Hey Guys... New To the Forum, Would Love a little Help!

[santacruz_organic]

i have 9' x 7' and i can barely, i mean barely, fit 17. but if you were to do a sog grow you could have 40 easily.

[BuddyLove]

a 1000w hps can cover 6'x6' grow space
and you can get upto 80 plants sog under a 1000w
but personaly id like to let em get a bit bigger 20/1000w sounds good
40 2oz plants= :rasta:

[BlueBear]

A 1000w is appropriate for a 4x4 space. Rule of thumb is 50w per SQF and that is the low recommendation. You should definitely think about sectioning off the room to fit these demintions, or only keep the plants under this kind of ft print for maximum benefit.
Adieu

[razzapiggy]

A bit confused here. Sea of Green is the natural way to grow em? I don't plan to use chicken wire or anything like that, I think that method is SCROG. In reguards to sectioning off the room, why? The two thousand watt lamps will take up pretty much the entire room. I could see putting up a wall like structure to keep the light inside the area. Is that what you are talking about?

With reguards to the soil. I am using SunShine #4 which contains no nutes, do you guys reccomend I don't put any nutes in the water when giving my new babies their first watering? How long should I wait? I will keep the 1000 watt lamp a yard away as instructed... any other opinions?

[razzapiggy]

P.S Santa Cruz! I live somewhere in that area, don't want to give out specifics for obvious reasons.. maybe we should chat sometime soon though SantaCruzOrganics? Send me an instant message if that can be done on this website.

[razzapiggy]

A 5 X 4 area is 20 square feet, so that would be the 50 watts per SQ foot. I am guessing I won't end up using the entire 5X4 area because some clones won't make it...

[BlueBear]

If your growing from clones and they are rooted, you will want to have those lights about 2 ft at first then if heat isn't an issue then you want to get the lights with in 1 FT from the top of the plants. at a yard away your lumens on a 1K drop down below half and you might as well be using a 400w.
Sunshine is good, I would think about adding some superthrive in the water and after the first week slowly start them up on some nutes, if your going to veg for a short period of time I would hit them with some veg nutes up until the 7'th day of flower and then start your flower nutes. This way they will have enough Nitrogen in the fan leaves to take it all the way threw flower with out starting too much necrosis in the first 2 weeks of flower IMO. Maybe the place you get them from can give you a basic idea of what they have been giving to them or what they recomend as well.
If you just keep the lights under the FT print of the light you really don't have to block off anything.
Adieu

[razzapiggy]

Hey Blue
Appreciate the help once again friend, you are great. I am using SuperNatural nutes for vegetative growth. Unsure of what I will use for flowering as of yet. We just bought some flooring for the room so we don't completely destroy the carpets, and are also making our very own filter (thanks FAQ!) I will keep you guys updated, and upload some pictures prior to any babies going in the ground. Maybe I will even keep a grow journal as long as people are interested to see the outcome...

Thanks and hope everyone is doing well this fine evening.

[faithless]

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A sea of green is going to be a helluva lot of backbreaking work with 40 plants.

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[razzapiggy]

Sea of Green = Just letting them grow naturally right. I thought the chicken wire (SCROG) method was for height limitations. I have a friend who does 4000 watts with Sea of Green, so I am guessing I can handle 2000. Perhaps putting them on a table about one and a half feet tall would make the work easier.. what ya think?