Could You Grow Three Pounds A Light --- with the right coach?

Lenin1917

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I can’t, lol I’m sure some more talented or better equipped growers could. Best I’ve done so far is about 600g out a 4x4 with a 480w led (mars hydro fce4800) nothing to sneer at but not particularly impressive either.
 

Coldnasty

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I would greatly appreciate having my name in said hat, Hobbes.
I’m interested for curiosity’s sake. I don’t know how people have problems with yield growing Cannabis lol. I’m much more concerned with the potency of my product than how much I produce( only grow for myself, no sell, no tell) although I know that’s not the case for all.
 

crimsonecho

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I’m interested for curiosity’s sake. I don’t know how people have problems with yield growing Cannabis lol. I’m much more concerned with the potency of my product than how much I produce( only grow for myself, no sell, no tell) although I know that’s not the case for all.
some of those plants look like the ones in the mars thread, quality is definitely shit. i’d be more concerned with quality than anything else too but for people who sell i guess shit ton of mid quality yields better than decent amount of excellent quality
 

StareCase

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... "Here’s one term you’ll hear often when it comes to this method: Schwazze (pronounced SHHwahZZ). What is it? Schwazze is a cultivation technique that requires heavy defoliation in order to grow a hearty plant with excellent yield ...
Give it a shot if you want ... but Leaf Stripping/schwazz did not improve my yields. Tested this by doing a selective defoliation grow followed by a total leaf stripping grow. Removed all of the fan leaves save for the first few fans at the top of the branch just before they went into 12/12. And the growing environments were the same for both crops.

The results:
  • 14.3 oz. from the 2 plants grown with the selective defoliation method.
  • 12.1 oz. from the 2 plants grown with the SCHWAZZ method.

Conclusion:
  • Selective defoliation - 1
  • SCHWAZZING - 0
 

Hobbes

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StareCase I`ve noticed that the plants not swazzed have bigger top colas (taller, thicker) than do the swazzed plants.

The non-swz plants grew 2`` taller than the swz plants.

There is a lot of larf on the non lollipoped plant.

Another two weeks and I`ll harvest.

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I`ll post some pics tonight, 8 weeks in out of about 10 weeks to harvest.

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chuckeye

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Three pounds is definitely doable !

My last grow was five plants >1485.4g or 3.3 #'s in a 4x4 with a 600w MH/HPS in a parabolic reflector ;)

Two of the plants were shy of a pound each...

Grow is in my signature !

Cheers
 

calvin.m16

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I have 4 plants under 1 HLG 650R and average over 3 lbs per harvest, last was well over 4 lbs. The light is on a light rail, plants are in a 3’x8’ scrog, coco and perlite, jacks 321, nothing new or special. Not sure if your trying to get 3 lbs per plant or light. If per light, easily done if you have the right light and setup.
Care to share the PPFD you run in flower with the mover? I am thinking instead of adding more lights get movers and keep lights nice and low early off. I'm having trouble even hitting 2 pounds a light with my LEDs. Fucking hell I have a headache from this.
 

Coldnasty

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Care to share the PPFD you run in flower with the mover? I am thinking instead of adding more lights get movers and keep lights nice and low early off. I'm having trouble even hitting 2 pounds a light with my LEDs. Fucking hell I have a headache from this.
Hmmmmm, This is so easy man. Why do you want complicate it?
 

coreywebster

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Care to share the PPFD you run in flower with the mover? I am thinking instead of adding more lights get movers and keep lights nice and low early off. I'm having trouble even hitting 2 pounds a light with my LEDs. Fucking hell I have a headache from this.
Gona go out on a limb here and say if you used a light mover you'd increase your gpw and not your gpsf.

Where he has the greatest advantage over your style is the scrog , that allows for more even light across all his buds. Plus because he's got the light mover he can run closer and not get light stress, his canopy is even so that's going to glide along nicely having higher ppf but keeping the DLI the same.

Ultimately your style is trees. Which is never going to yield as much as a scrog with more plants. Least not with a single overhead light source.

From personal experience, 1 plant filling a 4x4 or whatever won't yield as well as 4 plants because the buds always seem smaller on the single plant spread over the same space compared to 4 plants. Maybe its a root mass thing?
 

Nizza

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Count me in on the free book giveaway hobbes

Always happy to see new things going on. I hope you hit your target!

Hey did that plant you put in the dark ever come back? Hope you're doing well dude
 

John Rollwan

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I run one Mars hydro 600W. Zero training photo single plant runs. It’s just what I enjoy some people really hate on it bc training is so popular atm. Veg for 10-12 weeks until 36” tall in a 1 gal, flip to a 3 gal. I usually have to pop 6 seeds, take the genetically gifted ones, toss the others. The same way you’d seek a strong mother. Keep a female. If no gifted females, repeat. Which is a lot of waste for some.

do have to water a lot. I’ll attach pics. 8-10 oz. Dry per plant but one can use an entire 3x3x8 easy. People can definitely beat the yield I’m sure but it’s fun for me.
 

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Hook Daddy

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Care to share the PPFD you run in flower with the mover? I am thinking instead of adding more lights get movers and keep lights nice and low early off. I'm having trouble even hitting 2 pounds a light with my LEDs. Fucking hell I have a headache from this.
I try to keep my quantum par meter reading between 850 and 1000 at the tops of the colas down the middle. I have added two lights at each end to keep it even, but they are small 100w lights. I have actually lowered the number of plants in the same space to three, scrog net is 3 x 8, so just under 3x3 each. Oh almost forgot I added a UVA bar as well, so I guess I’m no longer in the “one light” club as before.

Where he has the greatest advantage over your style is the scrog , that allows for more even light across all his buds. Plus because he's got the light mover he can run closer and not get light stress, his canopy is even so that's going to glide along nicely having higher ppf but keeping the DLI the same.
Yes, this exactly. The scrog along with the light moving allows the light to change angles and get through the canopy better, and cover a larger area. I added end lighting so plants at each end would never be without at least some direct light, shortened the lights path some, and went to three plants to see what happens.
 

bk78

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I run one Mars hydro 600W. Zero training photo single plant runs. It’s just what I enjoy some people really hate on it bc training is so popular atm. Veg for 10-12 weeks until 36” tall in a 1 gal, flip to a 3 gal. I usually have to pop 6 seeds, take the genetically gifted ones, toss the others. The same way you’d seek a strong mother. Keep a female. If no gifted females, repeat. Which is a lot of waste for some.

do have to water a lot. I’ll attach pics. 8-10 oz. Dry per plant but one can use an entire 3x3x8 easy. People can definitely beat the yield I’m sure but it’s fun for me.
That looks like a 300w mars hydro light?


Yeah I don't train my plants either.

These were about 9 ounces per plant in 2.5 gallon pots when fully dried

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VaSmile

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Magpie they started selling the books at $500 USD and they sold 2000 books at that price. The last I checked they were selling the books for $300.

I was gifted a second "3 A Light" as a give away, anyone interested just leave your name in this thread and I'll do a raffle in a couple of months.

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Please add me
 
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