6 400,s 4 Flood Tables Perpetual

bcguy01

Active Member
what would you recommend to pull 3 to 4 oz's a plant for hydro. I want to harvest at least 5lbs every 4 weeks with under 100 plants. I thought flood tables or ebb and grow buckets. I am looking for a system that can be left for 2 or 3 days unattended if needed. I will work on them everyday but just incase. I thought 30 plants per room all 4 weeks apart 4 week veg then 8 week flower.
 

drgreentm

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3-4 shouldnt be to hard with a decent strain and a 4 week veg time, my WW's would do 2 oz's a plant easy with a 2 week veg time and they are average yielding, i just pulled a bubba that was 4 week vegged and pulled me 2 oz's dry and it is a weak yielding plant so with 6 weeks veg i can hopefully get 3+ per bubba. this system is pretty self sufficient with a full 12 they are drinking around 10 gal every 3 days.
 

drgreentm

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well IMHO if you are wanting higher yielding plants (much larger) then i would go with something like the ebb and grow system as the trays take up allot of your precious height you will need to get those higher yields, if you want to use trays i would go with a sog style system as your yields will be much higher than trying to grow them larger in the tray.
 

bcguy01

Active Member
ok thats what i was thinking. What about running 16 plants in a 4x4 flood tray? Could I get 2 oz's per plant with a 2 week veg? would ebb and grow take up about 5 times as much room as the tray correct?
 

hellraizer30

Rebel From The North
ok thats what i was thinking. What about running 16 plants in a 4x4 flood tray? Could I get 2 oz's per plant with a 2 week veg? would ebb and grow take up about 5 times as much room as the tray correct?
trays wont get you what your looking for, the ebb will but in any case as stated above strain/skill/good setup will be the deciding factor!
use flood tables for veg and the ebb for adults, and in anyway you will have to have a perpetual cycle to get 5 every 4 weeks

@drgreen whats up! hows shit going with the ebb? just got home from caming was gone 4day and no care-taker what a nightmare
thinking shit was going to go sour! but all is well just another testament to the ebb.
 

drgreentm

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@drgreen whats up! hows shit going with the ebb? just got home from caming was gone 4day and no care-taker what a nightmare
thinking shit was going to go sour! but all is well just another testament to the ebb.
lol i hear you bro same when i was on vacation, sucks when all you can think about is how the room is doing when trying to have some relaxing time. my girl about killed me when i started asking her "do you think they are ok" she basically responded with "im going to kill you if you start with the plant talk" lol poor chick always having to hear about it.
 

drgreentm

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ok thats what i was thinking. What about running 16 plants in a 4x4 flood tray? Could I get 2 oz's per plant with a 2 week veg? would ebb and grow take up about 5 times as much room as the tray correct?
i agree with HR i dont think you are going to hit the numbers you are looking for with a tray and the good thing about the ebb and grow is your plant has a entire 2 gal bucket to root into, i was doing basically what you are planning (8 per 2x4 tray 4 trays total 32 total plants 2 oz's each) but its allot harder to have 32 plants that uniform to where each one is not crowding another and taking from the yield not to mention the amount of cloning you will have to be doing on a constant basis, rooting them all at the same time so they are all exactly the same age/size throughout veg/flower, this was all a lot of work now im down to just one harvest every 8 weeks and allot less stress/work which is why i took off on vacation for all of last week lol, i would have never done that with my tables.
 

hellraizer30

Rebel From The North
yep growing a sweet thing but leting it rule your life sucks big time, you dont see it yet but just wait till you get up and going
its a fulltime job at times
 

bcguy01

Active Member
yeah I know I am running coco flower beds now and am scared to be gone more than 2 days at max. the buckets seem to be the way to go.
 

Niko Bellick

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Hey bro, think I could fit 32 lollipopped clones in a 3x3 tray harvesting eight every two weeks? or should I lower the number of clones per tray? wanting to go perpetual like yourself
 

drgreentm

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Hey bro, think I could fit 32 lollipopped clones in a 3x3 tray harvesting eight every two weeks? or should I lower the number of clones per tray? wanting to go perpetual like yourself
sounds like a plan, 32 would be cool in a 3x3 with single cola, lolly popped ladies prably be a nice perpetual harvest.
 

drgreentm

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Think I could get away using a 400 watt or should i spring for the 600?
do the 600 if you can and i think your yield will be great, 400 is a bit to small for that many plants and 32 single colas is going to be a jungle so the 600 will penetrate much better you wont be sorry.
 

Niko Bellick

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never fails to imress chief. Think I'll definitely go with the 600 watt since I just bought a 4x4 tray instead of the 3x3 still gonna run 32 just give em alil more space.
 

drgreentm

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wow thats what i am looking to do! how many plants are you running off the 1 system
that is a 12 site system but only running 11 now.
how much do you think per plant yield wise
some of the widow look to be maybe 3+ because the nugs are already heavy enough that it was bending the branches pretty badly, most of the middle row will prably not even pull 2 as they where not vegged for more than a week and a half, the bubbas in the back (3 plants to the very back row) look like they are going to be my best yet pulling close to if not over 3 a plant, im pretty exited to see the final results as every run with this system is getting better and better.
 
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