watt:soil ratio...who's got the lowest?

[mostnonymouse]

Just a friendly little survey....watts per gallon of soil. I'd like to see what everyone is working with. We all know the benefits of larger containers, especially when working with organics. Let's see what ya got! I know Mad's got some big ol' smarties!

First indoor micro: 234w:2g or 117

Currently: 234w:6g or 39

Next setup: ~600w:40g or 12

 

[softyellowlight]

Call me crazy, but I'm doing 333 watts per gallon this round. I'm using both conventional and organic nutrients in two 1.5gal Air Pots below a Hortilux 1k (combined HPS/MH). This was a week ago; I got the Blumats going this morning because one daily watering session was no longer enough -- certainly a drawback of pushing the watt per gallon with an air-pruning pot.



edit: Oh, lowest watt per gallon not gallon per watt... I think I am on the far other end this time, then, did not mean to derail things; "GPW" is what I automatically thought after reading "grams per watt" so many times!

 

[mostnonymouse]

Oh boy...I can already see the inevitable derailment. You're an animal softyellowlight!

 

[mad librettist]

summer
600w 60g
winter
1000w 60g so

veg
142w 60g

 

[softyellowlight]

Oh boy...I can already see the inevitable derailment. You're an animal softyellowlight!

Haha, got my fingers crossed that they can fill out a 4x4 area and I can keep them happy in small quarters... seen some amazing things in containers of all sizes on this board! My last big plants were going at 60 watts of HPS per gallon, but at the end the root balls showed more than half of the container being underutilized.

Could you tell me some about the organic aspects of growing that benefit from increasing container space? I want to go all-organic top-dressed nutes (watering still largely done by Blumat) after I run out of GH 3-Part. Are small containers a big mistake if I am not counting on the soil amendments for much of the nutrition?

 

[descivii]

12" deep x 5' diameter circle under 600/1000watt

 

[mostnonymouse]

12" deep x 5' diameter circle under 600/1000watt

147 gallons... That's a lot.

 

[supermanlives]

1200watts 30gal of soil

 

[silver hawaiian]

summer
600w 60g
winter
1000w 60g so

veg
142w 60g

Am I reading this right? 600 W with 60 gallons of medium? .. 12 5-gallons?

 

[descivii]

147 gallons... That's a lot.

If your math is right then mine is right that means I have 4.1 watts per gallon @ 600 and 6.8 watts per gallon @1000 in my vert, no till. I run 600 in veg then 1000 in flower. I been thinkin about adding a window in it somehow so I could sneek a peek in the active rhizosphere.

 

[h.h.]

386000000000000000000000000 watts/(4/3pi x 3963/1/3 x 5280/1/3 x 12/1/3)/231 gallons.

 

[Sam the Caveman]

1000w/45g

9x 5 gallon grow bags

 

[GeorgeSmiley]

2000 watts 120gallons flower

I have 120 gallons of soil in the flower room, 40 gallons of soil on the veg side. 250 gallons of soil in various stages outside.

I'm on my 4th recycle with this soil I'm flowering in now..... looking at the possibility of no till soil beds. Im getting better and better results each recycle...... so far.

Smiley

 

[mostnonymouse]

2000 watts 120gallons flower

I have 120 gallons of soil in the flower room, 40 gallons of soil on the veg side. 250 gallons of soil in various stages outside.

I'm on my 4th recycle with this soil I'm flowering in now..... looking at the possibility of no till soil beds. Im getting better and better results each recycle...... so far.

Smiley

That's where I'm headed

 

[Sam the Caveman]

That's where I'm headed

Could it really be that easy? seems to good to be true

 

[Scrappy4]

600W 28G

Four seven gallon pots in 9 sq ft, all under 600 W light

In veg four 2 gallon pots under 164 W cfl lights (four 42w bulbs) in the scrap pile

 

[jaykush]

386000000000000000000000000 watts/(4/3pi x 3963/1/3 x 5280/1/3 x 12/1/3)/231 gallons.

you must be using the sun too.

 

[GoneRooty]

1000w/25g so 40w per gal

 

[mad librettist]

Am I reading this right? 600 W with 60 gallons of medium? .. 12 5-gallons?

close - 4 x 15 gallon smarts.


any way I slice it, my canopy is the same regardless of soil volume. So I went for a system that is very forgiving and low maintenance. I veg 2 months or more.

 

[Scrappy4]

I'm not totally sure where your going with this Mouse, but every grow seems to have some limiting factor, like square/cubic footage or heat or wattage. (mine is a small room with a big light) Our job is then to make the best of what we have to work with. Most of us by now know how to eliminate the obvious limits, like big pots and so on and the rest seems to be fine tuning.....scrappy