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I can't help you with any of that..I don't grow that way...but keep in mind..when you switch over your plants will get 2-3 times bigger and you'll need room to maintain..good luck, somebody will chime in.I’ll be vegging in a 3x6 tent with a 600w mh light. Veg will last 2 months, so how many in there and what pot sizes? Then what pot sizes when I put in the flower tent. I also got two led lights I could use to help veg if needed. Thanks
But how many do I know for this setup?General rule of thumb is a gallon per ounce. You can get more than that but as a baseline it’s a good rule to follow. If you feel the pots are too small then go a little bigger and vice versa.
But how many do I know for this setup?
If I got 4 600w, you think 2 plants(6gallon pot) per light would work well?
My flowering tent would be a 8x8 area and I plan to veg two months.I like 4 plants under a 600 in a 4x4 area. But with long veg you might fit less. I veg 5-6 weeks from seed and sometimes only can fit 2-3.
My flowering tent would be a 8x8 area and I plan to veg two months.
The guy who first showed me how to grow back in 1997 did 50 plants in 1 gallon pots per 4x4 tray under an aircooled 600. Vegged 2-3 days and flipped. He didnt give AF about numbers lolOnly way you will know is to do it. The old school guides put 16 in a square meter (or a 4x4) and when the leaves touch they switched to 12/12. I do 3-4 because of plant count. Every grow can be different. There are too many variables to even hazard an educated guess what will end up working for you.
I also have an 8x8. 9 plants in 7 gallon pots is Ideal. 3 of each variety. You can take cuttings a week into flower and keep them under T5HO bulbs in pre-veg for basically the whole flower cycle in 1 gallon pots, then transplant into the 7 gallon pots when the flower room is empty. Veg for a couple more weeks in the big pots then flower. Rinse and repeat.
It will give you a crop every 3 months.
Personally I wouldn't use HID for your small veg room. They'll get too big before you can move them into the flower room. 2 months under HID is a long veg imho and ideally you want to veg until the flower room is almost full. You cant do that in a 3x6.
For a comparison,
Got to have powerful lights and a high ceiling for this. I have to stick with 600’s (or comparable) and #3 nursery pots. As I have a 6.5’ max height and use light stands.
For veg i stick with t-5 fluorescent for the reasons you state.
Thanks for the responses. So if I have 4 hoods and 9 plants, wouldn’t the distribution be uneven to have 2 plants on each light then one with 3 plants? Also would two 450w led’s (400 true watts combined) work fine for the veg cycle? Thanks for the help.
Sort of. I have 9' in the center of the room and 8' on one side. But, my plants are 1.5 feet off the ground on the sides, 1 foot off the ground below the bulb and I always finish with a couple feet of space above the lamps. And that's with bare bulbs. The extra area is really to act as a climate dampener.
You can really only get a couple feet of penetration with HID's so I bend the plants out and stake them so they arent super tall. With 4 aircooled 600s you could get closer to the plants than I do with my 2 x 1000's
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