perpetual grow issue

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Octastich

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so my plant in flower has 5 weeks left yet my plant in veg is ready to go in to flower now

since changing to hydro my plants veg to quick for my needs

in 5 weeks she will be ridiculous in size and i will of wasted alot of lower growth plus probably wont fit in my flower room

how do yous perpetual growers over come this issue.

i am thinking i should top again now but im happy with the tops i have already
 
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Octastich

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hotrodharley said:
Clone those branches. You could clone the whole thing if you wanted. Let them root and throw them in. 3 gallon bags would do it.
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i have my clone count already. that was the 1st thing i though of doing but i took them from the bottom branches. next time i will take from the top
 
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growingforfun

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I manage my perpetual by not filling the whole area. My flower area generally has 3 different ages all 2 weeks apart or so. Sometimes only a week apart. That gives me a bit of time to get my clones and veg them up.
It may be harder to manage in hydro, but for me in soil I just keep them in solo cups for as long as I need to, up to 2 months, then I put them in 3 gallon pots about a week before I want them to go into flower, and then into a 5gal pot the day they go into flower.
This really seems to work well for me to manage a small veg area with up to 20 small ones under only 315 watts, but when I transplant them they explode. The flower area is 2kw, with generally around 9 plants but sometimes more, i try not to go over 12 though just because it's harder to get in around more plants and keep a good scrog.
 
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Octastich

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growingforfun said:
I manage my perpetual by not filling the whole area. My flower area generally has 3 different ages all 2 weeks apart or so. Sometimes only a week apart. That gives me a bit of time to get my clones and veg them up.
It may be harder to manage in hydro, but for me in soil I just keep them in solo cups for as long as I need to, up to 2 months, then I put them in 3 gallon pots about a week before I want them to go into flower, and then into a 5gal pot the day they go into flower.
This really seems to work well for me to manage a small veg area with up to 20 small ones under only 315 watts, but when I transplant them they explode. The flower area is 2kw, with generally around 9 plants but sometimes more, i try not to go over 12 though just because it's harder to get in around more plants and keep a good scrog.
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i take my plant from veg move it to my flower room then put a scrog net over it to space the plant out then flip 12/12 in 2 days

i guess i will have to stop using a scrog if i wanted to add and remove plants in flower at different stages but that would work
 
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growingforfun

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Octastich said:
i take my plant from veg move it to my flower room then put a scrog net over it to space the plant out then flip 12/12 in 2 days

i guess i will have to stop using a scrog if i wanted to add and remove plants in flower at different stages but that would work
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To me perpetual means that there are plants in differant stages of life in the same flower area, and your perpetually harvesting.
What your doing is just a standard cycle imo.
I run perpetual scrog without issues though..
 
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Octastich

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growingforfun said:
To me perpetual means that there are plants in differant stages of life in the same flower area, and your perpetually harvesting.
What your doing is just a standard cycle imo.
I run perpetual scrog without issues though..
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no its perpetual how i am doing it but thats not important or something to argue over

are you running one scrog net for all the plants or individual ones

must be hard to remove the plant if you only use one net
 
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growingforfun

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Octastich said:
no its perpetual how i am doing it but thats not important or something to argue over

are you running one scrog net for all the plants or individual ones

must be hard to remove the plant if you only use one net
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One large net.

But how is it a perpetual flower if your vegging under that light as well?

Maybe look up terminology:)
 
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PadawanWarrior

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You could also supercrop if height is the issue. I've been experimenting with it, and have been impressed with the results. I just harvested a Golden Goat that I supercropped and weighed it out last night, 8 ozs, my biggest harvest from 1 plant yet. I will try to only do it in veg though, since my Sunset Sherbert didn't like being supercropped in flowering.
 
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Octastich

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growingforfun said:
One large net.

But how is it a perpetual flower if your vegging under that light as well?

Maybe look up terminology:)
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ok fine its called a 3 light rotation . i still see it as perpetual because you are always replacing a plant in flower the second its harvested

i have 3 individual grow boxes all with there own light. i am not vegging and flowering under the same light

i only ever really want one or two clones at a time with one plant vegging while one is in flower = harvest every 8 weeks

if i was to do it the way you suggest i would have to run 2 in veg 4 weeks apart plus 2 in flower 4 weeks apart plus clones = harvest one plant every 4 weeks instead of the entire flower room at once

i will still run in to problems because one plant is vegging big enough in 4 weeks
 
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Octastich

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PadawanWarrior said:
You could also supercrop if height is the issue. I've been experimenting with it, and have been impressed with the results. I just harvested a Golden Goat that I supercropped and weighed it out last night, 8 ozs, my biggest harvest from 1 plant yet. I will try to only do it in veg though, since my Sunset Sherbert didn't like being supercropped in flowering.
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over crowding is my problem not height yet haha
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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PadawanWarrior said:
You could also supercrop if height is the issue. I've been experimenting with it, and have been impressed with the results. I just harvested a Golden Goat that I supercropped and weighed it out last night, 8 ozs, my biggest harvest from 1 plant yet. I will try to only do it in veg though, since my Sunset Sherbert didn't like being supercropped in flowering.
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I top 3 times and supercrop. My buds get huge. Only do it in veg or the first week of flower if possible.
 
doogledore

doogledore

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growingforfun said:
I manage my perpetual by not filling the whole area. My flower area generally has 3 different ages all 2 weeks apart or so. Sometimes only a week apart. That gives me a bit of time to get my clones and veg them up.
It may be harder to manage in hydro, but for me in soil I just keep them in solo cups for as long as I need to, up to 2 months, then I put them in 3 gallon pots about a week before I want them to go into flower, and then into a 5gal pot the day they go into flower.
This really seems to work well for me to manage a small veg area with up to 20 small ones under only 315 watts, but when I transplant them they explode. The flower area is 2kw, with generally around 9 plants but sometimes more, i try not to go over 12 though just because it's harder to get in around more plants and keep a good scrog.
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This sounds like the way to go! Do you have any pics or journal for my reference?
 
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growingforfun

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doogledore said:
This sounds like the way to go! Do you have any pics or journal for my reference?
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Nope sorry. Took a lot of trial an error but works really well for me now. It mainly came about because of trying to manage my veg area with as small a space and as few watts as possible but still able to feed a 2kw flower area (5x10ft scrog)
 
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