Hey Grease.. I'm still vacillating weather to use x4 big 10 gal pots or x9 (or 12) 3 gal pots in my 3' x 3' tent.. Obviously 4 plants would take a little bit more veg time. With the 3 gallon pots, would you basically root clones, top (or fim), transplant and go straight into flowering? Would a soil mix such as 'Cootz's mix' support a plant throughout the flowering cycle with perhaps a bit of top dressing if needed?
ok, so heres my train of reasoning on this, if you do bigger pots, you will undoubtedly have bigger plants, BUT, longer vege times, and less colas.
SO, with a faster vege time, more plants, more colas, BUT less time trained/veged means smaller colas, BUT more of them.
You follow me?
with your space allotted the minimizing factor is the space.
I root clones, and as soon as I transplant into a party-cup, then I start training to two tops ,basicly bending the top two growing shoots down to the third or fourth growing shoots, then training those for the next 14-20 days under a good light, at that point the tops should be roughly the same height.
depending on your schedule that's when you flip, but most people match their flowering time, to their clone/train/time.
Meaning that most have a 50-70 day flowering time, if you don't have an extra room theres no point to vege fast.
Make sense?
for example, I run multiple strains, with variable maturation times, from 50 to 80 days, you don't finish all at once unless you are doing a monocrop.
so you clone each strains right before you flip, then it takes about 10-15 days to root the clones, so you trans after they root, then again to train, and finally into the 3 gals about 15 days prior to flip, if you time it right the time allotted for cloning, training, and transplanting, matches the time you need to flower, and then theres no hiccup when you are done.
a simple perpetual harvest
