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First grow: 300+ plant 3000 watt vertical

RJ99

Member
Thank you all for your wisdom and expertise. I've read every post in the vertical forum here over the last couple of months and have learned a tremendous amount.

I have 175 feminized seeds of various varieties. 75 critical+ , 25 power kush, 5 moby hash, 15 cheese, 10 vanilla kush, 10 utopia haze, 10 g13 haze, 10 lsd, 5 diesel, island sweet skunk, 15 pepperjack, 5 pineapplegum, 20 female seeds ice, 10 female seeds grapefruit, 10 ak, 5 greenhouse white widow, and various others such as skunk #1, blue widow, white widow, and all the misc freebies such as sage and Armageddon I've received. I also have 10 russian rocket fuel, 5 mi5, and super cali haze fems. My standard seeds include 20 sour 60, skunk #1, g13 haze, island sweet skunk, nevilles haze mango, armageddon, sage, sage n sour, OG 18 x skunk, mazari i shariff pure afghani from dna, kc33, jack the ripper, space jill, the 3rd dimension , jacks cleaner x, vortex, hash plant haze, and others.

I am using 5 x 5 grow spaces each with a 1000 watt hps, flip boxes, and containers of various kinds, grow bags, smart pots, and square pots filled with coco coir and perlite mixed at a 60/40 to 50/50 ratio. I'm hand watering all of these for now, God help me... Nutes are easy, I'm using the cheap stuff, Maxi grow, PH up and down, superthrive, and a couple different rooting enhancers since from everything I've read root mass determines your yield.

Some plants have thus far had a 1 week veg and others are germinating and sprouting. I've slightly staggered the process to make it easier on me and to allow myself time to finish construction and ventilation on a couple of the 5 x 5 spaces.

My pics will follow in a couple days. My sony camera has a feature that gps tags all pictures and I need to figure out how to strip that data before I'm willing to upload any.
 

megayields

Grower of Connoisseur herb's.
ICMag Donor
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WOW and they give me grief for running too many strains.....this outta be good.

Pulling up a seat.
 

~Shhh~

JETS
Veteran
Sounds interesting... I'm finishing up 165 feminized seeds all hand watered in 1 gallon pots, lol! Watering every 2 days min at peak bloom that was using compost (soil-less mix though) done the similar with coco and clones under 3.6kw and was hand watering daily 140+ plants!! It becomes a real chore quickly :D

How long will u be vegging these seeds?

100 per 1k should be some sight!! + 1gpw with those numbers should be as DHF/ Bobble et al like to say baby shit :D

k+ :)
 
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bobjoe 69

Member
i did 90 SOG 1 litre pots watering gets boring very quickly if you our thinking of doing it long term work out some auto watering system
 

311devon

Member
Bro, you must carry the huevos around in a wheelbarrow like Randy from South Park. :yoinks: 300+ girls, 3 rooms, 1K's, hand watered in coco/perlite.....Hope you got some good track shoes! ..:woohoo:....

Rock that shit man! I'm pulling up a seat fo sho...
 

Grizz

Active member
Veteran
its a big project your attemping, dont give up if it doesent go good on the first try,
 

Duplicate

Member
LOL I could see OP posting one of those "What should I grow for my first time?!" threads. . . and then just took all of the suggestions. :D
 

RJ99

Member
Puddin'tane, thanks for the link on the exif data. I'll get a few pics up within the next day or so.

Shhh, I know it's ambitious to do so many strains but I've had my heart set on growing for years now and this is the fulfillment of what I desire. I simply plan on separating the plants based on size and expected flowering time to make it easier. Short flowering indicas will be together as the long flowering hazes will likewise be together. Veg time depends on the strain. Amnesia haze and nevilles haze mango might get a week, northern lights, aks, and afghanis might get 2-3 since they have minimal stretch and require some veg to yield at all. Some others will get 2 months veg; it is my goal that after this first run I'll switch to tree style grows requiring a lot less plants and I want to be ready to make that switch without spending the additional time vegging it will take to get plants of that size. I will also have the opportunity to do some of the worlds best mother plant selection, in the future running only the few keepers of 300+ plants.

311devon, right now I have four 5x5 rooms now, 2 secret jardin tents and two I built and an 8 x 8 foot veg area that is separate. I may add another two 5 x 5 rooms and try to get by with using my 600 for veg and mother plant keeping but haven't yet decided if this will be too much of a burden on me. I'll be using flip boxes when I switch to flower, each of my 1000 watt quantum ballasts will run 2 lamps, each in a different room, on 12/12 flip flops.

Josey, I've already had a mishap. I over fertilized some of the seedlings, burning some and even killing off a few. Fortunatly I have enough plants that losing a dozen seedlings is easily compensated for with a couple days additional veg. This is a big learning experience and I will be taking the advise of you experienced growers. If possible, I prefer to learn by the mistakes of others than my own.
 

~Shhh~

JETS
Veteran
Damn, I forgot the cloning and labeling mission you have ahead too :D hahaa man you've got your work cut out but I admire your enthusiasm and wish you the best of luck. Thrown into the deep end you'll either learn to doggie paddle real quick or sink (I'm betting u don't sink :) ) but whatever happens you'll learn a shit load in a short period of time.

The hazes should be good with the short veg, the indica's specially the quick finishers will need the 3 weeks you mention above to get any decent yield off em imo. I vegged my bubba kush for 2 weeks and the best will yield about 14g tops imo.

Also buy some dutchmaster reverse for the fem seeds as this will ensure they stay fem and don't hermie ime it works well and does what it says on the tin :)

You got any pics of the set up yet?

BTW I always found straight coco to give best results, plus it hold more water than a 60/40 or 50/50 perlite mix.
 

Anti

Sorcerer's Apprentice
Veteran
Why are you fertilizing seedlings?

Good luck with this. (I reserve the right to call bullshit unless we see some pics.)

If you have photoshop you can easily remove EXIF data by clicking "save for web".
 

bobblehead

Active member
Veteran
Lol... Ambitious aren't you? I can't believe you're growing extreme sativas, and over 300 plants from seed for your first grow. Balls to the walls...

I'm sparing you the lecture about not being ready, cause it sounds like you're already comitted... So get some pics up so we can see what's up and help you out...
 
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