Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!

OregonMeds said:

I hope those of you buying the UPS's are just using them to power timers and pumps only, and any light timers just go to flip relays for the lights if they are on the UPS.

Otherwise the UPS will just fail or only last you all of two minutes. (it's only rated for 2 minutes to 39 minutes, that's all)

Barely enough to hold the memory on a timer and keep some pumps on schedule for a VERY short time.

Excuse me if this was already mentioned a million times, this thread is just out of control and I'm not about to go looking for where the UPS thing started.

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I was thinking the same thing when i looked at the specs... It wont handle 300 watts even.

So timers ..yeah power hits n shit... But for the lights you need a bigger one.

It's only meant for the pumps, plants can go awhile without light and be ok. But the roots dry out super quick, and if you got your pumps on a 1 on 5 off shedule then they are not drawing that much power. In my experience, power outages never last that long anyways. I'm still gonna pick one up, will have to do a test once it's charged and see how long it sustains a 1/5 pump schedule. Hopefully it will keep em running for at least a hour.

robotninja said:

It's only meant for the pumps, plants can go awhile without light and be ok. But the roots dry out super quick, and if you got your pumps on a 1 on 5 off shedule then they are not drawing that much power. In my experience, power outages never last that long anyways. I'm still gonna pick one up, will have to do a test once it's charged and see how long it sustains a 1/5 pump schedule. Hopefully it will keep em running for at least a hour.

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My question, exactly! How long will a 425 watt UPS backup support an EcoPlus 396 pump on 1/5?

It would be cool if there was a way to get the recycling timer to switch from 1/5 to 1/10 or even 1/15 when the power went off!

can you boys take a look at reply i just posted a few pages back

page 244 2 page back

i wanna try it so bad!

i dont get how 3 weeks in each stage then 9 in flowering, equals a pound in 3 weeks, i read the whole thing, didnt make sense...

It's called perpetual growing... Staggered harvests.

right but it takes more than 3 weeks

Creeper said:

right but it takes more than 3 weeks

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You obviously have not read the thread. That's ok I'll explain.

The harvesting a pound every 3w assumes you are already in a perpetual harvest.

If you have to start from scratch and only have access to clones it's going to take you ~15w to get up to the point where you harvest every 3w. If you start from seed assume about the same time.

You have 3 bloom systems running all at the same time. Bloom A is 3w ahead of Bloom B which is 3w ahead of Bloom C.

Every 3w you do the following
1. harvest 15w old clones
2. move 6w old clones to blom
3. take new clones from 6w old clones
4. move 3w old clones to veg

DIRTHAWKER said:

Im at 59 days since going to the flower room at 12/12.

The tangerine kush looks almost ready but the ak47,cheese and redgrape still look like they could go a while longer.

first pic is the tangerine kush
2nd is cheese
third ak47

redgrape is in back and cant reach.

any opinions on how much longer

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Looking VERY good Dirt!!! My pics are coming soon.

DP

Creeper said:

right but it takes more than 3 weeks

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Say you have 24 plants...all at diffrent stages 3 weeks apart..6 plants are in clone or veg...6 plants are in 1-3 week of flowering...6 plants are in 3-6 week of flower...6 plants are in week 6-9 of flower...With this cycle you harvest every three weeks..And your garden is therefore perpetual,meaning you have 24 plants all at diffrent stages of growth...im not saying youll get a pound of 6 plants this is just an example...Maken some sense creeper?

Yea, i get the idea, i just dont see it manifesting itself in my reality, maybe its the sleep apnia... So for example, i have a 5X9 tent, and it currently has 40 Pots inside it, with 4 600w lights..i figured i would just grow, and harvest every 3 months...however after reading, and setting up my whole setup as it..i .now want a SOG that i can harvest every 3 weeks... so how would i do this.I have to have different rooms for different stages..I supose 3 weeks from now, plant more, and 3 weeks from now, the 3 more weeks plant 40 more, and then 40 more?

He Says "I run a three part cycle. The plants stay 3 weeks in the cloner, then 3 weeks in the veg system and then the move to flower for the last 9 weeks."

SO..i have a 160 Site Cloner, from botanicare..so 60 Plants in that for 3 weeks..THEN
Take the best 50, and plant them into rockwool cubes, and veg them for another 3 weeks...THEN
Take the best 40 From that, Cut and Clone the other 10, and plant them into my flowering cycle for 9 weeks, i dont get how i would harvest every three weeks..

