3x7 Tray and 150 plants

[fd3swidow]

what would you guys recommend in doing 150 babies in a tray with 3 600's and advanced nutes complete line. Im not sure how I should flood and drain the tray or if I should just leave it filling and draining 24/7.

 

[skwirlgirl]

3 x 7 tray? When you find one let me know....

 

[Farmer Jon]

Build it, 2x4's, plywood (painted with a good coat of kills) and a layer of panda film ( or other thick plastic) you can make any size or shape ya need.
and if you are gonna rock that many, with 3 600's i'd suggest a VERY short veg.
FJ

 

[weedfarm]

150 plants on 3x7, thats a real SOG.....:)

That may be a little too many plants. usually 4 per square foot is the standard. You have 21 sq feet. 150 is around 7 psf.

Build table out of plywood and pond liner or shower pan liner. Panda film can tear. You also want to counter sink your E&F fittings. A cheap easy way is to cut a a square out of the table. Then cut a piece of plywood a couple inches larger than that hole and cover the hole with it, screwing from the top down. Now drill your E&F fitting holes and you have fittings that are countersunk the 1/2 or whatever the thickness of your plywood is.

dont keep flooding and draining. Flood every 3-4 hours lights on. Maybe once at lights off.

NO VEG. Use good rooted clones, and lollipop them for single colas

 

[fd3swidow]

of course i will be building the tray :-) but i was thinking of atleast 2-3wks veg time i want to aim for 2 oz per plant....i have a few strains available to use but since in more of a RDWC guy im not too well versed in a SOG im limited to what i can use electric wise and feel a SOG will be better for my current situation...im planning on 4x4x4 grodan cubes with hydroton over them....any other suggestions?

 

[hiboy]

Sometimes less is more.
Def. an overcrowded situtation there.

 

[Bobby Smith]

of course i will be building the tray :-) but i was thinking of atleast 2-3wks veg time i want to aim for 2 oz per plant....i have a few strains available to use but since in more of a RDWC guy im not too well versed in a SOG im limited to what i can use electric wise and feel a SOG will be better for my current situation...im planning on 4x4x4 grodan cubes with hydroton over them....any other suggestions?

For shits and giggles, I ran 142 plants (would've been 144 but the drains on my table wouldn't allow it) in a 4x4 tray - 4" netpots, hydroton, flooded every two hours.

Got (for me) a really good yield - somewhere in the range of 1.5 (didn't bother trimming all of it, so there's still a shit ton sitting in my closet), and that was with NO LOLLIPOPPING (not recommended, was just lazy and didn't really care about that grow) and *virtually* no attention paid the entire grow.

Like the SeeMoreBuds experiment, I had to pull about 30 plants that just couldn't keep up and they got throw directly into the hash pile.

Probably spent <2 hours on that grow from start to finish - long story short, high plant counts are the easiest way to get good yields that I know of, but you're not gonna be getting 2 ounces per plant...........lol, that'd be like a pound per square foot.........

So it can be done, but I sure as fuck wouldn't be using rockwool covered with hydroton? (huh?)

Either use the 4" cubes by themselves (plenty large enough to support a 10 gram-ish plant) or use 4" square pots with hydroton.

Good luck, but like some here have said - if this is your first go at it, more than 4 plants per sq foot is *kinda* ambitious - I'd probably recommend a solid 4 per/sqft, and then after that run you can decide for yourself what you wanna do.

 

[weedfarm]

7 per square foot with 2-3 week veg time? umm I do not see that working out too well


Just use the 4x4 cubes, flood enough that the cubes dry out a bit. Once they get bigger, they will probably need to be flooded more. This is what I read, never actually used RW before

 

[fd3swidow]

Thanks for all the imput. This is not my first grow but it is my first in a tray. What I am wondering and ive never seen is a recirculating tray? basically keeping the tray flooding and draining at all times. Wouldnt that method increase yield? its basically a RDWC but with a tray....Kinda high right now so id figure id ask :-)

 

[headybro]

dude 150X2 ounces per plant would be about 18 pounds off of 1800 watts, you can realistically expect ten or eleven grams per plant if everything is dialed in perfectly.