2lbs a Month Perpetual Harvest

Hello there RIU members, I'm currently in the process of acquiring my card to be a care giver and have 3 patients already lined up with a 4th maybe. I've been doing small grows for the past few years but haven't set anything perpetual up. Now according to my math I'm gonna assume at least 5 oz per person per month, so I'll need at least 15-20 oz at a minimum each month. Which I don't see as a problem but again I haven't tried growing this much at once or kept it going.
So my million dollar qeastion is how should I go about doing everything?

You will need at least 5k watts in your flower room and 1000k in veg to aquire this kind of weight

I'd like a little more infor than that. I mean like how many should I start, and how long until I start more. Then what kind of set up should I use, I was thinking about giving vertical a try because from everything I've read you can yield more that way, but I've never tried it and feel I should stick to scroging for now.

Also should I grow a few big ones at a time, or a bunch of smaller ones?

Id fill the clone box up as often as you can. For starters I wouldnt wait out to grow big ones, cpl 2ft tall in 5 g pots could give you 1 lb under 1k @ 4 pots (after flowertime they will be 4ft'ers). If you are experienced grower you will get max yield around 4-6 ozs. In the meanwhile you can be vegging tall gals if you want that route. I have alot of strains so I do smaller ones in the 5 gal so I can have variety. Juggling all that can be mind numbing. It takes serious organization to not have any gaps in perpetual

Diabolical666 said:

Id fill the clone box up as often as you can... It takes serious organization to not have any gaps in perpetual

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^^^^ That.

The first big question is: Dirt, hydro or??

What I'd try to do:

1 veg room at least 1000W, some moms, an aero cloner and an E&F table that will support 100 clones/youngins'. clone till you see roots, give it another week in the E&F, then flower.

2 flower rooms each with a 4x6 area for flower 2 600W each room,will give you 50w/sq ft I'd run hydro E&F probably.

cycle it every 4.5-5 weeks, Should be able to easily clear a LB per room. I'd be looking at sogging the rooms out.

Diabolical666 said:

Id fill the clone box up as often as you can. It takes serious organization to not have any gaps in perpetual

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Getting a schedule going is one of the biggest PITA I see..I'm figuring on 10 wk flower intervals for two reasons..if i have to go 9 or 9.5 it won't screw up my sched. and I can dry in there while i have a week or so of down time. (..and i can slip some sativa heavy strains in if I want - 3 reasons..lol.) If chop at 8 wks, .it gets shut down till I'm ready to go again. With two rooms that wouldn't be an issue.

I'm going hydro for sure, I've already got 10 3gal buckets from previous set ups. (Not all used just bought in bulk) but I could get more 5 gallon instead. I've got 6 of those at the moment. I'm not sure about Sog my experience so far has been with dwc and flood and drain bucket systems. Im thinking I could use the 3gal pots for vegging and maybe move them into the 5gal for bloom, hows that sound?

Diabolical666 said:

You will need at least 5k watts in your flower room and 1000k in veg to aquire this kind of weight

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What? I can easily pull 20 oz a month off two 600 watt hps and a four foot 4 bulb t5 veg and two foot t5 for clones. With 5k and 1k for veg, you should be pulling like 5 pounds a month or nearly 10 pounds every two months.

Relax i'll be your Doctor said:

I'm going hydro for sure, I've already got 10 3gal buckets from previous set ups. (Not all used just bought in bulk) but I could get more 5 gallon instead. I've got 6 of those at the moment. I'm not sure about Sog my experience so far has been with dwc and flood and drain bucket systems. Im thinking I could use the 3gal pots for vegging and maybe move them into the 5gal for bloom, hows that sound?

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Yeah that could work. You'll just need to figure out how many plants, at what size will give you the yield your looking for. I'm hoping you're planning RDWC and not trying to tend a crap load of single buckets.

Relax i'll be your Doctor said:

I'm going hydro for sure, I've already got 10 3gal buckets from previous set ups. (Not all used just bought in bulk) but I could get more 5 gallon instead. I've got 6 of those at the moment. I'm not sure about Sog my experience so far has been with dwc and flood and drain bucket systems. Im thinking I could use the 3gal pots for vegging and maybe move them into the 5gal for bloom, hows that sound?

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Dwc is cool as long as the water doesn't too warm. I've been running dwc here lately but switch to coco and so far it's comparable. Coco might just be easier for you doing the work by yourself.

Obviously I would make a recirculating system for this many plants. I don't think I could handle working with a shit ton of separate buckets everyday!

I'm thinking 8-12 plants under 2000w should yeild close to 2 pounds

I've got 2 50gal drums I can use as a reservoir.

thenotsoesoteric said:

What? I can easily pull 20 oz a month off two 600 watt hps and a four foot 4 bulb t5 veg and two foot t5 for clones. With 5k and 1k for veg, you should be pulling like 5 pounds a month or nearly 10 pounds every two months.

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Yer right, i suck at the maths. I was thinking OP meant 20zips a wk

You do know that becoming a caregiver often times raises flags and you'll have to be going by the book (depending on where you are I suppose) or risk it.
I have no idea if you plan on compliance and are up to code on your room/rooms or what but that will be looked at if they ever come knocking too.
If they bother to knock wherever you're from.

I live in Michigan and in 2016 it might be decriminalized here!! But for now from what I know were aloud 12 plants and 2.5oz of dried bud per patient.

Relax i'll be your Doctor said:

I live in Michigan and in 2016 it might be decriminalized here!! But for now from what I know were aloud 12 plants and 2.5oz of dried bud per patient.

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Good luck and happy growing.

dbkick said:

Good luck and happy growing.

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Thanks man! I'm gonna try to keep everything legal until they change some laws, I also don't want to disappoint my patients though by not having enough to supply them. Hopefully it all works out in the end.