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.