Perpetual harvest, lighting question..

TheMystified420 said:

I was wondering about perpetual harvests, and how to keep all the plants close to the light. Say my flower room was small, like 4'x2'x5', and took cuttings every 2 weeks, so harvests come every 2 weeks. When you harvest, and put new plants in to flower, how do you keep them close to the light..if I only had 1 light in the grow room? Do people just let them stretch? or better to try to prop them up onto something to get them closer to the light?

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look at my thread, i have been doing it for a couple years now. .. used to do 12/12 from seed, i am moving away from that but I grow perpetual, some week ill harvest a few plants some week i wont harvest any ... it works great with LEDs and it's all about placing your plants properly to make sure they are getting the most out of lights

irieie said:

its not worth trying to grow perpetual with one light. you will yeild more if you just run cycles.

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I'm not sure about the yield issue, but I sure agree with irieie that you'll be creating a major hassle for yourself.
JD

Perpetual grow with a 400 watt HPS works perfectly. I have a veg area with a T5 for cloning and as the name suggests, vegging.

Now in the flower tent I have an adjustable setup which can lower and even tilt the light to adjust for taller outliers. When a new plant/clone enters the flower chamber, I simply use an upside down pot for rising the plant to canopy level. There are many different ways to accomplish this on the cheap and you can totally run perpetually if you'd like

With tube bulbs you can use adjustable hangers or justset them up a certain way so that you can have them on a slope so seedlings start on one side and move as they get taller so that the tops are always roughly the same distance from the light regardless of how tall the plants get.. Seedlings dont need it RIGHT on top of them either and there is always the option of lst'ing your plants to keep them all roughly the same height regardless of size.

Lots of great tips guys, I really appreciate the help The perpetual sounds like the way I would like to go. Then if I do run out of smoke, I would only have to wait a week or so for another harvest. If I tried growing 1 or 2 big ones, then I might have to go longer if I ran out. Only thing I'm worried about growing perpetual, is if I end up with a hermie or something.

TheMystified420 said:

Lots of great tips guys, I really appreciate the help The perpetual sounds like the way I would like to go. Then if I do run out of smoke, I would only have to wait a week or so for another harvest. If I tried growing 1 or 2 big ones, then I might have to go longer if I ran out. Only thing I'm worried about growing perpetual, is if I end up with a hermie or something.

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Perpetual is pretty sweet. I see only a couple of issues, all which can be overcome with a bit of ingenuity. Keeping an even canopy, just prop up the plants. Due to my limited space, a perpetual harvest also means my place smells like harvest more frequently, use Ona and incense.

Hermi issues can strike any grow. imagine growing only a couple plants and missing a hermi, microseed or regular ceeds throughout. One should be looking over their plants regularly to catch and remove hermi plants throughout one's grow.

I'm running a 3-week perpetual. I have 3 batches of 8 plants in my 2x4x5' flowering tent under a 400w HPS, and a separate clone/mom area under 5 CFLs. I go straight from clone to flowering room.

Just last week, I put in my second batch of this new cycle, and in 2.5 more weeks, I'll be harvesting my pre-perpetual plants and will have all three of the new schedule batches in the tent.

The harvest three weeks from that and my perpetual will be in full swing.

In the latter part of my 12/12 thread in my sig, I get going, and I have my schedule and pics to see how it fits together in such a small space.

-spek

What size pots are you using?
My tent is close to the size of yours, and there is no way I could fit 32 plants in there even if I tried!

spek9 said:

Phone books wrapped in saran wrap to make them waterproof work very well for this.

-spek

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woodsmantoker said:

What the hecks a phone book?

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spek9 said:

You know, the antiquated things with phone numbers. You can usually find them in the library next to the dewey decimal system catalog filing cabinets

-spek

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LMFAO.
I thought they were called litter, as I find them in my driveway on occasions.

You can use blocks/bricks to prop up shorter plants, or you can hang the lights at an angle if they are tubes so that as the plants grow they move to one side which is higher and higher up. Then at the last stage they move into the flower area.