5X5 Tent 1000W soil grow..pot size and number of plants?

ilovereggae

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If you have a healthy mother, and you take decent sized clones and get a good root zone established, you would put 6x6 square pots, 36 total. You veg for 2 days then flip, or just drop 3 hours at a time. Lift your lights high and blast. Cut off all other branching except main cola. Choose a strong single cola strain, preferrably indica dominant. If you grow vertically - 2ea 4x4 trays in a 5x5 gorilla tent with extended ceiling, or mount fan externally... use led strips...you could be harvesting some 36 donkeys a month. Now I mean colas the size of the brim of those square pots, just bumping up against eachother. Beats the hell out of vegging for 3 months... this style of growing is truly an artform. Since I am feeling generous:

So yeah, most people associate their growing skills with what they had around them at the time. In the US, and elsewhere, plant limits forced growers to find ways to maximize production out of a single plant. Therfore terms like LST, lollypopping etc

There is no doubt you will produce more rapidly, and I would even argue better quality as growth is concentrated in to one cola. If you angle the trays a bit and drain to waste, you can set up drip irrigation 3 times pr day in porous coco or mapito. You'd be killin it.
Big SOG fan. like to veg a little longer and use 3 gal grow bags but Im running 24 plants in a 4x5 closet and it is way easier to get a super even canopy this way vs topping/scrogging. I built some 18x48" "carts" out of NSF wire shelving w caster wheels, and found trays that size that sit on top. 2 rows of 4 bags. 3 carts side by side. This lets me remove plants for watering and inspection super easy instead of trying to reach into back of closet.
 

EmeraldØsiris

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Big SOG fan. like to veg a little longer and use 3 gal grow bags but Im running 24 plants in a 4x5 closet and it is way easier to get a super even canopy this way vs topping/scrogging. I built some 18x48" "carts" out of NSF wire shelving w caster wheels, and found trays that size that sit on top. 2 rows of 4 bags. 3 carts side by side. This lets me remove plants for watering and inspection super easy instead of trying to reach into back of closet.
Have you considered automatic irrigation? Drip emitters and watering 3 times pr day really aids growth. You need them a little above ground to drain out though unless you pumpdrain.
 

ilovereggae

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Have you considered automatic irrigation? Drip emitters and watering 3 times pr day really aids growth. You need them a little above ground to drain out though unless you pumpdrain.
Im in an apartment now and unfortunately its not an option. I could rig something but chance of runout and or leak isn't something I can manage in this space. I already bought a pump, lines ,drip emitters and floralflex caps with that in mind but gave up once I thought it through all the way.

I am planning to move out of here in the next 6-12 months and don't want to have to do a bunch of repairs from running lines through walls either. Plus running SOG my closet is literally full wall to wall and I would still need a way to get to the plants in the back to inspect them and defoliate. Using the carts lets me do that, plus easily remove all the plants for a biweekly sweep and scrub down of the closet..

Once I move into my next space I am going to have sealed rooms with automated watering without question. Leaning towards Blumats but im going to experiment with a few methods to see what I like best. Plus I will have a faucet, drains in the floor and sterile laboratory atmosphere with no room for bad germs and dust to live. At least that's what I lay awake in bed thinking about at night lol.
 

Star Dog

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A 5 gallon pot would be suitable for a tree, the biggest pots I use are 15 ltr air pots or 3 UK gallons or 3.75 US gallons and my yeilds are well respectable.
 
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