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How do i yield 1-3lbs a plant indoors ?
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Bjorn to farm.
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Big pots. 10-20 gallons. Veg for a loooooong time. 1 big light per plant.
That ought to get you close.
That ought to get you close.
FrozenFire
Member
1 to 3 pounds per plant is doable indoors with enough square feet, head room, wattage, training, time, and genetics. Experience or research will tell you that growing trees or scrogging the right plants can make this happen. Time is a major factor either way. Scrog training will add weeks to veg, and extra materials will be needed for it. This is a great option for when you dont have tall ceilings for growing trees. Trees do well in setups with vertical lighting. Look up heath Robinson for grows involving massive trees indoors. I've personally pulled 17.62 oz off of a 1 plant scrog in a 2x4 tent with a 750w light. This was done with a clone that was monster cropped.
Hydroponics would be my weapon of choice. Chase your goals and keep trying till you either achieve the goal you se or you find another goal to chase. Good luck!
Hydroponics would be my weapon of choice. Chase your goals and keep trying till you either achieve the goal you se or you find another goal to chase. Good luck!
just wondering
just wondering
Have you grown before? If not, I would recommend a few smaller runs to work out all the kinks first.
just wondering
Have you grown before? If not, I would recommend a few smaller runs to work out all the kinks first.
Hempy Buckets
Literally just a long veg time in large pots. Lots of topping + training the plants.
What he said. Turn and burn. To much work and time to veg that long.
I do know commercial growers that have a set up with 9 plants per table under two 1,000 watt lights per table running some type of hydro. They claim, and I believe cause I have seen, that they get 2 lbs per light. These plants are topping out at about 4' so it is realistic to turn a grow over every 9 wks.
Not my cup of tea though......
Not my cup of tea though......
drubreeze401
New member
whats the benefit of using the pipes and netting? does that mean buying stakes isn't necessary?
Ive gotten close with sub par growing skills growing vertical in hempys. Mostly a little over a half p.
Im shooting for the same or better due to plant count. I think I have surpassed a p a plant this round. For me the answer was using 4 7g ppks in a row under a 5x11 net.
This system supports massive plants.
Head on over to the ppk thread.
Most of those folks, myself included run Jacks plus calnit for nutes.
Honestly, unless you are trying to stay inside a plant count growing trees is kind of a pain. I feel like I could produce a lot more if I ran like 40 small plant intead of 4.
Im shooting for the same or better due to plant count. I think I have surpassed a p a plant this round. For me the answer was using 4 7g ppks in a row under a 5x11 net.
This system supports massive plants.
Head on over to the ppk thread.
Most of those folks, myself included run Jacks plus calnit for nutes.
Honestly, unless you are trying to stay inside a plant count growing trees is kind of a pain. I feel like I could produce a lot more if I ran like 40 small plant intead of 4.
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chiesesganja
Well-known member
anythings need times ~haha
HydroGrowLeds
Member
To achieve high yields on a single plant typically requires a longer than usual veg as most others have pointed out. Trellising/screening plants assists with this process by multiplying the number of colas you have. But how you grow the plant is secondary to what type of light you are using.
A lot of growers these days are using white lights because they're the cheapest option available. They can grow plants just fine and give good results, but they were never designed for plants. The spectrum is not weighted properly in the 3 regions of PAR, they contain a lot of wavelengths that are inefficiently absorbed, and due to wide-angle dispersion they tend to waste a lot of energy illuminating your walls rather than making sure that all available light gets to your plants.
Since 2009 our lights have consistently delivered at least double the grams per watt of HID in independent side-by-sides (many of which were done on ICMag and you can view via the link in my signature). We have also done 3-4X the yield per watt of some competing LEDs several times over.
So if your goal is maximum yield (which mine always was) because you have a limited plant count and need to reach a certain volume, what you choose for grow lights is going to have the biggest impact on how much your plant is going to yield.
A lot of growers these days are using white lights because they're the cheapest option available. They can grow plants just fine and give good results, but they were never designed for plants. The spectrum is not weighted properly in the 3 regions of PAR, they contain a lot of wavelengths that are inefficiently absorbed, and due to wide-angle dispersion they tend to waste a lot of energy illuminating your walls rather than making sure that all available light gets to your plants.
Since 2009 our lights have consistently delivered at least double the grams per watt of HID in independent side-by-sides (many of which were done on ICMag and you can view via the link in my signature). We have also done 3-4X the yield per watt of some competing LEDs several times over.
So if your goal is maximum yield (which mine always was) because you have a limited plant count and need to reach a certain volume, what you choose for grow lights is going to have the biggest impact on how much your plant is going to yield.
Said like a true LED salesman
I see a lot of big numbers being toted, but rarely see impressive canopy pics from LED's with dense buds all the way from top to bottom. Unless you can enlighten me.
But that being said, I do beleive LED's are the future. But there is a looong way to go.
Strain selection and familiarity with the cultivar is of paramount necessity for achieving those type of numbers.
Biologist
Active member
What do you think about this quote from Bugbee's great paper on this subject?
Economic Analysis of Greenhouse Lighting: Light Emitting Diodes vs. High Intensity Discharge Fixtures
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0099010
The LED fixtures in that paper have generally lower photon efficiency than the DE HPS fixtures.
I understand CREE has some newer units that have higher photon efficiency but you don't use those in your product do you?
