Growing one pound (of Jack Herer)

supersix

Active Member
Hey

I know there are little to no shortcuts here, but i have been growing with CFL and never yeilding more than a few ozs. After you had it out to your friends, you only have enough for two three sessions. So for the next grow i want a nice big yeild, enough to go around and still have enough to last a few weeks.

My question is, what is the most effiecient way to grow a pound or so:leaf:
 

gangjababy

Well-Known Member
When I used cfl's I yielded 3.5 ounces in a rubbermaid using 12 cfl's, I vegged for 7 weeks though. If you want a pound look into a 600watt digital HPS or an Magnetic 1000 watt HPS, and get a high yielding strain.
 

supersix

Active Member
When I used cfl's I yielded 3.5 ounces in a rubbermaid using 12 cfl's, I vegged for 7 weeks though. If you want a pound look into a 600watt digital HPS or an Magnetic 1000 watt HPS, and get a high yielding strain.
Thanks for the advice - i"ll look into the digital HPS. Would you recomend a grow tent? Also, what are the effects of vegging with CFLs and blooming with an HPS?
 

gangjababy

Well-Known Member
A grow tent isn't necessary, I made one out of some 2x4's and some heavy dutyblack trash bags and emergency blankets, it cost less then $50. I veg with cfl's and flower with a HPS, it works fine although the growth is a bit slower with the cfl's.
 

user192021

Well-Known Member
Damn, how much product are you giving away that you're only left with enough for a couple of sessions? And how much are you smoking a session?

A couple ounces would last me weeks.
 

supersix

Active Member
haha i give alot away man, but i get free oil changes, free pizza, dry cleaning and all kinds of free stuff. I works out okay, I don't wanna give that up so i'll just grow more.:-P
 

illusionz1

Well-Known Member
Well... just my thought! I'm gearing up to start my perpetual harvest of hopefully 4-5oz's every two weeks with the SOG method... I thought about ScrOG but that just a lengthy process! I WANT MY BUD AND I WANT IT NOW!
 

jasno

Well-Known Member
rofl your not giving it away dude

thats called bartering

trading one service or product for another...
 

HappelWood

Well-Known Member
SoG all the way. Get rid of CFL's, go to HPS. SoG shows best through hydro.

If you want a pound without a giant grow room, you NEED SoG. A pound is a lot of weed. You said you would only yield a few ounces? imagine a plant or series of plants yield 16ounces. Imagine how tall those suckers would have to be. SoG, they are only 2ft-ish. lets say...32 2 foot plants...1/2 our of each....16 ounces...4 plants to a square foot...you would need 8 square feet of room+ 2feet on the plant, and probably 12" from the light+another 8" for the actual light, your are looking at an 8square foot by 48" tall. grow space. grab yourself an ozone generator capable of killing a 32 cubic foot area, which is stupid easy, and have a go. How do you get 32 clones to startt the cycle? a mother plant. Can this be done smaller? Make the area small, break the area up over small areas and create cycling chambers.

personally, i'm gonna get 4 2'x2' boxes so i only need to produce 16 clones for every chamber, instead of 32 all at once. one of those boxes is going to be 16 mothers i take clipings from. the clipings will be the new mothers, and the already rooted plants will be the topped SoG.
 

supersix

Active Member
that sounds like a great plan, i'll think about doing an SoG. I really hope this jack herer is as good as they say it is.
 

supersix

Active Member
rofl your not giving it away dude

thats called bartering

trading one service or product for another...
well it is, but not offically, i don't bring them grade to exchange for stuff, its like when i need something they hook me up, when i have grade i hook them up, its been like that even before i was growing. everyone brings something to the table, i think its a pretty sweet system.
 

HappelWood

Well-Known Member
jack herer is one of the best highs i've ever had. Top two for sure. Got this blueberry from this dude once....mmmmmm. But Jack is worth it for sure.
 

K1Ng5p4d3

Junior Creatologist
you could do a SOG, but then again you could also do a massive ScrOG, which IMHO would work out better. SOG is a little more involved, and your growing more plants with less yield per plant. You could alternatively do a ScrOG, and get a higher yield with less plants. Lets say you typically get 1.5-2 oz off of a plant, which is on the high end. What you wanna do is, get yourself 8 feminized plants of a high yielding strain, and top them bitches as soon as they hit 4 nodes, and again when they recover and grow another 2 nodes. Once they get to about 12-18" tall, throw a screen in above the plants (preferably chicken wire, but any screen will work that has about 3" holes in it) about 4-5 inches above the plant tops, and throw it into flowering. Once into flower, all you have to do is make sure that there is only one budsite per hole in the screen, and throughout flowering just keep adjusting the canopy and the budsites to where theyre all growing uniformly. Youll get your LB if you do it right -- OR you could do the same thing, only without the screen --

Do the same thing, but no screen, and when you throw the plant into flowering, take your CFLs and fix them along the walls down towards the middle and the bottom of the plants, while keeping your HPS glowing up top. This will make sure that you maximize the potential of every single budsite, rather than getting fully developed topbuds, but sorry ass undergrown nuggets underneath the canopy. As long as your growing your plants right, i dont see why a pound isnt phesable without having to grow 32 plants man. I got an 8 plant grow goin right now, n even though i dont expect an lb from the grow, i do hope for at least a Z off each plant, which is a reasonable expectation. As long as your not expecting to get an lb from one or two plants, your golden man, just grow within reason, and your good. (although ive seen people get 10+ oz from one plant by doing a ScrOG grow, and it was fuckin awesome, lol)

good luck man,

-K1
 
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