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anyone achieve 2g's/watt ?

my question: is it possible to get 2grams/watt?

my situation:

ive been growing for 8 months now. started with trees and now i have 2 4x6 ebb n flow trays with a 600w hps over each(on a mover) and 96 5" pots with clones in each tray(rooted 2 weeks and vegged for 2 weeks). im using lucus with some AN additives.
im about to pull my latest tray, (i will pull 1 a month starting now!) i pulled and dried 1 plant (a smaller one) and got 8g's of it! a small one mind you. i have 89 more(i was a bit short on pots when starting that tray), most are bigger some are smaller. i expect 720 grams or so (1.2 g's/watt). is it possible to get 2g's/watt? if co2 adds 25%, i guess id expect 1.5 g's/watt. I think i can better this, but does anyone have any evidence of people getting this kind of output?


thanks homies! later on!
 

green_thumb...

Strain Whore Extraordinaire!
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i think co2 would definitely help I've heard it could up weight and girth from 25%-75% and have you thought of scrogging? you can get a lot out of one plant,I couldn't imagine scrogging 96 plants
 
up to 75% huh? thats some major increasage! once i get my grow in a sealed room, which should be in the next couple months for sure, ill get my co2 going. i got all the shit (fucken expensive) but sinse i started growing ive moved the grow from "wherever" to a crawl space. its about impossible to seal a crawl and keep it that way, i tried.
i used co2 in the past, when i first started (yeah i spent way to much money when i started out) but i sucked at growing and didnt have a clue what i was doing. ive improved a shit load since and am ready now to try it and see the differnce. ill be sure to let you guys know the results.
I dont scrog. i clone and root for two weeks with a 2 week veg, gives em about 8 to 10 inches. then i put em (96 of em) in flower for 8 weeks.
I just grow phatty colas!
if you get cought in my state its all figured out by weight and not number of plants, so...
 

Hydro-Soil

Active member
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if you get cought in my state its all figured out by weight and not number of plants, so...
Unless it's the Feds that catch you and then you're looking at a mandatory 5 years if you have over 100 plants.

So you're taking those 96 clones off of 3 mums?
 
Unless it's the Feds that catch you and then you're looking at a mandatory 5 years if you have over 100 plants.

So you're taking those 96 clones off of 3 mums?


actually bro you should be much more worried about local LE then the feds. ive researched for years and still continue to, about how people get cought by checking the news on google for indoor grow busts (using a proxy of course) most common are:
stealing electric, getting robbed (telling people), domestic dispute, having traffic at their house(idiots), suspicious neighbors (either because daily habits or lack of or not having proper odor control), getting pulled over with weight and cash or just weight, and house fires because of sucky electric work.
less common are cases that result from long term investigations. those people are pretty fucked and have made a few mistakes ,at least, in the corse of thier demise.

my point is none of these involve feds knocking on your door, its all local. its up to the city,county or state to turn it in to a fed matter.

I highly doubt that would be the case with a 1200w or even a 2400w grow.
the feds dont investigate small time, DEA only has a couple thousand officers in the country!
 
i have never heard of Co2 increasing anything more than 25%

now with your setup, and if you do everything right
you would only need to avg 12.5 grams per to reach the 2g per watt
dial it in and i say its possible
 

Ninjaaa

Member
Maximum yeld I have seen is from aeroponics system of 4 plants, veged for 3 weeks under 400W MH, flowerd with 600W and no co2... Dry yeld was 1050g(37 ounces), thats ratio 1.75g/W
 
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purpledomgoddes

c02 is inexpensive. four to eight to sixteen 1 gallon jugs (w/ handle if possible) of orange/grape/any kind of juice from dollar store. big bag of sugar from dollar store. old raisins from dollar store. a few apples, grapefruits, potatoes, rice and a piece of bread.

empty about half of each jug into a pail/bucket for later. now make the kicker.

cut up the fruit and indiscriminately push the above items into the jugs w/ about a cup of sugar. just to start the process. since your kicker is new, it will probably take all of 2-3 days before the pressure builds up inside of those jugs.

the fizz/rush of rotten fruit funk+spoiling juice will rush out at you.

this is c02.

drill a holes in the tops of your jugs. put your finger over the hole and shake every day. keep the jugs in your indoor vegetable/fruit garden, preferably behind/in front of fans. tubing onto jug lids and wrapped around/on top of fruits is also option.

supply sugar/syrup/jelly/honey/skittles/peppermint etc. to jugs every few days, shake jugs daily. can keep warm w/ towels/old cut blankets wrapped around.

as much c02 as needed for under 20 pieces of gold.

to push ppm up, use 5-10 gal buckets/tubs+use more sugar+keep heated w/ cheap immersion heater (dollar store). can even place outside of room and vent/fan into room/tubes/exacting position(s) over/under/around plants w/ simple air hose tubing.

end product is good drink as well, if wanted. several gallons a week easy. or dispose of.

can use water, yeast (bread) and sugar too, if juice is not avail. no limits to the amount of c02 produced.
 

Moleculist

Member
"Yo check mah grape drank and bread CO2 farm."
That would give some extra reason to not tell anyone about your grow.
 

NiteTiger

Tiger, Tiger, burning bright...
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25% is about the MAX increase you'll see with CO2, and that's if you've got the grow dialed in perfectly before you add it. Adding CO2 to an 'okay' grow is not going to turn it into a fabulous 2 gpw grow.

The wine making (that's what you're doing with the fruit, except the bread is doing squat compared to proper yeast) in the grow is not going to increase the CO2 levels to the 1000-1500 ppm you need. To properly add CO2 certainly is expensive to start, with controllers running $300+, the CO2 tank and regulator adding they're own significant cost.
 

socialist

Seed Killer No More
ICMag Donor
25% is about the MAX increase you'll see with CO2, and that's if you've got the grow dialed in perfectly before you add it. Adding CO2 to an 'okay' grow is not going to turn it into a fabulous 2 gpw grow.

The wine making (that's what you're doing with the fruit, except the bread is doing squat compared to proper yeast) in the grow is not going to increase the CO2 levels to the 1000-1500 ppm you need. To properly add CO2 certainly is expensive to start, with controllers running $300+, the CO2 tank and regulator adding they're own significant cost.
I'm going to have to agree with the tiger. been there done that never again. Don't forget you need to raise temps to properly use the co2. I had a co2 setup it wasn't worth. extra time and money spent just seemed like a big pain in the ass. If your getting 1.2 per watt and you've been growing for only 8months your doing something right! Just stick to what you know.
 

3BM

Member
The larger the grow the more difficult it is to achieve high gpw. High plant numbers are nice, and vertical lighting is also helpful. The best Ive even seen is Heath over on HG and he got 1.5 on every system he ran. He surrounded a 600w bulb with more than a hundred plants (I think), in a completely vertical rack. That thing hit 1.5 with untested seeds, seems if he tweeked it mono strain it might have climbed higher. He also argued that it should be g/w/month, so that you could see how consistently the system put out. I appreciate your gusto man, go for the stars! Ive been growing for years and am pretty happy to hit 1-1.3gpw on many thousands.
 

dubwise

in the thick of it
Veteran
What about those CO2 boost models...are they as pricey as conventional CO2 systems? Or are they not worth the cost?
 

00420

full time daddy
Veteran
green_thumb said:
"I've heard 25-75"%
are you serious........

co2 works and the more every thing is dialed the more it works....
yep....

dial your strain in and u will up your yeild's.... i have not hit 2 gpw..... but close in the colisum & no not every round... just once.......
 
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