea if I'm aiming to maximize my area, so final plant heights will be around 2-2.5' in the first tent and 4.5-5' in the second one)? Obviously, this is an important question for me since one of my tents is very short.