Creeper said:

SO..i have a 160 Site Cloner, from botanicare..so 60 Plants in that for 3 weeks..THEN
Take the best 50, and plant them into rockwool cubes, and veg them for another 3 weeks...THEN
Take the best 40 From that, Cut and Clone the other 10, and plant them into my flowering cycle for 9 weeks, i dont get how i would harvest every three weeks..

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You got the gyst of it but think smaller. How many plants can you have in your flower area? Divide that number by three.

Then when you do this every three weeks:

SO..i have a 160 Site Cloner, from botanicare..so 60 Plants in that for 3 weeks..THEN
Take the best 50, and plant them into rockwool cubes, and veg them for another 3 weeks...THEN
Take the best 40 From that, Cut and Clone the other 10, and plant them into my flowering cycle for 9 weeks

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When you move your clones out of the cloner immediately take more clones to fill the gap, then just keep the cycle working. Remember cycle means circle. It is a bunch of repetitive motion to run a SOG.

Example: You have room to flower 40 plants, so to start they cycle take 13 clones, wait 3 weeks transfer those clones to a veg unit, take 13 more clones, wait 3 weeks transfer from your veg unit to your first flowering area, transfer clones to your veg, and take more cuttings. Three weeks pass, move your flowering plants over to the next 3 week flowering area, move your vegging plants into the flowering area, clones to the vegging station, take more cuttings. Three more weeks, move your first set of flowering clones into their last 3 week flowering area, move the next set over to the second three week area, and move the third set out of the veg unit into the first 3 week flowering area, move clones to veg station, take more cuttings. 3 weeks later harvest the first 13 and continue the cycle. You should now harvest every 3 weeks on a staggered pattern. Your plants will still take 9 weeks to flower but you got more plants 3 weeks old and 6 weeks old.

Hope this helps!

SOG only requires a separate area for your mothers/clones from your flowering area. You can get away with just two growing spaces but some people do 3 to separate clones from mothers for veg growth.

DIRTHAWKER said:

Im at 59 days since going to the flower room at 12/12.

The tangerine kush looks almost ready but the ak47,cheese and redgrape still look like they could go a while longer.

first pic is the tangerine kush
2nd is cheese
third ak47

redgrape is in back and cant reach.

any opinions on how much longer

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It depends on what kind of high you like. If you harvest them now the high will be more cerebral if you wait a week the high will be more of a body stone.

Any Kush has a heavy body stone. I prefer to harvest at the start of the window. I don't like bud that make me tired and sleepy.

The name Kush comes from the Hindu Kush valley of Afghanistan so the buds are considered Afghani (or Indica). That makes them have a very heavy body stone compared to a Sativa. Great for meds!

The flush is going great. I love the colors of the Red Grape!

What would I do? Yank um and spank um!!!

Congratulations!!! I am VERY proud of you!

bubblerking said:

I had to flip tonight I NEED MEDICINE lets see what happens ill post another pic once a week 47 days and counting will also put my netting up 2 layers in 5 days

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Dude! Trust me on this...you want to flip them. They will end up huge as it is now.

My last batch where smaller than yours when I went 12/12 and now they are overgrowing the space. Some plants are taller than the lights!

It's almost like you can't turn them fast enough. 3-4" seems to be the best height for fast/tall strains. 6-10" is best for slow/short strains.

Keep us informed of your progress! Great job!

Aren't Aeroponics fun?

I'm stoked now that I have my external res setup and RO filter in the tent. Plus no more 200W heater zapping me!

I finally learned how everybody takes pictures so that the buds stand out!!! you wait till the light goes out then you use the flash...duh...LOL

Well these babies on the far right are gonna be chopped in a day or two.....

STINK you da man.....if i can do this in my first try then anyone can.

Things are gonna start to get really interesting for me and my club.

Aw man, I wanna live in there, or at least have that smell in my nose all day! those buds are looking tastey

DIRTHAWKER said:

I finally learned how everybody takes pictures so that the buds stand out!!! you wait till the light goes out then you use the flash...duh...LOL

Well these babies on the far right are gonna be chopped in a day or two.....

STINK you da man.....if i can do this in my first try then anyone can.

Things are gonna start to get really interesting for me and my club.

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WOW those look so good. Im so glad this is your first time and it came out like this. It gives me hope for how my lil girls will look, hopefully. What breeds are you running in those pix?
thanks

dude andy your gonna be stoked believe me..just follow stink and you will be in ganja heaven in no time...
Im running ak47, cheese, tangerine kush and red grape.. i have 4 more runs and then im gonna get me some blueberry and some og kush,,maybe some super silve haze.

The ganja factory is more then just a hobby,,its a lifestyle.