No it does not save you any electricity, fool.....
The plant grows when the light is on, not when its off. Now, say you need 1 week of veg time to get your clones where you need before flipping to flower....
24 hours a day for 7 days = 168 total hours needed to reach your goal
18 hours a day...
I might try this using vinyl gutters with end caps as trays and 16oz party cups as containers and put holes in the bottom of each and a wick in each cup. Could setup a nice mini stadium SOG and get quite a nice crop from a spare light.
I am interested in trying to assist the MJ growing community. There are a lot of unanswered and unclear questions and bits of information floating around out there and I would like to separate some of the fooey from the good stuff.
This brings me to my idea.
I am planning on starting a...
I just found your thread doing a google search!
I'm beginning construction on a perpetual DWC sog as well, but mine is quite a bit different than yours.
My plan involves hanging a 1000w bulb down the center in a cooltube, the bulb will be about 2 feet off the ground.
In a perfect circle about...
I just harvested a FCJ @ just over 6 weeks. The other one is still packing on a ton of white hairs and calyxs. A couple of the main cola's on the one thats still growing are getting big and flat on top now.
Smells amazing and flowered super quick. Can't wait for it to try.
I grew dinafem super silver from the attitude, best bud my girl or I have ever had. First hit in the vape taste like skittles. The bud in jars had a very lime / sweet / spicy / candy scent. Plus an incredible sativa high.
You're all forgetting that the larger res you have, the more stable your solution is. The slower and less drastic any pH and ppm swings are going to be. Rock on buddy.
I'm doing 2 plants in a 30 gallon container, they achieve tree status in only a month and a half from clone.