Highest yielding strains?

I've had big yields from Blue Dream, Kish, SourD. Also, this year a cross of my own yields very well. The F1 of Blue Widow (DinaFem Female) X White OG (Karma Genetics Male). Some of my biggest yeilders have historically been F1 crosses of my own.

I know what a SCROG set up is. What i do lack in experience i do have in knowledge.

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Knowing is one thing, but actually getting it done in the real world, something else.

I'm also transplanting from a solo cup- to a 3 gallon, to a 5 gallon, to a 7 gallon, hence a bigger root mass and ideally more fruits

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IMO, that's at least one, and (depending on space contraints) possibly two more transplants than you need.

More transplants = more shock to plant = LESS yield in the same time period.

Your concept of moving up into a large final pot is good, but what does the 5 gallon pot buy you here? I don't see why you need more than a cup to germ your se-ed, a small pot for sexing, then your final pot.

Also, and more to the point, yes with any given individual plant more root volume CAN lead to more weight, but that's only true if root volume is the limiting factor. Typically that's NOT the case in indoor growing. Once you know what you're doing, the biggest limiting factors indoors are almost always watts and available space. Again, a larger number of smaller plants typically outperform a smaller number of larger plants. Its more about making sure no light gets wasted and filling up all available canopy space than pot size.

And don't forget it's not about how much wattage a light uses, it's the lumens.

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Well, in fact, lumens are meant to normalize lighting for human eyesight. Since most of that spectrum lighting doesn't grow plants, lumens aren't actually a very good way to compare between different types of lighting for growing. EG, you can have high lumen output bulbs that aren't very good at growing plants because of poor spectrum (eg halogen incandescents), and vice versa, lights that are good at growing plants, but not so good for reading a newspaper (eg specialty LED grow lights). The best way to normalize between different types of lighting for plant growth is to compare "PAR", photosynthetically active radiation, or "PUR" photosynthetically useful radiation, not lumens.

Regardless, as a matter of practice, virtually all pro growers use one of two different lighting systems for flowering plants: a. Sunlight, or b. HPS. Since all HPS lights put out roughly the same spectrum, if you're comparing them, there is no functional difference whatever between lumens, PAR, PUR, or watts. With a few minor caveats, all four of these things are going to be directly proportionate to each other. So yeah. . .it *IS* about watts.

He needs to just start using smart pots. I sort of understand what he's trying to do - get that huge root density going - but he's going to find it's highly impractical and inefficient in the long run doing it with multiple transplants. Just order some smart pots and be done with that - or get some spinout (which can also be easily and cheaply made yourself, I believe with copper sulfate and some paint, there's a recipe on the site somewhere).

I go rapid rooter-> 1 gallon smart pot -> 7 gallon smart pot. And I don't take the 1 gallon out at all. I just stuff it in there, fabric pot and all. Works fine. Well even. Plants never get stunted from transplant stress.

Cantaloupe Skunk from ISP (Insane Seed Posse), top her after the fifth node, and stake the hell out of her. Indoors I had several branches break from weight. There are some threads over on Breedbay about her, one dude MrMojorising has a good thread and smoke report. Another guy named Greenblood did both also. It's a top quality plant, smooth smoking, low odor (especially good if you're trying to stay off the radar), and potent. It makes me want to do stuff, real social weed, a real up high. Makes my girlfriend smile like a retard, and bust out laughing. Everyone that has smoked it with me, loves the stuff. Hempdepot.ca has it, that's where I picked mine up. If I were doing up a commercial grow, it would be my strain of choice.

I've used smart pots with good success but I found drilling holes all over plastic pots to be just as effective. Huge healthy roots and Better drainage

kingcapo123 said:

pheno selection is the big trick to finding a big yelding quality strain !

anyone who grows out decent numbers of seeds know you can grow out 30 or 40 seeds and only get 1 or 2 plants that fit the large yeild good smell good resin profile !

good example recently grow out 10 lemon skunk fems ............... only 1 had large yield and strong lemon smell the others either had low yield intense smell . or big yield not strong smell !

its all about the pheno

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pretty much my experience too, on the same seed run i can have plants that yield over 1lb, and sister plants yielding only 3 oz lol
those plants that do not make colas , they make clumps of nuggets that get covered in a white coat of trichs , very heavy resin producers these plants are quite common
i normally do not keep them due to poor yield and often lacking in vigor

plants that smell so strong you can smell a nugget across the room, these plants are rare
plants that yield well are common
plants that are obviously much higher in potency and thc are not so common
i find most phenos of a given hybrid have a "standard" potency

finding a single plant that wins in potency taste yield and smell is not possible
unless perhaps you grow 1000s to select from

"its all about the pheno"
if folk were more truthful they would admit that many of the clone only plants, are in fact well known seed selections
the true lineage is known,
creating a mystery about the origins makes these clone only more desirable more exclusive
than a pheno selection of nl5 x sk1

I know alot of people that let their plants get root bound at various levels for a few days for the node stacking. When your plant is first rootbound it grows differently and if you can time it well you can end up with amazingly stacked plants. I've seen it with my own eyes but have never managed to pull it off myself. I always seem to leave them too long or something. End up with stretchy totem poles.

I don't know how many transplants these folks do and I tend to agree with Jogro that the fewer transplants the better. But there definitely is a successfully tested technique that has to do with root binding and transplanting.