Please don't think I'm disrespectful in anyway.
Oh me neither, at most I'm being honest about what I think:
If you don't believe me go read my thread.
Well, that's the thing, I have no reason to not believe you, as it's not nearly as 'special' as you seem to think.
Really bro, go check it out...
I'm sorry, I read a load of threads here everyday, learn a lot from many people, but I have no motivation to read your thread in particular yet. You are like "look I can jump 40 inch high with my homemade shoes, check it out if you don't believe me". See my point?
If not, let me put it this way: soil, organic, nft, aero, 1gpw is very doable on all of them, especially with a 1000watter. That's coming from someone who considers himself just an average grower, but to compare to your 5 min lesson, my 1 min lesson:
- Get a tent or build a closet of 5x5x7.
- Hang a 1000watter in it, or as we call it for obvious reasons, roughly translated: "a kilo boomer" (named after cheap chickenwings deals at groceries shops..) and make sure it has a quality reflector/hood above it
- Add an exhaust and an active or passive intake (twice the size of the exhaust)
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Add reflective foil or aluminum plates on all inner walls
- Put 4 to 9 plants in it in whatever medium or medium-less system. Top the 9, or crop/scrog/lst 4-6 plants or so.
- Veg for a month or so (less with hydro or good clones) and switch to 12/12
- Don't under/over feed/water
- Uhm... geez... what else... ah yeah, sit back and poke your nose. Maybe build a small CFL germ/preveg box to keep the flow going.
Obviously there's more to it, but follow these steps and only with grower-error or some low-yielding strains will result in less than 1.5pounds. Do it with a good yielding strain, possibly with a 5.5x5.5 area and you'll be looking at 1gpw and realize that CO2 can be used to push 'that' amount further. If you need CO2 to reach 1gpw on a good yeilder you're doing something wrong which you should fix first.
That doesn't matter to me though. All that I care about is quality.
For me it's quality over quantity, I don't even really try to get max just to see what it would result in, but I still prefer the largest possible quantities of that quality. I frankly don't see how your 'I grow for medical patients' comment is relevant. Sounds a little holier-than-thou compared to those who don't. I grow for connoisseurs only - me and my wife.
I didn't realize you have 'a book', but now I understand why you pretend like a pound from a 1k watter is ok for beginners if they follow your steps, that unrealistic low yield only failed grows result in makes 'your' system's results look twice as good than it really is. Clever, like the 'spreading the love'... sounds to me you're trying to sell something that's not as good as you make it sounds. Mentioning it won't earn you the cred you might expect though, writing a book doesn't create credibility or makes you an authoritative source, it should actually be the other way around.
I wish you nothing but success and hope that you too will spread the love!
Pretty sure I won't be one of your followers, sorry. I've seen your thread the first day I signed up at RIU, but the title alone made me avoid it. I'll give it a look. Curious what else you have to say
I wish people a lot of success too, but won't let them think they achieved something by lowering the bar so far there's nothing left to accomplish. Always aim for 1gpw, if it turns out to be 0.75 per watt, still be happy but look for ways to improve, did you get 0.5 p/w, look for and solve the problems that led to that low amount, and if you get a pound from 1000watter then forget all you think you know and start over with the basics.
I've actually hit over 2lbs per light with my Aero/NFT system
Point is: that's nothing special (stink)buddy. I don't want to start a pissing contest, but converted to gpw and applied to a 600watt and only 5 plants, I did that on my first and last organic soil grow after 6 years not growing (soil with mineral nutes then, hydro now)... heck, I even used a 400watt for vegging and sexing. Oh, even better, the first ten days or so, germinating and then some, they are under 54watt...
I know, you mentioned something about not wanting to make it all about quantity in your previous post already, yet at the same time you made claims about how your methods and system (i.o.w. your book) leads to high yields so...
And a little more on-topic: when I smoked the 2-months cured result of that "first and last" organic grow, it was the best weed I ever smoked in over 2 decades. Sure, my own, biased as hell, but I shit you not, best shit I ever smoked, 4 months in a row. Finished my first round hydro after that, result has been curing for about 6 weeks or so, and guess what... it's the best fucking tasting cannabis I ever smoked. Yeah cannabis, can't even call it weed anymore.
It's a myth that soil grown tastes better than hydro. This is the age of breaking myths, not adding to them.
So what did you tell them how much a "crazy yield" is? 
