Thanks for the suggestions guys. Power Plant looks great. My short list is getting longer! I'd never heard of Sannies before, as I only usually buy from Herbies and Sannies are not represented there. Have just spent a long while looking at Sannies website and I'm very impressed by what I've seen. He has some amazing looking strains (the Sannie's Jack looks amazing) and is obviously completely dedicated, although I did wonder why on his grow log page there are no grows more recent than 2010?)
I also like the look of ACE Seeds, Mandala, Seeds of Africa, HSO, Cali Connection and I'm sure there are many others that breed from the landrace genetics. It's so difficult to chose when you only have a small space. I've only been growing a year and haven't found my perfect strain yet, but the best smoke was probably from my first grow which was Auto Silver Bullet from Ministry of Cannabis. This was a vigorous strain which yielded me 21 grams of super smiley smoke from approximately 171W of CFL.
As this will be my first SOG, I want to keep it a simple as possible, so I will probably buy 2 or 3 feminised seeds of whichever strain I eventually decide to go with and clone from the strongest looking one. I just don't have the space to mess about with regular seeds.
I should also mention that this SOG will reside in a wardrobe with a floorspace of 52 x 88 cm. My maximum plant height excluding the pot depth and distance from light, is about 90cm. I figure the 11x11cm square pots will keep whatever strain I choose from growing too tall. These pots will also allow me to squeeze in up to 32 plants, although I think will go for 4 rows of 7 instead of 8, just to give me a little wiggle room.
That's the other thing I'm wondering about. I guess my mother will need 14 internodes to produce 28 clones. I've got another grow going at the moment (a couple of photos and a couple of autos), but I do have a little spare space. Perhaps I should sacrifice the photo (1 of which is about a week or two in bud (but not it seems a well regarded strain) in order to get the mother going
Does anyone any idea of what sort of yield I might hope to achieve with 28 11x11cm pots under 250w hps? I doubt that I would be able to achieve 14g a plant as that would surpass the oft touted magical target of a gram per Watt. I know it depends on so many factors, but I want to see how much I can squeeze out of this space as it's all I've got for now. I'd like achieve between 8 and 10 oz every two months out of 4.925 square feet or 0.4576 square metres. Am I dreaming or all things being equal, is it doable? Thanks.
Oh and for temperature control, all I have is a 6" fan clipped onto the reflector and aimed at the space between the lights and the canopy in the general direction of the open doors. I also have a large oscillating fan blowing air in. I know I will have to fit a proper extractor at some point, but I can't afford that just yet. The smell I'm not worried about at all. So - my average temps at the moment are a little high but generally stay round about 90. That was one factor that attracted me to Satori, the fact that Mandala claim it withstands high temps very well. I believe Sativas in general will stand more heat than Indicas.
