Higher Yield? Perpetual auto grow vs single photo grow?

Yea re reading again I got to say I never seen an auto done in 7.7 weeks and thats if they switch at the 3 wk mark. People say they grew lots of plants and 10-11 weeks is the soonest theyve seen regardless of auto or not.

The outspilling lights from tent and under closet door wont be enough to bother IMO.

I had a 2.5x5 and then a 2x2 and 2x4 to make the other half of garden. A 3x3 veg tent. I realized the 2x2’s are so small its not worth perpetuating.

Perpetuating if done right is meant to utilize space and always produce weed * if it takes equal or greater* time to veg the plant vs flower.

Only exception is if the plant quadruples in size or more at flip and thats not good in this situation.

Perpetuating unless lucky for a long ass time is a pain to perform and is only worth it if done right or else id just not bother and do all in ones.

Please correct me where wrong. Ive spent thousands and would love to know how I can produce more WITH keeping guarentee of yield, ease of growth and smoothness. Satisfaction.

Growing can make one want to rip the hair out their head lol. Check out my thread “help me start my perpetual garden” All this comes up along with people saying they do just fine perpetuating beans.

I dab full time my goals are different but ultimately stress is stress. Avoiding buying from store. Actually I can relate better just by saying I want to vape half oz a day.

So that means any week spent waiting for plants to finish later than expected, autos flowering in veg space already and popped beans needing to be tossed therefor.

Just my two cents on my almost 3rd perpetual run 5 clones at a time and learned that immediatly along with what I already said.

The strain takes 8 weeks veg plus 2 to clone and 10 wks flower but in my 2x2’s they need 4 veg plus root time thats 6 vs 10.

I know my mileage will vary from others but generally with my clones side by side, they yielded 3.3oz on average and 7oz big tent.

My small dim 2x2s were too bushy and dim to finish properly and on time and threw the whole process off 1.5 wks.

Not knowing when to take cuttings my canopies are so high even with aggressive pruning back to a stub.. Not good for height constraints.

So Im doing all that for 2.5oz a plant 2x2 space to finish on time. Not worth it. Id look into sog since one with great experience was always an advocate of due to turn time and yield.

Im taking those down and immitating successful side. Also just made a new veg space so I can do a 3x3 flower tent too. Perpetual activity up in here!

In fact you can have that door a crack open and have a fan blow air in itll automatically push air out and theres your ventilation.

Or slap some mylar over most the opening and get creative with pc fans or just so if the lights on it wont scold the other tent plants.

Even then I dont think itll generate enough ppfd for photo synthesis or nanners/sacs. Those I think will come for any guessing game type reason when everything is right.

medidedicated said:

In fact you can have that door a crack open and have a fan blow air in itll automatically push air out and theres your ventilation.

Or slap some mylar over most the opening and get creative with pc fans or just so if the lights on it wont scold the other tent plants.

Even then I dont think itll generate enough ppfd for photo synthesis or nanners/sacs. Those I think will come for any guessing game type reason when everything is right.

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Im thinking of just vegging autos in the closet for 3 weeks while autos in the tent finish flowering. I might just put a desk fan on that shelf at the top of the closet and leave the door partially open since light leaks won't matter. I've had varying degrees of seeds/herms, and with far less light than some have said on here. I've been running various strains of in house genetics the last year or so, but I feel like I still had the odd partial seed formation type issues to varying degrees before that.

For the open closet setup, would it be better to place a desk fan at the entrance blowing air up, or inside the closet up high where it can blow air out. I'm thinking a fan up high inside closet will help push hot air down and out the open door.

I get my room cool by pointing a pedestal fan into the room, the goal is absorb heat energy to lower the room temp. Same way home ac works.

Pointing fan to blow air out of the room didnt do much with the logic of blowing hot air out. A bit counter intuitive but just my two cents.

medidedicated said:

I get my room cool by pointing a pedestal fan into the room, the goal is absorb heat energy to lower the room temp. Same way home ac works.

Pointing fan to blow air out of the room didnt do much with the logic of blowing hot air out. A bit counter intuitive but just my two cents.

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I always thought AC worked by an air return creating suction and the vents will push fresh air into the room, pushing the existing hot air into the return for conditioning/cooling. I'll test both methods and see which results in lower temps.

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I always thought AC worked by an air return creating suction and the vents will push fresh air into the room, pushing the existing hot air into the return for conditioning/cooling. I'll test both methods and see which results in lower temps.

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Yea thats right basically I just mean the function of absorbing heat energy is similar. Applying that to my needs worked. I used to vent right outside but that messed with the ac system too much.

It doesnt sound hard to figure out im sure youll find a way. It may be tricky being smaller space but worth a try thats what id do. Until my ac turns on it helps improvise.

medidedicated said:

Please correct me where wrong. Ive spent thousands and would love to know how I can produce more WITH keeping guarentee of yield, ease of growth and smoothness. Satisfaction.

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Hey bud, if you have a seperate drying area I can give you the tools to harvest 5 crops (photoperiod) per year from seed with less time/work and cash, without a separate drying area 4 crops comfortably.

Dm if you want to go over it