1200 watt SOG Questions, Comments, and Concerns?

What do you think my yield will be dry bud weight

  • 1/4 pound

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  • 1/3 pound

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  • 1/2 pound

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  • 1 pound or more

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MASH 1V:XX

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Well im a sophmore in the industry, this is just about my second grow (not including growing from seed to find out sex and what not...) My first hydro attempt, the first one was in soil and somewhat succesfull minus the fact that it was some shit due to the seeds being bag seeds.

Im working with 18 Gallon DWC buckets with six 6" baskets in each. hydroton pebbles as my medium and Canna Aqua as my nutes.

Ive got 3x 400 watt Hps air cooled out, in my flower room which is a closed off closet were im using about 5x8 feet, so 35-40 feet squared...

My moms are in 18 gallon rubbermaid DWC buckets 4 moms to a bucket, 3 buckets of moms total, for a grand total of 12 moms and 3 different strains (four of each for cloning purposes) all of them under 6, 4' T8 lights... (a 4'x2' lowbay T8 floro light)

I have a homemade 18 gallon rubbermaid 30 site cloner with a 550 GPH water pump and 20 360 degree misters which thus far has proven a garunteed 100% success rate, with a red and blue LED square glowpanel over it plus a 23 watt CFL

My veg area is also a 18 gallon rubbermaid bucket with 550 GPH water pump and 360 misters (exact same as the cloner) its a 30 site as well due to the fact that it will only be holding my babies for 2 weeks due to the SoG style of growing (perpetual harvests and what not) It has a 300 watt equivalent CFL about 2-3 inches over the tops of em'

My plan is to harvest four 6 plant buckets, in other words 24 clones in 4 18 gallon DWC buckets every 2 weeks... basically making it one of four "trays" in my SOG system. I am planning to have a total of 16 rubbermaid buckets 6 clones each bringing the full closet flowering room to 96 plants, harvesting 24 every 2 weeks.

My questions are:
is this too many to put under that amount of light?
if so how many should i do
what would be an expected yield for each set... i was planning about 12-16 oz.
is any one else doing a DWC with Canna nutes, and if so any problems with pythium or mold/algea
is any one running or are planning to run a similar sog system
 

Delux83

Well-Known Member
hell i dont know but i wanna watch u gonna do a journal? im sure someone will be by tomorrow and help u with ur Q lil late now ;)
 

MASH 1V:XX

Member
I plan on doing a grow journal, add some pics, may not be everyday but I'll definitley post some pics and let people know what I'm doin. I appreciate the follow. Thanks
 

FarmerNinja

Active Member
what size is your area? 24 plants is a lot for 1200watts. what kind of light is it? im assuming its a 1000w hid with 200watts of CFLs?

the only way this would work properly is if you had a lot of space and im talkin like 1 square foot per plant. OR you kept them really small like under 2ft each when finished. you could expect to pull around 12-15oz give or take if you worked out most of the bugs in your first grow. its possible but i would go with less plants. i know it seems like having more plants would equal more bud but thats not the case. it will hurt you in time, labor, costs, grow space, lumens and more. i use soil but i keep 10 plants max under 1000watts all vegged for 6-7 weeks and even then i run out of space but my space is limited to 4x4. more room for your plants to grow and less shade from other plants will max out your lumens per plant and yield more than having more plants per square foot. if you have enough space i would stick to 15 plants average and veg for 4-5 weeks.
 

Delux83

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LOL there are only 4 post in this thread you my friend have the FIRE WEED!! if you cant member after reading 3 post that he is using 3x 400w not a 1000 and 200 cfl:weed::weed:
 

Delux83

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Well im a sophmore in the industry, this is just about my second grow (not including growing from seed to find out sex and what not...) My first hydro attempt, the first one was in soil and somewhat succesfull minus the fact that it was some shit due to the seeds being bag seeds.

Im working with 18 Gallon DWC buckets with six 6" baskets in each. hydroton pebbles as my medium and Canna Aqua as my nutes.

Ive got 3x 400 watt Hps air cooled out, in my flower room which is a closed off closet were im using about 5x8 feet, so 35-40 feet squared...
right n the begining too lol PASS THAT SHIT!
 

MASH 1V:XX

Member
the Delux man is right.... ive got 3 400 watt HPS goin so i can spread out my lighting

and yes your right i would have to keep my plants under 2 ft. in fact I plan to keep them at about 12-18 inches at finish.... thats the sea of green way... i clone for 2 weeks, then veg for 2 weeks, then into the flower room at about 8-10 inches so even if they double in size theyll be shorter than 2 ft. four sure.... its the theory of harvesting the main cola alone..... to me the best part....

thanks for the input though....
 

FarmerNinja

Active Member
right n the begining too lol PASS THAT SHIT!

hahahah my bad i totally missed that smokin blue dream with purple kush hash on top!

def better to have spread out lighting in that setup. i say go for it but i would keep it at 8 plants max per 400 under 2ft finished. i have to keep mine under 24 plants in cali altogether so i like to grow mine out to 3-4 ft
 

MASH 1V:XX

Member
so if i had 24 plants under a 400 watt air cooled HPS light as close as I can get it, put in at about 8 inches tall, how tall would they be at harvest, and would that be enough to yield 18-28 dry grams per plant??????

if not what else do i need?
 

FarmerNinja

Active Member
i can tell you right now that will not work. 24 plants is way too many to keep under a 400w. and you wont yield even close to that much. youll get maybe 12 grams per plant and they wont get enough light. if you had 2 400watts it would probably work. but def not with one. i thought you meant you had 1200watts just for one set of plants alone. your yield will definitely suffer with not enough light. just my opinion
 

Delux83

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i can tell you right now that will not work. 24 plants is way too many to keep under a 400w. and you wont yield even close to that much. youll get maybe 12 grams per plant and they wont get enough light. if you had 2 400watts it would probably work. but def not with one. i thought you meant you had 1200watts just for one set of plants alone. your yield will definitely suffer with not enough light. just my opinion
AHAHAHHAHAHA im so sorry bro NOONE is reading your thread lol if this was my thread i would think everyone on this site is a fucking idiot its two pages long and noone has read the whole thing it seems. lol ill try and help you again...

EVEN THE TITLE SAYS 1200W the first guy thought he had 1 x 1000 and 200 cfl we already answered that one lol now this guy things its 1 x 400w

BUT IT ACTUALLY IS.....
:idea::idea::idea: Thats right 3x 400 for a GRAND TOTAL of ................................................................................................................................


:arrow::arrow::arrow:1200w :clap::clap::clap::clap:


:wall::wall::dunce::dunce::dunce:
 

Delux83

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I APOLIGIZE to FARMER NINJA when i clicked on read first unread i didnt see that Q about 24 plants under one 400 went straight to yours. not gonna work 24 way to much for 400w like home boy said now i get the dunce hat
 
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