2200 Watt Hydroponic 4 Table Perpetual 4X8 Tent Grow

The Cannabis Caveman said:

Hey love seeing the 4X8 grow tent setups, yours is nice! good luck, going to follow this thread.

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im the same gives me more ideas and ways to do mines... nice grow BTW...TAviddude

So this is the Think Different auto strain. They look covered well with resin. How is the high? How was the taste? Interesting strain as I could avoid having to deal with having a veg cab for a perpetual grow. The plants obviously created lots of bud sites by branching out. Did you top them to get that effect or was it natural? Or was this the result of using the screen of green and thus leaving the center of the plant open to create more sites automatically?

now thats super crunchy scrog-grow-licious!! excellent work my friend.

Mellowman2112 said:

So this is the Think Different auto strain. They look covered well with resin. How is the high? How was the taste? Interesting strain as I could avoid having to deal with having a veg cab for a perpetual grow. The plants obviously created lots of bud sites by branching out. Did you top them to get that effect or was it natural? Or was this the result of using the screen of green and thus leaving the center of the plant open to create more sites automatically?

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Thanks.
They were covered in resin. Very sticky.
The high is a very energetic, creative, get up and going high. Also has a great chill undertone. No couchlock, and VERY high cieling.
Tastes like skunk, but smells like citrus.
You should NEVER Top, FIM, or Supercrop autos. It stunts them, and you cannot make up for the lost veg time. You will end up with dwarf plants.
When you train your plants you redirect auxins and the plant responds by putting off more shoots.
Just keep moving the new shoots around into bare areas.
As the older shoots grow, move them into empty areas also.
ALSO, tuck ALL large leaves down under the screen to allow light to hit buds. Don't let large leaves block light to buds, tuck them down.

That's about it.

Tav

Was that total weight dried or just cut manicured?

FilthyFletch said:

Was that total weight dried or just cut manicured?

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What?
Really


That was most definitely dry weight.
There was over a pound of dry bud in the 2.5 gallon glass jar alone.
I couldn't package wet bud. Let alone donate all my overages in that condition.
There had to be 30 pounds of wet bud in there. Not only was the tent full, the entire room it was in looked like a spider web of drying lines.
It was also harvested in stages.

Yeah, it was dry.

So what's next on the Agenda? Growing more ditch weed and giving out wet weights? LOL!! jk

awesome shit man, droppin back by.

Had to ask I know in a single 4x8 tent with 16 plants I usually pull about 4-5 lbs wet then rule of thumb is you loose 70% or so so i finish with 1-2 lbs dry. I hadnt seen anyone grow with these particular setups. I have done flood tables, aero tubes, aero tubes, ebb n gro, and current culture setups under usually 1200 to 1800 watts. Many online post their cut manicured weights and never come back with dry cured weights so thats why i asked. Well done.

FilthyFletch said:

Had to ask I know in a single 4x8 tent with 16 plants I usually pull about 4-5 lbs wet then rule of thumb is you loose 70% or so so i finish with 1-2 lbs dry. I hadnt seen anyone grow with these particular setups. I have done flood tables, aero tubes, aero tubes, ebb n gro, and current culture setups under usually 1200 to 1800 watts. Many online post their cut manicured weights and never come back with dry cured weights so thats why i asked. Well done.

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There was 5 pounds there dry, packaged and gone.
There was no way you could have fit anymore bud into that tent.
An ounce or two per plant is kind of a small yield isn't it?
I'm averaging 6 ounces per plant in this setup.

If I only got 1-2 pounds dry I would never do it again. It would barely cover cost. Simply wouldn't be worth it. I'd just grow a couple plants in a closet under a 1000 watter and be content.

As of now I have two of those exact setups going and it's NOT a cheap.
4500 watts burning 18 hours a day (They're auto's) better pull me a hell of a lot more than 1-2 dry zips per plant.

Oh yeah, the grow before this was a 4x4 grow. I did a video of the final weight. It was actually over dry and you could see it in the video and I still pulled 1.5 pounds with 5 plants. That was only my second grow ever and I upped the plant count and light on this one. I also didn't battle root aphids like I did on the 4x4 grow.

My weights are dry, and documented.

Peace.
Tav

^^ Sounds good Son.. Can't wait

this guy did good, no doubt

He did good but should try again with an added 10-14 days on the harvest time.
I've seen those same phenotypes go 110 days and have fatter calyx.
He would've probably gotten even more weight!

HarborCulitvator said:

Just beautiful sir! You just confirmed what I have been thinking about doing after this out door grow season. Just finished getting all 45 of my plants into my green house at the beginning of may. I am currently going to start getting things ready for the winter months. Got me super excited about my setup to come. Plan to keep the 2 rooms I got now run 5 mothers 20 veg and 20 flower. For the flower room not sure if I am going to use 1000s or 600s. I was looking into the plasma but I can not find any information making it worth the money except for in the veg stage of growth. Looking forward to doing hydro after almost 8 years of soil growing. I will be staring a journal on my outdoor grow, I will make sure to hop in here and let you guys know how its going.

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I'm currently upgrading to 3-1000 watters instead of the 4-600's. It's an extra 600 watts with more penetration power. Gonna give it a shot.
Let us know when you get that grow up!

kindnug said:

He did good but should try again with an added 10-14 days on the harvest time.
I've seen those same phenotypes go 110 days and have fatter calyx.
He would've probably gotten even more weight!

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Yeah, I agree. Each grow is different. My first grow couldn't have been pushed past 90 days or they would have died on the stem.
This grow definitely could have went another couple weeks for some real added weight. Some plants were TOTALLY done around day 75-80.
I had more than 2 different pheno's in this grow. The ones that finished in 75 days, the squatty fat indica plants, and the sativa types that stretched forever, flowered forever and put of huge colas.

When running ScrOG with auto's you've just kind of gotta run the middle ground on everything.
You're not running from clones so every plant wants something different as far as feed, PH, flowering times and all that.
I try to harvest them as close as possible, but it's still done over a couple weeks. I can't harvest a whole plant without taking everything else out or I'll be leaving a bunch of dead and dying roots in the system for disease to take hold on. The under growth is usually behind the top stuff so I can leave some behind and keep the roots alive until the rest finish.

I have seen them go to 100 days too. If you're running hydro with enough light most Think Different will generally always finish around 90 days and definitely at 100. Would have a hard time running them all to 100 though.

Will do sir, I will be going out to the green house today I will take a few photos of some of the plants. My indoor growing most likely wont happen till October. But I am thinking about taking a couple of my 400s building a box so I can get some Northen Lights and Power Plant seeds going for winter time get the phenotypes all worked out figure out what ones I want to grow from now on. I am looking forward to your future grows and showing you mine. I will be over the next month taking a cad program and building blue prints for the room and the Hydro design for my new an approved setup. Will be on with an update shortly Talk to you all very soon. =)

what type of tent do you use tavid

I use a 4x8 GrowDen. It was the first tent I bought.
It's a very tough tent. I can hang 4 lights, 2 fans, and set all 4 ballasts on top of it and it acts like nothing is there.
I bought a cheapie from ebay and I got 3 lights hung up and it started to collapse sideways. I nailed it to the wall to keep it in place.

Peace.
Tav

what nutes do you use and what are your recipes?

I use nothing but FloraNova Bloom as a base nutrient from start to finish.
I add Liquid Koolbloom during flower 2ml. per gallon.
Floralicious Plus at 1ml per gal. through the whole grow.

They're all General Hydroponics products.

Peace.
Tav