Advice from people with experience...

Soo i usually grow DWC/hydro 6-8 plants but the 5/6 week veg is taking too long and I want to cut it down





I'm looking into a SEA OF GREEN type of grow for my next run, I'll be getting clones of znapple fritter



I have a 8ft x 8ft grow space which I am planning to put 48 plants (3.8litre fabric pots) in coco/perlite with a drip feed, running advanced nutrients sensi grow/bloom A&B, with shogun katana roots, shogun zenzym and shogun sumo boost



I have 1 omega 630w LED, 1 omega 720w LED and a 220w LED = 1570w



Realistically what sort of numbers should I be hitting with this set up (space, medium and lights) ?



I have a good amount of experience in growing over the years averaging 7-9oz per plant in DWC and I know guessing yield is "about a pound" type of thing but just looking for info/advice from people who do the 2 week veg/sog style of growing....any help is appreciated

Think to maximise that area you'd want more plants, minimum for SOG is 1 per square foot, up to 4 per square foot.

Interested to know how this has turned out though?

@Thundercat is the guy to talk to about SOG, if memory serves..

Good memory @coreywebster I have definitely done some sogging, about 10 years of it straight.

@Bushbaby11 sounds like you’ve got a good space and a ok plan. There is lots of ways to do different grows. Personally I prefer flood and drain vs. drip systems because of the simplicity and lack of parts and things to clog or cause issues. You also don’t have to set up a feed line for every single plant, which in SOG having more plants is the goal. However drip can work great if you keep your lines clean and don’t mind hoses all over.

The plant count is one thing Corey mentioned that I would agree with. With only a 2 week veg period your plants won’t be huge, so you can probably put a lot more plants in then you are figuring.

I used to run 45ish plants in a 4x4 flood tray. I was on a perpetual cycle, so every 2ish weeks I would take clones off my mother plants. I would transplant the previous batch of clones into 6inch square pots, and I would put the 7-8 inch tall veg plants into the flower room. I was also harvesting 10-12 plants every 2ish weeks.

So with your space and pot size I think you should be running closer to 100 plants depending on how you space them. The whole point of SOG is to fit in as many small plants as possible. As of yet I have not seen another way of growing that can produce as much weed in as short of a period of time.

My clone is pretty old so each run its broken into different expressions, some finishing 8wks, some 9 and some 10 and rarely 10.5 or 11. I have yet to see if a fresh pheno will be on the dot to run a tight schedule like that. So I put buffers I take my clones late or seeds even later especially if never ran before.

Only way I see it making more is through the advantage of not counting the plant to fill that specific lacking space. Its a solid bet you got your 1/2 oz or oz per square foot. I didnt try it I just looked into this out of curiousity a while ago and then again later with more experience.

Because I have plant count to follow. What Im getting at is, I cant make the flower cycle any shorter. You also can run your perpetual production veg plant tent as a sog set up and get even more bud.

This is how you can make more than the way I run things right? So Id say more like more bud from the same amount of time and space than full size plants perpetual.

It wont produce them any faster just some more but if I did this with my pheno I got 8.35oz in a 3x3 thats only like 9 oz for all that. Or am I able to get more? Yield being pheno dependant and strain, I just work with this for hash but it just so happens to be the highest yielder Ive ever had.

They tend to say its got to be good for sog so thats a pheno/strain thing too aint it? So you may have to find genetics just for this which 12/12 seems to be a good fit for. You know what Ive had my pheno do 1wk veg 1oz per square foot mini grow hence my questions. It would of just overpacked the space if I vegged longer.

Idk what Im getting at, I was gonna delete all this because I sound like Im just giving opinion than questions. This insight would be good for OP which I just read. I just saw TC post and had to check it out, hope all is well I could use your insight in my project I just started.

So yea for me that would be an extra 20oz in same amount of time. Could be more with hunted genetics but yea a dtw system gonna be crazy with 100 plants idk if you have that expertise, I dont. I do one pump per plant or 8 plants in veg. Floraflex bubblers just handle it better than orbit.

I dont use crazy parts that handle issues you get when you try to run more than that. You need pumps that function in horse power if Im not stoned and mistakened. These valves and thingy majjigs. I do have to bleed my pumps to prevent airlock suddenly unlike before. It fits me because I make solution daily anyway for them.

I could use a valve for that but in my 12x a day feed with 5 gal buckets which is very unusual just might as well prime by hand. They empty daily. So flood and drain would be very easy last I checked. Idk if you ever ran more than 8 plants off one pump and if Im just adding unneeded advice. Would have to get more context from OP.